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SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1940

100S81er GATLINBURG, Tenn, Oct. 26.—Yesterday afternoon, while Jack Huff and I were sitting in front of

the fireplace at the top of Mt. Le Corte, a couple of weary strangers came around the corner of the lodge.

‘They asked for succor+for a night's lodging and a

, in good Smoky Mountain They ‘turned out to he

were [Cleveland businessmen, out on a vacation trip. One was John , Ison, white-haired general manager of the Equity Savings & . The other was Carr Liggett, who has his own advertising jagency. an who has just climbed a _. mountain feels a wonderful sense of accomplishment. He| takes off his shoes and sprawls out with a feeling of honestly earned repose. The afternoon wore on into early mountain darkness, .and. after supper (we te ike purring. Then Jack Huff came with mpre great logs. And we sat warm before the fireplace and under the hanging gasoline lantern and we [all waxed, you might say, a little philosophic. We finished the war [(England won); we finished the election (we're keeping the result secret); we wrapped up and shipped pff the WPA; we scouted the Andes and climbed a bit around the Alps; we discussed the proper way to drive an automobile. It's astouriding what, a half-dozen people can talk about in one evening on a mountain top.

Spirit of dessert for your ruminaus back to the pioneer days, rs first came to this country. odern conveniences as a lot he'd take the pioneer way of

light and straw ticks. Those se were the men, said Mr.

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when our’ hardy ancestol He condemned all of nonsense. As for him cold bedrooms and cand were the days, and thg Wilson. And in climactic conclusion, Mr. Wilson declaimed that of all the abominations upon this earth the most despicable in his life was steam heat.

‘ PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Gustave A. Efroymson, president of Real Silk, one of the town’s most brilliant business executives and| one of its biggest philanthropists. His most striking characteristic is his silence. He usually just sits and listens. When he speaks it is only because he has something to say: Gustave Efroymson was 70 last January. He is a rather small man, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing abouti 135 pounds. He has a leonine head with a broad forehead [and wide-spaced eyes. His once | dark hair is now mostly gray. : An extraordinarily modest and retiring man, he ‘dresses almost , in dark clothes. He drives a's As long as there : was an automobile manufactured in Indianapolis he would not consider any other car. Fond of flowers, he| keeps a greenhouse on his farm in Hamilton County and he goes there over week-ends and occasionally on week-day afternoons, donning overalls and [puttering ‘around with his flowers. He iikes all varieties, but he is especially partial to dahlias. ‘

Golfing in a Bli 2ard

HE HAS BEEN A golfing enthusiast for many years and he still plays regularly. Charles O. Britton, has peen playing golf with him for more than 30 years. The original | foursome back in 1910 consisted of Efroymson, Britton, Reg Sullivan and the late Oliver P. Ensley. | Now, the foursome consists of the first two and P. C. Rellly and Charles Mann (of Van Camp). “Gus” and “P. C.” usually pair off together. Charley Britton says that | Mr. Efroymson never even says a word when he 1 inds in the rough. ‘He just gets sad,” says Mr. Britton, ‘and we laugh at- him and call him Glooniy Gus.”

They've been so devoted to golf they used to play all through the winter (with red golf balls and once

petent source that Wi kie intends, if elected and if the international crisis continues, to draft Cordell Hull to continue as his Secretary of State. Already Willkie has| paid high tribute publicly to Secretary Hull's knowledge and iment concerning foreign afirs. Privately he has said that vill need Hull to carry on, just e will need some others in the lent. Administration. ng before he thought of running for President, and long before the war shut. down world commerce, Willkie was a stout champion of the Hull reciprocaltrade program. Although that has become an academic matter for the| time being, Willkie in general has| continued to have the highest

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Furthermore, it is no secret that the Republicans are short of men competent to step into the middle of the intricate foreign| situation and carry on without the risk of serious blunders due to ignorance and inexperience. : Willkie has abundant self-confidence, yet he also has respect for the delicacy of foreign affairs and a keen understanding that they require skilled and thoroughly seasoned hands.

