Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1940 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

Since about two-thirds of my life is lived with my nose in a map, I thought I'd go around to a big map company and see how they are getting along. The truth 1s, they are hardly getting along at all. That old Hitler has got them all messed up. But they aren't worried. Tell you why later. The place I visited George F. Cram Co. here. makes more globes than anybody else in the world. There are only four globe companies in the United States, and the Cram company is the biggest. 1 spent the morning with Edward A. Peterson, president of the company, and he is such a pleasant person that we talked for an hour before we ever got around to maps. Yes, the company makes maps too. Globes, maps, atlases. I learned a great deal from Mr. Peterson. If you have any conception at all of what the war has done to the average map-maker, your conception is probably wrong. At least mine was. For instance, I supposed map-makers cleaned up during a war, supplying maps to a public that was suddenly war-map-hungry. As a matter of fact the map-makers don't and the public isn’t. There was a big splurge of map-buying right after the war started last September, but it died down richt awayv, and nothing has happened since. There was a little map-buying flurry when the Germans went into Belgium, but a very little one

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The Map Situation

Here is the map situation in ‘a nutshell: 1. The Cram Company today is putting out all its European maps as of last Sept. 1. It does not intend to make any changes until the war is over and there is some chance that the changes will be permanent. 2. Tts map force is cut down now, for the public

isn't buving many maps. 3. The company isn't a bit worried over business because when the war ends evervhody will buy new and then it will get rich again. It did after the last war, 4. It’s not even worried about all the out-dated maps and globes now on store shelves all over the country. It expects enough people will want a record of how Europe used to look to use up all that supply.

Our Town

JOSEPH F. VORNEHM, a stone mason, passed away this week. I remember him well. Three or four years ago, on a very hot day he came to the house to set me on something I had said in this column. Seems I had led my readers to believe that Hugh Ranje, a painter, and Herman Kirkhoff, a plumber, were the only two men left who had worked on the State House. Nonsense, said Mr. Vornehm, What about himself and August Goth and Fred Mittman and Henry Schoch, he asked. Certainly they did their part in shaping the State House. As for being alive, Mr. Vornehm left it to me whether he and his colleagues didn't stack up as well Ranje and Kirkhofl, Mr. Vornehm looked almost too young to be telling me all this, but he explained that too by saying that he started work on the State House as an apprentice, The building of the State House lasted long enough, he said, to enable him to learn everything there is to know about his trade

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For his work on the State House, Mr. Vornehm 50 cents a day And this time I have my facts absolutely straight because I distinctly recall his saying that it amounted to $3 a week. Forty years later, a 1926 (Calvin Coolidge, remember?) it was nothmake anywhere from $8 to

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CIX( ing for Mr. Vornehm to $10 a day At this stage of his reminiscences Mr. Vornehm dic something I'll never forget. He blew a mouthful of pipe tobacco my way and it smelled so strange and exotic that I asked him about it. Some of the old workmen around here have some mighty good tricks up their sleeves and the sooner somebody shapes them into words, the better for posterity Mr. Vornehm said he mixed a half ounce of dried

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WASHINGTON, July 27.—Opinion here is shifting to the judgment that the siruggle between Germany and England mayv be more prolonged than had been

By Ernie Pyle

5. I suggested that the company put out a twoheaded giobe, showing the world “before” and “after.” They seemed to think that wasn’t such a dumb idea, and promised to give me a commission. Hurry up and finish, war, so I can retire on my royalties. 6. It can have a good map on the store counters in less than two weeks after the final peace treaty is signed and boundaries set. 7. The war changes, to tell the truth, will cause very little trouble or expense. What really is a tremendous job 1s the change in American maps due to census year. That just tears the whole plant apart. 8. Most of the people who draw outlines of Iran and Haleakala and Zamaboanga for the Cram Com- | pany have never been outside Indiana. The Cram Company puts out a tremendous atlas, for office and library use, that sells for $35. It has an index that carries 208.000 items. due to the census, one-fourth of all those items in the American section will have to be corrected.

