Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1942 — Page 22

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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942

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SECOND SECTION

. Hoosier Vagabond

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 27.—For eight years Mrs, Nellie Coffman hung onto Palm Springs like a stubborn dog clinging to a stick. If she hadn't, you never would have heard of the place. From 1909 to 1917 her effort to run a resort hotel way out here on the desert was a touch-and-go affair. A few people came, but most people didn't. She kept books just like a farmer—she had two spikes, one for paid bills, the other for unpaid. At the end of each winter season, the unpaid stack was always the higher. The Coffmans had some real estate in Santa Monica. Piece by piece this was sold to meet the bills at the end of each successful season on the desert. Nobody had any faith in the thing but Mrs. Coffman. Today she gives the bulk of the credit to the two boys. But they themselves admit they couldn't see it, and anyhow they were away most of those tough years, in school and then through the war. Dr. Coffman, who was running the sanitarium end -of the thing in a tent colony, also could not vision the day when people would flock to the desert. He held on a few years, and then went back to the coast. Mrs. Coffman was on her own.

The Desert Sustained Her

THROUGH ALL those years she wouldn't give up. Her son Earl savs today: “I don't know whether it was Mother's ability to see ahead, or just her plain stubbornness that made her hang on. Probably a little of both ” But hang on she did, and in 1917 things began to break. The virtues of Palm Springs had begun to get about by word of meuth. People began to hear of the quiet and restfulness of the desert, of the winter sunshine, of Mrs. Coffman's little Desert Inn.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PATRICK J. SMITH, the lawyer, has been amusing himself by sending brain teasers to his friends. We haven't had time yet to work the one he sent us, but, in case youre interested. here it is: “A brakeman, a fireman and an engineer are employed on a train. Their names are Robinson, Smith and Jones—not respectively. On the same train are three passengers with the same names—Robinson, Smith and Jones, hereafter referred to as “Mr.” to distinguish them from the three trainmen. (1) Mr. Robinson lives in Detroit. (2) The brakeman lives half way between Detroit and Chicago. (3) Mr. Jones earns exactly $2000 a vear. (4) Smith beat the fireman at billiards. (3) The brakeman’s nearest neighbor, who is one of the three above passengers, earns exactly three times as much as the brakeman. (6) The passenger who lives in Chicago has the same name as the brakeman. Question: What is the name of the engineer?” Pat says it can ® worked in from 3 to 6 minutes, and he has the answer. If you get stuck, call him. His number is in the phone book.

Hi, Charley. Hi, Gur. CHARLES BREECE, formerly on the WFBM staff and now in the army, has been stationed at Camp Robinson, Ark, for several weeks. While at Butler he was active in Lambda Chi Alpha, which has its national headquarters here. Shortly after Charley went to Camp Robinson, his wife read that the governor of Arkansas had been initiated into Lambda Chi Alpha. So, just for fun, she sat down and wrote the governor, telling him her husband and his fra-

From New Delhi By Raymond Clapper

NEW DELHI. March 27.—Most arguments for seligovernment of India quickly stumble over the Moslems’ attitude. A fourth of India’s seething millions are Mohammedans. As a practical matter, Sir Stafford Cripps will have difficulty pressing any self-govern-ment solution which does not satisfy this minority. Small minorities can be largely ignored. China has a Moslem minority so small it is not a potential factor, But India's Mohammedans are a strong political force. Furthermore, any affront to them in India would have reactions throughout the whole Moslem world. If, through dissatistaction with whatever Cripps may propose, Moslem leaders should cry that Islam is being put in jeopardy by the British, the effect would be felt sharply in Egypt, Palestine and other areas of the vital Middle East. And it is that Middle East lying between Europe and Asia which the united nations are trying so desperately to hold, in order to keep Germany and Japan separated. Moslems fear rule by Hindus, who constitute a three-quarters majority. This is more than a political issue. It is a religious issue—viewed by Moslems somewhat as Catholics in America might fear rule by the Ku Klux Klan.

