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MOUNTAIN AIR, N. M.. April 14 —Pop Shaffer lives in his own hotel here in town. But Pop's hobby workshop is a mile out of town, at his Rancho Bonita. It is out there he has his big “200” of the preposterous animals he has been creating the past four or five yvears—his wooden animals made from gnarled treetops or twisted roots, and sawed and polished up a bit. If you ever drive out to the ranch, you'd better go to the doctor and get a shot of nerve-paci-fier first. You're due for a shock when you pass through the gate.

For there in the yard, thickly

packed and galloping toward you,

is the craziest, weirdest, crippledest, laughingest herd of nightmarish animals you could conjure up from your worst case of indigestion. There are dogs and monkeys and lions and mules and dragons and deer and elephants and snakes—oh almost everything. There is hardly a one which isn't easily recognizable as some species of animal, yet there isnt a one that looks normal They're shaped in all forms of hysteria. Theyre distorted and cartoonish. They're schircphrenic and surrealist. They're funny and they're sad. The big yard is full of finished animals. And in the distance, back of the buildings, are acres and acres of dull-gray monsters, seasoning and waitihg for Pop to work on.

They're All “Monkeys”

POP CALLS THEM all his “monkeys.” Whether its a cow or a dinosaur, he calls it “one of my monkeys.” He says his whole zoo consists of animals Noah wouldn't take into the Ark. Actually, Pop's animals are marvelous. No words

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THERES A TUG of war going on over at the courthouse over the proposed purchase of new voting machines to replace some of our obsolete machines and to provide additional machines for some of our The machines cost $1300 each, and

officials are talking about buying all the way from 40 to 100 new machines. That runs into big monay—from 852000 to $130.000. Maybe we're wrong, but it seems that with the boys in the service making some pretty big sacrifices for us. it might not be too great a sacrifice for us to have to use paper ballots in some precincts next November. . | . The dope is that someont in Washington caught a “barrel of hell” over the reportedly premature announcement last Friday of plans for the new $5,000,000 army ordnance plant here. As we get it, the story was released before the government had completed the sighing of the necessary papers. Quit Bothering Us! OUR NOMINATION for the unhappiest man in town is Myron Green, the C. of C.s industrial commissioner. An industrial commissioner's dream of heaven, you know. is a place where dozens of big industrial plants come knocking at his door, looking for a place to settle. Well, Commissioner Green's dream

has come true, but he can’t do anything about it. There's no place left to put any fair sized plants, without constructing a new building—and you can’t do that except for a defense plant. Besides. there isn't any skilled labor supply left here. That's why Myron goes around with a long face these days.

heavier precincts.

From China

CHUNGKING, China, April 14 —Just as we have the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, so the Chinese have their Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek You always have to include Mme. Chiang in China's public scene, just as we always include Mrs. Roosevelt in ours. An index to the importance of the generalissimo’s wife is the fact that she is most frequentiy referred to here simply as madame. She is sought out by those who want to influence the generalissimo. Sometimes she, gets crosswise of Chinese politicians, who do not alwavs relish her activities. I had thought it impossible for anyone to live up to such advance notices as Madame Chiang Kai-shek has had in America. Yet I find that she has not been overwritten in anything I have seen printed in the United States as to her beauty, her vivacity, or her intelligence. Her personality is powerful without being in the least formidable. She possesses a complete naturalness and informality. while at the same time she is wise to everything that is going on and often has a hand in it.

can describe them. They have to be seen, that’s all.| They slightly resemble the more fantastic of the! animated cartoons, but only slightly.

Thousands of tourists have come to see Pop's animal collection. But his “work” has been displayed | only twice outside of the ranch here. Once was last fall in Washington during art week (and his stuff is art, despite all the fun). The other time was in Block's store at Indianapolis. Block's put some of Pop's animals in each showwindow as a background, and then formed their regular window displays around them. Pop says people stared so the police had to put two extra peclicemen! in that block, and finally traffic was tied up so badly | the police asked Block's to take them out of the windows. As TI said, that's what Pop says.

Well, Is He—Onr Isn’t He?

POP HASN'T confined his artistic talents solely to the ranch. In town, alongside the hotel, there is a garden. In 1931 Pop built an elaborate concrete fence along the front of this garden, all inlaid with dark rock pictures. Like his animals, it can’t be descrited. But you can find in that fence prattically everything in the Western Hemisphere or the Sears-Roebuck catalog. In the center panel of the fence there is worked out in dark rock this inscription— Built by Pop Shaffer in 1931.” “And do you know.” says Pop, “there are 931 rocks in the whole fence. And to use every number in the vear, there are 131 rocks in that center panel. I didn’t do it on purpose either, it just turned out that way.” I remember saying in yesterday's column that Pop wasn't crazy. Mavbe I was a little too hasty in that | remark. I'd like to see if he's got any papers to] prove he isn't.

