Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1940 — Page 7
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TUESDAY, DEC. 24, 1940
Hoosier Vagabond
. LISBON, Portugal.—At least we have moved. Through wire-pulling, we have finally got ourselves a room in a hotel. : . And a good thing, too, for one more day in the pension and I am sure our conduct would have : caused’ the death of a pleasant middle-aged Portuguese lady who was our floor maid. She would have died of a broken heart: : At 8 o’clock every morning, no maiter how soundly we were sleeping, this black-robed maid would walk into our room with our breakfast crammed onto a tiny tray. A Continental breakfast consists of coffee and milk, two hard rolls and some butter. The milk is hot, and the rolls are what they "pave the streets with. Now that may be a fine breakfast for a boulevardier, but it’s no breakfast for a Hoosier. So we would sip’ a little coffee, and ignore the rest. And then go back to sleep. One hour later the maid would come in and collect the tray. Each morning she would go through a prodigious sermon of distress over our not liking our breakfast. We couldn’t understand a word she said, but we knew what she meant. Each day she got-more heartbroken. That last morning I thought she was going to cry. She felt so sorry for us, not getting anything to eat and just starving to death. She wrung her hands. What could she:do? We just said, “Don’t grieve, poor lady, everything will be all right.” i So now we have :noved, and they have the same breakfast here. Except that they don’t walk in on Jou i it; they wait until you wake up and ring or it.
A Minor Triumph
But we have found the perfect detour, the perfect solution. We have thwarted this villainous institution of half-breakfast. We just don’t ring. Our new room is about 20 feet square, and it has two big windows that look onto a narrow street. Early each morning they bring all the newsboys and street vendors of Lisbon up to this street and fest their lungs. If they can’t wake us up, then they are weak and sick and are sent home for the day with a black mark. r * Our room is old-fashioned yet quite comfortable
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
ONE OF THE CHIEF ITEMS of speculation among State House politicians these days concerns the ‘future of James Tucker, Secretary of State. “What’s Jim going to do two years from now?” they ask each other. You see, the Constitution provides , that the Secretary of State can serve no more than four years . out of any six, and Mr. Tucker " has just started his second twoyear term. Mr. Tucker says he hasn't given his future moves any consideration. He says there are two theories of political thought. One is to keep running until you get beaten. The other is to drop out of the limelight for a while. He has quite a while yet to determine which theory he will adopt. We, Catapulted into the political picture two years ago when he was the only Republican elected to a State office, it is believed the 32-year-old Secretary as high ambitions.
It’s also possible that his ambitions may lead to by assuring her that he remembered the location
quite a tug-of-war with the William Jenner faction of the party, which has control of the upcoming Legislature. Mr. Tucker’s home town is Paoli. State Senator Jenner alse practiced law in Paoli and started his political career’ there, although he gives his address as Shoals, his original home.
Bo are young ard have high hopes for the future. Bota in the volume with Scotch tape. if she reads the darn thing,” he said.
Seen and Heard Around Town
have their supporters who profess they are ready for the showdown when and if it comes.
He May Run for Attorney General
WHICH MEANS THAT MR. TUCKER probably would like fo stay in the limelight—to step up, if possible, in the State House. Some of his backers say now that if the Republicans make the Attorney General's office elective once more, Mr. Tucker will by a logical candidate. Being Attorney General, they say, would put him in a good position to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for U. S. Sen-
Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—A reader wires to me: «Would like to read your view whether or not encouragement negotiated peace ‘would be desirable point of view national interest.” The best answer to that is to quote what a high official said a few days ago in priv=ate conversation: “People in this country who advocate a negotiated p2ace at this time are taking upon
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themselves a very great responsi"and recently he asked them to let him judge the
bility.” To understand what he meant, first look at the situation in Europe. Hitler's announced aim is to smash the British Empire, to kill off the democratic idea, to establish the totalitarian pattern every-. where ‘he can. The broad aim is : to replace Britain as a dominant power with his own combination in control of Europe, Asia and Africa.. His method has been fo do that by - threats, pressure, and fifth-column work where that was possible, and where those methods did not work to fight—as was necessary in Poland and in France.
