Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1941 — Page 16

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THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 194]

The

* Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON (by wireless) ~There are approximately 4000 Americans left’ in England. ‘If you would tell that to any American who' lives here he would be . amazed, because the most gregarious one probably doesn’t know more than a hundred. Outside of news- . paper correspondents, I haven't met a dozen Americans alto‘gether. But 4000 is the figure given by the embassy. They fall into three groups: Those in business or holding jobs. Those of dual nationality who married Englishmen. - Those who came here to retire. There are no tourists left at all. When the war started there were 20,000, but they are all back home now. Some 1600 of those 4000 Americans want to go home, and have notified the embassy to that effect. But there is no way to get them home unless they fly to Lisbon, and seats on the plarte to Lisbon “are at sods a premium they have 40 have pull to get one. | Unless | the United States sends another ship to Ireland, these’ people are here for the duration. Most Americans think it is ridiculous that our Government; refuses to let them travel home on British ships, because of the danger, yet forces them to stay. here )amidst constant danger. So far as I can learn only one American has been killed by a bomb in England, and only a few hurt. The number of those who have been scared green is “not available at the moment.

Helping the British

Americans over here have been very active in donating money to British relief. Furthermore, some 60 American businessmen have formed a mobile division to help fight the invasion if it comes. They * furnish their own cars, which have been camouflaged and equipped with machine guns, rifles and Molotov “cocktails.” | They drill, and wear British uniforms, but they will see action only if the invasion comes as far as London. I understand they would like to enlarge the unit but can't find any more interested Americans. | There are many Americans (not counted in those 4000) serving here with Canadian tops, but they are hard to count because all of them claim to be Canadians. ! The busiest American over here, I think, is a fel-

“cent civic.

i low named Gilbert Carr. Back home in 1920 he would have been a typic:l Babbitt. He is 100 per He belongs to every lodge ‘and society you've ‘ever heard of, “He has lived in England 12 years, and is a director of the Sunmaid Raisin Co. Through an arrangement with the Government, Mr. Carr is allowed to keep his staff of 35 people at work by handling dried fruits from Greece, Smyrna and Australia. He used fo handle 15,000 tons of

American raisins a year, hut now he handles only|"

about half that and they sre not American raisins.

An Expert on Bombings Mr. Carr knows all about bombs. Acting on the theme of dispersal, he packed up most of his clothes and took them to his warehouse, just in case his house should get hit. That night a bomb went clear

through the warehouse; blew it apart, set it afire and burned it to the ground. The next night a bomb exploded outside his office window and shattered the, place, but nobody was in the office at the time. They cleared up the glass and went back to work at his house, in Croydon. A bomb fell in the back yard nekt door and broke all his windows, cracked the walls and blew off the doors of the garage. He had a man-come next morning to put the doors back on. That night they were blown off again. Mr. Carr still lives in the house, with the windows boarded up. He gets: home about 8 at night, and works on his papers till he goes to sleep stretched out between two chairs. He is downtown at 8 in the morning, which is before daylight. « He spends exactly.two hours a day on the raisin business. The rest of the day he is as:busy as a bird dog working for Britain. He is a director of the American Ambulance, secretary of the American Committee for Air-Raid Relief, and a director of the recently opened Eagle Club for Americans serving with the British forces. He is' also a governor of the American Club, a director of the American Chamber of Commerce, adjutant of the American Legion post, and just now he is acting head of the Allied Relief Fund in this country. He has desks all over town, and shoots around from here to there, He is the guy who is always called on to do things. He has a big heart and a good physique. He's not afraid of bombs, but he says he gets bored with theth. So do I. Bored limp sometimes.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

IF THE RECENT touch of spring has given you a ' nostalgic yearning for a “Sunday in the park,” then you'll be glad to learn that the State Conservation Department has some surprises for you. New beaches, new picnic grounds, new trails . . . . for those who : like a touch of nature after a week in a hot office, it should be a rewarding summer. Starting up north and working down, here's what new at the State parks: Dunes—Camp ground accommodating 650 trailers and tents; Mounds — Shelter house with ovens and fireplaces; Turkey Run—Five cabins to supplement the services of the inn and new bridges and improved trails; Mc= Cormick’s Creek—Hotel wing with 30 new rooms, shelter house and shelter house terrace ovens; Sha-kamak--Switming beach doubling the size of the old one; Brown County—Archery range twice the. width of last year’s and a bird observatory where bird lovers may see and photograph the birds without the birds seeing the bird lovers; Spring Mill—Entrance from _ the south and lake with new bathhouse; Lincoln— <The lake has been deepened 10 feet and enlarged two-fold.’ Mom, pack that picnic basket. Pop, crank up the gasoline chariot. We're off to the- wilds!

