Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1942 — Page 9
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1942
Hoosier Vagabond
MOUNTAIN AIR, N. M., April 13.—So many people for so many years have been pestering me to come up here and see Pop Shaffer that I finally got sick of the pestering, so here I am. Pop Shaffer is many things—hotelkeeper, rancher, blacksmith, playboy, contractor, jokester — but the main thing about Pop Shaffer is his animal art.
As far as I know, there's nobody in the world who does the kind of stuff he does. He simply goes out into the woods with a keen eye, spots a gnarled treetop or a twisted bunch of roots, takes it home and saws off certain limbs, and you have a perfect caricature of a lion or a cow or a frog or whatever you want. Pop started it only four years ago, but in that short time has finished 300 pieces and has about 700 more standing around the grounds of his ranch house, waiting to be worked on. He is 62 now, and before he dies he wants to finish 1000 pieces.
The thing is completely a hobby with Pop Shaffer. He could commercialize—and might some day—but hasn't so far, ‘He has never sold a one of his pieces, and has given only two away. They went to President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
He Came From Indiana, Too!
POP'S PREPOSTEROUSLY twisted animals range in size from a little “dog” you could hold in your hand, clear up to “dinosaurs” 40 feet long. He makes very little alteration in the stuff as it comes from the woods. As he says, it is done 95 per cent by nature.
The trick is in being able to visualize a laughing mule in a gnarled treetop. Pcp has tired to get other people to help him, but nobdy e'se can do it. It's Just a crazy gift.
Pop Shaffer himself is quite a character. His
Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum
U. S. SENATOR RAY WILLIS’ description of the city of Washington: Like an insane asylum beipg run by the inmates. , . . One of our agents reports that he's been doing Wilbur Winship, our street commissioner, an injustice all this time. You see, our agent always has contended Indianapolis had the dirtiest streets in the country, but the other day he was in Chicago, and now he's decided Indianapolis is only in second place. Sorry, Wilbur. . . Wally Middlesworth is quoted as saying that this is a good time to go out to Butler as coach. If he has a losing season, he always can charge it to the war and lack of material. . Besides blood donors, the Red Cross blood bank needs a contribution from a sign painter. Several weeks ago the Red Cross phone number was changed to LI. 1441. But the big sign in Memorial Plaza, opposite the R. C. offices in the C. of C. building, still carries the number as LI. 6333. Any donors?
The Aztecs Died Out
THE SIXTH GRADE history class was in session at Scheol 88 and the teacher, Miss Mary E. Ronk, asked the question: “What were the ancient tribes of Mexico?” Little Jackie replied: “The Aztecs and the Morons.” It was some time before order was restored. Governor Schricker and Mayor Sullivan have been threatening to get together for a game of catch in practice for their annual exhibition at the opening baseball game Thursday. They don’t want a repetition of last year's wild toss. They won't have a chance to practice just before game time because the governor is scheduled for a speech at the Deico-Remy plant in Anderson at noon and hell have to burn up rubber getting back fast.
Around the Town
JOHNNY RICKLES, the lawyer, now is First Lieut. John K. Rickles. He has received a commission in the army air corps ground forces. . . . There's a big sign (or was yesterday) on the main gate to the fair grounds reading: “Hockey championship playoffs tonight, 8:30 p. m.” Heck, we thought they got the last of the playoffs out of the way some time
From China
CHUNGKING, China, April 13 —China dreams of becoming the dominant power in East Asia when the war has been won, but it*appears that her leaders are not thinking in terms of any regional! bloc. Some advisers close to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek believe that a dominant China must ally herself with the rest of the united nations, not simply with an Asiatic bloc, after the war. Chinese officials here scoff at Japan's concept of a “greater East sia co-prosperity sphere” as economically unsound. Japan and China are not complementary, economically, any more than North and South America are. Both Japan and China lack oil Both lack sufficient iron. Both, on the other hand, are heavy ducers of textiles. Chinese leaders with whom I Have talked here, think there must be a world-wide interlocking of trade, not simply an Asiatic trade bloc. They feel that ultimately all countries will have to return to Secretary Hull's policy of reciprocal trade, And, regionalism would only hamper that.
