Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1940 — Page 7

“hotel maid was just a hotel maid,

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

1940

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Hoosier V gabond

: MIAMI, April 13. Today we continue about

. Miami's school for training hotel employees.

‘Take maids, for instance. You always thought a idn’t you? Well, she’s not. She’s a combination /of Olympic athlete and Harvard honor student.

- The ho 1 school teaches her

to massage her| feet every night with cold crea she suddenly discovers one of her front teeth is| gone, she must have a new one put in. She is: taught not to become confidential with guests, or gossip

doors she m t use only one finger. If she knows the guest in the room is deaf, she’s allowed to rap harder. demsiand it Js all right for her |to kick the door 0 She is advised to wear stockings a half size larger than ordinarily while working. She is -forbidden to stand on chairs or bureaus. The instruction book doesn’t say anything about hanging irom chandeliers,

, 50 I assume that’s acceptable in moderation.

She is specifically instructed not to answer a guest

. by saying “Yea, O K. nope or bkey dokey.” The

school also recommends that she not summon guests

_ by calling “hey” at them

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“No Singing at Work

She is schooled in NOT staring at prominent guests when she enters their room. She is also adjured

- not to swear in the presence of guests. She is-taught - that it is a bad idea, very bad, to t

on guests’ cloth-

ing, se their perfume, read their mail or eat their

WASHINGTON, April 13 —Thj ndinavian war increases the strain on American’ineutrality. Pressure results from threats to American |interests, Washington’s efforts to protect those interests, Allied propat propaganda. Here are | |some of the latest evidences of the strain— to American in-

The Monroe Doctrine is potentially invplved by Germany's nmark, which owns strategic base in the Western | Hemisphere,

By Ern ie Pyle

wore 8 red 1 rose in her black hair, and was always bringing us little gifts. If the maid should find me “forcibly confined” in my room (by those kidnapers the Brooklyn Boys, I presume), she is to call for help and get me out. If she sees that I have a set of burglary tools lying on the bureau, she will notify the desk at once, or lose her job. She must be a smart girl, all right. And on the other hand, if I should ask her anything unusual, she is schooled to act very dumb. About the only thing she’s allowed to tell me is where the coffee shop is. The hotel maid! is allowed to take anything I give her, such as (according to the manual) “magazines, wearing apparel, books and strong boxes.” I never knew ‘that before; now I suppose I'll have to go around with a car full of strong boxes to give to hotel maids. : » » ”

Learn Science of Foods The school starts right off by discouraging girls

- who want to be waitresses. At least it tells them all

the drawbacks, so they won't be disillusioned. It tells them, for instance, that the “position of waitress is not held in such high regard by the general public as are many other positions open to women.” But it says, on the other hand, that “the work is very interesting, provided the waitress has a sense of humor and is not too over-sensitive.” That's the big trouble with my own job; I haven't any sense of humor. Nothing ever seems funny to me. Everything always seems sad. Waitresses actually have to dig in and learn more than either maids or bellboys. They have to go into the science of foods, and of cooking, and of serving. The instruction book is detailed. I never knew before that eating was so complicated. The thing that impresses: me most is the attitude that is pounded into the student about his work. They don’t teach any of this old false-front, stage-smile, deep-bow stuff. They teach that if you keep a person’s room neat and clean, if you pay attention to what. he wants and get it for him, if you treat him pleasantly and like a human being, he’ll come back to your hotel, and the hotel will keep going, and youll keep your job. That’s good sense.

By Ludwell Denny

The Senate Appropriations Committee gave the Navy the gossign on two new battleships and two new cruisers, recently held up by the House. It also raised the Navy's authorization for planes $15,000,000. The Navy Department without waiting for final Congressional action rushed all construction plans, and called for cruiser bids to be opened May 8. ® ” #

Warning by Reynaud

3. Allied pressure for U. S. intervention: After . German invasion of Scandinavia, Premier Reynaud of France made this statement for the

By Thomas M. Johnson

NEA Service Military Writer

The great naval and air battle off the coast of Sweden, as sketched by NEA Service Staff Artist Harry Grissinger. This conception shows the British fl

rounding the tip

new war in the north,

low countries.

