Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1940 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE I, 1940

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(Ernie Pyle is pn vacation and at the request of ders we are reprinting some of his favorite columns.) :

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 11, 1939.—While we wait for the truck for Los Angeles to finish loading, maybe I can answer a few wonderings you've. had about truck drivers. For one thing, in our own touring about the country we've often listened to

truck drivers and restaurant waitresses making wisecracks back and forth’ at each other. It always seemed to us that the drivers were forward and crude, -and the waitresses just had to smile and act like they enjoyed it, because if was good business. 7 But, after eating along the trucking route,” 71 see it's ‘different. - The people who serve the truckers really enjoy them, and are fond of them. There is a mutual seeking for some gaiety in life between them. + : One of the trucker’s favorite spots is the Kive Inn, at the south edge of Santa Fe, N. M. The woman who runs it—Mary Boyd—caters of a hob to truckers,- In fact, she’s making it sort of a|hobhy, as well as a business. : . 2 2 |

Truck Drivers Are Friendly '

She serves free coffee to all truckers. Many places do over the country, but het is the only one on the Denver-Albuquerque run. | She keeps a register book, and in it/ are 100 names -of regular drivers from a dozen lines who go through Santa Fe. She knows every one by his first name. In fact, truckers always go by their first names. ’ | I copied down a few hames out Mary’s book. They always travel in teams of two, you know. Here are a few: Fuzz & Heck, Sonny &| Al, Wimpy & Glen, Alabama & Floyd, Gruff & Dutch, Alex & Mutt, Quack & Gene, Bob & Bob, Big |& Little Floyd.

Our Town |

THE OLDEST MYSTERY still to be solved is Mr. ¥Fordham’s failure to show up in Indianapolis. I don't hope to unravel the riddle, but maybe I can shed a little light on how he happened to g To do so, I'll have to start at the beg The history begins with Jan. the Legislature r

6,.1821,: the day tified the selec-

some. opposition, Marston Clark the new place one legislator held out to the last for “Suwarrow.” That same day, the House and Senate met in joint . session and elected Gen. John Carr agent for the sale of lots, and James W. Jones, Samuel] P. Booker and Christopher Harrison commissioners (te lay out the town. Of these only Harrison appeared at the site at . the time fixed. He appointed Alexander Ralston and Elias P. Fordham to be the surveyors, As far as anybody knows, Mr. Fordham never showed up. #822

Not So Hopeless

When Berry Sulgrove wrote his History in 1880 or ~ thereabouts, he remarked rather helplessly: “Of Mr. \ Fordham little appears to have been known at the time, and nothing can be learned naw.” It isn’t as hopeless as that. Elias Pym Fordham was an Englishman of excellent family and ancestry who came to America in 1817 when he was 29. He was an engineer by profession and a pupil of George Stephenvy son, the inventor of the steam locomotive. Despite his enviable prospects, however, he was| seized with the fever of migration to America which spread over England in 1816 and, instead of Flor » ah his profession

at home, began to cast about for a chance to try his fortunes in the New World. The chance came by way of an uncle, George Fowler, the man who was identified with| Birkbeck’s projected settlement in Illinois. Fowler came to America In 1816 in advance of the party and Fordham followed with Mose Birkbeck and his [family early the next year.

‘Washingto: WASHINGTON, June 1.—Stettinius, Knudsen and all of the others, high and low, who are trying to regear our enormous-peace-time manufacturing plants to war production will not. be able to do the job ‘glone. Not even if they and the Administration work in closest accord. Not even if they are given arbitrary pgwer. : Help from [the nation as a whole will be necessary. It must be inspired help, the kind that cannot be: commanded but ean only be given. It must arise from the understanding that

freedom requires self-restraint, self-discipline and the willing,

synchronizéd, | hard-hitting ac-'

tion of a footpall team working under its elected captain. Without that, the decisions of the central brain here will go out as into a body with paralyzed muscles and no effective response will occur. The puestion whether democracy can do this. In Europe democracy has sho itself unequal to the task. Like the slow-moving, sluggish dinosaur, democracy is being devoured by strong and quickmuscled predators. We have yet to learn whether the trouble is with democracy as such, or whether it is only that Britain and France were old and tired. Perhaps they would not have [responded quickly

enough under any form of government. :

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Democracy on Trial We are a younger and more flexible people, as our mass-production technique has shown. Perhaps

