Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1940 — Page 11

| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1940 |

~ The Indianapolis

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 21.—It has been seven years since the last of the Marines were withdrawn from Nicaragua. But there are still some here, Some went “over the wall” when leaving time came. Some arranged their discharges here. Some returned to the " States and then came back, 2 They are the boys who succumbed to the tropical lure. Who found life beiter here than at home. Who ate of the “Jocotes from Rivas” and couldn't ever leave Nicaragua again, There aren't many, probably not more than a dozen. Some are bums. Some live far in the interior and have houses full of Nicaraguan kids. Some have done moderately well. And two have married well and are doing nicely indeed. I have got well acquainted with one of these exMarines. He is H. J, Phillips Jr. and he goes by Hugh. He hails from Ridgetop, Tenn. He arrived here-in 1931, a week before the big earthquake. He , ‘has never gone back. Phillips is a radio wizard. When the Marines abandoned this country in 1933, the Nicaraguan Government asked if it could hire him. So by special dispensation he was given his discharge from the Marines, and went to work for the Nicaraguan Government, He is still with it. He is chief of Nicaragua's en= tire radio system. He has 170 men working under. him. He has 58 stations in his charge. All radio messages within Nicaragua—private, military or governmental—go over the system of which Phillips is boss. Last year they handled 2,800,000 words, 8 tJ #

Prizes His Citizenship His division is in the Guardia—or Army. Phillips wears a uniform and carries a .45 strapped to his waist. He has commissioned officers under him. And yet he holds no Guardia commission, and refuses to take one. When an American accepts a commission in a foreign army he ceases to be an American, And

Our Town

I GUESS I SAW half a dozen versions of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when I was a boy. Tops, by all odds, . was the performance with Peter Jackson cast as Uncle Tom and Joe Choynski in the role of George Shelby. ; ’ Besides having the two great prize fighters in the cast, the show also carried a brass band of 12 pieces, two Topsys, a large auxiliary of Negro singers, and a menagerie which included four donkeys and half a dozen real-for-sure bloodhounds. Contrary to general belief, the early Uncle Tom shows didn’t carry [their own dogs. They were picked up in the place where the rs was billed to play, with the result that very often Eliza was pursued not by a pack of bloodhounds as advertised, but by a number of bewildered dogs that looked suspiciously like Newfoundlands or St. Bernards. There wasn’t anything as crooked as that in the Jackson-Choynski outfit. It was genuine from start to finish. The Jackson-Choynski version of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” started off, I remember, with a three-round exhibition of scientific boxing. It was a curtain raiser thrown in for good measure to display the pugilistic talents of the two principal actors. The night I saw the play, Mr. Jackson left no doubt that he was the better boxer.

First Played in 185%

- Indeed, his boxing was so good that night that a lot of men sitting around me in the gallery ventured the belief that Mr. Jackson was the logical man to take on the winner of the Corbett-Mitchell fight. And because the Corbett-Mitchell fight came. right after the Columbian Exposition, I'm inclined to believe that it was sometime around 1894 that I saw the greatest performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” By that time “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was already 40 ‘years old—the play, I mean. The original adaptation was made by George L. Aiken, a successful playwright of the day, and served as a vehicle for his 4-year-old niece, Cordelia Howard, who was the first little Eva.

Washington

- WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—What the Roosevelt Administration and Dr. Glenn Frank of the Republican Program Committee are both wrestling with is the fact that the country is in transition toward a consumers’ economy. Both of them see the same prob- : lem, but in different lights. Dr. Frank says the Roosevelt Administration oversimplifies. . The New Deal has leaned rather heavily on the assumption that the day of big private ex-’ ~ pansion of industry was over. The capital plant was built. The task of settling the country and opening up our natural resources was completed. Railroad building’ was completed. Population increase was tapering off. . Therefore the Government would have to pump more money into the system to compensate for the slowing down of private capital investment. The New Deal went into the Tennessee Valley, to use a clear-cut illustration, and expanded power facilities where the private utility industry had done only part of the job. It began building rural elgctrification lines which private enterprise had not undertaken. The profit motive, _ sufficient to force development in the growing stages, was not deemed adequate to continue carrying the burden alone in a nation that had reached economic maturity. 5»