Leaders Are Realists
ALSO, CHINA knows that her industrial development will require financial and technical assistance from the westérn world. So she is opposed to any plan which would tend to cut off that help. Furthermore, leaders here feel that while
My Day
NEW YORK CIETY, Sunday. —The Rosenwald fund meeting at Hampton, Va, wds extremely interesting and constructive. We worked from 10 until 1 o'clock and then some of us lunched with President and Mrs. MacLean. After lunch we met again for an hour and then went to Langley field. The commanding officer was kind enough to drive around with us and show the various types of airplanes being used for practice and patrol work. I had an opportunity to see some of the day roomns and barracks, both old and new, in which the men are living. Even the temporary buildings seem to me very comfortable, though they do have to have double d T beds in many places. One of the officers, who was ber of the party, said that he had
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first name is Clem, but nobody ever calls him that. He has be-n in Mountain Air for 33 years. He came originally from Harmony, Ind. (It is my ambition to
find somebody to write about who didn’t come from!
Indiana). Pop Shaffer moved first to Oklahoma. But the tornado drove him out. He says one night he went to bed in his cellar when a storm was brewing, and when he got up next morning there wasn’t a house in sight. So he took a train for the west.
This little town was just then opening up. Pop
Shaffer homesteaded, he blacksmithed, he ran a hardware store, he contracted, and in 1923 he built a hotel. He still has the first two dollars he took in—silver dollars tacked up on the wall.
“She’s Gotta Do It”
THE HOTEL IS still running and business is so good—with government men swarming the country like flies—that he has to turn people away every night. Or rather Ma Shaffer turns them away, for Pop retired while the retiring was good. | “I turned the hotel over to Ma to get it off my hands,” he says. Ma Shaffer—who is good-humored too—works herself practically to death, she says. She helps cook and waits table and acts as room clerk. “They keep piling more stuff on me all the time* she says. “The other day they added two hours, so now I'm working 26 hours a day.” “She knows she’s gotta do it,” Pop says in front of her, “or I'll quit her. I'll go out to Los Angeles and get
| By Ernie Pyle
Victor
Whack the Axis With a
By LESTER POSVAR Food is needed to win the war. So if you have a plot of ground suitable for the growing of vegetables or small fruits, you can extend the front line right into your back yard. There, with a garden spade for your weapon, you can fight it out with the axis. Gen. U. 8S. Grant once said: “We will fight it out on this line
me one of them redheads with lots of money. Sole body’s got to keep me.’ Actually, the Shaffers don’t have to worry about money. Pop goes to California or New York or somewhere several times a year, and never spends less than | $500 on a trip. “My heart's bad and we're pretty well fixed and I'm just gonna have fun from now on,” he says. Tomorrow I'll get back to telling you about his crazy “animals.”
ago. . . . The 500 mile race may have heen canceled for the duration, but you'd never have guessed it if you drove past 38th and Keystone yesterday. A vitchman was selling those souvenir black and white checkered flags reading: Indianapolis Speedway. . . . One of our local physicians sent an application to the navy asking a commission. That was last Tuesday. He received notice Thursday evening to report for duty last Saturday morning. That's a lot faster service than most commission applicants get.
Tube or Not Tube
THIS BUSINESS of trading in an empty tube before being able to buy a full tube of toothpaste, etc. is a mighty fine idea from a conservation standpoint, but iS has caught some of shorthanded. Take the case of the Ernest Ramsey family, 3420 E. 25th st. Mrs. Ramsey writes us that her 6- -year-old son, Bobby. “has taken all our empty tubes to school in co-operation wit“ the work the public schools are doing for national defense. We have tried to buy a tube of toothpaste and find we can’t because we have no empty tube to trade in.” Well, it looks like old Inside may have to start a “Loan a friend an empty tube” club.
