Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1940 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

INGLEWOOD California

Cal, July 15.-—There is 8 man here Paige Cavanaugh—who could be sent just done house that didn’t belong to him 1 have a great mind to re-

him to the Vigilantes. 1 except that I broke In

jail for what he has

He broke into a stayed all night in it port would, 100 This Mr, Cavanaugh is a fine fellow I knew a long time ago when we were young and hopeful back in Indiana. He now lives down in Southern California. Never loath to put my friends out, 1 suggested by letter that he drive up to San Francisco and get me. It's only 450 miles, and a little run like that would do him good. So he came up, and it was our plan to leave San Francisco late the next afternoon. drive 50 miles south to Sunnyvale, and there spend the night with another old chum of our Indiana days, Joe Whitehead. Well, the plan went through all right, except that when we got to Sunnyvale we found the Whiteheads had gone away on vacation, wouldn't be back for two weeks, and the house was locked up tighter than a arum But Mr. Cavanaugh had his head set on visiting {he Whiteheads whether they were home or not. So he nosed around till he found a little high window about a foot square, unlocked n n

Find the Larder Licked Clean

Then he went to a neighbor and borrowed a stepladder. and climbed up and wiggled through that winWhile this was going on I stood out on the sidewhistling Yankee Doodle, just to make everyseem natural in case any suspicious people came

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he Whiteheads had licked the larder clean before <0 we had to go out for dinner. But we made at home in the evening, walked around the

Our Town

HELVEY girl babies than any

thinking other

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early Indianapolis the task of tagging his own prognamed them Bathsheba, Vine Tantrabogus And there's telling what he might have done in the way of boys’ names had he had the luck to have some of his own He was denied this privilege and, mavbe, it was just as well because, to beat what Indianapo; lis had in the way of boys’ names at the time, Mr. Helvey would have been pushed to the limit to think up something better than Azel, Obed, Zadoc, Eliakim. Zenhus, Bazil, Zimri, Absalom and Athanasius, all of which were rather ordinary names then Of course this doesn’t mean that early Indiananolis didn't have its share of names like John and k and Henry It did, of course, but it didn't {hem in the overwhelming ratio that it has toWhich. if vou haven't already guessed it, is the of today's piece »

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sett] 1S did l As near as I can figure out, it's just another example of the arithmetical rule 1 learned at School 6 if vou add something to what you already have mavbe. vou'll have something more than what started with Anviay. it's amazing how the Johns add up And all so simple when you dig into it the wav I have rn that the Johns in Indianapolis include not 1 » of American birth, but all the Ttalians who fe as little Giovannis; all the Russians who

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Washington

CHICAGO, July 15.—The panicky situation of the Administration as the Democratic National Convention down to work tells forcibly how badly President Roosevelt has played his cards He has his own renomination in the bag all right But he and his lieutenants are having very real trouble in persuading Secretary of State Hull to go on the ticket as Vice Presidential candidate and in pursuading James A. Farley to stay on as National Chairman to manage the campaign. 1 vield to no one in respect for Mr. Roosevelt's political skill. Yet in this situation he seems to have made all the wrong plays possible. The best confirmation of that fact is the present refusal of Hull and Farley to go into this campaign and the additional circums<tance that the Administration is so frantically trying to persuade them to change their minds and go along

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No Choice for Party First. Mr. Roosevelt has fundamentally misplayved the third-term maneuver. Months ago he should have stated publicly his willingness to retire. Coolidge did that in his “choose” statement. That gave the part) the choice of taking him again or going to someone else. 1f Mr. Roosevelt had done something of the came kind. he would have given the Democratic Party opportunity to make a choice. The choice undoubtwould have been that Mr. Roosevelt should run But it would have been a choice by the party That is the important thing Bv his silence, Mr. Roosevelt has not permitted e party to make a choice. It has had to take him

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My Day

CHAUTAUQUA, O., Sunday.—Here it Sunday morning and are speeding through peaceful, pleasant American countryside. We passed a village a few minutes ago with people going to church, and now a golf course dotted with players. Along a country road, several young people on bicycles with packs strapped on the handlebars, are off, I im* agine, for a day's picnic and swim in some clear pool. Thank God, these things can still be for us. Yesterday I had a ride and swim in the morning, and Mrs. Florence Kerr, head of the women's and professional projects in WPA, brought her regional area supervisors for a picnic lunch. We sat in the sun on the lawn and I heard reports of the work being carried on in different parts of the coun‘rv, We discussed at some length the relationship of much of the training which is going on under WPA to the emergency situation created by the need for national defense 1 have recently been looking over a pamphlet called “If War Comes, M.—— Day Plan, What Your Government Plans for You,” by Donald Edward Keyhoe. It is very interesting, though he War De-

