Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1940 — Page 8

SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS (In Utah), 6 —This travel experiences in which at the deeply imbedded might well tled, “Freezing Your Way Across the Continent in July It isn't the fault of the outdoors weather. In fact, the weather has been wonderful It's man’s weather that is ari ing me nuts Some of these trans-conti-nental busses are air-conditioned down to the point of discomiort All night between Pittsburzn Chicago I was utterly shakand miserable I'he same of affairs applied all day Wyoming When we for supper al Rock asked the driver what he thing at He said 60 degrees cold I admit I'm no good as a m alwavs cold, regardless But were cold

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pulled out from a side road without looking. Somebody in front has stopped suddenly without warning.

THE STORY OF

Private drivers seem to think they can do anything, |

and the bus will prevent the accident, which it does. Clay Worthing, a swell driver back on those crooked Pennsylvania roads, told me he got so mad sometimes he thought he'd go crazy. he can’t do anything about it.

But, of course, |

I suppose there aren't any better drivers in Amer- |

ica than the men who wheel these big transcontinental busses. 1t's hard for them to get on in the first place. Usually they are long experience. Then they go to school. buck the “extra board.” sometimes for they have a reguiar run Each driver's run is He over one day, and returns the works 12 gavs in a row, and then has A driver's pay varies according to his mileage ana seniority and so on, but most of them average better than $200 a month. They have a great responsibility, and they canny it well They are friendl will put themselves out never seem to get impatient, reason to

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the

drivers at the rest stops, and work up some kind of!

kidding. For instance, we who had to count the passengers twice, because he'd count wrong the first time.

| It got to be quite a joke, and every stop we'd have

a lot of horseplay about his rotten counting. At his

last stop he said, “Well, folks, this is the last time |

I'l! get to count you,” and everybody felt real bad

about Eve 1 0S long-distance trip these

it r since I rode with the truckers from Denver Angeles a vear ago, my admiration for these drivers has been great, But on are taking on a new stature

to qarivers

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gress to change the law? Is there any member of the House and Senate who would stand up and say that the jaw should these English childre:

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not be changed to admit as many of

as private American citizens

mstitutions are willing to take? 1

single member objected doesn't President humanitarian, do something? Ask Congress, Roosevelt You favor aid to the Allies would change the law within 24 hours. This isn't a matter of sending airplanes or other weapons of war to Europe. We were ready to stretch the law to do that It and slippad under, over and supplies to England and France much to rescue English children slaughter? Why must we stick to a law that will permit only 6572 children to flee the terror over England this month? The law will allow 65372 more to come in next month. What's the difference except that the children may be dead if they have to wait another month?

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Hull has cut the respect. American consuls in England departure of every child. Ordinarily must be sent from the United States child will not become a public charge Now can get action by cable if your banker also cables confirmation that you are financially responsible. Then you can get your child without waiting for the slow mails. In bureaucratic circles this is regarded as a vast concession to the emergencv. You can wire instead of writing. They've managed to stretch the law at much! So evervthing

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

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At about 6 o'clock the President came back again, and Secretary and Mrs. Morgentnau with their daughter Joan and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon. and varimembers of family gathered at the cottage a picnic supper Mr. Bowers sang the guitar by Mr. Vincent Catanese. who has his own orchestra on Staten Island. Mr. Catanese was really remarkable, for he was able to play almost any song that was suggested it someone just hummed the tune. Everyone enjoved Mr. Bowers’ singing. I was sorry that a call from the Secretary of State took the President back to the big house about 8 o'clock and made evervbodyv else go back to work I was moved to a patriotic feeling today by the little ceremony with our neighbors around the flagpole. because it is so significant of what we stand for in this ccuntry. The President of the United States observing this Fourth of Julv with his neighbors in that close companionship which should exist between all of in ti aemocratic nation relationships the totalitarian countries If we talk to each other in honesty and simple faith, our hght will shine forth to the world.

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This is the fifth and last of Indianapolis’ important business growth and its accomplishments,

(Copyright, 1940, by

By Harry Morrison

a series of articles about one of institutions, its beginnings, its

The Indianapolis Times)

OBBS-MERRILL means more to Indianapolis than just a white-facaded building with huge plate glass windows

up on N. Meridian St.

It 1s “bread and butter”

for just about 2000 families.

