Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1940 — Page 7
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Hoosier Vagabond
CINCINNATI, Oct. 12.—Dr. Gustav Eckstein is a strange piece of pedagogy. He teaches physiology at the University of Cincinnati. But he is also a playwright, an author of books, a pal of celebrities, a wide traveler, and above all a sensitive friend of birds and animals. I had heard of Dr. Eckstein on previous visits: here. I had heard of his canaries, and his helter=skelter laboratory, and his friendships with the great of the theater. I had expected to find a tall; gaunt man in his 60s, highcollared, absent-minded, hazy and gentle and homely. But Dr. Eckstein is none of those, except gentle. He is somewhere around 45, but actually looks about 35. His thick black hair has no formation at all; it Just darts up like grass. : - He wears a suit of coarse corduroy, and his coat collar is turned up all around, giving him a Bohemian look. His personality is vital; he talks animatedly and
with persuasion. He is short, and there is laughter around his eyes.
A Hard Worker
He is a ilend for work, and his actions are fast and impulsive. He practically lives in his big one-room laboratory. Sometimes he works there all night—sitting at his desk, under a shaded floor lamp, with all his canaries asleep in the shadows above. . He keeps an apartment, but spends little time in it. He is not married. Dr. Eckstein was born in Cincinnati. His father was a dentist, and still is. Young Eckstein became a dentist, too. and practiced for seven years. He liked dentistry, because he enjoys working with his fingers. But when he got able he went to medical school. He taught here in the University while taking his medical work. He loves to teach. He has been teaching here for almost 20 years. He has been in this very room 16 years. He has had one play, “Christmas Eve,” produced in New York. He still thinks it was a good play, but unfortunately the audience didn't.
SATURDAY, OCT. 12, 1940
Recently’ he has been taking homing pigeons to New York with him, and turning them loose to fly home. Some people say that Dr. Eckstein goes to symphony concerts with a pigeon on his shoulder, but I could find no truth in that. He used, however, to drive his car with a macaw sitting on his shoulder, His car, incidentally, is a 10-year-old four-cylinder Ford coupe. It passed 100,000 miles on the Fourth of July. And, except for one trip to Dayton, every. mile of that has been driven right here in town. He says the car sounds like a garbage can, but he loves it. Dr. Eckstein got interested in birds quite naturally, through the experiments in nervous behavior that any physiologist - performs. But, unlike most others, his interest grew into a personal thing between him ant the birds.
Canaries Have Moods
He has 30 canaries flying around loose in his lahoratory in the Medical College. 'There is a screen door into the hall, and it 1s always locked. He has one canary more than 20 years old. Each of the 30 is named, and Dr. Eckstein says they are just as much individuals to him as 30 human beings, They have such names as Babe Ruth, California-He and Five Weeks Old. Dr. Eckstein says canaries have moods, the same as people. “There are certainly tides in the affairs of birds,” he says I asked him if his own mood seemed to react on the canaries, and he said no, they weren't that smart. Dr. Eckstein’s office is a sight to see. There are his laboratory tanks and basins down the middle, and along the sides are book shelves, and on the walls are pictures of such people as Katharine Cornell, Lynn Fontanne and Alexander Woollcptt. Dr. Eckstein writes at a. bare desk, on a noiseless portable sitting on top of the “Cincinnati telephone book to make it higher. In the center of the room is an old grand piano. At his left sits his girl secretary, with canaries and mice playing around her feet. Dr. Eckstein has written half a dozen books and several plays. I have not read any of them, but certainly intend to. One of his books, “Canary,” received a pumping from Alexander Woollcott next in volume bo hat old commentator’s espousal of “Goodby Mr. ips.” ’
Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”
PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Lee Burns, self-made architect. His firm is one of the best known in the state and he personally is rated extremely® high in his field, which is domestic architecture—houses. He has built: some of the show places of Indianapolis. Just about 68, he is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs about 150. He has a sandy complexion and his hair is getting a bit thin on top. Dignified and scholarly in appearance, he has a very gallant old-school manner, accented slightly by his tinted spectacles. Sedate and slow moving, he will stand on a downtown street corner until there's not a car in sight before he will cross. He is fastidious about everything, from his clothing and language to his ( approach to people—except for one thing. His hats. He likes them old and hangs on to them as long as he can. : He is left-handed in almost everything. The possessor of a quaint, dry humor that’s refreshing, he liké§ to chant snatches from Gilbert and Sullivan cperas, such as “Oh, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one,” etc. )