By Ernie Pyle | ashes on the floor, layed the ra-

house with our shoes off, threw mixed up Joe's back copics ol Fortune, p dio real loud and read all of his letters We ouch chose a bedroom, and had a mighty fine sleep. In the morning we made the beds, left a couple of sarcastic notes on the dining room table, took a last look around to see if we had forgotten anything, sot {he lock and closed the door from the outside. We got in the car and Cavanaugh started fishing in his pockets, and sort of a weird look came over his face. and 1 knew the worst, He had locked the car keys inside the house. So we had to steal the step-ladder and go all through the house-breaking process once more. We finally got out of town, doubled around through Los Gatos, stapned for a quick breakfast in San Jose, and were well on our way down the coast before the militia arrived. I'll bet Whitehead will cuss when he gets home. AL Paso Robles we swung east down into the San Juaquin valley and into the flat, hot desert. It got hot, It pot hotter. It got hot as the well-known hinges. It got so hot I came very close to being comfortable. » n

Drives 115 Miles in Sock Feet

At McKittrick, in the oil fields, we stopped for a glass of milk, and it was my turn to drive. It was SO hot by that time that I took off my shoes, and drove | 115 miles in my sock feet! { At 4:20 we got to San Fernando, just north of Holly | wood. So we drove up to the big, beautiful Veterans Hospital on the hill, to see our old friend Sunset Cox Some of vou may remember a column about him last fall He is the man who spent 40 years in China, and was carried back last summer with T. B. At 67 he has so much energy and curiosity and enthusiasm that he's about to drive the doctors nuts | Well. Sunset's doing fine. He's up to 110 pounds now. He hasn't lost a dram of his energy. He leaps all over the room like a flea. I don’t think he even has time to sleep. His room is stacked with magazines, papers, elip- | pings, books. They finally let him have his typewriter] yesterday for the first time. I'll bet the letters will fly now,

By Anton Scherrer

ctarted as Tvans: all the Spaniards originally bap-| tized Juan: and all the Czecks, Poles and Dutch who changed their name from Jans to John The German immigrants who came to Indianapolis something like a hundred years ago Were the first to Americanize their names. With the result that the oldest son of every Johann became a John, Franz was turned into Frank; Heinrich became Henry; and Wilhelm. William. And if vou don't believe it, examine the new telephone directory which is due to arrive in a few days nN

Three Robust Daughters

Karl. for some strange reason, was the exception to the rule. ORfhand you'd suppose that Karl would be turned into Charles, but it wasn't, Tt was changed to Carl. a form of spelling practically unknown outside of America. Certainly, it isn't common in Germany Even more amazing is the fact that the spelling of Carl was adopted by Indianapolis families without & drop of German blood coursing through their veins. | I wouldn't know why. Which brings me back to Bathsheba, Vine and Tantrabogus, the three robust daughters of Mr. Helvey. Their sex may have disappointed their dad in the beginning, but the shock didn’t last long. When they grew up, there wasn't a thing those girls couldn't | do. The fact of the matter is they made monkeys of the pioneers of Indianapolis. On one occasion, for instance, Bathsheba wrestled | Fliakim Harding and beat him two falls out of three. | That was back in 1830. ‘Liakim weighed 186 pounds in his bare feet that day, and had a toe hold that had all the men guessing After 'Liakim was licked, he tried his level best to match Uriah Carson against Bash, but Uriah always had a previous engagement, nothwithstanding the fact that Uriah was generally credited with having thrown | Jim Corbaley's bull once While T was at it, IT thought T might as well clear | up not only the metamorphosis of foreign names around here. but also the fallacy that the athletic |

girl is a modern manifestation, : | That is one thing that has rankled Jim Farley Tt undoubtedly has caused enervation in the party This convention lacks pep and fighting enthusiasm Second, the President and the New Dealers have | jgnored Chairman Farley, high-hatted him, taken | political matters out ¢f his hands, and tried to run| the show without him. He has not been ih com-| munication with Mr. Roosevelt for a whole week. He is on the outside looking in. Still, the President and his intimates realize that Farley is the best man to] manage the campaign and now they are begging him to stay on—Mr. Roosevelt acting through spokesmen. Such handling of such an essential man as Farley | seems incredible stupidity. Yet it has happened.

