Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1942 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942

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Hoosier Vagabond

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 25.—Mother Cofiman had no idea what she was starting. Nobody could possibly have visualized It. But when she opened her little “boarding house” way back in 1909 in this seedy, sandy little village, she started what was to become the whole vast vogue of desertvacationing. All the great resorts of the desert—Tucson and Phoenix and Death Valley—the fancy hotels and the Southwest dude ranches—it all began with Mother Coffman 33 years ago. The whole thing was built on one woman's spiritual love for the desert. The desert has repaid her vastly for her affection. And she, in turn, still clings to the desert - with a loyalty and a love that have never dimmed. Palm Springs now is world famous. It is the ultimate in sun-vacationing. In the beginning, it was only for those quiet people who gained an elevation of the spirit from tne space and solitude of the empty sand. Now it has grown into a resort of gaiety and ultra shops and great luxury—although it is still essentially a retreat, if that’s what you want.

35 Acres of Loveliness

THERE ARE 60 private swimming pools in the town. The 230 saddle horses for hire are far out over the desert most every day. People go around in shorts and ride bicycles and play tennis and swim and go on picnics and lie on canvas cots, getting a desert tan. There are many places to stay. Nearly all of them are nice, and not all of them are expensive. You can pay anything from $4 a day on up. Some places are gay and clubbish; some are outdoorsy and cowboyish; some are trailerish and tourist-campy: and some are spacious and unspeakably luxurious and rich with an old dignity.

WE HAD AN AD in The Times the other day urging people to write in and order war bonds. It was headed: “Bonds . . . or Bondage.” A lot of people clipped the ad and sent it in, accompanied by their checks. One of them was Jake Feld, who “used to be” in the tire business back when there were tires. Jake sent us his check. It was for $7400—to buy $10,000 worth of Series F bonds. He added a note: “Oh, boy: aint It grand 16 be free!” . | A Woman phoned a north side pharmacy and asked to have three 3-cent stamps sent over to her house. The drug clerk, attempting to discourage the delivery, said it probably would be an hour or so before the delivery boy would be back. “Well,” said the woman, ‘maybe to make it worth while you'd better send me 27 cents worth of stamps.” . A friend phones in to report that George Saas got in a discussion the other evening and kept talking about the 21th something or other. And after he'd said it about 10 times, someone reminded him the word was 21st—not 21th—and George

swore that’s what he'd been saying all the time

Roll Over, Bo

IT SEEMS THERE are 3 couple of ways to roll an unconscious person over on his face in order to cive him artificial respiration. One is for small person the other those too heavy to be moved by the other method. Well, the first aid class at Woodstock met the other day and the regular instructor S 0, so Mrs. Earl took over as a pinch hitter. She got through the method of rolling over a light person, then remarked: “And then if we should happen to meet up with Mr. Bowman Elder,

From India

FLYING OVER INDIA March 25—1 am writing this dispatch aboard an American cargo plane as we fly across India. Our plane is loaded With war supplies for China. My typewriter resting on a crate of propellers from America A few minutes ago I finished a midafternoon nap on the same crate With an overcoat for a mattress, vou sleep very well. Only by actually traveling 1t can one appreciate the enormous length of the American supply line, and the heroic job being done to push supplies over it. The line extends all the way across Africa and Asia. At dozens of stops along the whole route our plane was greeted by American army air corps officers. I found them at places I never heard of before. They are forwarding supplies and personnel. They are organizing receiving depots and training bases for bomber and fighter squadrons. Ships come into some ports along the route and unload supplies. which are picked up and forwarded by air.

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strange war. There is no sense of one American expeditionary force, or of one solid front, as in the first World war. American forces are scattered in little groups, thousand miles or So from each other, each its own little outpost, cut off from the rest of the world except for planes coming through. Visitors to these outposts are surrounded for information. One group of American officers mn India snatched, like thirsting for water, when our pilot handed out a copy of an American magazine only two weeks old. They had heard nothing for two months. Almost no letters get through. The biggest morale help to our forces In Africa

My Day

SEATTLE, Wash., Tuesday.—I have not spent such a quiet peaceful day in a long time as I did yesterday on Mercer island with my daughter. Of course, my very active 3-year-old grandson can make life fairly busy, because he has an imagination which can always think up new games. He 1s either under the bed or rolling over it, or finding something which can become an object of interestand injury. Fortunately, the weather is good and something outside usually becomes more tempting than the society of his elders within doors. Several months age, I spoke at the town hall in New York City with various other people, on a subject which seemed important to all of us—“What must we do to improve the health and well being of the American people.” The town hall offered prizes for 1000-word essays by adults, and by young people below the age of 21. I have just heard that the first prize in the adult group was won bv Dr. Jacob Sobel, a well-known New York pediatrician. He based his essay on the point of view that only the nation which has healthy children has a future as a nation, and included a detailed, specific plan for a better health ond education program. The reasen Y ath telling you of this particular essay is that his