Self-Made Bridge Player
DEEPLY INTERESTED in Indiana history, he has ‘been chairman of the Indiana Historical Society's executive committee ever since 1¢25 and his “Early Architects and Builders of Indiana” has been one of the Society's best-selling publications. He is exceptionally well read, has a fine library at his home, 4205 Washington Blvd. which includes a lot of first editions. He has all, or almost all, of the James Whitcomb Riley first editions. He is a constant reader of newspapers and on trips he buys newspapers at every town he passes through. He is fond of football and basketball, especially Butler basketball. He has been a member of Butler's
Washington
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Administration officials seem to be uninterested in repealing the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations with unpaid war debts. Some agitation for a change was carried on a few months ago but, receiving no Administration encour--agement, it died out. Recently Senator King of Utah has reopened the issue by proposing that the Johnson Act be wiped out in order to aid Great Britain. While the British no doubt would welcome such action if only as further evidence of American desire to give aid, there appears to be no need of it at this time. That is the view of some in the Administration who are most zealously in favor of helping Britain. They feel that to raise the question now would needlessly stir up division among the American people. : Some of them feel that if the time comes when Britain is hard pressed, it would be better to make outright grants than to go through the meaningless formality of again lending money which we know is: not any more likely to be repaid than were the loans made during the first World War. To make loans that later become defaulted only breeds hard feelings on both sides. The money doesn’t come back anyway.
British Buying Doubled
Britain is purchasing enormous quantities of goods —accounting for more than half of our exports now, In August we shipped to Britain some 125 million dollars in goods, more than double the shipments of the spring months. In addition we are selling large quantities of goods to other parts of the empire— which in all is taking about four times as much as Latin America. The quantities are rising rapidly— and may reach as much as three billion dollars in the next year. - When the war began, the British Empire had in the United States resources, easily convertible to use for purchases, amounting to perhaps five billion dol-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Friday.—Autumn colors seen from a plane are quite extraordinary. It is like seeing a brilliant and beautiful old aubusson rug spread out peneath you. Yesterday, during part of our trip to Syracuse, the land was obliterated by ground fog, so we drifted: a little to the west. However, we arrived on time and I was glad to see some old friends on the dock to greet me. We drove to an NYA pottery making project, where the young people are really learning pottery in a way which will make them valuable to the commercial pottery companies in the neighborhood. These companies have been most co-operative in helping the NYA set up this project, which produces plates, cups, saucers, tea sets and pitchers to be used in resident projects throughout the country. From there we motored to the Onondaga Reservation, where the young people have built a community house which will contain a library, recreation room and craft room for girls. There is also a kitchen where ‘the girls may take courses in home management, An old Indian chief greeted me here and pre-
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board of trustees for many years. Fond of bridge, he will not take it seriously, but plays only for the fun of it. For 15 years he has played with Christopher Coleman, Ed Harris, Herbert Foltz and Frank McKibbin and their despair is that he has no use for bridge conventions and plays his own game.
Sticks to Colonial
HE WAS BORN in Bloomfield in 1872. His father was Judge Harrison Burns, author of Burns Revised Statutes. After college, Lee went to work for BowenMerrill as a lawbook salesman, traveling all over the country. There is hardly a town of consequence he doesn’t remember from the hotel viewpoint of 40 years ago. He was a crackerjack salesman and later managed a literary magazine. He served as a private in the Spanish-American War, although he did not get to Cuba. ‘He found his forte when he went into the building business. He put up a lot of houses and it wasn’t long before he was confining himself to architecture. His work has been characterized by his extreme good taste and his shunning of the sensational. He is passionately devoted to colonial architecture and a large part of his extensive architectural library is devoted to books on Georgian and other types of colonial building styles.
The War on Plantain
HIS IDEA OF a grand vacation trip is inspecting new houses and ‘he carries a camera along to take pictures of those he likes particularly well.
