Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1940 — Page 11
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940 |
The Indianapolis Times
Hoosier Vagabond
BALBOA, Canal ‘Zone, Jan. 30.—There are: plenty of things for the Canal Zone worker to do in the line of amusement; probally more than in the average city at home. The Government furnishes clubhouses, swimming pools, golf courses. The movies are up-to-date, and the deep-sea fishing is renowned. A great deal
of bridge is played. There are:
many miles of road for driving.
Baseball, horse racing and dog’
racing are popular.
But somehow you get to know. all these things with a too-fami« liar intimacy. Time off, of which,
there is a great deal, hangs heavy on people’s hands. So there is always the beer garden. People in Panama drink a great deal. But there isn’t a real liquor problem, and discharges because of drunkenness are few. The average Canal employee has two children, and they go to excellent schools. - They know a few words of Spanish as soon as they know English. From the seventh grade on, they study .it in school. When they leave high school they are usually bilingual.
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Government Sets Standard
There is a Junior College in the Zone, and its graduates can go into the third year of college in the States. Most parents hope to educate their children in the States. The Canal Zone worker buys all his groceries and ousehold needs and most of his clothes at a Governent commissary. He does this with a coupon book, hich comes out of his pay. By the time the Governent deducts rent, commissary books, hospital, lights, gletirement fund and a fistful of other things, the averge monthly pay check of $240 actually comes to bout $125. Since the Canal worker’s standard of living and tatus in life are set for him by the Government, he almost bound to save a little each month. This e puts in Postal Savings, and he saves it for a efinite purpose—his biennial trip to the States. The Government allows him two month$’ vacation
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ANOTHER THING/ THAT always delights this department is the way things drop into its lap. For example: The other day I submitted a fragmentary piece about John T. Brush and his connection with
baseball around here. Right away came a letter from Frederick A. Clark which goes a long way in explaining, (1) how Indianapolis got into the National League and (2) why it got out—two local mysteries which, as far as I know, nobody except Mr. Clark has ever taken the pains to clear up. “It seems,” says Mr. Clark, “that the St. Louis ball club had hit the rocks and was for sale. A crowd of Indianapolis busim®ss-
men headed by John T. Brush
and A. J. Treat went over to St. Louis and bought the team bodily, also the franchise, and brought them over to Indianapolis. I do not remember just how long they were in Indianapolis, but finally all of the ball players in the country were formed into a union and went on a strike, just a short time before the opening of the season. Practically all of the New York team went on this strike and the owners were without a club. “In the meantime Mr. Brush had got busy and signed up all of his players in an agreement so that they would not go out on this strike. When he had them all tied up in this agreement, he sold the team bodily to the New York people and the team was transferred to New York. I do not know what became of the Indianapolis franchise, but suppose that it was absorbed by some other city.
Here's How it Happened
“The reason I know so much about this transaction,” continues Mr. Clark, “is because Jerry Denny was a personal friend of mine. In the evening of the day that he had signed up he appeared at Dodson’s drug store (Illinois and 16th Sts.) with a roll of bills
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Washington
AMARILLO, Téx., Jan. 30.—Out here in the Texas Panhandle they say it is different country. It certainly is, I have talked with businessmen in many
| communities during the last three weeks. Here for Lahe first time I hear businessmen giving the Roosevelt Administration credit for helping them. When you first hear them saying kind words about the Administration, you scarcely believe your ears. Businessmen out here are not freaks, or dreamy idealists. They all hope some day to be oil millionaires like the businessmen in Houston and some other Texas cities. They would like to see the Federal budget balanced. They would like to see spending tapered’ off. They don’t like John Lewis and the Cc. 1 o. Highway 66—made famous as the route of the “Grapes of Wrath” Joads—streaks through the eart of Amarillo, but the businessmen want the Yorld to know this is no “okie” town. They have a* business district “bright with neon lights and tall, trim buildings and store fronts, many of which are in _ tasteful modernistic style. And for a local businessman to say, or to hint, or even by silence to seem to feel that Amarillo is not the most wonderful city in the whole United States is dastardly treason.
