Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1940 — Page 11

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940

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DANA, Ind. June 8, 1939.—At last my mother has a little dog. For a 1 She loves dogs and n that she has nothing to do but sit all day she would” like to have a dog for company. But“the family verdict on a dog seemed to be . “ni on

business, so I didn’t go. around

hapd. Somebody left a dog in + our front yard. }

The dog, officially, is here just on a temporary basis. My father says the dog says she wants the dog to p= She said she wanted a collar and chain for t. So when we went{to town yesterday, I got a collar and chain.

A Smart Dog,

I really didn’t mean) to take any. hand in it, but guess that collar and chain had some bearing. For y father hasn't said anything since about sending e dog away. And this morning I saw him petting

~ it, and teaching it to stand on its hind legs to ask

for candy. The dog is part Collie and part just dog. She Is a brownish black, 6 months old. We know that because a neighbor of ours looked at her teeth, and said she still had some baby teeth. I never knew pefore that dogs had baby teeth. : ; The dog is smart, and as friendly as a politician. She still inks she’s going to be whipped. My mother calls’ the dog “Snooky.” My Aunt Mary calls her “Betty.” It doesn't scem to make any difference.

Our Town

IN CASE YOU'RE one of those who were puzzled by Pauline Schellschmidt’s conduct last winter, I can clear up everything. She wasn't sore at anybody. The reason she didn’t appear in public was because she stayed indoors reading Walter Damrosch’s “My Musical Life.” I'll bet she read it a dozen fimes—enough, anyway, to remember every detail contained

in the book, including the bi-:

ographical fact that on May 17, of a certain year, Mr. Damrosch married Margaret Blaine, daughter of Jim who, back in 1884, ran against Grover Cleveland for the Presidency pf the United States. That's why, when the middle of May rolled. around, Miss Schellschmidt left the confines of her boudoir long enough to come downstairs ol write a letter congratulating Dr. Damrosch on his lucky marriage. The letter was posted in plenty of time to arrive on the anniversary of what Dr. Damrosch’s book calls “the happiest day of my life.” Miss Schellschmidt’s letter was a long affair. It just had to be because she had so much on her mind. To tell everything, she went way back to the beginning of things and recalled the time Walter Damrosch’s father, Leopold, brought the New York Orchestra to Indianapolis. That was in the Eighties at Dickson and Talbott’s Grand Opera House, ® ” »

Recalling the Elder Damrosch

Of- course, Miss Schellschmidt isn’t old enough to remember that far back all by herself, and so she

leaned on what she remembered her father having

told her. Her father, she said, never got done talking about thé grand old orchestra and the way Leopold Damrosch led his men, including a Konzertmeister by the name of Richter who was just about tops at the time. Back in those days, a Konzertmeister had. to knuckle down to his boss, says Miss Schellschmidt. With Leopold Damrosch out of the way, Miss Schellschmidt tackled the Nineties, which is to say that she didn’t have to lean on anybody for facts. She reminded Mr. Damrosch that when Indianapolis’ had its first May Music Festival, it was he, the

author of “My Musical Life,” who led the orchestra,

ahead of our normal sport of politics.

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 3.—It will not be enough for us to make war weapons and train men. Neither

- will it be enough for us to have a strong national will

behind that effort, a will that places defense action

Not even calling out the National Guard, a possibility for which President Roosevelt asks authority in his second defense message to Congress, will be sufficient. : Our defense preparations must extend far beyond the borders of the United States. Our line of defense does not lie on the Mexican border but down through Latin-America. LatinAmerica’s line of defense lies in facilitating the aid and co-op-eration of the United States, and not in allowing, as one country now does, Ger-| man pilots to fly American-made commercial planes within 250 miles of the Panama Canal. - It is necessary to transfo the Good Neighbor policy into a means of achieving necessary hemisphere defense. Possibly an Inter-American Resources and Defense Board would help advance that end. Thus>far the Good Neighbor Policy has been a topic for pleasant talk. It has not prevented foreign

- . t | * | penetration of Latin-America. The United States has Ing stich high standards, mic be sstablished at al.

been as much at fault as Latin America. The State Department has been obstructed in Congress by partisan and sectional politics.

More Initiative Needed

We must take more initiative. Brazil has the larg- |

est remaining supplies of iron ore in the world. U. 8.