Raps Defeatist Attitude

Dr. Frank brands that as a defeatist attitude and points a different path for the Republicans. He would reject “the New Deal conception. of a limited and lessening outlook for American enterprise.” He thinks the next 25 years have as much promise as the 25 years before 1929. bk * For more than half a century, Dr. Frank points out, our economic frontiers have been more fruitful

My Day

GOLDEN - BEACH, Fla, Tuesday.—My husband likes the ocean: from the deck of a ship, even when the vessel rolls and pitches so much that most people retire to -bed. My own appreciation of the ocean is always enhanced by being on dry land. I have BE a thrill when I drive up the coast of Maine and the road runs close to the beach, or high above it, with a view of the bays and tree covered lands, or limitless stretches of water. When I first stepped out to the lawn of this house and looked across the water, two freighters were steaming by. The surf was pounding gently on the beach and it was lovely to see and hear it. The fascinating thing about the ocean is its change of color. 3 One spot was smerald green and erged into very dark green and en gradually al to blue. This morning there is a haze and the water is blue as far as I can see. Our house has windows on the ocean side that frame the view, . There . is a painting on’the wall which looks like the bottom of the marine studio, for fish of every color are swimming around just as I saw them swim around the houseboat in which the President and 1 used to cruise among the Keys many years ago. 3 not see be ly warm'

. was ever known to enter a theater.

By Ernie Pyle

although Phillips loves Nicaragua, he guards his American citizenship above every other possession. Phillips is married to a lovely Nicaraguan girl-~the daughter of a Supreme Court Justice. She spent five years in California, and, speaks good English. ' They have two children. The boy is H, J. Phillips III; he is 4, and goes by “Jimmy.” The gil is 6, and is named Eleanor, after Mrs. Roosevelt, Neither speaks English, but they'll learn later. In Phillips’ house is one room in which ng intruders are allowed. When he goes in he locks the door from the inside. Even his wife can't come in. That is where he reads, and dozes, and sits in easy American chairs. In the last seven years he has probably read as much as anyone I know. He has read into every subject you could think of. He is one proof that not all white men let their minds go to pot in the tropics. Another American here—Richard Frizell, manager of Pan American Airways—has an enormous library. They say it’s the finest one in English between Texas and Panama. And Phillips often carries home from Frizell’s library as many as 30 books at a time. $s RB »

Speaks Spanish Fluently

Phillips’ parents still live at Ridgetop, Tenn. Once a week they drive the 18 miles into Nashville and talk to their son by radio-telephone. Phillips is sort of planning a visit home'in the summer of 1941. He speaks Spanish without a trace of accent. He is very tall, and straight as a rod, and has unusually white teeth and smiles a lot. Across the point of his chin is a long scar. It came from one of the many accidents in his career as a motorcyclist. And Phillips uses the same old farmboy pronunciation of “motor-sickle” that I grew up with. His last accident was so bad it simply didn’t make sense that he should live through it. It was that day he sold his motorcycle for $12. He hasn't owned one since. y That thing about eating the “Jocotes from Rivas” is just a saying down .here, and Phillips himself doesn’t know the legend behind it. They use it in referring to people who keep on missing boats going away from Nicaragua. I expect there will be boats going away from Nicaragua for a long time, and I expect H. J. Phillips Jr, will miss practically all of them.

By Anton Scherrer

The show opened in Troy, N. Y. in 1852 and ran six months there.” When it came to New York, it ran a year. In no time at all, it was distributed all over the country. Apparently, Mr. Aiken never asked Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, permission to make a play of her book. Wheh she died in 1896, somebody had ‘it figured out that 300,000 performances had been presented during her lifetime. Mrs. Stowe didn’t get 2 cent of the box office receipts. Either she neglected to reserve the dramatic rights of her novel or she ignored her privilege of doing so. No doubt she regretted it, not because of the enormous fortune she would have made, but because of the power it would have given her to syppress the shows. tJ o 2

Thought the Stage Wicked

Mrs. Stowe had no use for the theater and went on record time and again that she thought it wicked. It’s a matter of history, however, that she saw one performance of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” the only time she Heavily veiled, she attended a performance in the Boston Museum in 1853. Nobody knows wbat she thought of it. I have reason to believe that the Jackson-Choynski

