Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1941 — Page 14

THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1941

3 Hoosier Vagabond

NEWHAVEN, Scotland (By Wireless) —As far back as he can remember Walter Rutherford’s folks have been fishermen. But his father said he would rather

see his sons dead than see them become fishermen, 80 they became such things as engineers and shcpz keepers. .. But Walter stayed close to the sea, Newhaven is a fishing village, and Walter runs the shop that outfits the fishermen. He is a ship chandler. For 12 years he has been president of the Fishermen's Society, a proud organization that goes clear back to 1648. Mrs. Rutherford has sung in the Fisherwomen’s Choir since she was a girl. This choir i§ famous. It often travels to London to sing. I was a guest at the Rutherfords for an evening—at my own invitation, but nobody could have been more genuinely treated if he had been kith and kin. I went to see them in order to find out whether the war was really close to the average family in Scotland. And people assured me that the Rutherfords were typical. . Well, when the war came Walter turned over Lis ship chandler’s shop to Mrs. Rutherford and went to work in a factory that makes marine engines for the government. He is a gauge maker—the same trade he followed at Glasgow in the last war. He has been out of it 18 years, but he is at it again now.

Plenty to Think About

Walter is a grandfather, yet he gets up at 6 a. m. and rides a bicycle to work in the dark—for during the winter it isn’t daylight here until 9 in the morning. That is, he did ride a bicycle but he is walking now. The other morning his front wheel hit a curb and he took a spill, landing in the snow “right on my bottomside,” as he says. Walter works 12 hours a day, with only one day off every two weeks. Mrs. Rutherford laughs about him “getting along.” For actually he looks about 35, He has a ruddy, windy face without a single line in it. “I'm always being taken for his mother,” Mrs. Rutherford laughs. “But I don’t mind.” Mrs. Rutherford is a large woman, and she is straight up and down no matter whether she is standing or sitting. She has enough humor for a dozen Scotswomen. She keeps long hours in the chandler’s shop, which is under their apartment on the street floor. “Sometimes I just feel like closing it up,” she gays, “and other times I'm thankful I have it to keep me from thinking.” And believe me she has plenty to think about. Her

By Ernie Pyle

boy, who 1s her pet, wis a fish auctioneer but. now he is in the R. A. F. and has just arrived in Malta. Her son-in-law was a fistierman but is now in a naval patrol, feeling his way around among the mines. Her other daughter's flance is a dispatch rider with the Fusilliers. They were just ready to get married, but it’s off now till after the war. And the children’s best friend, just down the street, also went from fishing into the naval patrol. He was killed a few weeks ago when his boat hit a mine. They could hear the explosion from the chandler’s shop. His young wife was in the shop and heard it too. “It was seven weeks after our boy left for Malta before we heard from him,” Mrs. Rutherford says. “I would come up heré¢ from the shop and cry by the hour with a broken heart, but finally we got a cable from him.” Mrs. Rutherford is so impetuous she can’t stay sad very long, and so honest she says just what she thinks. She has no inhibitions. She is a lot like my own mother.

Making Himself at Home

Walter tells how on¢ night recently she was listening to someone speakirig on the radio from America, talking about liberty snd how we must give all aid to Britain, and suddenly Mrs. Rutherford yelled at the radio, “Oh shuf up! Stop talking so much and do something!” The Rutherfords are neither poor nor greatly well off. The chandler’s shop has put their three children through school and hag bought them a house and car. The car is laid up now, for Walter works all day and Mrs. Rutherford doesn’t drive. “But you are not going to sell that car,” says % Rutherford. “It’s going to be right here for the when he gets back. It's a bonnie wee car.” .The Rutherfords both use “wee” and ' “bonnie” almost constantly. Such native expressions sound odd alongside their modern slang phrases such as “fed up.” For “herring,” Mrs. Rutherford says what sounds like “hen.” Being in a fishing village, they have to eat an awful lot of fish, “It's just hen, hen, hen morning, noon and night,” she says. The Rutherfords never miss church, but they are far from being churchy people. Their house is what we would call a co-operative apartment. They own the first and second foors of one section of a brick building. They have two bedrooms, a kitchen and bath. As in many &cottish houses, the kitchen also serves as a living room. At 10:30 the youngest girl, who lives at home, came in from a movie. Then Mrs. Rutherford put on the coffeepot, got a jar of cakes and made sandwiches. We all sat around the kitchen table and forged and talked. I never felt more at home in my e. :