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There is reason to believe that not only in foreign affairs but in some other branches of Government, Willkie realizes that continuity of Administration is important and that a wholesale housecleaning and the throwing in of a green crew might well prove disastrous both to the country and to his own Admin-

Willkie also is turning over in his mind the idea of keeping on Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney Gen‘eral in charge of anti-trust prosecutions. Arnold is a

Ling sufficiently in harmony on various theories of government, but they are: together on the question of monopoly which Arnold has made his speciality. From Arnold’s side it can he said that Willkie’s views on

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—I spent a little while with our son; Jimmy, yesterday afternoon while he was winding up his business trip in New York City.

The necessity for reporting for duty in the Marine

Reserve on Nov. 1, requires the severance of any business connections with which he cannot keep in touch, but he seemed to feel that he had accom-e plished all he wanted to do when he | left somewhat hurriedly to catch his plane. took the midnight train down to | Washington and. found the President in fine form. I-am going out to dinner tonight, so I am lunching with him today instead. It certainly is nice to see Mr. MarMcIntyre come in again with the secretariat in the morning. He well and is even threatening a trip to New York City. A press eonference this morning emphasized something which has been on my mind for some days. One of the newspaper girls said that the wife of an Army to her office remarking on the ewspaper pictures gave prom-

fact that so many né arewells of the National Guard

Vagabond

By Ernie Pyle

Whereupon we all retired to our cold bedrooms. . If Mr. Wilson had got up this morning swearing he had slept like a baby, I think I would have kicked his sore heel. . But he didn’t. He pretty near froze to death, Just as 1.did. Pioneers~bah! But the morning sun can do much for a man. Lloday was clear, and our breakfast was excellent, and we faced the prospect of our seven-mile return hike almost with eagerness. Since I like to walk alone, I started out ahead. I'wice during the first half of the downhill journey I

stopped to rest. But after the second sitting, I never|?

stopped again. The trutn is, I was afraid to stop. That rheumatic knee ot mine got worse and worse. I knew that if ever 1 interrupted its rhythmic routine to rest, I'd never get it ajarted again.

‘He Gets Enough

So on and on I walked, through an eternity, and it was close to noon when suddenly the forest-roofed trail broke out into the open, and some cars were sitting around, and 1 knew here was the end of the rainbow. The Great Walker had made it home. He

collapsed on a rock. Now my Cleveland friends should have been no more than five minutes behind. But time passed. And more time. At last—three-quarters of an hour behind me—they came, limping and halt. Mr. Wilson’s toes somehow had got all mixed up with each other, and wound up a mass of blood inside his boots. And Mr: Liggett discovered he had some ‘muscles that hadn’t been used since he was marching down roads ih France in 1318. : It is with a breaking heart that I recount this, for I believe Mr. Wilson intends to tell some heroic story about it around Cleveland. But I say this is a democracy, and if my own frail knee must suffer the cruel scrutiny of the public spotlight, then Mr. ‘Wilson's torn toes shall not hide in privacy. ~ We pid each other a hikers’ adieu. My Cleveland friends started right home. As for me—well, don’t you worry about me, folks, I'm safe and happy right here ‘in bed with a hot pad around my knee. If anybody should care to hire me to pack something back up the mountain tomorrow, I'll consider it for Ja million dollars. Not very seriously, though.

Indianapolis: (And “Our Town”)

Mr. Britton got frost-bitten when they insisted on going through a game during a blizzard. When he was 60, Mr. Efroymson took up hurting. With Mr. Reilly and Mr. Mann, he has liked to,go down the. Tom Bigbee River in Alabama, huntln deer and turkey for Thanksgiving.