- Steel once considered developing them but finally de-

cided the undertaking carried too many uncertainties,

My Day

. NEW YORK, Sunday.—There are times, when I regret not being able to write you on Saturdays because, now and then, there is much more that happens in two days than I can possibly fell you. Yesterday morning I went out to the World’s Fair to open the Fashion Building. Irving Scott has been most successful architecturally and the color scheme inside and exhibitions are charming. ' After leaving the Fashion Building, I went over to the © ‘opening of the American Com‘mon. The most moving part of the ceremony was a procession of little girls of .all the nationalities which make up our great country, who placed flowers in a little Indian girl's basket, acknowledging thereby the fact

: that she was the one whose race originally owned this

"to you what it is ike.

country. From the Fair I went to the Persian Art Exhibit

at 51st St. and Fifth Ave. It is impossible to describe urge you to go at once. Everything is so beauti-

| ful that you can spend hours in any one of the

thing is the

g time she has wanted a dog.

Personally, I never could

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If you have not seen it, I can .

By Ernie Pyle The dog answers to either name—when she feels like

Along toward evening the pup gets so happy and full of vinegar you think she’s going to bust. She runs wildly in circles out in the yard, with her head out-and her- belly close to the ground. Then she’ll wind up with a straightaway dash for the porch, give a headlong leap into my mother’s lap, and almost eat her up. That is a problem that will have to be solved. You should see my mother’s hands and wrists. They are mangled and torn so badly that I wanted to send for the doctor. But she just pooh-poohs that notion. There are af least a dozen deep gashes and bites on her hands. The puppy’s teeth are like needle points. She likes to chew on people's hands, as all friendly dogs do.: She tries to be tender, and sensitive

not to hurt--but my mother doesn’t have quick use

of her hands, and two or three times a day she gets bitten. She swears it doesn’t hurt. EJ ” #

Afraid of Little Boys

"My mother decided she could start training the dog by using a little switch on her. So we cut a switch from a tree. But my mother just sits and holds it, and lets the dog chew her. She says she can’t switch Snooky, even lightly, when the dog means so well. I wonder what makes dogs afraid of some things and brave about others? Our Betty (or Snooky) is deathly afraid of little boys. At night the folks shut the new dog up in the smokehouse. Like a child, she doesn’t want to be shut up at night. But when the little boy came yesterday, she ran whining [to the smokehouse door and, when we opened it, she went in like a shot. We left the door open, but she stayed there all day, quiet as a mouse. The minute the little boy left for home she was out in the yard again, running and jumping as though she were the bravest dog that ever lived. 2 As I said before, no verdict has been given on whether or not Snooky or Betty or Bootsy or Snecky or whatever they call her, shall stay at our house. But if you want a tip from a stableboy who :nows a little bit about how these things go, I'd put my $2 on the proposition that the William G. Pyle household has a dog permanently in its midst.

By Anton Scherrer

Miss ' Schellschmidt says she'll never forget it. She was a little girl at the time, too young to go out at

nights and attend| concerts, but that didn’t keep her|’

from getting all steamed up over the event. She couldn't help getting steamed up, she says, because Walter Damrosch’s stop-off in Indianapolis was the sole topic of conversation in the Schellschmidt household. To tell the awful truth, little Pauline got so excited about what she heard at home that she ran away, sneaked up the Delaware St. stairway of Tomlinson |Hall, and saw Mr. Damrosch conduct a May Festival rehearsal. Gosh, but he was handsome, she says. Miss Schellschmidt also remembers seeing James Whitcomb Riley |at the same rehearsal. When it was all over, Mr. Damrosch and Mr. Riley walked out of the hall arm injarm. Miss Schellschmidt says it’s the only time in| her/ life she ever wanted to be Mr. Riley. Re | =

Linked With) »agner

Four years la ar, sometime around 1896, Walter Damrosch turned up again, this time at English's with his Opera Compa hy which included Emil Fischer, “the greatest Hang Sachs of all time,” and Ernst Krauss, a good Sjegfried singer. They gave three Wagner operas, the first Indianapolis ever heard, and ever since that time Miss Schellschmidt never thinks of Richard Wagner but what she thinks of Walter Damrosch, too. The two ‘seem to go together, she says, like Damon and Pythias, Potash and Perlmutter, and ham and eggs) : Well, all this a Dr. Damrosch on t riage. In no time § “Dear Miss Sd

