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ABOARD 8. S. SIXAOLA, Bound for ‘Panama, Jan. 11.—Did you know that it takes eight hours for a boat to go from New Orleans down to the

Well, it does. ws : ; ; We finally sailed yesterday at 1 oclock. ‘They settled the squabble which had held us up by putting on. three waiters, and" everybody was satisfied, “including me. In fact I could wait on myself if . they insisted.

Our departure was without question the drabbest sailingaway I've ever experienced. The day was dark, and rain in big drops, far apart, came pelting down. When a steward came through the ship calling “All visitors ashore,” we had to laugh. There wasn’t a visitor on the ship. Nobody had any visitors. For the first time in our lives we sailed without some friends being there to wave us away. A tug hooked onto qur bow and pulled us away from the dock. It kept pulling till it had turned us clear around and we were headed down the river. As it cut loose it gave three mighty blasts on its whistle, and we gave three mighty ones in return. And then some ‘of the sailors on deck shot off the breeches-buoy canncn, wadded with paper. It scared

_ the wits out of everybody, and we were officially off.

H elping Out the Captain

We. stayed in our cabins all afternoon. Part of the time we slept, for we were thoroughly washed

out’ from the strain of last-few-days arrangements. ,

Every 10 minutes or so the captain would stick his head in our door and ask me “whether he should now turn right or left. I'd say “Just keep her on her beam ends, Captain.” We got through all right. There were a good many ships in the river. Some had big’ American flags painted on their sides. One had the flag of Honduras—at least that’s what the cabin steward told us.

gE THE NICEST THING {o come my way this was the 302-page book published by the Second yterian people fo commemorate last year’s cenial. The committee in charge of the publication hur C. Moore, Walter Williams and Stanley 2 4 © Coulter. The juicy footnote on Page 49 was written, I suspect, by Mr. Moore. The, footnote deals with an ecclesiastical crisis back in 1891: To get the full drift of Mr. Moore's remarks, however, you ought to know something about “From Dawn to Daylight,” a novel written by “A Minister's - Wife” in 1859. The novel was a dreary affair written around the life and experiences of one George Herbert,

a preacher who had come to the

midland town of Norton to-take charge of a church. Sprinkled through the book were a dozen or more characters, for the most part his parishioners, all drawn with the acid bite of a disappointed woman. The general tone of the book was one of complaint, and the biggest kick seemed to be the Rev. Herbert's slim salary of $500 a year. Which wouldn’t have been so bad, said the author, had the payments been more or less regular. The climax, such as it was, came when the Rev. Herbert and his wife had to leave Norton because of the shabby treatment of the Church members,

It Created a Stir

Soon as the book appeared in Indianapolis, it

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turned the town upside down. And no wonder, be--

cause everything connected with the book had something to do with people around here. The Rev. Herbert, for instance, was Henry Ward Beecher and so transparent was every character that it wasn’t any trick at all to identify them as personages who had attended the Second Presbyterian Church during Mr. Beecher’s pastorate. Right away Mrs. Beecher was suspected and, sure enough, it turned out that she had written the novel 12 years after leaving Indianapolis. :

Washington

SPRINGFIELD, O., Jan, 11. —Several years ago the Federal Government selected this as one of three typical American cities in which to conduct a trial census of unemployment. Springfield was selected because it was a prime example of a well-diversified : smaller city where conditions were considered “typically American.” Springfield is an American “Middletown,” and if you examine the Springfields throughout the country you should get fairly close to the pulse beat o the nation. :

The big American city has

become a special problem in America. Most of them have acquired larger proletarian populations. It is the mayors of the . big cities who have combined in a highly effective lobby at Washington—known as the Conference of Mayors—to fight for large relief and public works appropriations. These large cities are enjoying a rapid rise in industrial production and business activity which puts the statistics back up to or above 1929 levels. Their relief and unemployment problems seemingly remain almost as acute as ever. = ” »

