Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1940 — Page 14

TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1940

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS (In ) July 2-1 don't know what is wrong, but here are a third of the way across the continent, and all the romance there's been on this bus you could put Vour eve

I'here hasn't

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\'¢ a nn aboard I'd look at twice, and the thing seems to work vice versa, Even the ugly girls don't know I'm making this trip Do you suppose the movies have been exaggerating, or is it my bald head? We did have a manticist aboard the ut, but couldn't get ers sat in the seat, nearest the driver, started a play for him before we got a block from the terminal. Bus drivers have to put up with a lot slightest thing attractive about was ugly, and she was too big yabbled incessantly about nothing. It and the other passengers wanted the driver wanted to drive, and she kept

girl

been a

willing first

1'0night any front and

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n't Her

and talking He'd let on that he didn’t hear her. But she wasn't ! repeat until he had to answer. He gave } She suggested that she get off at He got stone deaf then. She leave the bus three different burgh and Chicago where various 1 But she didn't get any en-

leen

She'd most ite.

ofl. rom them » A Fellow Hoosier s at the driver, she took a few casts YW hext to me He wouldn't even know what was the matter with once, and obviously dismissed even on a bus New York and Pittsburgh ell Aronson of Ft. Wayne, Ind. He Drive-a-Wayvs.” He has been de mal true out of Ft. Wavne to

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By Ernie Pyle

(22), fis He and of a along

just nald, talk nis who

He 1 petting ltkes to pleasant cartoonist fine. Aronson was horn in from home when he was just a kid on farms, and in a shoe factory, Mostly he has been a mechanic ‘WAP, or whatever they called he quit and got this truck job ago, and has had it ever since He has delivered trucks to to Maine. He has had some wrecks one. But one time, three trips in caught fire,

A Tight-Wire Walker

Out of Pittsburgh, my seat companion was an untalkative voung man from Detroit, nicely dressed but with dirty fingers. Sometime during the night he moved father back or got off And now I've been sitting walker He is a small fellow who doesn't say very much, yet seems eager to talk. His name is Arthur Kepler. He was raised in Kokomo, Ind. and his folks still live there. They have traveled as far as Indianapolis to see his act the stage, but every time they take a trip it makes them sick, As for himself, he never but he has been bus-sick. He wears special heeled shoes all the time. That's because harder to walk on, and make him walk balanced Kepler has acted in vaudeville, at all kindg of fairs, before clubs. and on shigs at sea. For several seasons he worked the trans-Atlantic runs, and has crossed the ocean 22 times. He also cuts out silhouettes of people, and reads character from them. He has been in 37 states. He says business isn't so good, but he makes a living. He didn't read my character, because I haven't got any. No blood. no money, no character And nobody but truck drivers and tight-wire walkwill talk to me on a bus {

month younger than I am has three children, all girls and although his voice is mellow vocabulary would be the delight draws truck drivers, We got

a and

Michigan, and ran away He has worked cutting leather Once he was on back then,” But and a half years

it five

Montana, to Georgia, but never a bad a row, his trucks

un n n

beside a tight-wire

airsick, highthey're perfectly

gets seasick or

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By Anton Scherrer

Which still leaves the Grand Opera House, another theater controlled by Dickson and Talbott. In 1881 the Grand advertised the ‘last season” of J. K Emmet in “Fritz in Ireland, The Bell Ringer of the Rhine and the Love of the Shamrock.” That same too, The Great Herrmann, assisted by Mie, Addie, the Grand, followed by Frederick Warde ‘Romeo and Juliet’): Pauline Markham "The Two Orphans); Ada Gray (“East Lynn’) and Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Goodwin in “Hobbie; Net Goodwin's wife that year was Eliza Weathel »

by,

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Mad sha Tl ‘Thwelfth Night’

Wil which A year “Female First Bill time

In 1882, the Grand had Lawrence Barrett, Gu and Tony Pastor's “Elegant Company’ the Irwin sisters (May and Flora). Ilda Siddons showed up at English’s in with the “Sensational Swinging including James Kelley dinferlocutonr) (tambo) and Ned West By were running English te 'hat same veal whose died last Thursday, played in Night.” Kiralfy Brothe: Black Crook he ladies in tights was the ) resistance iowever, 1884, Engulish's That same vear,

bone that

XT YO Son ‘Twelfth lt iece de 1883, 1 In billed Mile. Rhea the Grand put on “A Bunch Keys,” probably first Hoyt comedies to to Indianapolis. In 1885. Annie Pixley plaved O. in Bret Harte’ M'Li Biggest thing, it veal “The Mikado" by Indian Society under t tion of Alexande: Herman Muelle) the Mikado. The maids were 1a Meek and Weegman, as swe Indianapolis turned “Lit Lord had two kids

