Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1940 — Page 18
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
SANTA FE, N M. July 18.—-That Girl and I have had it in our heads for some time that we would like to buy New Mexico. So we stopped off on this trin to run up here to the state capital and look things over. We like it up here because you can stand on a rise and see half way to Kansas City. We like it because the land rolls, and it's high, and clumps of pinion and juniper bush give it a loveliness that you can’t duplicate anywhere else in America. We like it because people build dark little mud shacks up against each other and call them houses and sell them for fabulous prices. We like it because a man has been sitting in the bar of the La Fonda Hotel for three weeks drinking 23 bottles of beer a day, and never speaking to a soul. The only time he opened his mouth was one evening when he was leaving, and he suddenly turned in the door, brandished his cane, and yelled “I hate Hitler! I hate Stalin! I hate Mussolini!” Then he went on out. I like things like that. We like it because it’s a long way from New York, and because half the people speak Spanish, and because it’s the second oldest city in America, and because it's all right to shoot people. and because the clouds and sunsets are so majestic it hurts you inside Unfortunately, our investigation disclosed that New Mexico wasn't for sale, so I suppose we'll have to buy Arkansas instead.
” n t Something New
We have two friends here named Joe and Adele Stevenson. When we first knew them they lived right in Santa Fe, but now they live 20 miles north, in a settlement called Nambe. There are only six white families there, and the other five are rich people from the Fast, “We're the poor white trash Nambe.” Joe savs The Stevensons have a real estate office in Santa But long ago they got the isolation bug, and
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Our Town
PIECE doesn’t surprise the FPostmaster of Indianapolis, I'm going to give up. I wish T could have sprung today's piece last Christmas. In that case, it would have surprised Mr. Seidensticker still more. I couldn't publish it last Christmas because I didn’t have the necessary material. Fact 1s, the material didn't come my way until just the other day. I'll bet vou never realized that sometimes it takes all of six months to build a column like this. Last Christmas when the world was in better shape than it is today, the Postmaster of Indianapolis and I were sitting in Stegemeier’'s Cafe—celebrating, of course. Last Christmas we had reason to celebrate. In the course of our celebration, Mr. Seidensticker gat around to telling about Thee-La-La (pronounced lay-La-La), a drink his mother used to make. It was the talk of the town back in the Nineties. In those days, said Mr. Seidensticker, the ladies of the Maennerchor used to give Fairs in their old building on E. Washington St. On one occasion Mrs. Seidensticker (that's the Postmaster's mother) was put in charge of a stand to do with what she liked, the general idea being to make as much money as possible for the Maennerchor. un n ”
Myr. Heckler to the Rescue
Mrs. Seidensticker rigged up a kind of gypsy tent, an the inside of which she sold a home-made punch. Up until then, the reputation of the drink was confined to the Seidensticker home. Indeed, the drink didn’t even have a name of its own, The first night Mrs. Seidensticker's returns pretty meager. Nothing to brag about, anyway. The second night didn't start out any too well. either. and
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they'd like to stay out there in the country, and hardly ever come to town. For years they've figured and figured on some way to make a living out there in the country. And finally they thought of it. They started a mail order house, dealing solely in food products peculiar to this strange part of the country. Old Indian and Spanish products. They had only $100 to start. They've been going several months now, and theyre still on almost an amateur basis, doing all the work themselves. they figure that within two years they’ll be a going concern—with capital, overhead, debentures, a pay roll and possibly a capital gain or two. They call themselves Native Products Co., of Santa Fe. Their first product was Blue Corn Meal. They buy it from the Indians, and grind it themselves. Joe designed a pasteboard can (like a salt can) that is painted to look like an Inidan drum. This is more or less their trade mark. It's blue and orange, and very pretty. ” ” o
Goodby to Santa Fe
To their corn meal they've now added 10 kinds of herbs that the Indians use for seasoning and flavoring. Most of these herbs grow wild and anly in the mountains, and they send little Indian children out to gather them. Personally I wouldn't give a hoot for corn meal
or the fairest herb that grows in the ground (or any other food for that matter), but I always get excited
By Ernie Pyle
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By Earl Hoff TOOK my two weeks’ vacation in the Army. I went to Ft. Knox to have
when I hear of somebody who had the ingenuity to think up something new, and the nerve to try it. { Our stay in Santa Fe is short. Tonight the phone | rang, and it was long distance. It was one of those | calls that you sense is bad news before you even | answer the phone. { That Girl's mother, in far-away Minnesota, had] heen in an accident and broken her shoulder, so badly | thev couldn't even set it. So That Girl took the first plane north. And I g0 | on the next plane East. We are wandering people, and fate hurls us about to odd destinations. We don't know when we will see each other again. When she got on the plane, we both felt a kind of futility, a small desire to travel again, for a little, in the same direction.