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By Ernie Pyle

Of the latter, the Desert Inn stands at the top. The inn has held its place through three decades of changing taste in the desert vogue. There are hundreds of very rich people from all over America who wouldn't think of going anywhere here except the Desert Inn. Nellie Coffman and her two sons. The inn is 35 acres of spacious loveliness. The guests live in rooms or suites or cottages throughout the grounds. There Is nothing on the place higher than a story and a half. Once inside the grounds, it is as though you had entered a quiet, private world. No one can tread on you.

She’s Typically Midwest!

A COUPLE CAN'T stay here for less than $20 a day. Most of them pay more than that, up to $40 and over. Movie queens must cover their lovely figures with something more than shorts or halters or they don't get into the dining room. Autos aren’t allowed inside the grounds, except to unload baggage.

A maid turns down your bed while you are at dinner. |

The place isn’t snooty; it’s just quietly dignified. When I saw the lavishness of what Mrs. Coffman had created, saw the old and accepted wealth of the gliests, saw the stability of the place, I was seized with a sudden stagefright. You can’t charge people | $40 a day and not be austere, I figured. | And then when I finally did meet her, it seemed that she might have come from a Midwest farm only vesterday. Her walk, her manner of dress, her direct’ and honest speech, her small-town friendliness— thev were as Midwestern as clover hay. We sat down and she talked for two hours. Every nnee in a while she would ask if she were keeping me! | Late in the afternoon we got in my car and drove out! into the country to see a friend. And although we had been sitting for two hours in the lobby of one of | the finest hotels in California, Mrs. Coffman had to co change her dress. just as my mother used to in Indiana, because she wasn't “dressed to go calling.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

we'd use this other turn.” And now the turn is; known around Woodstock as the Bo Elder turn. P. s.| We don't know what Bo weighs new, but back in| 1940, Colliers magazine reported his poundage as a scant 319. | Remember Charley Davis? EVERY ONCE in a while, someone wonders “what | ever became of Charley Davis and his band?” Frankie | Parrish, the singer, and Ralph Lillard, of the Indianapolis Symphony's percussion section, both were with Charley's band at one time. They got to talking] the other day and Lillard reported meeting Charley | while the symphony was in Syracuse, N. Y,, on its recent tour. Charley and his brother are running a furniture and interior decorating company with stores at Oneida and Oswega. Ralph reported that he intro- | duced Symphony Director Fabien Sevitzky to Davis. | Davis said: “I think I remember you” Replied Sevitzky: “Yes, I was conducting the pit orchestra at a Philadelphia theater back in 1929 when you played there as master of ceremonies with one of the Publix traveling shows.”

Busy Biddies

HENRY S. MURRAY. chairman of the state tax hoard, reportedly has some of the boys a little con-! fused with his boasts about the prowess ot the chickens on his farm near Mooresville. The story, as we! get it. is that he has a flock of 30. Deducting one! rooster, four hens “wanting to set,” and one crippled that Ieaves 24 hens on the production line.! Henry is quoted as reporting that last Sunday he got | 27 eggs from his 24 effectives. Actually there were only 23 eggs but four were double yolks which he ficures count as two eggs each. By the way, Mr. | Murray is looking for a little black sheep for his | children. Mike and Kitty.

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By Raymond Clapper

and India would be for the government to make sure they get prompt news from home. They don’t know what is happening in the United States, 15.000 miles away by air route. Theugh everyone is busy and working hard, it must be said that relatively few supplies have gone into China. yet. As one said, “We have been sending dollars rather than bullets.”

Planes! Planes! Planes!

THERE IS DESPERATE need for more planes. The wear and tear is hard on them. Life of a Sehter plane in China is only about one month, because of hard and constant use. China has more nilots than planes.

The American volunteer group of fliers is doing a notable job. I heard it praised from the time I landed in Africa, and that grows louder the nearer to China one travels. Everyone expects the Japanese, in their Burma drive, to try to bite off eastern India and cut off China. Nobody thinks there is much time left. New planes must be followed by more, especially because it is extremely difficuit to bring in tanks and heavy artillery. Planes must make up for that.