and in this region ‘Britain's stakes

are more vital than anywhere on the continent save the

American press: “Every one can now see that the German attack was an attack | lon the neutrals more than on us, and this must cause every neutral—particularly the United States, which stands at the head of the neutrals—to reconsider its | position. I need not now labor .the point that we are only: their first line of defense. “I think the tendency in the United States has been to underestimate German strength and the scale of the effort the Allies must make to overcome it. Otherwise you would not proceed so comfortably on the assumption that we are sure to win.” 4. Examples of pressure by Americans: Former Assistant Secretary of War Henry Breckinridge—“If Hitler makes one move to touch Iceland or Greenland, the United States immediately should occupy them and loose its sea and air power upon the Nazi bandit, whose victory would mean the end of all civilized freedom in the world.” Vice President Matthew Woll of the ' American Federation of Labor ‘demands a ban on American trade with neutrals which filters into Germany, otherwise unions “should consider going one step further and withhold manufacturing and transporting such

HE Yanks may not be coming, but their planes are. The word reaching Europe may well change the course of the war. News that American combat planes that can fly 400 miles an hour will soon be shipped to the Allies may bring on the world’s greatest air battles—battles that will decide the outcome of the war in the North, Germany apparently has lost so much naval strength already that she must resist Franco-British naval superiority mainly through her formidable air force. Air bombing attacks are now the greatest threat to Allied control of the seas.

Once let Germany establish herself on the western Norwegian coast 300 North Sez miles from Scotland and - her submarines land planes could attack British commerce, naval bases and cities with a violence and per= sistence to make previous raids look like a peck on the cheek. Right now spring weather is removing two protections Britain has enjoyed all winter—a 40-mile head Wiha and a thick low-lying cloud bank. If | German bombers can - whittle down the A British fleet, German transports could bear troops ETORS those 300 miles from Norway to invade Scotland. | | The Britsh must show audacity along that whole 1000-mile Norwegian seafront before the Germans can link hands with larger and prcbably mechaniz ed armored forces trying to push northward. Warships attacking fixed land fortific: are handicapped, but the British cannot too/ the cast. They are fighting primarily not Norway as a springboard to invade Germany, but to push Germany off a springboard whence she might invade Britain. The British have their backs to the wall—in effect, that seawall that hitherto has been their rampart. But , the wall may best be defended from the air by the Yanks’

of Denmark after forcing the heavily mined Skagerrak. The British encounter a large fleet of German warships and transports ere. for Norway along the Swedish

+ To prevent German seizure of the biggest (war prize to date, there is a wegian-Danish merchant fleets of almost 7,000,000 tonnage under = the United| States flag. : would involve America in one of the major jusues of the Scandinavian conflict. British losses in this series of haval battles weaken (our sea defenses, according to the Washington ad‘mirals, who argue that we must double our navy (the | hitherto unaccepted two-fleets- pr-two-oceahs plan) if the.British fleet is seriously reduced. » 2 2

be Danger to Our Natio

U. 8. ships in Norwegian in Scandinavia are endangered. 2. Washington's counter-moves:

coast mear Gothenburg. Working in co-operation with their air force and submarines, the British open fire to start the greatest naval battle since Jutland. The German fleet had strong support from the Nazi air force. In the foreground a British fighter plane is [shooting down a German bomber.

a Frenchman's word—has just been put into astounding. Should the Allies lose that control, then from Western deeds, first by Germans and now by Britons. Norway the Nazis could not only bomb Scotland and For Churchill is gambling little less than Hitler. northern Britain, but after that bombing had sunk enough tn "8 # British warships, they could invade Scotland. HE British ships that steamed into Oslo harbor to Against that danger the Allies’ best defense is also cut the main troop ferry for the Nazi invasion of Noraircraft, and they have not enough. way certainly took a risk. . The French especially have considerably fewer than They dared mines and torpedoes in the narrow seas. the Germans, but with today’s news from this country the To stay they dared attack by Germany’s capiial ships and Allies can draw on their reserves, knowing there will be airplanes. reinforcement at least equaling anything in quality the Yet the British allowed these foemen more time by Germans have. postponing shelling Oslo to save its civilians. But before these reinforcements can arrive the Ger- But the risks the British take are those calculated

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_ Issues. The President by decree. Danish financial assets in th

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: think they mus have . my voice.

Qui 4 | Marsh, the National Con : come and I 3 yas very g

banned to American shipping. The State Department is a ities for American refugees.: ‘The War Department rel

r three latest plane models in p

(Mr. Anton Sc

tions of President Roosevelt's strength in the Illinois and Nebraska primaries, you find increased cockiness among the third term crew.

They have acquired silent recruits among some. influential Southern| Senators. They are working in Texas with the intention of boring into the state Democratic convention May 28 to mess up Vice President Garner on his home grounds. And they are expressing resentment / agdinst Postmaster General Farley for remaining as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee while pursuing his Presidentialg@ctivities. They assert he © is using National Committee employees in his campaign wor ~The primaries have chan it the third term situation but slightly. There had Roosevelt’s dominating positi President Garner has never been more than a stopRoosevelt instrument. He and Mr. Farley were headed for a losing fight in the conyention if the third-term question came to a showdown. Their opposition once promised to be important psychologically, in the sense |that a third term nomination forced in face of it| might have taken on a

As to the effect of war term outlook, little of any

. the important effects are

within the mind of Mr.

