Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1940 — Page 9
MONDAY, JULY 22, 1040
Hoosier Vagabond
RUSHVILLE, Ind, July 22--If Wendell Willkie is elected President, and does as good a job of choosing his Cabinet as he has of choosing his farmers, he
should get along all right. I've talked with every one of the six families on the five Willkie farms, and I ean tell vou thevre all nice people. They are progressive, they're prouw. of tneir places, they all want to do well in life. and they are “all feeling pretty gav about mavbe living on a President's farm. On the night of the nomination'in Philadelphia each family stayed at home, with all ears stuck to the radio. And as soon as the balloting was over they all drove into town and met, by : prearrangement, and zent Mr. Willkie a telegram with all their names signed, They don't know whether he got it. All of them, of course, have seen Mr. Willkie nany times. They all think he's great. None of them Kiinws him really well, for his time here is always shedrt, They always call him “Mr. Willkie.” eoreticallv, Mr. Willkie gets here once a month to Ichok at his farms. Actually, he doesn't come that oiten}. In fact his last visit to the Charles Brown farm was last October. Wien he comes, he stavs only one day. He spends an howir or two at each farm, just walking around the bsirns and out into the fields and looking at the stod’k. He has never staved for a meal with any of the families. They all say he’s easy to know, and very fai The denants run in age from 26 to 62. Charles Brown 3 the oldest, and he was the first tenant. He had been on the farm for 12 years before Mr. Willkie bhught it six vears ago. The tenants of the four othel farms were moved on after Mr. Willkie bought them. Theyre all Hoosiers,
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Proud of Their Boss
When we stopped, Mrs. Brown was out in the harnlot, in apron and sunbonnet, helping a hired man pour Kerosene from a five-gallon can into a steel drum “He's just az common as can be” she said about Mr. Wilikie. “There's no put-on about him.” She jsn't overawed bv the prospect of hiz being President, although she sure likes the idea. “Well feel the same about him,” she said, “He'll still be the same man, won't he?” Ralph Brown is Charles Brown's son, He is 37, and has heen farming with his dad ever since he grew up. He lives about a quarter of a mile {rom
Our Town
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY had just about finished the first decade of his literary career when along came the redoubtable Berry Sulgrove with his famous
pronunciamento of 1884. _After lambasting Edward Eggleston's “The Hoosier Schoolmaster” as the all-time low example of dialect literature, © Mr. Sulgrove said: “Our young poet, James W. Riley, sirikes it more {fairly than any other delinealor, but some of ils peculiarities, or those of the people usinz it, which gave it 2 tone and a turn of humor similar te that noticed in the Lowland dialect of the Scotch, had measurably dizappeared before Mr. Riley was old enough to catch it in itz full-grown raciness and quaintness, If he were 20 vears older, we might expect trom him 8s perfect a picture of Hoosier backwoods hie as we hzve of the South in “Georgia Scenes” and "Simon Suggs.” or of Yankee land in the "Bigelow Papers.” Mr. Sulgrove’s opinion split the town wide open. Those tolerant of dialect literature thought Mr. Suigrove rather gracious. Indeed, knowing Mr. Sulgrove as thev did. they thought he went out of his wav Mo he nice to Mr. Rilev. Those intolerant of Mr. Suigrove’s opinions took in more territory and questioned the propriety of dialect literature under any circumstances —Jet alone Mr. Riley. The debate kept going for years. .
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‘Em Gasp It was of historical importance. therefore, when six years later on Oct. 6, 1890, Mr. Riley got up before the Indianapolis Literary Club and delivered his paper on “Dialect in Literature.” (You can look it up for yoursel{; it's in Vol. VI of the Bobbs-Merrill Biographical Edition.)