A Self-Made Man

MR. EFROYMSON 1S a self-made man in every sense of the word. He was born in Evansville and

‘ moved here with his parents as a child. His family

was poor, but his father Jacob started the Efroymson Department Store, which is still going on S. Meridian St. Young Gus worked in his father’s store after school and at 18 went into business with Louis Wolf (his brother-in-law). They founded the Star Store and they later took over the H. P. Wasson & Co., of which Mr. Efroymson was president until 1930 when he sold his interests. For many years he was treasurer and later president of the Citizens Gas Co. ,He was one of the men instrumental in building up the. neglectéd property to the point where the City took it over. He has been head of Real Silk since 1932. Most "typical of Mr. Eyromson’s interests, however, is the Indianapolis Public Welfare Loan" Association, of which he has been president ever sinc€ its formation in 1912, Back in those days, there was no regulation’ of loan companies and instances of people paying 100 per cent interest a month were not unusual, Under the guidance of the Russell Sage Foundation, Mr. Efroymson and nine others put up $1000 each to found the loan 1irm. All 10 expected to lose their stake, but it registered and it’s been going successfully irom the day it opened. Mr. Efroymson still works as hard as ever. He shows up at his office every day. Not a demonstrative person, he has difficulty concealing his' interest in his only grandchild, 4-year-old Gustave Adam, son of Robert, the attorney. Mr. Efroymson’s other son is Clarence, the Butler professor. He gave them good advice when he told them in their boyhood: “You don’t have to take back anything you never

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By Raymond Clapper

monopoly are considered reasonably in line with his own. Whether this one will work out is still a: question but it is a fact that Willkie is thinking of trying 1t out on Arnold if elected. That the Defense Commission's principal figures would for the most part be retained is definitely known. Knudsen might~be placed in charge of the whole defense operation. There are some good reasons why he should be left in charge of production, which is his specialty, and why a commercial man like Don Nelson, vice president of Sears, Roebuck, should become the chief traffic officer and co-ordinator of the defense effort, But Willkie very much wants Knudsen in full charge. Willkie knows—even though he makes cracks about how he is gding to run the New Dealers out of town by the ‘trainload, that Government has become extremely complicated and that you can’t run Washington with the kind of political hacks that run a country courthouse. 3

Party Is Job-Hungry

Willkie knows that a completely raw crowd can't be ®hrown into Washington any more than a vast in-

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personnel swept out and greenhorns substituted. Willkie knows, furthermore, that whatever political quarrels he may have with the New Dealers, they have recruited dozens of highly competent junior administrative cfficials and that many of these must be retained if the machinery is to be kept functioning. Willkie would want to change part of the Cabinet and the more politically active agency posts. But as to the junior administrative -officials, Willkie is expected, if elected, to assemble them as soon as he takes office and ask those who feel they can adopt and follow his program in good conscience and energetic spirit, to stay on—for as long as they can or as long as he feels they are still being the able public servants they have hitherto proved themselves to be. The foregoing is the way in which Willkie is thinking about the responsibilities of carrying on if elected. Of course there’s one other angle. If elected he will be set upon by the fiercest crowd of job-hungry Republicans that Washington has seen since Harding's day. Whether Willkie’s back would be strong enough to stand up against that horde is anybody’s guess.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

derstand only too well how many of these youngsters who have never nefore been away from home find it hard to face a year of separation, perhaps without any opportunity to go home or have the family visit. In war time everybody is keyed up to the point of making any sacrifices. If you read Dorothy Canfield Fisher's: “Petunias, That's for Remembrance,” you will realize that our Vermont and New Hampshire women were aided in the Civil War days by the fact that they had little time for repining, for the work. of the farm haa to be carried on by the women. But this is not war time. These boys are going for training and their families have no reason not to hope their health will be benefited, that they will get their jobs back, or that this training will be of value to them. 1 think the records show that, with the free medical care, the regular life and the good food; the health of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps is better than average. Certainly the discipline and the varied types of training these boys will receive should either make them better workmen in the skills they have acquired, or give them new skills which will be of value to them. « It is true that we are not called upon to make supreme sacrifices at the present time. But we are called upon to do something which may be of infinite value to the country and even prevent us from being obliged to make further sacrifices of a more serious nature in the future,