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By Raymond Clapper

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THE

The Indianapolis

STORY OF

ELIE

This is the first of a series of of Indibusiness inits growth and its accomplishments,

five articles about one

anapolis’ important

stitutions, its beginnings,

I'he Indianapolis

By Harry Morrison NE of the editors of the Bobbs-Merrill was

Company, magazine, She came across a short story and went through it hut As she the

reading a

not twice.

once,

[KOON as {oO

Lol oflice she wrote a letter the of that one Pietro di Donato. That letter that followed unanswered, You think that a big publishing firm would sooner

author story,

and ones wont might

or later shrug shoulders and let the matBut don’t publishing houses, that Mi York City. office

unately, one

cr drop. vou

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the house

QISCON was

Knew brought him in for a dl Donato acknowledged to Ww a novel. writing g lay ined that overcome, ent confihe money wrote mone v until completed

tl first

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time his livin Xl cl he nf Him while

had nee which ve he made and

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min

ent him im ment manuseript The hort 1acle 1f cnapi When the day for the manuscript arrive, D. L, Chamber the } ident of the company, had the Bobbs-Merrill offices in an uproai He had set his heart that book And he

wanted manuscript

came

that

imes

SECOND SECTION

“

MERRILL

DD. L. Chambers, president . The Bobhbs-Merrill offices, 3. The old store which stood . Charles W. Merrill, grands: William Bohbs, who became

IME and again the company called the express offices. Nothing had arrived. One of the editors was “sure one of the boys in the stockroom has hidden that package.” Late in the afternoon came a call from downstairs, It was a man [rom the Post Office, hugeing for dear life a huge bunch ol straggling white typewritten sheets oozing out of an illwrapped manila paper bundle. It “Christ but not in was to go in sales “Christ in Concrete,” as vou probably know, became a Book-ol-the Month Club selection Most best sellers don't come close to its life on the best selling list The di Donato book was close to the top for all of six months an. is still having a strong sale,

1 dents in the

great American general publishing house west of the Alleghenies Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis This world-famous publishing house has a New York office. Im portant functions are performed there to cover so important a marKet. The two offices work in close co-operation, as the di Donato story illustrates. But the headquarters of the house are in Indianapolis, and all phases of the work are done right here, from the perusing of manuscripts to the making of plates and engravings, the printing and binding of books. In reality, Bobbs-Merrill is

Concrete” papel 178,000

was mn corrugated

past the

It mark

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of the inci-

life of the only

AHAT is just

one

of Bohbs-Merrill, 720 N. Meridian

St, on E. Washington St, mn of the founder, president in 1904,

made of three distinct divisfons: 1. The Trade Department, which each vear transforms from 65 to 00 fictional and non-fictional manuscripts into hooks that go into thousands of homes and hundreds of libraries, 2. The School Book Department, which publishes hundreds of thousands of hooks each year, Of the 25 states which have state-controlled school hook purschasing, Bobbs<Merrill furnishes school books for 11 of them, 3. The Legal Department. which publishes and sells thousands of law volumes everv vear, A file in the company’s offices here cone tains the names of more than 50.000 lawyers who buy BobbsMerrill law publications.

schoo!

" » HE history of

Bohbs-Merrill, is, with a few exceptions, the history of Indiana literature, The company can trace its beginnings hack to 1824-116 vears ago-—-when Samuel Merrill was treasurer of the state of Indiana Corydon was still the state cap fal but preparations were under way to move the capital to Indianapolis by Jan. 1, 1825. Samuel Merrill took upon himself the oh of moving the state's affairs. He had four wagons. On three of them he placed account books, printing materials, a printing press, and his personal belongings. On the fourth wagon went his pride-—~his books. Mr. Merrill had accumulated hooks for the state

An iss such as this b between the Du man

against the

me l 1 sts and the New

demand fo ASV allowances

«ero TEAGH DEFENSE, Administration's traditional X Yet it NS now on the way to adjust despite a arp initial difference of viewpoint,

I'his perhaps stubbom has yet up become ous issues, hay promptness

co-operation,

out tne

Dealer

{uction, may

During June District Record

Signal Co, Camp Ord. Cal.; Robert MB. Ossuts, 1b, of

365 Join Army To Set New

Army recruit-

COSt

puting

from

mnmecome

ties seer

1 ital 18 Most Oe } 3 because the

The Indiana district ing station here enlisted 365 men to Col.

to-

Kelly Asks Educators to Discipline Youngsters to Hardbitten Facis.