Dust Bowl Driven Back
» Then why is it that the businessmen, typical of their groups everywhere, are willing to give the Roose- " yelt Administration a word of praise? It is that here Amarillo has come squarely up against the disasters of the Dust-Bowl area. With its future threatened as the commercial center of a large trading area
My Day
WASHINGTON, Monday.—There seems to be so much confusion in the minds of my correspondents
about the two student youth organizations, both of -
"which are affiliated with the American Youth Con-
gress, that I am ‘inclined to, clarify some of the differences between them in this column. Some older people seem to think that there is but one student organization, whereas . there are two national ones and many more local ones, I imagine. The two big ones are the National Student Federation of the . United States of America, and the American Student Union. Their membership and programs differ, so I give them below: The National Student Federation is composed of student
councils of member colleges
which send representatives, while the American Student Union is composed of individual members. The National Student Federation, in ifs meeting, had a program which dealt mainly with local problems of
campus government, though they also discussed na-:
tional policy, approved the NYA, the American Youth Commission report, etc. Their peace discussion was “only one out of 18 discussion sessions at their meeting. The American Student Union, on the contrary,
By Ernie Pyle
a year. He can accumulate it for two years, which gives him four months. ‘He jnakes his ‘trip at reduced fare. It costs him only $30 from Panama to New York, unless he has to take something above minimum accommodations, when it may go to $50. \-He may come back with a new car. It costs him only $50 to ship it from New York to Cristobal. it
costs me $107.75 to ship & car from New Orleans to
Miami. | While he is home he visits with his relatives and his wife's relatives and after a month he’s good and ‘sick of it and wishes ‘he were. back in Panama.
: 5 : a a Some Old Routine Back on the job again, he spends a few evenings telling cronies what hapoened on his vacation, and then he’s deep in the routine again, and the first thing Le knows he’s once more looking forward to his vacation two years from now. It soes thus, on ~n¢ on. "| Let’s skip quickly on across our friend’s life. ‘He has .e more year to go before retirement. At lzast he lives in a delightful house—for he has his pick of practically everything with that seniority. . Pity, isn’t it, that after working 29 years toward it, he'll have to give it up next year? For he must move out when he retires. In fact, he mustn’t even
live in the Canal Zone; only people actually on the :
job live in the Zone. Our friend at last retires. things: 1. No money, and only the memory of a dozen trips back to the States. 2. Some money (maybe as high as $50,000) and almost no memories at all, for he has scrimped, and not made his biennial trips. And now comes the end of the rainbow—the pot of
He has one of two
gold he has waited for—retirement.
He must move into the Republic of Panama, Or go back to the States. But it doesn’t make much difference. Routine is too ingrained in our friend's soul. He can’t stop the slow turning of the wheel he has been. He stops—and he dies. People tell me the average lifetime after retirement of Canal Zone employees is two years. That is probably untrue, but certainly the average Is less than in
‘the States.
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By Anton Scherrer
big enough to choke a horse. The roll proved to be an even $1000 wHich had been given him as a bonus or advance payment for signing on the dotted line. “The ‘Ball Players’ Union’ did not last long and I don’t think that any of our boys lasted long in New York as they were not heavy enough for the New York team, but the New York management at the time was in desperate straits for ball players. Whether Mr. Brush had an arrangement with the New York management before he signed up his player or not I do not know, but this is a true story as to how Indianapolis got into the Big League and got out of it.” : 8 8. ®
When We Beat the Reds
Which reminds me that once upon a time in al.
burst of enthusiasm I said that the late Emil Fertig was the best informed baseball fan of his day. Had I stopped there it would have been all right, but I
went on to say that Mr. Fertig was the best informed fan Indianapolis “ever had or ever will.-have.” It was a mistake, certainly an injustice to Mr. Clark, and to amend my error I'll be the first to proclaim that finally, at long last, somebody has been found to carry on the traditions which: apparently stopped with Mr. Fertig. Anyway, I'm going to cherish Mr. Clark’s story and tuck it away with the memoirs left by Mr. Fertig. Especially the story Mr. Fertig once told me about the first game of professional baseball played in Indianapolis. | That was back in 1869 when the Cincinnati Reds showed up and licked a local scrub team hastily put
- together for the occasion. From here the Reds went
all the way to San Francisco defeating every team they met. Indeed, it wasn’t until the following summer that the Reds knew what it meant to get licked. After that they got licked often enough. Even Indian-
apolis licked them for I remember Mr. Fertig saying] .
that on one occasion in the Seventies a local team with Aquilla Jones as pitcher and his brother Ben as catcher went to Cincinnati and gave the Reds the drubbing of their life.
