Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1941 — Page 9

[ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941

Washington

SWASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—How long will it be be- - fore we are able to throw ourselves fully into defense production? Leon Henderson made some remarkable assertions while testifying on price control before the House Banking and Currency Committee. He said the average work-week in American industry is 40.3 hours. A 40-hour week after a year of intense defense effort! I read that somebody said the reason France went down was that French war industry was working 40 hours a week while Germany was working 80 hours. Mr. Henderson said the -ma-chine-tool industry was producing t 30 or 35% short of capacity bei cause of the lack of skilled men. We knew a year and a half ago, if we knew anything about our industrial situation, that machine tools would give us trouble. What has happened to our labor training program? Is it impossible to dilute skilled forces with par- _ tially trained men so as to do better than 65 to 70% "of possible production? Is it impossible to stretch hours any further? I saw ship workers in the Clyde yards in England who were working three nights a week extra and Working alternate Sundays. Mr. Hendersan said that in some defense industries longer hours of work were needed. It was a damning indictment of our program that one of the Administration’s top defense executives should have to tell a Congressional committee although we announced an all-out industrial effort more than a year ago, the number of hours put in by the average defense worker was only slightly more than thdt existing in peacetime.

Many Elements in It

THERE IS NO SINGLE circumstance to explain the failure of war goods to roll out in the volume

‘By Raymond Clapper

construct enormous plants, and some miracles have

been wrought in that regard.

But we have seen the confusion over priorities and

the hoarding of materials which has created shortages for others. We have seen fuzzy planning amounting at times to something like chaos. We have not always known what we wanted to produce. We come out making light tanks that have little value while we must wait for the larger tanks that are really needed. We have seen hesitation and stalling about conversion of peacetime production. We have seen loss of time through strikes, some of them involving only petty Jurisdictional disputes ‘between rival labor leaders. And failure to work longer hours has deprived us of production for which machines and materials were available, apparently.

No-Strike Truce Worth Trying

NOW IN THE price legislation is coming up a most ugly fight over whether to include control over wages. The Administration feels that this is impossible. And it is difficult to see how labor can be prevented from striking if it 1s minded to do so. England has a no-strike law, yet one industrialist told me that he has small strikés every once in a while and accepts them rather than try to force legal action which would only cause bitterness among the men, He accepts the small strikes, usually confined to a single crew and lasting for only three or four days; as a kind of unauthorized holiday. He feels the men have to break the tension of long hours somehow and this is one way it is done. But they have no real strikes. The reason is that leaders and management entered into a no-strike agreement which was made official by the Government. That may be the answer for us. It might be possible for the Government to bring

‘ labor and manageinent officials together and induce

them to enter into an agreement. The matter is so serious that an effort of that kind, even though it

that had been expected. Many elements enter into it. “would encounter many difficulties, might be worth

Allowances have to be made for the time taken to

trying.

Mrs. Pyle i still seriously ill and, as a result, Ernie Pyle is not yet able to resume his column.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town

+ THE FIREMEN (lucky stiffs) that are assigned’ to ride No. 13's classy new aerial tower fire truck had & most embarrassing experien€e Friday. ' Like small boys with a new toy, they’ve been spending a lot of time outside the station house, raising and lowering the 100-foot aerial ladders. On this occasion, they got tired of: trying it out in front of their own station (opposite The Times) so they drove a half block away to St. John’s Cathedral—on Capitol midway betweer Maryiand and Georgia. While they had the ladder up in the air, an alarm came in from

Capitol and Georgia. - Well, the

boys hurried up and lowered the ladders as fast as they could, but it took a couple of minutes. Then, since the truck was headed in the opposite direction and is too long to turn around in the street, they had to drive clear around the block—a distance of three long blocks— to get to a fire only a half block away. And by the time they got“there, the fire: was out and the other trucks were leaving. You should have heard the razzing our aerialists took from the other firemen.

