Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1940 — Page 13

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1940

~The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD S. S. WASHINGTON, in the Caribbean, Sept. 18.—One of the dining room stewards aboard this liner is a semi-famous young man named Pinky Ginsberg. His real first name is Herman, but he hasn't heard it spoken in 15 years. Pinky's fame is due to the fact that he is vying with One Eyed Connelly as the world's foremost gatecrasher. Pinky has been gatecrashing since he was 19, when he got into a high school football game by building a trash fire near the gate, yelling “Fire!” and then rushing in when the gatekeeper went to put out the blaze. He has used that fire ruse many times since. But that isn’t his only trick for getting past tough ticket-takers. He often disguises himself in a fireman's uniform, or as a Western Union boy, or as a candy seller with a basket of chocolates and peanuts. Pinky’s gatecrashing is confined to his short time ashore between trips, because there's hardly any place you could crash aboard ship unless it was through an open hatch, and that could hardly be considered good sport. Mr. Ginsberg first went to sea in 1923, when he was —well, approximately 16. He says he doesn't know how old he is. It’s 31 or 33 or something like that. He first went as a bellboy. Ever since then he has been a waiter. He has crossed the Atlantic nearly 300 times. He wishes he'd never seen a ship.

Easy Come, Easy Go

He says that of 15 boys in his Jersey neighborhood when he was a kid, eight are now doctors, six are lawyers, and the 15th—Pinky Ginsberg—is just a table waiter. He thinks he might have amounted to something if he'd stayed ashore. Pinky is really a fabulous individual, although he speaks quietly and there's no brag about him. He has stayed ashore only four years in the last 17. He has ways of making money, and twice has gone into the saloon business. Each time he went broke, because he gave everything away. Also, he has a mania for gambling. Many times he has had $10,000 one day and noth-

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

MRS. KENNETH HUFFORD, who lives at 228 E. 13th, went over to the Library the other day and among her selections brought home a book called “Morals for Moderns.” Imagine her surprise when inside it she found a 3x5 pink card on which was printed neatly this message: “This reader (young man) desires to contact an intellectual young woman interested in cultural pursuits who also wishes the acquaintance of one with compatible objectives. As a naive access, this request is intended only for one sincere in reciprocation. The implications herewith tendered, therefore, are in nowise to be construed as unworthy of consideration. If interested contact by placing an answer in the pocket of the book ‘The Dead Musician,” by O'Donnell, No. 811, American Poetry Shelf.” The startled Mrs. Hufford turned the card over and there she found explicit rules for the placing of the answer, including this: “If after due consideration and agreement we desire to meet it can be arranged. I shall look forward to hearing from you, trusting this may prove a stepping stone toward a future friendship.” The gentleman even left a card for the answer and Mr. Hufford, who is one of the publicity men attached tc the State Employment Service, insisted that Mrs. Hufford answer the chap. She declined coyly.

Enough’s Enough

LAST THURSDAY, the du Pont Co. sent out an appeal for between 500 and 600 “form and finish”

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Informed opinion here

is beginning te take the slant that Hitler has run into trouble and that a turn, unfavorable to him, is developing. Opinion is shifting to the view that the war will go into a stalemate through the winter.

Terrible as is the damage inflicted upon England by air, it does not appear enough to decide the issue. Threatened shortage of British pilots is about to be relieved. The House of Lords was told yesterday that a flow of highly skilled crews and pilots would soon begin to redress the balance in the air. The Germans have not been able to destroy the British Air Force as they were able to destroy the Polish Air Force on the ground.

Although some have thought Hitler was waiting for fall fog to screen his attempted invasion, the more authoritative view is that he has been delayed for other reasons, among which might be shortages of lubricating oil and aviation gasoline. Both are difficult to obtain and enormous quantities have been used. Failure to deliver the knockout blow from the air now makes it increasingly doubtful that Hitler will attempt invasion this winter, as the channel is becoming increasingly difficult. Prediction is risky and no one is doing more than offering an informed judgment as to the probabilities, There have been so many wrong guesses about Hitler, and he has so consistently been underestimated, that one hopes the current view is not too much influenced by wishful thinking.