Pop Is Gone

AT 5 A. M. TODAY the era of Pop June's Way Down East Oyster House and Fish Cookery ended - officially. That’s when "Adams Restaurant opened ‘ officially. There's little left of Pop’s but the walls and ‘the address, 130 S. Illinois St. . the successor will pe run by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Adams; restaurateurs of 35 years’ experience. Mrs. Adams runs the dining room and Bert is boss man in the kitchen. A 24-hour-a-cay, 24-stool-counter eatery, Adams Restau-

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Not very many people could have heard Wendell Willkie before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without sensing that

_— here was a very big man, one of the authentic leaders

in this Sounny: Senator Bennett Clark, the chief adversary of Mr. Willkie in the committee, unconsciously gave the measure of the witness when he inadvertently addressed him as Mr. President. There is no precedent for the endérmous crowd which turned out .to hear Mr. Willkie. Spectacular shows of this kind are frequent ip Washington, but none—save only Presidential appearances—have drawn such a box office. It was a tribute to the dramatic quality of the man, and those among the newspaper correspondents with whom I talked felt that he had ween a remarkable witness. Theoretically every little boy in America can grow up to be But everyone in politics knows that very few men have that indefimable combination of gifts that makes a real leader in a democracy. Democracy produces many. good men but few champs. Only a handful of our Presidents have been anything more than good mediocre men. In our time Wilson and the two Roosevelts have risen above the ordinary run—in the sense of having made great impact upon their times. Mr. Hoover almost made it, and with better luck he might, have succeeded.

A Born Leader

This country sadly needs big men. Unless we are going to have Mr. Roosevelt forever, real leaders, with national popular strength, must be developed. Wendell Willkie is the only other man in public life who approaches Mr. Roosevelt in this capacity. His popular vote was'such as to rate him as a real contender. A little more than a month ago Mr. Willkie was healing his soul, forgotten and alone, on the sands of Florida. He went to England, where he was received with enthusiasm short only of that which might have been aroused by a visit of the

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday—I wonder how many ~. of you noticed in the papers an announcement of Negro History Week, which runs from Feb. 9 to Feb. 16. I have long felt that, while we are in school, all of us should learn more about the contributions of the various races making up the people of the United States of America, since “the beginning * of its history. At the same time, it is important to know each year, what special contributions have been made, by different groups in ‘their different fields of endeavor. A nationwide poll is conducted

each year by the Schomburg collection of Negro literature of the New York Public Library, to de- © termine: “The 12 Negroes (individuals, organizations or institu- ; tions) who have most distinguished themselves during the past year.” At the same time, they choose six ‘white people, or institu- - tions, who have done most toward the improvement - of race relations “in terms of a real democracy.” This, I think, is valuable in giving recognition where it is due, and in keeping us aware of the con- * tributions of « ur various racial groups. We should be grateful for what they achieve, for it is the sum total of all our achievements which makes the ea

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rant has replaced the tables and atmosphere of Pop June’s with chromium fixtures and fluorescent lights. . . . And speaking of fluorescent lights reminds us of the Farrell-Argast Hlectric Co. display at Maryland and Meridian Sts. The whole Maryland St. window is devoted to fluorescent lights of a great variety of sizes, types, colors and shapes. Five big signs advise one and all to bring their fluorescent troubles to Farrell-Argast’s.. But on each sign fluorescent .is spelled “flourescent.” .'. . teh, tech.

Around the Town

E. HL. KEMPER M¢COIMB, Manual High School's principal, celebrates his birthday Saturday. He was born Feb. 15, 1873. That, we think, makes his 68. From Butler we hear that Don Fox, a freshman, got a ticket for making a righ! turn through a stop light. He was riding a bicycle. . . , William H. McGaughey, who started his newspape! experience on The Times after DePauw University finished with him, has an article in this month’s Shell Progress magazine. It’s all about trucks and how the industry is trying to meet the demands of boti1 the Army and business. Right now, Bill is editor of Automobile Facts. . . After two years’ of painsti iking work, the big model railroad project at Union Station has been abandoned.