We'll Be There in Spirit

ONE OF THE NICEST jobs we can think of right now is that of Miss &stora Whitaker, stenograpiic, reporter with offices in the Roosevelt Bldg. Miss Whitaker specializes in court and convention reporting,

Poor Paul!

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—It’s about time people began to feel sorry for Governor McNutt—ex-Gover-nor Paul V. McNutt of Indiane, that is—now Federal Security Administrator. The Governor’s luck seems to have gone haywire lately—in fact, ever since the . Chicago convention when his managers’ idea to pack the gallery at the stadium was appropriated by the Kelly-Nash stalwarts who wrecked a perfectly good demonstration intended to build him for the Vice Presidency. Somehow, the Governor's best efforts just don’t jell. The campaign to build up civilian morale is in a ditch. The nutrition campaign backfired. And now the Governor is up to his ears in—of all things—oleomargarine, Unless you're a dairyman or an oleo manufacturer; you probably haven't been following this battle of animal vs. vegetable fats, but it is one of those lovely rows that happen in Wasnington every so often, making it such a jolly place. More fun. The Food and Drug Administration, now ‘one of McNutt's babies in the Federal Security Agency family, but before that a long-time Department of Agriculture -demander of pure foods, recently issued an . order raising the minimum standards for oleomargarine. : ~ Food and Drug held the customary heatinigs, though some of the dairy ‘industry people say they didn’t know about it and didn’t have a chance to speak their piece. Anyway, after the hearings, the order was put out over McNutt’s signature, specifying that oleo must have so much fats and so many vitamins. What had happened, of course, was that oleo

and her work takes her from one end of the country to the other. In fact, she’s just back from White Sulphur Springs, Va., where she handled the convention of the American Association of Personal Finance Companies. This week she’s at French Lick for three days ‘covering the American Title Association, and Friday or Saturday will leave for’ Los Angeles to cover the National Spiritualists Association for a week. It’s nice work if you can get it. . . . Dick Miller, manager of the Fair Grounds Coliseum, has been on the sick list. He's having trouble again with his hip, injured in his football days. By the way, although Dick has charge of the ice rink at the Coliseum, he tells us he’s never so much as set foot on it, let alone skated on it.

On the “War” Front

BEING IN THE ARMY has provided some harrow-

ing experiences for Max Bonham, the well known|-

young horseman of Algonquin Stables. While he was on furlough from his Second Army unit, he injured his back when" his horse fell during a jumping exhibition at the State Fair. Reporting back to his veterinary unit, he was sent to the Base Hospital at Shreveport, La., in the Army maneuvers area, to rest until his back was better. Well, when they released him from the hospital a week or so ago, they sent him to the wrong replacement center. When he arrived, he was nabbed as a “prisoner of war.” You see, they had sent him to a Third Army unit and the Second and Third Arniies were warring at the time. Max spent several days in the Third Army hoosegow before he was “freed.”

By Peter Edson .

Department of Agriculture sponsored a broadcast in which consumers were told that oleomargarine was much cheaper than butter, and that it was now an important food of its own account. That was when the fireworks really began... Dairymen and creamery men began to see oleo nightmares. They held local protest meetings, and then a national meeting in Chicago. A United Dairy Committee of two representatives fromm each of 22 principal dairying states und one representative from each of 10 principal dairy industry trade associations was formed to fight. With all this fat in the fire—butter fat and vegetable fat—a delegation from the United Dairy Committee, headed by R. E. Ammon of Madison, Wis.. came down to Washington to see McNutt to ask that the hearings be reopened so the dairymen could have their say.

What a Grease Spot! .

