Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1940 — Page 15

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940

The

Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—Although I saw the Golden Gate International Exposition a number of times last vear, there is something about it vou ean't stay away from. So here we are again, for year No, 2. The thing is better than it was last year. It's gaver, livelier, prettier. And cheaper to attend. World Fairs alwavs seem to be that way. Which gives me an idea: Let's form a corporation to handle all big Fairs and Expositions of the future, and operate on the basic principle of having no year at all, but start right off on the second vear. It looks to me like an easy way to riches Last year's Exposition came out badly in the hole. But they've reorganized it financially and if things Keep on going as they are the Exposition will pay off last vear's debts and come out with a profit vervbody flatly denies that it will run a third year T'here's always a big crowd around the sergeant vho demonstrates the Army's new Garand rifle. He 1S a nice little ungrammatical speech, about how he rifle has criticized for being complicated when it really isn't complicated at all Just watch,” he says, and proceeds to take out enough parts to build a linotype 3illv Rose's “"Aquacade” is out No. 1 thing at the Fair I saw it last year in New York the best shows ever put on

first

been

here this vear, and s the and consider it » of So I saw it again night

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th me

neiseo friend of ours named Julia Chase We sat right in the front row, with practically on the rim of the pool middle of the show a photographer

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Our Town

FATHER NEVER went out of his way to say anyreligious people. Neither did he ever anvthing mean about them

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WASHINGTON, July 11.-—In yee asking 25 000.000.000

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defense President to restate his attiIn a way that eviground from under call him an “interand a “"warmonger.’ Roosevelt policy

message

his new iol or more, seized the the wai He did this $ ra the who

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1S latest We will not send our men part in European war “We will repel aggression United States or the Hemisphere Not a word ald to the Allies” or short of wai assistto nations resisting aggres-

1st the was said

or nce is perhaps the most significant fact € Only of the message was ith details of the defense program. Much given over to setting the RooseMr. Roosevelt paraphrased sevmessages to remind Congress that * warned of threatening danger and defense

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Change Emphasis

viewed these earlier messages at such i actions to discourage noticeable. For instance he had told Congress in about the new threats of omitted to recall the message that “there are but stronger and more

sion regarding geressors abroad Mr. Roosevelt 1essage of 1939 aggression ut he

1 had made In that

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Vy Day

LAKESIDE, O., Wednesday. — Yesterday K to Hyde Park from New York City. A oup « ! came to tea with me at 4 clock to discuss tne possibilities of a documentary to the progress made by women in the last hundred vears. In a film of this Kind, there are great possibilities to show what problems the womof the past had to meet and to point to the development of this country. Women do so much t the spirit of a nation will be particularly interthe contribution our various racial the formation of the a on which America is built After dinner, we motored hack New York City to take the night train for Ohio, and Lakeside. preparing to give a lecture

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was very interested in the “declaration conscription” issued by a group of 240 eduin veste papers. It seems to me that learned people who are excited about conseripind tie it ap with military training alone. miss > point of the situation we face today. The AmerYouth Congress and th

raay s

1ese educators seem to me be discussin Id of a year ago, not the

! as it is A year ago there was plenty of time to talk over

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came up and whispered, "Do you mind if I take a picture of you and Mrs. Pyle?” So Julia blushed and I snickered and the photographer snapped—and

Indianapo By Ernie pie They Knew Will

“That Girl” in faraway Santa Fe, N. M. probably |

stirred restlessly in her contemplations. I don’t know

what Mr. Chase probably did.

The Aquacade is just like last year's in New York. | Morton Downey sings and Johnny Weissmuller swims |

and diving The rest of the cast is all Californian, including the West Coast equivalent of Eleanor Holm. She is a beauty named Esther Williams, and they introduce her as the most beautiful aquatic star in the world «I wonder how Eleanor likes that?). I see in the papers she's about to be married, doggonit I'he Expositions own big spectacle is the Cavalcade. It's tremendously big, and held outdoors, and before the season is over will probably pull up even | with the Aquacade. { Last year it was a pageant of the West. This year | it is a history of America. It has everything in it from Christopher Columbus to Patrick Henry to Git | Along Little Dogie. n n on

[t's Patriotic and Very American It is patriotic and very American, and the world | situation being what it is, it does indeed make a tingle or two run up vour backbone The Cavalcade is, in fact, a marvelous thermometer |

of what We the People are thinking. Director Red! Vollman follows the daily papers like a hawk, and al- | most nightly he has to make changes in the Cavalcade | to conform to public sentiment For instance. he had to cut out George Washing- | tons isolationist speech! Also, on the night I attended, the Monroe Doctrine speech seemed to touch a sensitive spot in the audience, and I wouldn't be surpisea if it's gone by the time you read this. Poor Monroe. Poor Doctrine.