.Station Master William H. McKitrick took us in the

room: where the hope of a great model railroad was born, Sections of tiny tracks are piled in the corners, intricaté and brokén scaf: Somge ard strewn about and all is covered with dust. The Model Railrodd Engineers’ Society started out two years ago to build a replica of :Union Station, but the project got out of hand, The: room wasn’t big enough and the model engineers gave it up. Then another group of model railroad enthusias ts took it up, planning to use a 00 gauge track, whicli would have made the completed work about half the size of the original. Then, an argument arose over whether to use low or high speed switch engines. The wholé thing has been left to the dust and dirt. =

By Raymond Clapper

President himself. Now he returns to become the star of the Congressional struggle over the Lend-Lease Bill. During the questioning by Senators, Mr. Willkie handled himself with a broad, easy swing, and with the confidence of a man who is utterly sincere and open. He was relaxed because he had nothing to conceal, no inner contradictions to wrestle with before giving an answer. When his critics on the committee read his old carnpaigy speeches, in which he condemned President Roosevelt for extreme statements, and in which he voiced suspicion of Mr. Roosevelt's motives, Mr. Willkia said what everyone, including his questioners, knew, namely that the Speeches were campaign oratory.

The Erring Republicans

He was trying to .win, he wasn’t pulling his punches, and in the heut of a political fight he said things which were better forgotten now. Every politician in the room knew’ he spoke the truth. The

election was over, the jury had spoken and Mr, Roose- |.

velt was now his: President. Why stir up old acrimonies when it will do no good? That was Mr. Willkie’s line. Yet this man is the hated target of most of the in-

fuential politicians in the Republican Party today.

They are conspiring to get rid of him, They hate him more than they hate Mr. Roosevelt. It is just like the Republican Party. After these lean years it stumbles accidentally upon a man with real political sex appeal and promptly procesds to toss him down the chute. When one sees how seldom it is that a man dDpears with natural gifts that give him popular leadership, when one realizes how essential to democracy this gift is, when one thinks ahead and wonders where to turn for the leadership that will follow Mr. Roosevelt, it seems .a crime, a tragic waste of priceless talent, for a great political party to set out deliberately to plow under a fellow like this Willkie. It certainly, is a good way to make this country dependent: upon one man indefinitely—to mow down anybody who might com= pete with the one and only Roosevelt. But I siippose one should not expect more from the kind of leaders who have run the Republican Party in recent years. -

By Eleanor Roosevelt

individual who contributes to. the whole. Yesterday afternoon, I attended the reception given by the Congressional Club, and went from there to a fashion show and a tea given at the Shoreham Hotel for the benefit of the Good-Will Industries. I came home in time to welcome a guest from New York City, Miss Esther Lape, and to prepare for the early dinner which always precedes the big receptions. Last night the reception was the largest we ‘have held’ this year and the most brilliant, for uniforms predominated and plain evening clothes were rather conspicuous. The Army and Navy reception is apt to bring many friends and acquaintances together, but in spite of the President's habit of stopping people to talk to them, they go by with such precision and rapidity that it does not take much longer than other receptions. By 10:30, the President ‘was able to be upstairs with the door of his study shut on the outer world, while Mr. Willkie told him of his European impressions. I went to work on my mail and found the President still gwake at quarter before one. I feel sure that whatever report Mr. Willkie gave was not depressing, for the President turned everything we talked about into a humorous story. This. morning we are going down to the sLincol Memorial, where a wreath will be placed to com--memorate the day. Then we ar Ss thej arrival of Je Glare I Duchess of Lugsmburg, with her. hus- ; Son. i

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Indianapolis

torianism.

felt they were being denied an inalienable right to associate with men on a common intellectual

ground.

The leader of this movement in Indianapolis was Mrs. May Wright Sewall., Though the city had a great variety and number of women’s clubs, militant Mrs. Sewall felt that there should be one whose “membership shall be open to men and women on equal terms.” True, the Gentlemen’s Literary Club had “ladies’ nights.” But Mrs. Sewall wrote in g letter that “we were always assured that ‘ladies’ nights’ were relatively dull nights, that the members were hindered from talking their best by the embarrassment occasioned by the infrequent presence of .Jadies or by the chivalrous consideration of our feebleness.” Such a position was indeed un=tenable to Mrs. Sewall. And so one night in the late spring of 1890, she called a few friends— both men and women—to her spacious home at 633 N. Pennsylvania St. . (where the Lincoln Chiropractic College is now). ” ” ”

was on that night that the Contemporary Club started. During the more than 50 years of its existence, the Contemporary Club has presented a clear pano= rama of the cultural life of Indianapolis and, for hay matter, of the world. No speaker has been t00 important, too celebrated—nor too expensive — for the Contemporary Club to engage. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the group twice when he was “Dr. Wilson, president of Princeton University.” He spoke once on “The Ideals of Public Life,” a subject on which he was so fervent that some say his idealism indirectly caused his death. Of course, as far as U. S. Presidents were concerned, Contempo-

WILLKIE FOCUS OF G. 0..P. SPLIT

There’s No Reason to Feel That He’s Head of the Party, Taft Declares.

