Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1942 — Page 7

| SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942

Hoosier Vagabond

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 28.-—Mrs. Nellie Coffman's success in life—as the woman who started the era of desert resorts and has kept on top of the heap—is a marvelous example of two things: 1. That you don’t have to follow your original ambition to be successful 2. That it's never too late to start. For, as I've said, Mrs Coffinan was 42 when she began her second life (and on “half a shoe string,” as she says) and she was past 50 before any real accomplishment came to her. When she was young Nellie Coffman's one goal was music. In those “music” days, she often said to herself that, if she were ever thrown out on her own and had to make her own living, she was positive of one thing—she'd never do it by running a boarding house. But once into it, Mrs. Coffman found “running a boarding house” a very engaging way to make a living For she loves people and she always liked to keep aguse.

She's Proud of Em, Too

SHE IS DEEPLY interested in her employees; in fact, sort of mothers them. It is illustrated in the stories of her Filipino boys who have gone to war. Already 11 have enlisted, and when the inn closes in May for the summer there will be around 30. Mrs. Coffman is so proud of her boy Segundo onan she could bust. He worked at the inn for s, and for the last three years had no special duties at He drove Mrs. Coffman's car and spent the rest of the time as a “free agent,” keeping an eye on things.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Dr. Goethe Link, distinguished surgeon, president of the Indianapolis Medical society, student of nature, amateur astronomer and photographer, and once one of the state's leading balloon racers. One of his prized souvenirs is a large silver trophy he received for winning a balloon race back in 1909, while he was secretary of the Indiana Aeronautics society. That race, incidentally, was the last time Goethe Link ever had both feet off the ground at the same time. He not only quit ballooning, but he's never even been in an airplane. At 62 Dr. Link is an active man who keeps himself young through the wide variety of his interests. Standing 5 feet, 7 or 8, he weighs about 155. His hair is almost pure white, and getting sparse. His eyes are bright blue, his face squarish. and his mouth firm. He wears gold rimmed s, walks erectly and rapidly—and with his head He's extremely even tempered, has a pleasant sition and laughs a lot.

Feeds the Birds Peanuts

Born in Sullivan, Ind, he was graduated from the Petersburg high school at the ripe old age of 15. By time he was 21, he had won his medical degree 1 the old Central College for Physicians and Surs That was back in 1902, and he’s practiced cine here ever since. He now concentrates on rgery, specializing in thyroid operations. toethe Link's best known hobby is astronomy. He yme interested 15 years ago through a series of 1 extension lectures, and subsequently built what is said to be the largest observatory in this section of the country. It has a 36-inch telescope. The observatory is located near his country home—Tanager Hill-—down in Morgan county. He loves to putter around in the country whenever > can, sawing a dead limb out of a tree, roaming rough the woods, putting up a bird house, or maybe just finding work for Sam, the handy man. He has a deep interest in the study of birds; feeds them peawhich he buys by the hundred pounds.

Burns Up Yards of Film

Among his interests is photography. He has a couple of nice cameras, a Zeiss Ikon and a Leica with

Dr. Link

From New Delhi By Raymond Clapper

NEW DELHI, March 28 —Apart from all other considerations, the military needs of the united nations make it urgently desirable that the Cripps mission succeed in infusing new spirit into India. Here is an enormous potential power, scarcely tapped in a military sense. Actually. Indians have everything at stake in preventing Japanese conqusst here. But they are inclined to overlook that, because of preoccupation with their own grievances. The result is that this rich area—two-thirds the size of the United States, with three times our population, and with great human and natural resources—is neutralized. It could be a mighty factor, like China. in saving a free world.

By Ernie Pyle

Segundo was the first to enlist. He was all hot for getting at the Japs. He wanted to kill a few personally. Several of the other boys followed him. Mrs. Coffman didn’t try to dissuade them. In fact it made her prouder of them. Segundo is already a sergeant, and when he gets leave he comes “home” to the inn. One of the other boys was “home” during my visit. They go right to Mrs. Coffman's door the first thing.

