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DAY, JUNE 15, 1940
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‘Hoosier Vagabond
June 15.—So the vacation is’ over, 1l confess that I hate vacations end so soon. | weeks of comparative indolence beyond all question of doubt that what is wrong with this country is not the capitalist system, nor the gold standard, nor the lack of spiritual |values—what is wrong with this country is that
BILOXI, Miss., and I might as w because they alway: These last few have convinced me
included.
If I were Waking the world over, I would arrange it so there would be no working whatever. Then when a |fellow started a vacation he could enjoy it in peace, instead | of counting off the remaining days like a doomed man and thus spoiling Since it is the general impression year-round vacation anyhow, peryou why it was necessary for me
the whole thing. that my job is a haps I'd better tell to take a vacation). | Well, we were up in Memphis. And I took a terrible cold. And had queer pains in the back of my head and knets in my shoulders, and went around
wishing the world would end. Now my constitution is one of these reverse ones. The worse I feel, the healthier I am. No doctor has ever yet been able|to find anything the matter with me. After I'm dead and gone, I'll bet an Roney would show my heart still beating.
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: Fooling the Doctors
1 But I decided to give hid doctors one more try, and so turned myself over to a clinic. The orgy lasted six days. [They started off by poking 200 yards of garden hose down my throat and leaving it there all forenoon. They poured alcohol and bread ‘dough and pluto water and green ink down the tube, and then, just before ptomaine set in, they called ‘the fire department and pumped it out again.
Then they got harpoons and stuck them into , trying to bleed me to death. That was the only laugh I got out of the whole thing. I wouldn't bleed. Because I Hp have any blood in me, ha! ha!
You never saw doctors so embarrassed. They finally had cut one arm|clear off to get enough blood to smear on one little glass plate. |
Our Town
ONE DAY T week, on the other side of this page, the Public Library people reviewed aj brand-new biography of Jenny Lind. Somewhat behind in my reading, I have ng way of knowing whether. the new book includes Berry Sulgrove’s classic criticism—the one published in The Locomotive of April 19, 1851. If it doesn’t, it certainly should. On last Friday,” said Mr. Sulgrove, “we went to Madison, in company with about 40 of this city, to hear Jenny Lind si We expected to hear singing th: t surpassed anything we had ever heard—perhaps ‘we did, but we have been better pleased at concerts by singers of less note. Jenny has a powerful, musical voice, with complete command of it, and possesses the power of warbling with all manner of variations.
“She is good looking, without being particularly attractive—a little above the medium height—fair hair, light complexion, blue eyes, and very graceful. When she appeared, she looked as if it required an effort to sing before so large an audience, but this soon wore off after she commenced. She was dressed. richly, without many ornaments. “| ®.." ” |
Pork House | the Setting |
“The orchestra; musicians—they lost its charm in
amining these, plainly showed that they| pitied the city and people that could not afford a bet er piling for them to exercise their talents in. | “Of the buildi i was built for a pork house and was us It is a large frame building, composed of |the frame,
Washington
DETROIT, June 15 —Industrialists here as in other
benefit of the doubt in the defense drive, although alert for any signs of hamstringing at ashington. This attitude | of tentative confidence rests not
at all upon any faith) in the Administration, of whi¢h therd is practically none, but in the pres- | ence at Washington of the two industrialists, Stettinius and Knudsen. The faith pf businessmen is pinned entirely upon
the same mistrust Dealers that they
feeling is mutual. This grows out bitter war between | the Dealers and businessmen, some
. - of whom fear n utilize the defense program as a new vehicle, enjoying wide popularity, for carrying on a glorified spending ‘enterprise for social purposes. had no confidence whatever in a defense program handled by Secretaries Morgenthau and Hopkins. 7 ” i%
Machine Tools Needed
An early test may come in connection with the |
Ford airplane engi ing program, pointed at production of 1000 airplanetmotors a day. Ford executives, as well as other automobile executives who have no love for Ford, say that the job can be done, that | other plants befides Ford can produce in large
numbers.