He has served as president of the Contemporary Club and the Literary Club and he was a member of the state and federal George Rogers Clark commissions. : | For a number of years he has spent every spare moment in the summer digging weeds out of his lawn and friends say that if he ever gives up architecture he will probably devote all his time to the extermination of dandelions and plantain. Especially plantain.
By Raymond Clapper
lars, so the Federal Reserve Board estimated. These assets included negotiable securities, dollar balances and gold reserves. In addition to these direct resources are heavy holdings in American industrial enterprises, amounting to perhaps $1,500,000,000. From empire countries gold amounting to $3,500,000,000 came in during the first year of the war, although some of this is actually owned by conquered Allied Governments. The Empire is mining about $750,000,000 of gold a year, most of which is being shipped here. In view of these figures, experts doubt if British resources are likely to be strained in the near future. That is the opinion of, for instance, National City Bank economists. : So, as it is working out, the assets which Britain did not use to pay off her first World War debt are being used now to finance her purchases for éhe second World war, and apparently that system will continue for some time. ” ” ”
Credit No Problem Now
Even wnen strain develops, there are numerous measures by which we could ease the stringency with-
out repealing the Johnson Act. The terms of the) Johnson Act specifically exempt Government corporations from the prohibitions. Thus there is nothing in the act to prevent the Export-Import Bank, the RFC or the Commodity Credit Corp. from making direct loans to Britain. It is likely that one of the first steps to be taken when the pressures seems to warrant will be to use the Commodity Credit Corp. for the purpose of advancing farm commodities to Britain on credit, although there might be some hitch because the Neutrality Act forbids credits to belligerents. However, these matlers seem some distance in the future. They are among a number of bridges that will have to be crossed if and when we reach them. Britain's need at this time is not for credit—she has the wherewithal. Her need is for things. The strain is not upon credit resources at all but upon our production facilities. Production is the key and everything else is being elbowed aside in order to concentrate all attention on that.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
sented me with a lovely Indian basket and leather pouch. Most interesting is the close co-operation achieved here between the unions and the NYA. They have provided the skilled labor and have undertaken to evaluate the work of the NYA boys, and later will guide them in the work they are capable of undertaking in the future. I was also very pleased to see, before I left, my old friend, Mr. Leo Casey, who drove down to the yacht landing for a few minutes chat. : Our next stop was in Cooperstown, N. Y., and I am most enthusiastic about the NYA rural center at Hartwick Seminary. I have never seen boys and girls more enthusiastic about their work, and I think the young man in charge deserves great credit for the spirit of those working with him. They are acquiring pride in what they do, and an understanding of the dignity of labor. From there we went to Utica, where a small resident project 1s operating ina really delightful house. The boys rin it themselves, as they do all resident projects. Their work is in connection with aviation and will shortly expand so more boys can be accommodated in this center. We were back in Hyde Park before dark. I had a happy feeling of having seen young America in the
process “of training for greater usefulness, in a life which may be difficult, but which is still full of hope.
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(Fifth of a Series)
By Ludwell Denny
JY ASHINGTON, Oct. 12. —Despite the President’s dictatorial domestic power in an emergency, it is commonly assumed that Congress at least has an over-balancing check on the Executive in foreign af-
fairs. Does not the Constitution give Congress the sole right to declare war; the Senate the right to ratify treaties and confirm diplomatic appointments, and the House the power of initiating appropriations necessary for foreign adventures and war-making? These much-advertised checks exist——on paper. On the record, however, they have rarely been effective in a crisis. ; There are many reasons. One is the undefined Commander-in- . Chief powers in the Constitution. Another reason is that a President cannot conduct foreign relations without creating situations and trends that largely determine eventual peace or war. Congress then must recognize an accomplished and irrzparable fact, whether Congress or the country likes it or not. - congressional confirmation and appropriation become ineffective “checks” when Presidents. use their own private Colonel Houses, or better still, use the transoceanic telephone; and when they spend money without authorization. As . for treaty ratification, ‘if the President calls 1t an “executive agreement” (c: leaves it as an unwritten understanding), Congress has no check.
