Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1940 — Page 17

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AY, JUNE 6,

~ SECOND SECTION

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(Ernie Pyle is on vcsion and ‘at the request of

readers We are reprinting some of his fayorite columns.)

{ FRANCISCO,

Oct. 25; 1939.—We ‘folks here at dhe Jr el Californian | are very proud these days. For one of us. walked clean away with first prize in the bed-making contest during “Hotel Day” over| at the Exposition. By “one| of us’ I niean

was up

jgainst maids from ‘10 other big, boy is

an Francisco hotels. And it was a walk-away. : Minnie made her bed ht minutes. “The nearest co i tor was nearly five minutes behind ner. The judging was on speed and neatness. So [you see Minhie’s wasn’t erly fast; she had uality. We are especially proud :beause the Californian isn’t one f the big “name” hotels| in San ty nice hotel, 2 you don’t pay

Francisco. It’s a ple for a lot of dog. + And there have n maids who used to work here, and later got jobs at the Mark Hopkins or St. ‘rancis or Fairmont, and whenever 'd see them hey'd kind of look down on us and say, why; you fou puldn’t possibly do the work up where, I am

Minnie Shows a { | So now Minnie has gone and shown them ‘up, and those girls up there mus st feel pretty cheap, and you bet we| won't have ng our heads any more when they say we couldn't do the work up at those other hotels. Minnie won $10 in the contest. She hasnt Suen . it yet, and doesn’é know what she’ll spend it for. Her children keep after her to get-it spent, but she’s hanging on|to it awhile. f Minnie Moore is in her early 40's. She is medium tall and slender, and her hair is graying. .Her face is thin|and sensitive. She has been a hotel maid only six ‘years. ; | .. She, like most hotel maids nowadays, has seen

Our Town

LAST WEEK . THE papérs had. o tiny item “re cording the death of Mary. Anderson at the age of 80. It recalls her first appearance in Indianapolis in the fall of (1879 when she was a slip of a girl somewhere around 20. years old. - |- + : She ,was here for two perEs A . formances at the Park Theater. . The first night she gave “Evadne,” a pases affair written by Richard Lawler Shiel. She followed with ¢Love, or the Countess of the Serf,” a second rate play by James Sheridan - Knowles. The 5 R. O. sign was out both nights notwithstanding the fact that the prices charged were pretty stiff for the 3 times. Reserved seats cost $1; Dress Sircle, 75 cents; Gallery, 50 cents. He who didn’t 'have the price went to the Grand Opera House (where, for half a dollar, he| ¢6uld buy the best seat td see Oofty Gooft’s New on Combination lin the thrifling, sensational drama, “Under the Gasfate) a play written by—believe it or not—Augustin aly

‘Everybody agreed that Mary Andgrion was pretty

as a picture with a quality of voice, the like of which had never been heard around here. | “She was especially good in the lower thi ” |said one critic. Old timers compared her performance of “Evadne” with those of Julia Dean and Charlotte Cushman who did the part back in the Fifties. |“Miss Anderson only needs age and experience to equa them,” said the first string critic of The Sentinel. The second night [in “Love,” she brought down| the house with her pgssionate rendering of the lin S; “Twas heart for heal t 1 loved thee ever!” | » ” »

A [2p ection Comes True hen Indianapolis had sufficient | time to appraise ary Anderson's art, it was .generallv agreed that peacife.

Pnius- was. yet in the bud, though rapidly exGive her a couple of years ore) they

ashington

‘WASHINGTON, June 6.—The reason why the old. good eighbor policy is insufficient now and why the nations of this hemisphere have to be integrated into a sol d, greater America, operating almost as a unit in inte national affairs, lies in the military lessons of this war. For years Latin America has enjoyed freedom from any yoke, thanks to the protection of the Monroe Doctrine which has been upheld jointly by Great Britain and the United States. So secure has the hemisphere been under this array of surface naval strength that Latin American nations have had to do nothing in the way of co-operation. Indeed, they 7 been in

