Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1940 — Page 15

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940

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Hoosier Vagabond

BROWN COUNTY, Ind, Aug. 29—Today I must leave Brown County, and I feel sad about it. You dont suppose the old Hoosier is going to revert to his homeland. do you? But it has been so peaceful here. And people have been so good. Why, I know half the people in town by their first names. Nobody yet has called fe by my last name, and I like that.

The other day I took my car into Paul Percifield’'s garage to have the rear bumper tightened. When I went to get it there wasn't any charge. “Why, Paul,” I said, “you can't make a living that wav.” “No.” he said, “and vou can't make friends charging them for two minutes’ work ti i a bolt either” mutes’ work tightening up That's the reason I like it.

way Brown County is. That's one

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Lester P. Nagley is the “poor artist” of Brown County. He is not a member of the Art Gallery Association. He came originally for his health; he has no money; he barely manages to get along. People have been good to him, but when they count up the artists on their fingers they don't count him.

The Vagabond Artist

He has a room in a private home, and his exhibit or “studio” is the back porch, just outside his door. I went one night and sat on the porch with him. And I liked his pictures. Much of the time Lester lies on the grass back of the Court House. He always carries his campstool with him. He has been writing for 15 years on a book about God. He does not have long hair. He signs himself “The Vagabond Artist of Brown County,” probably because he has to live around here and there wherever he can. He makes woodcuts, and prints them on an old washing machine wringer that came down from his grandmother,

Karl Martz lives in a frame cottage a quarter mile west of Nashville. It is just like a little, low farm-

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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

MRS. HELEN KOOLBECK, whose husband, Roy, works at the Philgas Service Agencv in Maywood, came In to tell us the story of Queenie and her family and we've just got to pass it on to you because of all the complications. It seems Queenie showed up sometime ago at the Philgas place and everybody got sort of used to having her around. One day she disappeared, showed up again several days later. Roy Koolbeck and the others figured it out and started a search. Sure enough, under a loading platform they found two wriggly little pups which they promptly named “Phyllis” and “Philly.” They bought all sorts of food and boasted to one and all of their family.” Then. one day a driver for a dairy walked off with “Phyllis” and “Philly,” one tucked under each arm. The folks out at Philgas got on the phone right away and threatened the dairy with immediate boycott if those pups weren't brought back pronto. They came back pronto, too. x

Showered With Attention

Day before yesterday “Phyllis” died and the Philgas bays buried her sadly. Now, theyre showering “Philly” with enough attention to turn any dog's head, much less a young one's. The boys have provided him with a padded box under the loading platform ana the office staff has bought some flea powder Just in case.” Meantime, Queenie goes right ahead being a devoied mother She won't let little Phil out from under the platform for fear hell be run over by the trucks. When he does get out of the box, she barks at him and pushes at him until he retreats, protesting. to his box. The Philgas boys just beam. » x »

THIS WILLKIE-ROOSEVELT rivalry is getting hotter and hotter every day around here. A bunch of the boys who have been eating luncheon together

Washington

WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.—While the Willkie campaign has not taken on the fervor of the crusade that the candidate promised when he appeared before the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, still it has its refreshing aspects. Even the spectacle of Willkie 3 x and his running-mate, Senator McNary. disagreeing over the Hull reciprocal trade program has something forthright about it, giving what they say an integrity not always present in political campaigns. It is no crime to have a disagreement inside the family. Better that Willkie and McNary should stand by their respective convictions—as did Mrs. Roosevelt and the President when they disagreed over the American Youth Congress—tihan to pose in fake harmony. Remember too that Secretary Hull and the Adminischairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

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as Willkie and McNary.

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The Willkie Courage The important thing is that neither Willkie nor McNary appear tempted to subside into mumbling mealy-mouth evasions. Well, McNary did duck on conscription, giving that the complete silent treatment in his acceptance speech. But he was paired in favor of its passage in the Senate yesterday. He also skated lightly over the fact that his McNaryHaugen farm relief bill was twice vetoed by a Repub-

lican President. : But he stood by his guns on the New Deal social

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.—Last evening I spent a most interesting time talking with a ‘group of people who are following world and domestic events from day to day. One man said something which scemed to me very extraordinary, and yet I have heard it said by many people. I begin to wonder if it is ene of the things that come partly from our background, which has given us a sense of isolation from the world, or whether it is a thought being suggested to us by people who would like to confuse our thinking. The statement runs something like this: “There is much talk today about the need for mobilization, but I have never heard stated. to my satisfaction, what we TE are mobilizing against.” . It seems very clear to me that we are mobilizing against a force represented by Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan, a force which believes in the domination by the state of the individual, which has, in fact, very little consideration for the individual; allows for no personal liberties or preferences: tells the individual what religion to practice and sets the state up as a religion. This force orders the daily way of life for everyone, and when it decides to go to war, sacrifices hu-