It is entirely a question of obtaining machine |
tools.
heavily loaded machine-tool industry, automobile
WASHINGTON, Friday—A great friend of mine, rion arrived from New York City
Miss Martha yesterday afte
out on the sout gleaming Gi of the Washngion Monument and
oon.
talked as everybody else does today of the world in-which we find ourselves, and of the preparation we must make in our minds to meet the future. I was interested to find in the two women with whom I was talking, a greater understanding of the attitude of our young people than one usually discovers in the older generation. Our great writers and those of us of lesser degree, have told the youth how horrible and futile war is. Honest people, whether or just ordinary individuals, must tell ey see it, and there are few of ustoday who believe that war is an instrument for good. We know that it calls out in human beings fine qualities, but so does any event. requiring great selfsacrifice. honest, we would not want to change our . teaching. We ho pe that youth will always feel that war is a horrible thing, but we know that we have ‘to meet circumstances as they exist and that when
there is a war of opposing ideas and it betomes a
they are artists the truth as the
everybody works too much, me
these two executivesj they have .
ow an attempt at Washington to |
They would have |
Given the tools, which must be obtained from the |
After dinner, three of us sat’ porch with our eyes. fixed on the
Then they «-rayed. They X-rayed and fluoro-| ° scoped till they had to send to Chicago for more| They X-rayed my stomach and what is|: laughingly called my chest. They X-rayed my sinuses | :
plates.
By Ernie Pyle| \
and my feet and even my head. What they found|:
inside my head is confidential between the doctors|
and me. { When that was over they threw me into an iron ng, then a baby incubator, then a decompression chamber, and at last, while I was standing in.my bare feet on a board full of nails, an orderly sneaked up behind and knocked me out with a bed-pan. On the sixth. day they called me into the front office, nice and friefldly like, and I thought they were going to apologize. Instead, they just read the report telling what was wrong with me. And do you know what was wrong with me? Not a thing. They found that I was one of the healthiest specimens that had ever: crossed their threshold. ” n ”
It Must Be Love
| They said I had no pains in my head, and wasn’t sick at my stomach. They fouhd no traces of malaria, typhus or bubonic. My insides were of cast iron and my lungs of rawhide. My blood, what little there wag’ of it, was the finest blood in Amgrica. In fact, I turned out to be a 110-pound Hercules on wheels. That left only one thing to account for my recent disorganized state of mind and body. They said I must be in love. I said, “Nonsense, doctors, I hate love.” But they said that must be it anyhow, and advised me to take a month off, and try to forget
Sp here we are. The Sanders Clinic in Memphis is run by two brothers, both Mayo men. It is staffed by four ad-
ditional physicians, and a large batch of nurses and |&
secretaries. The place gives you a feeling of supreme confidence. staff. Although I was a little disgusted that they didn’t discover I have an upside-down stomach, still
my feeling is that, the next time I start to hurt)
real bad, I hope I'm within traveling distance of the Sanders Clinic. ! And so the day after the medical pronouncement that I was fit as a fiddle, we dragged ourselves into the car and came down here on the Gulf Coast where there’s lots of heat.
By Anton Scherrer
outside weather boards and shingled roof, unceiled and without plastering. Along the center is two rows of rough posts, supporting a still rougher. Back and .over the stage, and for 10 feet from it on each side, was papered—the balance was whitewashed, inside and out. The only building it will compare with in this city is Browning’s stable —if the mow and stalls were taken out, they would look very much alike—our readers can form some idea of the ‘effect music would have in such a building.” | Six months later, on the occasion of Madame Anna Bishop’s concert in Masonic Hall, Mr. Sulgrove wrote another musical criticism, somewhat less architectural in character this time. R £4 4
Another Disappointment
“We were disappointed in Madame Bishop's personal appearance. She is decidedly coarse in appearance, and does not produce at first a very favorable impression on an audience. There are various opinions in relation to her voice. Some take exceptions to certain peculiarities, but we think all will agree that in the whcle round of operatic and ballad singng Madame Bishop is excelled by very few conMien vocalists—that the defective features in her voice are more than counter balanced by the sweetness, steadiness and strength of most of her tones, and her musical skill.” [ Mr. Sulgrove, it appears, was the acclaimed critic of his period not only in the field of music, but in those of art, architecture and literature as well. He had his reward Two years later on the occasion of a State assembly of brass bands in Indianapolis in which 12 bands contested for a grand prize, Mr. Sulgrove was one of the jury to decide which band was the best—a delicate job, if there ever was one. Apparently, everybody was pleased with his work be‘cause nine months later—on Nov. 29, 1853—they did away with the jury system and appointed Mr. Sulgrove sole judge of a similar contest.