Why Britain Fights On
There has been no indication that Hitler was willing to make peace with the British on any terms that they consider acceptable. They have elected to fight on rather than submit to the kind of terms they might get. They consider life less precious than what they would be expected to surrender. . The only sign of weakening appear to have been limited to some businessmen who thought before the war that they could rely on Hitler and that it was petter to play ball with him than to have to share their wealth with the rest of the people of England as a result of social changes growing out of war.
~ WASHINGTON, Monday—I left New York City this morning and took the 9:50 plane to Washington.
The sky was blue and the air was crisp, and gave
one a real feeling that winter was with us and we might hope either jo snow or skating by Christmas a Ya Here I found Christmas packages everywhere and an air of great preparation. .The house has been decorated and the lights are in the little trees oni the portico, so we look gay at night. Even the President changed his schedule and had not yet left the White House so I had a glimpse of him before he went over to the executive office. His shadow, the little black scottie, came into my sitting room with him. . I was glad to see the dog Back, for he had spent two days before I left at the vets * with the usual puppy difficulties. He has returned “with a diet. The President, who would hardly be aware of the fact that anybody else in the household was on a diet, spoke to me at once, so thai there would he no mistake about “Falla’s” food. ..- I saw the housekeeper and all the rooms are assigned for Chilstnias sng all the meals are planned.
‘ip the bathtub. I'll bet we're the two most thorough-
puckered and big tears rolled down her cheeks: ‘You
“appreciation for her literary interests bought a book "of verse for her Christmas present in a local book
Nothing to Bargain Yet
“> By Eleanor Roosevelt,
‘that we may have an opportunity of wishing them all
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By Ernie Pyle
(except for temperature). The ceiling is way off up
yonder, and is covered with colossal scrollwork in pur-|
ple plaster. * Our furniture is maple, with tiny legs that were fashionable a long time ago. In one corner is a weird green contraption that looks like, and I guess is, a chaise longue. : The bathroom is simply one corner of the room
which. stop five feet short of the ceiling. We have a] sink and a huge bathtub. The remainder of the bathroom equipment is down the hall. ’ .Our bathtub has three faucets, one marked cold, and two marked hot. The point is that one is a little hotter than the other. I don’t know why it's done this way. All I care is that one or the other, gives off hot water. and they 1eally do—plenty hot. But our radiator does not have the same virtue. It is a centuries-old custom not to have heat over here. All radiators are vaguely warm; none is ever hot. They have no effect at all on the room’s temperature.
Keep Warm ‘in the Bathtub
Actually, the temperature isn’t down to freezing. And it’s beautiful outside. Yet the chill eats into you and through you, and you begin to hurt, and you put on sweaters until you haven’t any more—and you do not get one degree warmer. As the hours wear on you get melancholy, and finally almost frantic. The result is that George Lait and I take turns
ly washed caballeros in Portugal. We take at least four hot baths a day. ; “ All during the afternoon, when I'm frying to write, I have to let the hot water run over my hands about every 15 minutes to limber them up. I am telling the truth. ; : This last week-end was u double holiday. It was the Portuguese version of the Fourth of July—Portugal’s anniversary of freedom from Spain. Lait and I had forgotten to get any American money changed on Saturday, and the “cambios” were all closed over the Sunday-Monday holiday. We were caught with exactly three escudos (12 cents). _-Of course we didn’t go hungry, for we eat in the hotel. But on three escudos: we éouldn’t go to a movie, we couldn't buy a book, we couldn't ride far in a taxi. So we sat in our room for a day and a half, and then went out and bought 12 cents worth of cliocolate candy. We divided it squarely in half and ate it with
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ator four years from now. It's believed that is the place Mr. Tucker prefers. . If the Attorney General job doesn’t open up, Mr. Tucker could run for Congress in his home district, the Nintl, two years from now. But that would bring about an inter-party battle, sipce the new Congressman from there is Earl Wilson, a Republican. Of course, there are some other two-year offices
in the State House which will be open in 1942, but}.