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Washington
WASHINGTON, Julr 22.-The other day 1 said {hat President Roosevelt had not lifted a finger to discaurage hiz intimates from working for a third-term nomination I was in error. The White House did put its foot dewn very hard one day last October The rircumesiances were these: On Oct, 25, Secretary of Agrienlture Henry A. Wallace arrived in San Francisco to make a speech, At a press conference, he was asked about a third term for President Roosevelt. The subject was-much in the air, Secretary Wallace rose to the occasion manfully as a loyal member of the Roosevelt Cabinet, Mr, Wallace was nursing Presidential ambitions of his own, but was unable to do more than have his friends talk around about it in stage whispers. He could not, as a Cabinet member, come out as a candidate so long as President Roosevelt had not eliminated himself. So Secretary Wallace swallowed hard and replied dutifully that the war situation “obviously makes it clear that the President's talents and training are necessary to steer the country.”
Reward for Loyalty In that press conference. Secretary Wallace lined up for the third term along with Secretary Iekes, whn had already set the pace in speeches, press conferences ind magazine articles, No doubt Secretary Wallace went to bed that night with an unusually clear eonzeience. He had put aside own ambitions and had plaved the game lovally {or hiz chief in the White House In Washington the next morning, newspaper cor-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday —Yesterdav 1 motored down right after breakfast to “Algonac,” Newburgh, N. Y, where my mother-in-law, her brother and sister are anxiously watching the life of their oldest sister, Mrs.
D. D. Forbes, apparently fade away. She may, of course, rally, because even at 92 a marvelous constitution stands one in good stead. But, as I looked at her yesterday, I could not help feeling that, for her, it would be easier to pass on to a realm where the problems of this world are left behind. Mrs. Forbes has lived for many vears in Paris, and I think the things which have befallen the French nation in the last few weeks have heen hard for her to bear. It is true that as one grows older and can lock back on varied experiences, one becomes more reconciled and accepis whatever comes in a spirit of resignation. But Mrs. Forbes has alwave heen =0 voung in spirit, that I have felt these |atext hlows were hard for her to Jook upon with calmness To all the younger members of the family, Mrs, Forbes has been a symbol of how to grow old grace-
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his father, on the same farm. We found Ralph in|
the hayfield, helping load the wagons with a mechan- |
ical loader, A neighbor named Harvey Green was on the wagon. “I've told Ralph,” he said, “that he's gotth get ,a new straw hat and some better overalls now since he’s in the limelight.” They like to kid that way. Ralph has two girls, so we went down to see them. They are Mary Marjory, We went to see them because Marv Marjory has been mentioned two or three times in the newspapers and nobody has ever mentioned Avonelle, and she's getting kind of cut up about it. So here is to say that Avonelle is a very lovely little girl. and mm smack the next newspaperman who comes here andi doesn’t mention her.
The Kramer Family Joe Kramer is probably the best newspaper “copy” among the Willkie farmers. e's only 26, but acts older. He's hard-working and Rood as gold and savs “by jiminv.” He's the one they re already telling the legends about. A few years ago Joe was a hired hand on one! of the Willkie farms, One dav Mr. Willkie came to Rush County, and was out gassing with the farmers, | and while he was talking Joe Kramer said, “I can't] talk to you any longer, Mr. Willkie, because 1've got | work to do.” That's the first time Mr. Willkie ever saw Joe! Kramer. The next time was a year and a half later, and he said, “Joe, I'm going to buy you a farm.” - And! he did. He liked a man who was too busy to talk, to him, | Joe laughs and admits the story is true. Not, only that, but the same thing has happened a couple of times since he hecame a Willkie tenant. “I sure | do feel bad about talking that way to him.” Joe says. | “I shouldn't have done it. But when a feller’s got) work to do . . .” Joe was out shocking wheat with three other men. One of them was Joe's father, Frank Kramer, He is in his 60s, and he's a case. He's Dutch, and looks like a brewmaster., He said now if we'd just brought him a couple of bottles of something for this hot day. He loves tn talk. And he's got so worked up over Mr. Willkie he's practically possessed. { “I've been a Democrat all my life,” I'm voting Republican this time.” The Kramers had a family reunion the other day. and Frenk just up and polled the whole tribe of Kramers (all born Democrats). They were all for Mr. Willkie except two, and those were on the fence If I'm any judge of 3 man With a purpose, those twn will get off the fence and vote for Mr. Willkie this fall. or they'll get their barns burned down by a certain relative,