Tries Luck Anew RUSSELL I. RICHARDSON, the lawver, who ran for the Republican nomination for Marion county, prosecutor in 1938 and 1940, moved to Lebanon last summer. And now he’s a candidate for the prosecutor

nomination over there. As we get it, he was drafted by the G. O. P. county commissioner. He has announced he has no interest in the local primary race— wishes “all Republicans good luck.” . James A. Carvin, advertising manager of the Power and Light! Co., now is First Lieut. Carvin of the air corps ground! force. He was buying his uniform yesterday—is scheduled to leave for California tomorrow. Stewart Donnelly 1s showing his friends an advance copy of the May issue of Master Detective, containing the second instalment of Stew’s serial self-expose— “I Took a Million” The issue's due out in a few days.

Uproar at Central

A MERIT BOARD ruling which bars state employees under the merit system from earning money “on the side. is causing an uproar at the Central State hospital. The situation, as we get it, is that they have two barbers there. drawing $75 a month! each, to handle the institution's 1400 male inmates. ! Because of their low salaries and as an accommoda- | tion to the other employees—also poorly paid—the| barbers have been permitted to shave employees (for a fee) on the barber's own time. They also have been permitted to accept money where relatives wish pa- | tients shaved oftener than the regular schedule, which | runs something like twice a week. Now, that’s ail out. | Employees must leave the grounds and hunt & private barber shop. and inmates will have to be satisfied with | a twice-weekly shave. We hear the barbers are! threatening to quit and seek better paying jobs, and! the other employees are raising cain, trying to get the merit board to alter its ruling.

By Raymond Clapper

received fewer planes than he expected. It appears to be hard for him to understand why they are not coming in larger numbers. If planes come. he said, China can hold out. I gathered that the generalissimo is much concerned about India. He appears to feel that the loss! of India would be fatal to China, because it would cut | off China's supplies. The situation in Burma is also | critical, because the present supply line crosses upper | Burma, although it can be shifted to a line farther north if necessary. The generalissimo thinks the main Japanese at-

By Ernie Pyle Victory Gardeil

Tomatoes Given Top

Place in This Region. Beans Second on List

This is the second of a series of articles on how home gardeners can help make food win the war,

By LESTER POSVAR TOMATOES to throw at Tojo.

Beans to beat Benito.

Asparagus to strangle Adolf. Uncle Sam wants you to plant those vegetables. He wants you to plant ‘em, hoe ‘em, harvest ‘em. And He wants you to can ‘em. When you can tomatoes, beans and asparagus, the department of agriculture suggests, you also will be canning Tojo, the tyrant of Tokyo; Mussolini, the midget Caesar in Rome, and Hitler, topmost man in the hierarchy of hate that covets the very soil where you are free to

grow any vegetable to your liking.

Because they can be canned, tomatoes, beans and asparagus are recommended for the victory garden program—a program of growing more vegetables for vitality and victory. “The soil and climate of the region around Indianapolis,” says

A. A Irwin, assistant county agri- | cultural agent, “are particularly

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Tomatoes Pack Punch

TOMATOES are easy to grow, and they are so rich in vitamins that Mr. Irwin and Mrs, Anthony M. Ackermann. president of the Marion county Homemakers association, put this vegetable at the top of the list of things to plant in the victory gardens. The homemakers’ association and the county agent's office are co-operat-ing in sponsoring the garden program in Marion county. Beans are next on the list. Sweet corn is recommended as a companion crop for both tomatoes and beans, The corn will provide the shade which the tomatoes and the beans wili need during the hot weather of the summer months. The corn should be planted in two rows, so it can be pollinated more readily by the wind, and also because two rows will give better shade.