By UNITED PRESS The Republican Party, plagued by landslide defeats in every election since 1930, today faced a serious intra-party row. The Republicans’ troubles focus upon their 1940 standard bearer,

Wendell L. Willkie, who opposes most of the. party leaders and

United States foreign policy. There are other reasons behind the growing G. O. P. discord—MTr. Willkie’s former affiliation with the Democratic Party never having set well with some Republican bigwigs—but his strong support of the Administration’s British-aid bill has set off what may become an all-

ship of the party. The battle lines were clearly drawn last night at Lincoln Day dinners. .The tributes to Abraham Lincoln were overshadowed by clear signs of discord.

Hits at Negation

Mr. Willkie, addressing a New York dinner and a nation-wide radio audience, challenged the party to preach a “positive doctrine,” warned it against lapsing ‘into a “party of negation,” and left no doubt that he would fight any attempt to si IID of Tis power as the No. 1 Republican lea Senator Robert A. Tats ‘®. 0.), opponent of the pending British-aid bill and an unsuccessful aspirant for |m the Republican nomination last summer, challenged Mr. Willkie’s right to Republican leadership. Mr. Willkie again called for adequate and immediate aid to Britain. “We have a party in power that does not understand the basic functioning of the free enterprise system. We have a party in power, although today it has at last grasped the meaning of the international situation, yet no later than_1933 or 1934 dumped the London Ecgnomic Conference that might have saved all of this chaos of war and eonfusion and death,” he told the

agrees with President Roosevelt on| ..

out fight over his titular leader-

Cultural Group Founded By Mrs. May Sewall

By Fremont Power N the full-skirted era of the early 1890s, women were gathering their forces for a great revolt against Vie-

rary Club members had to go no farther than their own membership roster, which included the William Henry Harrisons and also the Tom Marshalls of the Vice Presidency. 2 2.8 GLANCE through 50 years of Contemporary Club programs reveals the names’ of other such celebrated speakers and thinkers as Dr. David Starr Jordan, Hamlin Garland, Theodore C. Steele, William Dean Howells, * William Allen White, Norman Hapgood, Ida Tarbell, George Ade, Alfred Noyes, Max Eastman, John Masefield and Stephen Leacock. The list is long. The club (also has heard Dr. William Beebe, Heywood Broun, Admiral William F. Sims, John Erskine, Carl Sandburg, Carveth Wells, Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, Raymond Moley and many others of equal renown. After a few years, the Contemporary membership outgrew the high-ceilinged parlors of Mrs. Sewall’s home and the meetings werg moved to. the first Propylaeum at 17 E. North St. (where the War Memorial Plaza is now). The Propylaeum was another of Mrs. Sewall’s many projects, the result of her idea that the city’s social clubs needed a place where they could meet without the necessity of “taking over” a merhber’s home. The Propylaeum was incorporated in 1888, with a capital stock of $15,000, women only being eligible to purchase or acquire the stock. Meetings of the Contemporary Club often turned into memorable affairs, and sometimes a little shocking. The club recently issued a brochure on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and in it May Louise Shipp, who lives now at 3805 N. Delaware St., has written about some of the meetings. Miss Shipp was president in 1916-17.

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It was a day when the ladies fainted freely from § figure contorting corsets, men strengthened their mustaches with wax and “the woman's place was in the home.” Her place so definitely was in the parlor that many of them

NE of the incidents Miss

Shipp recalls was the ap--

pearance of Josephine Dodge Daskam, who managed to poke a

few holes in Indiana's pride as the home of writers. At a tea for Miss Daskam, “some one intro8uced the subject of Midwestern writers, hoping to make her feel at home in a strange land; and, one by ‘one, in a brittle yet fascinating manner, she disposed of Hoosier claims in the field of writing,” Miss Shipp writes. “A dig in the ribs for Meredith Nicholson, a smart stab in the back for Booth Tarkington! Mr, Riley (James Whitcomb) was uninjured but ‘lower lights werée dimmed, It took one’s breath away. . . » The entire pleasant structure of Indiana literature... was demolished. It lay in ruins at the attractive feet of Miss Daskam.” Word of Miss Daskam’s performance . got around fast that afternoon as the .tea-drinkers i ‘their friends. te, be ‘sure nd the meeting: ‘that night. # was to be the appearance of “the Daskam!” When Miss Daskam arrived, Miss Shipp writes, “she was a vision of vitality and. style; and, with her first paragraph she felled the commonalty before her as she had in the afternoon mowed down its artists. Without preface, she began: ‘I shall read an unpublished manuscript not before presented to any audience. I'll just try it on the dog’.”