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d more, Miss Schellschmidt told e anniversary of his happy mart all, she had a reply: ellschmidt” (it begins): “Dr. me-to thank you for your very 5. If is letters such as yours that his work for music in this country

kind letter of May make him feel that

rs very sincerely, “RUTH GREGORY, “Secretary to the Musical Counsel of the National Broadcasting Co. of New York.” The promptness| of the reply leads Miss. Schellschmidt to suspect |that she timed her letter so well that Dr. Damroschiread it at the breakfast table, the morning of his anniversary.

aymond Clapper

Are these to wait) until Germany can go in and develop a steel ind Istry there? We are waking ip. The Senate has passed, without question or protest vote, a bill authorizing the ide at cost any kind of military equipment or ships| to Latin American Governments, so long as our own lefenses ‘are not jeopardized. That measure passed the House last July and lay on the shelf nearly a year] until the Senate hestirred itself. Several year agq Brazil wanted to buy a few old destroyers and Congress objected. We have objected to extending financial aid. We have objected to subsidizing rubber-growing which would have released us from our sol: dependence upon the East Indies, now in danger of being seized by Japan. Now we are ready to offer La in America something’ besides beautiful talk. | | #

Outside Air Bases Sought

It is necessary that ‘we

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do so because defense

| measures must be undertaken in Latin America, for

their protection as well as ours—measures which they cannot afford alone. The naval appropriation bill now pending includes a $10,000,000 lump sum -for

"| purchase of air bases outside of the United States.

No enemy foothold can be allowed within at least 1000 miles of the Panama Canal. Dependable air forces, either our own or Latin-American forces meet-

vanced points around this radius. The Galapagos Islands, belonging to Ecuador, lying off the Pacific Coast, are important; for canal defense. Several locations cn the Atlantic side are vital. Latin Americans historically have been suspicious of the Monroe Doctrine and the Colossus of the North. But if Latin American nations are reading the handwriting on the wall, they know the world is no longer safe for small nations. that try to go it alone. ! :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

here is an art which has survived through 6000 years of invasion, war, tyranny, prosperity and power. Here is the real proof that the spirit as expressed through the arts transcends all material things. These “priceless treasures from the Iranian ecivilization are gathered from collections all over this country and may never again be seen by the public, so do not: miss this opportunity. I tore myself away from this exhibition to go. to a tea given in order to tell a group of people about the work done to help boys when they come out of our New York State reformatories to find a job and get a new start in life. I hope this work can grow for

many, many boys could be helped if there was an in-|-

terest on’the part of the public which would make expansion possible. And now I come to an evening which was an experience I shall never forget. Robert Sherwood ‘has written a remarkable play in: “There Shall Be No Night.” Of course, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne give a performance so perfect that I felt I was living in this portrayal on the stage. The rest of. the cast is so good that we finished the evening feeling that we had actually been through every experience in

‘that Finnish family’s existencee, which, tragically

enough, is now part of the life ot so many other people. May God grant that if such dark hours Shoule ever come to us, we may acquit ourselves as welll ih a

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85% Favor CCC Drill, Gallup Finds

By Dr. George Gallup

PRINCETON, N. J., June 3.—Three highly important attitudes regarding . American national defense are indicated today in a na-tion-wide study by the American Institute of Public Opinion, as men and women in all parts of the United States reacted to the news from Western Eu- . rope: 1. More than four voters in every five have come to the conclusion: that. America’s present Army and Navy are inadequate to protect the United States itself from foreign attack. Whether this view is justified or unjustified, the survey points to what is probably the great underlying convic-

tion behind current national de-. fense activity. 2. One-half of the American people now believe that the United States should follow the path of various European nations in instituting compulsory military training for all able-bodied young men of military age, for a period of one year’s training. 3. By an overwhelming majority, the public believes that military training should be introduced ‘into America’s hundreds of Civil=ian Conservation Corps camps. Taken together, these presentday attitudes point to a major change in sentiment lon matters of U. S. national defense in hard-* ly more than a month's time. The Institute’s survey reached a crosssection of the American electorate —men and women, young people and old, farmers, businessmen, representatives of labor and oth-. ers—in every state in the Union. The period covered by the interviewing was from May 15 to May 25.

The questions put to the voters, together with their replies, are as follows: (1) “Do you think our country’s Army, Navy and air forces are strong enough so that the United States is safe today from attack by any foreign powers?” Believe U. S. Safe Believe U. S. Not Safe

(2) “Should the United States

SYPHILIS, CRIME LINKED IN STUDY

Disease May Affect Moral Sense, Doctors Say After Check.