"know nothing at all. Fra

My Da

‘ON THE TRAIN, En

: Smith, Ark., Friday.—We

selves this morning in a fairly springlike Kansas City, f Mo. Though it is none too/warm, everyone assured us ver that an April blizzard usual, but even in New York [State I have come to look upon [such things as quite possible freaks in the weather. I could quite [well believe the young radio man [who told me that a few days [ago he was sitting in the sun in Denver with a sports shirt Somehow (I got myself up with the various radio companies yesterday and, before the day was over, I had spoken three times to the people in Denver over various stations, so I

n a little weary of hearing te a number of Democrats, headed by Mr. tteeman, came in to greet I appreciated the Governor taking the time to ad to see our old friend, exGovernor Sweet. I had an opportunity to talk for a few minutes with Mrs. Costigan ahout the work of

me;

. the Nasional Youth Administration. They seem to

8 Very good proj gram I ne.

— We found] thai Mr. and Mrs. ymond Massey

materials.” | Nicholas Roosevelt, former U. S. Minister to Hungary—“That the United States should take its position with those nations which are fighting the forces of international gangsterism is, it seems to me, no longer open to question of doubt.”

r was unable to write a column today because of illness.)

By Raymond Clapper

logic of the situation have indicated that only a grave emergency arising out of the war could induce Mr. Roosevelt to run, That is what he is understood to have told Mr. Farley at Hyde Park last August. Whether ‘Mr. Roosevelt considers current developments in Europe as providing that grave emergency has not been indicated. If the situation three days ago looked like a grave emergency, does the apparently successful counter-attack of the Allies relieve the emergency? Does the emergency go up and down as the war news fluctuates from day to day? Or will the emergency present itself, regardless of war developments, in the difficult task of bringing restoration out of chaos after the war is over? Or would the nomination of Thomas E. Dewey by the Republicans be considered by Mr. Roosevelt to precipitate a grave emergency requiring him to run again to save the country from" inexperienced hands? ” ” ”

Hull Could Restore Unity

Your answers to these questions, or my answers, are not important. The question 'is how Mr. Roosevelt will answer them. Only one thing is certain: Mr. Roosevelt occupies the dominating strategic point in the confusion. I don’t know whether he will run again. I feel almost as certain as I always have that he will not run. I feel just as certain as I always have that he should not run. | He might be ‘defeated on the dictator issue. Or if he won, the brief victory would crumble to ashes in

. his hand ‘because the suspicions and deeper hates en-

gendered in the campaign would plague him throughout his next four years. Secretary of State Hull has the confidence of the country in the conduct of foreign relations. He would restore national unity to a greater degree than Mr. Roosevelt could ever hope to in the next four years. I can see nothing but grief in Mr. Roosevelt running again—grief for all concerned, for him and for a country bitterly divided within itself.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

were in Denver on tour with “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” They came in for a few minutes talk before they had to be on their way. I am particularly happy to have Mr. Massey touring the country in this play, because Mr. Massey’s performance, with the excellent support given by .the rest of {the company and the very beautiful writing in the play itself, is an experience which as many Americans as possible should enjoy, By the time we took the train again in the afternoon, the snow had stopped and, cold as it was, quite a number of children with a few adults, came to the station in Limon,

Colo., to greet me. s morning, in Kansas City, a young girl who was for some time a patient in Warm Springs, Ga., came to the station with her mother to see me. She is very much ‘upset ys she has not been able to find a college within her means where it would be possible for a crippled youngster on crutches, to attend and get the proper assistance. Her solution would be a special college for crippled children, but I feel that the question should be studied a little more carefully and that facilities should be provided in state universities, so that handicapped young people may obtain college educations at the least possible expense but in normal surroundings. We are now cn our way to Fit. Smith, Kas. A lecture tonight, and tomorrow a Bight. to Chicago and a few busy hours there, 2

mans will be likely to shoot the works.