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a young debutante was begging George Ade to sign her autograph book. Miss Shipp reports that the young lady stated “it was . her deepest wish . . . to collect the autographs of famous men and to

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know how the free enterprise system operates. We know if it is permitted to function that it can create for all men more than any man has heretofore known of those who must work, Here we are. We know what the international situation is; we know the necessities of a JSrogram to save those : fighting

“People of the Republican Party, I give.you this challenge in the year 1941. - Have we the vision, have we the ability, have we the ‘leadership to take America down this glorious path that is offered -to us? I have no doubt that we have.” Mr. Taft, speaking at Harrisonburg, Va., conceded that Mr, Willkie was a Republican leader, such as Mr. Hoover and Mr. Landon, but added: “There is no Justification In precedent or principle for the view that a defeated candidate for

President B ‘the: titular leader of the party. Mr . Willkie does not ang

on that thing?”

Party if the Republican Party desires to take a party position on foreign affairs, which it ought not do.” There was no mention of Republican discord by.other major. speakers at dinners, but Congressional votes .on the British-aid bill stand as mute evidence of what may develop into the most serious party controversy since -Theodore ‘Roosevelt bolted: the Republicans in 1912. ‘There was general ‘agreement among last ht's speakers that the Republican Party must not become an opposition party “for opposition’s sake.” ~ G. O. P. National Chairman Joseph A. Martin Jr. emphasized that in Washington where he shared the platform with District

Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New |

York.. Mr. Dewey avoided the brewing intra-party dispute, urged the party to favor all-out: ald to Britain, and ‘warned that: while doing so “we. must. preserve freedom at

Contemporary Club—50 Go

1. Convinced that women should have a common intellectual ground on which to meet men, Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall founded the Contemporary Club in 1890. An oil painting of her hangs in the hallway of the Ptopylaeum, another of her projects.

2. The Club has had a great variety of speakers.

One who won’

be forgotten for a long time was Josephine Dodge Daskam, the writer, She a she would try out her speech “on the dog.”

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The 50th president of the organization is Samuel R. business executive and a trustee of the University of Penne

Harrell,

4. When the club marked its 50th anniversary last year, a brochure

was published.

do it alphabetically. Beseechingly she held out to him a minute brown book without a single signature, ‘Beginning with A?’ he asked quizzically, putting down his plate (of oysters), and wrote “ ‘Yours sincerely, “Aid i. e. George Ade.” At another meeting Henry James and James Whitcomb Riley sat side by side at a small dinner. “After the dinner,” according to Miss Shipp, “Mr. Riley was quoted as saying that personal contact with Mr. James had made the task of reading him much less difficult, as his books were simplicity itself in comparison with his conversation.” But ‘when Edgar Lee Masters ‘came to speak in November of 1916, Mr. Riley came in for a bit of criticism himself—though not of a caustic nature. “Masters said he thought Riley’s poems were good on the optimistic and rustic mind but that his philosophy was poor, for this type of mind couldn’t carry ore through life,” Miss Shipp recalled. In her opinion, the Masters criticism was one of the best ever made of Riley.

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HE meetings in those days were much more sociable

; than now, Miss Shipp said, and

the action of Gertrude Stein when she was here in 1934 would have

.. beea uncommon indeed in the “old

days,” Miss Stein refused to meet anybody. She only spoke. Clad in a 14-year-old yellow turban and red jacket, Miss Stein recited, among other things, one of her works which goes something like this: ~A rose is a rose -& rose a rose ... One of her audience piped up: “Miss Stein, do you think your lyrics are adequate?” “It’s not my poetry, it’s my audience that’s inadequate,” Miss

. ' Stein fired back. HERE was the time, too, that

At present the Contemporary membershin is limited to 475, whereas it originally was held to 200. The roster is full and there's a waiting list. The club’s constitution says that “no resident of Indianapolis, not a member of the Club, shall be present at any

A.F.L. TO ACT ON GANGSTER CASE

Green Cays Council Has Called for Probe in ‘One Specific Case.’

