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‘MESA VERDE PARK, Colo., June 27, 1939.—The

|. Rangers who take you about the fantastic cliff palaces |” of our early Indians in Mesa Verde Park will tell you : this theyre sure of very few things concerning these

But the one thing they are . absolutely certain about is the dates. They can tell you the very year a house was built. How do they do that? It’s an interesting story. Down in Tucson, Ariz, at the Steward Observatory is a scientist named Dr. A, E./ Douglass. His forte is not archeology, but weather. In the 1920’s, he was trying to work out a sort of his"tory of weather. He knew that weather affected the growth of trees. He knew that trees grow

| dn rings. In wet years the rings are thick. In dry | years, they are very narrow. In the rings of just one |” old tree, Dr. Douglass could

find a yearly weather

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Tree-Ring Dating a Science |

° Well, he kept going back further and further. And

* then suddenly one day it dawned on him that right * there he had the key to something the archeologists 1” had been seeking for years. * As simple as falling off a

log, he could come up here and date these Mesa Verde _ ruins for the scientists. And he did. ‘The science of tree-ring dating now is as exact as . the science of finger-printing. The Rangers explain

public understand. So I guess I'll take a whack at it. Say we go out in the yard and cut down a big tree.

|“ SWe study the rings on the stump. The outside ring 1° (anybody knows | 1938,

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this) grew only last year, which was

THE BELGIAN HARE crazeshit Indianapolis some Nineties. By 1900, it was going like a house on fire. Men, women and children dropped * everything .to| go into the business of raising rabbits, ' and even women’s clubs stopped prying into the pri- " vate life of Robert Browning long

scoring points.

day I mustifind time to lay bare my discovery that Indianapolis grandrgothers wouldn't be the romantic creatures they are except for the fact that, 50 years ago, they were brought up on Robert Browning's poetry and that of his spouse, Elizabeth Barrett. Even. to this day they e that, maybe, pne of their granddaugh“ters will have a love affair as pretty and painful as that of the Brownings. I'll have more to say about it some other time. Today I have all I can do to stay with the rabbits. Well, as I| was saying, rabbits have their points. An accommodating doe, for instarfte, will produce as many as 72 offspring a year. It will even begin producing when six months#é6ld. That’s all you have to know to start with, oe that, it’s a case of eled » ”

mentary arithmetic. Ground Floor | of the first year, the offspring of a pair s up to 566. The second year, the family

At the end of hares fi

without any effort on your part, you have the Rooseveltian number of 4,305,181,682 little rabbits running under your feet, No fooling. ; Co That's as far as you have to carry it because transfated into terms of old-age security, at a dollar a pair (of-even a penny a-pair), it’s more than enough to retire on. At any rate, that’s the way everybody hag it figured otit at the time. And I mean everybody, be-

. eause I never saw anything—not even the chain letter

Washington CHICAGO, June 13~What chance has the Re-

thinking only of winning the election. People have no patience for ordinary politics now. But if the Republican Party is thinking, as some : ‘of its leaders are thinking, of rising to the challenge of this -fateful hour, then the Republican Party has an opportunity the like of which it has never known. What is the challenge? The challenge is to throw aside all considerations of political ex- | pediency. It is to forget the usual prattle of politics. It is to | refrain from the cheap attempt | to capitalize upon any action— . such: as the hasty dispatch of : : Navy planes to the Allies or the possible use of troops in Latin America—that the President might have to take to protect the national interest. It is to strive only for a , sense of responsibility to the needs of the nation. ” 2 ”

European Democracy Fails The challenge is to realize, and to be ready to do something about it, the hard fact that in Furope de- _ mocracy has failed, railed miserably, shown itself to

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1" be incompetent, fumbling, too slow, too ignorant, too

paralyzed by its own internal politics, helpless to use

|" science and invention effectively for its own self-

preservation—a tragic victim of its own internal weaknesses: In Europe Democracy has been tried and : found ‘wanting. We may not see it restored for a long time. : : ~The challenge to us is to save democracy from a like fate here, to make it produce results. The task is to rescue American democracy from the fatal symptoms of Chamberlainism that we already see here. : We have had our warning. We have had it in Europe. We have had it here. Hitler took power at the same time as Roosevelt. Our Government has recognized the menace, has seen more clearly than did Britain and France what Hitler meant. But we are _not prepared to meet the menace of a Hitler world. “Knowing better, we have yet acted like Chamberlains. "The Republican Party can pitch us deeper into