they also are occupied by Republicans now who probably will want to run again. : It seems Mr. Tucker has quite a problem on his hands. . "a
Two Little Christmas Stories
A STORE SANTA 'CLAUS has to watch what he says. The other day one of them asked a little girl where she lived and she answered, “on Hazlehatch Drive.” Santa looked puzzled and then said: “I don’t believe I know where that is.” The girl's lips
cught to.” she sobbed, “you were there last year.” Santa realized he was caught and squared things up
and would be there Christmas €ve all right. . . . A young man with more love for his girl friend than
shop. “Have you got a crisp new $5 bill,” he asked the clerk. He proceeded to paste the bill well back
“Now, I'll know
THAT NEW BLUE SWEATER modeled after the hockey Capitals’ uniforms that Herbie Lewis’ young son Jerry is wearing was a Christmas gift from Harry Feadler and Jack Free, Coliseum engineer and fcemaker. . . . Lieut. Dan Scanlon of the Police Department is stumped. He got a Christmas card from Midway Island, way out there in the Pacific, signed «Hank.” “I wonder who he is,” the Lieutenant keeps asking himself. . « « !
By Raymond Clapper
There is no evidence that this view has spread beyond a small group. England as a whole gives every indication of wishing to fight rather than to submit. That has been made clear to Hitler, and his supreme effort to crush England is now awaited. Churchill indicated it may come any time. Officials here expect * it within three months. Hitler still hold the offensive, despite Italian reverses in the Mediterranean. He has not really tested his full strength against England. He promised his people that he would move last fall but he did not,
time when he should strike. He cannot go back to them now except bearing a victor’s peace. Unable to get that out of Britain now, he must fight to his terms. :
To urge Britain to make peace now would be in effect asking that Britain make peace on Hitler’s terms. It would amount to our telling the British that what they were fighting for was not worth it. It would amount to telling them that they had better accept the fate of France today. It is not believed here that Britain as yet has anything to bargain with against Hitler. At this point I wander off on my own. If England does stand up under the expected attack, if Eng=land demonstrates that Hitler, by exerting his supreme. effort, cannot defeat her, then she will have something with which to bargain. 1 find it difficult to accept the view of some that England can defeat Hitler by sending an expeditionary force to the continent. If England cannot be crushed, England wins so far as the United States is concerned. Because we are concerned but indirectly with the continent of Europe. We are concerned directly with seapower, and our national interest lies in a free and friendly England retaining it. If England can stop Hitler at the water’s edge, the day is on the way toward being saved.
look at lists of any kind, and she will not have an oppertunity ‘until after Christmas. After lunch, I am going to the Dutch shop and to the ‘shop on Connecticut Ave, where they sell Christmas cards for the British charities. At 4 o'clock,
members of the executive office force who are oft duty tomorrow, will come to the President’s office, so
a Merry Christmas. ; I expect by that time that my mother-in-law and
sister-in-law will arrive. It is a long time since I have|
seen them both, so there will be a real sense of excitement about our reunion. A little bit later, Ethel and little Franklin ITI, will arrive and some time this afternoon, I hope Harry Hopkins and Diana will ap-
pear. I have already received so many Christmas cards that I want to say a word of thanks today. It is very warming to the heart to find that people think of you at Christmas time, and that they so often think of you as a friend. ; From all around us at Hyde Park, cards have come pouring in, as well as from every nook and corner in the United States and from Europe and the Far East. Perhaps the most touching cards. have been those with messages written on them in which people say that though in their particular homes, life seems dark and uncertain, the fact that the.President
place in life. They enter the school as first graders and learn to “hear” by reading lips. They learn to speak by shaping words with their mouths and utilizing the voices many never knew they had.