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Interurbans Going Fast

For example, railroads. In the last ten years 15,000 miles of railroad have been abandoned, and only 2000 built. All those railroads have to come off the maps. And interurbans. Ten years ago there were 18,000 miles of interurbans left in America. Today there are only 4000, and practically every mile of that is under application for abandonment. So the Cram maps this time will eliminate interurbans entirely. And lakes. Do you know that the shore line of the lakes formed by TVA alone is longer than the entire shoreline of the Great Lakes? Sounds incredible, but that's what they say. Most of this has happened since the last census. It all has to go on | the new maps. The Cram Company is largely responsible for the popularity of globes today. President Peterson was always hearing his friends say they were going to get globes, and when they'd ask him how much a globe cost and he'd say, “Oh, from $15 to $40 for a good one,” that's the last he'd ever hear of them. So they decided to bring out a decent globe at a price that wouldn't scare people to death, As almost always happens in such cases, it worked. Ten vears ago not more than 5000 globes a year were being sold in the United States. Today the Cram Company alone often ships that many in a day, and the total vearly sale of all globes is now somewhere around 300,000.

By Anton Scherrer

rose petals with a pound of tobacco—any kind of tobacco. It was something an old German gardener had taught him. Mr. Vornehm said it made him happy to let me know about it. After the State House was done—at any rate, the stonework—Mr. Vornehm did a lot of traveling. He| had to go where the big work was. In 1890, or there-| abouts, he returned to Indianapolis to work on the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument.

u n 5 Foxes on the Circle The most exciting thing about that job, said Mr. Vornehm, were the fox dens in the Circle, You heard

me. Nobody knew where the foxes came from, but

they were there all right because Mr. Vornehm saw them often enough himself, The foxes stayed in their dens most of the day, but at night they went prowling around the neighborhood. Mr. Vornehm said he didn’t know why the foxes | went prowling around at night, but he was sure of | one thing. It wasn't because they were hungry. He was sure of that, he said, because Sandy Smith, the Scotch foreman on the job, always made it his busi-| ness to feed the foxes every evening after the whistle | blew. Sandy lived on the southeast quadrant of the Circle in the hotel run by Mrs. Rhodius, and anybody who! knows old Indianapolis knows that no fox had any | business looking for more food after tasting the kind | Mrs. Rhodius cooked, One day, without warning of any kind, the foxes left Indianapolis never to return. It just about broke | Sandy's heart, said Mr. Vornehm Mr. Vornehm was on the point of terminating his call when he remembered John Tattersall who worked | on the Court House in 1870, a good 10 years before the stonework on the State House was started. Mr. Vornehm guessed that made Mr. Tattersall the oldest | stonemason in Indianapolis. Mr. Vornehm said he] didn’t want to steal the whole show. Gee, I was sorry to hear of Mr. Vornehm's death. |

By Raymond Clapper

cates a general shortage of food over the continent, ! with the prospect of a famine. Germany certainly will not starve herself if there |

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Tailored Steel

Lewis Kossman rough turns a pedigreed bar,

By Sam Tyndall EVEN years ago Louis C. Buehler was just turning 50 and he was flat broke. Today Louis Buehler and his son, John, are the owners of what is considered one of the finest precision gear plants in America. The elder Mr. Buehler worked for vears up to 1933 to build a reputation a gear maker. At one time he was part owner of a machine company. But the depression wiped him and his company out. John had just graduated from Purdue University as a mechanical engineer. He pitched in with his father to start all over again. They sold the family home, scraped together everything they could and started a seven-man gear-making shop. "ather and son worked grinders and lathes side by side. The other five men had worked for Louis Buehler back in the old days. Today the Buehlers’ plant—the Indiana Gear Works—employs 120 machinists. In the next two months the plant, personnel and equipment will be increased by 70 per cent