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aids and I left Washington yesterday at 2 o'clock for Charlottesville, Va. On the way down, he went over his speech and I could well understand his desire to

weigh each word, for I do believe the time has come : to speak -out as to where we stand. Unless we do, there can be no moral unity and no spiritual preparation for ‘the conflict of ideas. | Many years of public speeches have taught me how easy it is, for those who wish to do so and even for those who seek the

ing of phrases or words or to be confused. It is important, therefore, that eve | opinion by a public leader should be carefully weighed. $ Those who desire to read their own ideas into any expression of opinion will misinterpret anything which

‘ not think that anyone who knows the real facts of today’s situation can feel that the United States is anxious for war. I doubt if there ever was a nation | more anxious for peace. ha

enough’ to discuss breeding and.

Which reminds me that some-

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{Hoosier Vagabond «By Ernie Pyie

So we count 'the rings inward. Let’s say, to make

. it easy there are exactly 200. That means ‘the tree ' sprouted and began growing 200 years ago, or in 1738.

Now the rings on this tree vary so in width from year to year that they are individualistic, and easy to tell -apart. : Furthermore, any tree of the same type and from the same area will show the very same weather differences. ~The ring grown in 1848 will be the same on all trees of that type. * Now let’s go in to an old mission, and saw off the end of ‘a ceiling beam. We study these. rings. And now let’s say that we find the 30 outer rings of this tree show up as exactly the same as the 30 inner rings on the tree we cut-down ourselves awhile ago. That would mean that the tree in the old mission was cut down just 30 years after the tree in our yard started growing. Eo fit We know the tree in our yard began growing in 1738. If these two trees overlapped by 30 years, then the log in our old mission house was cut in 1768. So we count its rings toward the inside, and find that it was 300 years old when it was cut. That means it started growing in 1468. Right in those two trees

we have a weather-record and a year-record for|

470 years.

f4 Simple, Isn't It? You see when they find a log in a house, the outer ring is the year the tree was cut, which means the year they built the house. That's how they date these old ruins. : Now you might say: “Suppose they got out an old log whose rings didn’t fit any of the other rings we have on our charts? What then? Well, its no go. It would mean the log was older than we had carried our tree-ring chronology back. There is a gap between the death of that tree, and the birth of any we have on record. We can’t tell what years that tree grew in, until we find a log or several logs that fill in the gap. - Dr. Douglass has been able to fill in those gaps. By sawing off beam ends in old houses and missions and Indian ruins all over the Southwest, he has carried his tree-ring datings back ‘to the year 11 A. D.

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By Anton Scherrer

racket—take hold of Indianapolis the way the Belgian hares did. . The reason Indianapolis took to raising rabbits the way it did was because we were on the ground floor. Which is another way of saying that we were within 80 miles of Wabash. That's where the fad started. Seems that the Beitman boys up there and a felt

manufacturer by the name of Louis Meyer saw a | foreign paper one day and read about a family in

consists of 16.386. ‘And at the end of the fifth year,

publican Party in this situation? Very little, if it is.

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday. —The President, his

truth, to misconstrue the mean- :

expression of

is said, but it-is possible to cut down confusion. I do.

“souls for a pair of Rufus Reds.

Germany who started with $4 worth of rabbits and ended up by taking it easy the rest of their lives. That gave the Wabash people the idea.that maybe the hares would do as much for them. There was the possibility, of course, that the imported rabbits might get homesick, in which case the venture wasn’t worth trying. On the other hand, there was reason to believe that rabbits have habits which no amount of moving will change. The Beitman boys and their pal took a chance. They sent for a pedigreed pair of hares and in no time at all had 220 American-born rabbits on their hands, . 2 8 8

It Got Pretty Serious

It’s generally believed that the Wabash hares were the first to be brought to America. I believe it all right. Just the same it wouldn't surprise me to have somebody out in California dispute the claim when he reads this. ) , The Wabash people, one of whom you'll remember was a felt manufacturer, imported the ‘hares to. raise them for their fur. They never got that fur, because soon as they got ready to skin a rabbit, somebody came along and offered them $100 for it alive. Sometimes ‘they got as much as $250 for a good Rufus Red buck. The more the buck hgd on his feet, especially on his hind feet, the more they got for him. Well, the enthusiasm for Belgian hares finally reached the point that people were willing to sell their Maybe it wasn’t quite as bad as that, but it actually did reach the stage where an Indignapolis man put an ad in the paper offering to trade his one-year-old grand piano, a Steinway, for a pair of Belgian hares.