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By Raymond Clapper

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Mr. Hull Suspicious

Third. Secretary Hull has been so mishandled, has been so often short-circuited around the State De- | partment, has been so uncertain of President Roose- | velt’s support of him, that he turis up now highly | suspicious and feeling undoubtedly that an attempt) is being made to get him out of the State Department by promoting him upstairs | President Roosevelt has been a great popular leader in this period. He has held democracy gether in America But he also has serious defects and they have led | him into this incredible bungling of the third-term adalr | No doubt he had expected that the Republicans | would nominate a weak pushover like Taft or Dewey. | But the unexpected nomination of Willkie presents | something entirely different, as everyone inside the party from top to bottom knows. Mr Roosevelt gambled on a weak opposition and missed. Perhaps it would have been better if Mr. Roosevolt had not been such a masterful politician. Then he would have been less self-confident and he might | have taken the sound advice which others offered | him months ago.

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By Eleanor Reopen

partment says nothing of the kind has been worked, out in such detail and, so far as they are concerned, |

Majority Ignores

Only 1 in 4 Read G. O. P. Pledges

By Dr. George Gallup

American Institute Opinion RINCTON, N. J; July 15.—One of the most ancient and honorable traditions in U. S. politics 1s the election-year party platform. Working in Philadelphia’s convention hall last month the Republicans spun out a 4000 word document setting forth their charges against the New Deal and their pledges for the future. This week the Democrats repeat the ceremony, with modifications, in Chicago. Political scientists and politicians themselves have long debated the value and uses of party platforms, but never before, probably, have voters in all parts of the United States been given an opportunity to say what they think of such platforms Just such an opportunity fis provided today inh a nation-wide survey conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion, in which rank-and-file voters throughout the country have been asked: “Do vou think many voters pay attention to political

platforms today?” and other questions.

Director, of Publis

" S the Democrats buckle down to their job of composition, the Institute's study shows that: 1. Only one voter in four (26%) claims to have read even a part of the Republican platform adopted at Philadelphia last month, 2. Even fewer voters—approximately one in every eight--says he can remember anything in the Republican platform which particularly appealed to him.

And finally, only one person in four (27%) says he thinks voters in general pay much attention to the party platforms, Those reached in the Institute survey were asked “Do you think many voters pay attention to political platforms today?” The actual vote was YES NO

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NE great purpose of political party platforms, in American political history, has been to give party workers throughout the nation a consistent set of arguments to be used in the campaign Otherwise party efforts would inevitably be tangled in contradictions—from state to state and district to district. Most political observers agree that the platforms still serve this purpose acceptably

12 STATE TOWNS WITHOUT POWER

Fire Levels Markland Dam Plant; Area to Be Dark For 48 Hours.

VEVAY, Ind, July Subscribers in 12 small Indiana. towns and nearby territory ‘were | without electric service today fol- | lowing a $75,000 fire at the Southern!

Indiana Light & Power Corp. plant at the Markland Dam on the Ohio River. Officials said shooting flames from the exhaust of one of the power plant machines caused the fire which destroyed the entire unit They estimated that the area, in-| cluding about 836 subscribers, would be without light and power for 48 hours. The company is attempting to get its emergency facilities in operation. The Enterprise Fire Department answered the alarm but the plant was leveled nearly to the ground before it arrived Towns affected bv the conflagration were Moorefield, Patriot, Bennington, Bast Enterprise. Markland Aberdeen, Brooksburg, Closs Plains, Friendship. Florence, Pleasant and Center Square

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the whole thing is still in the realm of discussion. |

My main objection to this plan is that, ‘while the publication ot such a pian may be of value in arousing the United States to the realization of the possibility | of some day having to defend its own shores, the plan does not mnake clear that it is too late to undertake such mobilization when there is an attack. Mobilization, if it is going to have any different] effect. must be perfected long before ‘there is a war in which we can take any part. Our only hope of keeping the peace which we so prize, is to prove, before there is any involvement in war, that we are a unified nation for defense, mobilized that each and every one of us know what job to do, how and where to do it. Therein lies the one hope for peace. In the evening a party of us went up for dinner {o the Norrie Park Point Inn Restaurant. The sunset and glow reflected itself on the water. It was a beautiful and calm sight. We sat out on the terrace and someone pointed up in the air when an airplane was flying down the river, apparently almost touching the moon. | A man, in what looked like w Tyrolese costume played his accordion. Some of the songs 1 have heard in European countries in happier days. For a moment I almost thought we were looking at some

less familiar scene than the Hudson River which I “have known since childhood |

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In the 1. 0. 0. ¥. Hall, second floor of the building ville, 43 Jehovah's Witnesses—14 meh and 29 wom rather than cothe down, salute the American citizens wil ‘night curiously waiting

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But the Institute indicates that if political leaders have thought their party platforms actually had a major influence on the voting public itself, they are probably mistaken The comments of those reached in the survey sum up to this “Party platforms need be taken with a large grain of salt