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BL far more significant is the little-known fact that the Indiana Gear Works has become an almost indispensable part of the national defense program. If for any reason the plant should suddenly cease turning out its gears, the production of more than a dozen aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturers would be curtailed This includes the Allison Engineering plant, which depends upon 17 different Buehler gears for the Allison warplane motor. Gears are the heart of aircraft motors. They have to be durabie and extremely accurate. In fighting planes they have to stand intense strain. It takes tailored steel. And to turn out tailored steel

Milburn Hogan checks up on a small load of steel bars,

Walter Delks, one of the finest gear machinists in the United States,

OUIS BUEHLER has grown a trifle heavy with the years, but he still can perform any operation in his plant—and often does. He is definitely not a white-col-lar boss. He is a man of definite ideas about industry and labor relations. He is deeply concerned about the future of what he calls “free American enterprise He gives his friends books on American government, asks them to pass them along after they have read them. Louis Buehler won't let vou forget that seven years ago he was stone broke. “That was the depression,” he says. “Today I employ 120 men That's America. I want to keep it that way.” John Buehler 29, a married man with a young daughter. He has his father's ruggedness, the

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ing him constantly asking questions “Where's mv office?” he grinned. “Why over there.” He pointed to the metallurgical laboratory. “We had to have the laboratory. So I have no office.” He laughed outright.

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VERY bar of steel which comes to the plant comes with a pedigree, More than 50 variants of steel are used and each piece is accompanied by a certificate and affidavit of its analysis, its maker, its history. This pedigree process follows each gear cut from the bar step by step until it reaches the customer. Depending of course on what kind it is, the gear is first “rough turned” by a huge lathe. Tn this

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It must go to another grinder where the teeth and body are finished to within two-tenths of a

thousandth of an inch—.0002. Instruments measure the thickness, but the machinist himself must adjust the instruments and supervise the grinding. After this comes the heat treatment—heating the gear to 1500 degrees Yahrenheit and then quickly dropped into an oil bath. Without certain precautions, the heat treatment and the oil bath might destroy all that has gone before. The gear might emerge 0001 inch off—enough to destroy its value, But the Buehlers have a process of their own to minimize this pos=sibility. n ” ” FTER the oil bath, the gear is measured again, inspected minutely for nicks and scratches

long as a 12-inch ruler, as big around as a cigar and it's worth $200. The newest gear device turned out at Buehlers is a machine gun synchronizer which spaces the shots between airplane propeller blades. Tt is a secret experimental sychronizer designed by the Army Air Corps. It is not much larger than an oversize pencil, but it has more hidden gears and teeth than a dentist's office. The most complicated device is a fuel pump for airplane engines, Its specifications and dimensions would take three typewritten pages of mathematical formulas. Because of the plant's growing importance guards have already have been placed around it and the F. B. 1. is already planniag to extend its protection. But no matter how big the op= eration becomes, vou can bank on the fact that Louis Buehler is go=

process, oil is poured on the bar as it is turned. To the layman, the rough turned bar would emerge as a finished gear, but actually the work has only started

you have to have precision machinery, expert machinists, pa-

same ability to perform any operation that needs doing John is the co-ordinator on the plant floor. He goes from machine to machine, workers follow-

is food to be had on the continent. Conquered peoples | will have to starve and surrender food to the Germans. Mr. Hoover has been so concerned over| fience and perseverance All the danger of famine that he has personally consulted | these you can find at the Indiana with belligerents in the hope of working out some| Gear Works at 1458 E. 19th St. feeding arrangement for the conquered peoples. . - =

ing to remain what he is—an ins tense and practical realist who keeps reminding you that seven vears ago he didn't have a dime,

expected. If that proves to be the case, will we try to feed the peoples conquered by Germany? Or will we support a British blockade and watch French, Dutch, Belgian and Polish peoples starve? Until recently, informed opinion here was that England probably would be quickly crushed Germany. But we Know now that the German victories 1n Belgium and France were quick and easy because resistance was feeble. Apparently it wasn't a battle but a walkover. The Battle of Britain is lirely to be something different. The German landing operation in itself will be difficult. The British apparently have made most elaborate defense preparations over every inch of their territory. They seem to be fixed In their determination to fight until annihilated. The British Air Force is showing surprising effectiveness and its morale is understood to be high

and then polished until it glistens like silver. One gear—a drive shaft part of the Allison motor—is about as