By Anton Scherrer
old Circle Park Hotel. And on top of everything else he was bachelor. The combination made him a kind of Figaro around here. Mr, Heckler lived on the corner of East and Washington Sts., where he surrounded himself with a harem of birds, including two of the] most talkative parrots Indianapolis ever had. He said] the parrots took the place of a wife. | Well, as I was saying, it was the second night of the Maennerchor's Fair when Mr. Heckler entered Mother Seidensticker's tent. When he came out, he | looked wise, smacked his lips and said “Thee-La-La.”| Immediately the word got around and from that mo-| ment on Mrs. Seidensticker had all she could do tol handle the crowd. Rightaway. too. the price jumped from a dime to a quarter a glass, with the result that Mrs. Seidensticker made a mint of money for the Maennerchor. So much for the origin of the name. Now for today's surprise. |
Now It Can Be Told |
Last Christmas when Mr. Seidensticker told about his mother’s famous drink, he lamented the fact that the recipe was lost. Time and time again he went in search of it, he said, but to no avail. It was gone,| as irreparably lost as most of Leonardo da Vinei's| work. Once, he said, he tried to restore the drink! from memory, but it didn't taste anything like his mother used to make. | That was six months ago. Well, believe it or hot,| the other day I ran across Mother Seidensticker's| recipe for Thee-La-La and here it is, word for word.| just the way she wrote it down. “Place in a bowl one and one-fourths pounds of] cut loaf sugar upon which the rind of one orange! has been rubbed, and the juice of three oranges, then add about two quarts of boiling water, one quart of. hot wine and one-half quart of arrack. Stir well and] serve while hot.” (I'll bet a farm the Postmaster for-| got the arrack in his improvised mixture). Along with Mrs. Seidensticker’'s famous drink I
a good time, to write some stories, to take some pictures. But I didn’t. get to write any stories. And I managed to take very few pictures. What I need now is a vacation, “Pay attention, gentlemen,” said an instructor in anti-aircraft defense on one of the first days. “The next time you see this demonstration the bullets may be real.” In my two weeks at Ft. Knox, I learned that the Army is deadly earnest about getting its men ready. And, I learned, too, that there are. more men than there are weapons available at the moment. Wryly., but good-naturedly, instructors said they were
order.” ub maneuvers, 60-millimeter mortars, of which each rifle company is supposed to have several, were represented by baseball bats. But T did see weapons that are as good as any in the world, if not superior. These included highly maneuverable 37-mm antitank guns, armor-piercing 50caliber machine guns, and the new Garand semi-automatic rifles. Our days in the Officers Reserve Corps camp began at 5:30 in the morning, closed at 10:30 at night —and some nights midnight when night problems kept us in the field.
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We had our breakfast at 6 a. m, and were whirled to work in giant, six-wheel-drive trucks. In clouds of dust, we rolled out to where we were to maneuver,
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UT in the field we were given problems to work, situations to meet that might face us in actual war. After lectures by in--siructors—whose words were often lost in the clanking roar of tank columns which appeared suddenly on roads and hills—we made a reconnaissance of the ground. Then in our minds we placed troops and guns and wrote our solutions. Afterwards 10ti: Infantry troops executed our maneuvers. We made mistakes.
But that
The Amy Means Business
Out of the trucks they pile.
was the idea. If we made niistakes now and learned the right way we might not make them when it really counted—if that day should come. The afternoon's work ended at 4, but that was far from being the end of the day. On many evenings we jammed into the sports arena for college-type lectures and examinations. Several nights we took to the field again. » n un NE night we assembled on a hill. Divided into groups of four, each armed with a luminous compass, we started out. Through the sight of the compass we saw a tall tree, blurry against the dark Sky.
“Pay attention, gentlemen!
We thrashed out through the bushes, up and down hills. Wham! A captain tripped and fell headfirst into a ditch. Up he got. On we trudged and arrived at the first station, where we re-set our compasses and started out again. We floundered around in the blackness to four different stations and arrived back at the starting point. Sure, we could have used flashlights. But in wartime. . . . On another night problem, we executed a night withdrawal of troops. We had seen regular troops do it in daylight. It was a cinch. All we had to do was to duplicate it in the dark. The group I was with got lost.