' _ we can make democracy operate more efficiently in

our crisis than it has in the recent tests in Europe. If it doesn’t it will go. The democratic idea is on trial. On trial right here. If will be judged by results. : i ® y. Day | NEW YORK, Friday.—I wonder if any of you have been fortunate enough to hear the Coronado Exposition radio program from 3:30 to 4:00, Eastern Daylight Time, every Sunday afternoon? ' These programs. give one an idea of what there is to see if one is able to visit the states of New Mexico and Arizona. during the oe few months. Two of the series already have been given and two more are coming in the next two. weeks. The next ohe will particularly feature the [Indians and what they have of interest to show this year at| the Coronado. Exposition, which opened in May and covers a variety of interesting places in New Mexico and Arizona. 1 While traveling to it, there are many other interesting things to see. For instance, the work being done by the; Uplands Association in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee. The Uplands Hospital and Health Center was founded by Dr. May Cravath Wharton to try to give adequate medical care to the people of these mountain regions, who are so often ill largely because of chronic undernourishment and lack of opportunity for any medieal advice and care. 1

staff goes out from this hospital and covers

ier Vagabond

By Ernie Pyle

The truckers are, on the whole, a friendly lot. They .have professional antagonism for competing companies, of course. Buf it’s a rule that they'll always stop and help out another trucker when he’s in trouble. {i Truckers always pull people out of ditches, or stop to help people in trouble. The drivers see a great many accidents and have many experiences with injured people. Driver Elmer Rook has a funny story. Two women, in a sedan, ran off the road and turned over right ahead of him. The car stopped upside down. Elmer got the women out, and took the injured one to.a nearby house, and called a doctor. When he went back, the other woman asked if he'd get the car right-side up for her. | 2 8 8

Some Roadside Generosity ;

After considerable work, he had the car right-side-up and back on the road. The woman said she wanted to pay him for all his trouble. Elmer saiy no, there wasn’t any charge. But the woman absolutely insisted that she pay him, and after much fuss, she dug the money out of her pocketbook and

‘handed it to him—50 cents)

I was terrifically impressed by the way Elmer and Ernie drove. It seemed me there was as much caution and ‘pride and skill in their driving as in the work of a locomotive engineer. They never went more, than 45 miles an hour. They never failed to dim their lights; they never once took a turn alarmingly; they never for one second relaxed the caution it takes to protect yourself from other drivers on the road. « It’s amazing the mileage they run up on these freight trucks. The one I came down in had 150,000 miles on it, and was considered practically new. One driver told me of a truck he drove on another line, that had gone 1,000,000 miles. Elmer and Ernie are

. as proud of the condition of their truck as if they'd

bought it themselves. . And when it is necessary to send it out with some other driver on an emergency trip, the poor thing

“isn’t safe to step into when it gets back, to hear them

tell it.

~~ By Anton Scherrer

Fordham’s part in the Birkbeck experiment is another story. Suffice to say, however, that during 1818 he wrote a lot of letters home, some of which have been collected and published as Fordham’s “Personal Narrative.” In the course of these letters, he mentions Princeton, Vincennes, Frenck Lick, New Albany, Vevay and Harmonie-on-the-Wabash, leaving no doubt that he knew his way around Southern Indiana. Nowhere, however, does he mention|ever having met Christopher Harrison. It stands to reason, though, that the

. two must have met, possibly later when Mr. Harrison

had his home in Salem. | Mr. Harrison, one of the strangest and certainly the most picturesque character ever to reach Indiana, was a Marylander by birth. He was a man of some wealth, fine education and |a taste for art. And he had an eye for beautiful women, too. As a young man, he fell in love with Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore, and just when he thought everything was fixed, she went back on him and married Jerome Bonaparte, Si wordy King of Westphalia (a story T've already 0. . : f ” 2 ”

Abandonis Hermits Life

To get away from it all, Harrison tame to Indiana and for seven years lived the life of a hermit on a bluff overlooking the Ohip at Hanover. In 1815, he

. said to heck with Betty and went to Salem where he

opened a little store. After which he came to be a power in politics. It was in Salem that Mr. Harrison met Alexander Ralston, who had moved there from Louigyille, Ch All of which still doesn’t explain why Mr. Fordham didn’t accept the commission to help Mr. Ralston lay out Indianapolis. It may be possible that just about this time Mr. Fordham was thinking some of going home. Maybe, he was on the way. At any rate, there is a record somewhere that Mr, Fordham was not yet a “middle aged man” when he returned to England. Established there, he was appointed Engineer of Cinque Ports. It is also known that his old teacher, George Stephenson, looked him up and got him to help in undertakings of national importance. I know today’s piece doesn’t settle anything, but it’s kinda nice to know that, when it came to picking people, Mr. Harrison was just as good with men as with women. At any rate, it was quite a trick to

.pick pupils of IL’Enfant and George Stephenson to

lay out the capital of ‘Indiana.