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

YOU MAY HEAR gossip that the Republican members of the Legislature are starting to squirm and to admit that they have their doubts that they will be returned to office but you can put it all down @s wishful thinking. As of this moment, the Re- : publicans in the Legislature for the most part are still “in line.” There are a few who don’t like the looks of things, but the greater part are still following the party program. Everything revolves atotnd the G. O. P. “high command.” Arch Bobbitt gives the orders and what speculation there is hinges about Mr. Bobbitt. Some observers say he is the unchallenged boss, others insist that he is simply receiving orders from somebody else. Four names continue to enter the conversations as the “powers-that-be.” These include Arthur Gilliom, Fred C. Gause, Robert Lyons and John Bookwalter. Whether they have anything to do with it or not, these four gentlemen are hot topics of conversation in the State House lobbies. As far as it looks out in the open, Arch Bobbitt is boss and he is the one who takes the heat.

Izaak Waltons Please Note AT THE RIVERSIDE Fish Hatchery the men are

spending winter months weaving a new type of fish

Washington

i WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Senate debate on the Lend-Lease Bill opened on a new and sharper drumbeat. The tune now is, “war if necessary to save England.” They hope it won’t be necessary. Nobody wants war. Once war was unthinkable. But now, if necessary we will fight. That is the new mood that marks Senate debate. The old deadline, “short of war,” has been receding into the background slowly but steadily during recent weeks. Now the possibility of war is discussed openly. Indeed, before a House commits tee, bluff old Jesse Jones, who is noted arcund stag parties in Washington for his forthright language, blurted out his idea of where we are when he said, “We're ‘in the war, at least we're pearly in; were preparing for it.” We are using the term war to cover two different things. We are actually helping England with the war and hindering Germany. We are as much a part of England’s war work as if our new bomber assembly plants were being built in England instead of in the Middle West. We are operating England's war fac~ tories over here out of range of German bombers,

One Kind of War

After our construction program is further along, we probably shall release destroyers direct to England. We are supporting the British blockade. We are consulting with Great Britain regarding the Far East. We will ‘help Greece if she is not beyond help because of the latest Hitler stroke in the Balkans. : All this is one kind of war. It is one phase of the total war in which modern nations engage. Another phase of total war is physical combat. We have not yet entered that phase. It is that which most people have in- mind when they speak of going to war. They mean either use of the Army or the Navy or both. That is the old question about which the country is divided now. It seems overwhelmingly for the first kind of war and overwhelmingly against

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—~A few guests lunched with me yesterday, one or two afternoon visitors and an evening spent happily listening to a fine concert by the Philadelphia orchestra. Then the night train x New York City and a series of appointments here : this morning which I will tell you about tomorrow. Days ago I promised to write a column about the miners’ hospital in Montgomery, W. Va. I hesitated to write about it until I could investigate every possible source to see whether there was something wrong with it that I had not been able to discover! It seemed to me too good to be true, yet I failed to find that Dr. Laird himself, who is so interested in rendering a service to his patients ‘at a minimum, cost, was ting too rosy a picture or forgetting to mention some fact which would make this service impossible to duplicate. I can find no flaw, and so at last I want to tell you what has been done in Montgomery. At the same time I want to pay a tribute of admiration to . Dr. Laird and his associates, for the remarkable ortion and humanitarian approach to this question of hospital care. : Here in a small place in West Virginia, surrounded by a mining area which is none too prosperous, there is a hospital which is ag well equipped, as attracSively: fumishedy gs sity a1d. light and cheeitul as

net, 1000 feet long and four feet deep. It is being made to specifications for a mud-bottomed lake near the Ohio River. The ordinary Tepd-sinker seines sink right into the mud. This one will have a bottom strand of binder twine, with no lead, which will skim over the mud. Fish and game people hope to capture a good many fish from the lake after each time the Ohio River overflows into it, which is several times a spring.