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The Candidates for Congress

Rep. Louis Ludlow

! : James A. Collins

TWELFTH DISTRICT

DEMOCRAT

Louis Ludlow

EP. LOUIS LUDLOW might have rounded out his. career in Congress as just ‘another Representative working hard in the interests of the folks back home, if he hadn’t hated war. It was this burning desire to keep the nation at peace that rocketed him to nationwide prominence with the introduction I 1934 of his now famous war referendum ill. The bill brought an immediate barrage of denunciation-and failed of passage. Similar storms of ‘indignation were forthcoming as Rep. Ludlow renewed his efforts for the plan at succeeding sessions. Even Alf M. Landon, after his defeat for the Presidency, turned thumbs down on the idea. The furore left the peaceful Hoosier somewhat baffled, but still determined. And thee<chances are that if he is re-elected by the 12th District voters Nov. 5 for his seventh two-year term, he'll still be fighting for the bill. Rep. Ludlow is what he likes to call a “blown-in-the-bottle” type of Hoosier. Born in Fayette County 67 years ago, he was reared on a farm. When he was 18, he came to Indianapolis and became a cub newspaper reporter for the Indianapolis Sun, predecessor of The Times. When he was 28, the old Indianapolis Sentinel sent him to Washington as its correspondent, and for 27 years he sat in the press gallery of Congress. During this time he wrote several satirical books based on his observations of Congressmen. Finally, he decided he would make just as good a Representative as most of those he had observed on the House floor, so he came back home and got into politics. In January, 1929, he returned to Washington, but moved his seat from the Press gallery onto the House floor, where it has been since. Some of his friends in Washington say he “talks like a Republican but votes Democratic.” He has been described as “really working at his job,” and his services, they say, aren’t limited to the folks in his own dis-

REPUBLICAN

James A. Collins

AMES A. COLLINS’ candidacy for Congress from the 12th District is the culmination of his many years of political and public welfare service. He’s best known for his 16 years as judge of the Marion County Criminal Court. Born in Massachusetts, he came here when he was about 25, and three years later—in 1898—entered a law office. The following year he became a deputy under Prosecutor John Ruckelshaus. A ‘decade later, he gave up his private law practice to become City Court judge for a four-year term. Then came his elec tion to the Criminal Court bench for four

four-year terms. Defeated for re-election, he returned to his private law practice. On the bench, Mr. Collins’ was known as fair judge, one who always would give a rst offender a chance, but wasn’t lenient

. with hardened criminals.

During his service as judge, he worked out a plan to permit minor offenders to pay their fines on the installment plan to save them from going to jail and “laying out” their fines. The plan, which became a fullfledged part of the court probation system, attracted nation-wide attention at the time. Judge Collins has received recognition for his efforts to help the City’s foreign-born residents. Recently he was decorated by the Yugoslav Government for his aid to Yugoslavs here. He helped the late John H. Holliday in organizing the Immigrants’ Aid Association —the first to emphasize Americanization

- work among aliens. For many years he was

a director of the Family Welfare Society

. and the American Settlement.

The 70-year-old nominee resides with his family at 4811 Park Ave. He's an active member of the Washington Township Republican Club. He also is a member of the Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine. state and city bar associations, an honorary member of the Indianapolis Rotary Club and a vestryman of St. Paul's

was election to the New Palestine

Rep. W. H. Larrabee

+ Maurice Robinson

ELEVENTH DISTRICT

DEMOCRAT Dr. William H. Larrabee R. WILLIAM H. LARRABEE, the Dem-

ocratic nominee for Congress from the ,

11th District, is campaigning for re-election

on the basis of his 10-year record in Congress. An ardent New Dealer, he consistently has supported liberal legislation advocated by. President Roosevelt. The 70-year-old political veteran was born on a farm near Crawfordsville and spent his boyhood on another farm in Hancock County. He attended two normal schools, then taught six years in the Hancock County grade.schools to raise money for his medical education. Graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine, he spent the next 33 years practicing medicine in New Palestine. But during the years he was diagnosing patients’ ailments and writing prescriptions, he developed a lively interest.in politics. His first active step in the political field Town Council in 1916. Next.came his election as

a State Representative in 1923.

