Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1940 — Page 21

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| Hoosier Vagabond

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March .1.—If the Nicaraguans don’t develop in the next decade or two into the world’s most renowned soldier-statesmen, it won't be the fault of Col. Charles L. Mullins of the United States’ Army. For Col. Mullins: is down here setting up a “West Point” for Nicaragua. In fact he already has’ it set up. It opened for business a few days ago. The Nicaraguan Army consists of about 4000° soldiers and 250 officers. They are scattered all over the country, deing mostly police and road work. The officers’ training runs all the way from none at all up to graduation from the short-term -military - academy the Marines conducted while here, and from foreign siliiaiy schools. Then last summer, when President Somoza visited the U. S., he spoke with our State Department of his desire for a real military academy in Nicaragua. And ‘he wanted an American Army officer to organize it. The job was offered to Col. Mullins, then just finishing the Army War College in Washington. He took it. He and Mrs. Mullins took a boat to Panama. From there they came up the west coast on a freighter. It took them six days, and they never had such a wonderful time in their lives. That was late last summer. 'Five months later Col. Mullins had the new academy ready to open. His job has been hard, Yorious -and fascinating. 1t would make a book. j » Plans Three-Year Course

The new academy is in the Campo del Marte, the big fort of the Nicaraguan Army right in Managua. Col. Mullins was given a section of it, and he built the new school around a group of old Marine barracks. It bears no resemblance to the vine-covered scholastic halls of our own schools at home. But it's as pleasant a place as I ever saw for going to school. On his staff Col. Mullins has three civilian instructors and five Nicaraguan officers. He says they are such fine officers he'd take them into any Army, anywhere.

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Our Town

THE OTHER DAY, in a circle as near to the intellectual as I ever get, I met Niels Juel Henricksen, he gentleman known .as the “Socrates of Indianapo. is. ” : The moniker is a misnomer. It doesn’t begin to do him justice. In the first place, Mr. Henricksen is a very distinguished looking gentleman with none of the physical defects of Socrates. Certainly he hasn't a flat nose. Nor does he ask embarrassing questions the way the Greek did. As a matter of fact, Mr. Henricksen doesn’t use the Socratic method at all. If he did, people around here would hand him the hemlock, he says. Possibly a better way to describe Mr. Henricksen would be to call him the “Plato of Indianapolis,” but even that falls short of the mark. Mr. Henricksen, whose philosophy has impressed Knute Rockne, President Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Mansfield, the actor, attributes his skill of seeing through people to the fact that he was born in Norway—on the barren island of Tromso, an unheardof place until recently when it got into the papers because of the Flint incident. Because of his birthplace, he comes of a seafaring family, every member of which was taught to lick the ocean or, at any rate, not be licked by it. It helped a lot to formulate his philosophy, he says. * ”

: A New Profession

Then, too, there was the matter of his formal education. He didn't go to school. Schools are apt to get you into a groove. he says. Instead, he was taught by tutors and he believes it contributed as much as anything to his knowledge of the principles that cause and control the behavior of men. Mr. Henricksen still uses the teachings of his old tutors. “Never let your head run away with your feet” is as good today, says Mr. Henricksen, as the morning he heard it in Norway. When Mr. Henricksen came to America in 1883, he found a position to suit his talents. They were building the Great Northern Railroad at the time, and, young as he was, he got the job of picking the “pacemakers” for the construction gangs. He knew how to pick them, he says, because he knew what it takes to

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 1.—As might be expected under the circumstances, Republicans are pointing with pride to the two special Congressional election victories in Ohio this week. These victories mean, the Republicans tell us, that ‘the march to victory is on, that common-sense government will be restored in November. Or as Rep. George H. Bender of Ohio told the House, “we are going forward to normalcy, back to the Republican Party.” Forward to normalc,'! ' That certainly stirs some memories that 1 would think the Republicans would just as soon forget. Unless the Republicans watch their step, this may be only the pride thai goes before a fail election. Republicans held one Ohio seat, mainly wealthy Cleveland suburban, which had been vacated by the death of a Republican Congressman, and they picked up a seat in'a rural district which the Democrats had filled for 10 years. The New Deal figured in both contests. But the vote was light, and no certain index of turn sid happen with a full Presidentinl-yonr urnou