Playing A Careful Game

THE LEADER of Indian Moslems is Ali Jinnah. He is highly intelligent, rather modern. and leans to the tolerant side. Earlier, he was actually a member

In 1917 the new crop of war millionaires looked afield for vacation places, and came to Palm Springs. And eastern families of old riches, cut off from Europe for the first time, also came. But most of all, the flu epidemic filled the place up. : Palm Springs kept itself without a flu death in the World War. Those that did get flu were immediately isolated. Los Angeles physicians sent their families to Palm Springs for safety. Everything was crowded. Everybody worked himself to death. In those days Mrs. Coffman worked until she felt she couldn't keep going. She was all alone now, too. That was the toughest time, the crisis. And it was then that her beloved desert sustained her.

Then It Started Moving

“IN THOSE TERRIBLE days in 1918,” she says, “almost every evening just before sunset I'd go to'a big sand mound south of town, and just sit-there alone for about three-quarters of an hour, feeling the desert. Of course, I didn’t go every day, you know, but every time I could, I went. And I think that’s what pulled me through.” Things started going more rapidly after 1918. The two boys came home from the war, took a look, and saw what was about to happen. They went into business with their mother, and the three of them within the next decade built the tremendous Desert Inn as it is today—an investment of a million and a half. Mother Coffman calls George the “watchdog of the treasury,” because he handles the book and business! end. Earl is the active manager. ! But Mrs. Coffman still dreams and plans ahead.

| By Ernie Pyle

Men's Clothing Stocks Ample For Summer

This is the 11th of a series of articles on how to economize in wartime. The Times suggests Heder clip and save these articles.

THERE ARE no shortages in the spring and sum-

mer lines of men’s clothes, And that’s on the authority of a buyer in the foremost men's store in town. Next fall? Well, six months hence your guess is pretty much as good as his. Spring and summer clothes were purchased in October before the war began. New orders may be hard to fill. Prices on some items will be up. As for fall, wool won't leave the market but pure wool garments

She spends all forenoon supervising the housekeeping and kitchen departments, and chinning with the workers. In the afternoons you'll find her around the lobby or the grounds most of the time. She loves to talk with the guests. She has been doing it for 30 years, and has never got tired of it. “I'll talk to anybody who'll listen to me,” she says.

ternity brother was at the camp. It wasn’t long until she received a letter from the governor thanking her for the information. And a day or two later, she received a letter from her husband reporting that the governor had paid a personal call on him at camp. Yes, sir, nothing’s too good for our boys.

Around the Town

DICK EVANS, assistant manager of Sears, Roebuck, 1s in the army now. He was sworn in Wednesday as a captain in the procurement division of the air force, and is to be stationed at Mitchell Field. L. I. . . . Frank Wallace, our state entomologist, is attending a conference of bugologists at the University of Illinois. . . . Add odd sights: Sailors in uniform riding horseback on W. 30th st. . . . Gone with the war: Those cards they used to leave at your door, entitling you to a carton of soft drinks free. . . . If you phone Ri. 8270, the young lady answering the phone will advise you to “call for Philip Morris.” , . . Sign on a gas station south of town on Road 29: “Nothing sold for credit and damn little for cash.” ,. . Add similes: “As hard to get as a call into the federal building.” Wonder why Uncle Sam can’t cut a tiny sliver off one of those billions and get a few more trunk wires for the building.

Ham Shank and Beans

J. N. LEMON, division passenger agent for the New York Central lines, is an ardent admirer of ham shank and navy beans. He was gorging on this delicacy at the Claypool Wednesday and complaining because the chef wouldn't give him the recipe. Among those listening was Bob Eichelsdoerfer, assistant manager of the hotel. And a little bird tells us that Mrs. Lemon will be receiving a certain recipe one of these days, if it isn't there already.

domination without adequate protection. He favored partitioning India, setting up separate Moslem states. But that now probably will not be insisted upon in view of war complications. Jinnah refused to support the war effort at first. But he is wise politically and undoubtedly realizes that, with Japan threatening India, all his hopes cannot become fact. His past position has not met with approval of all Moslems, some of whom felt it was dividing India’s effort to obtain self-rule. He is playing a careful game now. He hesitated to meet Cripps until after sending a delegation to sound out the situation and to see if Cripps offers an acceptable basis for discussion.