By Ernie Pyle

house anywhere in the Midwest. The front yard has shade trees. Out back he has a shop, or a studio, or a foundry, or whatever you call it. He is a potter. And of all the art I have seen in Brown County, the wizardry of Karl Martz impressed me beyond everything else. He is a young man. They have a baby only 3 months old. Karl came from Columbus, O.,, and is here because his father is a teacher in Indiana University, 18 miles away. He first learned about pottery at Ohio State University in 1931. He restudied it in 1935. He has been practicing it as an art and a profession for the | last five years. It is just now getting where it makes him a living. Karl is reticent, low-spoken, gratefully polite. He does not speak in arty terms. He explains to you the simple mechanics of his work; he glows with enthusiasm only when he describes the chemistry of the glazes that make his work so individualistic.

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- p55 . Exhibition in Parlor The parlor of his home is the exhibition room. In it today stand the most beautiful pieces of pottery I have ever seen. His most expensive piece is priced at $40. They ran on down to $2.50. The ingenuity and artistry | that he fashions into his clay are actually touching. I predict that 15 years from now Kari Martz will be America’s No. 1 artist in pottery. And I predict | also that he will still speak softly and humbly and

simply.

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I want to come back sometime to Brown County when the slopes turn into the bitter beauty of dying summer. Come back and hunt squirrels with the boys, and listen to the quartet at night, and go far out into the back dirt roads where the cabins still lean. There is an accumulation of generations of dignity | about these rolling hills and their peoples that gives me a nostalgia and a feeling of deep respect. The artists and the local people of the hills have found a common bond. But there are many people who | come, and take a look, and go away without under- | standing. The other night I heard a remark by an outsider who has lived here so long she is almost an insider. She was referring to those who mean well, but still look down. Her's was a beautiful tribute. She said: “Nobody need try teaching culture to the Brown County people. They've already got culture.”

for vears dammed near got into a fist-fight yesterday over the comparative merits and demerits of their men. Incidentally, the drugstore at Methodist Hospital is doing a smoking business. An astute stogie manufacturer put out eight-inch "cigars marked simply “Willkie” and “Roosevelt.” Right away, they ran right out of the “Willkie” kind and had to re-order. A Willkie man just told us that one of the town's most prominent doctors has gone evervbody a step better. He was seen strolling down the hospital corri- | dor, flourishing a 12-inch “Willkie” stogie. But then came a Roosevelt backer to point out | gleefully that the big Willkie-McNary signs on the] front of the Columbia Club are spotlighted at night by four big projectors. Well, he says, in midday when the sun is shining just right, the shadows from the! reflectors give both Mr. W. and Mr. M. a black eye, apiece. An omen, he calls it.

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THE WORKMEN ON THE old Stutz Building are! chipping off those medallions on top of the coping. . . .| You know, the ones that say: “The Car That Made | Good in a Day.” . .. Theyre coming off because the | copings are loose and a little dangerous. . . .

Just the | same 1t marks the end of another phase in our local] history. . The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles! Klamer are awaiting their return from their honeymoon anxiously. It seems the Klamers| got one wedding present that has puzzled) everybody. . It was a teakwood plank 4':| feet long, a foot wide and three inches thick. . Everybody wants to know what the Klamers are going | to do with it. . . . Two groups of West Side business | people apparently got the idea, simultaneously, that] what the neighborhood lacked was a bowling alley. , Each set about to fill the need and when each found out what the other was up to the race was on. . . .| Several weeks ago the one in the 900 block of N.| Holmes was finished and now the one in the 2300) block of W. Michigan is done, both of them completed | in record time and both as sumptuous as a movie | palace . If the construction race is any criterion, | this winter's business competition is going.to be as] hot as the Willkie-Roosevelt affair.

By Raymond Clapper

reforms and public power policy which he has supported against the opposition of most of his own| party in Congress. Running-mate Willkie followed | through at once with an indorsement of what Mc-| Nary had said. | Willkie showed courage in going against many of his own party in supporting conscription and the Roosevelt view of the importance of British survival to the United States. That was an inviting place for a cheap demagog to put his conscience on ice and go |

after the votes.