The Smaller Community

But the large city is only part of America. Less than 40 per cent of the families of the nation live in cities of 100,000 or larger. Sixty per cent live in the smaller cities, and in the country. The smaller community may have its troubles. Some of them are in serious difficulties. One-industry towns boom or bust alternatively as conditions in their industry, over which they may have no control whatever, fluctuate up and down. : Those communities present serious

My Day

~ WASHINGTON, Wednesday—We had a charming am yesterday afternoon at the musical here. Mr. Webster Aitken played, among other things, a group by Schubert which delighted my soul. .Miss Angna Enters, did four character sketches which were ana clever and gave everybody a great deal of pleasure, In the evening I went to see “Three After Three,” a new musical comedy which boasts a number of movie stars in the cast. All of them are charming and I had a thoroughly -enjoyable evening. * ‘This morning I went up to the Children’s Hospital to see their ‘infantile paralysis clinic. There is something remarkable about the philosophy which these =~ © children develop in the face of show so much character finally to overcome their handicap. One little boy, who looked entirely normal, told me he had fo do exercises with his arm every day. because he couldn't throw a ball. I told him that if he kept at it steadily, some day he would find that as there, but what I didn’t tell him was scter he would develop by sticking to ises would serve him better in after

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they are nearly well, they have to.

Hoosier Vagabond By Erie Pyle|

There ish’t much to see down the’ river ‘from

New Orleans. Now and then a big plantation home,

but mostly just: small trees and | weeds, along a gray-|

muddy bank. : It was past dark when we came to the mouth of the Mississippi. There were lights all around us. A boat came rolling alongside and ‘put off a rowbo t, which bobbed over to our bow. °° The pilot scampered down the rope ladder into the rowboat. That left us all alone; just the captain and me to run ‘the ship. “Attention, Captain!” I. ordered. The ship rolled heavily, I went down in a heap. We were out in the Gulf of Mexico. . 8 8 = o |

‘The Great White Fleet’ |

These United Fruit ships are run ‘fundamentally

to carry the company’s fruit from Central American] gen;

countries back to New Orleans. But they carry eral freight, and passengems, 100. o | The. line's ships are all painted white, and they call it “The Great White Fleet.” Sixaola will be a comfortable home for the next She is a medium-sized ship—not as big an ips to Hawaii, but much nicer than the boats to Alaska. The officers and crew se exceptionally pleasant. : There is no “master of ceremonies.” There is barber shop, and a bar. The cabin stewards ar Negroes. The stewardess is white. The Captain’ name is W. H. Fagen, and he has a strong sea-goin face. We think he’s Scandinavian. _ Our cabin is painted in cream and brown. It ha two windows, instead of portholes. It has a nairg bunk-like bed on either side, and there is one uppe berth, folded up. We have a washbowl and a little closet for our clothes. That leaves just enough room for a card table for me to write on. : Deck chairs for the six-day voyage to Panama cost. $1 each. By tomorrow the passengers will be out lolling and strolling, looking each. other over. Already my heart is pounding. Who knows what romance awaits on the boat deck? If my lumbago lets up and the moon comes out, I might even ask somebody to: dance.

By Anton Scherrer

| Thirty-two years. after the publication of “From Dawn to Daylight,” Mrs. Beecher burst into print again—this time in the Ladies Home Journal, in the course of which she again referred to Mr. Beecher’s measly salary while in Indianapolis. (Mrs.: Beecher lived to be 85 years old; which accounts for her long

grudge). : : Mrs. Beecher’s second reference to her husband's

slim salary stirred the Second Presbyterian people

into doing something. Forthwith, they dug up old|

records, discovered that Mr. Beecher received a salary of $1000—only $300 less a year than the Governor of Indiana was getting at ‘that time. And, mind you, out of the Governor’s salary had to come the price of a private secretary. Moreover, it was discovered that oats were selling at 6 cents a bushel at the time, that chickens could be bought for 50.cents a dozen and eggs for 3 cents a dozen. (The item of oats was important for the reason that Mr. Beecher had a team of pretty fast horses all the time he lived in Indianapolis.) ; ” ” 8