By Anton Scherrer

were performed by Monseigneur Guilaume Baltazar de Grandville, a wise old priest whom Napoleon often consulted. Then came Father's story of the priest’s| elaborate education. I kept count, I remember, and as near as I recall it took him more than 15 years to] get through school Soon as he was ordained a priest, he took a notion | to come to America In 1836, when he was 21, he offered his services to the Rt. Rev. Simon Gabriel de] Brute, the first bishop of Indiana, and in 1839 he | actually arrived. He spent the next 13 years in Perry County where he founded the town of Leopold and erected two stone and three wooden churches. From there he moved to Ft. Wayne and stayed a year—long enough to build a church and a parsonage. His next mission was Jeffersonville and the Knobs where, during a period of four years, he completed a church, enlarged one, and bought the lot for still another one. | Whenever he saw a vacant lot, he had an urge to build a church

A Cross for the Top of the Church

when he was 42 vears old, he settled in Indianapolis and became pastor of St. John's Church the one on Georgia St. at the time. Almost the first thing he did was to put a cross on top of his church, | first of kind anvwhere around here The following spring he erected St. John's Academy | where a school was opened by the Sisters of Providence. After that he built a parsonage. All these] buildings are still standing in the block bounded by | Capitol Ave. and Maryland and Georgia Sts Ten vears later he began building the present John's Church It took him 10 vears to do it cost over $100,000. Nothing as big had ever (ried around here The priest, whose story Father was telling me, was, of course, the Rev, John Francis August de Bessonies, | a member the French nobility He never used the de” in Indianapolis. He said his grandfather thought | it prudent to drop it after the French Revolution Shortly after I saw the priest enter the house next door I began reading “A Tale of Two Cities.” and all through the book. up till the very last chapter, it] seemed that Father Bessonies was looking over my | shoulder

In 1857

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By Raymond Clapper

effective than mere words aggressors It was out of that famous passage. completely ig-| nored in the new message, that the case was built for|

changing the Neutrality Act to permit shipment of] arms to the Allies. Out of that passage grew the whole structure of debate over aid to the Allies. Mr} Roosevelt reminded Congress how he had correctly! foreseen the present dangers, but by reading this message and forgetting what has gone before. one would never suspect that he had tried to do anything about it except to arm the United States to the teeth | I'wo circumstances may explain this change of| emphasis, One is that the aggressors have won the war. ex-| cept for England, and that it is too late to do much! more for her. n n o

Inside the G. O. P. Boundaries

The other circumstance is that the Presidential campaign may be having its effect. Republicans] are trying to hang an interventionist, war-mongering tag on the Administration. Senate debate over the confirmations of Henry Stimson as Secretary of War and Frank Knox as Secretary of the Navy brought! forth these charges anew, particularly from Demo-| cratic isolationists. | None of this is to suggest that Mr. Roosevelt's defense request was inspired by these considerations But it appears as if he took the occasion to fry some other fish by phrasing a document that can be used | as a source text in answering isolationist critics This message puts Mr. Roosevelt well inside the boundaries laid down by the Republicans in their platform. Republicans declared their opposition “to involving this nation in foreign war.” Mr. Roosevelt makes it more specific when he says “he will not send our men to take part in European wars.” |

that might be used against]