BUT CONSIDER THE grease spot this put Governor McNutt on. He called a press conference to explaigghis side of the predicament. Reporters were kept waiting 45 minutes while the dairymen were closeted in McNutt’s handsome milk house. Then the reporters were ushered out of the reception room and into an ante room so they wouldn’t meet the protesting dairymen as they came out of the McNutt office. * That one was too old, and didn't work. Mr. Ammon and his committee came out smiling. The Governor had agreed > talk the thing over with his

Food and Drug people again, and see if they should reopen the case. But pity poor Paul. If he sticks to the new oleo

CHAPTER

hail dropping on a tin roof.

leader of all free Frenchmen, i “France lost the war,”

definite reasons.

gripped our civilian population at the advance of the

German mechanized units;

third, the tangible effect the fifth column had on the minds of many of our leaders, and fourth, lack of co-ordination between us and our Allies.” In those few sentences de Gaulle told why a great nation was strangled to death in a few weeks. Behind each of his reasons lies one fundamental fault common to all—the horrible inefficiency of the General Staff, which still thought of this war in terms of the last war. The General Staff was proud of its Maginot Line. Its complacency communicated itself to the civilian population and finally to the Army. France looked upon the Maginot Line as Americans still mis-: takenly look upon the Atlantic Ocean. It was a bulwark against invasion.’ France thought only in terms of defense. Prance believed that the war would be a war of position as was the last, not a war of movement, of . quick, smashing forays by large armies of tanks and motorcycles.

A Memo to Gamelin

ONLY DE GAULLE saw the handwriting on the military wall. As late as that last January he sent a long memorandum to Gen. Gamelin, who was then trying to win the war on blueprints. De Gaulle condemned the policy of passive defense and foretold the disaster it brought about. He pleaded for more, bigger, faster and better-armored tanks; he got nothing but a rebuke for this impertinence. “Germany can still be beaten, even now,” de Gaulle says. “But we must make use of the same weapons which she has used so successfully. Germany won with 6000 tanks and 5000 Jlanes, She

HINT MANPOWER LACKING IN REIGH

Nazis Promise Political Immunity if Exiles in East Return to Army.

By LELAND STOWE

RANGOON, Sept. 20.—Reéports of Germany’s extreme pressure to compel Bulgaria and its Army to carry an active load in the Nazis’ campaign in Russia and the Near East indicate an increasing shortage of German armed manpower, which seems substantiated by a minor development in Indo-China. The Nazis are using every effort to get German citizens who are not engaged in diplomatic propaganda and other most important war activities shipped home from the Far East. Among the enlisted men in the detachment of the French Foreign Legion stationed in Indo-China, there are reported to have been about 200 Germans. Since the Japanese occupied southern Indo-China the Nazis’ representatives have promised these German Foreign Legionairs, most of whom are political exiles from the Nazi regime, complete political immunity if they return to Germany to serve in the Army there. A first group, of 40 Germans, all veteran soldiers, recently sailed from Saigon for Madagascar on the first leg of the homeward journey. A German Armistice Commission, headed by Dr. Ernst Neuman is now in Indo-China. The Germans describe the attitude of the French Indo-China authorities as “very| correet.”

THIRTEEN

By QUENTIN REYNOLDS : THE MAN who didn’t quit has a closely cropped moustache and he is tall and straight. When he speaks the words come out sharply and when he talks of the betrayal of his country the words are bits of rounded

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, today the mouthpiece and

is a very tough citizen indeed. he says with the confidence

of a man who knows war tactics batkwards, “for very These were: First, of all, our military system did not bother to develop any mechanized strength in the air and on the ground; second, the panic which

must be beaten by 20,000 tanks and 20,000 planes.” By a strange paradox the military theories of de Gaulle helped to defeat the French Army. In 193¢ he published a book on mechanized warfare. De Gaulle

was an obscure captain then .

known only for his personal bravery during the last war, when he was wounded three times. The General Staff frowned on the advanced theories he pronounced in his book. The book itself, “Vers I’Armee Meitier,” received. scant attention except from a few of his colleagues who thought as he did.

But one German read it, the

astute Gen. Hauss Guderian, who was just beginning to organize the mechanized forces of the Reich. Guderian made it his bible and when he swept through northern France with his army of 12 tank divisions, he used the paralysing tactics advocated by de Gaulle.