By Raymond Clapper

Chamberlainism. It can sabotage, scream about excessive execufive powers, throw monkey-wreches in the name of individual liberty, divide the country by appealing to unworthy emotions, stir up opposition and mistrust of measures that are necessary for quick defense preparations, complain of the very things that ‘the Republicans themselves would have to do if they were in power—and can, by such a course, sink us further into helpless paralysis-such as Britain and France suffered in face of danger. Or our Republican Party can set itself to drive toward more effective defense and toward a courageous support of policies that best protect our national interest. In so doing it can make a strong case against the Administration for floundering, lack of planning, hopelessly inadequate: personnel and meager results. ” ” ”

Willkie Logical Choice

Republicans can nominate somebody who looks good in ephemeral straw votes, or some plodding politician whose profession is running for office. Or they can take a bold and audacious course, look at the job to be done, and select, regardless of tradition, the man best qualified to do it. Republicans can face the fact that industrial production, the rapid, highly integrated use of our factories, is the first task. They can leap over the “keep off the grass” signs and nominate Wendell Willkie. } | That would have a tonic effect on the whole country, Mr. Willkie would make a campaign, win or lose,

of which the party could be proud. He could goad the|.

Administration out of its Chamberlaihism, and drive it to work. He could shake the country out of the selfindulgent policies that have enfeebled this democracy as they did England and France. The Willkie movement is an amateur affair, It has no political organization. Professionl politicians are contemptuous of the Willkie boom. But they should not mistake its meaning. The Willkie boom is a nation-wide shout of con-. tempt for the old-style politicians. - It springs from an instinetive sense that the shopworn politician is inadequate to this crisis. It is a symptom of the craving for a leader who will throw new strength, new audacity, new courage into the battle for democracy Thich has been lost in Europe and isn’t going too well ere.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

However, I think that the leaders as well as the |people have become convinced that peace in a world

‘where force dominates can only be attained by a self-

/disciplined people who prepare themselves as efficiently as any dictator would prepare his obedient servants. For a people to do this, they must have a conviction of need and a religious fervor for the cause they are defending: - \ When the soldiers at Valley Forge wanted to go home, it was ‘not only loyalty to George Washington which kept them suffering in the snow—for they

grumbled and complained bitterly about his leader-

ship and even about the cause they were defending— but deep down in their hearts they knew they could not live as free men unless they stuck it out, just as we will .today if the need arises. It was grand to see our daughter-in-law, Ethel, at the station in Charlottesville, walking without a cane after her long weeks of convalesence since her fall. She is still a little lame when her legs get tired, but looks very well, far better than Franklin Jr., who, I think, must have sat up a few nights before his examinations. : : Gray skies greeted us. here in New York City this morning, but IT am not going to try to do many errands before we go to the broadcasting station. After that, ‘a luncheon meeting and later in the afternoon to drive to Montclair, N. J, for an evening meeting.

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nable.

It is the swift advance

supposed invulnerability of this 40-mile chain of locks, lakes and "ditches linking the Pacific and the “Carib-

bean. Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, warned a House committee the other day— in advocating Presidential power to send the National Guard outside the United States if need be —that subversive influences afoot in Latin America were dangerous to this country—‘“specifically to the canal.” He warned of possible. trouble within “a month or two.” In

_mentioned Brazil, Uruguay and Venezula as specific danger points. If the canal were put out of commission—by bombers based on a Nazified country in South America, or by a self-exploded freighter while transiting the. locks-—the mobility of our Navy would be sharply reduced. With -the fleet in the Pacific, an attack on our Atlantic and Gulf coasts ‘would encounter only a skeletonized naval protection until the fleet had made the months-long voyage from Hawaii around Cape Horn. And our commercial lifelines would also have to be redrawn. il ; : * Tal 8 Wen oy” N 1898 it took the crack battleship Oregon 10 weeks to steam from San Francisco to Key West and join Sampson’s Atlantic Fleet for the. victory over Cervera at Santiago. : The Oregon had to go the har way, nearly 13,000 nautical miles. There was no Big Ditch across the isthmus then—only the rusting vestiges of a bankrupt French canal company.