Conquered Nations Ravaged

It is characteristic of Hitler that he does not move unless the chances of success are strongly in his favor. He seldom takes risks. His preparation is careful and he does not move until his preponderance seems clearly decisive. Everything considered, it would not cause much

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—I paid a visit yesterday morning to the Democratic National Headquarters, and to my delight found my old and dear friend, Miss Molly Dewson, back to help in the campaign. Mrs. Dorothy McAllister, who is in charge of the women’s division, told me “:@® With great joy of her arrival, and I went at once in search of her and found her looking up all her old friends.

She was chatting in Mrs. Michelson’s office and we visited several other people together. We wanted to see Mr. Farley and Mr. Flynn, but both the gentlemen were out. I imagine Molly went back again. Later, I succeeded in seeing Mr. Flynn for a few minutes, but unfortunately was unable to be there when Mr. Farley was in his office. I had not seen Miss Dewson for some time. but I felt as every one else did—enthusiastic over her return. I always like to go to see Mrs. McAllister and all the others who are working so hard at the national headquarters, but I shall enjoy it doubly now that Molly's dry humor will be there to light up every incident. Last night I dined with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, affiliated with the A. F. of L. It was the 15th anniversary of their biennial conven-

‘with a smile, ‘ Pinky has supreme contempt for One-Eyed Con-

By Ernie Pyle

ing the next. But he takes it with a gambler’s stoicis:n. He's saving up now to start another saloon. He says his record aboard ship is perfect. He has never missed a watch, and since he doesn’t drink he has never been in trouble. Pinky carries with him a thick scrapbook, with clippings about himself and letters from people. That book has made his gatecrashing easier in the past few years. He shows his book to the manager of whatever he's trying to crash, and is then usually let in If he isn’t, he starts his ruses.

nelly. He says Connelly crashes gates for a living, whereas Pinky does it purely for pleasure and sport. He and Connelly met, not too amicably, last year at the San Francisco Fair. J Pinky crashed the German Olympics, both World Fairs, and has crashed something or other in every state in the Union. He was crashing around Panama as far back as 10 years ago.

Contempt for Hitler

For three years he never missed a single home game of the Yankees. When he’s ashore he goes to all the theater openings in New York. He dresses up in his tux, crashes in, and then stands up, since all the seats are occupied. In his early days of crashing he got into a football game at Yankee Stadium and a guard chased him around the field for half an hour. Finally a coach called the guard off. He knows England and North Germany intimately.

He is obviously Jewish, so I asked him how he got]: He |;

along in Germany after Hitler came into power. said he got along all right. He said that when signs went up in the Hamburg bars, “Jews Net Permitted,” it riled him so that he went and sat in every single

bar within eight blocks of the waterfront. Nobody | threw him out, either.

younger as he grows older. He weighs 165 pounds, but has lost 10 pounds on this trip. Most all the crew of this ship will be glad when | the war ends and they can get back on the North Atlantic run. They don’t like this tropical schedule. But Pinky especially dislikes it, for he has certain ways of making extra money on the European run. He hasn't learned the ways of the world for nothing.

carpenters to work on the $25,000,000 smokeless powder plant at Charlestown. Yesterday, the State Employment Service, which sent out the call, instructed its branch officials to stop the southward flow of carpenters since enough had answered already to meet present demands.

Real Relicf—

HARRY MIESSE, secretary of the Indiana Tax-|

payers Association, went before the County Tax Ad-|

Justment Board yesterday and suggested that perhaps | the only proper method of efficiently handling poor relief would be to poll the rolls. He said that in one northern Indiana county it was decided to poll the rolls and the very first case they investigated was that of a family of four which was receiving. . An old-age pension for one member. 2. A WPA job for another member. 3. Direct relief for a third in the family. 4. A dependent child's allowance for the fourth.