some instances resentful of the Monroe Doctrine. I have heard a high’ official of a Latin-American country say that a good many statesmen he knew feared the United States more than they feared Hitler and would like ee _him gain strength in this hemisphere so that oh ight balance or offset the power of the United ‘ es. v |

a sentinn, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile, Nazi political propaganda has flourished and gréups are Sympathetic with Nazi aims. Those countries have local politicians who hope to become little Quislings and (lead grabs for power through internal |disorders. Army officers in Brazil and Chile are o hly proGerman = In the event of German victory we shall see groups try to grab power and then from alliances to obtain Hitlers support. Brazil has nearly one million (Germans. anks to the security which these countries have enjoyed under the Monroe Doctrine, they have been

y Day | ; ASHINGTON, Wednesday. —Last ved I went to a dance given by the various state societies here for the’ benefit of the Association for the Guidance of ig 1 Youth. I hope tise societies are not bmi going ise a fund to use in establishing. a center here and in "other places| to assist young people coming | from the country to the city, but that they will awaken interest all over the country ih an effort to have better vocational guidance in rural districts and in all Federal and state employment agencies. The work of these agencies can, I hope, be extended vie special . thought to the assis e to be given young people. I had a ride this mming and a talk with Mrs. Mary Bethune who, after weeks in the hospital, is back at work in the National Youth Administration, | She came to see me with the desire to get some iitop mation‘as to where the Negro people could funcnin helping the unfortunates in other countries : and in: taking a real part in national defense. = Fvery patriotic citizen is anxious to be doing somefin these days. Hewever, it seems to me that probbest thing we can do is to go about our. reg-

better days. for being ‘a maid. .She is a native Californian, from up north .along the coast.

River. The depression blew that up.

Minnie’s greatest love was fishing. - She'd rather}

fish than eat. . But she hasn't touched a rod for sig

years.

under it. Minnie’s-husband works in a garage. Her

oldest _child is a daughter, 21, married. The youngest 2 "13. The middle boy is.in the University of San |’

He is'a star football

Francisco, a Catholic school. He is study-

player, ane of the best jn the whole city. ing for hus ness.

Minnie hasn’t had any real exciting episodes in her six years as a hotel maid. She doesn’t have any|

trouble with guests. If theyre disagreeable; she just lets it go. It’s awful the way people treat hotel rooms. They do things they wouldn’t think of doing at Igme, apparently just to got her money's worth.

Take Pride™in heir Work.

They'll even take an ash tray, and ‘dump it be- |:

hind the radiator “If they'd dump it in the middle of the floor I weéuldn'’t care,” Minnie said, Hotel maids’ pay, governed by a union scale, is $3.40 a day.”The maids work six days a week, which |: makes $2040. But in the winter when business. is light, soifé of them are sent home at noon and get only half a day’s pay. At the Californian, there are 18 rooms and 17 bathd to a floor. That gives the maids less than 15 minutes to a room when the hotel is full. So you 'sée they have to keep on the go. The maids here honestly seem to have . a great pride in their work. Almost nobody ever quits. . The hotel gives them a room. to eat lunch in, and serves them. hot coffee. Her hobby is stamp collecting. She has been. doing it for a long time, but being a hotel maid worked right in with it. She gets lots of foreign stamps from guests. Minnie has two favorite newspaper columnists, and she wouldn't think of missing either one of them. One is Damon Runyan, and the other a fellow named—aw gee, I can't come right out and say it. You'll just have to ‘guess.