By Raymond Clapper
which was blowing away in the yearly dust storms, Amarillo saw the Federal Government come in, with its resources, with its agricultural experts, and pitch in to drive the Dust Bowl back, a battle with the elements which saved this country from ruin,
Without the help of Washington, several businessmen told me, Amarillo could scarcely have come through the last few years. Now the worst is over. Nature has been a little more generous with rain and snow, and the dust storms have disappeared—the affected area has receded 50 to 80 miles away from Amarillo. Where once the dreaded “black dusters” rolled down from ‘the horizon there now is seen around the sky rim only the low-lying dark haze from the distant carbon-black plants signifying that 40 or 50 miles awdy oil refineries and their by-products works are busy. ”
Subsidization No Crime
Amarillo is mainly a jobbing center for this area. Farmers for a hundred miles around are its customers. Washington has saved Amarillo’s customers. Busi-
nessmen are frank enough to admit it and to give credit where credit is due.
It is out in such country as’ this, where condi-|.
tions are more simplified, and where the forces at work can be seen more clearly, that one becomes much more conscious of the fact that our private economy is not entirely self-sustaining, that at many points it has been subsidized, publicly or privately, and that it is no crime to use some wealth from the whole nation to save a portion of the nation which has encountered disaster. These wide open spaces are supposed to be the
breeding ground of rugged individualism. Yet what
stands out most clearly is that these rugged individualists are acutely conscious of their interdependence and lead a:-highly co-operative economic life.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
questions related to peace and the United States foreign and domestic policy. The main differences that emerged in resolutions passed are that the National Student Federation op-
poses United States participation in any foreign war,
while the American Student Union opposed participation in the present war because it is an “imperialistic” war caused by aggression and appeasement in the hope of launching “a war against the Soviet Union.” The’ National\ Student Federation wishes no war loans granted to any nation engaged in armed conflict, warns against efforts to whip up war hysteria, condemns all acts ‘of aggression and violations of territorial integrity and proposes the United States call a conference of neutrals to start peace negotiations. .
The American Student Union on the contrary, opposes loans to Finland, sale of planes to Finland, agrees that no loans should be made to any European | belligerents, desires an embargo on war materials to Japan, but is willing to ‘give immediate credits and loans to China. It warns against war hysteria, specifically pro-Ally, opposes a moral embargo on. the Soviet Union, condemns German aggression, Japanese aggression, British imperialism and, by interence, includes France. Y While I think the stand of both rtp shows a lack of comprehensive knowledge it is valuable to have the interest of youth and im t that
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apartments.
Paul James.
Tenants like
‘Livability” of
272-Unit Housing Project
city and cquntry meet.
About half of the dwellings in buildings are complete. say that of all the units, complete unrented.
small Agency, Inc., and Everett A.
By LEO DAUGHERTY NDIANAPOLIS' newest adventure in living is Marcy Village, where
The 272-unit “town” is located at 1435 E. 46th St. Its complete cost is $1,600,000 and it was built under FHA.
the 19 separate, two-story Colonial
Forty are occupied. The project sponsors
and incomplete, less than 100 are
It is the creation of J. Allen Dawson, treasurer of the H. H. Wood-
Carson, builder.
“I inspected similar housing projects in the East which were a huge success,” Mr. Dawson said. “And I said to myself ‘one of those
will be a good thing for Indianapolis.’ ”
So work started on the town within a town last March 15. And when it was formally opened Sunday an estimated 15,000 people went out to see it. Already the village’s population includes representatives of all professions and business—and everyone is satisfied. More than that, they are enthusiastic. "on 8
R. AND MRS. FRANK M. GIBBONEY came here from Chicago. “Why we just couldn't find a place .downtown,” said Mr. Gibboney, a representative of the
TWO POSTOFFICE AIDS PROMOTED
Frank E. Bennett Named Assistant Superintend~ent of Mails.
Two promotions in the Indianapolis Postoffice were announced today by Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. Frank E. Bennett, 58, of 936 N Jefferson Ave., was appointed assistant superintendent of mails and Bert F. Deery, 54, of 5110 Pleasant Run Parkway, North Drive, was named superintendent of the Illinois St. station. Mr, Deery was appointed to: fill the vacancy created by the death of Albert H. Steele last Sept. 30. Mr. Bennett moves up into Mr. Deery’s former position, which he held since September, 1937.
Mr. Bennett joined the service here as a substitute clerk on June 28, 1905, and was named a special clerk on July 1, seven years later. On Nov. 4, 1913, he was made a foreman and had held that position since that time. Mr. Deery began as substitute
clerk on July 24, 1905, and was made a foreman on July 1, 1913. Seven-|
teen years from that day he became assistant superintendent of the Illinois St. station, which position he held until Sept. 1, 1937, ‘when he was made assistant superintendent -|of mails. Mr. Seidensticker said that Mr. Bennett was a specialist on city delivery mail while Mr. Deery was a local authority on outbound mail and parcel post. Both appointments, he explained, were made solely on the mens’ records.