MIAMI, Feb. 13 (U. P.) ~The American Federation of Labor's Executive Council acted today against a reported “gangster” influence in the organization by undertaking an investigation of “one, specific case.” President William Green said the Council had adopted a resolution calling for the probe, but refused to reveal the name of the principal invelv. or his home town. added ‘that similar resolutions adopted at the A. F. of Ls New Orleans convention would be considered. The Council also prepared decisions in several cases concerned with local jurisdictional disputes, one of which was that between,the Millworkers and Machinists Unions involving the installation of conveyances in buildings.

Walkout at Naval Base

Commenting on the walkout of 350 union men at the Opa-Locka naval base under construction here, William L. Hutcheson, of Indianapolis, president of the Carpenters International, vigorously denied reports that “irresponsible local leadership” was to blame. He said the walkout of union men came when contractors on the defense project employed ' nonunion carpenters. Mr. Green reported that the A. F. of L. planned to increase its activities in Latin American countries looking toward establishment of a strong labor movement there.

Seek Man for Survey

‘The Council feels it is fitting for us to get into the Pan American labor situation at this time,” Mr. Green said. “We believe we can be helpful to the Pan American countries as well as to our own Government, by helping improve labor and social conditions there.” Firs} step in the expansion movement, Mr. Green said, would be to employ a “capable man” to survey the labor stiuation in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil and other Latin Amer-

ican countries. No one has: been

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meeting; but non-residents may attend, upon the invitation of a member.” The executive ‘board, however, “may, in 1ts discretion, arrange for lectures before the Club, and also admit persons, not members, to such lectures on such terms and’ conditions as may be agreed

too, there is a yearly “guest night,” an affair ‘which often fills the Murat Theater #0 hear such speakers as Ruth Dra- - per, William Lyon Phelps or Katharine Cornell,

» ” ” \ HE club does not strive for membership. Perhaps the most unusual part of the organization's creed is the provision that “the club as such shall exe press no opinion upon - any subject.” Its purpose most certainly is not to change the course of the world. It wishes only to be informed and then—questions and discussion. Recently the club has heard Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; Dr. J. Dunc Spaeth, chair of English literature, Princeton University, and Carl J. Hambro, president of the Norewgian Parliament and president of the Assembly of the League of Nations. Next on the - speakers’ Hsbils Felix Morley, president of Haverford College in Pennsylvaiis, former editor of the Washington Post and a brother of Chrisopher Morley. He’s scheduled or make an address on Feb. Oe of its rather large membership, Conteniporary Club meetings now are held usually at the War Memorial auditoium or at the John Herron Art Institute. Charged” with maintaining the stature of the organization as president—the 50th—is Samuel R, Harrell, 43-year-old business exec utive. Mr. Harrell, incidentally, is the first trustee of the Univer- 4 sity of Pennsylvania residing west of Philadelphia. That, and the Contemporary Club itself, is perhaps a good ine dication of just how far “the West” has come since the covered wagon,

Queen Dbnates 8 Mobile Canteens

LONDON, Feb, 13 (U, P.). — Queen Elizabeth today donated .eight mobile canteens, which will inauguraté a system of food cone voys to operate throughout the. .country and prevent danger ‘of famine in event of a spring blitz. krieg. Food Minister Lord Woolton said the system would start with 18 mobile units each carrying food, water, fuel and cooking utensils. Divisional food officers will send canteens to areas ree quiring aid. The canteens will be financed by voluntary subscriptions. The American allied relief fund already has promised to contribute.

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—=What is the: first name of Dr, Dafoe, who is associated with, the Dionne quintuplets? 2—Judas Iscariot died by drowning, hanging or poisoning? 3—What is ‘the nickname . of the new patrol torpedo boats? $—The officers of what rank in the Army are called ‘“shavetails”? 5—Windows broken by an explosion outside the building are’ blown inward or outward? 6—Who preceded William Green as

President of .the American Fed= .

eration of Labor? 7—How many children have Vice President and Mrs. Wallace? 8—What Queen supposedly told the

stories of “The Arabian Nights”? +

Answers

1—Allan. -

2—Hanging. 3—Mosquito boats. 4—Second Lieutenant. 5—~Outward. 6—Samuel Gompers. T—Three. 8—Queen Scheherazade. ” 8 ”»

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