Around the Town

THE INDIANAFOLIS General Motors Club gave a little dinner meeting at the Lincoln last night and included among its guests such celebrities as R. K. Evans and Fred Kroeger, G-M vice presidents, Col. Roscoe Turner and other aviation notables. . : . Janice Berlin, Marion County home demonstration agent, whose ambition is to establish 4-H clubs throughout the City, is off for a month of California sunshine, . . . When Dr. Henrik Dam, the Danish scientist, was here for a lecture at the I. U. Medical Center this week he spent a good deal of time with several prominent Indianapolis men of science and they all reported that he seemed to be haunted by his experiences afier Denmark was invaded and, although not a political refugee and free to return at will, seemed under great strédss about his plans for the future.

By Raymond Clapper

the second kind. This we wage war while not going to war. For the first time the question of going into the combatant phase of the war is being recognized as a possibility in Senate debate, as a step to be taken if necessary to save England. Senator Barkley, Democratic Leader of the Senate, in opening the debate on the Lend-Lease Bill, said it was not presently necessary for us to enter the war as an active belligerent, As to the future he will cross bridges when he reaches them. Senator Austin, Assistant Republican Leader, who in this period is supporting the Administration, said there were many things worse than war—a Hitler victory, for instance. He said if it was necessary for us to fight we would fight.

On Saving England

That led up to the strongest declaration of the opening debate. Senator Pepper of Florida, who through the whole war period has been in the vanguard of the Administration skirmish line, said: “Call it war or do noi call it war—lay it down as a premise (not promise), America will not let England fall to Hitler. If the action now proposed will not save England, we will save it anyway. Watch American opinion and see if what I say is not true.” Last May Senator Pepper opened the campaign for intervention by proposing that Army and Navy planes be made availible to England and to France, which was then still in the war. ‘Other Senators said it

‘would violate international law, Senator Pepper said

Hitler had abolished international law, and he called upon this country to “tell Hitler that we are his eternal and mortal enemy, and that it is our will that as a political power he shall be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that every item of our strength and every bit nf our courage and all of our resources we dedicate to the honorable cause of his destruction as the arch foe of decent men.” Senator Pepper was hanged in effigy by a group of women. Otherwise his remarks created scarcely a ripple although this was the first bugle call that had been heard since the end of the last war. months have passed. Senator Pepper was not hanged this time. The bugle call is louder now. In fact they are blowing it almost in our ears.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

any I have ever seen, The nurses seem to give skilled and loving service. There is a training school for nurses, and rnost of the girls come from miners’ families. That, perhaps, is why they know so well how to care for the men and their families, who make up the bulk of patients. The miners receive complete hospitalization for themselves, their wives, children, and aged parents who live with them, for the sum of $1 per month, There is no extra charge for operations, for anesthetics or for medicine. Some of

the cases of broken backs have been in the hospital |.

over a year. Every detail is thought out and carefully planned. Every room in this hospital is not only attractive, but convenient for nurse and patient, The equipment is of the best. There is no skimping on wages. Everyone receives the averag: for the vicinity for the type of work they are doing. After mich questioning, the only explanation for this remarkable achievement, of Dr. Laird’s seems to be the great care taken to eliminate waste. One other is th¢ preventive medical work which the graduate nurses do when employed by the coal mine owners. Dr. Laird says that after they have been at work for two years there is a distinct drop in the number of people coming in with minor ailments, which are eliminated by better knowledge of nutrition and general health care. Dr. Laird should be utilized to teach more young men who are going to work in hospitals all over the country what really good management of a hospital ashley 4 €

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VOTE OFFICIALS MAY GET RAISE

Senate Passes Bill Giving Commission Power To Fix Pay.