MILWAUKEE

mignt with

marked

come problems, whigh adjusted

which Sel Government whether t

2woh profit

11 “HY write-ofl

the

aepreciation mitt determine facturer makes a

1C\

Ica sonable spirit

ed Hy because record last month,

set a new Enrique Urrutia day, The figure was double the average monthly enlistments during the last vear, the Colonel said, adding that applications: are being filed so rapidly ' that some July quotas al-

Eugene Noe, 18, of 336 S. Hamilton Ave. 67th Coast Artillery, Ft. Bragg, N. C., and J. Matthew Elmore, 23, of 345 Lasley Ave, Medical Department, Ft. Benning, Ga Lieut. Comm. J. C. Shiveley, commanding the naval recruiting station here. said that his quota for July has been set temporarily at 40 enlistments, but he expects a 25 per cent increase Two Hoosier naval reservists have been added to the recruiting staff Chief Quartermaster Herman Luther Rutledge, Muncie, Ind, has been assigned to the Anderson sub-sta-tion and Chief Pharmacist Mate Charles Jackson Warder, Columbus, Ind. has been assigned to Evans ville

908 ATTEND SECOND SCOUT CAMP SESSION

A total of 208 Boy Scouts and leaders are at Camp Chank-tun-| ungi for the second 12-day camp period of the year which began yesterday. Commandant of the junior staff for this period is Roger Sheridan of Troop 72. James Hall, Troop 3. is adjutant, Section leaders are: ler, Troop 72: James Troop 3; Philip Robertson, Troop| 9, and Martin Miller, Troop 60} {Senior patrol leaders are George Sommer, Troop 90: Richard Hill, Troop 61: Jack Patterson, Troop 9; William Newlin, Troop 23. Robert Payne, Troop 19: Reiman Steeg, Troop 80. Norris Archer. Troop 39. Dan Orewiler, Troop 82: Francis Pray, Troop 23, and Robert Al-| bright, Troop 41. | The monthly city-wide Court of Honor is to be held tomorrow at 8 Pp. m. in Cropsey Auditorium of the Public Library,

he announced

n n Rooscroll Plays Big Rol

In pa

” about plant

this, President Yoosevelt has There has

plaved

July 2 America’s be Ving as to national «x program must the bl \ Defense Com in the hool Raymond J) But mi sion Thus far the co-operation has been all that Kelly, national commander of the feadv are filled ould here is No sign American Lezion the National OF the. June ae oh Pre ile I Bn oclation convention! listed at the local Federal Building effect MORE those - ; Tho oe Wo deal sub-station in the last few days fense but am live vears of Ee of June, five Indianapolis boys dealing with : ; N , joined the Arm) : Defense Their names and the branches of tience the the service for wu hich they enlisted that can way Are. James 8. Sutterfield 23, of nrst month “Y 1320 Standish St. Air Corps, Valory side paraiso, Fla... Warren GG. Nunnellev, 19. of 316 W. 28th St, Seventh

I'he chief $30.97 Average Gross Tax Bill

to producing British patents THE AVERAGE PAYMENT for each gross income tax return filed in the fiscal 1939-40 $30.97. This figure was computed unofficially from published yesterday. Total collections for Indiana were $23648.49728 and 763.464 returns were filed. The average payment 1938-39 fiscal vear was $30.48.