Preliminary deductions from am 18-month study of more than 400 Marion County syphilitic jail prisoners indicate a definite - relation between the disease and the crimes committed. : This was revealed today by physicians who, in co-operation with the City and State health Boards,

and the Federal Government, have set up a research, project at the jail at the request and with the help of Sherift Al Feeney. From facts already at hand, both the sheriff and the physycians today recommended that a hospital unit of not less than eight to 10 beds be established in the jail for the segregation of prisoners with infectious diseases. 400 of 2800 Infected

More than 400 of the 2800 persons entering the jail to whom blood tests were given were found to hdve syphilis. Of these, three out of four had not known they had the disease, ‘having observed no symptom and having had no previous blood test. Physicians have decided tentatively from their studies, they said today, that syphilis in the’ late stages ‘has a definite effect on the mental processes and the moral sense even when the cases cannot definitely be diagnosed as insanity. “Late stages of syphilis,” one physician said; “seem .to affect the brain and be an important factor in making some individuals criminal who otherwise might not have been criminal.”

Project to Continue

The project will be continued for several more months and the physicians said they hope to have data that will be practically conclusive before it is ended. | The project, which includes blood tests of nearly all prisoners entering the jail, was undertaken primarily as a public health measure. Many of the prisoners at one time or another are required to wait on table or prepare food, and all of them are closely associated in the cell blocks. In addition, prisoners who have the disease are encouraged to identify the possible source, and public health officials check on those individuals to see that, if in the infectious stage they are isolated and treated.

Families Are Notified

‘Also, families of prisoners who are found to be infected are notified of the infection and are told to have tests made and treatment taken if necessary. : Two-thirds of all known prostitutes tested have been found to have the disease, the records show. ‘This is the only such project being conducted in a county jail in Indiana, so far as the physicians know, and they recommended that such a blanket test be made in ; ery jail as a public healfh meas-

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compulsory military training in this countgy. °

require every able-bodied young man 20 years old to serve in.the Army, Navy or air forces for one year?” Favor Compulsory Training 50% Oppose Compulsory Training 50% (3) “Do you think that the CCC camps should give military training to every young man in the, ccc?” Yes ... No .....

* Approximately one person in 10 said he was undecided about the first question, while one in 14 said he was undecided about either of, the latter questions. ” ® ” HE trend of opinion on the question of compulsory military training shows a sharp upswing. The Institute first measured sentiment on an identical question in December, 1938—just two months after the Munich Agreement—and found that only 37 per cent of the voters favored it at that time. Even after the: outbreak of war last fall Institute surveys showed lit{le increase in sentiment.

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NOTRE DAME, Ind, June 3 (U. P.).—U. S. Senator David Worth Clark (D. Ida.) warned Notre Dame University graduates yesterday that foreign propagandists and “war racketeers’ easily could force the United States into the European war. He reviewed events leading up to the entrance of the U. S. into the World War of 1914-18 and compared them with conditions of the present day. . “No sooner had the torches of election night burned out than the

1079 RYA STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE STATE

More than 1000 out-of-state students are working on National Youth Administration projects in Indiana universities] and colleges, Robert S. Richey, State NYA Administrator, .announced today. The 1079 youths in 32 of the state's 41 higher educational institutions represent 41 states, the District of Columbia, China, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The University of Notre Dame has the largest number with 269. Others with large out-of-state representation are Purdue University, 161; TriState University, 130; DePauw University, 110, and Valparaiso University, 49. The student from Puerto Rico is at Notre me and the one from the Virgin Islands is at DePauw. The student from China is the daughter of American missionaries and is enrolled at Anderson College.