1 By Eleanor Roosevelt whether it was necessary for people tol serve their country by developing themselves physically, by acquiring certain mechanical skills. and even | by learting how to be soldiers if necessary. Above all, | there was plenty of time to discuss what democracy meant to us and what we were willing to give in the way of service. Today that time is lacking The quicker we learn to discipline ourselves: acquire me- | chanical skills; to organize ourselves for real use in| our communities. the better for us Above all, we should accept the fact that democ-| racy requires service from each and everv one of us.| not just from those who happen to want to volunteer. | People say this can be done voluntarily and all thev| oppose 1s compulsory serv.ce. Here again. I would say let us be realistic. We know human nature well enough | to know that even the best of us, unless we have to! do a thing, will try to get out of it now and then, if it is not quite convenient, We think the other fellow needs to give service— and we will, too, some other time, but we need not do it now, for we are always prepared to serve if the need arises in the future. Educators know human nature and they realize that real democracy is only achieved when everyone has to do something. Surely the value of our suffrage in a democracy is well proved, yet look at how many people find it inconvenient to vote, The test of democracy is before us today. Can we face the situation realistically, and voluntarily vote for ourselves the disciplines which are needed to make us able to meet the force of totalitarian governments?

indefinitely

the same champions do their marvelous high-!

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lis Times kie When...

I—Clyde Owen of the Elwood Police Department said that if the G. 0. P. Presidential nominee has any scars on his shins, “I put ‘em there when we plaved shinney in the allevs."

2—NMrs. F. P. Van

Fine remembers the time voung Willkie warned

her father about “accusing innocent people.” J—Mrs. Rose Closz Barnett saw the Willkies throw dishes during

friendly arguments, I—Capt. J. N. Newsum, former

Elwood Police Chief, now a shoe-

maker, gave Mr. Willkie instruction for his army entrance examina-

tions.

S5—Mrs, Eunice Gregg, a classmate, was one of the few who bested

Mr. Willkie in debate.

6—FElmer Cox set up a tent in his backyard for voung Wiilkie and

his pals,

i—Tourists from all parts of the country are viewing the fireplace

im Wendell Willkie's bovhood home,

wood school teacher who now lives their grandson, Llovd Jacklin,

Here are Harley Ashton, an Elin the home: his wife, Hazel, and

Below is Wendell Willkie's ‘ole swimmin’ hole, still a favorite spot

with Elwood youngsters.

Times

ELLWOOD, Ind., July

GEORGE DAVIS

Special

11..—Independent,

Writer

self-reliant

personality might be expected to develop naturally in the household where Wendell Willkie, Republican candidate for President, grew up in Elwood.

Frank Wilikie, an uncle, nephews were encouraged to start off alone in summer to

wherever they wished 20, returning in time for in September. Wendell Willkie to California one Fred to Kansas. Robert another brother, reached before turning back to El-

work their way

school

worked his way summer Willkie Texas wood Wendell Willkie's various jobs on these trips included work in wheat fields Once he was a barker for a tent lodging house, carrving some of the lodgers in from the street on his shoulder, like sacks of grain. That was in a boom vear at Aberdeen, 8 D “My brother believed all that was good experience.’ the uncle savs. “But he was careful to see that wandering did not become a habit.” ” n ” Mr ana

Willkie

vegetable

SEVERAL mn a

summers worked fruit store run by Sam Manghelli. That fruit dealer rates as the first to propose Wendell Willkie for President

C. OF C. MAPS FLEET CONTEST

Enrollment for 1940-41 Set For Sept. 1; Scher Is Director.

The 1940-41 Interfleet Safety Contest, widened In former vears, will enroll participants Sept. 1 under the sponsorship of the Indianapolic Chamber of Commerce

scope over

en ———

long a mechanic, says his

bov was “You do that good,” his emplover said, ‘someday maybe vou'll be President of the United States.” Abe Levi, who still runs a scrapiron yard, was another employer of the youthful Willkie, hiring him to pick wire nails from sweepings of a box factory. Years later Abe Levi gave Willkie his first case when the youth returned from law school to join his parents in the firm of Willkie & Willkie. The Herman in years when

The sorting potatoes

willkie household. some of the six children were in high school, was the perennial wonder of most other women in the neighborhood. ”n n ” A COAL RANGE basement, with a big bare kitchen

stood in the

table I'wo

near it or three cook their own waiting for the when they found interesting to do

children might dinner without others. They ate nothing more

Hoosier Goings

EGGSPOSED

Plymouth Hen Does Double Duty; Mr. Dant Loses Insomnia, $50 Every County Benefits From By JOE COLLIER i