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A Long Way to Go

About all that can really be assumed from these

two samples is that there has been no drop in the upward trend which was so clearly marked in the 1938 elections. In 1938 voters shifted back into the Republican Party. Even so, the party was so far behind that these material gains still left the Republicans pitifully weak in Congress. The Republicans have a long way to go—fartherthan Philadelphia. They have a trend in their favor.

My Day

GOLDEN BEACH, Fla., Thursday—I have just finished Mary Ellen Chase's book: “A Goodly Fellowship.” It was given me last Christmas, so you see how long it takes me to get at the books I really want to read. I have always enjoyed Miss Chase’s books, which deal with Maine people, because I know the coast of Maine and love the land and its people. “Dawn in Lyonesse” is another of her books which I could reread many times. In “A Goodly Fellowship” she. traces her own teaching and, at the same time, tells much about those who taught her. Teaching and being faught are always inextricably woven together, for there is really no better way of learning than to try to teach. Miss Chase's conception of the good teacher agrees with my own, and that is one reason why I enjoyed. this book so much. She feels that you must really love your subject before anyone can derive much from you as a teacher.) I

particularly like the picture she drew of ex-President

| Netison of Smith College. I hdve met him and instinctively have always liked him, but this gives me

The first class of 50 cadets started early this month.

stance.

By Ernie Pyle

They will graduate in three years. The selection of candidates was somewhat political, but the entrance exams were stiff. A fourth of the first class are from poor families. In school, the heavy foot will be on mathematics. For Col. Mullins wants to develop not merely soldiers but men of broad knowledge and genuine honesty, who can become the future statesmen to lift Nicaragua out of her place far below the sun. He has a contract with the Government for two years, but hopes to stay at least long enough to see the first class graduate. Col. Mullins is tall and red-faced and full of fast Irish wit. He says what he thinks and he thinks plenty. His middle name is Love, and that’s the name he goes by; that, and “Moon Mullins. »

Mrs. Mullins is as full of fun as the Colonel |

She has a marvelous time no matter what she’s doing. . 8 s 2

They're Right at Home

They had always wanted to have’ duty in China, because they'd heard you live so well on so little out there. But now .they think Nicaragua must have China beat. They have a marvelous Latin-type house all full of big rooms and patios and terraces. They have new native furniture, and a car at their command, and five servants. And the whole shebang costs them less than a two-room apartment in Washington. Ever since he was a little boy, Col. Mullins had wanted a parrot. Now he has two—green ones with yellow heads—and they talk Spanish. He says they know more Spanish than he does. Mrs. Mullins plays golf every day. She has a beautiful daughter at George Washington University in Washington. She’ll come down here this summer and 1 imagine she’ll love it, except for the cockroaches. She's scared of cockroaches. Col. Mullins hasn't picked up any tropical diseases, and thinks he won't. He has practically a skin-tight haircut along the sides, so you can’t see his gray hairs. He smokes cigarets in a black holder. The Mullinses once served in Arizona, and that’s their favorite part of the world. When they get old they want to build a house there. But that will be a long time, for the Colonel is only 46 and looks even younger, and I think Mrs. Mullins will be able to hobble around the golf course another “half century or two.

By Anton Scherrer

make a good sailor than which there is none better for stamina and courage. It was during this period, too, that Mr. Henricksen met Hugo Emerson, a nephew of the Concord philosopher. The contact didn't hurt him any, says Mr. Henricksen. Mr. Emerson was Mr. Henricksen’s boss: He was called a supervisor, but today he would be known as a “director of personnel,” says Mr. Hen ricksen, Well, as a result of everything he learned by wey of Mr. Emerson and the-Great Northern, to say nothing of what the sea and his tutors taught him, Mr. Henricksen carved out a new profession for hiniself. Today he calls himself a “business analyser and developer.” Which means nothing more, he says, than an analyser and developer of men. For the reason that business is nothing more than a collection of men. In 1918, Mr. Henricksen was called to Indianapolis to investigate a congestion of freight. He's been here ever since straightening out tangles of all kinds. In practically every case it’s the fault of not having the right men to run the business. Mr. Henricksen finds the right men or trains them, a process which brings into play everything his philosophy has taught him.