STATE ASKS BIDS ON "HIGHWAY PROJECTS

Bids for the surfacing and paving of state highways and feeder roads in 10 counties at an estimated cost of $1,000,000 will be received by the State Highway Commission June 11,

The work is to be done in Posey, Clark, Huntington, Wells, Scott, Jackson, Tippecanoe, Whitley, Allen and DeKalb counties. All projects except one are less than two miles long. The largest is the paving of 6.4446 miles of Road 427 in Allen and DeKalb counties, extending from the Allen-DeKalk County line to Auburn. :

SEVEN PARKS: GET GUIDES FOR SUMMER

Nature guide service will be furnished visitors at seven Indiana State. parks during the vacation months, Conservation Commissioner Virgil M. Simmons announced today. : Starting next Sunday, guides will direct hikes and lectures at Pokagon, Turkey Run, McCormick’s Creek. Spring Mill, Cliity Falls and Brown County parks. The service will begin at Indiana Dunes

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Compulscry Military Favor Oppose December, 1938..... 37% = 63% October, 1539. sesso 39 61 TODAY 50

| Interestingly enough, even those who oppose making military train-

epoccccscee 50

" ing comptlsory often show by

their comrpents that they would approve - ¢f voluntary military training for greater numbers -of American jouth. “It wouliin’t be the democratic way to male it compulsory,” these critics freguently say, “but it would be 1 good thing if more young Americans knew how handle a gin.” : i ® » ”

HILE| the Survey shows virtually no difference . whatsoever in the views of men as compared with women on this question, {there are interesting contrasts ¢f opinion among the various ag¢ groups. Young men of military pge, for instance, many of whom inight have their jobs and careers interrupted for a year, are somewhat more reluctant than their elders. But even here a

U. S. Could Be 'Forced' Into War, N.D. Grads Are Warned

war racketeers became busy, and in a few months we were plunged into the bloody conflict,” he said. “So you ste how foolish it is to be certain that it cannot happen now, when it happened with such devastating rapidity then. A little propafanjia, a few songs about the glories of war. and civilized men soon become a horde of brutal killers.” Be { ! “However, | with some sensible forethougit gnd hard work, democracy could be made to work even in a blitzkrieg gge.”

| Fox Was Fooled |

But Got Away

Times Special | | HUNTINGTON, Ind, June 2.— Here's orie 1ttle red fox that almost got cavight. Mrs. John |C. Morgan started to drive the fainily car into the garage when ¢ full-grown red fox,

which had faken refuge in the home, fell down the basement stevs when plinded by the car’s lights. - ;

pursued the iinimal and gave it 4 few sound waacks. The fox disappeared after a short chase.

PERSONNEL CHIEFS 0. K. STUDY COURSE

Personnel nianagers of leading Indianapolis 1nanufacturers today approved the ' six-week | course of study which will be given at Tech

| High School b¢ginning June 10. The

program is planned to increase the number of semj-skilled employees to meet needs ofthe national defense program. «| > The six-hour, five-day course will be open to ine1} over 18. ‘They may enroll Thursday and Friday afternoons and £atiirday morning either at Tech or the|School Board effice. Attending Siturday’s meeting in the School Bo:rd office were members of the Bpard, representatives of the Chamber of, Commerce and personnel managers of Eli Lilly & Co., Allison Engineering Co., RCAVictor, Diamond Chain Manufacturing Co., Int¢rnational Harvester, Link-Belt and National Malleable & Steel Casiings Co. ——

County to Mark . o { X NoDivoree Week Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 3.— Vanderburgh County will observe “No Divorce Week,” June 9-16. During this time no divorces will be. granted in Superior Court and no hearings held. This is the fifth annual observance of “No Divorce Week” for

_Vanderburghh County, which is said to have one of the highest

divorce rates of any county in

Mrs. Morgin grabbed a broom,

sizable number of voters vote “yes”: d

Compulsory Military Training? Favor Oppose Voters Under 30.... 44% 56% Voters 30-49 ;...... 49 51 Voters 50 and Over. 55 45 Men Only, Under 30. 41 59

Democrats are slightly more in favor of compulsory training (563% approving). than Republicans (46% approving); Southerners and Easterners are more in favor of the proposition than voters in the West and Middle West. . bo ‘ Beyond all doubt the close division of national sentiment on the question indicates one of the most significant shifts in American thinking ‘since the war began. If adopted, it would be the first occasion in peace-time history—in this country at least—and would make America’s defense system more closely resemble European ‘models. 2 # » REAT Britain adopted compulsory training for.the first time in its peace-time experience last April—just five months before the outbreak of war. But France, Germany, Italy and other Euro-

SESSION BEGUN BY LIBRARIANS

Convention Program ‘Most Ambitious - Tried in Group’s History.

' The Special Libraries Association national convention opening here today will be one of the most ambitious ever attempted by the association in its 18 years of meetings.