By Anton Scherrer

said, and she’ll be ie histrionic flower of America— a prediction that proved absolutely true. It was the second time that season that Indianapolis had seen genius in the bud. Four days before Mary Anderson turned up, James Whitcomb Riley’ appeared on the stage of the Park Theater and gave what I believe was the first public performance of his career. Certainly, the first to be given in a theater. . It was what was called a “Testimonial” or a “Benefit” back in those days. Gen. Dan Macauley, the manager of the Water Works at the time, and a good friend of Riley’s, was the man who thought up the. idea. With the result that when it’ came time to introduce Mr. Riley it was, of course, Gen. Ma= cauley. In the course of his speech, he said: “The time will come, we fondly hope and believe—if his riper years fulfill the. promise of his -youth—when something akin to the Scotch pride in Burns shall be felt by us for him.” Which was a Water Works manager’s fancy way of saying that what ‘he was about to present was an example of genius in the bud. Cd #8 x = : Another Building Genius Mr. Riley read seven or eight of his own poems and some of Longfellow’s. Among his own were “That Old Sweetheart,” “Trading Joe” and “Dot ' Leetle Poy of Mine.” “The Tree Toad” brought down the house and the Bear Story went over big, too. Next he ath Mr. Riley’s eyes blinked when he

read: “The th to distinction is open to him and he has the Sentinel’s. God-speed for the journey.” The journey started right away. As a result of his Park Theater success, Mr. Riley received invitations from all over the State. Legend has it that when he gave his first performance in Bloomington, only 25 people came to hear him. And of these, only one was a student of I. U. He was William Lowe Bryan. Up to that time, Student Bryan had never heard of Poet Riley. "Later when Mr. Bryan. came to be President of I. U. and negotiated with Mr. Riley for a performance at Bloomington, he was surprised to learn that the poet's fee had skyrocketed to $500.

By that time the genius in the bud had ripened into a flower. -

By Raymond Clapper

free to agitate against the United States, to encourage potential enemies, and to accept the pay of enemies of this hemisphere for spreading propaganda against the United. Sates, against the Allies and in favor of Germany. Mexico, protected by us ftom attack, has been haspitable to German and Japanese /influences and has made mockery of our good neighbor policy, of our effort to sustain Mexican economy by the silver-pur-chase subsidy, and has seized American oil properties and traded the oil to Germany and Japan. The Mexican Government is honeycombed with Communists and officials with sentiments hostile to the United States. Disorders there a : not improbable in

the near future and the Nazis would like nothing bet-|:

ter than to see us engaged in trouble on the Mexican border.

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Political Invasion a Danger

It has not been. vital to our defense in the: ‘past to be greatly concerned with what happened in LatinAmerica, so long as no armed invasion occurred.. And invasion could not occur because of our fleet, and British control of the eastern Atlantic. Now Britain's ability to continue joint’ protection is in doubt. Anyway surface naval strength no longer is sufficient in itself. There must be air protection. That requires bases and fields and aircraft on land positions at many strategic points in Latin America. Also it ‘requires that no country on this hemisphere give foothold to potentially hostile aviation, Needed are not only military: but political measures. For we have seen invasion achieved by political as well as military means. Politics is the arm of the German military weapon. In Europe the day of the small independent nation is over. The small inde-

pendent nation in this hemisphere must become in-|

tegrated in a common dynamic defense. An interAmerican resources and defense icommittee is needed : the preliminary step.

By Eleanor Rovsteis

them where we can, keeping as calm as possible and waiting until some definite plans are evolved where we can be of real value, I am afraid that too much

desire to serve may result in neglecting the jobs in which each and every one of us should continue. I will Acknowledge, however, that jit is desperately dt to wait in inactivity when a battle costing thousands of human lives is going on across the sea and when things of great moment to the human race are hanging in the balance. Perhaps this is the time to ponder over. and improve our own citizenship. In Brand Whitlock’s “Life of Lafayette,” he quotes from a speech Lafayette made in-the Chamber of Deputies in France on Jar 3, 1834. Lafayette said in substance: “Liberty is never: a static thing. It has to be won over and over again. It is a living ‘thing, never to be relegated to the archives?” In another part of the book hee, is a letter written by. Gen. Lafayette to F. B. Morse in 1830, in which, after reviewing the Europe, he rather rl remarked: “But it will riot be so short and so cheap as we had a right to antici pate it: might be.” Nothing w “short or cheap.” Perhaps cur difficulty at the present time is that each and every one of us must make-up our mind; where we stand and what we are: willing: to do for our own county and ‘other countries. These

.For years she and her - husband -ran a vacation and fishing camp on the ‘Eel :

The work is hard, but she doesn’t creak’ and- groan 8

gains made for democracy in .