Precinct election officials who often teil all night and far into the next day after an election may get more pay hereafter under terms of a bill passed by the Senate yesterday. The measure, which affects the entire State, leaves the matter of raising pay for election officials to the discretion of County Commissioners. The maximum pay scale fixed is $9 for judges, clerks and assistant clerks; $6 for sheriffs and $12 for inspectors. At present the judges, clerks and assistant clerks cannot be paid more than $5; sheriffs not more than $3, and inspectors not more than $8.

Goes Back.to House

Although the bill already has passed the House, several minor amendments were written into it in the Senate and it must be sent back for concurrence before it can be sent to Governor Schricker. Another House bill amended and passed by the Senate yesterday would give newspapermen immunity in courts from disclosing sources of information. Bills sent to the lower House by the Senate would: Provide for the appointment of the Marion County Welfare Board director by the County Welfare Board. He is now appointed by the State Board. Provide that the Township Advisory Boards may appoint Township Trustees in case of vacancies. Vacancies are now filled by County Commissioners.

Extends Work Hours

Permit factories to employ women in regular shifts from 6 a. m. to midnight. At present, women cannot be employed to work later than 10 p. m. Provide that the County Clerk keep a permanent record of births and deaths. This is now kept by the County Health Officer. Change the name of the Indiana Board of Agriculture to the Indiana Fair Board. Advanced to within one step of passage in the Upper House were bills which would create a Department of Agriculture and a state licensing board for librarians.

MEASLES OUTBREAK REPORTED IN GITY

A prevalency of measles was reported in the City today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health officer. A total of 58 cases has been reported so far this month—more than half the number reported last year. The spread was first noted in December when 13 cases were reported. But it was not until the latter part of January and this morith that widespread prevalency was indicated. Dr. Morgan said the disease is usually most prevalent in early spring and predicted a continued increase in the spread because it is prevalent so early. He warned parents to be. on the lookout for symptoms w in the early stages are similar to a common cold. To prevent complications, he urged parents to consult physicians as soon as children show symptoms.

FATHER ACCUSED OF DEATH, SUICIDE PLOT

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 20 (U. P.)—Robert Fowler, 13, died today of injuries allegedly inflicted by his father in an attempted double murder and suicide. Police said a note written by the father, Theodore Fowler, indicated he had attempted to beat and strangle his two sons to death and take his own life because. his wife, Gladys, “didn’t love me any more.” Neighbors found Fowler ‘with his wrists slashed and the two boys, Robert, and Harold, 10, with stock-

badly beaten. Fowler and the younger son were reported in critical condition. Po-

ings bound around their necks and

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lice said they were holding Mrs. | ¥ :

The “Molotov. cocktail” is the U. 8S. Army’s favorite—and it isn’t It’s composed of two parts gasoline and one part used motor oil, all in a quart bottle with inflammable waste taped to One or two will drench a tank with flames. here are Capt. John C. Hooker (right) and Lieut. J. B. White, 175th Field Artillery, Georgia National Guard.

The mixers

It's Girls Who Leave the Farm

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U.P). —The farmer's daughter goes to the city to seek her fortune, while brother stays at home to plant the corn, the Census Bureau said today. Betwen 1930 and 1940, the number of males per 100 females in rural districts increased from 111 to 112; the number of males per 1000 females in cities declined from 98 to 96.

JOSE CALLS FOR RELIEF CHANGES

Seeks to Have Authority Shifted From Trustees To County.