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Days of Strain

There was fine public courage also in the way Willkie repudiated the support of Father Coughlin. His example could-<well be emulated in this campaign. If democracy has one curse, it is that it puts a premium upon evasiveness and bowing to pressure groups. Republicans who have belabored the Administration for svending have in many instances simultaneously played for the Townsend old-age pension vote. These are bound to be davs of severe strain on political figures. Great temptation exists under free democracy to truckle to the short-sighted, to the pressure minorities, to the lure of the soft decision. The| only offset is individual strength on the part of men in public life, strength to stand for what they believe will be to the best long-run interest of the nation. In that sense the Willkie candidacy thus far has| contributed toward invigorating our democratic processes. Whether from this start Willkie can step up his campaign into the promised crusade remains to| be seen. Main St. From his Rushville, Ind, campaign headquarters he will conduct a campaign that will take him around the country. He is assured of an eager| hearing and the rest is up to him.

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Oscar Black unloaded entries from the Henry Smith farm

Greenwood. This is the last and least.

By Joe Collier HE barkers are ready to tee off on their larynxes. The taffy is ready and melting. The big league cattle are lowing. That's right! The Indiana State Fair is ready to open tomorrow. It’s the biggest vet, folks, the fair people admit confidentially. It's better, too, they add in a whisper. Tomorrow it will be in full blast, Today it looks like this: A razor blade salesman appeared vesterday to sell the people who will be selling you candy

and what-not tomorrow His argument was that the hawkers

| would be so busy they wouldn't

town for a super-

have time to go to shave! Some hawkers, stitious, bought.

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very vicious looking bull, with long horns and plenty of all-American muscle to back them, stood yesterday in the cattle barn close to a radio which was playing, of all things, "Sweet Sue.”

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u u 4 are more poster cards in connection the Fair than there are in seven ordinary Every general attraction is advertised on fence posts and places, together with the Fair itself and then a bevy of directional posters. Bewildered fair visitors who can’t seem to find what they want should phone TA lbot 2471.

HERE different

with playing cards poker games.

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The Indiana Geology Division adds a new feature to the Fair— a limestone exhibit, Furnished by the Promotional Division of the Indiana Limestone Institute, it will consist of all manner of stone and the diamond-toothed saws, planes and tools with which it is processed. Might be an idea for a home hobby, if the little woman likes limestone nick-nacks. = Six carefully selected beavers will be the cast of the beaver

dam and pool show at the Conservation Department exhibit this

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PLEA TO F. D.R.

Program, No Recognition Of Conquests.

CHICAGO, Aug. 29 (U. P.).—The

{Committee to Defend America by | Waging Peace—116 clergymen, pro- | fessors, {urged President [with other neutrals in an offer to end the wars in Europe, Asia and {Africa through joint mediation.

writers and others—today Rosevelt to join

The group urged “an uncondition-

lal armistice on all fields of battle” (without recognition of military conquest.

In an open letter to Mr. Roosevelt

“1. The offer of our friendly

He has now moved from Wall Street to services to bring the wars in Europe Asia and Africa to an end by joint mediation.

“2. Announcement of our purpose

to lead the world into a non-mili-

tary union.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

“3. Actual summoning of a world

constitutional convention with invitations to all nations to send dele|gates.”

The letter urged the United

man beings with apparent indifference. Under this States to co-operate in “creating the system the production of human beings becomes after necessary political machinery for all a business like any other, ordered by the govern- worid government.”

ment, so the sacrifice of human lives is just a matter |

Signers included Oswald Garrison

of judgment whether the objectives to be attained are | yillard, former editor of the Na-

worth what you have to pay for them.

[tion; Sara Cleghorn, author; Prof.

That is the force and the system, yes, the philos- | George W. Hartman, Columbia Uni-

ophy that we are mobilizing against. nomic and moral standpoint, he who runs may read

From the eco- versity; Bishop Paul Jones, Ohio; { Prof. Edward C. Wagenknecht, Uni-

the necessity of this mobilization. The military needs versity’ of Washington, and Carlemay not be quite so clear to all of us, but I have aly,, Washburne, progressive educafeeling that with the background of what we have tion leader.

seen happen to other nations, there is one thing which | every mother can think about. The bully rarely attacks where he thinks he’s going to be beaten. We women want peace, we do not wish to see our sons go to war. I believe our greatest safety | lies in having our nation ready. The men must be) trained to the highest efficiency, and so well equipped | with all the modern mechanisms of war that the

Fire

MEXICAN REFINERY

DAMAGED BY FIRE

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29 (U. P.) — of mysterious origin today

AID PEACE PLAN, |

Committee Urges 3-Point

{ |

and foreign affairs leaders, the com- | mittee proposed:

strongest amcng the powers of the world will think caused an estimated $800.000 damage |

the price too high. There 1s undoubtedly need for discussion as to just

have, and how we should achieve it. But we should |

at A Atzcapotzalco, on the outskirts of what type and degree of military preparation we shally

the new Pemex refinery at

he capital.