‘Ample Evidence’ Ignored

“These facts,” says Mr. Moore's illuminating footnote on Page 49, “were brought out in a letter under date of Dec. 11, 1891, which the Board of Trustees wrote to Mrs. Beecher in reference to an article she had written for the Ladies Home Journal referring to the amount of Mr. Beecher’s salary and containing statements which reflected unfavorably on the representations that had heen made to Mr. Beecher when he was called to the Church. The Trustees’ letter gave Mrs. Beecher ample evidence of the incorrectness of the statements she had made and requested her to correct the errors and to give the corrections publicity equal to that given to the original article. There is nothing in the church records to indicate that Mrs. Beecher acknowledged: receipt of the letter or corrected the statements she had made.” To which may be added one more item that Mr. Moore neglected to mention. When Mr. Beecher left Indianapolis, the Second Presbyterian people, out of the fulness of their heart, gave him a gold watch costing every bit of $125.

By Raymond Clapper

problems—the very problems which force the Gov-

ernment in the direction of planned economy and larger management over private business. ; Preservation of the free ways which we have known in this country depends largely upon the ability of the medium-sized, independent, diversified community to stand on its own feet and lead an existence which brings employment and reasonably comfortable living to its population. So.long as that can be done in the majority of the smaller communities, the thing which we \call the American way of life is safe. If those communities should despair and give up the fight, anything might happen. : \ » ” »

The Medium-Sized City

Here in Springfield is a medium-sized city of slightly more than 70,000 which shows signs of being well along in its maturity. It is hemmed in by larger cities—Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati. Springfield is trying tq demonstrate that a community can exist comfortably without the stimulus of spectacular growth. That is going to be the problem for many American communities. Nearly half of the families are home owners here in Springfield. Only 3 per cent of the population is foreign-born. Workmen are highly skilled in tool-

"making, farm-implement manufacture, printing. This|

long has been known as an open-shop town and has had little labor trouble. I heard a leading businessman say that labor troubles which so many communities are suffering are the results of past crimes on the part of management. The Chamber of Commerce places total employment here at almost 14,000—slightly up from a year ago; 10 per cent below 1929. The State Unemployment Compensation Office reports 5300 applications for work on file. Perhaps 5000 of these are physically able to do a day’s work. Those are the figures on a cold day in January.

By Eleanor ‘Roosevelt

Yesterday. I was sent some of the work being done in California on the “American Book of Design.” The drawings are among the most beautiful I have

seen. When this work is complete, it will be for|l

students in many lines, one of the most valuable pieces of work which the WPA has accomplished. ; In addition to this, a full-blooded Kiowa Indian woman from Oklahoma, working in the Indian arts and crafts project, made and sent. me a most beauti-

ful bag. She tanned the white buckskin and did the

beading, and the design and colors are authentic in her tribe. I shall use it with the greatest of pleasure. It is interesting that this tanning should have been one of the early Indian arts, for a gentleman in New York City wrote me the other day that one of

the lacks in his trade was young men who would take|

a practical course in tanning. There were plenty of openings, and the need for young men with that skill could not at present be filled. aE A Two of my correspondents have sent me a book

‘for children which they hope to get published in this

country. They were natives of Czechoslovakia and are now becoming American citizens. One of them has done the illustrations, and both story and pictures are delightful. In their letter, they ask me to return their manuscript, for it is the only typewritten one they have. I imagine the illustrations, being done by hand, are also not produced in quantity. I cannot

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beautiful bloom. : 2. Here are orchids at all ages.

1. J. K. Lilly Sr, and Willlam R. Mitchell, garde

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Left to right, the sprouting seeds

in a glass flask; seedlings a little older; one-year plants in a community pot; a two-year plant in a thimble pot; Class of "45; Class of 44,

‘and a blooming plant.