“ sion of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” was better than the

one Mrs. Stowe saw. By 1894, the play represented an accretion from many minds. For one thing, 1t had absorbed the finer features of the minstrei shows. The plantation scenes, for instance, had the benefit of the Oakland Quartet, a group of strapping fellows who came riding in on the backs of the four donkeys. They were followed by a chorus of Negroes who sang the first spirituals I ever heard. They did some mighty fancy buck and wing dancing too, I remember, to say nothing of a tumbling act the like of which had never beeh seen around here. Come to think of it, Mrs. Stowe might have had a better opinion bf the theater had she had the luck to see the ‘1894 dramatized version of her book. Indeed, except for one little detail, the JacksonChoynski version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was perfect the night I saw it. The mishap occurred in the great scene where Little Eva (Anna Laughlin in this case) went to Heaven. One of the four little donkeys forgot where he was and brayed ou loud. ?

By Raymond Clapper

than our geographical frontier in promoting investment opportunities for savings, jobs for workers, markets for the products of our farms. (The automobile is an instance). : The frontier was gone long before the 1920s came with their great industrial expansion. And if our rate of population growth is slowing down, there are today 9,000,000 more persons as potential customers than we had 10 years ago. Housing has enormous possibilities. If no great new industries are in sight, none were in sight in 1905, when the automobile still was hidden around the corner. But there are, through research and technological advance, plans and specifications of marketable products, large and small, which taken together would provide the bas¢ for a great expansion of industry in the next 10 years— if private enterprise could be induced to take the risks, # »

The du Pont Example

These scientific and technological results,-says Dr. Frank, now wait to be translated into production and distribution in the fields of foods, clothing, plastics, motion pictures, agriculture, chemicals, rubber, transportation, communication, automobiles, airlines, fuels, housing, lighting and metals. By coincidence a most remariable footnote to all of this is added by the Wall Street ‘Journal, which has Just begun publication of a series of articles on the new “chemical revolution.” Du Pont, it is stated, derives 40 per cent of its total sales from 12 new lines brought to fruition since the depression began. - It employs 7000 more men and has reduced prices of these products 40 per cent .in the last 10 years. Largest du Pont dollar sales last year were in rayon; next, organic chemicals: then, fabric and finishes; and fourth, cellophane. All made their growth since 1929. That is only one: example. The Wall Street Journal has more. ; Dr. Frank is doing a great service in dramatizing the possibilities which lie ahead. ;

By Eleanor Roosevelt

here, but I hope that the climate will vindicate itself and give us plenty of sun. Perhaps it is being particularly considerate and not giving up too much at the start, so that we shall be spared a real sunburn. The house is filled with flowers which people have very kindly sent us. In addition, we were sent two large cakes. Both are delicious. : Since our two days’ conference in Washington, called by the National Youth Administration to consider occupations open to women, and the inprovement of projects to help girls prepare themselves for some of these newer professions, I have had several interesting suggestions sent me. I happened to mention in this column that occupational therapy seems to be in a field open to women. = °° : I promptly received the most interesting letter from Miss Frances Holbrook, which told me about her Boston, Mass., school of occupational therapy— the only one in New England, she says, approved by the American Medical Association. She tells me they are frying to enlarge their plant and then will be able to train and place more girls. bon However, I received a rather sad letter from an older woman of 50 who finds it very hard to carry on in this profession because so many doctors prefer young women. She assures me that she is able to do the work well and expertly, and I wonder if 50 is not too young an age to igno

‘|structors early this year.