Audacity—always

risks that must be taken in a war so dazzling as this

OPPOSED TO BAN ON STATE STONE

U. S. Aid Backs Hoosier Products for Capital Buildings: .

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 13—W. E. Reynolds, Commissioner of Public Buildings in the Federal Works Agency, is on record today as favoring Indiana limestone for construction. of the $50,000,000 War and Navy Buildings. The Commissioner appeared before the House Public Buildings Committee to oppose approval of the Hobbs Bill which would require these and other structures in the same Washington area to be constructed of marble. Indiana limestone already has the low bid on the first War Building unit, which will cost approximately $4,300,000. Introduced by Rep. Sam Hobbs (D. Ala.), the marble bill has the backing of Congressmen & from states which quarry marble. Rep. Eugene B. Crowe (D. Ind.), who comes from Bedford, is a meniber of the committee and conducting the fight to keep open competition and award the contract to Indiana limestone as previously announced. Mr. Reyholds said that his department favored limestone because the new War Building will face the Interior Building, which is of limestone construction. Mr. Reynolds estimated the increased material cost between limestone and marble would be 300 per cent and the competition limited _to the marble producing states of Vermont, Georgia, Alabama and Colorado, with the latter two eliminated because of freight charges. H. P. Cammerer, secretary of the Fine Arts Commission, condemned the Hobbs Bill as establishing a precedent which backers of other building materials would try to follow by enacting similar laws, A lengthy statement against the measure also was submitted by Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.).

DISTRIBUTION OF 9TH SYMPHONY SET BEGINS

Distribution of recordings of Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major was begun today at Music Appreciation headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania St., as the ninth famous symphonic masterpiece of a series of 10. Elmer A. Steffen, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir conductor, today praised the campaign to make these musical masterpieces available to the public at ‘low cost. ; “Recordings of some of the world’s greatest symphonies have made

|classical music the lasting friend|

of the people rather than a mere B [acquaintance of the chosen w,” he

Century Club,

Of Pupils, to

The Century Club of the Christian Men Builders, Inc., Bible Class of the Third Christian Church, will hold its annual banquet Tuesday

night at the church to celebrate an achievement unique in Indian- | apolis. Since its organization in 1935 as a unit of the class, the Century Club has provided 1588 pairs of spectacles tc Indianapolis school children who needed them and would have had no other way of getting them. The banquet Tuesday will be not only a celebration of what has been done, but it will signify that the work will go on, officers said. Dr. Charles W. Myers, City Hospital superintendent, will be the principal speaker at the banquet. He will outline the part the hospital plays in the setup by which the glasses are distributed. Children who are backward in

|their studies and yet appear to be

in good health are discovered by teachers who call them to the attention of the public health nurses. ey arrange for physical and visual examinations at City Hospital

Benefactor Mark Progress

under supervision of Dr. Myers. If they are found to need glasses a prescription is made out for them and the Century Club is notified. The club writes an order on one of several co-operating optometrists in the city and the glasses are fitted. The club then pays the cost price of the glasses. Club records include case histories of several children who were lifted from failing levels of their classes to honor sections through the glasses. Some -of the little patients will be at the banquet. Until two years ago glasses were distributed only to grade school pupils, but lately the Century Club has expanded its field to high schools. There is no race or creed line drawn. ‘Jesse McClure is club president. Herbert Gorham is secretary; Chester Cobb, treasurer, and Robert Wilfe, founder and first president, is chairman ‘of the Board of Directors. Marshall Harvey will act as toastmaster at the banquet and Elmer Wilson is in charge of arrange-

HEARING ON 38TH ST.

BUS TO BE MONDAY |

~The Works Board will hold a public hearing at 10 a. m. Monday on the petition of the Peoples Motor Coach Co. to extend bus service across town on 38th St. The Board was advised by the Legal Department yesterday that it has full powers to grant a permit

for the extension, provided the per-

mit contains a clause enabling the City to revoke it at any time.

The proposed extension route is from the western terminus of the

30th St. bus line, at 30th St. and Capitol Ave. north on Capitol to 38th St., east on 38th to Rural st., where the turn-around will be by way of 37th St. and Temple Ave. The Peoples Motor Coach Co., an Indianapolis ‘ Railways subsidary, has been contemplating the new cross-town route ' several years. Board members ‘said they were inclined to favor the extension, provided it meets with the approval of 38th St. residents.

FALL INJURIES FATAL

TO HOOVER’S FRIEND |

WARSAW, Ind, April 13 (U. PJ). —R. W. Balderston of Chicago died last night in the McDonald Hospital from a skull fracture received in a fall down steps at North Manchester Wednesday. He was 57. He was a personal friend of exPresident Herbert Hoover and was associated with Mr. Hoover in the drive {or Finnish relief funds.

ments.

Singing Tower Program Set

Students at the Indiana School for the Blind, 7725 College Ave., will present a singing tower program over the school’s amplifiers -at- 3:30 p. m. tomorrow.