8. This is one section of the Lilly greenhouse. 4. Here are two of the loveliest blooms in the greenhouse.

Lilly Sr. Growing Orchids From Seed

By Joe Collier

. K. LILLY SR. picked up a small sealed test tube that

appeared to contain a pinch of very fine sawdust. “Those,” he said, “are orchid seeds. There must be 20,000 of them. We grew them here.” He was in a glass room lush with blooming orchids

and steaming in jungle humidity and jungle heat. Outside, Golden Hill was covered with snow and ice. “We don’t know jusf what we'll get when we raise these, and we have to wait seven years before they’ll bloom. But whoever gets a pure white orchid has an almost priceless thing.” Mr. Lilly shook the test tube and studied the seeds. : ahd He was asked how it happened that about four years ago he hegan to grow orchids and he looked ‘across the greenhouse at his gardner, William R. Mitchell. “He bullyragged us into it,” he said, “and then Mrs. Lilly backed

him. just started. Our work isn’t beyond the first stages.” Nevertheless, within about two years, and maybe sooner, there should be in those greenhouses at the Lilly estate’ blooms from plants that were grown from seed right there. ® = =

HE pointed to a row of mediumsized flower pots, sprouting green, and said: ; “This is what we call the class of ’43, and here is the class of 42.” He pointed to a group of slightly larger pots which contained slightly larger sprouts of green. Those

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are almost as careful with them as a surgeon with a patient. The “class of '47” is little green leaves planted in a “community pot,” and the class of 46 are cute little tikes planted separately in thimble pots.

* . The kindergarten plants (classes

of 46 anc’ ’45) are in a separate compartment which is even moisfer and warmer than that in which the secondary and graduate plants are housed. Se In that separate compartment there also are growing a few pois of pinguida, which is not in the least pretty and isn’t supposed to be. It is a green plant with waxy leaves. It catches tiny little midge flies ‘which. etherwise wouldn’t co the infant orchid plants any good. ' ” ” ” R. LILLY said that he bought the adult orchid plants tha? now are blooming in his greerihouse. “This parent plant,” he said indicating - a - beautiful specimen,” cost $50. We hope to be able to divide it. fhto two $25 plants after it grows a while. Then we hope to divide them and eventually get them down to 50 cent plants.” He chuckled.

Mr. Lilly estimated that the blooms. then showing greenhouse were worth about $100 and said he makes up corsages of them for his wife and daughter, friends and relatives. A bloom untouched will last about five weeks,” he said, and a plant, barring accident, will live practically forever. They feed entirely from the air.To maintain the humidity, tons of coke are put in boxes in the hotse and soaked regularly with water. He looked at a member of the Class of '46 that was considerably larger than the others. «Ambitious -little fellow,” he said to himself. :

2 » ” 2 ATER Mr. Lilly had gone, Mr. Mitchell said he is planning to feed some of the seedling chemically to force a bloom earlier than the natural seven years. 5 : pi hey “Mr. Lilly wanders through here “at least twice a day, and sometimes more. If he isn’t here twice a day we think he’s mad at us. He's been here four times already today,” he said. 4

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a great day in the Lilly menage when the first seed-grown Lilly orchid blooms. And it may be next year, he said. : Then he knocked on wood.

REPORT DROP IN

AGED AID GASES

Social Agencies Wonder If Program Has Reached ‘Service Peak.’

The first monthly decline in the history of Old Age Assistance here was reported today in the NewsBulletin of the Council of Social Agencies. The decline was noted

for November, 1939. “This may be an indication that the program has finally reached a static service peak,” the News-Bul-letin said. Old Age assistance was being provided for 7394 persons on the last day of November as compared with 7430 on the last day of October. The total, however, was above the 5678 for November, 1938. A total of 3691 Indianapolis children were cared for on the last day of November, the News-Bulletin reported. Of this total, 1991 were in family homes, 429 in institutions, 209 in day nurseries and 62 in maternity homes. A total of 18,721 cases were given assistance on. the last day of November by various governmental and private relief organizations, other than township trustees, who aided 9449 during the entire month of November. The general total, included some duplication, the NewsBulletin said. Township trustees aided 10,422 in October and 9026 in November, 1938. : An average of 438 transients and local homeless persons were given

shelter by charitable organizations during November. This compared

with an average of 387 in October and 442 in November, 1938. . Institutions for aged persons assisted 127 in November as compared to 124 in October and 121 in November, 1938. Some of these also were included in old-age assistance Rgures, according to the News-Bul-3

The News-Bulletin reported total of 3978 cases or aren through the Social Service Exchange in November as compared to 4385 in October and 5620 in November, 1938. Twenty-nine of the reporting agencies received aid from the Community Fund, while 18 did not, the News-Bulletin said. .