2 4 2 ERE is the way it has operated:
By extending or withholding his favor, he has virtual life-or-death power over certain Latin American governments. He can keep alive a foreign government at war as China today. Theodore Roosevelt in a deal with Japan revoked Urited States recognition of Korean independence. Examples of executive agreements more important than most treaties: The 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement recognizing Japaa’s special interests in the Orient, which Harding reversed and F. D. R. is continuing to reverse. Theodore Roosevelt's application, in the Dominican Republic, of provisions © of a protectorate treaty after the Senate refused to ratify. The 1905 RooseveltJapanese secret agreement. Some of these single-handed executive agreements make foreign alliances: The Japanese-
PROPERTY TAX
RULES LISTED
New Manual Intended to Standardize Assessments In State.
Meeting quietly at regular intervals is a small group of State Tax Board officials and taxpayers’ representatives which is working out details for a new assessment manual to standardize real property assessments throughout the state. The manual is to be ready for distribution to county assessors at their December meeting here. The manual will provide assess-
ing real property. The assessors also will be provided with cards on which they must list the measurements and location of the property in accordance with rules set out in the manual. This scientific approach to the task of assessing real property will place the assessed valuations of real property for the entire state upon on standard basis, tax board officials point out. : It will do away with the oldtime assessor who looked at a piece of property “out of one eye,” put down a figure which he guessed at and went on, the manual’s sponsors say. . Persons working on the manual are C. R. Benjamin, Tax Board member; Edward Koenemann, secretary of the Tax Board; Orvil Shock and John Rothrock, field men for the Tax Board; Howard Friend, of the State Chamber of Commerce; Frank L. Moore, executive secretary of the State Real Estate Association; Anson Thomas, of the Indian Farm Bureau; Ivan Cooprider, of the Indiana Building and Loan Association; and Frank J. Murray, of the Indiana Taxpayers Federation. °
341 Wells Drilled
- Three hundred forty-one and gas wells were drilled in Indiana during the first nine months of 1940, with over a third of them being dry holes, the State Geology Division reported today.
SunWorshiping Family Is Found
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 12 (U, P.).—A family of sun-worshipers, speaking its own ancient lan- . guage, has been found living in isolation near the village of Pinarja, European Turkey, within 50 miles of Istanbul, it was reported today. There are 24 in the family—12 women, six men and six children. Their ancestors were said to have come from Egypt during the reign of the Emperor Fatih, 600 years ago.‘ They dress in white, take cold showers daily and sacrifice oxen on a fiery altar six times a year. The family was discovered when one. of its men, named Rustem, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering a Turkish girl he had kidnaped.
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Anglo-American alliance of 1905. Our present far-reaching alliaace with Canada, and our presumptive alliance with Britain (terms unknown). The President can send expeditionary forces, and fight wars overseas without a Congressional declaration of war or consultation. For many years this was almost - a habit in Caribbean countries. Wilson waged undeclared war in Siberia. The President can even conquer foreign territory and rule it through his own agents or with native puppets—as in the past in. Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. Or he -can_ do it with.a phony revolution, as T. R. took Panama from Colonbia. - 2 n 2 ND he can act when Con-
gress has tried to stop him .
—as when Wilson armed merchant ships, and (so Congressmen contend): when F. D. R. traded destroyers to Britain. When President Polk sent troops into disputed territory, the Mexican War resulted almost automatically. William McKinley sent the battleship Maine to Havana, when he knew this “unfriendly” act might precipitate a Span-ish-American War. It did. Franklin Roosevelt's single-hand-ed commitment to Canada will put us into war with Germany, if Hitler is foolish enough to attack our neighbor or a British Government which retreats there, That is the specific Roosevelt pledge. And certainly the White
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By Ernie Pyle
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President Roosevelt with Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King
of Canada.
House decision to send or not to send our fleet to British waters in the Far East, -in defiance of the new Japanese - GermanItalian alliance, may determine war or peace, The record shows, theretore, that the Presidency is a constitutional dictatorship in any selfproclaimed emergency both in domestic and foreign affairs, even to the ultimate degree of pledging war and making war.
B Ernest K. Lindley
Biographer of President Roosevelt
Confident of Re-Election, Roosevelt Mood Improves
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HE President's state of mind has improved greatly within the last
two months.
two He has become calmer, more relaxed, more tolerant of criticism, and generally more agreeable. : : Some of his intimates speak of a “new Roosevelt.”
This is unjust.