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By Anton Scherrer
Mr. Riley had the conservatives gasping for breath right at the start because in less than two minutes after he began he proved that “Chaucer's verse to us is now as veritably dialect as to that old time it was the chastest English.” (He bit into the words “now” and “was” to make his point.) After that, Mr. Rilev had the crowd eating out of his hand. At any rate, he made it perfectly plain that there is a legitimate use for dialect and “as honorable a place for it as for the English, pure and unadulterated.” What worried him most was not the use of dialeef, but the abuse of it, and to prove his poini he cited anv number of hooks showing itz legitimate use. Curiously enough, “The Hoosier Schoolmaster”’ was on his list, ”
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Hand of the Humanitarian
Mr. Rilev's critical choice of hooks to illustrate the legitimate use of dialect was the best part of his paper that night It remains the best part today After citing Dickens in innumerable passages of pathos rendered in dialect—the death of poor Jo and that of Cheap John's little daughter, to name only two—Mr. Rilev pointed with pride to Thomas Neilson Page ("Meh Lady"). Joel Chandler Harris (“Teague Poteet’), James Russell Lowell (“The Bigelow Papers.” of course). and last but not least Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston who wrote “The ukesbhorough Tales.” Indeed, Mr. Rilev couldn't say enough tor Col. Johnston's “Absalom Billingslea.” “Such masters,” he said, “necessarilv are rare and such ripe perfection _ as is here attained may be in part the mellowing result of age and long observation, though il can "be based upon the wisest, purest spirit of the man as well as artist.” Apparently, Mr. reveal the hand of a humanitarian as well as that | of the artist, out of style.
By Raymond Clapper
broke in on Stephen T. Early, White as goon as he had come from his Roose-
respondents House Secretary, regular morning bedside conference with Mr, velt What, asked the reporters, did Mr. Roosevelt think about the declaration for a third term which Secretary Wallace had made in San Francisco? Secretary Farlv authorized the following reply: ! “It would have heen kind and polite for the speaker (Wallace) to have consulted the victim before he spoke.” : Well. when that rebuke flashed back to San Francisco aver the press wires and was reiaved to Secretary Wallace, you probably could have knocked him over with a feather. The poor fellow was only trying to help his chief as Secretary Ickes was doing.
Changing the Signals | The trouble was that nobody had taken the trouble to slip the new signals to Secretary Wallace far away in San Francisco. He couldn't have known that the quarterback had suddenly changed the play, and nobody thought to advise him. | What had happened was that Mr. Roosevelt was trying at that moment to get his neutrality revision through Congress, so that arms and munitions could be shipped to the Allies. Mr. Roosevelt was encountering some trouble from the Republicans. In order to get the revision through he had to call for a truce in the hope of persuading the Republicans to drop politics at the water's edge and support the Administration’s neutrality program. In accordance with that shift of strategy, the word went around to sing jow about the third term. The incident shows that if: President Roosevelt, as he save never had and does not now have any desire or purpnze to continue in office, he could have stopped the activity at any point—asz he did temporarily in the case of Mr. Wallace for a special reason.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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87% Favor Seizures in Caribbean
Urge Action [f Britain
By Dr. George Gallup
RINCETON, N. J,, July 22,—If the Havana Conference of the 21 American republics adjourng next week without reaching a decision on the fate of the European-owned territories
in the Western Hemisphere,