The program may be heard from

' any portion of the school’s drives

‘and the school grounds will be “open to the public. The program will include instrumental solos and group numbers. Participants will include Mary Helen Wyrick, Montpelier; Harriet Cromie, Rockport; Bessie Bonney, Bloomington; Alfred Zimmerman, Indianapolis; Bertha May and Hazel Johnson, La Grange; Ruth Carey, Galveston; Russell Getz, Goshen, and Russell Muttart, Elkhart. Robert. Lambert, superintendent, is planning other programs which 8S. M. Whinery, principal, said would be exceller:t training for the students. He urged public support.

RESTAURANT MEN

TO ARRIVE MONDAY

Registration for the three-day convention of the Indiana Restaurant Association will be held at the Hotel Antlers Monday morning. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City health officer, will give the address of welcome Monday afternoon. Among those to address the conference will be Prof. John Dillon of Indiana University and Henry Boxman of Bloomington, a past president of the Association. Jap Jones, Ft. Wayne, hotel and restaurant operator, will be master of ceremonies at the annual b

quet Tuesday night. Dancing follow the banquet, °

CLEAN-UP DRIVE SUPPORT ASKED

City-Wide. Campaign Open With Parade April 22.

The Chamber of Commerce and the Fire Department today sought support of civic clubs, schools, trade organizations, women’s clubs /and business and industrial firms in the annual spring Fire Prevention Clean-up Campaign April 22 to May 22. R. S. McDaniel) chairman of the Chamber’s fire prevention and protection committee, announced that

to

formally on the morning of April 22 with a parade of uniformed fire prevention inspectors and fire apparatus. -This will be followed by a ceremony on the Circle when Mr. McDaniel will read Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s proclamation. The Mayor's Civic Pride Committee, ‘of which Mrs. Low ell S. Fisher is chairman, is co-opelating in the drive by making contacts in the residential districts through Parent-Teaches | Associations, civic|

Jand women’s clubs and other or-

‘ganizations. | Boy Scouts will distribute window cards, to stores. The Chamber of Commerce committee, as in the past, will provide 50,000 survey blanks for distribution by the Fire Prevention Bureau of the Fire Department to pupils of public, parochial and private schools in the County. These report blanks are to be filled in by parents, giving information as to spring clean-up activities in the homes. They are expected to be of value in appraising the results of the campaign. Throughout ' the drive a crew of uniformed inspectors under direction of ‘Fire Prevention Chief Bernard Lynch will conduct an intensive check-up of homes and business and industrial buildings.

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS CHEMICAL REVEALED

(Copyright, 1940, by Science Service) CINCINNATI, April 13.—A ‘combination of a chemical used during the World War as a high explosive, dinitrophenol, and the drug sulfanilamide is prolonging the lives, with possibilities of permanent cure, of guinea pigs having tuberculosis.

yet applied to humans but indicative of a possible method of freating human tuberculosis, were reported to the K American Chemical Society here by N. L. Howell and E. C. Link of Memphis, Tenn.

only preliminary, it is. extremely significant thét of the experimental

tion. t

This is a ripe uberculous guinea

the city-wide drive will be opened

|8—The chairman of the

These animal experiments, not

“While the experimental work is |

animals treated all, with the excep- 1 tion of one animal, lived from five| - {to 15 months after date of infec- :

planes that now at ne crucial moment are | coming.

Urge Parents : To Give Pets

mels Week” beginn National goal of 1 is | abolish the practice of “nicking” horses’ tails, in line with recommendations of the Nati nal Horse Show Association. Statements made by Roy Freem 1, president of the local society, stressed the value of animal p ts teaching good character traits to children. “An ‘animal pet will call forth more love, sacrifice and responsibility in the child than can be done by any other means—if the parents instructs the child. to treat the animal with love rather than abuse,” Mr. Freeman said.

ROTARIANS TO VISIT WIRE

- Indianapolis Rotarians will visit radio station WIRE’s new studios on the ninth floor of the Claypool Hotel Tuesday following the club luncheon in .the Claypool Riley Room. Eugene C. Pulliam, Rotarian and owner of oy station, will be host for the tour. | s

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-1Is rn made from the ‘in. testines of cats, rabbits or sheep? 2—Does the moon have an atmosphere? ; ah 3—What well-known former Army officer has been nicknamed “oli Iron-pants?” | 4—Do python snakes kill by con-" striction or by venomous bites? 5—Are table tennis balls made of celluloid, rubber or cloth? 6—On what river is South Bend, Ind. 7..Which has the longest channel span, the Golden Gate bridge, California, or the George Wash=ington bridge over the Hudson?

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campaign finance Ernest T. Weir, Glenn Alfred M. Landon?

or

§—Ernest T. Weir, ‘s 8s &

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