SEEKS ARMY RECRUITS Sergt. Lawrence Sherfese, U. 8S. Army Recruiting Officer at’ Indian~ apolis, today announced he had received authority from Brig. Gen. Dana T. Merrill, Fifth Corps Area commander, to enlist a limited

number of recruits for service with

five U. 8. Army branches, WOMAN - A woman was held by police today as they investigated the. disap-

pearance of $25 in cash, a $50 watch |

$5 pencil from a room in the

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Walls Have Ears at Women's Prison If Matron Listens in

Secrets Hard to Keep as Head Office Installs

94 MORE RAIL “SIGNS ORDERED

New Flasher Signal to Be

Listening Post Covering All Points,

By LEO DAUGHERTY _ ALL THE NOISE and talking that goes on at the Indiana Women’s Prison can be heard bythe superintendent, Mrs. Marian F. Gallup, without leaving her office or bedroom. And she can answer right back,

too, from either point. At her request, there has

tensively in Eastern prisons, but somewhat rare in this section of the country. And it has had its desired effect on the 130 inmates of the institution, which is operated entirely by women. The lone man in the plant operates the boiler room. Beside Mrs. Gallup’s desk is something resembling a switchboard. On top of it is a receiving set like a radio. On a shelf along the board is an old upright telephone, nickle-plated for appearances, and its mouth piece is a microphone, Le 2 2

IN THE MATRON'’S office at each of the seven cottages, in the hospital, storeroom, boiler room laundry, combination loudspeakers and receiving sets have been built into the walls. When Mrs. Gallup pushes a ‘button, all the noise in the room with which she is connected comes back over the loudspeaker —and no one knows that she’s “eavesdropping.” She can listen to as many stations at once as desired, even all of them. - But if she wants an answer from the other end she just talks into the microphone. i If the person in charge at any of the stations wants to speak to Mrs. Gallup, she pushes a buttorn and the red signal at Mrs. Gallup's set stays ‘lighted until she answers. i In the event a matron wants Mrs. Gallup to listen in on any conver=sation in the former's office and she doesn’t want the person to whom she is talking know it, there's a button beneath the desk surface which she can push. In the event Mrs. Gallup doesn’t want anyone in her office to | hear what is going on, she has only. to turn off the loud speaker and use the head-phone. That ' was the idea of Howard Stradling, Indianapolis electrician, who installed the system. = "A set similar to that in her office has been installed in her pedroom so she can “tune in” on the entire prison at any time of the night. : bi: 2 8 8 t “I WANTED AN inter-commu-*nication system which is not a “telephone, Which did not reuire an operator and was handy,”

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been installed at the prison at 401 N. Randolph St. and RCA inter-communications system, used rather ex-

saw one like this in the -East and asked for it.” . Not only has the system given the desired communication results, but it has its beneficial effect on the prisoners. «J get up in the morning to

| listen to everyone get up,” Mrs.

Gallup said, “If there is anything wrong I take it up at the matron’s meeting. A lot of times I talk to the girls at chapel about things I've heard without them knowing it. It surprises them, ih “My mother had a switch which she kept handy and if any of us got unruly, she had merely to reach for it and keep it close without using it to get results. “This has the effect of a whip. They never know I'm listening and the effect is good because it is continuously strict. Discipline to me is getting the effect you want without punishment or nagging. “My theory is that punishment may be a part of discipline, but it must benefit the recipient rather than the one who gives it, A swift, sudden cuff doesn’t have the same good effect as sitting down and talking things over with a person.” : : By practice, Mrs. Gallup ‘has learned that there are different kind of noises and she studies their meaning. There is a dif-

ference between a happy noise

and an unhappy noise, she says. Mrs. Gallup's system and theories have won her, she believes, “the “decent co-operation of 90 per cent of the inmates.” That’s why 40 of the inmates— yes, women—with brick from an old wall, laid 1100 feet of sidewalk on the prison grounds.