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When to Plant

THE THREE companion crops — beans, corn and tomatoes — should be planted between May 10 and May 25 for the early “harvest.” Then they can be planted again between July 1 and July 10 for the late “harvest.” Asparagus planting is timely in central Indiana right now. The time also is ripe for planting rhubard, peas, spinach, onions lettuce, mustard, kale, turnips, early cabbage and strawberries. Asparagus, strawberries and rhubarb, by the way, take more than one year to grow, but because of that fact Mr. Irwin believes they belong in every permanent garden. The remainder of this month is regarded by Mr. Irwin as appropriate for the planting of beets. carrots, celery, kohlrabi. early potatoes, parsnips, parsley, salsify,

tack will not be on Australia. but westward, to knock out India and cut the allied supply lines. 0LLS

He's in It to Stay

THIS ACCOUNTS IN part for the strong hope | among Chinese leaders that India will remain united as one country. Some of them feel that the British proposal was defective in permitting the splitting up of India. It is believed the generalissimo shares this view Americans should realize the great nonor they were paid by the Chinese through Chiang Kai-shek's action in asking Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell to be his chief of staff. This is the first time Chinese |

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Swiss chard, New Zealand spinach and cucumbers.

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Take Your Choice

OTHER PLANTINGS mended by Mr, Irwin: May 10 to May 25—Cabbage seed, cauliffiower seed, broccoli seed, cucumbers, melons, squash. pumpkin, potatoes, egg plant and okra. June 1 to July 10—Beets, carrots, late cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, cucumbers, rutabaga, kale, Chinese cabbage and late potatoes. July 15 to Aug. 1—Cucumbers, beans, Chinese cabbage, turnips, endive, celery, kale, winter radishes and lettuce. Aug. 15 to Sept. 1—Spinach and radishes. Gardeners, like farmers, are rugged individualists. Moreover. this still is a free country, and the victory garden program is intended to keep it free. Therefore Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Ackerman and their aids do not intend to tell anybody what to plant and not to plant.

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Tips From Experience

BUT MR. IRWIN, drawing on his experience, gives a few suggestions whereby he believes people can save themselves a lot of grief. “It is wise in this part of the state to lay off egg plant, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and watermellons,” he observes. “Also, no one should attempt to grow potatoes unless he has a goodsized tract of land, with the soil suited for potatoes, and unless he can afford an investment in the necessary spraying equipment.” Root crops—beets, carrots, turnips — are recommended only if the soil is well adapted for them. “The root crops should have loose soil. rich in decayed organic matter,” Mr. Irwin explains,

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Draw a Plan First

HERE ARE A few general hints passed on to gardeners by Mr. Irwin and the vegetable-growing experts at Purdue university: 1—Draw a plan of your garden before vou start planting. 2—Order your garden supplies early, and buy enough for the entire season. 3—Fertilize the garden plowing. 4—Plow or spade the ground eight inches deep (ten inches is better). 5—Prepare the seed bed for each crop just before planting. 6—If possible, arrange the garden for north and south rows. T—Plant the vegetables in rows running the entire length of the garden. 8—Plant the small fruits and perennial vegetables to one side

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Plan for a Victory Garden for a Family of Four.

Model Chart Shows How to Grow Flowers As Well as Vegetables for Family of Four

A VICTORY GARDEN planned to provide fresh vegetables for a family of four during a period of four months, is shown in the above chart. It will occupy a space 24x50 feet, such as is usually available in a back yard in a suburb or outlying city location. Both food and flowers will be grown in this garden, which will be beautiful as well as productive. Much of the space has been given to a path, and to flower borders in front and rear; but plenty is left for a long list of nutritious vegetables, rich in vitamins, which will enable the family table to be furnished with an appetizing variety of food. The list of crops has been made after careful consideration of the family needs and preferences, the probable yield and the nutritional values of the vegetables to be grown. Wherever there has been a choice between a nutritious, and a non-nutritiious form of a given vegetable, the nutritious form has been chosen. The flowers, to be grown in borders along the path, and at the front and rear of the

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Proper Planting

Sow in straight, parallel rows,

vegetable rows, are both ornamental in the garden, and suitable for cutting for use in the house. HERE IS THE LIST of flowers and vegetables, each numbered or lettered to indicate its position on the plan.

1=Pole lima beans on fence 2==Cucumbers 3==Wax beans 4§==Carrots 5==Green beans 6==Beets T==Leaf lettuce 8=Parsnips 9==Cos lettuce 10=Spring onions 11=<Escarolle (endive) 12=Turnips 13==Parsley 14==Egg plant 15=Peppers 16==Qyster plant (Salsify) 17==Green beans

18==Spring onions 19==Peas 20-=Chard 2l==Peas 22==Celery 23«=Collards 24-<Kale 25==Broccoli 26==Carrots 2M==Italian marrow 28==Pole lima Beans on fence 29-=Red tomatoes on fence, 12 plants 30==Yellow tomatoes on fence, 12 plants G==Red, white

Means

Sow small seeds thinly.