A Significant Note

THE QUESTION of whether Jinnah speaks for all Moslems is raised by the fact that, of four Moslem provincial premiers, three are not members of Jinnah’s Moslem league but co-operate with congress people. This indicates that the obstacle of the Moslem question is not insuperable. One difficulty is that, as this question of self-rule comes closer to reality, the struggle between Hindus and Moslems to get that power naturally intensifies. This leads to bitterness, just as during an American presidential campaign. Jinnah can do much toward softening the situation. The fact that in 1919 he was considered an ambassador of Moslem-Hindu unity indicates he is not a fanatic. He broke into protest against Allied partitioning of Moslem Turkey after the last war.

which left bitterness. But he remained a member of | the India congress until 1930. Not a hidebound Moslem. in election campaigns his opponents charge him!

will be scarcer. The buyer says the mills will be able to make only about 40 per cent of the all-wool fabrics they turned out last fall. There is no use trying to fool ourselves—wool will have to use more blends except for worsteds. Wool cloths, made from re-used and reprocessed wool and mixtures of wool with cotton, rayon, etc, will be plentiful. They will wear all right but not so well as the wool garments to which the consumer has been accustomed. Addicts of glen plaids are bound to be disappointed, however, for the matching of plaids takes more, material and conservation is practically the law now. Naturally there will be less assortment of fabrics and styles. That, in a sketchy way, is the

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No Reason to Hoard

BUT, AND IT is an important but, this man, whose job it is to turn out Indianapolis men in sartorial splendor, is actually trying to talk his customers out of that scare buying urge. Just now the clothing situation is in a transitory stage. If everybody buys, stocks are depleted and manufacturers can’t fill the larger than ordinary orders, he says. All in all, scare buying, hoarding or self-denial just unbalances things. Buy in the manner to which you are accustomed is the sage advice the clothiers are handing out. Buy things that last—consider quality above price. One of the trends foreseen is the rise of slack suits to an even more important role in the fashion scene. They are comfortable and neat. ” ” ”

Slacks Are Popular

ONE LOCAL buyer says they are popular with men who work in defense industries. He points out that slacks and sports shirts 20 well on the jobs where one needs to dress a little better than in overalls. When work is over, a man dons a sports jacket and is actually “turned out” well for the street. Another innovation on the market this spring is a shirt with a collar designed to outwear two or three of the ordinary ones. Starching, as your wife or laundry lady will tell you, breaks the tiny fibers in the shirt collar and causes it to wear thin. The new type collars will have tiny celluloid stays inserted in the points of the collar to keep them from curling and give them that crisp look. For those “particular” men, a little starch may be added. There will be a shortage of elastic goods (garters. suspenders. etc). But don't rush in and buy a five vear's supply. Rubber deteriorates and two years from now would have lost its stretch. The smart man will begin to Eriieive the clothes he already as.

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1. Gentlemen, you will begin to feel cool breezes a little higher up your leg this season. The new fashions in topcoats and over coats will be shorter for the duration. Shorter coats mean additional savings on cloth.

2. Elimination of the cuffs from the yearly cuttings of 28 million pairs of trousers saves enough material for the manufacture of three million more garments. Rill Raasch of R. R. 4, Box 705, models the new style in men’s apparel.

3. The smart thing today is to invest in an all-purpose hat. Herve again the government has done all possible to save on materials. The brim is more narrow than before. 4. Rather than wear out the now precious coat to the suit, more and more men will swing to the coming style of loafer’s jacket. It’s a sport outfit and the hat is of corduroy with a leather band.

told, it’s healthier (no tightness about the waistline and all that). Hats should be placed on a shelf above the clothing in a wardrobe closet. Place in an upside down position with the hat resting on the crown and one side of the brim. A sennit straw hat should be placed in the same position, preferably in a box with camphorated tar paper. ” n ”

The Care of Shoes

FELT HATS should be brushed regularly after wearing. Soft felt hats should be cleaned and blocked frequently. Caps should be kept in a flat position in a card-board box and tweed hats should be kept in a box since they collect dust. Esquire, the men’s magazine, has these suggestions to offer on the care of shoes. 1. Shoes should be changed daily. This permits perspiration which has a deteriorating effect on leather, to dry out. 2. Shoes should be treed when not in use. This gives the shoes a chance to come back in shape. 3. Shoes should not be kept in a place that is too dry as extreme dryness injures the leather. Warm, dark and damp places will cause mildew. If this has occurred, shoes should be washed with saddle soap and a damp sponge. 4. Light covers are suggested as dust injures leather, Shoe wardrobes for the closet are a great convenience as are shoe bags for traveling which prevent shoes from soiling other clothes. 5. Shoes should be polished daily. If a man doesn't have time to do it before he leaves for business, a soft flannel rag should be rubbed over them. 6. Reverse calf shoes should be brushed with a soft wire brush. Soles of buckskin and antelope shoes should be varnished on the

bootblack to shine unless they are simple in design to prevent the colored polish from getting on the white leather.