JUVENILE HOME CASES REDUCED

Bradshaw Reveals Decrease Due to New Policy in Delinquencies.

The number of delinquent children sent by police to the Juvenile Detention Home has decreased 11 per cent this year over last, according to figures released today by Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw. The reduction in number of children going to the detention home is a result of a new detention home policy outlined last fall by Judge Bradshaw, Police. Chief Michael Morrissey and heads of county child welfare agencies. The policy is to cut the population of the Home and fo return it to its original purpose . . . merely temporary detention for children. An average total of 20 per cent of the children detained by police since the first of the year were sent to the Detention Home. A year ago 31 per cent of the juvenile cases investigated by police were sent to the Home. The new policy is an outgrowth ‘of the former practice of indiscriminate “dumping” of delinquent children into the Home. Under the new plan no child is placed in the Home unless it is absolutely necessary for safekeeping. Most children are now placed with other agencies. If they are delinquent they are tried immediately to avoid any long -wait in the Home. Dependent children are no longer placed in the Home, but turned over to other agencies for placement in a foster home.

HE’LL CAMPAIGN ON CULBERTSON SYSTEM

RIDGEFIELD, Conn., June 12 w. P.)—Ely Culbertson, bridge expert,

ocratic candidate for congressman-at-large. Ty : : State headquarters have been established at Hartford to conduct his campaign. ; Businessmen, “small and large,” said a letter to mocratic leaders, ‘have always marvelled at and admired Mr. Culbertson for having pyramided a deck of cards into a national industry and having made a mere game into an intellectual Ipastime for 15,000,000 Americans.”

VW ASHINGTON, June 12. | stone of the sea power which forms the first and strongest line of America’s defense, is no longer impreg-

secret testimony he is said tohave -

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Uncle Sam’s sea forces.

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By Charles T. Lucey and Lee G. Miller.

—The Panama Canal, key-

That stark admission is implicit in the great sums now being expended on improvement of its defenses. Some of ‘those improvements will take years to complete.

in two techniques of war—-

aviation and the Trojan horse—that has challenged the

It was the Oregon’s long voyage that inspired public enthusiasm for digging the canal, which Admiral Mahan and others had long advocated. As a result, nearly three-fourths of the round-the-Horn distance between our Atlan-

. tic and Pacific coasts was wiped

out. Today our fleet, normally in the Pacific, can reach the Caribbean and the Atlantic in a frac-: tion of the Oregon's time—if nothing happens to the canal. That is an important “if”—considering the state of Europe and the increasing boldness of Nazis in Latin America. Gen. George V. Strong, chief of "the War Plans Division, says modern bombers could launch an attack ‘on the canal from anywhere between the Rio Grande and the Amazon. He recalls how one of the Army’s B-15 bombers flew nonstop to Panama last year from Langley Field, Va. with some -4000 pounds of serums and medicines for Chilean quake victims and then flew the same load 3100 miles non-stop to Santiago, Chile. “The trip could have been made equally well with a bomb load,” Gen. Strong pointed out. | And “what we do,” he said, “others can do.” : , »

PE RUE, bombers need fighters

‘A to protect them, and fighters are short-ranged. But there is always the nightmare of an unescorted “suicide raid.” Venezuela, where Nazis are active, is less than 500 miles from -the canal. Colombia, whence come reports of thousands of German “tourists,” is much closer. A year ago the Colombian press printed reports that the United States was going to finance an air base at Urrao, 300 miles from the isth-

By F. M. STAVELY.

of Personnel, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

Frequently young people fail ‘to secure employment for two. reasons. First, they have no definite objective in mind, and second, they do not present their experience and qualifications to the best advantage. It is- very difficult for an employer to become enthused about a young man’s prospects when he is uncertain about what he wants to do. On the other hand, if the applicant has studied salesman ship, and during his summer vaca - tions has clerked in a store, or done house to house canvassing, or sold magazines, and isdefinite in his desire to get into. sales work, the employer obtains a much more favorable impression. The young man who sits. across the desk from you and in an eager and earnest manner endeavors to persuade you of his capacity. to do a given job, arouses a definite interest and makes the most favorable impression.

DOUGLASS WILLS NEGATIVES T0 I. U.