GUARD WILL DISCUSS U. S. PREPAREDNESS
Problems of national . preparedness as it affects the National Guard in Indiana will be discussed at the annual dinner meeting of the Indiana National Guard Association Feb. 10. The meeting will be held at ‘the ‘Hotel Claypool.
will preside as president of the Association. Harold VanOrman, Evansville, former lieutenant Governor, will be the toastmaster: Wives of officers coming from distant home stations will be guests of the Indianapolis Officers Wives
7 | Glub at 7p. m. at the Indiazapolis
Maj. Norman E. Hart, Princeton,
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. “This is swell. It’s a grand idea. It’s a livable place.”
“It’s livability is its greatset asset,” said Mrs. Ralph Bolstrom.
“1 like it because it’s new and modern,” said Mrs. David McQueen, whose husband is with the Roy Wilmeth Co. They have lived in apartments and houses in the city, but believe Marcy Village is going to be “just the ticket.” : The all-electric kitchens are what appeal to Mrs. William Kraber. And the same goes for Mrs. Paul James. And she isn’t
Forgotten Bank Dollars Roll In
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, Jan. 30.—Albert R. Walter, local businessman, was $44.95 richer today all because of a forgotten bank account he started in 1918. At that time he left the account in ‘the Imperial Bank of Canada, Essex, Ontario, and moved to Columbia City.
After 22 years, the bank found |
out where he lived and sent him the payments, in Canadian money.
| AWAIT I. C. C. REPLY
ON C. OF G. REQUEST
The State Chamber of Commerce hoped today that the Interstate Commerce Commission would permit it to renew its arguments on south-north freight rate differentials. A petition for a rehearing was filed by the chamber last Saturday on behalf of business organizations in five midwestern states, whose Governors had also asked the ICC for a rehearing. Following this ap-
peal, the ICC delayed from March 1’
to April 1 the effective date of its order setting up hew _south-north rates. Southern Governors had argued in their briefs before the ICC that present rate structures benefited Midwestern states at the expense of the South. Midwestern businessmen argued that freight rates were lower in the north because more tonnage was shipped. The ICC, however, accepted the South’s arguments and ordered a new rate structure which sets one rate for shipments from North to South and another lower rate for shipments from South to North.
The Citizens’ Safety Committee today commended by resolution the two Municipal Court judges who handle traffic cases, Judge Charles Karabell and Judge John McNe are mindful,” the resolution read in part, “of the fine spirit} manifested toward the traffic problem of the community, their sympathetic interest and co-operation
tion, their Sarnest. desire and ef-
Times Photos.
1. Carl Alexander of the Colonial Furniture Co. tries out the furnishings his company installed in a demonstration apartment at Marcy Village.
2. Mrs. William Kraber supervises the job as Ernest Blevins moves her furniture into one of the new 3. Mrs. Hilda Milender, Tesident manager, turns over a set of keys for one of the apartments to Mrs.
going to move in until April 1, The exterior of this new “town” may seem a little drab ow, but come spring and it will e landscaped and beautiful. And 10 acres are to be converted into a “municipal” playground. , #8 #2 HEN it's completed, a Marcy Village citizen need not go “out of town” for anything. The building at the head of the main street contains five storerooms and groceries, drugs, etc. etc.,, will be sold. : The village was planned as a self-contained - community. Completely successful are the fruits of architectural and structural correctness, skill of workmanship and mastery of building without the sacrifice, in any instance, of beauty and good taste to utility. The builders believe that in Marcy Village they are giving today’s answer to tomorrow's living. Here in brief is Marcy Village: Nineteen two-story colonial buildings, a. maximum distance between each affording a good view from every window.
BUTLER FLYING ‘CONTRACT MADE
Tarkington Firm and City Agree on Operation Of CAA Course.
The Works Board today concluded an agreement with the Tarkington Aviation Co. enabling the company to use facilities at Municipal Airport for the training of Butler University students as civilian reserve fliers,
The Civil Aeronautics Authority authorized the Tarkington Aviation Co. to train the students in this area, thus making it necessary for the company to conclude special arrangements with the City for the use of the Airport. The agreement provides that the Tarkington concern may rent office space and utilize the City repair shop at a total rental of $20 a month, pay the same rate for storage of airplanes in municipal hangars that is paid by the airlines and that the company should pay 19 per cent of the retail price of gasoline it sells to its students and 10 per cent on the price of oil per gallon to the City. If the Tarkington concern does not set up its own gasoline and oil storage tanks, the contract provides that the company must buy its’ aviation gasoline from the Centrol Aeronautical Corp. which has the” gasoline franchise for the Airport.