Preliminary plans for the contest were made vesterdav at a of the Chamber's subcommittee safety with the Safety Board at City Hall | The Chamber has taken over the] sponsorship at the request of the Lions Club, which guided the 193940 competition Jerry Scuer of the Kroger Grocery & Bakery Co. is chairman of the subcommittee directing the con= test and Chief Morrissey is vice chairman. Erwin A. Ward is chairman of the Chamber committee Members of the Chamber of Commerce comirittee directing the contest are C. C. Cox, F. N. Daniel. Ross Davis, Henry L. Dithmer Jr.. Elbert! Glass, George Hilgemeier Jr., Arthur P. Holt, George Ihnat, Robert D. Johnson, Tom Joyce, Robert Kirby, Wallace O. Lee, Walter Mercer, Murray H. Morris, Thomas F. Ruckelshaus, A. K. Scheidenhelm, Carl V. Spickelmier, Henry Solomon. Frank Stehlin, Ira C. Strohm, Paul T. Sullivan, Alex Taggart Jr.. F. E. Thornburg, W. H. Trimble, Erwin A. Ward and F. Roe Weise. FRENCH PAINTER DIES VICHY, France, July 11 (U.P). —| Edouard Vuillard, 72, an outstanding | French painter, died of heart disease at La Baule June 21, it was disclosed today.

meeting | on|

AN UNIDENTIFIED WHITE Leghorn near Plymouth this week produced a one-hen egg surplus. Also. is was a one-egg egg surplus . Miller's across an around

Miller of

Sunday morning Mr great astonisnment, came in circumference the short way The Millers kept the egg for a while and then, with almost as much care as the police use when they think thev have discovered a bomb. broke it vesterday. It contained a large volk, which is par for an But it also contained a complete with shell egg was about normal probably was what the had in mind

uo n n Mr. Thomas Dant’s longstanding insomnia is not so good these days, after having been quite a bit better. Mr. Dant is a resident of Crown Point and readily confessed to Gary police that it had been many many moons since he had enjoyed anything like narmal slumber, That is, until he tried an experiment in Gary. He picked out the noisest corner — Fifth and Broadway—and stretched out on an auto running board in broad daylight. There, caressed by the lullaby of clanging street cars, honking autos, and grinding gears, he slept peacefully for a very considerable time. So long, he told police ruefully after he awakened, that a pickpocket searched his clothing and took $10 in cash and a $40 wrist watch, Dr. Dant remarked to police that it had been so long since he had slept he had forgotten the perils of sleep. He borrowed a nickle for a cup of black coffee.

smaller egg I'he little and originally

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hen

SECOND SECTION

If a discussion developed, or a book was waiting to be read, the dishes would remain unwashed Perhaps they were intellectuals. But, that word wasn't usual in Elwood. Neighbors who didn't understand this family called them the crazy Willkies Mrs. Rose Closz Barnett, a frequent guest at the Willkie home in those days, remembers luncheon discussions which ended in the boys throwing dishes at one another. She says she wasn't much startled. She knew so well the ways of the turbulent Will=Kies “So one

many dishes were broken

at of these luncheon discus-

hen belonging to Harvey

to her inches

daughter Frances, that measured eight

little eRe ” n 3

POLITICAL

the Park

life of Matter monkey mountain at Marion has at one citizen to She wrote to a newspaper saying that there is a king monkey who is ruling the mountain viciously. This king, she wrote, is Killing little monkeys and making life miserable for almost all the others. Many of the other monkeys carry scars of wounds inflicted by the vicious king, she wrote. It's so bad that the monkeys are afraid to even perform for the human visitors. The paper called the Park Board and asked how come? The Park Board seemed quite surprised over the charges, turned and conferred « briefly with the staff monkey specialist, and said conditions, on the contrary are “fine.”