But unlike many, she doesn’t. apologize

frontispiece.

Possibly the most ancient written message today in the City of Indianapolis is-a cryptic memorandum that 45 - she goats, 59. sheep, 19 lambs and six kid goats were, in the 19th day of some unidentified month in 2350. B. C., delivered to the Temple Bel. This message is worked onto the surface of a baked clay pellet which | was found in Drehem, Babylon, and which now lies with considerable historical aura in the Indianapolis Public Library. ‘It is on view at the moment as a part of ‘the gamut of the written word through history, assembled by ‘the Library. in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the invention of movable type. This and five other similar Babylonian bills, for services, or sheep, belong to the Library, as do many of the other valuable items that fill ‘seven cases distributed through the Central Library building.

HINT DEMOCRAT SPLIT ON LEWIS

Peters’ Supporters Bitter at "Candidacy; Schricker Backers Skeptical.

' By NOBLE REED Political repercussions that may develop into a major fight-to-the-finish break in the Indiana Democratic Party were heard in some quarters today over the entrance of Prosecutor David M. Lewis into the Governorship contest. An under-current of bitter resentment cropped up among supporters of R. Earl Peters, regarded as a leading candidate for the Governor fiomination at the State Convention Junz 217. The -Lewis entrance carried definite hints ef a major alignment of State House sanctions and McNutt-for-President organization support. And this is said to have roiled |~ deters backers to a point where some unauthorized spokesmen wcre charging a do.ble cross deal was in the background. Some Peters workers claimed the gesture for Prosecutor Lewis was merely a “blind” to cover up an impending “dark horse” maneuver on the Convention floor but others who claiméd to know the inside story maintained that the young prosecutor was picked for the actual nomination. * Supporters of Lieut. Gov. Henry PF.’ Schricker, the only other announced candidate, also were skeptical of the Lewis candidacy, claiming that the boys from the out counties’ will never “take” a young Indianapolis prosecutor for Governor. “He's not known outside Indianapolis,” chorused all backers of both Mr, Peters and Mr. Schricker. Hints were cast in the Peters camp at the Claypool Hotel today that they were planning to fight - the Lewis candidacy “with some hot blasts.” They were frankly worried over the developments, however, recalling the powerful machine rule that brought about the unanimous nomi- |d nation of U., S. Senator Frederick VanNuys by acclamation in 1938 after ‘the Senator had been campaighing independent’.

FORT PROJECT GETS WPA RIGHT-OF-WAY

WASHINGTON, June 6 (U. P. ) — Work Projects Commissioner FC. Harrington today notified WPA administrators to give priority to 173 projects which the Army and Navy consider “of firsi importance” to national defense,

project at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis.

The project at at Ft. Harrison includes - construction of new roads and coal docks, which are concre slabs adjacent to railroads; improvements, of present building facilities, ‘such ‘as porches, roofs and partitions; grading; improvement of

provements at the sewage disposal plant. John - K. Jennings, State WPA administrator, said the preference would be to different units in the Ft. Harrison plan and did not necessarily mean that the whole

over other projects. “If ‘it came to" a. point where. we would net be able to do what the officers. at .the Fort wanted us to with the men available, we: would, however, ‘increase our labor there,” he ‘said, Units of the. project are. “under

‘A 12th Century vespers-for-the-dead book . . .

