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ABOARD 8S. S. SIXAOLA, in the Gulf of Mexico, Jan. 17.—In all my 40 years at sea I never played

, Shuffleboard until yesterday.

I never played because it looked too easy, just taking a stick and shoving a disk of wood along the deck. Why, women and children play it. And in St. Petersburg, Fla., shuffleboard is the old people’s game. It seemed to me that shuffleboard was hardly becoming to a lusty fellow who can walk 50 miles across the Rocky Moun- © tains without even panting. But. yesterday a shipboard friend inveigled me into playing shuffieboard with him. The first five disks I shoved didn’t get even halfway to the counting court. Hey. what’s this, I said to myself. Surely it doesn’t take any strength to play this game. So I shoved harder. And I had to keep on shoving harder.. I got to perspiring, and then my left hip, where all my weight would land after each shove, kind of went to pot. And after a while my right arm and shoulder felt as though they should be in an ambulance. We were playing for 100 points. I thought we'd never get there. It must have taken us nearly an hour. Finally we were tied at 98. And on the next round my friend landed two disks on the “10 On” court, No defeated opponent .ever congratulated the

© winner with as much elation as I did. I was only

sorry I couldn’t have ‘lost sooner. Today, it is absolute torture for me to move. Not only are my muscles sore, but every bit of strength seems to have gone from my arms and legs. Honestly, I can hardly get up out of a chair. I'm all “stove up,” as a Negro friend of ours used to say.

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The Sea Cuts Up

I spoke too soon about the sea being so smooth. Today it has been dark, and pouring all day, and the wind is howling, and the ship is rolling around in‘ great fashion. : The Second Steward says 14 people didn’t show up for lunch. That's nearly a third of the passengers. I

Our Town

IN : SPITE OF its breath-taking variety, this warped old world still moves in orderly channels and with a certain predictability. In support of which I cite “The Old Farmer's Almanach,” that little yel-low-covered pamphlet of “new, useful and entertaining matter” which was founded by Robert B. Thomas in 1793. It’s still going good. Indeed, the copy with which I'm starting the new year is the 148th number. Even more comforting is the discovery that this year’s issue has the same rococo cover with which it started—an allegorical treatment of the four seasons including pictures of Benjamin Franklin and Mr. Thomas. And just as reassuring is the advertisement of the Arm and Hammer soda people on the inside back cover where it’s been for the last 61 years. It gives one a sense of security to run across things like that. : ; I wouldn't anymore think of starting on a new year without a copy of The Old Farmer's Almanach than I would of risking another year without an extra pair of galoshes. It's the only ‘thing left that keeps you in touch and tune with the divine scheme of things, the stars, moon, sun, tides, winds and weather—the only things that really count when all is said and done. It was The Old Farmer's Almanach, for instance, that Abraham Lincoln used when he won that famous murder case by proving that the moon was not full on a certain night.

A Universal Appeal

The title page of the old “Almanach” says it is “fitted for Boston, but will answer for all New gland States,” leaving you to believe that it is a provincial affair. Shucks, it is anything but that. The fact of the matter is that it is “fitted” for anywhere in the world, including Indianapolis. Without it, it wouldn't have been possible for me to know that 1940 is a bissextile year . . . that a transit of the planet Mercury over the disk of the Sun will occur on Nov. 11... that the best time to vaccinate

Washington

CLEVELAND, Jan. 17—It is with good reason that Congressional leaders are nervous about going into a heavy program of aid for Finland. Any move which carries the slightest suggestion of possibly involving us in the European war will provoke a sharp protest from the country west of the Alleghenies.

Isolationist sentiment is quiet now. But it is watchful and ready to flame out again. I have talked during the last two weeks with a large variety of persons. in several states. There is no sign whatever of any shift in sentiment.’ Lord Lothian may tell us that Great Britain is fighting our battle. American correspondents home from Europe may tell us that we ought to get in and help the®Allies. President Roosevelt may warn us in his public addresses—as he did: in his message to Congress—that it would be a sorry world for this great democracy if it were left alone through a smash-up of the British Empire. Still it is no sale. x x =

Sympathy for Allies

I don’t mean that the country west of the Alleghenies is indifferent to the war. On the contrary I find people everywhere intensely interested. They "are following the news closely. They know what is going on. They are more interested in the war than in domestic politics, on the whole. The jockeying of prospective Presidential candidates stirs only mild interest; in some places not even that. Greater issues are sensed. One of those—though not the only one—is the crisis in’ Europe. Generally 1 find quite definite sympathies. There is no argument concerning the merits of the struggle

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday.—I had a delightful lunch yesterday with the members of the women’s faculty club of Columbia University. It was all very pleasant and informal. - I enjoyed particularly seeing Dean and Mrs. Russell again. Mrs. Russell drove me - downtown after lunch so I had

fa chance for a little extra chat °

with her.