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Rides Tank Into Battle

DE GAULLE himself, during :

May, held command of the French tank army but he had only one division. His tanks performed brilliantly at Abbeville but he was only staving off the inevitable. He himself rode and issued comHands by radio from one of the

He didn’t have the enormous 60-ton tanks used by the Germany Army. So confident was Guderian of the success of these tanks that many of them were armored only in front. From the beginning the Germans fought an offensive war with the possibility of retreat ruled out. Today de Gaulle is the only articulate voice the free Frenchman has. Each day hundreds of weary French who managed, by some miracle, to escape from the cataclysm that engulfed their country go to his dingy suite of offices in St. Stephen’s House on Victoria Embankment, asking to Join his forces, pleading for a

Add Week-End ~ Bumpity Bumps

week-end accidents in Indianapolis, with results that strictly were not “in the book.” Larry Lee Phillips, 2, pushed a screen from a second floor window at his home, 1527 Carrollton Ave, and fell out the window. Result: a slight bump on the head. Charles Slinkard, 6, rode a ‘scooter from between two parked

cars into the street near his home, 1532 Gimber St. and was struck by a car. Result: no injury. Robert Allen Danz, 2, was sitting on his mother’s lap in their home, 1121 Church St., and fell off. Result: a broken leg.

FAIR RENT GROUP SEEKS DISCHARGE

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 29 (U. P.).—The South Bend fair rents committee, thwarted by lack of public interest in its effort .to pre-

vent increased rents in the face of a defense boom, today asked Mayor oe I. Pavey for an “honorable discharge. The Rev. Frank E. Davison, committee chairman, reported to the mayor that “we do not feel that we have been able to be of much help either to the tenant or to the landlord.” He said only 35 tenants had appealed to the committee for intervention. The chairman wrote that the committee, cloaked with no enforcement powers, had found it ‘*“useless to appeal to the reason, sense of fairness, patriotism and civic pride of the community.”

- THREE CHILDREN figured in

Gen Charles, de Gaulle i

chance to strike a blow that might by some miracle breathe life into the corpse that is France. Within two months de Gaulle may be a half-forgotten name, but if the miracle should happen he will emerge as the greafest and most patriotic of the French generals, the one man who refused to be a stooge for the miserable set of leaders who figured in the betrayal at Bordeaux. -If de Gaulle’s past is to be believed it is difficult to think that his future will be sterile.

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Recalled by Reynaud

IN THE BEGINNING his -career followed the military pattern. He graduated from St. Cyr as a lieutenant. He fought in the last war under the then Col. Henri Petain. He was wounded twice but each time returned to his regiment. Then, during the Verdun battle, he was wounded badly and taken prisoner by a German patrol. He made ‘five abortive -efforts to escape and each time had to endure the penalties for such failure.

STRIKE ENDED

C. I. 0. Walkout at Bendix Plant in South Bend Appears Averted.

By UNITED PRESS A strike of 17,000 of C. I. O. steel workers near Birmingham, Ala., was ended today and 1000 striking A. F. of L. carpenters resumed constructien on a $2,000,000 submarine and aircraft base at Key West, Fla. A third strike appeared averted when 8400 C. I. O. United Automobile Workers at the Bendix Aviation Corporation’s South Bend, Ind., plant agreed to submit their dispute over a wage differential for women workers to an impartial referee.’ An order by Gov. Frank Dixon of Alabama withdrawing home guardsmen from the struck mills of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. sent workers in the Birmingham dispute back to their jobs on the night shift last night. The company’s open hearth furnaces at Ensley, Ala., employing 500 men, remained shut down, however. A 10-day walkout of 22,000 Southern Pennsylvania anthracite miners in protest against the C. I. O. United Mine Workers Union's annual increase of $10 in dues assessments appeared on the verge of settlement. At Buffalo, N. Y., a non-strike proposal was ratified by members of an unaffiliated aircraft union claim-

Corp. plant. The union previously declared it would strike unless the National Labor Relations Board ordered an election to determine the

‘bargaining agent.