Included in the program “is al

a skeleton on

Display of Ancient Relics Marks Printing Anniversary

There is, for example, a page of the Bible from Gutenberg’s own press. Before Gutenberg invented movable type, the type was carved into words and. sentences. Since the individual letters could not be redistributed and formed into other words, printing was almost prohibitively costly. There are to be seen in. the Library exhibit remarkably beautiful examples of hand printing with elaborate illuminations, some of them gold-leafed. There are whole books of this on vellum, a superior hide, which was developéd as. a result of an international §quabble among bibliophiles inc the second century before Christ. It seems that Eumenes 11," rjer of Perhamum in Asia Minor, was envious of the librarian of the Ptolemies, rulers of Egypt and kept trying to hire him away. The Ptolemies retaliated by cut-

ting off the exports of

Pour. veterans in Scouting will participate in the appreciation dinner for Scout Executive ¥. O. Belzer Saturday at 6:30 a. m. in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. “Chief” Belzer will speak on ‘These Twenty-Five Years” in which he has been executive of the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council of Scouts. He will be introduced by Wallace O. Lee, comniissioner of the council for all the 25 years of its existence and who has been chairman this year of the Silver Anniversary. celebration. The invocation will be given" by the Rev. U. 8. Clutton, pastor of the. Tuxedo Park Baptist Church, who 30 years ago became the first Scoutmaster “in Indianapolis. The fourth veteran will be Dr. James E. West of New York, Chief

MYERS T0 TAKE

Appointment as Aid to Postmaster General Given Senate 0. K.

Myers, Indianapolis attorney, whose nomination as fourth assistant [postmaster general was confirmed) by the U. S. Senate yesterday, assume his new duties June 15. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are ‘leaving Saturday | for Charlettesville, Va., where their son, Joseph N. Myers, will grad até from the University of Virginia Law School Monday. Franklin |D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, is a member of the same class. : Joseph NN. Myers graduated from Yale U ersity in 1937 and the younger Roosevelt graduated the same year from the University of Harvard. The new fourth assistant postmaster general said that he expects to spend most of his time in Washington; but will make trips to Indianapolis when convenient. He was nominated by the President to s cceed Smith W. Purdum.

YOUNG RASKOB GETS DIVORCE

RENO, Nev. June 6 (U. P.). John J. askob Jr., son of the Yormer chairman of the Democratic National | Committee, yesterday divorced Minerva A. Raskob. -He

papyrus |

Scouting Veterans fo Honor 'Chief' at Dinner Saturday

| Indianapolis Catholic Diocese. The

POST JUNE 15

Miss Eleanor Johnson . .

plant, then best known manuscript substance, from Perhamum. They figured that a good librarian would not go where .there were not likely to be any new manuscripts to play around with. Nobody knows what the librarian did about it, but we do know that the subjects of Eumenes II got busy and developed new and superior ways of treating hides, splitting them, and writing on them so that eventually they were considered much superior to the papyrus that the Ptolemies then had all to : themselves. There is in the collection, also,

an original copy of the Nurembérg

Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. West will speak briefly, as will C. J. Carlson of Chicago, regional executive, Other speakers will be Arthur Baxter, council president and Fred Hoke. Music will’ be provided by the Boy Scout Band under the direction of Raymond G. Oster, and by George Newton Jr. former member of Troop 3. The benediction will be pronounced ky the Very Rev. Msgr. Henry F. Dugan, chancellor of the

troops of the city have planned a special ceremony of appreciation for Mr. Belzer following the dinner. The informal banquet will be open to the public. Resefvations may be made by calling RI-2184, CH-1923 cr RI-5791. Tickets will be $1.

Breaking Cable Charges’ Autos

AN INDIANAPOLIS Railways feeder cable charged with 650 volts broke today in front of the Court House, sideswiped four automobiles and showered the street with sparks, Company electricians said a wooden insulator holding the _ cable, which paralleled E. Washington St. broke and threw the cable to the ground. It fell on the sidewalk and in the gutter. : Electricians donned rubber overshoes and gloves and replaced the wire. They said the cars that were sideswiped were charged with electricity and that anyone in the cars would have _recdived a “severe” shock.