It would be more accurate to say that his temperament is back to nor-
mal. weeks thereafter, he was manifestly “on edge.” His rather grimly defensive mood revealed itself to the public in a series of political bobbles, including the barely credible mes - sage which he had Senator Barkley relay to the Democratic National Convention, and his ill-tem-pered aspersions on the patriotism of John W. Hanes and other former Administration officials who chose to support Willkie. The improvement may be ascribed, I think, to the simple fact that the President feels confident of his re-election. In the 12 years in which I have observed him, his periods of bad temper have come when he has felt politically insecure. When he is doubtful about his political standing his tendency is to become grim. Some people make their best decisions when they are grimly resolute. But not Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is at his best when he is relaxed and, to the superficial eye, carefree. His laugh and his ability to become temporarily engrossed in amusing but minor problems, are his safety-valves. When he can't really laugh, when his jaw gets sternly set, the head of internal steam rises. It spurts out in odd directions, to no good purpose. His judgment is thrown off balance, and he commits political errors which a level-headed amateur would know how to avoid. ” 2 - 8 E WAS irritable in the late spring of 1932 when it looked as if his drive for his first Presidential nomination might be
Mr. Lindley
‘stalled. From then until 1937 he
was usually in a good mood. He had his irritable hours‘and days— like other people, he gets tired. But in general he was making a success of his Presidency and there were no prolonged periods of unpleasant grimness. The first protracted period dur-
Ing his Presidency in which he ‘was out of sorts was during the
latter part of the fight over the Supreme Court bill in 1937. The comedown from his sweeping victory in November, 1936, was sharp. He became angry. The Dutch in him seemed to freeze his judgment. Instead of acclaiming the legal somersaults turned by the Court in upholding New Deal legislation as proof of his success, he kept on fighting. When Congress adjourned, he went to Hyde Park, but he could not relax. The flareup over the
‘revelation that his first appointee
For several months prior to his third nomination, and for a few
to the Court, Hugo L. Black, had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan, kept Roosevelt's own blood pressure up. In September, 1937, Roosevelt started a trip to the West Coast. His morale, judging from what he said privately as well as publicly, was at its lowest since he reentered public life in 1928. But as he moved into the Northwest he met cheering crowds. Politicians along the way told him that most ‘of their constituents didn’t give a hoot about the Court fight. By the time Roosevelt reached Seattle he
was a “different” man. That is, he was back to normal. In the “purge” campaign of 1938, Roosevelt's grimness came to the surface again, although not so thickly as in 1937. For months prior to his third nomination, the President’s mind unquestionably was troubled. He decided to stake his reputation on another four years, and when he made the decision he could not be sure that he would be elected for another four years. Now once again, as in the. past, the sense that the people—at least an adequate majority of them— are with him has had its beneficent influence on the President’s state of mind. The change probably is evident to the general public from the tone of his more recent speeches and remarks. It is most vivid to some of the men who see him almost daily.
Queen Is Rated Good Marksman
LONDON, Oct. 12 (U. P.).— Queen Elizabeth, sitting crosslegged like a tailor on an improvised 25-yard rifle range in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, proved the best rifle shot among women members of the royal family. > The range was set up especially for the ladies of the palace, who are being instructed in rifle and revolver shooting in case it should prove necessary. The Duchess of Kent was reported to be a crack marksman with an automatic pistol. The Queen’s pistol shooting was also classified as ‘“good.”
~ DIVORCES GENE AUSTIN HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—
Hollywood learned today of the
Las Vegas, Nev., divorce of Mrs. Agnes Austin, wife of the screen and radio singer, Gene Austin, Mrs. Austin obtained her freedom yes-
terday on grounds of non-support.
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When the Senate, alarmed. by the snowballing of Rooseveltian authority, askea the Attorney General to inform it of the source and ‘extent of the Presideni’s emergency and war powers, he gave as an incomplete list 100 laws. . > as ” w aii theoretically, could repeal all of those grants. But that would not change the situation basically." As the At-
\VOTERS SPLIT ON
PROPERTY LINES
Owners 53-47 for Willkie; Non-Owners 67-33 For Roosevelt. By DR. GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J, Oct. 12, — If in a Presidential election were to be limited to owners of Alezander Hamilton and the old Federalist Party once advocated—Wendell L. Willkie would |
voting
property—as
almost certainly be the next Presi-
dent of the United States, a nationsurvey hy the American Institute of Public Opinion indicates
wide
today.