The Draft Pool THE MALE members of one downtown office staff have started a draft pool. The first man to be called into training gets the proceeds to have himself a last fling .. Seymour Francis, who works on The Times’ copy desk, has figured out a way to reduce. He rides a bicycle downtown every merning from his home (2800 north) and back again each day. He took off three pounds the first week, three the second . . .

When Bill Rice of Warner Brothers, who made the Knute Rockne picture, came to Indianapolis he| started lo look up Al Feeney and the Sheriff's mother, | Mrs. Mary Feeney. When he was directed to the Jail | he was a little startled. That's where the Feeneys| live, all right. Upstairs. And very nice, too.

By Raymond Clapper

surprise here if Hitler showed up in the near future on a different tack. It is even possible that Hitler is ready for an armistice, but the British would be in no mood for it. | suspecting, with very good cause, that Hitler would | only use it as a breathing spell and a means of] getting the blockade lifted so that Hitler could relieve his difficult food situation. Hitler is being forced to ravage his occupied territories. He is driven toward more drastic measures in unoccupied France, which may shortly find itself obliged to surrender all of its cattle and other livestock and be picked clean to feed the German conquerors. | If the stalemate occurs, Hitler may be expected to cast about for other means of striking at the British Empire rather than by direct invasion. We may soon see some major diversion undertaken against some other portion of the empire. In this connection Spain suddenly is taking on importance.

Attack on Gibraltar?

Franco's brother-in-law has gone to Berlin and a closer snuggling into the Axis is in prospect. Spain's internal situation is desperate and she appears unable to obtain help except from the Axis.

Government Cool

Suggestions that Spain would like another loan from the United States have been heard recently. About a vear azo the Export-Import Bank extended

The Purdue University Airport figures more prominently this year in the Government's defense program.

| By Earl Hoff Pinky looks vaguely like Jimmy Durante, and looks JNDIANA's college army is mobilizing again. Nearly forty thousand students are marching on college towns from Angola, within throwing distance of Michigan, to Hanover, tucked along the banks ef the

Ohio River.

The average college man enrolls this fall in a some-

what more serious frame of mind. For the first time since 1918, students face the prospects of being drafted for military training. However, latest interpretations from Washington are that ho student will be called at least until he has completed the current semester. Many students, of course, are under 21 and would not be eligible under the present

law. Despite the earlier uncertainty over conscription most of the state’s 31 institutions of higher learning predicted slight increases in enrollment. Here's the regis-

tration situation: —Enrollment—

Exvected 1940-41

1939-40 Anderson ....... 330 375 Ball State . 1526 1600 Butler 1985 1985 Central Normal 409 400 DePauw 1439 1500 Earlham 494 *500 Franklin 389 350 Goshen ... 326 326 Hanover ........ 384 *400 Indiana 8163 8200 Indiana Central. 378 425 Indiana State .. 2103 1600 Marion .... . 286 300 Notre Dame .... 320) *3200 N.C. A. G. U., $5 98 Purdue 7500 Rose Poly 275 Saint Mary-of-the-Woods . .. Marian (Indpls.) St. Francis St. Mary's (Notre Dame) 71 St. Joseph's .... 441 Tri-State ....... 1050 Valparaiso ...... 527 Wabash 455 *Capacity. Other colleges for which registration figures are not available include: Huntington, Oakland City, Manchester, St. Benedict's, Taylor and Vincennes.

on ” ” FFICIALS of only four schools

— Central Normal, Purdue, Indiana Central and Valparaiso—

ces evene seen sre seen

275 200 140

264 184 115

450 500 1100 520 460

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BOMBS CHANGE 200 U.S. MINDS

Now to

Those Who Refused to Leave England.