ALABAMA STEEL

"SECOND SECTION

His military career after the war was active except for a stretch at teaching in the military college at St. Cyr. During recent years his radical theories received support from only one man in a high place, Paul Reynaud. During the first week of June he was recalled from the front by Reynaud to join the cabinet as Under Secretary of State for War. Reynaud felt that his colleagues were weakening under the pressure of both German miliaty and fifth column strength; he wanted one ‘additional strong voice to overcome the babble of the incompetent and the senile who through no fault of his had been put into

the cabinet which he headed.

De Gaulle’s tenure as a member of the cabinet was short-lived. When Reynaud was. deposed at Bordeaux and Petain put in, de Gaulle knew that it was all over

: but for the division of spoils. He

hurried to London where he sent out an appeal to colonial generals

- for help.

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Warning to America

ONE INDUCEMENT was offered to French officers who fell in line with the Vichy government. The Germans promised them that their pensions would be safe if they behaved well. They held the safety of their families over their heads as another blackjack.

Thousands of French officers made their choice. They picked what they thought would be financial security and continued health for their families. They threw in their lot with the Vichy group which, day .by day, becomes more of a puppet government. De Gaulle, with the reticence of

- a professional soldier, refuses to

condemn or even comment upon the action of his fellow French officers. He condemns the politicians and the General Staff bitterly, but he has not reproached the men who fought so brilliantly with him at Abbeville and at Cambrai during the nightmare of

: May. De Gaulle would rather

discuss the lessons. this war has taught the military world today. No country can say that distance protects it from the mechanized forces of another nation. - He says, “To date the war has taught us that we have a real military revolution. If I were an American I would take these lessons to heart. America must be ready at any time with the necessary weapons to meet a modern attack, with mechanized forces of air, land and sea. If I were an American I would take for my slogan, ‘We should do our utmost to save liberty in this world by all means and at any cost.’”

De Gaulle stood erect and strong; his face showed nothing

but confidence. He terminated our talk with a short nod and a strong handshake. 2 » 2

Outside, in the badly lighted hall, men and women were wait-_ ing to see him. There were two small ante-rooms. In one a bespectacled lieutenant took the names of the callers, in another a Cockney lad answered a telephone. The shabbiness of the uncarpeted room and the derelict furniture, dimly lighted by uncertain bulbs, seemed a poor setting for bright dreams. : But Gen. Charles de Gaulle, the man who didn't quit, may emerge from the shabbiness of this old office building to make the dreams of hundreds of thousands of free Frenchmen come true. : In London we have our fingers crossed when we think of de Gaulle. We were thoroughly sold on him until the horrible Dakar flasco. Whether he was entirely responsible for that blunder hasn’t as yet been established.

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Fiasco at Dakar

MOST OF HIS officers dine at the Coq d'Or, a restaurant on Stratton St. off Berkeley Square. I was there a few nights before the Dakar expedition. I noticed a group of his officers dining high, wide and handsome. The popping of the champagne corks almost killed the noise of the guns in nearby Hyde Park. I asked my waiter what it was all about. “The frogs is having a vie celebration,” he said. foty “What are they celebrating—the Marne?” “No, they are. going to attack some place called Dakar,” he said. “Next week, I think. So they're celebrating their victory now.” That was news. That was big news. It was no good for me writg for a weekly magazine but it a good newspaper story. I phoned’ Christiansen at the Expr and told him. . “Sure,” he said wearily, “it’s a swell story. But it's strictly

‘hush hush,” Everyone in London

seems to know about it and I suppose Vichy knows about it and Berlin knows about it and Dakar knows about it.”