By Raymond Clapper

¥ This nation will not allow itself to be endangered because its form of government proves tqo cumbersome to do the necessary work. In this German effort, there must be more than Hitler~alone, more also than just Hitler and his staff. More, there must be, than blood lust and fiendish ingenuity at the top and more than mere submission

to an all-powerful dictator. Behind all of that must/|!

be the driving force of a people, ‘Whether hypnotized, deluded or dazzled, a national spirit and surge must be giving a mighty heave to everything. We have the necessary intelligence and resources. The question is whether; we havé the will to utilize fully our intelligence and our resources. Have we the will to refrain from quibbles that do not matter in order to throw the full force of our energies into work that does matter? Never have we faced a task hal requires such rapid/and such intricate national skill. {

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A New Kind of | World

The world we knew is| crumbling under every fresh headline. Nearly all of our national life has been lived under the partial protection of Great Britain. In her we had a good neighbor and a powerful one. Because of that we were able to sit comfortably in the shade here on the Western Hemisphere and enjoy life. Now we are on our, own. The United States must reorient itself to a new kind of a world bene the chances of Germany being crushed are now [so remote that it would be foolish to wait for a miracle. As Secretary Hull was saying privately two years ago, it is possible that we may have to do our business with the outside world through Berlin and Tokio. That means we on the Western Hemisphere must play the good neighbor as we have never played it before. More than that, we must be the strong neighbor.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

600 miles of rugged mountainous country. It ex-

tends its service through this area by holding mother and baby clinics and regular clinics in the most isolated sections. ray rh The hospital itself how has 50 beds and owns

230 acres of land. Tuberculosis takes a heavy toll in Tennessee because, wherever it occurs, the whole family is exposed to the disease. Hookworm and pellegra are widespread, typhoid and colitis are common ailments, and pneumonia and influenza epidemics rage during the. winter months. The work done in this area is for people who are the descendants of fine old American stock, but who suffer because of the isolation of their surroundings and from ignorance, sickness and poverty. | The rain is coming down in torrents and I think April showers have extended themselves all through May. Instead of sun and warmth, I féel as though it were the month of November! Luckily, our morning is fairly free, with one appointment and a luncheon engagement with Mrs. ¢ exit Randolph Hearst, be-

fore going to see the exhibition of costumes at Wanamakers which is being given for the benefit of the Children’s Milk id in which Mrs. Hearst has long been the movin irit. Then we start for Asbury Park, N. J., where I lecture tonight, and we shall- have the pleasure of dining with Mrs. Lewis Thompson beforehand: After the lecture is over, we

nurses in attendance,

500 DRUGBISTS “MEET JUNE 18

59th State Convention Will Hear National Vice President.

FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind. June 1.—More than 500 pharmacists

convention of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association here June 18-20. Principal speakers include Dr. George A. Moulton, secretary of the New Hampshire State Pharmaceutical Association and vice president of the Americ Pharmaceutical Association; Thomas J. Murphy Jr, Meyer Both Co. Chicago; Samuel C. Cleland, Ft. Wayne attorney; Francis E. Bibbins, chief pharmacist of Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis; Joseph C. Schneider, chief of the Indiana Food and Drug Bureau, and Joseph M. Considine, Boston, Mass. sales manager of the United Drug Co. = Others inclyde Walter Ehrhardt, Pt. Wayne, Meyer Bros. Drug Co.; E. "A. O’Harrow, Bloomington, secretary of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy; Dean C. B. Jordan and Prof. H. W. Heine, Purdue University School of Pharmacy, and Dean E. H. Niles, Indianapolis College of Pharmacy. Reports will be given by O. D. Mickel, president of the auxiliary; H. V. Darnell, Association secretary, and Harry J. Borst, Association treasurer, all of Indianapolis. . Joseph B. Wade, Indianapolis, As-

shall moter back to New Yerk City 2 bu BN

sociation president, will address the June 19 session.

‘Allied wounded in a French hospital smile cheerfu

are expected for the 59th annual.