Hash House Next Perhaps

EVERY WEEK Mrs. Coffman sends them a box of stuff. Once she sent Segundo a box of dates. He wrote back that he was quartered with a bunch of Texans, and that they sure did like those dates. So Mrs. Coffman, who is still fond of Texas, sent another box of 15 pounds with a note to Segundo saying, “Get those longhorns’ stomachs filied up.” Mrs. Coffman believes the hardships of war will strengthen our fiber, harden us up, force us to have more initiative. She, herself, wouldn't be afraid to start from scratch again at 75. The other day Mrs. Coffman was walking through the grounds, and one of her workmen stopped her. He was a carpenter who has been here many years. He was gravely worried about what would happen to the resort business next year, and of course about his own job. “Mrs. Coffman,” he said, “you can see ahead about these things. What do you think we'll be doing this time next year?” “John, I have no idea what we'll be doing. Maybe I'll be running a hash-house, for all I know. But, if T am, T bet I'll be cooking the best hash in town.” And she wasn't just talking through her hat, either,

an f. 15 lens, and he gets some pretty good pictures. Usually he takes a winter vacation in Arizona and burns up yards of film but he missed this winter because of the war. Enthusiastic over art, he has a nice collection of paintings by noted Indiana artists in his home on N. Pennsylvania st. He's an excellent judge of diamonds; has studied them for years. Interested in magic, he knows quite a few magicians, understands mest of the tricks and can tell you how they're done, but can't do them for lack of practice. He golfs in the nineties, enjoys fishing. He cares nothing about the movies; lets himself get talked into going occasionally and then gripes about the waste of time. He used to be a good contract bridge player but quit when he decided the game was a waste of time. He hasn't much. time for the radio, but will listen to President Roosevelt and Charlie McCarthy.

Eats Two Meals a Day

Ordinarily he eats only two meals a day—breakfast and dinner. He has an allergy for beef, but is fond of fish and always selects them himself. He never uses! tobacco or liquor. He has a nice collection of phorograph records, particularly enjoys opera but dislikes jazz music. He used to go to the symphony concerts but finally quit because, worn out by his work, he fell asleep too often. His library is quite extensive, includes a nice col-|, lection of Napoleonana and everything he can get on Aaron Burr. Usually he’s reading three books at a time—maybe a biography, a history volume and a medical book. He probably hasn't read a novel since! he was a boy.

Puts Junior to Bed When he buys clothing, he goes at it in a big way

—half a dozen pairs of shoes at a time, several Sa or several dozen pairs of sox. He has a couple of hundred neckties, but usually wears one a solid week. That way he avoids the trouble of picking out a different one each day. The minute he gets home, he’s grabbed by his 20-month-old son, Goethe Jr., the apple of his eye. After reading mother goose rhymes aloud, over and over, the doctor personally feeds Goethe Jr. and then puts him to bed. There's a father for you.

the United States. That mission will be enormously more effective if Cripps is able to infuse a new spirit! of urgency here. There is still considerable spirit of “business as usual” The influential, British-owned journal, New Statesman of Calcutta, is editorially criticizing big! industrialists for opposing a scorched earth policy in event of Jap attack, and says they are doing India! a “terrible disservice in exposing and spreading de-| featist mentality” whe. India has not been invaded. and when there is no reason to raise the question. But Gandhi is also warning against a scorched earth policy.

He Can Revitalize All India

THE ASSOCIATED chambers of commerce of India are informing Cripps that they are for any interim

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Fun at Home

One Way to Trim Budget

This is the last of a series of articles on how to economize in wartime.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

WHITTLING DOWN the family budget is no fun. But one and all, American families are having to do it.

Most of them are working on a basis of what are necessities and what are not. On the “must” side, they list food, shelter, education, etc. They grant that clothing budgets can be cut some. On the “can do without” side invariably falls entertainment. The average family should not forget in its belt-tightening that there is a word “morale” and that entertainment goes a long way toward bolstering it.

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Fun at Home, Too

IF THE RETRENCHING program is drastic or only a curtaiiment of entertainment, the family undoubtedly will spend more evenings at home. There is a golden opportunity to give the members, and their friends for that matter, the fun they need —and incidentally that reassurance that all is and will be well. The war, we're told, may be long. There won't always be moments of excitement with everyone camped by the radio or perusing the newspaper. There is bound to be moments of dullness and boredom. Now is the time to find out what recreations the members of your family like most and make the most of them at home. Daughter and son have been used to a car. Now they will have to go in for parlor dates. Provide them with a phonograph and some of the best boogie Let them roll up the rug and stage their own “jive” session right at home.

Equip Play Room

DID YOU EVER think about the possibilities of the room in

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1. Encourage children’s hobbies.

They needn't be expensive and

are vital in helping youth keep an emotional balance in war time. 2. Mother and daughter can get quite as much “kick” out of a ride on bicycles as in the family car that recently went on the ‘con-

servation list.”

It helps to keep them physically fit, too.