SEEKS TO PURCHASE RICHMOND GAS PLANT

The recently organized Richmond Gas Corp. today filed petition with the Public Service Commission for authority to purchase the plan! of the Indiana Gas Utility Co. at Richmond, for $550.000, To finance the deal, the new Richmond firm proposes to issue $400,-

000 in first mortgage bonds. The headquarters office of the Indiana Gas Utility Co. is at Terre Haute Iwhere it owns the city gas plant.

he no small

Treas

hinery

ny i been considerable misel fense

how eflectively would support hi start

word ] Vea)

ars mto

be desired anything else told

an " total, 72 were enbe upport. which ha

had =a d

tit will given cer

: 1! + oY of the Trea situations

not o

ir niy amon mnecte

with t bovs

with he formaand girls more hours a months each vear vitally important in assuring preservation of the American of life.” he said “It 1s tragically fatile continue to teach the beauties ermational will our own I opposition to such

most

12 to the standard Defense Com to obtain essential

must be taken

commission the group production will Obstacle with eertainty

he ong businessmen the of

our nation io x Of

day. eight or nine

are

requ

will

time

encoun

e he

na All the fac

ton hort he nd

the

naw operat Deen on for to undoubted peace and people, when Is we have the in

SS us . blow was the coll with He

nes for Great

have

apse of the Ford He Britain

ed, tl

airplane objected Because defense allowing tion only

ission 1s tha Wp - of in "MN on

nry\

hould be writ enel good

were

} lr somewhat up idea countries across with belief who own them mailed fist, Ford fac-! This disci ng of young the undistorted of a material 0th Centuly ool

not 8

been u 0 instance

itary produc

tion

onmis oe Ford to use them for Ameri Ne ana rel ) time use even if His I two or three veal

perhaps ovel

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the Briti

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For t in

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and Frencl

atti Amerand conis an

because heen

tories

British

working

year was sald that it is obligation to tea 1S a funadaamenta to bear arms in defense ol the country, “Not only must tl prepare the individual boy and girl for their place in jult society, but they must serve nation as a whole,” the commander said. “Thev are not to their trust unless our vouth are universally firm in thei desire to the defense the nation

$150,000 SUIT SENT TO U. S. COURT HERE

sunt

the schools’ children that it

By Eleanor Roosevelt ch cl yetords Jack ShideKirkhofT,

We ran

morning

true to form ves- I was told it fell near r with an injured wine 1 schools

when sh ut ing, and

tame

was very beautiful, some weeks ago since However, friend who came up Mrs, Lewis flown up see her me to her his shoulder little pig with I'he pig's eyebrow brilliant carmine This 15 the most consoling Those

ribbon and went

the afternoon ith a after lunch, who had Bank, N. J back wittl

OW IS /]1

then has been sat on her ex- the in the tended arm in the

waginable

The fourth prize s won by a little bov dressed as true 0

to a butcher boy with a really wicked lookine knife over po of \ while under one arm was a

the nails of it 3 oet

ana nos

squealing painted red decorated In

ven

nefit of the

organization

A150

prize giving T have ever fourth prize white * prize table and somewinning a cup the most important winners of all the different | and of them were to choose the show Luckily co- judges were very good and I felt comparatively littie responsibility After a few words of greeting. I said goodbye to my hosts and flew back again I reached home just after usual afternoen thunderstorm It was a pleasant trip and I hope the charity made all the needed money,

Im two done he prize moire 1 chil because of a hard being able

who won a

\ recenned a 4

Oo th obtained

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damages Co. on 2849 today from the

A Ki £150.000 from the National Biscuit behall of F Weaver Shelby St transferred to Federal Court here Sheiby Circuit Court. The suit. filed In that in 1916 horses company Kicked Mr. Weaver in the head and mjured him The suit is filed by his mother, Mrs, Myr-

was tle Weaver,

hing The

dislike as a consolat

judge where

m for not m judged was all the

out

it ond class |

because

. mest {Qe competitors s———— A——— | NYA OFFICIALS MEET Plans for adapting Youth Administration workers to the needs of private industry are being discussed by NYA personnel

officials in a two-day conference to-

was

sm have tried so classes apreared

pet

grieve at not the best in nn

pats with particula prize was CI'OW,

arpear the

| inning the first

ld ing . a scare crow and her pet was a .

| apolis Athletic Club.

a sort of nucleus for a State Library. It was this love of books that led eventually to the founding of a great publishing house, For, in 1838 Sam Merrill went into the bookstore husiness with E. H. Hood. It was at No. 1 Temperance Hall and an Si ment of that contemporay day discloses that Merrill & Hood were “prepared to supply on order the latest Eastern publications,” By 1851 there were four hookstores here. In that year, the Merrill Bookstore issued Volume 5, Indiana Reports. It was he ginning of the law book business and, actually, the start of the publishing firm.