MYSTERY MAN'S South of Convention Hall Is Stockyards
WORK FINISHED
Where Hovers Smell That's Not Soothing,
(A writer attending a national political convention takes a post-
Hopkins Yokes Diana to a man's holiday.)
Show After Roosevelt's Nomination.
Chicago Stockyards
By GEORGE E MILBURN
CHICAGO, July 18.—Out at the the pens are
[the kill, (them, which is shown when a few lare cut out of a herd and come, charging down an alley. always heads down and give a
Imoves across the seething acres
Even though they are fattened for there is strength among
But they and put their] few be-
stop short
way our country is run than
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An armored car dashes across field.
We didn't find our trucks until nearly midnight. The other officers ribbed us pretty badly on the way back to camp.
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URS was the second camp of summer. There were 500 of us. Certain men stood out, naturally—a prosecuting attorney from northern Indiana, a banker from Indianapolis, a lawyer from Kokomo, a writer for a banking magazine. We all learned a lot. But when I got home, I found waiting a long form to fill out, It was from the Army. They want to know all the information they can for M-Day. You see, the Army is _ ready.
AID IS ASSURED, BRITAIN FEELS
getting
could get out of a year in a high!
school civics class. As the special bus gets near to the
Stockyards, not a long distance from |Chicago’s Loop, the tourist guests of | the packing plants look out and see
Calls Both Nominees Friendly: Nazis Not Surprised; Italy Disappointed.
the high runways. black against the]
bright morning sun. Along tbe run-| ways, lately delivered from Nebraska jand Texas and Michigan and Oklahome and New York and Oregon, moves a shadowy procession of pork. The bus driver turns and says in| a tone that makes one suspect that he has said it before, “They're on their last mile now. Passengers breathe a hesitant but titter, just the least bit]
wildered sniffs. There is never any danger of a stampede, because they are tended by a man on horseback, who cracks a long whip, and they go where they are driven. Over all this place hovers a smell which is anything but soothing. It gets on your heels and gets in your hair. The only odor remotely like it is that of an elevator load of politicians. A visitor to Chicago friendly
also ran across a recipe for Bairisch Veal by Carl . 1 Walk's mother and a Bird's Nest Pudding by Mrs. CHICAGO. July 18 (U. P.).—Ohly Robert BR. Rhoads’ mother. It was the biggest day @ few minutes after the convention I ever had voted the renomination of President | Roosevelt today the headquarters of
| Harry L. Hopkins, leader of the
By Raymond Clapper (third term movement, were dark Eo ot aor and then thes
jo geseried. seem to be moved by some awful | The work of the mystery man was foreknowledge of what is about to
‘nearly done. From his hotel head- happen to them, and they stir un-
LONDON. July 18 (U. P.) —Afte ernoon newspapers today gave grea% prominence to President Roosevelt's renomination The Evening News said editori= ally that the Republican and Demo|crite platforms ‘present no pere ceptible differences to eyes on this
there's no telling what might have happened in the wav of a fiasco had not Mr. Heckler turned up. Mr. Heckler was the first tenor of the Maennerchor in those days. Besides that he was a barber at the
thronged with beeves and sheep and hogs. Some are fat and some are lean, but even the scrawniest have had their places at the trough for many a dav now, being got ready for sale and slaughter. ¢ Beast-like, they do not ponder the
Washington
CHICAGO, July ~If my thought and reactions are those of the average lhiberal-minded person, and I think they usually are, then something has gone ou: of American life this week. At least 1 have lost something. It was faith in President Roosevelt. I have faith in very few poli-
over. His worst enemies can thank their lucky stais
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Indian Takes
Back Her Land |
SALAMANCA, N. Y, July 18 | (U. P.).—Mrs. John Van Aernam, a resident of the Allegheny Ine dian reservation near here, has taken back from the whites living along the 10-mile Creek Road the right to pass over it. Two farmers and seven owners of summer cabins along the highway found themselves cut off from their property when Mrs Aernam strung a barbed wire
fence across the middle of the road and said “No passage.” She said neither she nor her ances-
“Practically no new element is introduced in the foreign political DUTCH HAUL COAL TO CANADA situation,” an authorized informant SANDUSKY. O., July 18 (U. P.).— | 5aid, “since Mr. Roosevelt's position | The Dutch freighter Prins Willem II is well known.” sailed early today with a Canadian| Attention was called to the plate tors have ever been paid for the crew to take a 1600-ton cargo of form resolution not to send troops use of her land. President Wiifred |coal to Montreal. Twelve of her abroad. The spokesman commented Crouse, head of the Seneca Indian Dutch crew refused to go to Canada| that expressions of sympathy toe nation, says she 1s right. ‘for fear of internment. {ward the Allies were to be expected,