In 1930, he was elected to Congress from the old Sixth District, which had been considered a Republican stronghold. Three years later, when the district boundary lines were changed, he was reelected to serve the present llth District While he was in the State Legislature, Dr. Larrabee was co-author of the first oldage pension bill introduced into a state legislature in the central west. As a member of the steering committee of the U. S. House of Representatives, he pushed for favorable action on the General Welfare Bill to provide direct old-age pensions from the Federal Treasury. He is the only present Indiana congressman serving as chairman of a full committee of the House. He is chairman of the Committee on Education and, prior to his election “to this post, was chairman .of the Census Committee, of which he still remains the ranking member. During congressional recesses, Dr. Larrabee always moves his office fromr Wash-

REPUBLICAN

Maurice G. Robinson

AURICE G. ROBINSON, the Republi« can nominee for Congress from the 11th District, is only 35 but-he’s far from an amateur in politics.

For a decade, he has been regaling political audiences with his silver-tongued oratory as a leading member of the G. O. P. speakers bureau. “Red” Robinson—he got his nickname from the hue of his hair—is a native of Madison County,’ spent 15 years of his life on a farm. He attended Anderson’ High School, Wabash College and the Harvard Law School, working his way through the latter two. Back in his student days he was one of the state's outstanding athletes. While on the Arxderson H. S. basketball team, he won the coveted Gimbel medal in the 1923 state tournament. 'At Wabash, he was an AllAmerican athlete, ‘and also won the national intercollegiate oratorical contest. Back home again in Anderson, he ‘began the practice of law, served as a deputy prosecutor two years, and as a member of the State Board of Education under Governor Harry G. Leslie. He ran for election as Mayor of Anderson in 1934 but was defeated. Mr. Robinson was one of the founders of the national Young Republican organization and served as temporary chairman of the first Young Republican convention in the United States, held in Indianapolis two years ago. He is considered an authority on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Last year he addressed a joint session of the General As sembly on Lincoln's birthday. For four years, hé has been Madison County's Republican Election Commissioner, “Red” Robinson is described by his friends as a “mighty determinegl” man. He has deep convictions on national issues, firmly believing, among other things, that the country is “headed for dictatorship” under President Roosevelt. He is considered level-headed and intel ligent. He makes a “cracker jack” speech —on the radio or in a hall—and he has

trict, nor to members of his own party.

PUSHES FIGHT ON MILK LAWS

Federation Wants Abolition;

Cannon Urges Watch on Water Supply.

The Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, meeting at the Hotel Washington, last night voted to continue the campaign for the abolition of the existing milk control laws. A resume of past studies of the laws was given by Albert Neuerburg, chairman of the milk control committee of the federation. Paul O. Wetter, federation president, also took part in the discussion. ! George A. Sass of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, and Fermor S. Cannon, president of the Railroadmen’s Federal Savings & Loan Association, were guest speakers. Mr. Cannon's talk advocated closer supervision of water supply and sewage systems in new developments and renovations in older districts in the city. Meanwhile the -East 21st Street Civic League met last night to discuss proposed new street lights at 21st St. and Bosart Ave.. Members long opposed to the dumps near 16th St., said that they were to be eliminated by the city. John Lindner, president, presided.