.,Then 1 had several visitors, afhong them a group who are planning an education campaign in New York City in the schools to acquaint people in the city with the problem of sharecroppers as it exists in other parts of the country. I think that it is an interesting thing to do, for we should ‘surely make every effort to have people in the cities un‘derstand the problem of -their In the evening, before taking the night train back .to Washington, we went to the Guild Theatre to see “The World We Make” by Sidney Kingsley. This play is based on Millen Brand's novel - “The Outward Room.” Margo and Herbert

. Ridley. who play the two principal parts excellently,

are well supported by a very good cast. The play is interesting and pertinent to the present time when hatred and horror fill so much of the world-that many people must often wish to get ‘out of it. The

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ate lunch, but I can’t say I enjoyed it. Of course I'm not seasick, you understand. Certainly not. It’s just a slight recurrence of the plague I picked up while hunting pink elephants in India some years ago. Ships. in the Orient and.Indian Ocean often carry hundreds of natives as “deck passengers.” They are people who pay just a small fare, are given no quar-

ters, and eat and sleep right outdoors on the deck.

It had been my impression that American ships didn’t carry deck passengers. But they do. We have two, who came aboard at Havana, One is a Panamanian Negro. The other is a Cuban

—a fine, distinguished-looking man, with a skin that.

is golden, and a wildly black under-the-chin beard. The word has got about that he is an Armenian, and that's what. he does look like, but he’s actually a Cuban. We These two are confined to the small portion of the deck just aft of the smoking room. They are not allowed anywhere else. They have about 30 feet of space to walk in. Each has a chair, and they sleep sitting up. - o 8"

Captain Has Some Fun Today we passed a big island on our left. Through

the rain it looked very mountainous and very -green.. The Captain came on deck and was telling some of

the passengers about it. We weren’t among them, so what we report is second-hand. It is called Providence Island, and belongs to Colombia. But it is so far away that Colombia pays little attention to it. ; Our informants told us the captain said boats never call there, that the people live primitively, and that a man’s wealth is gauged by the number of wives he has; that the richest man on the island is an American who went there to get away from his wife; and that his wives now number 100. Later we talked with the ship’s doctor about this

island. I guess he hadn't heard the captain's story..

For he told us there are several towns on the island, that ships call in now and then, that the natives frequently go. in their boats over . to. Bluefields, Nicaragua, to trade, and he hadn’t heard about the American with 100 wives. Ever since we came aboard, I thought this captain had a twinkle in his eye. It must be a lot of fun being a steamship captain. .

By Anton Scherrer

for chickenpox is when the pullets are moved to their summer range . . . that in the interest of numerical control, female kittens and, in fact, whole litters should be chloroformed . . . that if this is done there is little danger of milk fever developing . . . that fleas cannot exist (on cats, anyway). during the cold months of the year . . . that boiled fish will be whiter if a little vinegar or lemon juice is added to the water before cooking . , . that stains made by chew-

ing gum. can be removed with carbon tetrachloride. |

These are universal truths as good in Indianapolis as anywhere in New England and, certainly, a durn sight more important than the fulminations of dictators, crystal gazers and certain interpretive broadcasters whose names I could mention if I wanted to —of certain interpretive columnists, too, I don’t mind saying. oy

Some Precious Philosophy

Most comforting, however, is the prediction contained in the editorial on Page 2 of this year’s “Almanach.” “The Old Farmer,” ii. says, “believes that our Government will use every effort to keep us out of war and that it is through with its well intentioned experiments and is now seriously intent upon constructive and co-operative action for the benefit of commerce, agriculture, business and, above all, of peace.” Coming from the Old Farmer this means something. It can be taken at its face value. The Old Farmer has been in the business of predicting things for nigh on to 150 years now: (with a

_ record of 80 per cent right for the last 20) and

knows his way around. To be sure, some pcople last year found fault with the Old Farmer because of his failure to predict the New. England hurricane. This year’s Almanach explains that, tco. The Old Farmer, says the same editorial, “cannnot predict the unforseen in nature nor does he wish to do so, for he believes humanity is Happier if it does not dwell too much upon either

‘the past or the future but secures the best out of life . as it comes to all of us.”