BLOCK BACKS HOOVER AS G. 0. P. CANDIDATE

NEW YORK, June 6 (U. P.) s+ Paul Block, newspaper publisher, today named former President Herbert Hoover as. the most logical choice for the Republican Presidential nomination, In an editorial appearing today in his newspapers, including the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette and the Toledo (O.) Blade, he said: . “If favoritism and prejudice are to be forgotten, as they should be in such dark days as may lie ahead —!of us, and if a thorough understanding of foreign and domestic situations is paramount, then the choice .0of the Republican Party for Presidential candidate ought to be

CITY TO GUARD 30,000 PUPLS THIS SUNMER

Playground Traffic Patrol Among Innovations for Children’s Safety.

Neary 39,000 Indianapolis glemene tary pupils will leave the safety of their classrooms this week for a summer filled not only with good times but with traffic hazards and the guarded “swimmin’ hole.”

If this summer is like past years, some of those children won't ree

[turn to classrooms next fall. Sum-

mertime for several hundred others will be ‘marred by injuries incurred while at play. Police officials will ‘have little worry about the 2400 patrol boys who ‘have been! trained in safety, They went through the winter with-

‘ |out having a single accident on

Times Photos.

. holds Babylonian clay tablets.

Chronicle, printed in Germany in 1493, and loaned to the exhibit by the University of Notre Dame.

cit; This was printed on the Koberger oress on vellum, calfskin, and was

published in Latin and German editions. This complete history of the world ‘from its creation to the year 1493 was written by Dr. Hartmann Schledel and illustrated by Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. In addition there are examples of some of the first color lithographs, some colored Chinese block prints, third century papyrus with Greek writing and many other printing rarities.

OUTLINES PLAN T0 REDUCE WPA

Jonni Says Many Projects to Be Dropped in | Cutting Ranks.

A three-fold method of reducing Indiana's WPA rolls to the quota limit set by Works Projects Administrator F. C. Harrington was outlined today by John K. Jennings, State WPA Administrator, Mr. Jennings said the rolls would be reduced from 51,000 to 44,000 in compliance with the Federal order

be affected as little as possible. Employment will be reduced on units of “major projects where the operation of the entire project will

not be seriously impaired and least desirable projects: will be discontinued. “In the selection of projects for discontinuance, we will make every effort to increase the WPA efficiency as a whole,” Mr. Jennings said. The employment quota for District Four, of which Marion County is a part, will be 8650. °

9-POOL DAIRY PLAN

The two-pool system of marketing milk in Marion County, a subject of controversy among producers in this area for several years, has been abandoned by the State Milk Control Board. In an order issued last night, the Board released producers from requirements necessary to qualify for Class A markets. Under the twopool plan, dairy farmers = were required to insta]l special equipment on their farms in order to qualify for the maximum prices. C. Wright Humrickhouse, State Board secretary, said the Board will continue to fix minimum prices. The order fixed $2.18 per hundredweight as the minimum price for Class 1/ milk.

JULIANA VOYAGE REPORTED

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 6 (U. P.) —F. E. Groenman, Netherlands

he was unable to confirm reports that the Princess Juliana was coming to Canada on a Dutch warship

charged desertion.

Herbert Hoover.”

with her two children,

By WILLIAM S. KNUDSEN President, General Motors Corp. .

If I should name some of the equipment. a young man or woman should have upon entering the business, world, I would start with imag-

te |ination. Not day dreams, but imagi-

native: thought toward improving whatever situation with which one is confronted.

the ‘storm sewer system and im- |¥

project would be given preference Es

construction - at the. present time, t saldy

The next req- - uisite is courage: Courage is something that can be acquired. We are all scared when we are ‘small. Courage is

brain. and heart . and must be cul- : tivated in an even bond as we grow : up. ! Napoleon used } s0 “say that he Fy Knud ‘was looking for ilock-n-the-morning Seumige = he time of ;

—Jobs for June Graduates

Imagination; Backed Up by Courage, Called Primary Requisites for Business Career

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must be reinforced by a united command of head and heart. : It is the faith that faces the difficulties and obstacles with determination to carry on. Another cherished possession of | youth is what we in every-day language call friendship. One can never: have in later life the friendships which. impulsive youth makes possible, Many of these friendships and much. of this love will. perhaps -last through life if it was thoroughly earned and freely given fo begin with. Ambition should be: followed by work, for work is the: salt of the earth. It is as necessary to life as bread, Somehow when our frame was created, provision was made . for the use of this frame, which made it. essential we should go through a certain amount of physical ef=fort in order to. enjoy, life itself. Sometimes the honesty of youth is confounded with the angry art of plain speaking. or. blunt. speak-

people with “Two- | ing.