there is likely to be a strong sentiment in this country for United States defense of the territories—alone if necessary, That fact is revealed today In a nation-wide survey conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion. From the standpoint of the United States, much will doubtless depend on the success of England in standing-off the German blitzkrieg. But the Institute survey shows that an overwhelming majority of more than 6 to 1 (87%) say the United States should take immediate possession of the British, French and Dutch territories near the Panama Canal, if necessary, in the event of a British defeat,
Plans for dealing with the problem of the European-owned territories are many. Cuba will present to the Havana Conference a plan for joint Pan-American control of them under a mandate svstem. Variations of this proposal mav be introduced. A previous Institute survey, reported June 15, found 81 per cent approving a plan for joint Pan-American purchase of the territories, = » n
HOULD one of these joint-pro-tectorate proposals not be adopted by the 21 republics, however, the present survey gives striking evidence that the people of the United States are determined not to see former British, French and Dutch possessions fall to Germany and Italy. Behind this impressive majority sentiment, the voters’ comments show, is a sharp awareness of the whole problem of defending the United States and the rest of the hemisphere. The survey found no indications whatsoever of “imperialistic” sentiment,
“If necessary, the United States
| should take the initiative hecanse
we're the only nation in this Hemisphere with a fleet strong enough to defend the Caribbean,” a typical Eastern voter commented,
Voters in every state in the Union were asked: “If Germany defeats England. should the United States take immediate possession of the English, French and Dutch territories in the area of the Panama Canal?”
Their replies were: Should Take Possession if Necessary Should Not Take Possession. . 3;
STATE WILLKIE DRIVE MAPPED
Bobbitt Leaves aver by Plane Today to Join Halleck at | Colorado Springs.
By NOBLE REED | Indiana's part in the Presidential campaign of Wendell I,. Willkie will in a series of confer. ence: at Colorado Springs, Colo, thiz week Rep. Charles A Halleck of Rennzelaer, who made the Willkie nomi- | nating speech at Philadelphia, went! te Mr. Willkie's vacation retreat Saturday and State G, O. P. Chair-| man Arch N. Bobbitt was to leave) for there by plane today. Rep. Halleck will take back Washington some vital plans
to te
{ guide the conduct of his Republican
colleagues in Congress during the! next three months. He will get Mr. Willkie's ideas on how the seven G. O. P. Hoosier legislators should vote on important | legislation, especially that effecting the nation’s foreign policies. Mr. Bobbitt will make final arrangements with the nominee for his acceptance speech at Elwood which will be within the next three or four weeks. ” ” » | Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Democratic Governor nominee, will hit the campaign trail this week with four speeches. Tomorrow night he will address the Half-Century Club at Clinton: Wednesday night he will speak bhefore a Jefferson County Democratic picnic at Clifty Falls State Park: Thursday night he will address a meeting of Owen County Democratic women at McCormick's Creek | night he
speak at the Sixth District
| American Legion picnic at Clover-
By Eleanor Roosevelt
fully and still retain a hold on the interests of vouth. Everyone of my children is deeply concerned about her welfare, as well as that of their own grandmother, who feels this anxiety greatly. In the afternoon, we celebrated little Franklin III's second birthday. He had one small cousin at supper with him and the two sat on the south porch of the big house, at a little table which was gaily decorated with yellow paper napkins and tablecloth. On their first meeting, little Leila and Franklin had not been entirely friendly, but this time they had an amicable visit and seemed to enjoy their presents. We sat up last night until a late hour discussing what kind of a world young people, starting out today, are going to find themselves living. - I confess I think a good many of them have had rather poor training for the uncertainties of the future.. It seems to me that whatever may happen, the ambitions of the past and the expectations that life will be as it has always been, have very little justification In fact. These speculations, however, are probably good for us, for every one of us has to ga on from day to day meeting the situation as it develops and hoping to find somewhere within ourselves, the qualities and the intelligence to encounter whatever the future mav hold in store, I woke this morming te rain, but it has cleared
off now and we are planning on a peaceful day, The group will meet every perhaps. Gay Aght ah Adib Nu Kegataos.