How Will Your Garden Grow? Fine, If You Obey Easy Rules

BEGINNERS NEED have no fear of attempting victory gatrdens, in spite of inexperience. There are no difficult manual skills to be mastered. Garden operations are easily performed, and a few simple rules will give professional results. Be sure to observe these rules. First, there is seed growing. Make the shallow furrow, or “drill” into which the seeds are

down straight lanes, It saves time and work. Peas and beans are covered about 2 inches, sweet corn about three, ” os 5 IN SOWING SEEDS, tear a corner out of the packet and shake the seeds out carefully so they lie in the bottom of the drill. Do not sow them too thickly.

by Mrs. “Christian Science Proclaims Gospel of Freedom.”

& blue Centaurea H-=Calliopsis K==On arbor, red, white and blue morning glories

A—Zinnias B-=Marigold C==Gladioli D=Gladioli E==Red, white & blue Centaureas F-Salpiglossis

IN THE ROWS where early crops have been planted which may be entirely consumed in time to make succession plantings, the following will be planted as second crops:

3—Beets 4=Green beans 6==Cos lettuce T==Onion sets 9==Carrots 10=Endive

12==Green . beans 17==0Onion sets 19==Chinese cabbage 21—Winter radishes 26—Wax beans

This garden is planned to pros duce a continuous yield throughout the harvest season, Rich feede ing and care will combine to pro duce a heavy yield from small space, and the vegetables so

grown will contain maximum nue tritive values, and excell in tenderness and flavor,

Right Start

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TRUE JOY IS SEEN IN SPIRITUAL LOVE

“No quality feeds, nouriches and

sustains thought as does spiritual love,” Margaret Morrison, C. S., of Chicago, declared last night in a Christian Science lecture at Cadla tabernacle. auspices of Christ, Scientist, Indianapolis.

She spoke under the Second Church of

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ant raiment than joy, the joy that is the direct reflection of God, the garment of praise that He gives us for the spirit of heaviness? Someone may claim that he has nothing to be joyful about, but everything to make him sad and anxious. “That is one of the most decep= tive of all the lies of the senses,”

troops have beens allowed to serve under a foreign CHICAGO, Aptil 14 (U. Py Illinois votes today to nominate commander. | Democratic and Republica d 9—Avoid direct contact between And it comes in the face of China's determina-| EY Dean ef : (dates for one seat in the senate Seeds and commercial fertilizer or tion to get rid of all foreign infringements, sven 8S1and 26 in the lower hous £ ~ between roots of transplanted extraterritoriality and customs control. The Chinese |. ouse of con- plants and the fertilizer. have kKrown Gen. Stilwell for years. 1 know posi- Approximately 2,000,000 citizens | 10—Be aggressive at the sight of tively that the generalissimo is giving him his unre- were expected to vote in the pri weeds, be brave in the presence of served backing and supporting him in every way, re- bugs and other insects.

. | mary, y ’ gardless of his oth commanders. On ohe occasion which Was the nation's first

to be dropped with the edge of a hoe, in a straight line. For small seeds, make it half an inch deep as nearly as you cen. Don't bother to measure the depth exactly, it is not a matter of a fraction o° an inch. Make it shallow, and make it straight. Use a garden line to

There is no suggestion that the generalissimo is in her shadow or under her control. They are more like our Roosevelts, each putting on his and her own show but hever getting far out of step with the trend of the times.

of the garden. Five to an inch is a good general spacing for small seeds. Then rake soil lightly over the seeds and firm it so theie is close contac: between |he soil and the seeds. This is vital. In transplanting plants, dig a good size hole, mix a teaspoonful of plant food thoroughly with the

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Disappointed by Lack of Plares

I TOLD THE generalissimo that I had ridden part

| state political contest since the

of the way to Chungking on a crate of propellers for China’s air force. He asked me to thank his friends in America, especially Lauchlin Currie, one of President Roosevelt's administrative assistants for theri help. Currie spent some time in China. I asked the generalissimo what he wanted especially, He said airplanes. I gathered that he has

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Monday. —Uast night I called Franklin Jr. at his home, to find he had just been taken back to the hospital So. this morning, after breakfast, I started to move and visit on the same trip! I left some pictures at the new apartment and and then went over to the naval hospital and found a very irate young man who felt'the fates were indeed against him. He evidently picked up a cold from his small son, which developed into sinus and a tempera: ture, probably because of lack of resistance, caused by his operation and slight touch of pheumonia. I hope this time he wil return to his own home today. For those of us who travel by air, that was sad news in the paper yesterday! It has been hard for the airlines to meet the demands of passengers up to now. but with one:fourth of the air liners taken over by the