By Raymond Clapper
plants can turn out engines in" enormous quantity. Ford has produced as many as 10,000 automobile units a day. But when Ford switched from the Model T to the Model A car, two years were required to set in the new machiney. Production was suspended for many months in order to make the change- over. Machine-tool plants are jammed with orders for old regular customers and for the Allies, and much more work is in prospect in connection with the wideranging new defense program. The question is how far down in the stack of orders will the Ford requirements be placed? That is a question of priority. | As among Army-Navy orders, the Stettinius board can decide which must go through first and which may wait. But it has no power to assign priorities in the machine-tool plants with regard to private orders and Allied orders. Somebody will have to wait. There will have to be close co-operation between the machine-tool manufacturers and the Administration to avoid crippling delays. 2 t-4 2 -
Red Tape Must Go
Prompt decision as to design, which must be [frozen against later changes, and subcontracting for ‘some parts, would speed up production, and if everything clicked the engines might be coming off the line in about nine months. But it will require a ruthless cutting of red tape to obtain a prompt start. These are some of the questions involved in the current discussions before any contract cary be signed. Automobile executives are confident that if the mat- | ter were left to the free discretion of Assistant Secretary of War Johnson and to Mr. Knudsen, airplane engines could be produced as fast as pursuit bodies ‘could | be built. This Ford situation dramatizes the whole defense program. It has received so much public notice that it will likely become a popular test of our ability io do the job. o
By Eleanor Roosevelt | war of force, there is nothing to do but accept force as a weapon, unless we wish to accept-that which submission represents. The choice is not as yet before us, but we must in our minds prepare to meet it
if necessary, and so must all our young people. I can’t blame them for not liking the choice. I can’t blame them for trying to find alternatives to it. If you haven't lived at all, or have lived very unsatisfactorily, and no one has been particularly interested in how you have lived, it is a bit ironic to find that you are chided for not wanting to die. So let us have patience with young or old who find it hard to face the mental preparation necessary to meet today’s peculiar conditions. Circumstances and time will force us to ultimate decisions and I have faith that | ‘they will be the right ones. I receive word every day of small groups that are trying to do relief wark in different parts of Europe. nd Mrs. Waistill Sharp of Massachusetts, under ed Juspices of the Friends of Czechoslovakia, and co-operating with the Red Cross and other organization, have just sailed to work among youin and children of France. It seems to me that all such groups should be co-ordinated in closer co- operation with the Red Cross. I spent the morning getting my usual summer permanent wave and I discovered that new inventions made it much pleasanter than in the past, so we move along even in matters of such trivial importance as ® curling ladies hair,
You sense a calm, sure competéhce in the|}
roof with rafters].
A German plane flying over the wreckage of French planes at an unidentified Allied air base that was bombed and later captured, according to the Nazi censor. :
This photo, one of the first originals arriving by Clipper, shows one of the German air raiders of the French capital that didn’t get away. down during the first raid over Paris.
CITY WILL SEEK BAS RE-HEARING
Renews Fight to Free Utility From Terms of Lease Made in 1913.
Utility District trustees renewed their fight today to free the Citizens” Gas & Coke Utility from the terms of a lease made in 1913 by ils predecessor, the old Citizens’ Gas Co., and the Indianapolis Gas Co. The lease, which the City has refused to recognize, was declared binding on the Utility District by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ai Chicago. The Appellate Court's ruling upset the decision of Federal District Judge Robert C. Baltzell here that the City was not bound by the lease. Meeting for the first time yesterday since the Appellate Court’s decision, City officials and trustees and directors of the Utility agreed to petition the U. S. Circuit Court ior a rehearing.
Friday Is Deadline
William H. Thompson, Utility District attorney, said the petition would be prepared in a few days. It must be submitted by Friday, 15 days following the decision which was handed down by the threejudge Circuit Court June 6. The decision of the officials to press for a rehearing was announced by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, following the meeting in the office of My. Thompson. The Mayor said the case would be fought to its conclusion. If it is found necessary, the City will ask the U. S. Supreme Court to review the case, he said. He added, however, this step will be taken only failing a decision favorable to the
City in the rehearing.