There are 460 of them, from precocious 6-year-olds to maturing boys and girls of 18, preparing tor life in the exciting atmosphere of a boarding school here in Indian--apolis. : ; These children, who lack normal hearing, come from all over Indiana to attend the free State school that faces the back door of the State Fair Grounds on E. 42d St. Some of them are from wealthy families. Some are from very poer families. ; i 2 a nn T'S a long and sometimes very difficult process teaching children, some of whom have never known what words are, to speak and lip read. First the teacher has to teach the children to associate written words with objects. Then she teaches them how vowels and consonants are formed by the lips. Next the children shape the vowels and consonants into words. ‘At the same time, they also are learning the three R's. With the rudiments of speaking and lip-reading learned, the task in only begun.
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Now they can speak. They can even “hear.”
the Indiana State School for
the Deaf which recently became one of only a handful of similar schools in the nation to hold a public school commission, deaf Hoosier youngsters can win a normal
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"Hear"
A first-grade pupil at the Indiana State School for the Deaf gets her first conception of sound by touching the cheek of her teacher, Miss Natalie Black, as Miss Black forms simple words. In this way they learn to utilize -voices they didn’t know they had. :
By Earl Hoff O longer does a blanket of silence cut off the deaf from all except those who know the expressive language of
As the children’s knowledge grows and their “vocabulary” expands, there is need for more intensive training. By the time the children finish the primary, intermediate and high school grades, their lack of hearing is almost entirely compensated for.: However, since they cannot hear, their voices lack the full inflection of normal conversation.
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O one man belongs most of the credit for bringing the school to its present level. He is J. A. Raney, superintendent. .
Mr. Raney took charge six years ago after 15 years experi- . ence in public schools. He raised the standards for the teaching staff of 55 and installed He also had the school property ren-« ovated. ’ » His only fear now is that expanded expenses for National Defense may cut appropriations for the Deaf School, undoing years of work. In appearance the school resembles a college. A huge Administration Building houses classrooms and offices. A boys’ dormitory and a girls’ dormitory flank a square plot of ground to the rear of the Administration Building. On the fourth side of the grassy plot is a Service Building in which are a laundry, kitchens and dining rooms. In the rear are a power plant, a vocational shops building and a horse barn. Part of the T7-acre school grounds is farmed.
Two high school boys, Robert Wolfe (left) of Metamora, Ind., and
Joseph Borinstein of Indianapolis,
learn about the care of flowers in
the school’s greenhouse, a part of the vocational training program,
Pupils who have only a slight amount of “residual’’ hearing, use amplifyihg devices in classroom work, Miss Elizabeth Cutler is the instructor. :
HE Deaf School -costs the
State $400. a year pér pupil. .
Parents pay only for clothing and incidentals. Every pupil is seen by Mr. Raney before he is allowed to enter the school. No feebleminded’ cases -are admitted. Motners sometimes are appreherisive about leaving young children at the school, but when they see the way in which the school operates their fears are dispelled, Mr. Raney said.
For the last several years Mr. Raney has been plugging hard for
50 CURTISS MEN T0 MOVE HERE
4000 Skilled Workers to Be Hired, as Many as Possible Locally.
Approximately 50 key men of the Curtiss-Wright propeller division headquarters, Caldwell, N. J., will be brought to Indianapolis to form a nucleus for the new propeller plant to be established here, company officials said today. The buildings of the old Marmon Motor Car plant on W. Morris St. will be renovated beginning Jan. 1 to house the new division which is to employ more than 4000 skilled workers, including women. :
Some Equipment Purchased
W. K. Swigert, manufacturing manager for the company’s propeller division, and R. J. Sneider, who is expected to manage the Indianapolis plant, conferred yesterday with Myron Green, industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce to speed plans to take over the leased Marmon industrial center. Curtiss-Wright, makers of Army and Navy airplanes, hopes to begin production before April. Mr. Green said much of the tool equipment to manufacture electric controlled propellers, has already been purchased and is awaiting installation. The rest of the machinery has been ordered. Renovation Scheduled
in renovating the buildings for use in production of propellers. .° As many of the skilled workers as can, will be taken from Indianapolis. Officials - believed, however, that a large proportion would have to be hired from other cities, because of the local drainage of skilled’ help by other industrial plants here working on defense contracts.