said they expected decreases in enrollment due to conscription. As of Monday 6672 had registered at Purdue, a decline of 231 students under last year's enrollment. Later registrations are expected to swell this total well above 7000, however, Indiana University will have the most new buildings ready for use this fall. Swain Hall (physics, mathematics and astronomy), Business Building, Beech and Sycamore Halls (girls’ dormitories), North and West Halls (men’s dormitories). The new music hall auditorium (seating 4000) will be ready about Dec. 1. DePauw students found ready their new $350,000 biological science laboratory, Harrison Hall, and Mason Hall, a new residence hall for women, which is costing $300.000. The principal additfon to Valparaiso's plant is a $120,000 Health and Physical Education Building and a Health Service Building. Ball State has built additions to its demonstration school, Lucina Hall (girls’ dormitory) and the gymnasium. Tri-State is building an addition to its mechanical arts building. The addition will house an aeronautical laboratory, including a wind tunnel, and a chemistry laboratory. = = = RIMARILY a technical college Tri-State notes an increase in interest of prospective students prompted by the demand for technical trained men in industry and opportunities in the Army and Navy. Also tied in with National Defense, a five weeks’ vocational course has just been completed at Valparaiso U. Purdue, in its engineering schools, also is co-oper-ating in technical defense training. So is Rose Poly. Indiana University notes more inquiries about R. O. T. C, and C. A.A. C. A. A Night training will be offered this year at Purdue, Indiana, Tri-State, Ball State, Anderson College, Valpo, Butler, Rose Poly and Indiana State. Wabash and DePauw are negotiating with CAA for flight courses, Hoosier stu-

schools prepare

Our America

The Business and Economics Building is one of the new

enrollees.

dents for every profession. I. U. and the Indiana Law School affiliated with Butler train lawyears. A number of the liberal arts schools train students in pre-law and pre-medicine. I. U, also has a medical and dental school.

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pos, Rose Poly and TriState are the engineering schools. Schools which specialize in teacher training are Ball State, The Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union at Indianapolis, Central Normal, Indiana Central and Marion College Many of the other schools also graduate teachers. A few of the schools will have new departments this year. Some new courses will be instituted. Franklin for the first time will have a nurses training course. Compulsory courses will be taught in citizenship and hygiene at But= ler. A new department in physiology and hygiene has been opened there. Ball State will have a new speech correction program and a child development service. The first year of the I. U. School of Dentistry has been moved to the Bloomington campus and a division of biochemistry has been

American Way of Life Means Everything

By GLADYS HASTY CARROLL

AUTHOR OF “A FEW FOOLISH ONES” AND “AS THE EARTH TURNS”

(Ninth of a series of articles by 24 authors)

to Spain a cotton credit for $13,000,000. But the atti-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (U. P.). tude of the Franco Government toward American —Americans who elected to stay in property in Spain has not been too encouraging and England and Ireland for the blitzthere is ” indiestion St ane loans Mu be forth [krieg and who now have changed coming. eas e Franco Government apparently : : : SE iy has come to that conclusion and seems to have turned | their minds will Tegeve litle 5 ne definitely toward Berlin and Rome for help. \pathy in official quarters, it was in-| This comes as a welcome opportunity for the Axis dicated today. as it gives Hitler his chance to bear down on the| Ng official estimate of the number | Bilt at Gibraltar, which Spain is anxious to of American citizens now in the, Something may develop there soon to replace the British Isles is available, but it was invasion of England as the immediate No. 1 project, believed to exceed 2500. Many of) hs shifting the attack, at first directed toward the {hese have British family or busi-| eart of England, to the Mediterranean life-line. : ; och Those are some of the aspects of the situation that DSS connections and have ho}; ox give rise to the belief here that a turn is in process. Pressed any desire to leave. Reports from London indicated that | approximately 200 had changed their minds since the concentrated | | bombing of the city and were anxi-| ous to return home. Last reports to the State Depart-| iment showed 60 Americans in the Netherlands and between 90 and) 100 in Belgium. Nearly 1000 are believed to be in Sweden, and others in Italy. Some are in Spain and Portugal awaiting transportation over the only remaining American route or Portuguese visas to board ship or plane. . Americans in England and Ireland are definitely “stuck” uniess the United States sends another ship to take them off, and there was no indication today that this 1s In prospect. No American ships