Action to Be Held Up
Meanwhile, Mr. Thompson and his associate, Patrick Smith, indicated they would begin preparation of the rehearing brief immediately. Officials said that the City’d action seeking condemnation of the Indianapolis Gas Co. properties will be held up pending the conclusion of litigation on the lease. The lease, they explained, assumes property value if valid. The value would be considered in the total valuation of the Indianapolis Gas properties during condemnation and thus would raise the ultimate price the City would have to pay to acquire the properties.
LOCAL YOUTH GETS HIGH CULVER AWARD
Times Special CULVER, Ind. June 15.—John M. Miller of 532 Highland Ave. Indianapolis, has received the Culver Rifles award, one of the highest honors a new cadet in the infantry battalion at Culver Military Academy can achieve. The CR award is granted on the basis of written and oral tests for special excellence in infantry movements, military courtesy, the manual of arms, guard duty, arm signals, rank ‘and command, knowledge of nomenclature, and rifle marksmanship safety rules, and an auto safety test.
VINCENNES BOY, LINEMAN KILLED
VINCENNES, Ind, June 15 (U. P.) —Two persons were Killed accidentally here yesterday, one by electrocution and one by a train. Delbert Keith, 32, a lineman for the Public Service Co., was shocked fatally when he touched a 2300-volt wide. William Wallace, 13, was killed when he was hit by a $hicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad train.
‘manence. This
Forter) It Was A Bald Eagle
WARSAW, Mo, June 15 (U. P). —Mrs. J. M. Richardson laughed heartily when a bird flew down onto the back of her sleeping chow dog, pulled -out a beakful of hair and flew into a tree wheré it was/ building a nest. The bird® made several trips to the chow and Mrs. Richardson
was: right in the midst of a chuckle when the bird swerved ‘and alighted on her head. Yes, you've guessed the Yost of the Saye)»
MARTIN HEADS STATE CHESTS
Leader of City’s Community Fund Re-elected at Session Here.
Virgil Martin, acting head of the Indianapolis Community Fund, yesterday was re-elected president of the State Association of Community Chests at the annual one-day meeting here. Others elected were Robert Stroud, Ft. Wayne, vice president; H. E. Moore, Bloomington, second vice president: and Wade Searles, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Assaciation members, meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, discussed budget problems in connection with Community Chest campaigns. The principal talk was given by Harty E. Bolt, past presi-
dent of the S South Bend Community Fund, Inc. | Mr. Bolt told Association members that the problem of the Community Fund executive is to keep far ahead of his community, to be progressive and close enough to be practical. He advised Fund executives on the makeup of the boards and said that he believed one chief duty of executives was to assure the public which furnishes the money that it will be spent wisely.
Jobs for June
Sense of Direction Important in High!
A French pilot shot the bomber
Under terrific bombardment, members through Dunkerque en route to ships that r following the Allied retreat in Flanders.
In this photo passed by the French censor, French sailors are shown taking care of abandoned children at Dunkerque, France, j
t prior to the evacuation of that port,
yf the British Expeditionary Force march escued and carried them back to England
Times-Acme Photos.
According to Nazi censors, this photo shows the shattered wreckage of a French supply mechanized
column after destruction by German aerial bombard ment nea
49 Years With
Gas Job Here;
Some Day He Will Travel
Some Jay. Frank J. Kalb, dean of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility employees, is going to see America —but not at the cost of retirement. Traveling is the recreation Mr. Kalb likes best but he doesn’t like it as well as the job Ne’s held 49 years in the gas utility. In apprecia - tion of this fact; company executives will honor Mr. Kalb along with 52 other members of the utilities Quarter Century Club, composed of § employees who § have served 25 years or more, ; at a dinner at 6 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Hotel Ani- Mr Kab lers. Mr. Kalb is proud if his member-
: | yet.
ship in. the club which represents
Graduates
7 per cent of the utility’s entire personnel whose years of service total 1644. Mr. Kalb began as a storeroom keeper in the old Indianapolis Gas Co. organization on April 120, 1891. To make sure of the date, he referred to a card catalogue [file. Sure enough, there was his card, a replica of the original paymaster’s card he filled out 49 years ago. Now Mr. Kalb is paymaster. Retire?