VIERECK RESIGNS ~~ - FROM PRESS CLUB
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (U. P).— George Sylvester Viereck, who was registered with the State. Department as a propagandist for Germany, today made public a letter of resignation from the Overseas Press Club of America. Mr. Viereck said the membership had threatened to resign en masse unless he withdrew. He wrote Eugene Lyons, that the demand for his resignation was “merely another phase of the same mass hysteria
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Woodruff Place Will Hold Party
THE WOODRUFF PLACE Town Hall at East and Cross Drives will be the scene of the community's annual Yuletide party at 7 p. m. tomorrow. Divided into two parts, the pro--gram will be open to the public. Participants will include United Brethren Bishop H. H. Fout, Cornelius F. Posson, Mary Pluess, O. E. Stanfield, Mrs. Earl Trimpe, Adrienne Cogan, and Donna Joyce Malcomb. Mrs. Maude Titus is chairman of the committee in charge of the program.
THE LAST ROUNDUP SONG AUTHOR DIES
BOSTON, Dec. 24 (U. P.).—William (Billy) Hill, 41, of New York, who wrote many popular song hits including “The Last Roundup,” ane of the all-time best ssellers, died of a heart attack today at a hotel. He was visiting friends here. Born in Boston, he spent most of his youth in Weymouth. Mr. Hill, who often composed under the pseudonym of George Brown, wrote such song hits as “There's a Cabin in the Pines,” “Have You Been Lonely,” “Louisville Lady” and “They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree.”
OUTLINES 6. 0. P. PLANS IN STATE
Bobbitt Says Concentration Of Government Power ‘Must Be Ended.’
Concentration of power in government “must be ended,” Ste bes publican Chairman Arch N. ‘Bobbitt told the Irvington Republican Club last night. ; : He outlined proposed legislation that will be sponsored by the Republican majority in the Legislature, regarding the reorganization of the executive setup of the State. - A bill now proposed by the Republicans would set up three-mem-ber boards, having a Republican majority, for administrative control of the government. “Concentration of power seemingly has become in recent. years a fetish among those who intended to be forward-looking but have in reality been only advocates of change,” Mr. Bobbitt said. “The people voted out the theory of power concentration and for a return to the simple system of government as set up by the Constitution. “I believe my party must and wil keep faith. Keeping faith means removing dictatorial and concentrated authority from any one man”
By JOAN YOUNGER United Fress Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—On the subject of children at ‘Christmas time, six Santa Clauses had this t say today: . SANTA NO. 1
“Now and again you get some budding general who wants tin soldiers. I discourage that. sort of thing personally. Kids ought to be full of.love. I'm a Red Cross man myself. If the kids want guns, I ask ‘em how about a train?” SANTA NO. 2 “I get maybe 500 kids in here a day, see? They all want the same thing. A doll, a train, a bike, maybe a sled. One of them did ask me for something different for a change. A real lion. That’s what he wanted. . “Maybe looney. I don’t know. I haven't much time to talk to them. Just call them honey,
what they want.” SANTA NO.3
and ask ‘emg
Know What 6 Santa Clauses Want Most? Year-'Round Job
feel good. You know, all the big eyed little tots with their hearts full of hope. Kind of gets you afte awhile.” :
SANTA NO. 4
“Nine out of 10 of them want the simplest of presents. Some of them ask for things for their mothers and fathers. One child asked for a top hat for her father and a diamond ring for her mother.” 3 y,
SANTA NO. 5
“A shy little lad of about 4 sidled up to me and presented me with a kiss. ‘And what do you want for Christmas, sonny?’ I said. He just stood there gazing innocently and sweetly at me. Finally he blurted out: ‘I want a machine gun. 1 want to be a G-Man’.” Pom
construction of two riew cottages for tirst, second and third grades. If these were built, the very young children could be segregated from the otier children, he said, and would not pe detracted by the sign language that many of the older ones use. Sign language isn’t a thing that 1s taught at the school. The children learn
it themselves. If the youngsters could get a start without this distraction. the superintendent said, the «course could be reduced cne year, thus cutting the State's expenses.