Here and There
SEEN IN BLOCK'S: A nice looking blond reading the Sporting News. . Our item the other day about His Honor the Mayer being the only one in a group not saluting when a newspaper picture was snapped during the Army day parade brings a note from G. A. Wright of the Maloney Electric Co. The picture, says .Mr. Wright, “could carry the title: Seven officers, seven different salutes.” The infantry drill regulations, he says, read something like this: “Raise the right hand smartly until the tip of the forefinger touches the lower part of the headdress just above the right eye; thumb and fingers extended and joined: palm to the left: hand and wrist straight; forearm inclined at an angle of about 45 degrees with the ground, ete.” . The sixth annual safety patrol officers training camp will be held this year, despite the war—unless unforeseen circumstances prevent. School officials considered abandoning it for the duration, but decided safety training is needed now more than ever, The camp will be held Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 at the Boy Scout Reservation.
By Raymond Clapper
crushing of Japan is the first essential, it must be followed by an economic arrangement that will enable Japan to live, economically, although demilitarized. China, like all other nations, is dependent on the resources of the East Indies—rubber, tin, quinine. So she is insistent that the Indies be kept open. There appears to be no ambition here to control the Indies, but rather a determination that those resources should be held in trust for all nations.
China's leaders are realists. They care little who has political control of the East Indies so long as the economic resources of the Indies are open for distribution—perhaps for allocation all around under the guidance of some world organization.
None Weak—All Strong
INSIDE THAT framework China expects to pursue a strong nationalism alongside a strong internationalism. The family of nations, it is felt by leaders in Chungking, should not consist of some strong states and some weak ones rather, they think, all should be strong, self-respecting, and heavy producers, while recognizing that the strength of all is increased by the free exchange of goods and materials all over the world.
This view contrasts sharply with the ideal<of the Japanese and the Germans—one strong nation bleeding all its neighbors, reducing them to pitiful weakness as Japan has done in Korea. That is the way China is looking through the present hard days to the new world that is to come afterward.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
The weather on Friday continued to be raihy most of the day, and the prospects of flying Friday night or Saturday morning were so poor that Mrs. David Levy decided to drive with me to Richmond and take
the train back to New York City, in order to be sure of being here for an engagement which we both had last night. Our train was nearly two hours late, but I slept and felt that I had had quite a long night. I lunched with a friend and did a little shopping, but spent most of the day doing things about the house. Today I have said goodby to two friends who have gone to the country for the summer. I envy them. for the skies are clear and there cemstainly is a feeling of real spring in the air, in spite of a chilly wind. I think the failure to evolve some plan by which India could be given a greater sense of independence and security in the future, has been a great disappointment to many people. © One cannot help hoping that some new way will , be worked ‘out whereby the people of India may feel
state fire marshal, will speak.
if it takes all summer.” You can go the Civil war leader one better by saying: “We will fight it out on this line if it takes
| all this summer, and next sum-
mer, and the summers to come during the rest of this decade.” The victory garden program. sponsored by the department of agriculture, is very definitely a war program, the same as the airplane building program, the shipbuilding program, the army and navy training programs. A distinguished Hoosier, Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture, has sounded the call to
arms. ”
The Three ‘Vs
“SEVERAL. MONTHS ago,” he said, “the free peoples of the world received a new inspiration from the symbol of V—for victory. I think we might add two or more V's in our planning for a national garden program. Let's make it the three V's—Vegetables for Vitality and Victory.” Secretary Wickard hopes for an increase of about a million and a third home vegetable gardens. In Marion county, at least 5000 home gardens are projected this year by A. A. Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent, and Mrs. Anthony M. Ackermann, 5800 Leonard st. president of the Marion County Homemakers’ association. The county agent's office and the homemakers’ association are cooperating in carrying out the victory garden program of thé department of agriculture. - The purpose of the garden pros - gram is twofold: First, to increase food production; second, to conserve tin and transportation facilities, for cans and trucks and raiiroad cars are needed to carry vegetables from commercial growers to the consumers who don’t grow their own.