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Here British intervenes. Starvation by blockade helped bring Germany to terms in the | World War. England believes that if she can cade

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stand the impending German attack, the blockade can be made to do its work again. She is even now | tightening her blockade. If Britain beats Germany, she must do it by starving Germany. For Britain to permit the United States to feed the French and ini Belgians and Dutch would be to acquiesce in a crack | fer It to Joining Army in her own blockade. Every ton of food sent in to| Or Navy conquered peoples releases iron rations for Germany. . Britain may be expected to resist any feedin ro=- | ; posals iPro ah Uscmiployes Ticlisns : But the United States will be burdened with flocking to join the Civilian Consurplus food. So will South America. We will be servation Corps, while Uncle Sam is carrving it at considerable expense. Prices are down | having trouble filling quotas for his in the Farm Belt. Political pressure in the United | expanding Army and Navv States will be strong for disposing of surpluses in| The quarterly Indiana CCC quota the starving countries of Europe. The humanitarian of 1511 was filled Wednesday, al appeal also will be present. week before the close of the enroll. On the other side of the argument will be the ing period. Enrollment began on direct national interest which the United States has|julv 1. in a British victory. If it looks as thouzh a blockade | The state quota for CCC membermight break Germany, will we want to interfere? |ship was set at 1453 at the beginThus it is possible that if the British hold out, We ning of the enrolling period, but so will face a most difficult decision as to whather many applications were received we shall rontribute to the starvation of Europe to that the state quota was raised to, defeat Germany, or try to feed Europe and frustrate!1511. Thurman A. Gottschalk. state the British. Or can we use our food resources as a | welfare administrator and director lever to soften German peace demands? fot the CCC enrollment, said | Many of the youths joining the CCC say they prefer the relief agency to the armed forces because they do not want to go to war, state officials said. Many of them object, too, to the longer period of enlisttain restraints, but also, and more important, in free- ment in the Army and Navy ines evacuated for the refugees dom for Se 2 Tien of certain ends.” ich | However, under terms of legisla- from the north. A letter has come to me with an appeal which is tion now pending in Congress, these| nro if v d only se really touching. It is from a young doctor in New youths may be given non-combatant |, Ny Co a yo it AR MY AGAIN TO TEST York City. He tells the tale of spending 10 vears in military training. At their present | would : break “your hearts; driven the study of medicine. He counts the cost of those duties, they are being trained asi from home, families separated, | MINE LAYING ABILIT years plus the $1800-a year job which he gave up in mechanics, in road-building, string- | mothers with babies in their arms, |

A tragic pen picture of France under the heel of the enemy has been received by Mrs. Robert E |Doran, 1503 N. Pennsylvania St, in (a letter from her aunt, Mme. Marie |Loret, whose home is in Nice, France Mme. Loret wrote the letter June 25, after the end of hostilities and while the flight of refugees from occupied territory was at its height. The letter had not been censored. The aunt, born and educated at Manchester, England, married a Frenchman and settled at Nice. At the start of the war, she and her family were forced to give up their beautiful villa to be used as quarters for French officers. “I with a sad, that I write you these she said. “We had to leave home land all and are here in France in a tiny country place (Cantal) in a kind of old barn, but were lucky enough to be able to rent that as there are thousands ih the street | without cover or shelter, others sleeping on straw in public build-

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vouths are un un ” ——— The Danger of Famine The British plan is to endure anything in order to nold on and then to trust to ruthless blockade ot the continent to sap Germany's endurance. It the British should withstand the punishment and be able to screw their blockade down tight as winter comes then the war would take on a quite different aspect First would come the problem ot continent President Roosevelt apparently does not think severe food shortage is likely in Europe HowHerbert Hoover, who because of his World War has maintained a special interest in food conditions, says his information indi-