7. Patent leather shoes should be rubbed with a* soft cloth and touch of vaseline to restore luster. 8. Heels should not be permitted to run down. !

9. New shoes should be polished immediately to prevent staining and spotting. » ”n o Hang Up Tie HANG UP THOSE ties. There is a shortage of silk. And even if you can get more, ties will stay nicer longer with just a little careful treatment. And for the ties’ sake, if not for your own, don’t hurriedly slip them off with a jerk. Take the abnve advice for what it's worth. It should help you keep your shirt on—as well as one on your back

| CATTLEMAN, 84, RIDES CAMEL

LONDON CURBS | Plane Record

Press Freedom Ignored

By Government.

LONDON, March 27 (U. P).— The government has announced new censorship regulations will be applied to dispatches from Britain despite a parliamentary attack in

ment was threatening freedom of the press.

The new regulations nounced by Information Brendon Bracken who

were anMinister said they

are being imposed to halt “‘distor-| | ord was achieved, it can now be

tion of our war eifort.” At the same time Frank Owen, editor of the Evening Standard, was called up suddenly for military service in a move that

Wilton Halgh, an 86-year-old cat-'cal quarters.

tleman rode a camel 1400 miles to! live stock rides

see this year's Royal

Ishow., Once each year. he

Critic Is Called Up

The parliamentary attack was

the camel to Adelaide to take home girected against Home Secretary

caused a | SYDNEY, Australia (U. P.) .—Dick | stir in both newspaper and politi-|

OUTGOING NEWS

Critics’ Charge of Threat to

Catalina Carried 83 In Rescue During Java Fighting.

By GEORGE WELLER

PERTH, Western Australia, March 27-—in a dispatch from Java early in March your corre spondent stated that the Amerie can Catalina PBY had broken the

{| world’s record for carrying pase which it was charged the govern-|

sengers by transporting 86, with the previous records for the same craft being 72 in Indonesian waters and 62 in the Mediterranean. It is now ascertained that the correct new total is 83. The rece

revealed, when a Dutch transport

evacuating the native garrison from the island of Billiton, off the Borneo coast, was sunk by Jap bombers. The flying boat’s crew from Batavia, consisting of six Netherlanders, picked up in a single load 77 Javanese troops, mostly men of medium to small stature,

: : ja two-gallon keg of rum for ‘“meCaring for Suits and white shoes and black and |dicinal uses.” He grazes 3000 short-HICKEY-FREEMAN has these whit: ones should be given to a horns ngar the center of Australia.

simple rules to offer on the care of suits: 1. When not in use. keep the garment neatly centered on a hanger, preferably on a shaped or slightly curved one made of wood instedd of wire. 2. Dirt and grit, when allowed to penetrate the fabric, tends to reduce wearing qualities. Occasional brushing eliminates this possibility. 3. It’s a good idea not to wear the same suit more than two days in succession. Give it a “rest” the third day. It gives the weave in the fabric an opportunity to rest itself, which reduces the frequent need of pressing. 4. Clothes should be pressed with a hand iron in preference to steam pressing. 5. Remove stains and soil spots promntly. Moths are much less apt to attack clean wool. 6. Don’t leave bulky objects in the pockets when hanging up clothes. 7. Patronize a reliable dry cleaner.

with being unorthodox. Like Nehru, he is sophisti- sides with enamel varnish. Brown

cated. It is significant that these two political leaders of India are moderns, not slavishly holding. to old customs. No doubt this is a symptom of somewhat the same ferment which brought Russia in one leap from the medieval to the modern age.

of the all-India congress, supporting the Gandhi movement—as a fair number Moslems still are, despite its overwhelming Hindu character. (The current president of the congress is not Gandhi or Nehru. but a Moslem named Abul Kalan Azed.) Later Jinnah broke with the congress, and became head of the ail-India Moslem league to oppose Hindu