Times Special’ BLOOMINGTON, Ind. June 12.— The gift to Indiana University of a large collection of photographic negatives of botanical and historical subjects by the late state entomologist, Benjamin W. Douglass, was announced by President Herman B Wells today. Mr. Douglass made provisions. for the Pift prior to his death. Among the historical negatives are rare photos of the dedication of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument at Indianapolis showing the principal speakers—Lew Wallace, John W. Foster and James Whitcomb Riley.

Photographs of the 172 persons who have served as members and officers of the Board of Trustees of Indiana University since its founding in 1820 are being gathered by ‘W. ‘A. Alexander, University li-

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The U. S. S. Indianapolis, glides through the famous Culebra Cut in the Panama Canal shortly after

With only a foot clearance on

SECOND SECTION

either side, the H. M. S. Nelson of

the British Navy is negotiating the first of the Miraflores Locks.

Times-Acme Photos.

The U. S. airplane carrier, Lexington, her decks crowded with sailors, coming through the canal at Gatun Lock. Those are Army pup tents inside the lock fence.

mus. .Such a base in hostile hands —if our flying fortresses did not destroy it in time—would be a real threat to the canal. This is presupposing- a lot—but at the present tempo of world events it is by no means fantastic. Numerous steps are being t#ken to improve the canal’s defenses. In the final stages of enactment here is a bill appropriating $15,000,000 to start a third set of locks, paralleling the present twin sets but at a distance ranging from one-third to three-fourths of a mile. These six new locks, which cost $277,000,000, are not needed for commerce. (The, usual estimate is: that the normal growth of shipping will not overtax the existing locks before 1960). They will be a defense measure—an insurance policy against the bombing ‘or sabotage of the old locks. »But the job of moving 75 million cubic yards of earth ‘and installing the massive locks and machinery will take six years, although preliminary work has been under“way for many months. Other and quicker defensive measures are proceeding.

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: bombproofed, as far as possible, at a cost of around $40,-

000,000. The machinery is being buried under heavy layers of steel and masonry. : There is talk of criss-crossing ‘Gatun «Lake with |eastern dikes, to lesson the danger of bombs wrecking the mile-and-a-half long

dam which impounds the great lake ‘and releasing the water on which the canal depends. Army and Navy equipment and personnel at the canal—heavy artillery, anti-aircraft equipment, aviation, submarines, mine-laying facilities — are being expanded. Aircraft warning networks are believed to be in process of organization. * In case of war or danger of war, one of the two old sets of locks would be closed to ail except naval vessels. In the other set, ‘merchantmen would be fine-tooth-combed for :time bombs and patrolled by transit. Officials are secretive about the exact strength of the canal defenses. Figures on guns and planes are no longer issued. However, a year or so ago Gen. Malin Craig, then Chief of Staff, testified that there were then in place at the canal, or soen to be installed, the following: 39 seacoast batteries. 29 anti-aircraft batteries. 107 anti-aircraft searchlights.

160 anti-aircraft machine guns.

Jobs for June Graduates Definite Objective, Careful Presentation ‘Of Qualifications Make Job Search Easier

While the young man who is indecisive and not certain whether he wants:.to do a certain thing creates an unfavorable impression on the employer. Personal appearance, conduct and poise are important factors in evaluating applicants Tor jobs. Carelessness in appearance at the time of the interview indicates a lack of respect for the job in question and creates an impression. of indifference. The young man who earned a substantial portion of his expenses in school or who has used his sumniers constructively to equip himself with some type o: experience in his chosen filed has a distinct advantage over those who use this time only as a vacation period. Some young men do not get jobs because they give one of the impression they are just shopping around, rather than trying to find the type of business in which they can build a career. : For example, a young man may be too much concerned about small initial differences in starting salary. He inquires about such things as retirement plans rather than enweavoring to impress upon the employer that he has the industriousness and the capacity for hard work that is so necessary for future success.

AAA Office Still

In Packing Boxes

OFFICIALLY, THE INDIANA office of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration is open for business in the Big Four Building here today, but actually the office is filled with unopened boxes and

carpenters’ ladders. Two weeks ago, before the process of moving the office from ‘West Lafayette here, L. A. Vogler, state chairman, notified county offices that they could address mail to Indianapolis after June 12. The equipment and records were moved to the third and fourth floors of the Big Four Building . over the week-end, but the carpenters had failed to complete the remodeling in time to start actual office operations today. Because a large portion of the AAA work is field work, officials say it will be possible to get along

without a state office for a. day or two. . *

Some fail to obtain jobs when they make written application, because of their carelessness in properly filling out the application

‘form.