AERIAL ACTIVITY INCREASED PARIS, Jan. 30 (U. P.).—Improved weather conditions resulted in increased German and Allied aerial activity on the Western Front yesterday, French military dispatches
in the matter of accident preven=| be
sdid today.
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Citizens’ Safety Group Praises Traffic Judges
and the fairness and justice with which they preside in traflic cases in their courts.” The resolution also said “we realize the dangers incident to modern t#affic’ conditions and the difficult problems they present .to the judges presiding in cases of alleged traffic violations, and the
careful and conscientious consid- |
eration which each case requires in order that a just judgment may ed, under the Jaw snd |S
City Meets Country in Marcy Village
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Fireproof, sound proof, fully insulated. All outside, exceptionally large, well arranged rooms with cross ventilation. . : Large windows inviting an abundance of sunshine. Complete electric kitchens with smartly designed cabinets. Showers and built-in tubs. Locker rooms for each unit and incinerators in every building. Lawns and playgrounds for the children,
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Prisoner Gets
Cold Shoulder
Times Special . RICHMOND, Ind. Jan. 30.— The sheriff and city court judge here turned the tables on a local man who preferred a warm prison to: “cold” freedom.
The man ‘appeared at the jail demanding that “I be sent to the electric .chair RecEuSe it’s too cold to live.” He was arrested for drunkenness. In court, he was fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail. The judge offered to suspend the sentence if the man agreed to leave town, “It’s too cold today,” the man said. The judge ordered the sheriff to take him to the Indiana State Penal Farm—where inmates work daily outside.
REASSIGNMENT OF TEAGHERS PLANNED
Additional teacher nie Ioalonetlc because of increased second semester enrollment will be made at the School Board’s regular semi-month-ly meeting tonight. Increased enrollment at the Thomas Carr Howe High School and the closing of School 61, 1223 Shelby St., resulted in reassignment of six teachers yesterday. Wade Fuller, Tech High School social studies instructor, was assigned to Howe High School along with Miss Madge Temperley. and
Merle Wimmer, junior high school |
teachers. Miss Temperley teaches mathematics and Mr. Wimmer teaches science and art. Three School 61 teachers were given new assignments. Mrs. Genevieve Graf was transferred to School 7; Mrs. Signa Schoonover to School 9, and Miss Jessie Russell to School 25. > Nine- teachers returning from leaves of absence also were assigned yesterday as follows: Miss Doris Holmes, School 15; Miss Anna Wischmeyer, School: 2; Mrs. Lucille Porters School 10; Miss Wanda Johnson, School 14; Miss Lois Hagedorn, School 57; Miss Margaret
Smith, School 37; Mrs. Edna Kie-|. witt, School 51; Mrs. Willa Jones,
School 56, and "Miss Eyeiyn Roop:
‘man, School 91.
PRINCE TO LEAVE U. S. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 30 (U. P.).— Prince Sigvard Bernadotte of Sweden Prepared today to return to Sweden ause of “the situation
Lawn tennis and ping-pong for the grown ups. Golf ¢ourse within walking distance. Shopping center on the premises. : Garages with overhead doors. The Marcy Village builders be-
lieve they have provided the
answer. to good living, not too near Monument Circle, not too far. The people living out there now believe so, too.
LIQUOR MEN TO HEAR LEGISLATIVE PLANS
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 30.— The legislative program to be spon sored by the Indiana Retail Alcoholic Bevérage Dealers Association in the 1941 General Assembly was being drafted here today at the Association’s annual convention. Committees to draft legislative proposals were appointed last night and were to make their reports at the close of the convention tonight.
Principal speaker at the banquet tonight will be Neil Deighan, na= tional president of the Tavern Owners’ Association. More than 1000 delegates from all - counties in Indiana are attending the meeting.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the name for the period of life extending from puberty to adulthood?
2—Name. the capital of Egypt, throughout most of its early hise tory? 3—Are penguins most likely to be seen in the Antarctic or Arctio regions?
4—What is the product of % multie plied by 14?
5—Who was recently appointed Sece retary of the Navy?
6—What is the name for the science of the phenomena of sound?
7—What is the correct pron tion of the word disputative?
8—In Poker, with deuces wild, does a royal flush beat five of a kind? AG. 82 8 Answers 1—Adolescence. 2—Memphis, 3—Antarctic. 4—One-sixth, 5—Charles Edison. 6—Acoustics. 7—Dis-pu’~ta-tiv; not dispute’, 8—No.
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