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He Helped Teddy, Too

I can’t tell you much about the workings of Mr. Henricksen’s philosophy. It deals with intangibles, | something that's way over my head. On the other

hand; I can give you some of the results of his teach-

ing. : : There was’the case of Richard Mansfield, for inMr. Mansfield was nothing but an arrogant ham actor when Mr. Henricksen first saw him. There was something about his walk, though, that Mr. Henricksen liked. He knew he could make a great actor of Mr. Mansfield if he could give him the benefit of his teaching. Chauncey Olcott arranged a meeting and Mr. Mansfield was so impressed with Henricksen that he took him on as a coach. Mr. Henricksen traveled seven years with Mr. Mansfield with the result that we now remember Mr. Mansfield as one who lent luster to his profession. As for Theodore Roosevelt, he called Mr. Henricksen to Washington and asked him to use the “Big Stick.” Mr. Henricksen says he can handle women Just as well as men. Which is another reason why he merits something better than the title of the “Socrates of Indianapolis.”

By Raymond Clapper

They also have a potential asset in the fact that 9,000,000 are still unemployed, in the midst of recovery. But against the Republicans is a good deal of popular suspicion, the suspicion that if they get in they

will scuttie the major reforms, sabotage them, and:

convert them into mere job sanctuaries. Republicans have given color to some of these suspiftons by the appointment of Ernest T. Weir, a Thos) bitter foe of recent reforms, as chairman .of the the friends, who are providing the money to run the party, will insist upon being listened to. John Lewis didn’t give his $500,000 to the Democrats without trying to collect. Dr. Glenn Frank, through the Republican program report, pointed the way by which the Republicans could pursue a policy of intelligent conservatism. ” o ”

Need Independent Vote

Republicans might as well face the fact that they can win this election only by having the votes of people who elected Mr. Roosevelt twice. The countryclub vote won't save them. Many independent voters

who went for Mr. Roosevelt are disappointed at one thing or another or are tired of the crowd that is in, or are weary of the long conflict between Washington and business and want to see better working relations established. But they are not ready to wipe the slate clean and move the Government back to Wall Street. “Forward to normalcy!” Republicans have been beaten twice on this. In spite of the drift their way, they are likely to be beaten on it a third time, if that is the picture they permit to stand. That is, they will have to do that unless the Democrats hand them a third-term issue. In that case the Republicans can drop everything else and start yelling! about dictatorship. They won't even have to cry, “forward to’ Ropmaley! ”

By Eleanor Ropdudh

the reasons for my liking. In his closing address to the students when he left Smith, he guoted the following words, which I think all of us will do well to remember, A great scholar, after: enumerating the worthy desires of many men’s hearts, said:

“All these ‘things are good and those who pursue them may well be soldiers in one army or pilgrims on the same eternal quest. If we fret and fight one another now, if _is mainly because we are so much unde: the power of the enemy. “The enemy has no definite name, though in a certain degree we all know him; he who always puts the body before the spirit, the dead before the living; who makes things only to sell them; who has for-| gotten that there is such a thing as truth, and measures the words by advertisement or by money; who daily defiles that beauty that surrounds him and makes vulgar the tragedy; whose innermost religion is the worship of the lie in his soul. .. “The philistine, the vulgarian, the great sophist, the passer of base coin for true, he is all about us and, worse, he has his outposts inside us persecuting our peace, spoiling our sight, confusing our values, making a man’s self-seem greater than the race, and the presert thing more important than the eternal.”