and swimming
dale, | ” v8 Senator Sherman Minton says the Democratic campaign in| Indiana and the nation this fall | will revolve around the question of | whether the people want to con- | tinue the New Deal or try some- | thing else. He summed up the campaign is- | sue in two words—"President Roosevelt.” » = a Walter F. Bossert, of Liberty J Ind., who withdrew as a candidate | for the G. O. P. Senatorial nomination in favor of Raymond E. Willis, of Angola, is stressing the need for expanding benefits to aged persons. | In a speech at Lafayette yester- | day, Mr. Bossert asserted that “this country must take definite steps toward protecting elderly persons and the aged from the vicissitudes of the present economir situation.” |
¥ n ” A Willkie-Hillis Veterans’ Club of | Indiana has been organized to as-! sist in the fall campaign. It is made | up of the Eastland Republican | Veterans’ Club, the Eleventh Digtrict Republican Veterans and the Veterans’ Hillis for Governor Club.
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Holland. The Havana Conference of the 21 American republics this week may discuss plans for assuring the future If such plans are not successful, American public. opinion may favor decisive action by
security of these possessions. the United States, a nation-wide survey shows.
land loses. About one voter in eight (13%) said he was undecided or without an opinion on the question. ” » #
HE AVERAGE AMERICAN might have a difficult time explaining just what the Monroe Doctrine but the interesting fact is that majority sentiment in today’s Institute survey underlines once more the essential principle expounded by President James Monroe 117 vears ago. Mr, Monroe told the European states men of his dav that “any attempt to extend their system” to the Western Hemisphere would be considered dangerous to American peace and safety Today, more than a century later, an analysis of voters’ comments shows that the same idea motivates American public opinion with regard to the Caribbean. Here are the most frequent comments. in the order of mention by the voters:
eM If 1. If England is defeated, the
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territories should be occupied in national self-defense—they would provide harbors and bases for the defense of the United States and the rest of the Continent,
2. They should be occupied to
prevent a German or Italian foothold in the New World.
3. They should be occupied fo screen “America’s lifeline’ —the Panama Canal-—from European attack,
A small section of the public, representing 4 per cent of those interviewed in the Institute survev, attached qualifications to their replies. The principal qualifications were that (1) the plan should not involve war on the part of the United States (2) the plan should be agreeahle to the people of the territories themselves, and (3) the plan should have the support of the other nations of the Western Hemisphere. Despite the occasional reservation that “we don’t want to go to war over the Caribbean,” previous
Institute surveys have shown that this area is definitely one for which the majority of the people of the United States would be willing to fight. Last month the Institute asked: “If Germany defeats the Allies, should the United States fight if necessary to keep Germany out of the British, French and Dutch possessions located in the area of the Panama Canal?” Eighty-four per cent answered “Yes”; 16 per cent said “No.” 8 8 9 8 with other questions of American foreign policy, today’s survey reveals a striking degree of unanimity in both major parties and in 2ll sections of the United States. Politics, the survey indicates once more, still stop at “the water's edge.” The vote of Democrats and Republicans is as follows: Favoring Opposing Occupa- Occupation tion Democratis .... 89% 11% Republicans . 86 14
Eighty-seven per cent say they would favor U. S. occupation if Eng-
Sectionally the greatest support for a policy of occupation-ife necessary comes from the South ern states—nearest in point of geography to the Caribbean. Even in ‘the Middle West, however, the vote averages more than 4 to 1.