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changing the time the platform is written and election dav. While the majority declared that platform-drafting should still rest with the national conventions, one person in every three (33 said they thought the platform should be drawn up by the Presidential nominee himself, as the man who will be most obliged to carry out the party's pledges if elected It is interesting to recall in this connection that, although the Republican Party in 1936 was able to argue that President Roosevelt had not adhered to some of the most important planks in the 1932 Democratic platform, nevertheless the voters gave Mr. Roosevelt a tremendous indorsement in the subsequent Presidential election

STRIKE THREATS END IN ALUMINUM PLANTS

PITTSBURGH 15 (U.P) Strike threats to the aluminum industry vitally important to national defense, were dispersed today with | C. 1. O. union members Aluminum Company

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by the company to walkout of 14000 workers wage controversy { Workers at New Kensington, Pa. | Alcoa, Tenn, and Badin, N. C, plants voted over the week-end to accept a two-cent an hour wage increase offered in compromise to their demands for 10-cent wage hoost.

1000 POUNDS OF FISH FOR CHURCH AFFAIR

Satur-

Between Wednesday and dav, the Seventh Christian Church will distribute 1000 pounds of fish. The oecasion is the Church's ninth annual Fish Fry Festival Prizes. contributed by men of the district, will be given each evening. The New Augusta Band, the Bov Scout Band, the Big Your Band, and the Mt, Comfort Band will play Fach evening will be featured hn Indian ceremonial dances under the direction of the Rev. Victor R Griffin,

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which appealed to them In the order of mention by Republican voters, the most ing” sections of the platform appear to have been: the “peace’ plank, in which the G. O. P. announced itself “firmly opposed to involving this nation in war’; the pledge to build up the nation: defense: easing of restrictions on husiness, and reduction of Govyernment expenditures Scanning through his newspapel after the platform was presented, about one Dembderat in every five

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PROTEST DELAY ‘No Law Violation Found’;

Jehovah's Witnesses Free

IN OPENING

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Civic Group Leader Says Closed Bridge Slows Trips to Hospital.

Impatient at long in opening the Indiana Avenue bridge near the City Hospital, the Riverside ‘Civic Association will hold a protest meeting tomorrow at 8 p. m

the delay

(at the Unity Christian Church, 19th |

and Harding Sts Mrs. H. P. Willwerth, association president, pointing out that the closed bridge slows down emergency trips to the hospital, said “it seems to us that a year is enough time to work out something.” She said the group has received no satisfactory explanation for the delay, The group also will discuss the use of Harding St., as a truck route “Heavy trucks steady stream on that street creating a clatter and not helping the street surface,” she said, “We want the trucks to use another route, or at least alternate.”

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| I'imez Spec nl | MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Jul Fourteen Jehovah's Witnesses were released from the City Jail here [yesterday after officials failed 5 Hnd anv law violation on their part The men were among the 43 who [were barricaded in the Mooresville 1.0. O. F, Hall from 7 p. m. Frida; until 11 p. m. the next day. A crowd had gathered outside the ‘hall in protest to the meeting and a spokesman told the Witnesses they must salute the flag before they would be allowea to leave the (building. While the crowd numbered from 50 to more than 300, most of the persons were in town on Saturday errands and gathered through curiLostty. While several Plainfield Post

members of the of the American Legion were pregent, 1.egion spokesmen denied that they had any more thah a citizen's interest in the matter Capt. Walter ¥ckert of the State Police and Charles Foley, Morgan Cotinty prosecutor, dispersed the crowd after promising that if an} law had been violated prosecutions would follow, The men were transported to the jail here ‘for their own safety Among those who had been at the

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(meeting babies in five or 1x voungsters about six vear old and half a dozen or more ‘teen age children During the early morning, a Good Samaritan carried a bucket of drinking water up 10 the besieged Witnesses

OHIO CONGRESSMEN TO VKIT C. M. T.C.

Three Ohio Congressmen will ats day the Ft. Hare C Saturda) One of the legislators, Rep WwW Harter (D, Ohio) will be they reviewing stand when his son, Johh D Harte: fourth-yean trainee, passes ih review with the 200 other youngster: Parents and friends of enrollees will Be on hand for the special ercises The other Congressmen who have been issued special vitations are John M. Vory: and John FF. Hunter ¢D. The review, which ‘will the four-week training period, will he Weld on the main ground, Com=petition in shelter tent pitching, pack making and first ald will ba

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Buturday, The ‘women and children were allowed to go free under gun

‘the behest of Prosecutor Charles Foley, ‘the hen were taken inte taken to the jail at Martinsville where they remained une