- “I think Td get lonely.” he said.
: |“A man who’s been working as long : las I have finds it hard
to think of retiring. No, I won’t retire just Although I would |like to travel.” Mr. Kalb and his wife, Florence, have traveled throughout the eastern part of the United States. ‘Their only regret is that they have never had quite enough time tg see the
-|nation west of St. Louis, Mo.
“That's what were going to do some day,” he said. “But not now. There is work to be done.”
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Competitive U.S. Labor Market of Today
By DR. FLOYD W. REEVES
Director, American Youth Commission
American youth leaving schools and colleges to seek jobs faces a highly competitive labor market. It would be both unfair and unrealistic to say that all who desire work, and have the energy to seek it, ‘can find jobs. The fact is, there are not enough jobs | to go around. It takes about two years for the average boy or girl to find employment that carries with it any degree of per-
does not mean that. most young people walk the streets for two Mr. Reeves years before obtaining their first job. It does mean that there is an jenormous turnover among. new workers before they find the job for which they are suited. On a national average, one in six will be unable to find employment, and will help to swell the estimated total of 4,000,000 unem-
ployed young people under 24 years
of age which today represents about one-third of the nation’s unemployment problem. After painting this gloomy -picture, there are a number of helpful suggestions based on studies and findings of the American Youth Commission, which can Be of value to the boy or girl in search of work. The first suggestion is offered more to parents than to young peocle, for the search for a job starts from the home. Parents should realize that the aptitudes and interests of a son or aughter may be quite different rom their own, and they should not be dictatorial about occupational choice. They should encourage vocational
{| cxploration, but should discourage
wishful thinking. Most boys aspire to white. collar jobs, although 70 per cent are destined to wear overalls. - Second, a boy or girl should seek vocational guidance from those qualified to give it. If they are fortunate, their school has a guidance program. Even if an individual's school aoes not offer guidance, it will be wise to ask the school principal or class teacher what he believes he
or ‘she is best fitted to undertake. in the search for srt will also
pay to make inquiries atthe local Y.M.C. A.or Y. W. C. A,|for many branches offer EE guidance for youth out of school. Third, most young persons fail to regibter at the local public placement agency. Creation of a network of public employment offices is one of the great social achievements of recent years, which recognizes the public's responsibility for helping bring workers and employers together.
‘Fourth, boys and girls unable to find employment should consider additional education. always possible, but the cation one has, the
Fifth, if circumstanc impossible for a youth to continue his education without assistance, he may be eligible for the Civilian Conservation Corps or for a National Youth Administration scholarship or work project. To know “what one can do and the fields in which there are the greatest opportunities is| half the battle. It gives a sense of direction, and permits a boy jor girl to act with purpose. Above all, it prevents aimless drift, which is demoralizing to character.
NEXT—#How to Keep Your Job.
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STATE T0 GET CLARK
MEMORIAL JUNE 28
The George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincennes will become part of the State park system on June 28 after being maintained by a special State Memorial Commission for more than 10 years, State offi cials announced today. Edward P. Brennan, chief of the State Accounts Board, said abe
stracts and titles. to the memorial will be delivered to his office by the Clark Commission within 10 days. Governor M. Clifford Townsend, by special executive order, will turn the Memorial over to the State Cone servation Deparment,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1. Paavo Nurmi was a famous Finnish painter, architect or rune ner?
|2. Of the 13 original States, did
Pennsylvania or Massachusetts take the first steps to abolish slavery? 3. Where is Pearl Harbor located?
. Which library is the largest in the world? 5. Is it easier to swim in fresh or salt water?
6. What is the correct title of the Chief, Justice of the: Supremes Court of the United States? 7. Name the French general who recently replaced General Gamelin as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied armies?
8. Between which two points did Paul Revere make his famous ‘midnight ride?
Answers
Runner. Pennsylvania. Honoluly, Hawaii, The Library of Congress. Salt water.
States. Maxime Weygand. Boston and Lexington.
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