3. Teas are an inexpensive way in which to entertain at home. 4. A game room is certain to be a hit with the entire family.

recreation for the younger set, but keeping an eye on them as well. A chafing dish, a sandwich toaster and a “party shelf” of foods is something, too, the young will go for in a big way. And a wise mother and father will be surprised to find out how the members of their own crowd go for the play room and a bit of informal entertaining. The time of lavish entertaining is going “by the boards.” Adults already are noticing the way the clubs to which they belong are going in for simple parties. Mother's club is even cutting out the serving of refreshments. The money goes instead to buy defense bonds. So it is now really “fashionable” to serve light refreshments. Why not give the men of the crowd a chance at it some night. They consider themselves geniuses as salad tossers and sandwich makers anyway. You will be surprised at the merriment one and all will get out of letting the men take over in the kitchen.

home a bit more attractive for him? He is busy slaving all day just to provide for a wife and the kids. When he comes in at night, he would love to forget about “priorities,” rising costs of living and the. income tax. Fix him a corner in the living room all his own. Give him a big easy chair, good reading lamp, jumbo ash tray and his favorite magazines within reach. He is certain to chuckle a little more happily over those mystery stories. As for mother, she is probably busy as “the little red hen” these days trying to wrestle with the family budget, not to mention Red Cross and civilian defense work on the side. But she needs some time for relaxation, too. Maybe she has a hobby that has long been neglected in this day of headlong living. Now is the time to resurrect it. Perhaps she is an amateur painter or an expert on fine handwork. This is the time for her to begin that short story she always planned to

| paralysis drive in Marion totaled $23,548 this year.

the theater. Build a radio log of their favorite programs. Some one is sure to remember at the dinner table that, “Say, tonight is the night for so-and-so.” Throw a “record party” often, be it “jive” for the young set or the listening to symphony recordings by their elders. Ome clever hostess in town gives really memorable parties this way. She serves a light and inexpensive buffet, often on Sunday evenings, and then “treats” her small group of guests to an evening of music. And although bridge parties have come in for “panning” in the past, they do provide informal and inexpensive relaxation—sans prizes, of course. Try entertaining

the family.

i Give them a Sunday morning buf-

NET $23,458 IN POLIO CAMPAIGN

Total Largest in 9 Years;

Keller Named Director Of Drive in 1943.

the infantile

county

Net receipts of

It was the largest total received

by the chapter in its nine years of organization and was an increase of nearly $15,000 over last year.

The announcement was made at

a meeting of the chapter's executive council in the Claypool hotel yes-

terday by Evan Walker, director of | @ WAR

the fund drive. In a breakdown of | the total by Evans Rust, chapter |

fet party. If dad wants to take his tray and the morning paper into the living room, O. K. If daughter is a junior miss and wants to take hers upstairs and dine a la Hollywood, all right. But they will certainly enjoy the extra thought mother put into making breakfast something :pecial. ” ” »

Tea and Talk

AND NOTHING is more pleasant than an informal afternoon tea. Try asking women friends home insteac of dropping into a bar where you really can’t afford the “tax.” Because teas are so intimate and friendly, there need be little ritual about them. All it takes with the tea is some small sandwiches, dainty cakes and cookies or even just small strips of cinnamon toast or buttered English muffins. A bridge tea has become one of the cheaper ways of entertaining. Begin play about 2:30. Afterward the cards and covers are replaced with small cloths and tea and cakes served. And fun at home can be had with any number of inexpensive supper parties—waffles, chili and spaghetti to mention only a few, One enterprising group recently gave a “Poverty Party.” We don't know what went on, but could venture some ideas and guess the guests had fun. And then there is that inexe haustible entertainment feature—e reading. If there isn't a selection ai home, the public library is just

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R QUIZ

1. A hundred of these in the Phile

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treasurer, it was disclosed that the ippines might have ruined Jap plans

wishing wells accounted for more 2 a She island of, Luzon, cap= r ni i 4 - than $5000 of the total. ure Manila and besiege Gen. Mac

Arthur's forces. What type of Collect $6910 in Theaters

plane is it? Another large item, $6910, was collected in Marion county the- | aters.’ Kenneth Collins, manager of | the Indiana theater had charge of this program. Judge H. Nathan Swaim, president of the Marion county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, presided at the luncheon meeting yesterday.

Governor Schricker, honorary chairman of the drive, attended and was presented a certificate from the chapter for his assistance in the campaign. Judge Swaim made the presentation.