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he grew indignant when he thought Gen. Stilwell was not being given the proper co-operation. So. whatever you hear about China, you can put] it down flatly—and every American here will back it up—that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is in this war for the duration, and ready to go to any lengths | 10 co-operate with the American effort. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

leisurely fashion. This will be a hard lesson for me to learn, but I feel quite sure that. like many others, [ can, Last night I read an interesting suggestion, which was sent to me by Joseph E. Goodbar. The plan will go to the treasury department, but the idea is simple enough for all of us to understand. He feels that by using a new type of taxation, we cannot only meet

| who sought renomination. My. | Brooks was opposed by State Treas-

TOMORROW: Enemies Within

United States entered the war. Your Garden Gates

Candidates and political leaders

guide the hoe, and make all rows parallel, so you can cultivate

in last-minute campaign pleas ap-| pealed for a heavy turnout to em- HOLD EVERYTHING

phasize faith in the Democratic process during the war against axis totalitarian states. The vote was expected to fall short of the offyear record of 2550642, polled in 1938 when a bitter Democratic faetional battle drew a heavy vote. Political observers doubted the outcome of the primary would offer any clear test of Midwestern sentiment on major national issues. The Republican sena‘orial primary, however, provided a sharp division over the pre-war isolationish of Senator C. Wayland Brooks,

the extra demands made by the war. but private urer Warren Wright, who indorsed

industry can be better prepared to reabsorb people back into civilian life Mr. Goodbar calls this tax “a pay with added production tax.” He looks realistically at all of us who are taxpayers and says: “We will be required to create an incentive that affects every gainfully ems ployed person and every person who receives an in come, otherwise some would respond and others would not.” | So he suggests that “all of us be taxed 25 per eent | voall iveoe from whatever source derived.” but that, “every taxpayer able to do so, be allowed to inerease his productive effort 25 per gent; and {ais ‘ax would be paid out of extra emergency war pros

the administration's foreign policy before the war.

Although the Republican state or-

ganization has been formally neue, tral, most of its leaders have came paigned actively for Mr. Brooks, who was elected in 1040 to fill a vacancy. Mr. Brooks did not cons ‘duet a vigorous personal campaign | ahd remained in Washington while! his followers worked in his behalf. !

GIVE TREASURY $478,248 WASHINGTON, April 14 (U. Pp).

soil, spread out the roots and firm fine soil about them. Again, the firming is important, for the roots and soil must be in close contact, in order for the plant to take up food. For care, and these simple skills, you will reap a rich reward. Not only food such as you cannot buy in markets, but health and a knowledge that you have helped make your country strong in defense, will be yours.

EYE TRAINING URGED FOR REJECTED MEN

CHICAGO, April 14 (U, P).—

Thousands of recruits can be re-

stored to aviation and other combat service through rehabilitation of their eyes by carefully planned ocular exercises, Dr. A. M. Skeffington, St. Louis, director of the optometric graduate clinic foundation, said today. ‘ Dr. Skeffington described to the Illinois Optometric association the case histories of 500 men accepted for air, navy and army service after previous rejections. The men under- | went special treatment in eye training, ranging from three deys to a

Miss Morrison added. true nature is continuously expresse ng joy. . ..

“Man in his

“Let the fluctuating, uncertain

sense of personal joy or pleasure be put aside for the deep, satisfied and satisfying joy of the son of God.”

* WAR QUIZ_

1. This insignia is a dead

giveaway. It

plainly shows the | wearer belongs Nae3 to a parachute —°

outfit. But which

-Army, Navy or Marine? 2. Robert Gordon Menzies, a fore mer prime minister in the British

Commonwealth of Nations, warned

the united nations might lose the war. Is he English, Canadian,

South African, New Zealander op

Australian? 3. A returned American soldiep

described Murmansk as a battered,

but busy port. Do you know

where it is.

Answers 1. He is a parachutist in the

army, it will mean, I imagine, increased difficulty for civilians who Wish to travel by air. Gradually, we shall have to take more time to get thout when we are not doing something which has to do with the war. If we civilians must travel, it will be in a more

U. S. Marines. 2. Menzies was prime minister of Australia. 3. Murmansk is an Arctic port of Europe.

month, “Efficiency of vision is an acquired skill rather than an automatic function of the eye and brain,” Dr.

duction and not by an increase in the normal income.” —Since Pearl Harbor the treasury Just how we are to succeed in getting the oppor- has received 5580 donations totaling tunity to become more productive has been worked $478248—enough to build a large out by him. I shall be very much interested to see) bomber—the senate was informed what the experts think of his idea. today. »

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