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

tion. These men havee¢made life comfortable and pleasant for me on many long journeys, and I know that they had a long hard fight before they gained recognition of their union. I did not know until Mayor La Guardia spoke, that he had been one of the people at their first organization meetings. I am constantly finding where there has been a struggle for the rights of labor and for the recognition of human values, regardless of race, creed or color, that the Mayor of New York City has been in it from the start. If satisfaction has finally come in the gains of freedom and justice meted out to any groups of human beings, he can

thing others which I wish I could do. I would far rather feel, next year, that I had done this, and done it

Gladys Hasty

I HAVE been asked to say in a what the American way of life means to me, what I mean to all of us

above all

well, today, than to know that I had written the

greatest novel |

ever published. But can I do it? I have been

writing steadily very |

on this subject for more than 10 years now—millions of words— and scarcely begun to say what I feel . .. (Please, God, help me to do ith

With the first declaration of our independence, our fore-fathers began making a bowl. never made one before. nothing to make it of but the brown earth of America and the blue sky above, nothing to make

They had They had

take pride in their achievement because he has carried his share of the fight. It was quite a lengthy party and the breakfast hour this morning arrived all too soon. I had to hurry to be ready when my doorbell rang to announce Franklin Jr., and Mr. Lanthier were on hand to take me to the steamer to meet Leopold Stokowski and

been touring South America. before they left, but I am sure from all the accounts which I have heard that they are even better now. I am told that their performances have made a vast difference in the way that people feel about the United States in many South American countries,

orchestras will be changed for all time in consequence.

can call at British or Irish ports without Presidential permission and citizens are forbidden to sail on belligerent ships. State Department began paring Americans to leave Europe the National Youth Symphony Orchestra, which has | peated His Nui ol Ue wal Bg They were very g00d facilities at intervals since. U. S. has no power to compel the | return of citizens.

The

WEBB FAMILY TO PICNIC

The Webb family reunion will be The 16 girls ‘n the orchestra have created so much |held Sunday in the central picnic

comment that they say the position of women 75 Ses at the Morgan-Monroe State

Forest.

The

it by but the fires they had kindled with flint and fagot. But they were through forever with impractical, unbecoming English ehina. So they knelt together, mixed, shaped, patted, baked—and produced a bowl of their own. It was not perfect. It may not even have been beautiful, but it seemed so to them. It stood up sturdily on its pale brown base, and when they looked over its blue rim, down into the deepest part, the very heart of it, they saw brave, bright colors, in stripes, and a selfless, deathless shine of stars, which stood not only for what America was but

for what she was going to be.

Sometimes, of our fish chowder, baked beans, corn meal mush, the greedy at the table have taken a glutton's share. But gluttons come naturally by their punishment. The important part is that the bowl is ours, that all which has gone into it is ours, that nothing

has ever made a change in it ex- |

cept our own hands—your hands and my hands—directed by own hearts—your heart and my heart. . .. And not only Americans but the whole world now sees in it, ‘more clearly than ever, brave, bright, shining symbol of what America is and what she may become. Now rises the question—how much does the possession of this bowl mean to us? It is all we have, How much do we stand ready to sacrifice to preserve a heritage for our children? Thieves are abroad. If they should take this bowl of ours, it would not be to use for themselves, even, but to destroy it utterly. But we are going to keep it. They asked me to say what the American way of life means to me, what I think it means to all of us. This is what I say: It means everything. If we are ever forced to fight for it, we shall understand fully that death, in its truest sense, will come tec every American man, woman, child—unless we win! I say to them: Call on us! Ask us for sacrifice! We have been ready and waiting a long time. When you ask us—you will see.

Fannie Hurst looks down on the American scene from her window, and writes her impressions in the next article of this series on “Our Country.”