Keller Heads 1943 Drive

Wallace O. Lee, chairman of the council; was also presented a similar certificate by Judge Henry O. Goett in behalf of the chapter. Mr. Lee founded the chapter nine years ago.

i # & do and send off to a magazine, AND WHILE WE are on the ££ F # subject of the man who pays the PERHAPS THE WHOLE family bills, why not make things at has a deep interest in music or

Unquestionably, that is the big chance which Chiang Kai-shek saw in his visit here, and which Sir Stafford Cripps sees. Success by Cripps would mean almost the equivalent of another power coming into the war on the allied side. There is no conscription here. In the last war, India furnished over a million combatant and labor troops for allied effort. If a political readjustment now could make Indians feel like the Chinese that, in fighting the axis, they were saving their own country, that would make all the difference in the world.

the basement. Turn it into a play room. Put in a card table. Buy a game of table tennis. It certainly is one way of not only providing

HOLD EVERYTHING

“Business as Usual”

LIKEWISE, IT would throw new life into the present lethargic industrial war effort. That is the chief purpose of the Johnson-Grady mission from

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Friday.—Here ¥ am back in New York City and I can hardly realize I only left Seattle the night before last! I ate breakfast on the plane yesterday with a quiet looking gentleman, who was almost my own age, and I thought, therefore, beyond very active war duty. I discovered, however, that he had been to

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2. To help defend approaches to the Panama canal, the army has stationed troops on the little Dutch West Indian island of Curacao. This place has given its name to something many people find very delectable. What is it? 3. President Roosevelt at a recent press conference said America also had its Cliveden set. What country originally had one? What did they do?

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Last Best Hope of Earth,” which was written before we were actually in the war. It still says many things that need to be said. For instance, the - nition that the world is tied closely together as. cally and that one of our troubles is the lag of our recognition of this poltically. That fact cannot be repeated too often. Out of

solution which will unite India and strengthen the) war effort. These influences are powerful, represent- | ing several billion dollars—probably at least four billion of British investment. They are opposed to making a permanent settlement now, but are agree- — . - able to any temporary arrangement if Hindus and! Moslems will support it. They realize that the war, 14 CANDIDATES FILE must be won. and that India can do much more than : at present Cripps could revitalize India as the Nelson war FOR MAY PRIMARY production board revitalized American effort. The! big task is to get rid of slackness. Fourteen candidates yesterday; None of this is news to the axis. But it would notified the secretary of state's be news to the axis, and bad news for it, if the Cripps | office of intention to enter the May 5 mission succeeded in really bringing India into war! primaries. and unfreezing this huge potential, so strategically! Included among those filing were: placed between Europe and Asia. FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE —Joseph Raymond Crandall, Springport Republican, Henry county; Boecher Conrad, Peters‘burg Republican, Knox and Pike | counties; Charles H. Leavell, Wini chester Republican, Randolph county; William Hostettler, Bloomfield Republican, Greene county; Joseph Morris, Gary Democrat, Lake county; Granville A. Chandler, Muncie Democrat, ands J. Walter Claspell, Muncie Republican, both for Delaware county.

Seattle to see his family for the first time in a year, and was serving in one of the most dangerous branches of the service today— the merchant marine. He had just returned from a trip to far distant shores. I felt that, even if he had been torpedoed, he would find it very difficult to mention it, and weculd consider it all in the dav's work.

this struggle must come a unification by agreement among the peoples of the world, not imposed upon us by force, as Hitler's victory would, but by conference and mutual understanding. After dinner las night, a freind drove me over to the naval hospital in Brooklyn, where I saw Franklin Jr. who will be laid up a few days longer, but will, T am sure, be ready to rejoin his ship as soon as it returns from present duty. I am going to Boston today to speak at the Wellesley college forum tonight. This meeting is sponsored by the international student service and the Welles-

FOR STATE SENATOR—Charles

W. Jewett, Dillshoro Republican, Ripley and Jennings counties.

FOR CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE

—John B. Hinchman, Greenfield Democrat, Hancock county; Oral S. Barnett, Franklin Democrat, John- | son county.

FOR PROSECUTOR — Hugh G. Sanders,

Auburn Arthur

Republican, De

COPR. 1942 BY NEA SE

VICE, INC. Y. MK

In anticipation of next year’s

campaign, Donald Keller was named fund drive director. He has served as assistant director this year.

Chapter officers for next year are

Answers 1. The machine is a navy torpedo bombing plane. . 2. On the island of Curacao is distilled from a peculiarly bitter

Kalb county; F. Scheer, South Bend Democrat, St. Joseph county. .

During the day. I read Clara Lambert's “I Sing America” and Harry Scherman’s pamphlet “The

ley college forum. I shall return to New York City by the night train.

“The real estate man said he was oe

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