In any case no one was sure prised at Dakar when de Gaulle’s men arrived. Dakar will go down as one of the greatest military flascos of our time, Was de Gaulle responsible? I don’t know. Perhaps he will still emerge as another Foch or Kitch-

ener. But I'd hate to have a dime

bet on it.

TOMORROW: “A Plane Is Born.” . a

14 Lives-Lost in Indiana

Week-End Traffic Mishaps

Fourteen perons lost their lives in Indigna traffic over the week-end, four more than last week-end. None of the deaths resulted from Indianapolis or Marion County accidents.

The dead: EDGAR PARSONS, 51, La Porte, who was killed in a twocar crash at La Forte. GEORGE JACOBS, 22, Ft. Wayne, who was killed in a two-crash on Road 6. north of Wawaka. MRS. ETHEL MYERS, 49, Ft. Wayne, who was killed in a twocar crash on Road 6 west of Kendallville, PAUL J. KREUGER, 27, Pt. Wayne, who was killed when his car was swept off a curve on Road 3 south of Ft. Wayne. WILLIAM MCcINTOSH, 30, of Uniondale, who was killed when his car was struck by a train near Huntington.

MRS. BERTHA CRIPE, 30, Elkhart, who was killed when the car in which she was a passenger crashed on Road 25 near Rochester. MISS BETTY JOHNSTON, 47, San Diego, Cal, who was killed

LA FOLLETTE URGES

—Senator Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Congress is enacting tax bills “blindly” and proposed a ‘thorough overhaul” of the Federal revenue system. “We should know what we are|.

ing a majority at the Curtiss-Wright |

TAX SYSTEM STUDY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (U. P.).

Wis.) charged today that

“ when her car crashed after a tire blew out on Road 40 near New Castle. LAMONT CREWS, 28, Hustonville, Ky, who was killed when his car overturned at Roads 3 and 56 east of Scottsburg. JACK RECCOR, 35, Olney, Ill, who was killed when his car and a truck crashed at Roads 30 and 49 near Valparaiso. RALPH NEUKAM, 25, Hayesville, who was struck by a hit-and-run driver on a Hayesville street. WILLIAM LEE MORROW, 19, Huntington, who was killed when his car overturned on Road 24 south of Ft. Wayne after a tire blew out. MICHAEL KUSH, 32, La Porte, who was killed when his car was struck by a train at a Holmesville crossing. EMMETT MAY, 49, Sullivan, who was killed when he fell under a street grader. WILMA MATTHEWS, 15, Yorktown; who was killed in a crash near Muncie.

“TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—“Chow,” ‘“dogtags,” “over the hill,” and “shave-tail” are slang

expressions used in the U. 8. -

Army to designate a second lieue tenant, food, identification disks, and desertion. Which is which?

doing when we levy these enormous taxes to pay for the defense program,” he said. “We are now merely adding another lean-to on our jumbled tax system each year.” The first levies under the recently enacted tax bill becomes effective Wednesday. New and higher excise taxes on a wide variety of articles, including liquors, automobiles, telephone calls, etc.,, become s payable then. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau’s suggestion that all corporation profits be limited to 6 per cent and any over that be taxed 100 per cent is meeting opposition in most Congressional quarters, Senator Gerald P, Nye (R. N. D.), who once’ recommended confiscation of | munition manufacturers’ profits up to 96 per cent, opposed it but said he would support it if “nothing else is available.”

2—Delilah did not cut Samson hair; true or false? f

3—Another name for a dead letter in the postal service is n---e? 4—In which city was President MeKinley shot? 5—A dining hall, especially in a convent or monastery is called I=-=«tlory? : J 6—The opera “The Girl” of the Golden West” is grand opera or . comic opera? —How many games is it necessary for a team to win in the world series to be declared champion? - 8—Who invented the Negro character, “Uncle Remus”?