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| the Army. | sands of country youths who never

lhood contracted the disease after

Butler University students at the entrance to Arthur Jordan Hall.

added to the Chemistry Department. St. Joseph's College notes an expansion in the number of premedical students. Aeronautical Engineering is becoming more popular at Tri-State. More students at Ball State are preparing to teach in high schools rather than grammar schools. Enrollment has increased in the department of business and economics and the music department, Valpo reports. Business and social sciences also are attracting more at Butler. At St. Mary-of-the-Woods, home economics is losing out to history and social sciences

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OME economics, sociology and business administration courses are attracting more students at Earlham. Music and business administration are gaining at Hanover. Notre Dame also notes a gain in enrollment in business classes. The same thing applies at Central Normal. Applications for admission to the I. U. School of Medicine are on the up grade. The “baby” of the Hoosier institutes of higher education is St.

FIND VACCINE

FOR MEASLES

Virus Grown on Fertile Hen’s |

Eggs; Hailed by Army Authorities.

By Science Service

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.—Suc-

: : {cess in vaccinating a small group | We still have this same bowl. |! {

of children against measles, wide- | ailment that |

childhood often leads to pneumonia and seri- | ous ear trouble, has been achieved | by Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr., University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Dr. Geoffrey Rake, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, New Brunswick, N. J. Army officials as well as parents throughout the land will hail this promise of triumph over measles, | announced at the University of Pennsvlvania Bicentennial Conference here. During the last World War, it was pointed out, measles became one of the commonest causes of death in This was because thou-

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had had measles due to their relative degree of isolation during child-

they got into Army training camps. Many of them not only had measles but a severe and often fatal pneumonia as a complication of the measles. The new anti-measles vaccine was made by growing the measles virus of germ on fertile hen's eggs. Apparently the virus becomes weakened or attenuated while growing in this environment and when injected under the skin or placed within the nose it produces a very mild type of measles in some children and no symptoms at all in others. Production of large amounts of the vaccine, it is said, will not be difficult and it can be preserved for long periods.

BEGIN FORD PLANE PLANT DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 18 (U. P.).—Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Co., broke ground yesterday for construction of an $11,000,000 factory to produce an initial order of 4000 airplane engines for the U. S. Government.

structures that greeted Indiana University

Francis College at Lafayette, al= though the school originally was founded in 1890. Sister M. Fridiana, the dean, points out that the college has been completely reorganized and ‘really begins over again this year.” Among the oldest schools in the State are I. U., founded in 1820; Hanover, 1827; Wabash, 1832; De~ Pauw, 1837; St. Mary of-the-Woods, 1840; St. Mary’s College, 1844, and Earlham, 1847. It takes money to run these huge education plants. Schools like Purdue, Ball State and I. U. are state financed. Others are privately endowed. Some are maintained solely by students’ tuition. DePauw's endowment is $6,000 000. Hanover's is more than $2,000,000. Earlham is endowed for more than $1,000,000, Wabash for more than $2,000,000. Tuitions in the private schools range from $100 a year at St. Joseph's College to $250 a year for DePauw and Notre Dame, State financed schools charge no tuition but fees amout to about $75 a year. To send a boy or girl to a Hoosier school, a proud Dad has to spend between $500 and $1000 a year,

Poor to Shep On Royal Beds

LONDON, Sept. 13 (U. P.).~ Persons who have been “bombed” out of their homes in the crowded East End of London will soon he resting between raids on beds and chairs that royalty has used. Queen Elizabeth ordered a number of suites of furniture at Windsor Castle sent to help refurnish homes for persons whose East End homes—many of them in the slums—were damaged in raids. The furniture includes articles used in Windsor Castle since the early days of Queen Victoria.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

| 1—Does the United States Govern=

ment recognize Slovakia as an mdependent, state? 2—Are there any volcanoes in the United States? 3—How many stars and stripes are in the American Flag? 4—The largest steel center in the United States is New Orleans, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh or San Francisco?

5—~What phenomena are produced

by the gravitational influence of the sun and moon on the waters of the earth? 6—Who delivered the keynote speech at the 1940 Republican National Convention? T—Basel is a city of France, Switz= erland or Germany?

Answers

{—No. 2—Yes. 3—Thirteen stripes and 48 stars. 4—Pittsburgh. 5—Tides. 6—Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota. T—Switzerland.

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