Another heavenly day and I grieve to have my|

time here draw to an end.

epublican Finance Committee. He and his Sons

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State Also Reveals Many Find Work Before End Of Insurance Aid.

The Indiana State Employment Service placements here 51: per cent above

period of 1939. The report, released by George J. Smith, local manager, marked the third consecutive time in which increasing gains over last year’s totals had been shown. Meanwhile, Unemployment Compensation Division statistics revealed that about half the Indiana workers who qualify for unemployment compensation get. jobs before they have exhausted their insurance accounts. Division officials emphasized that inferences drawn from the figures were approximate because files on some of the cases were not yet closed. Officials said furthermore that they had no records showing how many of those who did exhaust their benefit rights then had to go on relief or WPA.

1276 Placed in Month

In December the - increase in State Employment Service placements was 42 per cent and in January a gain of 44 per cent was shown, The total number placed last month was 1276. 2 Mr. Smith pointed out that the seasonal decline following the Christmas holiday this year had been. very small contrasted with a year ago. The seasonal drop from January to February, 1940, was only 3.3 per cent compared with 7.7 per cent last year. More employers called the employment office last month than in December, Mr. Smith said. Three months’ figures were, December, 630; January, 650; February, 699. Persons filing applications for ihe first time totaled 2924. \

135,000 Get Maximum |

Statistics showed that since thi job law insurance took effect o April 1, 1938, 135.281 persons had been paid the maximum benefits which their earnings entitled them and 134,665 got jobs either before any benefits were paid or before they had exhausted their benefit accounts. A two-week waiting period between the time of the loss of a job and the eligibility for the first unemployment compensation check is required by the Indiana law. The size of the benefits varies with the total amount.-of-‘ea “or ‘the claimant. The payments are made at a maximum of $15 a week for 15 weeks or until the individual's acong is exhausted, whichever is ess Other statistics. showed that the average value of all benefit accounts established from April, 1938, to February, 1940, was $156.72 and that the average balance left in the accounts by the 78,405 claimants who drew some money but failed to exhaust their accounts, was $99.36. These thousands left almost twothirds of their possible benefits in the fund.

381,000 Applications

All together, between April 1, 1938, and Feb. 17, 1940, there were 381,119 applications for unemployment ‘benefits filed; some of these were second and third claims of the same individuals. On Feb. 17, 71,375 individuals were in their benefit periods, although only 25,496 of them drew benefits for that week. The rest of the 71,000 had drawn some benefits within the ‘last 52 weeks. A total of 3473 individuals’ benefit balances had been cancelled over the whole period because of transfer to railroad unemployment insurance or similar rea-

As against the 288,534 claimants who had drawn some benefits, 92,585 —almost one-third as many—drew no benefits at all after filing their claims. A total of 19,864 was found ineligible because of insufficient wage cradits, non-availability for work or other reasons set out by the law.

56,000 Dropped Claims

A total of 16,461 was still in their waiting period on Feb. 17. But 56,260 either found jobs before finishing the two-week waiting period or dropped their claim when they returned to work between the end of the waiting period and the arrival of the first check. : During the 22-month period from April, 1938, to, January, 1940, the Indiana State Employment Service, a part of the Unemployment Compensation Division, succeeded directly in, placing 18,981 of the claimants ‘in private business or industry.

‘JUDGE WINS SEAT AFTER 15 MONTHS

VERNON, Ind., March 1 (U. P.). —In November, 1938, a judge was elected for the Jennings-Scott Cirsuit Court. Today William Fitzgerald, a Democrat, had been declared re-elected. The first count of the vote showed Fred Matthews, a Republican, elected over Judge Fitzgerald by 84 votes. A recount asked by Judge Fitzgerald showed him ahead by 35 votes. Court action followed and the case was set for trial March 6 in Clark County Circuit Court. Mr, Matthews yesterday agreed to a judgment declaring Judge Fitzgerald re-elected.