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My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday. —I drove up from New York City last night with Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and spent the night with her in Fishkill. We had a very pleasant, happy morning together. There is no lovelier view than the one from her porch, and a swim in her pool is alwavs delightful. After lunch I came back to Hyde Park to find a peaceful and very much reduced household. But I never find that we are long without guests and I am always happy to see my friends here. My mother-in-law is back from Fairhaven, and I wish for her sake that it was cooler, for she needs rest after the ordeal which she has been through. The Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell has sent me an article which he wrote called: “What Shall the

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Church Say to America?” published in “The Living

Church” on July 24. There is a paragraph in it which I think we should all keep in our minds these days: “We Americans, in common with other nations, whose governments were founded on a ‘liberal’ or ‘democratic’ basis, have dangerously forgotten the fact

. ee Phi ibude bint ting, rien a { ( QUOTA FOR 000 Letter Received Here Tells SIX NAMED FOR MAYBE ROOSEVELT v | | DOESN'T LIKE HITLER man who gave his name as Oscar know vet Although they will be | to end the war, He wants to visit Premier Maurice Duplessis of Ques man’s heart is bleeding and it will v At Capital Parley. | when he appeared at police heads by Governor Townsend to represent! United States to see Mr. Roosevelt, the government but needn't do so. me ———— Sz hold out a little longer. But the called for Aug. 5 and 6 by President nothing. It's jolly hard to swallow, i » vel D. Jackson, Raymond Dj 1—One pint of beer contains about now where the Huns have invaded, .haijrman of the Governor's Emerg-| crs ir Vix Tobe Suh? able to hear from her. 1 don't qyeadway, ‘executive secretary, ofl ot avencyd thi i ire (her soldier son- roi -_te 1ing. And Andre (her so Ss tor Jacob Weiss and State Repre- Will a speedometer register more he’s alive or dead , i Pat bers. ‘He if larger-diameter tires are used t int pH $ y an’ ” hi iol HE Ee ueaust We 1% * Governments, which ‘includes the g_ what number constitutes the full attorney general. The conference n_1s Moscow or Leningrad the caps | Participants will discuss Federal Fifteen years after finishing school he is still doing many other activities which will fit|gescribable. And it all happened — Ihe Army will test its mine lay- [9—No treats as many as 20 people a day in the clinics and | Youths interested in enrolling in gry, | next six weeks, it was learned today. 5 Power which he receives no remuneration, his private pa- now at the 92 county welfare offices. mostly devastated, and everybody ble, Me; Ft. Adams, R. I.; Ft. Stev-| MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 27 (U. P.). .»» knows could well afford to pay for a private doctor. |0f 17 and 23':, out of school, un-|he Heaven only knows. [this week at Ft. Hancock, N. J. golden reunion of United ConfedTT | . reply when addressin any has militated against the possibility of earning a liv-| GIRL HEADS FLIGHT CLASS | handed? England promised to send! The War Department said that| On this 50th annual get-together, : Washington Service Bureau, enter into this difficult situation. I tell you this tale Marian E. Thomas, a high school were not ready for battle. And artillery in planting “fixed mines”— hind Old Glory in a spirit of aladvice cannot be given nor can doctors cannot earn a living, Something is wrong in| Miss Thomas, however, was the first So it was a walkover |of offshore and floating mine oper- Sons of Confederate Veterans will that liberty consists not merely in freedom from cer-