Policemep "Crack the Books' to Learn How to Be Better Officers in School Here

By HARRY MORRISON “It’s a far-fetched example, but if the Indianapolis police got a riot call to the Claypool Hotel, they wouldn’t carry 30-30-caliber rifles, with a range of 5 miles. - “If they got a call in some suburb, they wouldn’t carry Thompson sub-machine guns, whose rightful place in police work is back staircases and tight places. ‘“That’s what we mean by police training,” said Lieut. Carl Ashley, in charge of the Indianapolis Police Department Training School. The school has a room on the third floor of the Police Department on S. Alabama St. The room looks like a classroom, except that there are pieces of distinctive police paraphernalia lying around. In this room, every Indianapolis policemen is getting extra training in his profession. He is being taught. FBI methods, which, in the United States, means ‘“‘tops.” He is taking training in everything from propér use and firing of guns to how to testify in court. There are first aid courses, ballistics courses, crime detection classes and actual work. ; One course is given on how to write police reports. Chief Morrissey took the course himself. Lieut. Ashley says the Chief “wasn’t bad at all.” 7 The courses are taken while on duty. Not all the police e all the courses at the same time. For

[ample it was’s thought highly

necessary that all policemen should

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An early morning scene on a Belgian road as heavy German tanks prepare to push on to a new ob- | jective in Germany’s blitzkrieg to the channel.

be “up” on first aid. Most of the men took the work for the second time. A totsl of 190 has already been graduated from the 30-hour course; 105 are in school now. They receive American Red Cross first aid certificates after passing an examination, : On the other hand, there are specialized courses, for which immedi-

ate added knowledge is not considered important. These may be taken at any time. Other courses are planned for police in specialized = departments and are usually taken by them first. For example, police in the homicide detail will probably take the homicide course before taking any other. ! They are informed ‘on better methods of staging raids, the use of handcuffs and other restraining devices, firearms, the laws of arrest ang search, and how to approach someone who is to be arrested. : " They < hear: lectures from the Coroner, the Prosecuting Attorney, and’ members of the local office of the FBI. The men seem to be most interested in the use of firearms and in crime detection, Lieut. Ashley said. “The. only troublehgs, they want to get those bullets a gun and see the target get hit,” he said. “I have them spend two days doing nothing but ‘dry-firing’ They get tired of that.” Along the wall in the classroom is a row of black spats. The men

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Victims of Nazis’ Relentless March to the Sea

SECOND SECTION

Times-Acme Photos.

A critically injured civilian, victim of the merciless German strafing from the air, is hurried through the ruins of a Belgian town

. Tired and dazed by her long march from an invaded area, this little girl slumps amid her meager possessions on arriving im Paris.

line up close to them and practice for hours drawing a bead on a spot and pulling the trigger. They watch Lieut. Ashley, an FBI graduate himself and an excellent shot, and emulate his form,” “The last hour of the second day, I give them a gun that will fire. Each man gets five bullets. By that

time theyre out at the range on 8. Harding St. The rookies all miss. Then ‘they know I've been right and that it takes time and practice. ©The men are given blackboard illustrations in their crime detection courses. They hear lectures, have practical laboratory work and must ‘answer technical questions on what they've studied. . They study glass fractures made by bullets and can tell direction of the bullets. and the approximate time as compared to another bullet fracture in the same glass. They know what to look for in investigat=] ing any type of crime. : Not all Indianapolis policemen need all the training available in the school, Lieut. Ashley said. Many are oldtimers, trained in practical police work. The school is aimed primarily’ at the rookies, who have had: ho other training. Older men take the courses -with them. At the same time, Lieut. Ashley said it is planned that each policeman shall have at least 10 hours training in a year. Many have had as much as 126 hours already. this year. In five years it is planned that each. man

. 3 ? bi A a, Weary Belgian fighters, some asleep on the caissons, retreat to the coast, They laid down their arms when King Leopold capitulated. ;

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

City”? 2—1In British numeration, how many millions are equivalent to one billion? ”

. stand for, as applied to the Republican Party? 4—The capital of Georgia is Columbus, Atlanta, Savannah or Athens? al 5—Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury? 6—Is ambergris obtained from am“ber, whales or musk oxen? 7—What was the former name of the country called Thailand? 8—Was President Andrew Jackson convicted on impeachment charges? |

Answers

1—Chicageo. 2—A million millions. | 3—Grand Old Party. | 4—Atlanta 5—Alexander Hamilton 6—Whales. | 7—Siam. 8—No.

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1—Which eity is called the “Windy _

3—What do the letters G."O. P.

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