e a woman in a pro-

By Lee G. Miller

Times Special Writer VV ASHINGTON, Feb. 21.— The at-long-last report of the Republican Program Committee, unsheathed this week after better than two years in the foundry, bears the signature of a former Methodist circuit rider, Chautauqua manager, magazine editor and university president, a liberal by his own definition, who was once quoted as calling himself “a Republican by ancestry and inertia.” Glenn Prank is back in the limelight whose caress has warmed him, off and on, since boyhood. And the applause, so far, seenis to be drowning out the catcalls. He has had lots of each in his 52 years, The dust of the arena must be welcome to him after the protracted secretiveness imposed since the autumn of 1937 when the G. O. P., set up the committee which he captained. Mr. Frank is a self-made man in the classic American pattern. He was born in a tiny town on the northern rim of Missouri. His father was a village schoolteacher whose pay came to a dollar a day .or thereabouts. In the one-room school the boy showed a quick mind and a talent for talking on his feet. When he was 16 or so he served as preacher for a time in half a dozen rural churches, which he toured on horseback. Three years at a state normal school and he was ready for Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. He financed the higher education with Chautauqua speeches, and prospered so well in his studies that on graduation he was made assistant to the university’s president. Some of his speeches or papers, on liberal themes, interested Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant prince, who hired him in 1916 as a private researcher and assistant. Three years later he went to the Century Magazine as

Glenn Frank . . . by his own designation, “a liberal.”

an associate editor, and in 1921 he became, at 34, the “boy editor” of that periodical. i His fame as editor and speaker spread, and at 37 he was offered the presidency of the University of Wisconsin. It was at Madison that he learned to roll with the punch. In his first years there- only the Tories picked on him; they accused. him of fostering everything

- from bolshevism to atheism on

the campus. Later the La Follette Progressives turned on him, and

after 12 years of the presidency he was voted out by a La Follette majority on the board of regents, which accused him of a “lack of business and educational administrative experience.” That was three years ago. Mr. Frank was pretty sore. He said the La ° Follettes had “personally ordered and personally - engi~‘neered my summary dismissal,” and he charged that the Progressive movement had “degenerated” under Governor Phil La Follette

Phrasemaker Frank Back in Limelight as Republican Brain Trust Ends Long ‘Hibernation’ to Make Report

into “a political racket of job hunters and job holders.” Not long after that the Republicans drafted. him: to mastermind the “program” just now emerged. ri Glenn Frank was mentioned as Presidential timber, after Hoover's defeat for re-election. But it never got beyond the mention stage. Wisconsin sharpshooters of both left and right turned his own weapon of phrase-making against him and called him such things as “the great gliberal,” the “rainbow man,” “a pollyanha piping in a daisy patch,” a “thunder and dawn speaker who was enthralled by his own eloquence.” Mr. Frank pooh-poohed this stuff as a “carnival of demagogi¢ claptrap,” but the cracks didn’t do him any good. A fellow educator who referred to him as “the Methodist marvel from Missouri with a Manhattan finish” was accurate as well as al literative, For the brimestonefearing boy from Queen City who used to help out Billy Sunday was quick ‘to adjust himself to the amenities of the East. He is a man of easy manner, approachable, dark-eyed and large-browed, pleasant and articulate but not, in the appraisal of one artist, possessed of that “magnetism” for which Presidentmakers yearn. In the early years at Wisconsin, when he sponsored a new experimental college under Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn (which folded after five years), he was a darling of the “liberals.” They cooled on him—even froze—as the years passed. Whether it was he or the liberals who changed. is a question. At a gridiron dinner here two or three years ago, Glenn Frank was the. speaker designated to joust with the President. Mr. Frank, according to people who were there, delivered a fine philosophic attack on the idea of dictatorship. Mr. Roosevelt, forewarned, was forearmed with a little article written for the Nation some years earlier by the same Glenn Frank. It was entitled “If I Were Dictator.” The President read from it. ‘He had a befter evening than Mr, Frank did.

P.-T. A. SURVEYS PLAYSPOT NEED

Checkup on City’s 91 Public Schools to Be Finished In Two Months.

«One of the most extensive recreation studies made in Indianapolis was under way today by the Indianapolis Counci' of Parent-Teacher Associations. : The survey is designed to show the present extent of recreation facilities in neighborhoods served by the City’s public schools and point out to what degree these facilities should be improved. : Results of the study will be presented to the Citizens’ Recreation Committee and the Park Board. Mrs. Robert S. Wild, newly appointed chairman of the Council's recreation committee, said the study probably will be finished in two months, in time for any needed improvements to be made before the summer play season opens.