It is one of the “big” customers of local firms selling

runs into multiple figures. Type-setting, plate-mak

this city's important industy The center all these operations is 720 N. MeriIt was originally a electric

di1s-

dian St. showroom automobiles played and sold. That atmosphere is all but you can still see the spots on the floors where the acid dripped from the batteries The floor where used to stand S enough for a roller rink. The office that he sold millions of school books is a cubbyhole on the On the left 1s a room used conferences. The shipping

1S In th rear

where

were

gone,

th th

e old electrics

is still spacious

AS right

for

department

With the Wind long mezzanine the busine conducted the right manusenrnpt partment where the trade department editors wade through the endless hopes of about 1200 wouldbe authors each year.

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GRAND hike

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In the center 1s the business department and in the rear the busy law library and law book department, At the fice of

left front, is the ofD. Laurance Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill, You couldn't miss Mr. Chambers because he looks like a college president and. paradoxically, always works in his shirtsieeves, his collar unbuttoned and an unlighted cigar clamped between his teeth Each of the company’s three de-

STATE TO DRAW

Institutions to Receive Im-!

provements, New Equipment.

The State Budget Committee will meet next Wednesday and Thursday to dip inio a $482200 Kitty provided by the 1939 Legislature The money will be dished out to the various 3tate institutions new equipment and building im-

provements, but not on as large a scale as the spending program during the 1939-1940 fiscal yea: The Legislature, afte: debate, allowed $1,062,000 for expenses last vear on the plea of State officials that properties needed improvements badly, but legislators, to balance things up for economy's sake, cut fund for the present fiscal less than half a million However, under public for more economy in the Budget Committee only appropriated about 5 per cent of last vear's fund, allowing a sizeable balance to revert back to the State general fund.

HOOSIER EMPLOYEES OF G. M. VISIT FAIR

int

prolonged

year

pressure

Times Sper NEW YORK. July 6 Shightly footsore and sunburned, more than 500 General Motors emplovees from Indianapolis, Anderson, Kokomo and Muncie, prepared to start home tomorrow after a three-day tour of the World Fair. They are part of a group of nearly 8000 G. M. employees from over the nation who participated in General Motors Day at the Fair yesterday. Six «young women employees of General Motors in Indiana modeled futuristic costumes on the program Miss Myrtle Short, 3043 Ruckle St. Indianapolis, modeled a New Year's Eve party dress featuring a “Carmen Miranda” pliofilm skirt and a striking headdress surmounted by a pleated plastic tiara covered tiny light bulbs Miss Betty Craine, Kokomo, was chosen "Miss Futurama” in the cos-

challenged the tume contest. She wore a transpar-

ent beach coat, fluorescent bra and shorts and a plastic lacquered hair

|cap.

paper, binding and shipping materials.

ping—all these functions go on in Indianapolis. Merrill is more than a cultural expression. 1al concerns.

ON NEW FUND

for!

the available! to!

government. |

for,

with

Its freight bill

ing, printing, binding, 3obbsIt is one of

partments is headed by a firm officer. Mr. Chambers handles the trade department. Lowe Berger, vice president of the company, 1s head of the school book department, and Col. Robert L. Moorhead, treasurer, is responsible for the law book department.

o R. CHAMBERS is the motivating force of this whole operation His whole life has been built around books. If you ask his associates what his hobby is they'll reply: “Reading manuscripts.” He likes music likes to gather with people. He likes bridge. But he would never think of doing these things if his wife didn't remind him He rarely takes a vacation. Last vear was the time he was ever to go off | a rest without of manuscripts big enough the entire rear seat an mobile

As a vouth he went to Princeton where he gravitated to Henry van Dyke. the university's leading literary figure. He became van Dyke's personal secrelary. He came to Bobbs-Merrill secretary to Mr. Bobbs, Lecame editor of the {rade department about 20 vears ago, and president four years ago,

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first seen a pile to fill auto-

He retains a scholarly air, holds an honorary degree from Wabash College, never forgets to ask Mr. Berger to bet five dollars for him on the Kentucky Derby—and then alwavs forgets to ask how the race came out.