Answers

1—Chow—food; dogtags—identifica= tion disks; over the hill—deser= tion; shave-tail—second lieutenant. 2—True. 3—Nixie. 4-—Buffalo, N. Y.

standards he has made all the dairymen sore—and there are a lot of votes in those 22 dairying states, Governor. If he lets down the Food and Drug Administration in its long; hard-fought, sincere efforts to improve the quality of all food products, he will have compromised -the virtue of one of the few lily-whites left among Uncle Sam’s departmental nieces. .

industry research had been improving the quality of the product so that, it was vitamin enriched, and it even had a pretty close imitation butter flavor.

The Fat’s in the Fire

,SHORTLY AFTER THE NEW oleo order was issued, the Consumers’ Counsel Division of the

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—I have spent a day and a half in the country and the need of rain is noticeable everywhere. I'm afraid if rain doesn’t come soon; the

autumn foliage will be spoiled, for I notice many

leaves are shrivelling up and turning brown, instead : of waiting for the frost to: take on the gay colors we usually expect.

HOLD EVERYTHING

FRENCH WELL PAID FOR FIGHTING REDS

BERN, “sent. 29.—French wyotin. teers” serving with the German armies against Russia receive high wages as compared with other French workers, according to items in the French press, Gringoire, Marseilles weekly, estimates that a married volunteer with eight children receives 5800 French francs a month ($116, at the |. nominal franc rate of two cents). This includes 1200 francs for him-| self, 1800 francés indemnity to his wife, and an additional 350 francs far each child under 16. + The volunteer is also provided meals and

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

ponies to be Jett with the impression that they could do as they wished with their riders. She let the sergeant catch the pony and started off again, this time .on a leading, rein to make sure the pony would not, get his head. - In the meantime, one of the other horses being ridden in the field, grew excited by contagion and threw his rider on the grass. The only horse which remained utterly calm, was Johnny's old hunter. Per-

It has been a good apple year * around here and the crop will not bé affected, but the rain should

come soon to keep faith with the

saying that winter really never sets in until all the springs are full. I reached the big house yesterday just in time go share in con= siderable excitement. Our naughty pony, who knows only too quickly When he has an inexperienced rider on his back; decided to take a little girl who was riding him back to the stable at a gallop. Instead of choosing to fall off on the grass, -she waited until she reached the road. +1 was afraid she had scraped Banas and knees, ; picked herself up Spparntly unh nd J 8 -that it

haps experience ‘in a ‘hunting field gave him wisdom enough to know that he-did not have to imitate the others. He continued untroubled on his way, and the i girl on his back dismounted when she was

The two smallest members of the household, Franklin III and Haven, looked on rather bewildered by all the excitement. Franklin IIT rode off on his tricycle seeming well satisfled that he could govern his vehicle better than the other children seemed to be able to manage the horses. My habits of sleep are not as well regulated as they should be. Regardless of the fact that the time changed an hour, I woke up at the usual time, which gave me a whole extra hour to map out work for Miss Thompson. It isn't quite fair to do this on a then the time

lodging. For about the same period, Flambeau, organ of Francois de ys : Rocque, former head of the Croix de Feu, estimated that the average earnings of a worker in the Department of Correze at about 750} francs out of which he must maintain himself.

NAMED NAVY SURGEON WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — Dr. George A. Vail, Indianapolis, is one of nine to be appointed Acting Assistant Surgeons in the Navy, it was announced by the Navy De- | have the

partment today.

Sunday, but. 't change on Sunday, =. ona lieutenants,

LOCAL SAENGERBUND

will celebrate the beginning of fall with a festival at its hall, 49% S. Delaware 8t., on the night of Oct. 4.

the “Apple-knockers Co tries. and sentences those who disturb the decorations. The Saenger-| bund is one of the oldest singing| and societies in Maton Sous, having}

TO HAVE FESTIVAL

The Indianapolis Saengerbund

Spedial entertainment will include ” which

5——Refectory. 6—Grand opera. T7—Four. 8—Joel Chandler Harris.

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