Coming as it does at the beginning of the year, this precious piece of philosophy alone is worth the price of The Old Farmer's Almanach—15 cents at all old-fashioned book stalls. .

By Raymond Clapper

in Europe. The desire for an Allied victory is evident everywhere, - The public mind, as I sense it in. the Middle West, is troubled. That is why any discussion of the European situation arouses such interest, Newspapers are full of it, radio is full of it, and in every community lecturers, foreign correspondents, foreign visitors, are talking to audiences about the war and its meaning. Now, if these people had definitely made up their minds that this war was strictly Europe's affair. they would be indifferent, uninterested. They would not be talking or thinking about it. Everyone knows, deep down, that it would be very serious business indeed if Germany and Russia won.

No one is anxious to face the full implications of |

that. All are hoping and hoping that ‘during the spring and summer the Allies will dispose of the matter by a victory or a demonstrated ability to withstand the expected full attack.

os ” » Wary of Giving Aid Until that time comes you don't find many people who will admit that we have any real stake in this war, or that we ought to be doing anything about it. The voting now is for keeping out, for avoiding anything that would tend to entangle us. Public sentiment will not at this time support any very material Government advances to European powers. The Allies have several billions of dollars in the United States. They are more directly involved. Let them shell out for Finland. That is the attitude. ; The Atlantic seaboard may be working itself up into another crusade to make the world safe for democracy, but.out this side of the mountains the dangers to the United States will have to be presented

* much more convincingly than they have been thus

far before the people will become

A reconciled to any kind of direct intervention. ;

By Eleanor Roosevelt

final realization on the part of the heroine that suffering comes to everyone and the important thing about suffering is how you take it and what you contribute in the way of sympathy and help when other people suffer, is the lesson for all of us to remember,

So many clippings have come to me and so many letters also, condemning the American Students Union, that I have come to the conclusion that there is a misapprehension in people’s minds as to what aclually transpired at their convention in Madison, Wis. I happen not, to be particularly concerned with what they did or didn’t do. I certainly hold no brief

for their refusal to condemn Russia, but I should|

like to point out that the resolution which they actually passed was practically identical with the resolution passed by the National Students’ Federation which is a conservative student body and with one passed by another student group, all with the aim of keeping us out of war. ; : This attitude reflects the attitude of the older members of their families. The fact they will not condemn Russia, I think, arises more from a general distrust of all news and feeling that condemnation of any people should at present be withheld. You and I may think this attitude foolish, may even think it wrong, but I really do not think that it is quite necessary to dignify it with the amount of notice and apprehension which it seems to have excited in the press and in the minds of certain individuals.

SECOND SECTION

Times-Acme Photos.

Here are the first photos released by the U. S. Army Air Corps of the production at the Boeing Aircraft Company’s Seattle factory of an

undisclosed number of giant U. S. motored flying fortresses.

2 where major sub-assembly and final assembly takes place.

1. A wing panel for one of the struction jig.

Army 22-ton Boeing B-17B, four-

All pictures were made at Boeing Plant No.

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big bombers just out of the ‘con-

It is ready to be transported by overhead cranes to a

position on the wing production line where. it will be completed as a

unit.

2. Body of a flying fortress being

hoisted by overhead crane from

its construction jig, prior to transport to the final assembly floor. 3. 1000-horsepower Wright Cyclone engines being prepared for in-

stallation in the huge bombers.

4. Completed wing sections for the bombers ready for the assembly

line.

The sections are complete with landing gear, engine nacelles

and virtually all installations except the engines.

5. Final assembly floor where the bombers are being completed for delivery to the U. S. Army Air Corps at the rate of one every four days.