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Since few, of the deaf children go on to college the State school provides them with a wide range of vocational fraining, including wood working, shoe repairing, printing, horticulture and’ Bookbinding. And since the children are at the school 24 hours a day except during vacations, provisions must must be made for social life. A number of clubs have been formed and each has a meeting room. There are Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops. : Every effort is made to make the institution both a school an a home. i
Dog Gifts
Roosevelt's Puppy Gets |
Cookies; 250 Get Model of Him.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. P).—|
Christmas cards to Falla, President Roosevelt’s scottie dog! From “Noodle” Van Greenwich, Conn.— | “I saw your picture in the paper and I do admire you, and I never was on a train yet, and I» do hope you like the cookies as ‘much as I do.” Signed with a dog's footprints.
Loon,
. Fr “Rip” Patterson, = Pittsburgh/ Pa.— «Although I was born only a few months before you I am sufficiently old to follow your career with interest. A magazine refers to you as a ‘silent and undemancding companion.’ - Don’t ever change! Your master must have few enough who fall into that category.”
Palla, who was given to Mr. Roosevelt late in November by a friend, figured in the gifts given the 250 White House office employees by the President late yesterday. . Each of the employees filed into the Executive Office,” and received a sterling silver key ring which had a toy: scottie on one end and a horseshoe on the other.
"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—From what physical handicap did the composer Be:thoven suffer? ‘ : 2—Does the Federal Government _ pay premiums on old coins? 3—Are the Black Hills in South Da- .« kota ‘or North Dakota? 4—Name the Federal Prison located in San Francisco Bay. 5—What is meant by the phrase “to die intestate”? . 6—Is gravity a push or a pull? Answers | 1—Deafness. il 2—No. 3—South Dakota. 4—Alcatraz. - 5—To die without leaving a will. - 6—Push, bi ” 2 ”
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ELECTION ROARD PAY 1S HELD UP
Received $1800 Yearly Since 1932 but Now ~ Ruling Is Sought.
Quarterly salary claims of Fred C. Gause and Edwin H. Smith, state election commissioners, for $450 apiece have been held up by the State Auditor’s office, pending an Attorney General’s ruling on whether their salaries are legal. . Ross Teckemeyer, newly-appoint-ed Republican deputy auditor, said that he was asking the opinion. be~ cause the 1889 law creating the Board of Election Commissioners specified that the members should receive no compensation. ‘Mr. Smith said the members of the Election Board had been getting reguldr salaries of.$1800 yearly since 1932. * He said that previous to that time the board members had been paying themselves various amounts for legal services at irregular intervals. - Governor McNutt in 1932 called in the Election Commissioners and told them to fix some stable, fair salary, Mr, Smith said. The $1800 figure was fixed. . The Election Commissioners also received $500 apiece for legal serv-
‘lices in connection with the genera
election last month. : « . Mr. Teckemeyer said there was no question that the $500 fees were legal and within the intent of the Legislature in creating a fund for eléction expenses. He said that the fees were customary. ‘Governor Townsend, the third - member of the State Election Board, receives no salary for his services on the board. Mr. Gause is a Republican and Mr. Smith a Demo-
BUILDING OF NEW _ PLANT ON LONG WEEK MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Dec. (U. P.).—Workers on the new §$ 000,000 du Pont ammonia plant here today went on a 48-hour-a-week schedule because of the “urgency”
|of, a Federal defense Sontract,
increased work-week time and a half for overtime, a the men will be paid at the rate < cents an hour. 2 Sn
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