Stresses Leadership

The survey was launched yesterday“at a P.-T. A. Council meeting at the Indiana World War Memorial at which W. W. Pangburn, National Recreation Association field representative, spoke. : : Mr. Pangburn, nationally known recreation expert, told the group that competent playground leadership was nn indispensable factor in developing adequate recreation programs. ~~ Training is necessary in preparing the playground supervisor and instructor. for the job, he said. He supported efforts of the Citizens’ Park Committee and the P.-T. A. recreation group to begin a training school for City playground in-

Later Session Planned

The recreation survey will be conducted in each school district by the local P.-T. A. recreation and juvenile protection committees. Results from each school area will be tabulated by Mrs. Wild before they are submitted to City officials and the Citizens’ Park Committee. Yesterday's P.-T. A. Council session will be followed by another meeting at the conclusion of the survey, Mrs. Wild said. ‘Members of the Park Committee and City recreation officials are co-operating in the study in which school officials also will participate.

TARKINGTON NAMED BY CITY ART GROUP

‘Booth Tarkington, Hoosier author, yesterday was elected unanimously to the board of directors of the Art Association of Indianapolis. : Meeting at the John Herron Art Institute, the board members lauded Mr. Tarkington's contribution to art end his active interest in the institute. i Mr. Tarkington has a collection of paintings at his home ‘here and in Maine and has on many occasions lent his collection for exhibit here. His latest hook, “Some Old Portraits,” is a collection of essays based upon various paintings in his collection.

PATROLMAN BALL RETIRES FROM FORCE

The retirement of Patrolmar Barrett 'W. Ball, who is ill in City Hospital, was approved by the Safety Board yesterday. An ‘expert with both rifle and pistol, Mr. Ball has been a member of the Police Department 2b years. He requested that he be retired to pension last week. Start-

City's Nine-Year Fire Loss

Half of

Indianapolis’ fire loss in the past nine years totaled less than half the fire loss recorded in the nine-year period from 1922 to 1931, a Fire Department survey showed today. Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy reported that the total loss from 1931 to 1940 was only $4,293,668, compared to a loss of $9,868,133 from 1922 to 1931, a reduction of $5,293,668.

Increased efficiency of the. Fire

Department plus the reduction of fire hazards in homes, office buildings, factories and warehouses accounted for the reduction, he said. In recent years, efforts of fire prevention groups and the Fire Prevention Bureau of the Fire Department have also reduced the waste caused by fires, the Chief said." :

Luck Reverses, Hires Employer

Seven months ago a contractor called the Indiana State Employment Service to ask for a carpenter. The agency placed a man on the job. : Today the former contractor started to work as an employee of the former carpenter. The carpenter had had valuable experience in the contracting business, the. Employment Service attaches said. At the time he got that job he was “down on his luck and broke.” He used the money to re-establish his credit and got back inthe contracting business. In the last seven months, the ‘original employer had his turn of bad luck and had to leave his home. He registered at the Service for employment. Yesterday the former carpenter called the Employment Service and asked them to give him the address and phone number of his erstwhile employer. Knowing the man to be a capable builder, the ex-carpenter wanted to hire him.

SISTERHOOD, CLUB HONOR WASHINGTON

Mildred Stein, Bernice Cohen and Melvin Unger will have leading roles in the program to be preesnted by the Beth El Sisterhood and Men’s Club at their annual Washington's Birthday Party at Kirschbuam Center at 8:15 p. m. Sunday. Ten vaudeville 3 acts will be of- 3 fered in the revue. Mrs. Abe Unger and Mrs. Jack Klapper are general chairmen for the affair. Mrs, Stanley Levinson is director Bernice Cohen of the affair. : Mrs. Stanley Levinson is director of the show and Jack Maurer will be master of ceremonies. : Dancing to the music of ® Earl Breech and his orchestra will follow the program.

CHURCHMEN TO PLAN NATIONAL = MISSION

A committee of 100 church leaders will attend a luncheon at the Y. W. C. A. tomorow to launch plans for the National Christian Mission here Nov. 10-17, Shy rand The luncheon speaker will be Dr. Jesse M. Bader, head of the committee of evangelists of the Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America. Dr. Bader is formerly

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ing in the department as a drill master, Mr. Ball served as sergeant

of Indianapolis. prnittee

Previous Period

Chief Kennedy pointed out that the fire reduction was accomplished despite an increase in the City’s population of from 330,260 in 1922 to an estimated 449,681 last year.