It Must Be Done

THESE ARE THE only places where we can throw our weapons against the axis now. All ground held now is that much saved, because it is easier to hold bases than to dislodge the enemy. Japen is eyeing the large industrial area around Calcutta now. Tts loss would be a grave blow, physically and psychologically, throughout India and Asia. The farther east one goes, the greater sense of urgericy one feels. It becomes appallingly clear that the war cannot be won around the shores of America, If 1t cannot be won in Europe, Africa and Asia, then it is lost.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

premise seems to me one which we should consider very carefuly today. | The tendency is to feel that anything which is not directly connected with war production, the building of ships, airplanes or other military equipment and | the induction into the military services of an ever-| increasing number of young men, is of no importance | in the war effort. If we tall into this misapprehension, we may find ourselves not only handicapped in winning the war, but verv much handicapped in winning the peace. The best machinery in the world has to be handled | by intelligent people. and unless we continue the, services we have set up for better health, education and recreation for the children and young people of today, not only the future of the war, but the future of the country is in danger. We should learn something even from our enemies. Germany has paid great attention to the very things which we are already neglecting in our haste to make war, something which can only be won on a military basis and has nothing to do with what happens on the civilian side of the picture. Just the other day, I found mn the crowded industrial areas near San Diego and Los Angeles that one of the most agitated questions was how day nurseries and nursery schools could be set up. The lack of them slows up production on thé part of the women, many of them mothers, who are employed in the aircraft factories. “Welfare activities” — to have military

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More Care Will Help Save Women's Clothes and Add

To Their Appearance, Too

By ROSEMARY REDDING “KEEPING UP appearances” is taking on new mean-

ing these days.

It doesn't mean “keeping up with the Joneses” any

more. It means economy and It means morale—especially to the housewife and the working girl. And the word ‘appearances’ means a great many more things to them, because most important, it connotes looking their best and feeling better because they do. You cannot take for granted that the American woman can go on being the “best dressed in the world” in this day without some smart planning. Or hadn’t you realized that clothes are up about 25 per cent? Inspect your clothes closet to see that clothes for the summer season aren't still jammed in among those for winter wear. Take out the lightweight ones and pack them carefully in tissue paper. Look in that bureau drawer. Are scarfs and collar and cuff sets mixed in among playvsuits, a bathing suit. and summer blouses? ”n » 2

Covers Mean Saving

ARE CLOTHES left exposed to the dust on their hangers. Remember that garment bags are inexpensive and cut down on cleaning bills Woolen clothes should be kept in moth-proof bags.

If ready-made garment bags are beyond your budget, inexpensive ones can be stitched up at home from muslin or cretonne and fastened with a zipper. Or keeping the paper garment bags which come from the cleaners and slipping the garments into them after each wearing will help. Special cases for lingerie. boxes for hose, etc., save wear and tear on clothes. All clothes should be cleaned or washed as soon as they need it. Dirt is one of the worst enemies of fabrics and shortens their life. Cut down on cleaning bills by using a makeup cape or slinging a towel around your shoulders when applving powder or combing your hair. Wear a scarf with your

| coat to prevent soiling the collar.

Dress shields in dresses help keep down perspiration odors and keep the fabric from being harmed. A stitch in time is important, too. Sew up rips before they become bigger. And don’t pin up that hem with a safety pin! Heels can catch so easily in the hem and rip the material. 8 n 2

Darn Those Woolens

WORN PLACES in woollens can be mended by pulling threads from seams and careful darning and reinforcing. If you don’t feel capable of doing the job yourself, there are agencies in town which will do a professional job. And if there is a snag in a skirt or coat 1t can be rewoven just like new. The one item of clothing which women already are conscientiously conserving is hose. Here are a few general rules for their care. Remove all hand jewelry and bracelets before putting them on. Some women even don gloves. Keep toenails and heels smooth. With stockings on, smooth the foot to insure there are no wrinkies at the heels and tops of the toes. Check length of hose. There should be no pull on the sole of the stocking and the foot. Straighten seams and pull stockings gently to the top. Unfailingly at the end of each

wearing, rinse the stockings out |

in a mild suds, taking care not to catch them on metal fixtures. Rinse three times and hang away from the heat on a type of hang-

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sensible living.

This is the ninth of a series of articles on how to economize during war-time. The Times suggests readers clip and save these articles.