As. it is,
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peal
American voters—humbering
homes, property or securities.
These voters, many of them propertyless farmers and plant and factory | workers, -are about 2 to 1 for the re-election of President Roose-
velt, the survey shows. One in 10 Undecided Voters were asked which candi-
date they favored and whether they personally owned homes or other
property. The choices of those with opinions in both groups were as follows;
Roosevelt Willkie
53% 33
Property owners .. 41% Non-owners
Approximately one person in ten
in each group said that he was undecided or without an opinion on the candidates yet. Ever sirice 1935 Institute surveys have shown that the Republican Party has its greatest core of
strength with voters in the upper
income groups. while the Democrats are strongest among voters in the lower income brackets.
- Neither Has- Monopoly
But while the present survey also
underlines the political cleavage be-
tween the “haves” and “have-nots,” it is interesting to note that neither candidate has anything like a mo-
nopoly of the vote in any one property level. :
Political observers may be surprised to find that Presidént Roosevelt is receiving as much as 47 per cent of the vote of property owners, and, conversely, that Wendell Willkie receives one vote out of every
three among non-property owners.
U. S. LETS STATE CONTRACT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P.) — The War Department has awarded a $451,354 contract for the construction of a central heating plant at the Jeffersonville, Ind. quartermaster depot to the C. A. Hooper
Co. of Madison, Wis.
Mr. Willkie’s problem appears to be tof increase his apamong the great mass of approximately half of the total voting population—who do not own
torney General reminded’ the
Senate: “you are aware, of course, that the executive has powers not enumerated in the statutes— powers not derived by statutory grants, but from the Constitution. It is universally recognized that the Constitutional duties of the executive carry with them the
constitutional powers necessary for their proper performance. “These constitutional powers have never been specifically defined and, in fact, cannot be, since their extent and limita~ tions are largely dependent upnn conditions and circumstances.” Unlimited and undefined powers are dictatorial. This is not. only theory but historic fact. Lincoln (not Congress) freed the slaves. He increased the Army and Navy beyond the legal limits. He suspended writs of habeas corpus and declared martial law. He spent millions of dollars without appropriations. This was Lincoln’s justification: “I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.” : Woodrow Wilson, as a: geners= ation still living cannot forget, in a war crisis assumed even greater dictatorial powers than Lincoln.
NEXT—“Dictatorship” and the Third Term. :
'Too Young,’ but Fervor Is There
_ They're too young to be drafted, but Southport High School pupils have planned a Registration Day contribution Wednesday. The pupils will assemble in the school auditorium = Wednesday morning to commemorate the nation’s first peace time registration for army dutv. Homer L. Chaillaux, American Legion National Americanization officer, will speak, a flag will be presented by the Hugh Copsey American Legion Post and the Rev. R. H. Turley will lead a devotional service. - The pupils will sing patriotic songs.
POSEY CANDIDATES FILE ELECTION SUIT
MT. VERNON, Ind. Oct. 12 (U, P.).—Six Republican candidates for county offices had suits on tile in Posey Circuit Court today to mandate the county election commis< sion to place their names on the ballot for the November election. The commission: had refused to
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‘do. so, alleging - there were irregu-
larities in the petitions signed: by 51 per cent of the Republican Central Committee . certifying their candidacies. The men were not. candidates in the primary. The sole Republican candidate in the primary, Ralph Rowe for sheriff, was not affected by the controversy.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—What is the nickname of the strait of Bab el Mandeb, which is the gateway. from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean? 2—Is Buckingham Palace or St. James's Palace the official London residence of the King of England? 3—Has the United States ever issued - 2-cent coins? 4—_Name the largest commercial ship ever built in America? 5—Do Americans who enlist in Canadian military forces lose their citizenship? 6—The word “roe” designates the eggs of fishes, a deer, or a striped appearance in wood? 7—What is the name of the craft of making cloth on a loom? 8—Can the President order the coinage of U. S. money?
Answers
1—“Gate of Tears.” 2—Buckingham. 3—Yes. 4—"“America.” 5—No. 6—All three, T—Weaving. . 8—No. Congress must enact coinag laws.
8 = 8 ASK THE TIMES
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