5 h f side of the Atlantic in their dv y ‘hite- i i nervous. ey are apprehensive o : ters. Mr. Hopkins had directed easily and the vast white-boarded really owes it to himself to go out nervous 1 | references to help for Britain in that a Roosevelt appeared to save them from their] Guar. . rin d by # sii stockade becomes a sea of restless and see where that smell comes|sights to come. But the packing] fn Ee miele I own folly and greed. (3 campaip: ® Nn OVer-|o.ch. And when one among them |from borne by westerly winds. It|houses have tnought of that, too. ner Slruggle. The actions for which Mr. Roosevelt has been | Whelming vote for continuation of gots yp a bellow or a blat or alcarries far beyond Chicago. The They have a neat little sign saying,| The Evening Star said that “wa most criticized will live in history, I hope and believe, the New Deal. squeel, the others give voice, too.|Stockyards are a sight to be seen.|“Any person who does not wish t0/can view the situation with great as actions which contributed toward saving democ- | It was a strange contrast to the until a great quivering wave oe Any citizen might very easily learn see the hogs di spatched may HK encouragement Ur tint. noth. cote ticians. But I had it in him. acy. Sovarg hon it work, toward making it serve night before, when President Roose- | sound, almost human in da in an hour there more about the the opposite corridor.’ didates ore men Who will see that To be sure his day-to-day ac- i e for whom organized society and the state velt had sent a message to the con- fs fo Be such help as America fons ar, Someries seemed To me a third term does ot seem a heaithy thing vention. informing the ceiesates || § | FAVES 706 > CARNIVAL ORDERED : have said SO At other times I for us, even under present ar? But waive that. [that he was not now and nad 1 never, ROME, July 18 (U. P.).—Italian have given him the benefit of Ihere is no law against a third term. What shakes peen a candidate for re-election. 10 LEAVE LA PORTE circles received today news of the doubt rather than chime in Me is that statement which President Roosevelt au-| Delegates had flocked to Hopkins STATU ‘President Roosevelt's renomination with the yappings of his enemies thorized Senator Barkley to make to the Democratic | then. They wanted to be assured | th d t. They smd Many times my Qquestionings National Convention. that Mr. Roosevelt would accept if WASHINGTON. July 18 (U. P.).| LA PORTE. Ind.. July 18 (U. p..| Wi 1 disappointment. They said 1% about some of Mr. Roosevelt's ny. 2.» | drafted. ers : { Albani —The Texas Exposition shows car- had committed at least the Demos policies have been quieted by The Urge to Power | Early this morning Hopkins re- —1 former King og 9 ana nival yesterday was ordered to leave cratic Party to continuation of ore look at his opposition. which 9 ? turned to the headquarters, accom- wants an immigration visa to enter |La Porte by Mayor Alfred Norris “Roosevelt's pro-English policy. was usually so much worse that This—that he, Mr. Roosevelt—"has never had, and |Panied only by a few associates. He |the United States he probably can ‘after the conviction of two em-| Such a policy, 1t was sald, inevie I thanked God we still had Wis nol Oy Sens oF Durise 10 golive inten haien Ble sil, Dizuy, to the | nave it, but the State Department! Plovess Of thet of tires and tools tably means an anti-Italian policy, Roosevelt, mistakes and all. he office o residen o be a candidate for that 5 ; , *S. r a a No one who writes about politics expects perfec- Office. or to be nominated by the convention for that [to the convention which he had | left the problem of his status up lo Earlier he sentenced the two men, BERLIN, July 18 (U. P.). Nazf tion of a man in public life. Large allowances must ©ffice.” {been directing in detail. the consulate in London today. Patrick McCarty ot Winona, Mo. quarters said today that President he made for the one who is out in the ring, fighting, I simply dc not believe that. Mr. Roosevelt can| Only one more job was left for! Officials refused to be bothered and Vernon Patterson of Pampasas, Roosevelt's renomination had caused taking the blows, expending his strength in sweat cite no action that he has taken to support it. He Hopkins. The felepates Jokes to as to whether or not he still is a I'ex., to 90-day terms at the State ,, surprise here. and blood. It is not for kibitzers in ivory towers to has not discouraged his official family intimates fom Dim for some clue as to the Presi- .o o° (iyo head of a state and Penal Farm. He revoked the carni-| he too critical of the details. T trv to make those manipulating a third term. Never has he lifted a|dent Roosevelt's choice as his 1040 entitled to a visa as such, or wheth- val's license to show here. allowances finger to prevent work being done on his behalf. He gl Ale, mi indication that er it made any difference since the Therefore, day-to-day questionings which 1 mav has known about it. He allowed it to go on to the his role in that might not be so United States doesn't recognize have had about Mr. Roosevelt were concerned mostly inevitable climax. incisive There were reports that. titles anyway with details, with superficial matters of no real If Mr. Rooseveit has had any desire to retire, it| president Roosevelt would leave the King Z.0g is expected to requew has been too feeble a desire to impel him into one! .,. y a . refuge in the United States for himself, his American Queen Geraldine, Skando and three