In 1939, fires destroyed property valued at $449,681, an increase over the 1938 fire loss of $413,550 in 1938. In January this year, fires destroyed $80,000 in property valuation, compared to an $11,187 fire loss in January, 1939. The increase was attributed to the cold weather and overheated furnaces in dwellings. There were a total of 505 fires of which 319 were in frame dwellings and buildings. Only one fire spread from its place of origin to an adjacent building during the’ month, the Chief reported.

CITY HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RISES

, A total of 141 pupils more ‘than were enrolled at the beginning of the second semester I ear now are attending Indianapolis public high schools, De Witt S. Morgan, school superintendent, revealed today. Elementary school enrollment for the second semester showed a decrease of 864 pupils from last year’s second - semester figure. Mr. Morgan pointed out, however, that as pupils becoming six. years of age enter ‘school during the next few weeks the elementary school enrollment probably ‘7ill show a considerable gain. : Indianapolis schools permit children to enter at their sixth birthday even though it doesn’t coincide with the beginning of a term. High school enrollment is. now 18,047 as compared with 17,906 for last year and elementary school enrollment is 39,110 as agdinst 39,974 last year. Total school enrollment at the beginning of the second semester this year was 57,157 as against 57,880 a year ago, a net decrease of 723.

REAL ESTATE BOARD INSTALLATION SET

Guy H. Williams, president, and other new officers of the Indianapolis' Real Estate Board will be

installed tonight at the annual din-

ner dance and bridge party at the Indianapolis: Athletic Club. Other new officers are Raymond A. Franke, vice president; C. C. Grove, secretary; Edward A. Hyde, treasurer, and Walter M. Evans, Charles O. Grinslade, Ford : V. Woods and Robert P. Moorman, directors. - The. committee in charge of the party includes Forrest M. Knight, Carl Seyetter, Louis Hensley, Jack Dyer, Warren M. Atkinson, Henry M. Otterbach; Thomas Kercheval and Norris P. Shelby.

WABASH RECEIVES DONATION OF $1000

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 21 (U. P.).—A check for $1000 was] received by Wabash College from the estate of the late State Senator John M. Cravens of Madison, a Wabash College graduate, Dr. L. B. Hopkins, president, said today. . He said the money was given without restriction and that it would be added to the general endowment fund.

‘ADAM’ TO TOUR STATES NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (U, P).— Jacob Epstein’s three-ton statue of Adam, which created a sensational controversy in Europe, is en

route to New York and will be; W.| shown on a transcontinental tour. ing

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DISMISSES TEST OF PROFITS TAX

Baltzell Sustains Motion;

That Stokely Failed to State Claim for Relief.

An attempt by Stokely Bros. & Co., Indianapolis packing firm, to test the constitutionality of capita! stock and excess profits taxes has been forestalled by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. He has sustained a motion by U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan to discuss the case on the ground that Stokely Bros. had failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted. Stokely Bros. last November filed a suit to recover $34,710.17 in taxes and interest for a full year period. Will H. Smith, Indiana Internal Reveniue Collector, was named defendant. The Stokely Co. said that in all previous cases attacking the constitutionality of Capital stock or excess profits taxes the plaintiffs had challenged one tax or another but not ‘both. The Stokely complaint was “based on the theory that capital stock and excess profits taxes are so inter-related as to constitute one tax.” : Stokely Bros. claimed the two taxes were ‘capricious and discriminatory,” because “the declared value of the capital stock is not required nor expected to be the actual value; the incidence and burden of the capital stock and excess profits taxes depend upon guesses having no independent business significance.” :

6.0.P. GROUP TO SET * CONVENTION DATE

The State Republican Committee will be called into special session next month to set the State Convention date which probably will be about the second week in June, State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt announced today. : At the same time, the chairman said that a committee of more than 100 Republicans from every county in the state will be formed to draft recommendations: for the Indiana G. O. P. platform. ° : Mr. Bobbitt said the appointments will be completed in about 10 days. The committee will outline platform proposals in the same manner that a national committee headed by Dr. Glenn Frank = drafted’ platform planks suggestions last week. Ninety-two members of the platform committee Will be appointed by Republican chairmen in each county in the state and the state chairman will name about 25 more party leaders from representative groups. “Under this procedure, the average citizen of each county can make platform suggestions through his eounty representative,” Mr. Bobbitt said. :

The chairman said the recommendations will be confined to Indiana issues rather than national problems.