Expert Says Pedestrian Is One to Cut Auto Toll

If Indianapolis residents want to cut down on the number of traffic deaths, the pedestrians must do it, Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson, Evanston, 111, field representative for the International Association of Police Chiefs,

said here today.

The number of “auto-auto” deaths in Indianapolis has reached an almost irreducible minimum, only eight being killed in that manner

LUDLOW BACKS “BUDGET STAND

House Committee Proposal Preserves Prerogative, Hoosier Says.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. — Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) asserted today that his plan for a Congressional finance committee to meet jointly with the budget director would preserve the constitutional prerogative of the House to originate all revenue bills. The Ludlow resolution was presented after several House members objected to a similar proposal by Senator’ Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) that a joint committee of Senators and Congressmen make a study of the budget. The House members claimed this infringed on the duty oi the Representatives to take up tax matters first. Rep. Ludlow’s proposal, calling for a committee of Congressmen only,

would eliminate the House objections to the Harrison resolution, it was said. Under the Ludlow resolution, the committee would consist of the chairman and ranking majority and minority members of the Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees. Their duty would be to meet with the budget director and try to figure out how to make Federal revenues and expenses meet. Ways and Means members would be Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) and Reps. Thomas H. Cullen (D. N. Y.) and Allen T. Treadway (R. Mass.). Members from the Appropriations Committee would be Chairman Edward T. Taylor (D. Colo.) and Reps. Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.) and John Taber (R. N. Y.).

TECH EXTENDS NIGHT COURSES DEADLINE

Enrollment deadlines in two Evening Division high school courses ht Tech High School have been extended, according to Edward D. Green, vice principal and head of the Evening Division. Tonight and Friday night and Monddy, Wednesday ‘and Friday night of next week, enrollment will be open for the high school mathematics course. Enrollment will be accepted Monday evening for the

last year, he said. Twenty-seven pedestrians were killed during 1939, 4 number entirely too high, Sergt. Dickinson said. Most of them walked absent-mindedly into oncoming cars, “The number of pedestrian deaths can only be reduced by the co-op-eration of the pedestrians themselves. The Police Department is doing all in its power thraugh the weekly radio programs, newspapers, and through the patrolmen themselves,” he asserted. Other deaths in Indianapolis last year were from auto-streetcar, autotrain, auto-horse drawn vehicle collisions or autos striking a stationary object or overiurning. Sergt. Dickinson was here to discuss 1940 safety plans with Traffic Captain Edwin Kruse, Deputy In spector Lewis Johnson and Police Chief Michael Morrissey. He was to leave for Detroit today. He said he was very much impressed with the fact that there had been no traffic deaths within the city since the first of the year. He said that pointed to good work by the Police Department and cooperation by drivers themselves. “The goal set by the Association of Police Chiefs is to have only six auto deaths per 100,000 population this year. If Indianapolis continues, it may well make that goal,” Sergt. Dickinson said. Fifty-one persons were Killed last year in the city in auto accidents.

2 BUTLER ALUMNI NOW LIFE MEMBERS

Joseph R. Morgan, Indianapolis attorney, and Miss Edna R. Cooper, Long Beach, Cal, high school teacher, have been named life members of the Butler University Alumni Association. : Mr. Morgan recently observed his 50th anniversary as a graduate of Butler University and was made a member of the Butler Golden Legion. He ‘has been practicing law here since his graduation from the vale Law School. Miss Cooper, who was graduated in 1909, has taught English at Sheridan, Wyo., and at Long Beach, Cal.

NEWSMAN TO RELATE EXPERIENCE IN CHINA

J. Gordon Harrell, Hoosier newspaperman in China for 11 years, will speak on “A Newspaperman Behind the Chinese Lines” before the Professional Men's Forum at 7:15 o'clock tonight. The talk will follow a dinner and monthly business meeting at the Columbia Club. Mr. Harrell, former

START TRACTION WRECKING SOON

$140,000; Decision on Land Pending.