The application form is an invitation to the prospective employee tv sell himself to the employer. If he is careless about any information regarding his education, business experience, etc., he handicaps himself by making an unsatisfactory first impression. Carelessness in spelling, grammar and clarity are often present in the written application of those who do rot get jobs. Many employers fequest a photograph of the applicant tc be attached to the written application. Here again the job applicant often does himself an injustice. He will send only |a snapshot or attach a cheap, hastily taken picture that oftentimes has little resemblance and never does him justice. In these small but nevertheless important ways too many young men seeking work fail to create the best. possible impression. In these days of keen competition for employment, they should not overlook any opportunity, however slight, to sell themselves to a prospective employer.

NEXT—Opportunities in the. air,

SHORTRIDGE TO GET HAWAIIAN TEACHER

Last year a Shortridge High School teacher exchanged places with a teacher in Scotland. : Next year, principally’ because of the war, the exchange will be in the opposite direction. ; The School Board, at its regular meeting last night authorized Miss Naomi Pike, assistant librarian at Shortridge, to exchange places with a teacher in Honolulu, Hawaii, next year. ie The Board also approved the appointment of Robert Belding as a mathematics teacher at Tech High School and the appointment of Harry Keller as an assistant in drafting at Tech. | Luther L. Dickerson, librarian, made a report which showed that the war had been reflected in increased demands upon the reference section and business branch of the library, where inquiries had been made aon a score of fihancial, industrial and military subjects. f

armed guards during

NHE 16-inch rifles of the Coast Artillery could pulverize any hostile fleet or fleets that came * within range, if our Navy failed to intercept the enemy. The jungle terrain, and some 20,000 U. S. troops garrisoned at the Ca~ nal (soon to be 25,000), would discourage an attack by land. Military men consider a raid by car-rier-based aircraft unlikely; carriers: would have to get past our outer defenses, naval and aerial, and in any event these vessels do not handle heavy bombers. But the secret, sudden dash of one of several bomb-laden planes from a Nazified country in Latin America or from. a disguised tender in some isolated cove, catching the Canal’s defenders by surprise and scoring a lucky hit witha demolition bomb, is something else again. That growing danger, plus events in Europe, explains the decision of the House to reverse its early rejection of the third-set-of-locks appropriation. Proponents of the bill argued that the alternative to an im-

pregnable canal. was another Navy—cost, $5,000,000,000.

NEXT — Guarding the Caribbean.

BIG VEGETABLE CROP FORECAST

Aided by Rain, Quality Now Superb, Say Officials ~ Of Stokely ‘Plant.

Indiana’s vegetable crops this year will be bountiful and the quality will be superb. That is the opinion of officials of Stokely Bros. & Co. Inc. a company which in the next few months will put thousands of tons of food into millions of cans for use on American dinner tables. Not only splendid crops, but the European War, is seen as a boon to the canning industry by officers of this company whose. 43 plants, employing about 13,000 people, are located in 11 states. Eleven plants are in Indiana and the largest is right here in Indianapolis on S. East St. ; ' 1500 to Be Employed {The average employment at the Indianapolis plant is between 800 and 900, but during the peak canning season which is just a few weeks ahead now, the employment rolls jump to about 1500. : “I don’t know what the war will do to business, but business won’t be smaller,” said Edward C. Eberts, chief engineer and a vice president of the company. “But we do feel that the canning business will find sales’ heavier than ever this year.” “Peas are being canned right

now,” said the man in charge of an Fengineering staff whose job is to

|see that everything that goes into

a can is better and more palatable. “There is a tremendous crop—here in Indiana, too—because of unusually wet weather and spring collness.

’ Weather Still Holds Key

“All_crops look well right now, but weather conditions, a few bad days, could wreck the whole -picture. However, we have every rea= son to believe that crops this year will be at their finest.” While packing peas concerns the industry most now, there will fol-

.|low in about six weeks the hurried

canning of tomatoes, string beans, green beans, lima beans, beets and corn. “It all seems to come at once,” said Mr. Eberts. “And while we handle the same vegetables every year, it seems that every year’s job

is a different one.” ’