HOOSIER, 95, FINDS

MUCH WORK TO bo

Times Special :

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 95-year-old Ladoga resident, certainly hasn't

11—Wwilliam B. Gill,

shown any signs of slowing up.

Mr. Gill works daily on a farm| near here and makes frequent trips to Crawfordsville in his au-

tomobile.

He is the oldest Montgomery County resident to obtain a driv-|an er's license. = {froma work at a nearby lumber Pe

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‘|way Commission,

Installed at Road 34 In Speedway City.

Installation of 24 more flasher warning signals at railroad crossings in Indiana, including one at the Road 34 crossing of the Big Four in Speedway City, has been authorized by the U. S. Public Road Administration. !

Authorization of the signals was received today by the State Highwhich recommended the locations. The cost of installing the 24 signals, estimated at $79,000, will be paid with Federal funds held by the Highway Department for that purpose. The new installations will bring to 339 the number of signals erected since the program was started sev- | eral years ago. Seventeen of the new signals will be placed on State Highway routes, two on county roads and five in city streets. 4 They will be installed in 16 counties, with Lake County getting seven of them.’

|2 BROTHERS ENLIST "FOR MARINE SERVICE

Carl Edward Lawson, 18, and Frank Wilbur Lawson, 20, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lawson, 1518 Sturm Ave, are two of the newest recruits of the U. S. Marine Corps. They enlisted at the local Marine Corps Recruiting Office and will be sent to Paris Island, S. C, for training, Sergt. Robert Bailey, recruiting officer. The Lawson brothers then

Quantico, Va., for advanced training.

SON SLAIN, MOTHER FACES SANITY TEST

Bergin L.OGANSPORT, Ind. Jan. 11 (U. P.) —Coroner M. B. Stewart said today that Mrs. Laura Reames, 44, held for investigation in connection

with the fatal shooting of her son, George, 20, Tuesday, would undergo a sanity test when she recovers from effects of medicine which she drank after the shooting. She confessed, police said, that she shet the youth while he slept, and told Stewart that she drank the medicine in a suicide attempt. The boy's body was found by his father and brother when they returned

according to First|

will be sent to the Marine Base,|

Saver of Owls Scores Again

FOR THE SECOND time in four months City Fireman Lieut, Frank Callahan is a hero. He rescued another owl yesterday from a .grimy chimney prisen at 539 E. 57th St. His first chance for recognition as an owl-saver came in October, when he pulled an owl out of a chimney of a house near the Fire Station at Bellefontaine St. and Riviera Drive.

Owls fly into chimneys and are stunned. Often they fall into the chimney and get dirty, stuck and angry. Then Lieut. Callahan has to be called to pull them out. The owl is now resting at the Station. Firemen there call him a “squeak-owl.” They said they probably will let him go when he gets rested.

COAT WITH $60 STOLEN George Monfort, 1604 Rembrant St., reported to police early today that as he was eating in a chill parlor in the 200 block S. Illinois St. some one stole his coat cone taining $60 and ran.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—Into what body of water does the Thames River empty? 2-_For what degree does the abbree viation Ph. D. stand? 3-——Name the coach of the Green Bay Packers, champions of the National Football League. 4--Which countries’ comprised the “Central Powers” World War? wp B—An automobile distributor regue lates the flow of gasoline, oil or electricity? : $ 6—From whom did Jess Willard win the world’s heavyweight boxing championship? !

delicti, mean? : 8 8 8 Answers 1—North Sea. 2—Doctor of Philosophy. 3—E. L. (Curly) Lambeau. 4—Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bule garia and Turkey. : 5—Electricity. 6—Jack Johnson. 7—The place where a crime was age tually committed.

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