NEW PRISON RADIO JO BE DEDICATED

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Oct. 26 (U. P.).—Dedicatory services for the new 2010 headphone radio set installed at the State Prison here will be held tomorrow with transcription program produced within the penitentiary. The program will include a radio tour of the institution, music by the prison band, orchestra and newly-built organ, several solos, and a brief talk of Warden Alfred F. Dowd. The radio system, paid for with funds raised from sales in the commissary, includes four 12-tube master receivers, one for each major radio chain and one for emergency use in addition to the headphone sets installed in cells and dormitories. Inmates have a choice of three programs. The dedication transcription is to be broadcast over WIND, Gary and WOAYV, Vincennes, from 3 to 4 p. m., over WGL, Ft. Wayne from 8 to 9.p. m. and over WIRE, Indianapolis, from 9:30 to 10 p. m.

INJURED €YCLIST DIES ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26 (U. P)) —Robert Simmons, 20, of Anderson, died yesterday from *injuries suffered Oct. 16 when his bicycle was struck by a truck driven by

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F. D. R. Sincere in Saying He Desires Peace for U. S.

EW, if any, commentators have written as many thousands of words of criticism of ‘the Roosevelt-Hull foreign policy during the last

seven and one-half years as I have.

The deepest misgivings I have

had about Roosevelt since he first began running for President have

inte Both the President and Hull appraised wrongly, it seemed to me; our relationship to the continents of Europe and Asia. Their: views stemmed, I felt, from the mistaken notions and mishandling of our foreign relations which carried us into the World War of 1917-

gravest question concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt is whether or not he will follow the tragic course of Woodrow Wilson.”

Many of the words and actions of the President and his Secretary of State during the last seven and one-half years justifiably aroused fears that they might get us into a war in which our national security ‘was iol directly involved.

Yet I have never accused either of them of wanting to go to war. When the President solemnly avers, as he has just done again, that his most profound hope is'to keep the United States—and the Western Hemisphere—at peace, I am sure he is speaking the truth without mental reservation.

The insinuation, made by Willkie and other Republicans, in the last stages of the campaign, that the President is only waiting until election ds over to take us into war, is baseless, I am confident, insofar as the President's intentions and hopes are concerned.

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VER since the European war broke out more than a year ago there have been insinuations from critics of the President that he would “take us in” in order to get himself re-elected. Election is less than 10 days off and we aren't “4n* yet. So now the effort is“made to arouse the fear that he will plunge us “in” if the voters give him another term. Obviously nobody can promise that we will not go to war. Willkie has not promised to keep us out of war. Roosévelt hasn't. Wars are not begun by agreement. The plain fact is that there is an alliance of three highly militarized nations, openly proclaimed to that Roose-

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beengabou his ability to keep us out of a war in which our national ts were not sufficiently at stake to justify a resort to arms.

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velt has promised is not to fight a war across the oceans unless we are attacked. That is as far as any man who is not blind can go. Even that may be going a little too far. There is a “war party” in this country, and it is represented in the Administration. Perhaps it would be more exact to speak of “two war parties.” These are people who want us to go to war now. One group wants to declare war on the Axis. The other wants us to clean up Japan. Some want us to do both simultaneously. There is also an agglomeration of extreme isolationists, pacifists, and appeasers, who might be called a party. They might keep - us out of war now, but at the risk of destruction later after hostile powers had established bases in this hemisphere from which they could strike at us. The President and Hull have rejected both of these schools of thought. EJ 2 » HE main points of .the Administration policy are 1. Build formidable defenses as rapidly as possible, first for North America and the Caribbean and entire Western Hemisphere. 2! Aid Great Britain by short of war. i % \ 3. Aid China, keep our fleet in the Pacific, and apply a gradual economic squeeze to Japan— avoiding, if’ possible, action which would precipitate a war between ourselves and Japan. These policies have been indorsed by Willkie. In fact, he has criticized the Administration fot not giving more effective aid to Britain—by what means he has not specified. If these policies are likely to get us into war, we will get into war -no matter who is elected— unless Willkie, which I do not believe, adopted these policies only for campaign purposes, with the intention of abandoning theny if elected. I do not believe Willkie was insincere in indorsing . thése policies. He might have won: more votes by not indorsing them. In fact, it must be his belief that he can win votes by doing so which now leads him to insinuate that Roosevelt will take us into war,

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PHONE HIM. SEE IF HE'S RIGHT

Dunninger, a Mind Reader, Knows When He Answers Who’s Calling.