Marion Jessup, Hamilton

year. Six of the best histrionic beavers in the State, Hank Cottingham guarantees satisfaction or show money refunded.

P. S. The show is free!

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NE branch of the State Forestry Department will start “forest” fires as a daily feature of the exhibit and another branch will rush in and put them out. This is a new feature and everyvone in the department has his fingers crossed. ” Potentially the most spectacular feature of the Fair is not here. Tom Johnston, Purdue University and fair publicity man was out west for his vacation and wired Fair managers he was trying to sign up Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone. They couldn't come to terms.

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Hoosier Goings On

UNAFRAID

Rush County Democrats Map Campaign; $8 A Day Job Goes Begging At Gary

County, hibitor to arrive. He's brushing up on his favorite steer.

President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie in grease, | are done in lard by Charles Umlauf of the Chicaga Art Institute and are on view at the State Fair.

first 4-H club livestock ex-

University will have a 12-hour daily stage show in its building It will have great variety—everything from folk songs to in-the-flesh dentistry, or in-the-enamel.

Indiana

=n The taffy this year is above par, a pre-chew shows. It will ensnare and hold immobile for two minutes four teeth at a time,

Previous record was two Also, it will glue three fingers together on the eating hand.

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HE 4-H lads were busy finger waving and combing today. Not their own hair, for goodness sakes. They were beauty treating the steers they are to exhibit, to make them look pretty and maybe, in one or two instances, to try to fool the judges about the real architecture of the steer.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM

YOU'D THINK THE Democrats over in Rush County would be pretty discouraged, what with all the excitement over Wendell Willkie

headquarters there.

But they're pretty hard to down. Instead of just coasting along in the face of the Willkie enthusiasm, the Rush County Democratic or=

ganization has opened headquarters

uous campaign, No fooling. = » THINGS CAN'T be so bad up at Gary, not when $8-a-day jobs go

begging. Duncan Russell, Gary's electrical inspector, has become pretty discouraged over his search for an electrician to be his assistant for a couple of months at that price. He has the money all appropriated, but can't find anyone interested. The whoie trouble, it seems, is that electricians up there are getting $13.60 a day, and have steady work. Meanwhile, Mr. Duncan is working himself to death doing double duty.

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Williams of Delphi is dusting off |

his hiking shoes for his annual 15-mile hike to the Old Settlers Day at Monticelle Saturday.

his trip by his twin brother, Albert. But Albert was a sissy and gave up after 40 years.

IT'S AN old, old story that comes from up in the northern part of the State. Back in the pioneer days it wasn’t considered news—too common. But now it’s getting to be news again. Here it is: A couple of weeks ago, Jennings B. Horn, a farmer living south of Spencerville, was injured seriously in a threshing accident. You can't do much fall plowing if youre lying in a fracture bed in a hospital, Mr. Horn's neigh-

| bors reasoned.

The government had recently an-|

not let any idea get abroad that we do not under-| nounced that experiments were near stand what we are mobilizing for, and above all, it!completion at the plant for promust be clear that we are ready and willing to duction of high quality gasoline for

{Mexican consumption.

So they all got together this week and decided to do something about it, just like their pioneer forefathers. Rounding up a dozen tractors, the neighbors pitched in

| | quisitioned some At first, he was accompanied on |

and is getting ready for a stren-

and plowed up three different fields on the Horn farm for fall

| wheat.

Those 12 tractors and their vol= unteer operators knocked out the

| job in jig time.

The neighbors all felt better about the world when the job was done. And so do we. ” ” » HENRY FREYMAN, custodian of Plymouth’s Centennial Park, is convinced Indiana's National Guardsmen are a bunch of “city fellers” who don't know what to do with straw. Informed that some of the Guard's units, en route to the Wis= consin maneuvers, would encamp in the park. Mr. Freyman refirewood and three tons of straw—the straw for

| beds.

The guardsmen arrived and spent the night as scheduled. When they left early next morn=ing, Mr. Freyman found the firewood all gone, but he still had three full tons of straw. The troopers just rolled up in their blankets and slept on the ground. The custodian would like to get

{ the straw out of his park. He has asked the City something.