BANK DIVIDEND DECLARED Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., March 1.— A 2 per cent final dividend has been declared by the stockholders’ committee of the Security Trust & Savings Co., bringing stockholders payments to > per, cent. Depositors

s51PERcan AHEAD OF "39

today reported February

the number placed for ‘the same

ull in March, 1933. |!

Victor L. Raphael.

NSTALATON SET MARCH 10

New Pastor of Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Is Luncheon Guest.

The Indianapolis Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church today received into membership Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, new pastor at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The reception for the Rev. Mr. Vale and plafls for his installation March 10 were discussed at a meeting of the Presbytery Council. The installation plans provide for the participation of outstanding In-

! |dianapolis Presoytery and guest

preachers. Rev. Mr. Sharp to Preside

The Rev. Alexander Sharp, formerly moderator of the Tabernacle’ Church, will preside. Mr. Allen will give the invocation. The Rev. Sidney Blair Harry, Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church pastor, will read a scripture lesson and the Rev. John B. Ferguson, Irvington Presbyterian Church pastor, will give the general prayer. Dr. R. Calvin Dobson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of

of Dr. Vale will preach the sermon. The charge to the minister will be given by D. Charles W. Welch of Louisville, Ky., recently moderator of the northern Presbyterian Church. The charge to the congregation will be given by Dr. George Arthur Frentz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here.

Raphael at Meeting

Installation prayer closing the sermon will be given by Dr. Jean S. Miller, Second Presbyterian Church pastor. Victor L. Raphael, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery, was among those who attended the meeting today. The Rev. W. T. Allen, moderator, presided. A luncheon in Dr. Vale’s honor was given at the Tabernacle Church following the business session. Dr. Vale will preach his first sermon next Sunday morning. He was formerly pastor of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church, Detroit.

GOLD MINERS END 62-HOUR SIT-DOWN

PIONEER, British Columbia, March 1 (U. P.).—Forty men who conducted a 62-hour sit-down strike in a 2600 foot gold mine and defied officials and police to evict them, today had only sore, burning feet and beards immediately to show for their demonstration. Limping, bearded, sullen, they emerged last night and went home. They neither obtained recognition of the Mine, Mills and Smelter Union nor higher wages, but it was reported that mine officials were

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willing to discuss their demands.

Housewives, you better have these answers at your tongue’s tip. There has been ‘quite a furor at

| Washington over a couple of ques-

tions to be asked by census enumerators in April. But there will be other questions that may catch you housewives =~ unawares when the enumerator rings your doorbell. Quick, where did you live April 1, 1935? Was it on a farm and what did you do then? How many weeks did you work in 1939? What is the value of the home in which you live or what is the monthly rental? What is the highest grade of school you completed? All “these questions are included in the census blanks and according to John H. Duffey, assistant area manager, they are all very important, not because thé Government wants to stick its nose into your business but. because it wants to know the trend of population, unemployment and social conditions. The questions Republican congressmen are objecting to are those not $50 or m as wages or salaries. Mr. Duffey says that these figures the census \

Greetings are exchanged . .. (left to right) Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, the Rev. W. T. Allen and the Rev.

Times Photo.

Hoosier Drums Info Politics

CAMBRIDGE, ‘Mass, March 1 (U. P.).—Theodore L. Sendak, 21, of Gary, Ind., Harvard senior and drum major of the college band, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nom- - ination for state representative from Lake and Porter Counties.

SEE VOTE PERIL IN STREET PLAN

City Council May Delay Changing Names Until After Election.