By TIM TIPPETT When Joseph Dunninger was in grade school he was “very poor” in arithmetic, but he got the answers right. He read the class’ mind. Mind Reader Dunninger was today’s feature on the Town Hall series at English’s Theater. Asked in an interview how he became interested in telepathy, he

told the arithmetic story: “I would get the answers after the class nad written it. It was in the air.” Mind reading is a matter of vibrations, Mr. Dunninger explained, and is an undeveloped faculty we all have. . Grade: 95 Per Cent

Skeptics are at a loss to explain his" accuracy in reading minds. His average is 95 per cent correct and he offers $100,000 to any one who

can prove he uses an accomplice. “I'm safe on this offer because I really don’t have an accomplice,” he said. “Telepathy is a fact, not a trick.” / Speaking of his assertion that he can make an entire fleet of battleships invisible to the enemy, Mr. Dunninger was non-commital. Details are available to the War Department, alone, he said. “But it can be done and is done with material things. It 4s not hypnotism, but an optical illusion,” he said. Among Mr. Dunninger’s accomplishanents is oalling the mayor of Winnipeg on the phone and having the Mayor take a deck of cards and one by one concentrating on them, ahd naming them. His guess as to the cards were correct. 52 times. No “Who's Calling?”

When the phone rings at the Dunninger home in New York City, his birthplace, he says he answers not by saying, “Who is it please?” but by saying “Hello Mr. Jones” or “Hello Mr. Smith” ‘as the case may

be. “Just telepathy,” he explains, “All of us have such experiences,” he says. “Often a person thinks of - calling the friend, and the thought is communicated to the jendt before the call is actually ade Concentrating before an audience for an hour is not a simple matter nor is it easy. During a lecture, tall, dynamic appearing Mr. Dunninger loses more than three

pounds. (“It isn't just telepathy,” he explains, “it’s downright hard work.” 3

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26th Dog Bite Just Too Much

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 26 (U. P).—In 13 years of carrying the mail, 25 dogs had bitten him and he had kept his peace, Lowrey Huey, 46-year-old postman, told Circuit Judge Louis P. Hewitt. But when the 26th set upon him and his 13th year not completed, it was too much. He threw a pair of grass shears at the dog; it died. Sympathetic Judge Hewitt reversed a Municipal Court judge ment which had ordered Mr. Huey to spend 50 days in jail and pay a $50 fine and costs.

ELECTION PLANNED BY SCOUT COUNCIL

Officers and members will be elected by the Indianapolis and Central Indiana Council of Boy Scouts at its 26th annual meeting Nov. 12 at the Marott Hotel. Walter W. Head, president of the national organization, will speak at the council dinner at 6:30 p. m,

& |President Arthur R. Bédxter of the

local council will preside over a business session at 4:30 p. m.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1--For what word is “pop” an abe breviation in the term, “pop £ONn cert’? 2-—Can oats and owls see in total darkness? 3—In which war was the battle of Bull Run fought? : 4-~Whom did Weygand succeed as commander of the French Army? 5—~What famous street in New York City is called “The Great White Way’? —Another name for spittoon iS? T7—Was Edmund Burke born in Ireland, Scotland or England?8—Does an alien become a U. 8, citizen when he gets his first papers.

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1—Popular. 2—No. 3—War between the States. 4—CGamelin, 5—Broadway. 6—Cuspidor. T-Ireland.

8—No. o ss 2

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