Favoring Opposing Occupa- Occupation tion New England— Mid. -Atlantie > 13% East Central 16 West Central . 13 South 6 West 12
As the Pan-American confer« ence meets in Havana this week, German diplomacy is reported to have warned Latin American na-tions-to have nothing to do with proposals of the United States for inter-American solidarity in mili= tary and economic spheres. But the Institute survey gives more than a hint that the people of the United States are prepared to stand alone, if necessary, to de=fend their interests in the crucial Caribbean,
CHECKED OUT
Vincennes Green Rose Has No Odor oe Center Trustee Predicts Big
Police Did It Easily;
By HARRY MORRISON PAUL WHALIN, who was picked up by the Vincennes police, prob
ably things iike bad checks, First he went
to Ollie Delisle's clothing store,
should have known that he was just wasting his time on small
nice suit but Ollie wouldn't take a check sn Whalin went on to Gray's
jewelry store as Mr. Delisle ahout checks Mr. Whalin went to a grocery,
dropped all subterfuge and just
asked if the grocery would cash a
check. By that arrested him, But what lice enuldn’t figure ont Whalin was wasting his
time police met and
was why talents,
He told them he'd escaped from |
the Cynthiana, Ky. jail. He said he greased himself with vaseline and slipped through the hole where jailers pushed the food for
the prisoners. » A ROSE by any other name might smell as sweet, but a rose
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sn't s t | of ancther color doesn't smell a | Sight against the fruit moth, J. C.
| Wallenmeyer has been able to get ancy |
all. The rosebush owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Corner of Elkhart has green roses—but no odor. They
Miss, who got it indirectly from Germany. And Larkin O'Connor of I.afavette has everyone seeing green, He's exhibiting a cucumber that isn’t particularly unusual except that it has a hottle all the way around it. It seems that when he
wad planting cucumbers some of |
the seed went aver the fence into greener pastures and the cucumber grew inte an empty hottle, He'll have to break the bottle to get it out. They =ay that the Corners and and O'Connors neighbors are green with envy. # ww \®» Just by way of showing that nothing is impossible, a bull pup
named Trixie fell 90 feet off the | Mufticipal Bridge over the Ohio | River at Jeffersonville and was |
picked up alive, well and water-
the U. S. Coast Guard,
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| IF YOU want a lot of eggs de- | livered and you want to be sure | they'll arrive safe and sound, we |
know just the woman to see. And she won't hard boil them first.
She wouldn't tell her name to | | State Police who helped her out
of a wrecked car’ on Road 1 north of Blooming Grove, But she had six dozen eggs still clutched firmly in her lap, and not one of them was cracked. 8he was riding with Jesse Swift and his wife of Blooming Grove. The car she was in yas oi
SaeRine bt a gaa
the po- |
| mare and a horror,
| the other day.
He picked out a watch there but the clerk was as leery 80 |
He |
truck wag demolished and strewn over the highway-—but no eggs, » » ” Vanderburg County finally has done something about the oriental fruit mothe, The orchardists have some which are even more deadly in the plural,
The fruit growers have been
| having a lot of irouble with the
oriental fruit moths, who make the life of the late peach a nightFor the first
macrocenthus ancylivorous, | : Board Friday afternoon during an|
4 OF 9 RELIEF
| Drop in Poor Aid Cost
He picked out a |
~ GASES DROPPED
This Year.
Approximately 4000 families have] been ' dropped from the Center| Township poor relief rolls since the|
(first of the vear bv Center Town. |
{ship Trustee Henry
[trustee
F. Mueller, | Mr, Mueller, who was appointed | last December to replace] M. Quinn, who resigned.| the marked reduction to! Tax Adjustment |
Thomas reported the Marion County
[informal session, | Because of the slashes in the case! load, Mr. Mueller informed the board that he estimates there will] be a $265,000 reduction in Center |
{ Township poor relief costs this year | |as compared with last year.