Hoosier Goings

FROM KOKOMO

comes a sharp complaint about which, we presumed, was pretty close to perfect

ward Wiggam

IRECTLY

Chambel

opposite Mr. office a history of Bobbs-Merrill. square, shelf-lined room. On the shelves are copies of each of the trade books the concern has published. Nobody knows exactly how many books are there. Our guess was 2000. The only other place you can be sure of getting a first edition of a BobhbsMerrill book is the Library of Congres: Take a typical shelf. The first ohne is “The 13th District.” The author was Brand Whitlock. Published in 1902. the inside leat lists Bowen-Merrill as the publisher and the cover says Bobbs-Merrill, It seems that it happened during the time of change-over when nobody was sure what the name of the firm was Then comes “The New Decalogue of Science” bv Albert EdPublished in 1923,

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graphic

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'So | Made 17 Cents’

A Weather Complaint From Kokomo—

the weather,

A man was over=-

neard to remark—or mavbe mutter is the better word—that

“Peas ain't a-ripenin’ in this weather made $1.17.

three hours today and break the winder in my watch cents. I wish it would get warm.” n ” NOW why Connersville 1s instead of “Se-

” WE KNOW Club Savil at spelled that way ville,” the spelling of umpteen others of the same name. It seems that Jim Feigert, a member of the orchestra which plays there and who spells entirely by ear, wrote it out for a society reporter as the club started and the spelling stuck. ”n

the

”n 5 THE MINUTE JUDGE Harold L. Strickland signed a paper that divorced Mrs. Margaret Gorney from her husband, John, in a Hammond court the other ‘day, she pulled her wedding ring from her finger and threw it at him across the courtroom “I won't need that she declared Competent umpires said pitch was low and outside. ”

anymore,” the

”n » In the same way that it's no use to be hungry when all places at the dinner table are filled, so it is useless to get seriously injured

POLK MILK OFFICER TO ADDRESS ROTARY

James Duane Dungan, who started with the Polk Sanitary Milk Co. as a truck driver and now is its secretary-treasurer and managing director, will address the Indianapolis Rotary Club Thursday noon

That'll cost a dollar

in the Claypool Hotel on the subject |

of “Milk.”

CCC’'S SETTING UP EXERCISES 0. K.'D

WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P) — | Director James J. McEntee of Civilian Conservation Corps vesterday approved a course of piysical exercises to he instituted soon at all camps on a compulsory basis The calisthenics will be conducted | for 15 minutes each morning.

the |

I worked only a little morn I stayed just long enough to So I made 17

in Goshen, according to Mrs. Fave Gee. Mrs, Gee warned citizens there to be extra careful hecause every bed in Goshen Hospital, of which she is superintendent, is filled. ” n n ACCORDING, TO WATERLOO police reports, there were two drivers at an intersection at eross purposes. First, according to the men, they both saw green. Then their cars collided in the middle of the intersection and they both “saw red.” Then the deputies came and they both insisted they had seen green. Then the deputies “saw red.” Somehow, they managed to get the thing settled before two other primary colors got involved—namely, black and blue. n a 3 CHARLES BLACK, employee of a chain store at Evansville, took a hero's role in a recent episode involving a woman customer who said she had parked her car and 99-year-old daughter in front of the store, “And now look! They're gone!” All the clerks got busv. calling police and things, but not Charles. He disappeared. Pretty soon he came back with the car and 9-vear-old. The mother was grateful and departed. Charles explained he had guessed she had parked in front of ANOTHER of the company's stores, had gone there, and verified his hunch. The perils of city life! 5 = n IT IS REPORTED without confirmation at Muncie that a certain citizen combined the best features of work and laziness when he decided to paint his house and took all summer to do it. He put up a scaffold wide enough for his easy chair and painted, slowly and at leisure. Some of his neighbors figured out that the white or body paint, was his vocation, and the gray, or trimmings, was his avocation, for the summer,

it created such a stir that many other books of its kind followed. Next is “The Bear Family at Home” by Curtis D. Wilbur and after that “Men Around the Kaiser,” written in 1914 by Frederic William Wile, then a young foreign correspondent. And next to it is “News Is Where You Find It" the memoirs of the same Mr. Wile. The publication date is 1939.

From some of the other shelves titles leap out: ‘The Circular Staircase” by Mary Roberts Rinehart “The House of a Thousand Candles” by Meredith Nicholson: “Judge Priest” by Irvin S. Cobb; and, of course, the Riley editions occupying a place of honor.

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NE author you'll miss. Booth Tarkington never wrote for Bobbs-Merrill, When he first

P. S.C. SCRAP

FT. WAYNE CARS .