Council to do

BAND TO SERENADE

] Mrs. James Maxwell,

| entries.

Mary Jo Maher, a member of publicity to know better

the enough

long to

office crew

than

be here this year, is back never-

theless. “I'm

little sigh,” for organized madness.”

That's

just

ready,” she said, with a

another week of

what it will be,

too, if things run smoothly.

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Tevi Moore, also back at the

publicity practicising job attendance. Mr

in his eyes,

office as up to estimate daily

director, was It is his the paid

todav.

Moore gat a far-away look leaned back

in his

chair and came up with this:

“We'll

have 450.000 paid ad-

missions this year.” Then he snapped out of it, and looked pretty surprised. that's 33.000 more

“By golly, than last Pretty good!”

County their axes

At their councilmen set

vear.

Councilmen today {scanning the County Welfare Department budget for next year, meeting

ming the various enough to hold the property tax rate)

Pretty good!

WELFARE FUND FAGES PRUNING

as they began

yesterday, the heir goal at trimcounty budgets

Waukegan,

Council Hints That $30,000 May Be Cut From T.B. | Budget Plea.

sharpened

to 46 cents. This is 3 cents under) the current levy and almost 8 cents lunder the levy neceszary to finance

feel.

000

Of this

Hospital.

The Council yesterday that the County Tuberculosis Hospital budget request of nearly $230,000—an increase of nearly $50.000— probably will be cut to about $200,- | 000.

the various department’s requests. The Welfare Department request affords them the best opportunity to make a substantial slash,

they

County Provides Million

The budget totals almost $3,650, {_Are limes hybrid fruits? 2—Which is the largest continent?

3-—Where

next year

$200,000 is the

$5000 Asked For Well Hospital officials have asked $25,-

{000 to build two homes for

Only $1,175,000 of this total would | be provided by the County, however, | the State and Federal Governments providing the remainder. The Welfare budget actually calls | ! [for several thousand dollars less in| 6—The width of the English Chanoperating expenditures than was appropriated for this year, but the total request is up $240,000. |7—Which of the Great Lakes is sum, perennial request for a working bal-| ance. and $159,000 is asked to apply 6—Who is John Mulholland? on delinquent payments

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to Riley |

The candidates, riding their party animals,

Ill, judges 4-H club canning

Indiana University also will have a Mt. Rushmore-like duo of the heads of Wendell L. Willkie and Paul V. McNutt, They are both Indiana University graduates, both members of the same fraternity and thé same class, They bating.

limestone

won't, however, be de-

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I. U. also is supposed to have an exhibit that will show how conservationists tag fish for future reference. The fish then are allowed to swim free and, when again they are caught, something biographical is known of them. Only trouble is that to date no one seems to know where the fish are. The man responsible is vacationing at Winona Lake and an expedition to that resort is being organized.

SubsDebWins

Prize for Pallor

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (U Fiddling at fires always has fascinated historians and if they want to make sometlring of

it, we offer them the intelligence that in 1940, the year of blitzkrieg and Willkie, a sub-debutante named Susan Stephenson was acclaimed as possessing the most attractive night club pallor in Manhattan. Eminent artists crowned Miss Stephenson queen of the cafe society palefaces in a judgment handed down appropriately at the Beachcomber, a night club which features such inconsistencies as sultry tropical atmosphere and air conditioning, as well as the most powerful drinks in the city, and the moral advice not to consume more than two of them an evening.

P).—

80,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

is Abraham Lincoln

buried?

4—-What is spelter? | 5—What

is the meaning of the Latin phrase: “Veni, vidi, vici”?

nel at its narrowest point is approximately 20, 30 or 50 miles? within the

entirely United

States?

Answers

indicated | 1—No. 2—Asia. 3—Springfield, Ill. 4—Zinc.

|5—1 came, I saw, I conquered.

6—Twenty miles,

| 7—Lake Michigan.

phy- |

|sicians and $5000 for an additional | well, and these two items probably

will be

removed from the budget

Patients at the U. 8. Veterans’'|and the work, if approved, financed Hospital, Cold Springs Road, will be| hy bond issue.

serenaded by the Big Four Railway | Band tomorrow night. Cigarets and| Department

In their study budget,

of the Highway

cigars will be distributed by the Big|gasoline tax, the Council yesterday

Four Booster Club. The program is | considered rearranging

the budget

sponsored by the railway’s American | to provide more funds for road materials and less for salaries,

Legion Post and Auxiliary. ’

RE EE TEP NR

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financed by!

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