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time in the history of Indiana's |
a lot of these mac straight from Moorestown,
: : | N. J, where they are raised. got it from a friend in Vicksburg, |
They were put into an orchard Without even asking for a road map or gaining altitude for a reconnaissance, the m, a's flew straight te the fruit moths’ larvae and laid some eggs right in the larvae, That, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of the oriental fruit moth, What have you got for macrocenthus ancylivorous? y #2 8 THE LATEST evil in utility pyramiding has been unearthed
| at Evansville,
Investigating an unusually large use of water in one section of town, officials found that a householder was servicing neighbors from an unauthorized connection, metering it out to his neighbors
| and collecting a fee from them. logged about 20 minutes later by
'KINGAN OLD-TIMERS
PLAN PLANT PICNIC
There'll be practically no work
| & Co,
Employees are to be turned loose,
las soon as their work is completed,
to take their families to the Kingan |Old-Timers Club picnie, starting at 2 p. m. at Riverside Park. Games and a, for ae children will be nelud e program. The oid Timers Club is com.
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At the same time, Mr. Mueller informed the Board he wowld ask for| la 1941 poor relief budget calling for | expenditure of $378,838 less than was expended during 1939. The normal case load of 9000
| families “plus” has been cut to 5000
by a re-examination of those “who don't need relief,” Mr. Mueller said. | The Board can take no official action until it begins its regular hearings in September, but board members indicated they would like to keep the 1941 relief budget for Center township at $1,000,000, thus | avoiding an increase in the 40-cent tax rate for relief purposes. The total disbursement of $1,664 3838 for relief in 1939 was not paid for out of the tax rate alone. A great por- | tion was financed by bonds. a prac-
Even Stops You While You Sleep
By Science Service WASHINGTON, July 22.—Your automobile will stop When you come to a railroad crossing toward which a train is approaching, even if you are asleep, pro=vided you are equipped with the invention of A. W, Cowles, of New Hampton, Iowa. As a train nears the crossing, light beams are flashed across the ¢ automobile road from standards at the sides. These light beams operate a photocell on the automobile, and | this, in turn, opens a valve which | admits gases from the engine into a cyvinder. A piston 1s forced down. This disengages the clutch, and puts on the brakes, so the car stops. By means of a delay mechanism, the device cannot be reset until after about a minute, thus preventing the motorist from starting until the trpin has passed. In order to prevent other lights stopping the car at ir.conevenient times, the inventor says ' that the photocell “can be tuned ! for coaction in respect to certain color or kind of light beam that | is not generally encountered,” but does not explain how this is done.
VEVAY LAWYER BEATEN
VEVAY, Ind. July 22 (U. P.).— Switzerland County officials (searched today for the alleged assajlant of William E. Ogle, Vevay attorney, who was shot then knocked down and beaten. Charges of assault with attempt to commit murder have heen filed.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
te that officials hope to eliminate, 1—In which country is Hudson Bay?
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OUTING ENJOYED BY STATE POSTMASTERS
NEW CASTLE, Ind, July 22 (U.
—The Indiana State Postmasters'
Association held its annual picnic
‘meeting here yesterday at the Henry |
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County Memorial Park. | Approximately 350 postmasters, | representing two-thirds of the counties in the state, attended.
Algy Murphy of Troy, O., a member of the national committee | of the organization, paid tribute! [to George Purcell of Bloomington, |
‘one of the organizers of the nation- |
; 'al organization. More than 30,000 | Wednesday afternoon at Kingan| 8
| belong to the national organization.
of the country’s 46,000 postmasters
M'NARY TO FLY HOME
SALEM, Ore, July 22 (U. P.), — Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Republican Vice Presidential nominee, today notified state officials that he would make his formal nominati
6n acceptance speech here in August. Mr. McNary swd
2—Boise, Pocatello or Lewiston is the capital of Idaho? | 3- —~What is H20? 4—July is in the summer or wintee in Brazil? 5—How can a Judge of a United States Court be removed from office? 6—Are the Balkan countries near the Mediterranean or the Baltia Sea? T—What Huss?
nationality was John
Answers
l-—-Dominion of Canada, 2—Boise, | 3—The chemical sign of water. | 4—Winter, |5—Only by impeachment. 6—Mediterranean. | T—Bohemian Cael).
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