By JOE COLLIER

New Castle-Muncie Spur Included.

| | Traction cars that have been running daily between Indianapolis and [F't. Wayne for more than 30 years soon will be making their last round trips. The Public Service Commission has signed their “death warrants” by giving final approval of the Indiana Railroad's petition to abandon the lines that were operated at annual losses ranging to $70,000.

The abandonment order also au-

thorizes the scrapping of the spur line between Muncie and Castle. The order, however, will not become effective until the Indiana Railroad Co. is ready to substitute | regular bus service along the same route served by the traction lines. The scrapping of the lines will leave in operation only one short

New |

1. Bobbs-Merrill is more than a “cultural symbol” |, .., “it means bread and butter.”

2. Type-setting, plate making, printing and binding (as shown here) all are done in Indianapolis,

3. The finished job . that's needed is the reader.

started writing, he got a couple of published in MecClure's Magazine. They were “Monsieur Beaucaire” and “The Gentleman From Indiana.” It natural that when they were issued as books, McClure's would do the job. Mr. Tarkington never changed publishers. He always has said that he thought it detrimental for an author to have the bulk of his work done by one publisher and a few outside, He and Mr. Chambers are warm friends. The two families see much of each other. Mr, Chambers

stories

was

is a great admirer of Mr, Tarkington and he makes no secret of his desire to publish at least one of the Tarkington books—some day, somehow, OME people talk a great deal

- S about the “soul” of a publish= Ing house, The nearest Mr. Cham-=-bers will come to it is to say simply that a publisher has a trust similar to that of a profes= sional man.

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“We are constantly in the position of trustee for the work of an author,” he says. “We are called upon to give him the benefit of our experience and, in many cases, to help him with his work. If we are unsuccessful in this, we are not good publishers. Mr. Chambers saw the rise of Bobbs-Merrill as the publisher for outstanding Indiana authors. He deplores the present lack of Hoosier writers, savs he doesn't know the reason, hopes still for the miracle that will put Indiana back to the front again as ‘“the” literary state,

”

THE END

‘SCHULTE TO MANAGE ICE SKATING RINK

Ray H. Schulte will Iceland, Inc, new indoor ice= skating rink scheduled to open at 928 N. Pennsylvania St. late in Sep= tember Construction on the 75x100-foot frink will begin next month, Mr, [Schulte said, under provisions of a five-year lease. The interior will be {in blue and silver with tables and chairs on terraces on either side ¢? the ice. The building will accome modate 1200 spectators at special events which will include .igure (skating, public skating and speed "competitions. Mr. Schulte has been instructor rat the Omaha, Neb., Country Club and the Seattle, Wash. Figura Skating Club.

be manager

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The average milk contains 67 per cent, 77 per cent or 87 per cent water? 2—Which two continents does the Equator cross? 3—Is steam visible?

line—between Indianapolis and Sey- 4—What Greek word is commonly

mour-—the last of what once was the

largest interurban system in the]

|country. This line is operated by the Indiana Railroad for the Public Service Co. of Indiana which has a |999-year lease on the tracks. It is {expected that arrangements will made to scrap this line within a year. The Indiana Railroad has been in |receivership for several years. Bow{man Elder is the receiver.

MOORE WI

LL TEACH

PLAYGROUND SAFETY | pin

Salety education in parks and playgrounds will be the concern ot Lieut. Edward ¥F. Moore from now lon, | Lieut. Moore, a former sergeant lin charge of adult satety education, was transterred to the traftic and accident prevention bureau irom the detective division Lieut. Roscoe Jordan, transterred from the unitorm division, replaces Lieut. Moore in the detective di- [ vision. 3500 TO ATTEND PICNIC The third annual Martin County

Homecoming picnic will be held to-|

morrow at State Forest Park, tour imiles east of Shoals A crowd of Inearly 3500 is expected to attend,

used as an exclamation, meane ing “I have found it?” 5—What is the name of the Negro college founded by Mary McLeod Bethune? 6—Are Canadians required to have passports to visit the United States? T7—Who composed Mocking-Bird?” 8—What is the name for the long,

“Listen to the

narrow band or scarf, worn by

priests and Episcopal ministers

| during services?

Answers seven. 2—South America and Africa. 3—No. 4—Eureka. 5—Bethune-Cookman College. 6—Yes. T—Septimus Winner thorne’), g—=Stole.

(“Alice Hawe

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