How Much to Plant
HOW MANY VEGETABLES will a Victory Garden produce for canning? ; Mr, Irwin answers that question
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DEFENSE PLANS
Volunteers Meet Saturday; ‘Home Nursing Classes Being Conducted.
Civilian defense workers of Warren township will hold an organization meeting next Saturday night at Warren Central high school, Clarence A. Jackson, state chairman of the civilian defense council; Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Marion county defense director; Marion county volunteer participation chairmen, and Clem Smith,
Study Home Nursing
The township organization has completed one class in first aid and another is in progress: Three home nursing classes are meeting and the instruction course for air raid wardens will begin April 22, Plans are being made by the township organization to hold classes on nutrition soon, The canvass of the township to procure war bond pledges and to explain the meaning of civilian defense will be done by 100 members of the Warren Central senior class. These seniors will receive instructions on making the canvass from members of the Indiana defense savings staff ahd the county and city civilian defense councils.
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by estimating how much to plant of each vegetable in order to meet the vegetable requirements of one individual for a year. An individual can consume 50 quarts of tomatoes, for example. In order to can 50 quarters of tomatoes, one should have at least 25 tomato plants. The following table was prepared by Mr, Irwin to guide gardeners in determining the needs per person: Vegetable Asparagus ........ Green lima beans..
Green beans Peas
Plant Can or Store 8 crowns 4 pints 50 feet 8 pints 8 quarts 8 nints 15 bushel Squash 1 peck
Leafy vegetables choice of endive, kale, lettuce, mustard, spinach, beet
4 plants
Can or freeze 12 pints of greens
3 bushels 12 bushel 30 pounds 10 pints * 1 peck 1 peck 1 peck 4 pmpkn 1 peck 7 pounds 7 pounds
Irish potatoes ....150 feet Sweet potatoes .. 30 feet
Parsnips Pumpkins Turnips Dried beans Dried peas
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Suggests Berry Plants
MR. IRWIN also suggests that a permanent garden contain two currant or gooseberry bushes, two grape vines, 12 blackberry or raspberry plants or 25 strawberry plants per individual, and that eight quarts of these small fruits be canned for each individual in the family. Careful planning, even outside direction, is essential for the success of the victory garden pro-
gram, Mr. Wickard believes, because garden seeds and fertilizers
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 13.—Ate
| tempts to use the war to increase | federal power at the expense of the
states are still imminent, despite the thwarting of such proposals so far. Rep. John J. Cochran (D. Mo.) has inserted in the congressional record a plea for continuation of NYA and COC through funds to be taken from the states by passage of his bill barring the local and state: levy of gross income, sales or use taxes on private war contractors and subcontractors. Meanwhile, Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt again has pleaded for federalization of unemployment compensation, which would wipe out the merit system of
(Top) A. A: Irwin, assistant
county agricultural agent, enlists
Marion county’ youth in the’ victory garden campaign and he explains
to Betty Linder, a girl scout and
Tech high school senior, the im-
portance of vegetables in the nation’s war effort,
(Below) Mrs. W. Carleton Starkey, victory garden chairman of the John Strange Homemakers’ club, puts an enrollment emblem on display in the front of her home, Rural Route 14, Box 632.
are none too plentiful at present. That's where the county agent and the Marion County Homemakers’ association come in. Their task is the effective mobilization of garden seeds and garden tools, of soil and insecticides, of fertilizers that are food for
WARREN PUSHES War Continues fo Be Used as
payments in the states which rewards employers for keeping their plants going and men employed. The Cochran bill, with amendments exempting gas and utility taxes from its provisions, again is before the rules committee, having received another favorable report from ways and means.
Without offering any more proof than was offered at the one day ways and means hearing on the measure, Rep. Cochran contends that his bill “will save the government at least two or three billion dollars.”
Services Want Change
Only army and navy officers appeared as witnesses for the bill and they had no definite estimates of savings in dollars and cents. “We hear a great deal in refer
HOLD EVERYTHING
Defense Unit to Meet
District 39 of the city civilian defense area will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at school 76. Bernard Lynch, fire prevention chief, will speak on! fire prevention and fire bombs. i The district is bounded by Capitol ave, 34th st. and Fall Creek. bivd. Officials of the district have asked all persons in this area to attend.