A “blunt ‘mind is | like a Blunt Wherev. | “

This soseallet angry art of blunt

the fact that-we have repeated or someone has repeated a blunder. Blunt speech and anger. correct few errors. Dispassionate analysis will prevent recurrence. ‘The: duty of men and women on

earth ‘seems to be confined to just a few fundamentals without which we cannot live in society with our fellowmen. First, we must work for our own well-being. We must put our frame in shape. Te give it the resistance which will make possible the longest | possible life is the hope of everyone with any kind of moral courage. Second, the family must be cherished and preserved. ‘The family forms the backbone of our society, and despite the many attempts to produce a new model

fundamental remains: the same, “Third, we must have love of ey with which: no nation

in such a way that operation would|

DROPPED BY STATE

minister to Canada, said today that”

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with ‘some fancy accessories, the

thy corners while they were on duty. Ir, reward for that record they will be guests tonight of Perry Stadium andjithe Police Traffic Department at the Kansas City Blues- , Indianapolis Indians game.

1 Killed Last Summer

Last year 239 children were ine jured during summer vacation, Four others died within Indianapolis, while three more local pupils . were killed at points outside the

y. : Of the 239 injured 21 were high school pupils and 218 were elementary school children. About onethird of the injuries occurred in traffic accidents. Three of four who died were boys, two of them Tech High School pupils, the others attended grade schools. A grade school boy fell off a ‘truck, while a grade school girl was drowned in White River at Michigan St. — an . unguarded beach. One Tech pupil fell off a barn, the other was shot by a nightwatchman who suspected he was a burglar. Two Pupils Drowned

Two Indianapolis grade school boys were drowned outside the City and a local high school girl died after being thrown from a horse in Evansville. To counteract- ‘vacation time dangers the School ard has leased the school playgrounds to the Park Board which in turn will maintain Supervisors to watch over the chil and co-ordinate their activities. An innovation at the playgrounds this year will be organized safety patrols patterned after the school safety patrols, Each playground also will have its volunteer guards at street crossings. Many of the grade schools have |

reminding them not to “let accie dents spoil your fun,” Many of the | schools this week are featuring safe-~ ty talks, with ‘each pupil being | warned of the danger - involved in | playing in the streets.

Urges Caution to Motorists |

The two most hazardous prace tices according to William A. Evans | of the safety department of the | Schoo! Board are: Playing in the | streets and darting out into streets | from between’ parked cars. Sergt. A. C. Magenheimer of the | Police Traffic Department also is |

HOOSIERS BROTHERS

Times Special NEW HARMONY, Ind., June 6.— | Dr. D. W. Donald, New Harmony | dentist and a native of Scotland, is one Hoosier who is taking a keen | interest in news from the European battlefronts. Dr; Donald has been informed in | a_ letter from relatives living in Scotland that he has five brothers fighting with the Allies in France,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

less number of ° bones .than a baby? °

|2—Does each star in our flag rep=

‘resent a particular state? 3-—-What is the correct pronunciae tion ‘of the nounsenvelop? 4—What type of plane was the “Spirit of St. Louis,” in which Col.. Lindbergh flew to Paris? 5—What tern do the British use for motion pictures? . » 6—What is the popular name for public opinion sampling cone ducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion? 7—Who wrote “Listen! the Wind?” 8—Ilame the greatest naval battle in the first World War.

Answers 1—l.ess. 2—No. a 3—linglish, en'vel-op - (long “0” as in open); French, on’vél-op. = 4—Monoplane. 5—Cinema. - 6— Gallup Poll. 7—Ann Morrow Lindbergh. 8— Battle of Jutland.

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