HIGHWAY. ELEVATION CONTRACT AWARDED

Contract for construction of a large elevated highway structure on Road 1 in Wayne County over the C. & O. Railroad trackes has been awarded by the State Highway Commission to Gradel Brothers, Inc., of Indianapolis. The contract was awarded. on a low bid of $30,954. Other projects awarded by the Commission include one for & new bridge on Road 1 in Allen County to the General

Co., Ft. Wayne, on a low

ibid of $6472 and a contract for pav-| ty to] advice cannot be

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RENEW STUDY OF FOOD STANP USE IN COUNTY

Trustees to Meet This Week, Consider Ways to Set Up Revolving Fund.

Township trustees are expected to meet here within the next few days in a new attempt to iron out the difficulties that have blocked estabe lishment of the food stamp plan of distributing surplus commodities in Marion County.

The No. 1 stumbling block has been the necessity of creating a $75,000 revolving fund with which to redeem the stamps. Indiana statutes governing poor relief administration make no provision for setting up such a fund. The suggestion has been made, however, that since the merchants themselves, including the wholesale grocers, will be benefited greatly through increased sales, that they might be willing to raise the fund.

Additional Sales Would Result

It has been estimated that establishment of the plan on a countywide basis would mean about $200,-0C0-a month in additional sales by grocers of foods on the Federal Gov= ernment’s surplus commodities list. William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, suggested today that the revolving fund might be obtained from the $2,000,000 State relief emergency fund now being used to make relief investigations. His suggestion came during a

hearing on a proposed bond issue

for Center Township relief exe penditures.

Provides Central Agency

Commenting on the suggestion that merchants raise the revolving fund, Mr. Book said: ; “I can’t see how business people could be induced to raise the fund when the poor relief business is concentrated in the hands of a few.” Under the plan, a central agency would be created to handle the stamps for all agencies in the county, 3 Relief clients’ would receive their relief orders direct, instead of through their grocers as at present. They would take these orders to the central agency and receive blue stamps, provided by the Government, worth half as much as the order. | These blue stamps could-be used to buy any items on the surplus list,

adding that much to the relief

client’s purchasing power. WPA Workers Included

WPA workers and others receiving welfare aid would be permitted to

buy at face value orange stamps,

good for any food products, and at the same time would receive free from the worth of blue stamps for each dollar's worth of orange stamps pure chased. The stamp plan is in operation in 34 other cities throughout the country and 15 others, including Indianapolis, have been selected by the Government, for start of operae tions within the next 30 days. Government officials announced in Washington that efforts are being made to establish the plan in 125 cities by July 1. Various methods of providing the necessary revolving funds have been used in other cities.

States Loan Funds

Edward P. Brennan, State Accounts Board. chief examiner, said in some of the cities, the state had loaned the funds, while in Syracuse, N. Y. the Federal Government provided the fund. The revolving fund is necessary, he explained, because the local units must buy the orange stamps at full face value from the Government, and then get their money back when the stamps are resold to WPA workers and other welfare aid recipients. The stamps, after being honored by the grocer, may be taken to a bank where the grocer gets his money. The banks, in turn, forward the stamps to a 1%ederal Reserve Bank and in return receive cash. Mr. Brenan said fhe stamp plan probably will be inaugurated in Vermillion County within the next few weeks. In that céunty, he explained, the trustees were able to provide a revolving fund of $35,000 from taxes in excess of current operating needs. : In Washington, Senator Sherman Minton said Ft. Wayne, Ind., probably will institute the plan befor the end of the month. ;

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the body of water that separates Sicily frora Italy. 2--Does an American woman lose her citizenship now if she marries an alien? 3—Who is Marshal Baron Karl Gustav Mannerheim? ; 4—A tapir is an Arabian Chieftain, an animal related to the horse and rhinoceros, or a small wax candle? : 5—Name the State flower of New York. . 6—With what sport is: Paul

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1—Strait of Messina. 2—No. :

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3—Commander-in-chief of the Fine.

nish armed forces.

4—An animal related to the horse

and rhinoceros. 5—Wild rose. 6—Baseball.

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