DR. ROSS TO SPEAK
Dr. M. O. Ross, acting president of Butler university, will speak at the meeting of thé Purchasing Indianapolis
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plant life and of willing hands that must be blistered and willing backs that must be bent over spades and hoes if there are to be Vegetables for Vitality and Vietory.
TOMORROW: What to Plant.
RICHMOND FIRE LOSS $300,000
Worst Blaze in 34 Years Sweeps Business Area; 21 Rescued.
RICHMOND, Ind. April 13 (U, P.) —Firemen for five hours yestere day fought flames which raced through stores and offices in the business district here, causing an estimated damage of more than $500,000.
The fire, Richmond's worst in 34 years, swept through a four-story building owned by the Nusbaum Realty Co., destroying the J. C. Penney Co. store on the two lower floors.
In the upper floors, 21 residents of apartments escaped after one of the occupants discovered the flames at 3:40 a. m. Firemen carried them down the fire escape. No casualties or injuries were re= ported. Cause of the blaze was not determined. A four-story office building and a two-story dress shop adjoining also caught fire, as a stiff wind whipped the flames to the Odd Fellows building. The flames enveloped a ballroom, which comprised the third and fourth floors, and the dance hall ceiling caved in. A clothing store below the dance floor was damaged by water, although some of the merchandise was saved. The flames also damaged a Hook's drug store, law and insurance offices and the Wayne county selective service headquarters, as owners
rushed to save equipment.
Excuse for Some U. S. Officials to Raid Security Powers of the States
ence to economy and the elimination of ' nonessential expenditures during the period of war,” Rep. Cochran said in his latest plea. “Suggestions have come forth from the so-called economy commit= tee to abandon WPA, NYA, CCC and’ other: organizations set up during the period of depression. I cannot agree that to destroy those agencies at this time entirely would be wise.” Instead Rep. Cochran suggests taking the money away from the states by passing his bill and then paying off the bureaucrats in these agencies.
States Views Frankly
That would include payments to Administrator McNutt, who has charge of both NYA and CCC and wants them to continue—war or no war. He also wants to use the war to put the states out of the unemployment compensation business, he stated quite frankly in an address in New York. The occasibn was the national conference of the American Association for Social Security. He began by paying tribute to Abraham Epstein, social security pioneer. Then he got around to outlining the federal grab which is opposed by all 48 states. “I wish that I could be as sanguine about the prospects of un-
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about old-age and survivors insure ance,” Mr, McNutt said. Hits Business Groups Then he went on to point out that he is worried about the states handling this business when it ought all to be done by his own social security board. He condemned the opposition to federalization as expressed by what he termed “business groups”—meaning those who pay off into the unemployment compensation funds in the states. Decrying any scrap between the statehouses and Washington in wartime, he predicted that the federal government will take over, nevertheless. “In. réaching the ultimate deci
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“Some of you may hold other opinions. The issue is one to be resolved in the objective processes of the congressional committee room and through an analysis of the experience record. “But epithets will not carry us very far. The federal operation of unemployment compensation would not constitute a ‘grab for power* nor a ‘move toward dictatorship. Neither would their retention as state systems be tantamount te ‘secession.’ The problem involved is: “How can we provide the Ameri» can family with the greatest measure of protection during periods of unemployment?”
° WAR QUIZ
1. This silver star hanging from a striped red, white and blue ribbem is given to American army men, What for? 2. British have put the big island of Ceylon in readiness for further attack by Japs. What prized crop does Ceylon send to Britain — t e a, ginger, tobacco, cotton? 3. While our government was pursuing an appeasement policy toward Japan, what did that treacherous land, get from the United States for its war machinery?
Answers
1. Decoration is given deserving soldiers of the American army m time of war for gallantry in action m situations not warranting award of army medal of honor or army distinguished service cross.
2. Ceylon sends tea to Britain.