City Councilmen today discovered that an innocent-looking ordinance to change 55 street names, which comes up for passage Monday, may constitute a triple threat to the conduct of the 1940 elections here. Although no one Suspected it until now, passage of the ordinance would change so many street addresses that: 1. It would jam the vote-getting machinery of both parties’ I 2. It would cause wholesale con-

fusion in registration. 3. It might lead . to hundreds of challenges at the poils. The possibilities lurking in the ordinance were called to the attention of Council President Joseph G. Wood by Cletus Seibert, Chief Deptity County Clerk. Mr. Wood hastily conferred with other Council members. - “It looks as though Dpssage of this ordinance mow might cause a rumpus,” he said. “I guess what we ought to do is to defer it, probably until elections are over. It's a good thing that we decided to hold up the ordinance until this Monday, when we might have passed it at the meeting two weeks ago.” The street name-change ordinance was presented to the Council by George Rooker, City Plan Commission secretary-engineer. It represented a six-month study by Mr. Rooker in an attempt to eliminate many duplicate street names, which

| have caused confusion in the send-

ing of fire apparatus to fires. Mr. Rooker said he had been informed of the effect the ordinance might have on election activity and said he felt it might be wise to postpone it for a while,

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BOMBING TRIAL DATE SET SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 1 (U. P.).—The trial of John A. Marks,

of Michigan City, a business agent of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, on a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with a series of power line bombings last year, today had been set for Monday in St. Joseph Circuit Court by Judge Dan Pyle.

Get Set With Lots of Answers, Housewives, The Census-Taker May Catch You Unawares

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questions since the Government already ‘has been given approximately the same figures on income tax or social security blanks. Other questions which will be asked regarding employment status are whether or not the individual worked: between the period March 24-30, 1940, and whether or not he had emergency work such as WPA, whether or not he was seeking a job or whether he did house work or was unable to work. The enumerator also will ask each individual how many weeks he worked in 1939 and eack unemployed person how many weeks he has been unemployed. The occupation of each also will be asked. Mr. Duffey said this would aid the Government in finding out which occupations are overcrowded. He said that the question of residence five years ago asked in the test census in St. Joseph and Marshall Counties last

asking 1939 income and whether or} this

earned ‘during the year from Sources other han,

first vice president; Mr. Vonnegut;

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ARCHITECTURAL | LEADER SPEAKS

State Chapter to Elect Officers at .Dinner Next Monday.

With national officers as guests and speakers, the Indiana ‘chapter of the American Institute of Architects will hold its annual meeting, election of officers and dinner at the Hotel Lincoln Monday. The national officers are Edwin Bergstrom. president; Charles T. Ingham, secretary, and Edwin C. Kemper, executive secretary. “Mr. Bergstrom will speak at the banquet. Kurt Vonnegut, second vice president of the Indiana chapter, who will preside at the dinner, heads a reception committee to ‘greet the visitors. All architects and draftsmen in Indiana have been invited to attend. The annual-meeting and election will be held at 4 p. m. A nominating committee has suggested the re-election of all present officers with the additional of George C. Wright as a new director. Present officers are Edward D. Pierre, president; Merritt Harrison,

R. Kelley, secretary-treasurer; | Herbert Foltz;= Callix E. Miller, South Bend, and Warren D. Miller, Terre Haute, executive committee. The nominating committee included Ralph Yeager, Walter Scho-

Mr. Bergstrom'’s address is to concern a stronger national fraternity of architects and a closer working relationship between national officers and architects serving in their home fields.

RELIGIOUS LEADERS ATTACK PREJUDICE

It was the consensus of Indianapolis religious leaders today that racial and religious prejudices not only have no place in democracy, but are unfounded myths which cannot be supported by reason. This conclusion was drawn at a " religious discussion among Catholic, Jewish and Protestant clergymen and laity all day yesterday, which was climaxed last

night in a three-way religious analy- | sis at the Indiana World War Me-|

morial. Discussion leaders were the Rev. James A. Magner, pastor of St. Laurence Catholic Church, Chicago; Rabbi Morton M. Berman of the Temple Isaiah Israel, Chicago, and Dr. Paul Schilpp, Northwestern University philosophy professor. The roundtable was sponsored by the Y. M. C. A, the B'nai B'rith and the Knights of Columbus.

they could write to the Census Bureau and have their age cnecked. He said that the Census Bureau needed the figure to help in’ calculating Social Security rates and also to help answer the question of how much life expectancy is increasing. If you are the fifth or 10th or 15th or 20th person coutacted by the enumerator you will be asked an additional set of questions which are only being asked of every fifth person. These are a group of questions the Census Bureau feels

“sampling.”

where your parents were born and what language you spoke as a child. You also will be asked if you are a veteran of war or military service or whether you are a widow or dependent of a veteran. { The Government also will ‘want

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Dr. Arrell Cc. Reinking and

‘Rosemay Morris First To Ask License.