Wear on Either Foot CHANGING HOSE from one foot to another often prevents wear in the same place. Simply mark each stocking with an identification mark (perhaps 2a cross stitch with embroidery floss) at the top of the stocking. One time wear one stocking on the left foot and the next time put it on the right one. Keep stockings in their own box or wrapped in tissue paper so that they won't be snagged when you reach into the drawer for something else. Inspect your shoes when you remove them. Hustle down to the repair man if they need new heels. There is economy, also in having more than one pair of shoes. Shoe manufacturers say that the life of a shoe is multiplied if it is worn no more than three days in succession. By resting a day or two in shoe trees, a pair of shoes is given a chance to dry out thoroughly and resume shape. Shoe trees should be as soon as shoes are removed. Crumpled paper packed in the toes will do. Suede shoes shouid be brushed and leather shoes wiped clean with a cloth, then aired and put away either in the shoe bag or in tissue-lined boxes. Polishing does wonders for shoes, too. ‘Tis said that leather improves the more it is polished. The wax coating prevents scratching and keeps water out. » B ”

Watch That Coat

ALTHOUGH COATS are the most expensive item in the wardrobe, they are often most often left in heaps. When vou come in, give your coat a good brushing and hang it on a hanger with padded shoulders. Use a long necked hanger to keep the fur collar from rubbing against a hook or a shelf.

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1. Attention to heel caps not only makes for a trim appearance but means lots of extra walking mileage for shoes, George Ruehrschneck tells Miss Kathleen M. Flynn, 851 N, Rural st. 2. Cut down on ecléaning bills by wearing a makeup cape or towel around your shoulders when apply-

ing makeup or combing your hair.

3. Pull stockings gently to the top. Proper care will go a long way toward the length of time they wear.

The old whisk broom will help keep felt hats attractive. If the hat looks a bit battered, have it blocked. Often the replacing of faded ribbon trimmings will make a chapeau look almost like new again. If hat boxes or stands are not available consider inexpensive ones made by covering oatmeal boxes with paper. Keep crowns stuffed with tissue paper. Take care in putting on or taking off a dress to prevent lip stick smudges and strain on seams. After removing a frock, air it thoroughly. Don’t hang it in a garment kag until all the perspiration odor is gone. When it is placed on the hanger be sure that the collar and sleeves are straightened se that the dress will retain its good lines. ” n n

Don’t Separate Suit

IF YOU HAVE a suit try not to wear the skirt separately or the coat will outlast it. If vou are having a suit tailored, consider two skirts. Keep skirts on skirt hangers or make your own by using safety pins on regular hangers or appropriating two snap clothespins from the laundry room. Knitted dresses, suits and sweaters should never be hung on hangers but carefully aired, patted into shape and laid on a shelf or in a drawer.

TO SCHOOL MONDAY

| Two hundred cub and scout lead- | ers of the Central Indiana council | will start | course at Manual high school at 7:30 p. m. Monday.

Gloves require as much care when donned as hose. The right way to put them on is to insert the fingers and gradually fit each one before inserting the thumb and then work the glove on. The correct way for removing them is to turn back half way and pull them off. Blow into them and pull gently lengthwise and lay flat, Wrap in tissue paper. If the gloves are cloth, they will probably stand washing but, if of leather, be sure they are labeled washable before taking any chances. Usually washing directions come with gloves. Save them.

Ge! Correct Fit

THE GENERAL jules include: Fit the gloves over the hands, wash in a mild suds, rinse in several waters (unless otherwise instructed), squeeze out water by patting in a towel, remove, pat again. Puff the fingers by blowing into them. Lay on a towel and dry away from the heat. Glove forms for drving are a help and cost a mere song. Forms for drying sweaters after washing are available, too. Do launder girdles often in mild suds. Directions are given generally on the original label. Squeeze water out gently and take up excess moisture in a towel. Dry away from the heat. Replace worn-out garters. Do all these things regularly. A lick and a promise never helped anything.

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14,165 RETREADS ALLOTTED INDIANA

Indiana's first quota of retreaded tires for passenger cars was con= tained today in an announcement of the state's April tire and tube quotas by James D. Strickland, state rationing administrator. April quotas on passenger cars in= {elude 3079 new tires and 8664 new | tubes, together with 14.165 retreads. | Bus and truck tire quotas were set at 8560 new tires and 8126 new tubes. Retreads in this classificas tion were set at 7521. Mr. Strickland said passenger cars will be available to all defense workers and to other persons who can prove they are ens gaged in essential war work.

BOY'S FOOT CRUSHED BY TECH ELEVATOR

His 1ight foot crushed when he attemptea to operate the elevator at Technical High school, Harold Leonard, 17, was reported in faip condition at City hospital today. The accident occurred last night, Harold is enrolled in a night voecas | tional training course at the school, | Fred Henke, a teacher, took him te | tive hospital. | The boy lives at 2137 N. Jeffers [son ave.

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uniform wore a single gold band on his sleeve and his adoring parents could not keep their eyes off it. Had he been promoted to some high rank? Or was he a top nons commissioned officer? | 2. Who is this Maj. Vidkun Quisling whose last name has given a new symbol for treachery

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