Poor relief administration in Marion County would be removed from the hands of the township trustees and transferred to the County Welfare Department under provisions of a bill introduced in the House today by Rep. Oscar Jose Jr. (R. Indianapolis). Rep. Jose said the purpose of the bill is to “correct conditions of political favoritism to some suppliers of relief and political coercion of recipients of relief wherever they have existed in the past.” He said the bill is supported by the Family Welfare Society’ and other charitable agencies. This measure also would require all able-bodied indigents to work for their relief and would empower the County Welfare Department to co-operate with Federal agencies in all relief matters. " me bill would go into effect Jan, 942, Some other members of the Marion County House delegation are understood not to be in favor of the proposal.

MISSOURI TO SEAT G. 0. P. GOVERNOR

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 20 (U. P.).—Efforts of the Democratic Legislature and the Party's state committee to keep Republican Forrest C. Donnell from becoming Governor were blocked today by the Missouri Supreme Court. House Speaker Morris E. Osborn said he would follow the Court order and certify Mr. Donnell’s e'ection by 3613 votes. : He wag to have been inaugurated Jan. 13, succeeding Lloyd C. Stark, Democrat. He was barred from office by the appointment of a legislative committee to investigate charges of fraud in his election and Mr.- Osborn’s subsequent refusal to declare him elected. Mr. Donnell asked the Supreme Court to force the speaker to certify his election, which it did yesterday.

. Bingo!

And that, folks, really is the command for heaving. those “cocktail” grenades, happened when two of them struck a tank during a demonstration by the 179th at Atlanta, Ga.

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camera caught the “bombs” a moment after the bottle burst and enveloped the tank in flames. The | “Molotov cocktails,” while they only recently came into such extensive use in the Army are an invention | of Spanish Civil War days. The theory that the tank occupants would be roasted alive or would have to |

pop out for air.

NEW BATTLE OF BOOKS BREWING

Lane Pushes for Multiple Adoption in Seventh and Eighth Grades.

Another battle over the system Indiana should use in adopting school textbooks was brewing in the Senate today.

Senator O. Bruce Lane (R. Bainbridge), leader of the multiple adoption group, said he will introduce an amendment to the G. O. P. bill tomorrow to provide that seventh and eighth grades be included with high schools for multiple adoptions. The bill now provides for single adoptions in all grades and multiple in the high schools. Senator Lane said that he believed the adidtion of the two grades “will be an improvement over the way it is now.”

“Charges Racket”

In the first open Republican party break a week ago, Senator Lane renewed charges of “a textbook racket” and said the multiple adoption system was the only way to end it. The amendment is expected to encounter stiff opposition from Republican Party leaders, Senator Howard B. Johnson (R. Mooresville), Education Committee chairman, said he would not speak against Senator Lane's amendment but that he would vote against it. * The matter came up in the Senate this morning but party leaders quickly set it as a special matter of business at 11 a. m. tomorrow,

Johnson Seeks Change

Another important amendment is to be made to the bill tomorrow. Senator Johnson will ask elmination of a provision in the bill setting up a public depository in case the State decides in the future to use free textbooks. His amendment will propose that the funds necessary to purchase free books be sent to the local school corporations.. He explained that this change is being asked because “in states where a state depository is used, there always are charges of graft.”

CADLE AT SCOTT CHURCH E. Howard Cadle will preach tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. in Scott Methodist Church. Cadle Tabernacle singers and other members of the staff will accompany Mr. Cadle who will be introduced by the Rev. John W. Crook, pastor.

NAVY SIGNS CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P.). —The Navy announced today that it has signed contracts totaling $13,183,190 for expanding facilities

at 16 private plants.

"HOLD EVERYTHING

Institution Bill,

Abolishment

Of Nine Departments Vetoed

The Republican “decentralization” bill to create separate, bi-partisan boards for each of the State’s 20 institutions was vetoed by Governor Henry FP. Schricker today on the ground that part of it is. unconstitutional. The Governor also sent a veto message to the House, rejecting the G. O. P. bill repealing nine laws that created various government departments under the 1933 McNutt Reorganization Act, which was repealed by the Legislature over the Governor's veto two weeks ago. The institutions bill would divide the appointive powers equally between the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor, giving the bipartisan boards - complete control over each institution. Under present laws the Governor has sole control over institutions.