“Memories

the

» ” »

1854 advertisements appeared

for Harriet Beecher Stowe's in Foreign published by Stewart and Bowen, The Merrill and Stewart merged in 1885 to en=-Merrill Co, It with refail

Lands,”

firms the BowDlsl=

form

was a big

Ness a bookstore and

publishing company, a wholesale

paper division and a notions and drug sundries department. A little more than a decade later in 1896-—the company changed again, this time giving up the wholesale paper business to the Crescent Paper Co, and the notions to the Indianapolis Book and Stationery Co William C. Bobbs, who had tered the scene at the time of Stewart merger, assumed presidency just after the turn

LIQUOR SALES

onethe the of

~ HIT HIGH MARK

2408 Brookside!

Pkwy., Air Corps, Valparaiso, Fla.; Local June Business Tops birthday is on Independence Day,

That of Any Month Since Repeal.

‘The beer and whisky business in

Indiana during June broke all recfor prohibition in 1933. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission that fees and stamps last month totaled $1.000,706 which $162,000 than previous all-time high reached

ords any month since repeal of

reported revenues {rom

in June 1937. The record June businsss was attributed partly to purchases made by dealers to stock up their establishments ahead of the new Federal taxes on beverages, effective vesterday. However, the Commission said most of the increase was the result of a general upturn in beverage business over previous years. The June collection brings to $3,522,570 the total revenues for the first six months of 1940, an increase

the extra

"TEST

of $310,000 over the same period a|

year ago. Collections $7,005,435 and seven years $42,000,000. Of the $1,000,706 June collections, $407,000 will be distributed io cities, counties and schools and $593.627 will be turned over to the State General fund.

during 1939 revenues during the since repeal totaled

JOB PLACEMENTS DECREASE IN JUNE

June private job placements by the Indianapolis field office of the State Employment Service were below the May, 1939, totals. xeorge J. Smith, manager of the

placements in June totaled 1603, compared to the record high of 1826 in May and 1769 in June last year, He said that 950 of the month's

dav and tomorrow at the Indian- placements were men and 653 were women, .

were

1940, and the June, |

National office, reported today that private]

the century. Charles W. Merrill, grandson of Samuel, was secre-tary-treasurer, and John J, Curtis was vice president. And on April 7, 1902, the house became known as Bobbs-Merrill.

lL JILLIAM BOBBS knew men when he saw And when he saw them he after them That's how Mr, Chambers came to the firm. Mr. Chambers was secretary to Henry van Dyke at Princeton Mr. Bobbs wanted him to come to Bobbs-Merrill and he eventually did, as Mr. Bohbs' secretary, Meantime, had been C. Hitt, office of the nal, of which publisher, The author who called Johnson. He called “The Old Swimmin’ ‘Leven More Poems.” Young Johnson had some other poems hanging around. He asked Cincinnati firm to consider them. The answer was something «bout “the dignity of our imprint not permitting. Mr. Bobbs got hold poems. And thereafter lished every book of young man was to write. Maybe you've read some of Benj. P, Johnson's poetry under his real name-—~James Whitcomb Riley,

n "

good them, went

a volume of published by George was sold from the Indianapolis Jour= Mr. Hitt was the

poetry

Was a himself

voung en) hi: Hole

man Po hool and

of the he pubpoems that

NEXT-—How Bobbs-Merrill gels its manuscripts,

Sheriff Opens Jail to Public

limes Special FT. WAYNE, Sheriff Walter

Ind, July 2.—

A. Felger, whose

will celebrate ‘it by holding open house in the Allen County over which he presides. “It is surprising,” the sherift said as he made the announcement, “how many people never have seen the inside of a jail.” Prisoners were not included the invitation,

jail,

YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The flowers classified in groups? 2—From whom did Jack Dempsey win the world's heavyweight hox= ing crown? 3~Name the Poet-Laureate of England who was succeeded by John Masefield in 1930. 4-—-Name the capital of Hungary? 5—Why do some United States coins have no mint mark? 6—1Is the hide of a rhinoceros bul letproof? T—What word was used by German soldiers in World War I when they surrendered, to be taken as prisoners of war? 8—Which famous explorer camped alone near the South Pole for several months?

of how

the world many

are primary

Answers 1—-Nine, 2-—-Jess Willard. 3—Robert Bridges. 4—~Budapest. J

—The Philadelphia mint does not use a mint mark.

|§—No

Kamerad (Comrade). 8—Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

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