My Day

CHICAGO, Ill, Thursday—Last evening, before I left my daughter's home, we celebrated very gaily at a joint birthday party. My eldest granddaughter and my son-in-law, John, were born on the same day, and so they share their birthday festivities. Sistie is 15. which has always seemed to me a 1] very important birthday. I felt IT was as old at 15 as 1 have ever been since. The autumn of that birthday, I left my grandmother’s and went abroad to a school and was more independent during the next three years than I have ever been since. As I look back on those three years, I think that I learned and matured more mentally in that time than in any other period of my life. Te me, of course, today my granddaughter seems far younger than I was at her age. Yet, I imagine that, given the same responsibility, she would be quite as capable of coping with whatever circumstances arose. On my 15th birthday, my grandmother gave me a ring which had been given to her on her 15th birthday. She had given it to my mother at the age of 15 and after my mother’s death, put it away and kept it for me. When Anna was 15, I gave it to her, and yesterday she gave it to her daughter. That is quite a record, I think, for things seldom 3 AE

| Herbert Morrison's threat to suspend publication of the London Daily Mirror, a critic of the ROV- | ® WAR QUIZ ernment’s war effort. Mr. Owen | : had led Fleet street editors in or-| 1. Once in a while you see ® ganizing a stand in opposition to man from the American fleet walkany action against the Mirror. Mr.|ing along with the sailor’s roll and Owen is 37. He was called up for| gearing this insignia. Does it mean immediate duty and given no time he is a veteran to adjust his private affairs—con- of the Jap blita trary to the usual practice for men attack on Pearl in his age group. Harbor last DeDefending the government cember? against criticism, spokesmen in 2. Gandh jw both the house of commons and the name bobs house of lords refused to modify up regularly their stand that the war cabinet|these days in the news about war will act to suspend publication of endeavors. Sounds Italian, you any newspaper at any time its/krow — Mussolini, Graziani, ete, statements are considered detri-|Well, is he Italian? If not, what? mental to the war effort. 3. In the beginning of the 19th century the hitherto victorious Charge Dictatorship troops of Napoleon retreated from The stand brought charges of

) Moscow. In the pase few months dictatorship from some critics. the hitherto victorious troops of In rebuttal one government

Hitler have alse retreated from spokesman asserted that the Daily| Moscow. Where does the parallel Mirror “was not a gentleman” for|end? making the suggestion that the government is trying to force editors to eat large quantities of liver pills before putting out their papers. Mr. Bracken said the alleged “distortion” had caused ‘‘consternation in some of our dominions and upset our friends everywhere and nas been eminently useful to Doctor Goebbels.” He said he regarded as ‘“‘preposterous” suggestions that freedom of expression is being restricted by the new re| v ‘

HOLD EVERYTHING

By Eleanor Roosevelt

go through five generations without being lost somewhere along the line. I took the plane for New York at 8:30 last night with the promise that the weather was “routine” all the way. I always receive that news with satisfaction and am very glad when it proves true. On this ‘trip, on the whole, the weather has been remarkably smocth whenever I have been flying, though we did have a few little “bumps” on the way into Los Angeles over the mountains. I was very happy to leave my daughter this time in her home instead of a hospital. Though she will have to be careful for a little while, she is certainly on the road to complete recovery. I have read a good deal on this trip and talked to a number of people, which I always find interesting. It was sad news to read of two more of our destroyers being lost. I cannot bear to think of the many women whose hearts ache for the boys and men who are lost with each of these ships; as well as any one of the airplanes that fail to come hack from a raid, or that crash somewhere in this country or! in foreign parts. : These days are terrible ones for the men themselves and for the women who wait at home for news. So many of the boys are very young and, under ordinary circumstances, would have their whole lives still before them.

Answers

1. The insignia indicates the man handles radio on a war vessel,

2. Gandhi is the leader of the vast band of Hindus who are demanding that if they give their full aid to Britain’s war effort, India shall have independence. 3. Napoleons Grand Army was almost destroyed by the attacks of the Russians plus the bitter winter weather. Hitler's army is still a great force capable of further efforts next spring.

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Trousers Need Care

TROUSERS SHOULD be suspended from the cuff on a special hanger so that the full weight of the trousers is brought to bear in retaining an unbroken crease down the leg. I wonder if women in every country are making Incidentally, suspenders should up their minds that out of this war there si..ll come| be worn rather than a belt. The some kind of permanent peace. _ : ml ; 7 : oy

COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T i. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. 3-27

“It says here that we're gonna have to give up our luxuries till the war's over.