Cites Six Institutions

The veto message stated that part of the measure, dealing with six of the institutions created since the Constitution was framed, is unconstitutional, and thus would render the whole act unconstitutional.

The Governor agreed that the bill, so far as it concerns 14 of the old established institutions, would “meet constitutional objections.” The six institutions which the Governor said could not be taken away from the Governor's control are the Indiana State Sanitarium, the Southern Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital, the Indiana Boys’ School, the Indiana Girls’ School, Indiana Soldiers’ Home and the State Soldiers and Sailors Children’s Home,

Reviews Old Decision

The Governor reviewed an old Supreme Court decision which gave the Legislature power to appoint its agents to control the 14 older institutions.

In his other veto message, the seventh one delivered to the Legislature thus far, the Governor said repeal of the nine laws creating State departments was objectional because adequate and constitutional laws have not been enacted to replace them. Meanwhile, both Houses passed over the Governor's earlier veto the G. O. P. “ripper” bill that would take control of the Financial Instiutions Department away from the Governor and place it under control of a Republican-controlled

boani. Signs One Bill

The veto message on this bill, as those on other “ripper” measures, declared it to be unconstitutional

because it takes executive powers away from the Governor. Earlier, Governor Schricker signed one of the Republican bills to make him a minority board member and permitted a similar one to become law without his signature. The one he signed creates a new State Board of Finance, replacing the old State Treasury Board. Members will be the State Auditor and State Treasury, both Republicans, and the Governor. The bill permitted to become law without the Governor's signature, creates a new State Republicandominated Board of Public Works.

WINS FIGHT TO GET

VETERANS CCG POSTS

Times Special : WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Director James J. McEntee. of the Civil-

Members will be the Lieutenant Governor, State Treasurer and the Governor. Under present laws, the Governor appoints seven members of the Works Board.

No Appointive Power

Legal advisers of the Governor said the bills were permitted to become laws because the boards da not have any appointing powers. The other proposed G. O. P.-domi-nated boards in the ‘ripper’ program have broad executive powers and extensive patronage authority which the Governor, in his veto message, declared is unconstitutional. Another bill the Governor permitted to become law without his signature would designate the De=partment of Public Works and Commerce to approve the hiring and firing of persons carrying out the Federal medical program. Thirteen other bills signed by the Governor yesterday will: 1. Prohibit State officials from . having certain relatives on their payrolls.

Pay Raises Legalized

2. Legalize pay raises for city clerks who handle municipal utilities. 3. Authorize city councils to appropriate extra money to pay the clerk wage increase. 4, Make technical changes in the court © procedure on change of venues, 5. Permit cemetery boards to ine vest their funds. 6. Raise to 160,000 the population limit for counties to have an agricultural agent. 7. Exempt special representatives of the State Department of Finan= cial Institutions from payment of court costs in liquidation proceed«

ings. 8. Eliminate the necessity of have ing Gross Income Tax statements notarized. 9. Prohibit the Governor or any other official from extending the auto license deadline beyond March 1.

Counties Avoid Liens

10. Provide that no judgment against a county shall constitute a lien against the county's real or personal property. 11, Enable schoo] corporations to sell real estate for national defense purposes. 12. Provide for circuit courts to determine and legalize birth certifie cates after hearing evidence. 13. Provide for return to faxing units and individuals various un= used building donations to railroads.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Gomplete this rN “Quoth the Raven 2—Can bees sting ‘a person while he holds his breath? 3—Tee is a term used in tennis, cricket, golf or basketball? §—What denomination was the smallest coin ever issued by the United States? 5—What is the result of the gravie tational attraction of sun and moon on a body of water? 6—How many American Presidents had the same family names? 7—A tarpaulin head covering worn by sailors in bad weather is called a—? 8—Was Thomas E. Dewey a candie “" date for the Republican or Dem