The pre-marital blood test law— the state’s latest barrier against syphilis—went into effect through= out the state today. The first couple to receive a mar< riage license in Marion County under the new act was Dr. Arrell C. Reinking, 26, of 4120 Guilford Ave, and Rosemay. Morris, 22, of 1227 Naomi St. Sy The couple presented their cere tificate of blood. fest and examina tion and the marriage license ‘wag : issued at 7:45 a. m.

Expect License Decline

The immediate effect of the new hygienic marriage law’ was ex<

- | pected to be a temporary sharp de=

cline in number of licenses issued, As predicted; the first effect of the act was to bring on a rush at coun-

weds. seeking to avoid the blood test and automatic waiting period which Se test procedure makes necese

Re the Marion County ‘marriage license Bureau, a new all-time rece ord was set for February with a total of 714 licenses issued, 107 more than the previous record of 607 ree corded in June of 1936 and 1838. A total of 75 licenses were issued here up /to 6 p. m. last night. All. licenses obtained during the rush will be valid without blood tests for 60 days. If not used within that period, the license becomes void and both parties to the prospective mar« riages must undergo the blood test,

Waiting Period Varies

Beginning today no prospective bride and bridegroom may obtain a license to wed unless the applica< on is accompanied by a statement from a physician and the State Health Board attesting their freee dom from venereal disease, The waiting period resulting from the blood test procedure is expected: to be at least four or five days. For this reason it is believed there will only be a few couples who will be prepared to apply for licenses in the next few days. Health officials hope for a marked reduction in prevalence of congenital syphilis and spread and control of the disease among adults through operation of the new anti-syphilis measure. The law also was de- . signed to strike a hard blow at hasty or “gin” marriages.

PARIS IS QUITE GAY, MADELEINE REPORTS

NEW YORK, March 1 (U. P).— The European war is harder on the women than the men, Actress Madeleine Carroll said here on her return from a vifit in France. “Paris is quite gay,” she said, adding that “the men look better than the women.” Miss Carroll, en route to Hollywood, said she wanted to bring her mother to this country from Enge land but had been unable to get a felephone, call through to her from aris

3 CHANGES MADE AT RAILROADMEN'S

Three changes in personnel fole lowing the retirement of Stewart A, Greene, employee of the Railroade men’s Federal Savings .and Loan Association 17 years, were annouriced by the board of directors

today.

Leonard W. Davis, formerly trease

retary and appointed loan disburse ing officer. Clarence P. Cartwright has been elected treasurer to succeed Mr. Davis and Lyle C. Clift has been appointed loan supervisor to succeed Mr. Cartwright.

CHEST DRIVE TO START ANDERSON, Ind. March 1.—The 1940 Anderson Community Ches campaign will be launched Monday with a goal of $40,000. The drive, which will close next Friday, will provide funds for nine local charity and welfare groups.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where are the Ten Commands. ments found in the Bible? 2—In what war was the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Constitution in effect five years ago? 4—Who was Confucius? 5—Are moles blind? 6—With what sport is Eddie Arcaro associated? : T7—Of the five U. S. Supreme Court Justices appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was appointed first—Stanley Reed, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Ye iiam Douglas or Frank Mure phy 8—Name the country in which citie zens are not permitted to accept a Nobel Prize.

Fa ar Answers 1—Exodus, 20th Chapter. 2—The War between the States. 1868. 3—No. ; 4—Chinese hiloso her. 5—No, they have tiny eyes.

to know from one in five whether has Social :

ty clerk’s offices here ‘during the = past month by prospective newly= =

urer, has ‘been elected assistant sece