THE

monkeys the

moved least

take pen in hand

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THERE'S EVERY reason to believe that a million of gnat-sized insects, as yet unidentified, that pushed through Bloomington the other morning were bent on a fool's errand. Although the day was hot, they didn’t stop for rest. And although the Weather Man promises the hottest weather of the summer is nearly upon us, they were southbound.

were prominent. The teacher of his Sunday School class did not appear one Sunday. “All right,” the youth volunteered, “I'll take the class myself.” Wendell Willkie, who has been a Democrat and a Republican, left, the Methodist Church to join the Episcopal Church in a little frame building That church was ate tended hy a tall, handsome, black= haired girl named Gwyneth Harry. Schoolmates thought they were engaged She married in Chicago Wendell Willkie’s the Methodist Church, in which their names appear on a stained glass window, and joined a Presbyterian Church in Elwood.

parents left

un n ” WENDELL Willkie in Elwood that remembered by his

dance

learned to detail isn't schoolmates The

school

asn't athletics

nominee w prominent

in although he does appear in the back row of = group photograph of a high school

foothall team. Argument inter-

ested him much more than games when he was a high school stu=dent, Mrs. Eunice Gregg was a class= mate who likes to remember that she was on a debating team which won from a team including Wendell Willkie, : Among her memories is a date SEEN with Wendell Willkie. He took her on a high school hav-ride to the Proctor farm, now the home of another classmate, J. Roscoe Proctor, Miss Ethel Kohlmorgan, tall and slim, another classmate of Wendell Willkie, stayed after school to play piano for choruses at rehearsals. She remembers that when she left late she often found him arguing some academic ques= tion with his instructors. “How they liked it!” she recalls. “T always knew he would be trying for the best he could attain. But none of us ever guessed he would try to be President of the United States.’

sions,” she says, “they must have

had to buy a new set.” on n ”

PHILIP HAMM the neighborhood ter, Mrs. F. P. Van Tine, tells about the day a baseball crashed through her father's parlor window. He ran out and accused Master Wendell. “I'm going home and read up in my father's law books,” that boy retorted. “We'll see what can be done when an innocent person has been wrongly accused Wendell Willkie was in high school when he joined the Methodist Church in which his parents

in the His daugh-

lived

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Elwood to Get

KIWANIS HELPS 0 Get "6000 CRIPPLES Commitee Aid

—A representative of the Repub lican National Committee will arrive in Elwood shortly to assist in planning for the formal acceptance speech of Wendell L. Willkie, G. O. P. Presidential nominee. County Chairman Ray Gibbens said today that National Chairman Joseph W. Martin had advised him that Mr, Willkie will make his speech sometime be-

Wing Endowed at Riley With Clubs’ Fund.

More than 6000 crippled children] |have received treatment in the Ki- | wanis unit of Riley Hospital, J. B.| tween Aug. 1 and 7. The definite

: : (-day w ; . oneliMartin, administrator, told the 0 VI ie tower he Sma | os : s cratic Nationa | Kiwanis Club yesterday.

Convention. Since the wing was constructed |= |and endowed with funds raised oy T EST YO U R (the Kiwanis Clubs of Indiana, Mr. ; ‘Martin said every county KNOWLEDGE |state had been benefited.

| ‘Total admissions to Riley Hospital | tor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1—Name the first President of the [Mr. Martin said, were 3755, includ- United States who refused a ing many types of sickness Total | third term? admissions to the Kiwanis unit for |2—In which city was the U, 8. Cone {the same period were 8909, all of | stitution signed? {them crippled children. (3—With which branch of journalism Members of the club made a tour| is Rollin Kirby associated? of the hospital. 4—What is the full name of Lloyd George? |5—The minimum age for a Repre-

WILLKIE GETS 3 NEW | sentative in Congress is 21, 25 or SUITS FOR CAMPAIGN ~~

Answers NEW YORK, July 11 (U. P)—|,~potée Tieshington. Wendell L. Willkie, Republican|s_ cartooning. candidate for President, will be able|4—David Lloyd George. to do his campaigning in new suits, | 5—25. three of which have just been delivered by his tailor, The tailor, Vincent Pinto, said one of the suits was a double-breasted, striped bluish-gray, while the others were single-breasted, dark gray and bluish-gray. Mr. Pinto said Mr. Willkie was easy to fit, not very fussy about his clothes and was measured in his office while giving orders to secretaries. He pays about $125 a suit.

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