Gangs of laborers will begin tearing up the Indiana Railroad’s interurban lines between here and Brazil within the next 10 days, Louis Rappeport, company auditor, said | today. ; The rails and overhead structures were sold to Hyman Michaels & Co. | of Chicago last Saturday for ap-, proximately $140,000, following abandonment of the IndianapolisTerre Haute line. No disposition has been made of the rails and trolley wires from Brazil to Terre Haute, Mr. Rappeport said. They belong to the Terre, Haute Electric Co. and the Public ‘Service Co. of Indiana. Mr. Rappeport also said that no final decision has been made as to the right-of-way between here and Brazil. Some of it will revert to the original owners. : : The Indiana Railroad is operating a fleet of new busses between | here and Terre Haute in place of the old interurban, and is maintaining practically the same

Line to Brazil Sold for

WPA to Build Artificial Legs for County’s Needy

ment in South Bend; $3632 for sew er system extensions in North Jude

State approval for 10 proposed WPA projects totaling $1,136,000, and the extension of the school lunch program to four more counties, were announced today by Administrator John K. Jennings. / The new Marion County project is for $26,086 for building artificial legs for the needy crippled and sponsored by the Indiana Unem-

ployment Relief Commission.

Other projects approved were $131,630 for improvement to EIlkhart municipal parks; $782,808 for road improvement in Allen County; $10,530 for street improvement in West Harrison, Dearborn County;

schedule.

More than 2000 hardware retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers are expected to attend the 41st annual

convention and exposition of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association at the Murat Temple four days, beginning Jan. 30. The prinéipal speaker. at the opening luncheon in honor of past presidents and dealers who have been association members 25 years or more will be Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, representative of the National Association of Manufacturers. * Other speakers will include C. D. Munger, director of the utilization division of the Rural Electrification

dressmaking and clothing class, Mr.

Green said.

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Indianapolis resident, has returned

here to complete a book.

Administration; William J. Cheyney, New York, vice president of the

EDITORS NAMED FOR I. U. DAILY STUDENT

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Jan. 17.— Richard M. Beavans, of Warren,

has been named editor of the Indiana Daily Student, student publication of Indiana University, for the first. half of the second semester. ! Wendell C. Phillippi, ; ville, was named managing editor for ‘the same period. Appointments to the staff of the Indiana Daily Student are: made by the I. U. Journalism -Department. ; Other staff appointments include William 'J; Brink Jr. and Bernard Rose, both of Indianapolis, as associate editors: William Fitzgibbon, Indianapolis, night editor, and Gene C. Gosch and Virginia Trickey, of Indianapolis, campus editors.

State Hardware Dealers Plan 41st Parley Jan. 30

National Retail Furniture Association; Veach C. Redd, Cythiana, Ky.; Philip K. McDowell, Indianapolis; W. C. Judson, Big Rapids, Mich, and D. Wray DePrez, Shelbyville. L. L. Shoemaker, of the National Cash - Register Co., Dayton, will speak at a special session at the Murat Wednesday night, Jan. 31. More than 100 manufacturers and wholesalers of hardware and allied lings will open an exhibit of their wares to the public at the Murat on Jan. 31 from 8 to 11 p. m. The entertainment program will include a jamboree at the Hotel Lincoln the evening of Jan. 30; a luncheon and theater party for the

‘provement in Crown Point,

of Zions- ;

$62,969 for sewer construction

$3261 for sewage plant ime and $60,491 for sewer system improvement in Marion. New units in the school . lunch project are Johnson, Dearbarn, Floyd, and Greene counties. Mr, Jennings recently ordered the cone solidation of the school lunch proe gram with a state-wide program, The combined project calls for the

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‘expenditure of $2,300,000 of which

$616,000 will be expended in wages to workers on the lunch project and the remainder for school matrons. Mr. Jennings estimated that the lunch program: will be operating in 300 schools throughout the state by June.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which planet of the solar system is nearest the sun? : 2—What are homophones? : 3-_Name the Arctic port of Finland which was occupied by Soviet _ troops at the outbreak of the War: TUR , 2 4—On which peninsula is Greece? 5—What is the name for female parent bears? 6—What large observatory is loe cated on Mt. Hamilton, Cal.? 7—United States battleships are named after fish, States of the Union or admirals? 8—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word cryptogamous? ” ” ”

: Answers 1—Merctiry. f ' 2—Words that are alike in sound " but unlike in sense. 3—Petsamo. 4—The Balkan Peninsula. 5—Dams. ! : 6—Lick Observatory. 7—States of the Union. 8—Krip-tog’-a-mus;; not kript-0-gam’-us,

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