| Archambault told Judge Thomas Governor Appoints Delega- Adolf Hitler personally and take cruel and hard, we can't do any- POI : | bee with him hurt terribly to have to support the BN Six persons were named yesterday quarters to demand a pass to the Yt ‘tHev Hud heloed th Indiana at the conference in Wash-| diy they ha 1elped as ey prom- TEST YOU R Germans were too strongly armed Roosevelt. “Yvonne (her daughter) left her mslev ‘of ; 1 Townsley of Danville, American Le 100. 200 or 300 calories? so I've not been able to have any ency Defense Council; Frank E. 3-The ‘Comptroller ‘General of ‘the know if she and the babies are ;,. rndiana Commission on Inter- 4—How ‘many ‘degrees in-law whom she last saw at Christ- . .¢tive Benjamin ¥. Harris of or fewer miles per-Hour thaw 2h “It's enough to drive anybody (.yitations were issued by | without changing he speed ind ‘coal or wood | Interstate Co-operation Commis-| membership in the U. 8. House (will be opened by a message from | ital of Soviet Russia? land state law enforcement problems Answers daily a great deal of charity work. into the national defens ram, | ’ ; i ing facilities at four Atlantic and r mh g : r a nse program, so quickly. Now the soldiers are 8 BOYS IN GRAY MEET | 3—General Accounting Office. wards. He is married and has three children under the CCC during the October enroll- | “What can you expect? Nearly| The exercises in August and 6-435 tients are very few, |cce eligibility requirements are that has fled to one part and there isn't | ens, Ore, and Ft. Scott, Cal. Simi-|--Maj. Gen. Ben C. Mathes, chief ASK THE TIMES He feels that much which has been done to make it married and unemployed. “Our soldiers were the bravest on the approaches to New York har- erate Veterans would be held Oct. ¢ question of fact or information ing as a doctor in private practice. SAGINAW, Mich, July 27 (U. P.,).| 26 divisions at the beginning. In the exercises are held a.nually as| between 300 and 400 men in gray 1013 13th St, N W, Washing» to point your thoughts to a problem which is two- teacher, was the only woman mem- apart from that we were betrayed those that are exploded from shore legiance and comradeship. l extended research be wunderthe set-up. member of the class to fiy solo. “The hostilities were ended yes- ations, hold their 45th annual conventién.

| QUEBEC, July (U P) =A ——— terday, on what terms we don't] | Tremblay today that he had a plan . : | President Roosevelt and former thing else but accept. Every French-| tion t0 Represent Indiana : - Mr. Archambault “England is criticizing the acts of | ington on non-military problems ised, we might have been able to in every way and they stopped at, They are Attorney General Samhome two months ago and she is ot ps " 8 gion state commander and vice Are any of President Roosevelt 'S don’t know wh I will be y mt " tr . news and don now en Finnev, chairman, and William E U. S. is head of which governs alive, ‘or if they have food or AnY-|yste Co-operation, and State Sena-| ° Lot uncle mas time) we don’t know either if gichmond, both commission mem=-| ean pe oC tally traveling crazy. 1 hope we won't have to pass puaciqent to the Council of State ometer gearing? — sion of each state and each state| ,f Representatives? | the President. order to become a doctor, as an investment of $25,000. ing telephone lines, photography and land old folks—it is absolutely in- | WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P {in ‘connection ‘with national defense. | 1—Aboiit 200. He is on the staff of a teaching institution and Officials explained. |walking about, and they are hun- Pacific coast harbors during the [ON ety 50TH TIME OCT. 10 vears of age. In spite of the charity work, for ment period may make application|all France has been invaded and | September will be held at Ft. Pre~ T= MOSSOW He says he sees people going into clinics whom he & Youth must be between the ages enough food. What the end will lar demonstrations were held earlier of staff, announced today that the [ Inclnse a 3-cent stamp for possible for the very poor to obtain medical attention | a pari | men, but how can one fight empty- bor. 18-11 in Washington. P i to The Indianapolis Times Of course, there are a great many factors which —Some of them laughed when Miss all, they sent 10 divisions, and we part of the training of the coast who rebelled in 1861 will parade beton, D. C. Legal and medical sided. Many people are without medical care. Many ber of the Saginaw CAA flving class. by the King of Belgium and others. by electricity. The Navy has charge] In conjunction with the reunion, taken,

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