The visiting librarians will hear talks and take part in discussions of every conceivable activity” in which special librarians may be included. ,

They cover suc / fields ‘as newspaper “morgues,” technical libraries, and research, business and health department libraries,

McMurray to Give Welcome

The convention opened at 9 a. m. at the Claypool Hotel and will continue through Thursday. “Sections on public relations, standards and personnel, and methods in special libraries were held today. - The first general session of the convention will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Members will be welcomed by Floyd I. McMurray, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. "An open meeting for Indianapolis business executives will highlight the afternoon program tomorrow. L. IL. Dickerson, City Librarian, will be in charge.

Plan Visit to Herfon

Museum and university and college departmental librarians will visit Herron Art Institute at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow and hold a joint meeting there. Wilbur D. Peat, institute director, will speak. A science-technology group will meet at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Eli Lilly & Co. lecture hall. Dr. J. A. Leighty, of the Lilly Research Laboratories, will speak on “What the Research Chemist Expects of the Librarian.” The group later will visit the Lilly laboratories. The biological and social science groups will meet from -12:30 p. m. Wednesday uritil 4 p. m. at the Indiana University Medical Center. Emma C. Puschner, American Legion child welfare director, oh “Children in a Democracy” and Dy. ThHurman B. Rice, State Health

Board member, on “Public Health |

.-He pitched a (Vi game. | \ —Jenny . Lind Sy

in the Future,” will speak. Pulliam to Speak

Eugene C. Pulliam, WIRE president, will speak at the association’s annual banquet Wednesday evening, which is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of printing. . Bo ~The biological group will hear Dr. William H. Crawford, I. U. School of Dentistry dean, and C. R. Gutermuth, Indiana State Department of

Conversation education director at]

2 p. m. Thursday.

BEARD IS PROTEST

BOISE, Ida., June 3 (U. P.) .—Edward Everett Earle, 64-year-old

World War veteran, is conducting a| beard growing strike. He has notified |

pension authorities he will not cut his beard until he gets his pension.

| -— pean nations have long employec such measures. Institute Surveys over the past four years have shown constantly large majorities in favor of intro- . ducing military training into the CCC camps, but these majorities have never been so great as they are today. The trend of opinior on the subject has been: . Favor Opposc July, 1936...cc00000e 11% 23% August, 1938........ 75 25 December, 1938..... 75 25 TODAY Sess 85 15

~ Much of the average American's attitude toward defense today undoubtedly springs from the belief —reported earlier in this article— that the United States is inadequately prepared to defend ite

own borders from foreign attack. This attitude also helps to explain why an overwhelming majority in the Institute’s May 27 survey favored President Roosevelt's re-

quest. for an additional billion-

dollar defense appropriation. What other decisions the American people will wish to make in the light of events abroad will be surveyed and reported in further Institute tests.

Relics of Babylon

® SIX BAKED clay tablets excavated from the ruins of Babylo and believed to be more than 400" years old, were placed on exhibitio: at the Public Library today. The tablets’ are specimens of th» earliest method of printing and ar: being exhibited as part of the display in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of print. ing’ from movable type. ‘They are about the size of a candy bar and were excavated in 1903. The Babylonians used sof: clay on which they impressed a clay, Two of the tablets in the Library’s collection were “found in Drehem, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the temple of Beli. One represents =, bill for goats and sheep delivered in 2350 B. C. Another is a record of a receipt, for sheep delivered to a temple the same year, - One tablet was found in Jokka, ruins of the ancient city of Umma in Central Babylon, 2400 B. C. One dated 2000 B. C. was found in Sene kereh, the ruin of Elassar, another was found in Babylon. i

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What outstanding feat did Bob Feller perform for the Cleveland. Indians baseball team in their first game this season? 2—Who was “the Swedish nightine gale?” | 3—Does handling toads cause warts? 4—Is the Distinguished Service Cross, Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest . States? ved 5—Buenos Aires is the capital of what country? : 6—Which of these words, ambigue ous, amphibiods, or ambidextrous, describes ‘a person who Vises both\hands with equal facile ty? E T—Who has been chosen to deliver the keynote s in the 1940 Republican National Convene tion? I 8—Who is Eamon De Valera?

Answers no-hit no-run

3—No. 3) 4—Medal of Honor. 5—Argentina. 6—Ambidextrous. T—Governor. Harold E. Stassen Minnesota; | : 8—Prime Minister of the Irish Free ‘State (Eire). i. 8

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