fundamental importance, " : choice to the delegates, as lo 3 single action toward that tnd. In the absence of a ij ov selected Sn list of RD shred of supporting evidence, I don't believe that gates devoted to New Deal Crown Prince statement is the truth,
; . principles. _| sisters. The urge to power and glory is an overwheiming ee thing when it takes hold of a public man . Only such |
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have alwavs felt that President Roosevelt was a figure who most fortunately appeared to lead the nation at a time when it was in direst need of courageous. bold. experimental action in behalf of the masses of America. Our situation was shaky when he took
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday—This is the most delightful July weather that I can remember, warm enough in the sun to enjoy drying off after a swim, but cool enough so that even a good walk is not too exhausting. 1 tried walking in the woods yesterday afternoon, but found the mosquitoes were still in undisputed possession! My little birds got out of their nest tlis morning and paraded along the ledge, exercising their wings by flapping them up and down, but they hopped back into the nest with great rapidity when their mother appeared with a worm.
The weather cleared up ‘and 1, was lovely late yesterday afternoon, so I took my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law, Mrs. to the Norris Park Point Inn for dinner. They had never heen there before and botih of them found it a very attractive spot. We had quite a gay party The Inn is fulet en a week-day night and I rather missed the young man who played for us last Saturday. But the sun made a heautiful. golden Li hway on the water as it went down behind the II Mecuntains, and there waz a great sense of calm in that peaceful, apparently motionless water.
places on the record. This is a page that I would rather have never read.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
We arrived at home in time to gather on my porch and listen to the radio. My husband telephoned me to say that Senator Barkley was reading a statement from him, and though it had never occurred to me for a minute that the delegates to
this convention did not feel entirely free to make their own choice, I suppose it is always wise to ‘say exactly what you mean, This is a serious time in our history, not a time for blind partisanship but a time for careful consideration of what the two major political parties have to offer, not only for the service and safety of our own nation, but for the service that may lie ahead of us. We desire peace for the protection of our people from the horrors of war, but we cannot cut ourselves off from the conditions which prevail | £ in other nations. What they suffer, we must feel | |g one way or the other. | In a newspaper, I saw that some one said, in on |
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J. R. Roosevelt, fect, that we are a bankrupt nation. The allusion was entirely to our financial status. No nation is bankrupt which has natural resources and production | & ; potentialities, and undaunted and unified people. > These things we have, and I count on our engaging| From the plains of the West | in this Lampaips i determination to use our came this delegate, Elsie Jo May | best judgment tn make this country a steadying | | force, and a beacon of light to all people who believe | of Laramie, Wyo. to cheer and in freedom and the triumph of the theory of govern- | enjoy the Democratic Convention ment which is based on spiritual v da which closes in Chissiv fig.
Indiana’s delegation has been AL in promoting the fos of former Governor Paul V. McNutt. Mr. McNutt conditioned his own Presidential candidacy upon Mr. Roosevelt's accepjance or re- | jection of the nomination and today he/ with a score of other New Deal leaders, are hoping for “the nod” as Vice Presidential candidate. Here is a trio of Hoosiers at the convention ringside. They are Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, widow of former Governor Ralston; Bawman, Elder of Indianapolis, and Fred F. Bays, delegation chairman.
Times-Acme Photos. Mrs. Robert H. Hill, Florida | delegate, gives a rousing huzzah for President Roosevelt, Those Floridans also brag about their ‘favorite sun’ as the banner shows.