Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1943 — Page 9

SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1943

School 72 Gardeners Are Of to Flying Start; Principal Pioneered Crop Program in 1932

They're off to a flying start at. school 72, 1302 E. Troy ave. Members of the school’s Simmer Garden club for boys were hard at work this week staking out land while Norman Long, ‘labor foreman at the school shops, plowed.’ School 72 is the city’s pioneer

Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

At City Hall— es SIDI-BEL.-ABBES, Alergia. The home of the = The French Foreign Legion was created in 1891} A French Foreign Legion was a great and pleasant-sur- So it has more than a century of tradition behind it.

prise to me. The legion is extremely proud of the two museums . gr I expected it to be’ a ‘slovenly tent-camp out in an here in headquarters which depict its history. ~ F OR I AX HIKE

almost unbelievable desert, with dirty cutthroat’ . On the museum’s tiled floors there are beautiful

troops and brutal-looking officers. ‘ brown-and-white Algerian rugs, somewhat similar ~ Everythin® is just the opposite. to our own Nfvajo Indian rugs. Around the walls"are The headquarters is in a cjty of case after case of legion mementoes—old swords, flags, 60,000. people, with fine sidewalk pieces of uniform, guns, bullets, decorations. cafes’ and paved streets and mod- The walls are hung with hundreds of pictures of .ern apartment houses. It is not legion members who have died gloriously.

in the desert at all, but in rich farming country. The legion buildings form a

Legend of the Wooden Hand

War Has Brought Higher

gardening school. In 2832, under the direction of the principal, Miss Ida Helphenstine, land directly be-

THE LEGION’S most prized memento is, of all things, a wooden hand. Here is. the story: In 1854 the legion fought in the Russian Crimea, and in that campaign a Capt. Danjou had one hand shot off So he had a wooden hand made to replace it.. The hand is of fine workmanship, the fingers are ail jointed, and the thing louks almost life-like. Well, the legion went to Mexico during Maximilian’s reign, and there was fought the most memorable ‘battle. in its history. A tiny party of 115 sgionnaires barricaded themselves in a hacienda ‘at the town of Camerone, and battled a force of 4000 Mexicans. All but three of the legionnaires were killed. If was much like our own Alamo. Capt. Danjou with the wooden hand was killed in this battle. Later his hand was found, and sent back to. Sidi-Bel-Abbes. The battle was fought on April 30, 1863. The legion observes April 30 each year with great parades and reviews. Capt. Danjou’s hand is brought out in its case and stands there as a symbol of what the

hind the school was dedicated to community gardening. as part of its Washington Bi-Centennial celebra-

sort of academy, right in the : heart of the city. There are fourstoried permanent barracks, and fine parks inside the walls, with many flowers and extraordinarily clean roids and buildings. There are museums, and beautiful ‘statues and monuments about the grounds. There aré nice homes for officers and noncoms and their families. : Officers are uniformed as though by Bond st., and most of them might be American businessmen or Professors as far as their looks are concerned.

Officers Almost Fatherly

AT ST. CYR, the West Poinv of France, the top man in each class has the privilege of choosing where he shall serve. And it is a tradition that he always chooses the Foreign Legion. So the legion is led by career men. Legionnaires tell me that many of the officers, though strict, are almost fatherly in their attitude

Costs and Lowered Revenue. tion.

By SHERLEY UHL The project grew and four years Brace yourselves for another tax!ago, Lyle Nave was named director boost, property owners. of Shilldre’s gardens. He's sponsor It’s still tentative, put the city of e garden club and devotes probably wll sk the tae board a 21° 76 cach week ought tax commissioners next summer for includes supervision of the school an increase in the real and personal gardens, instruction in garden tax rate. The present rate is $1.27) pondicraft (building bird baths, ‘per $100 valuation. |lawn benches, etc.) and visiting § Higher expenses and diminishing gardens pupils have planted at revenue resulting from war condi-{p ne ik tions may necessitate a city request for return to the previous 1941 rate of $1.29 a hundred, Larry Parsons, deputy controller, said today.

Loses $29,000 in Fees

63 Were Enrolled

Last year, 63 boys were enrolled in the club. There were 40 plots at the school. With the expanded ‘victory” program this year, 54

toward the soldiers. And certainly the ones I've met are, without exception, genilemen in anybody's country.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Dr. Abram Edward Cory, member of the Butler faculty, elder statesman _ sof the Disciples of Christ church, a genius at directing money raising campaigns, fisherman and one time missionary to China. | Abe Cory—that’s what most everyone calls him—is a sturdy, vigorous individual, the sort of man | you instinctively turn and take a second look at when passing. He's 69, stands a little under 6 feet, weighs 175 or 180. He is almost completely bald, and hb has a habit of rubbing his head as though polishing it. His face is deeply lined and his shoulders stooped, but his striking brown eyes are keen and sharply alert.| They seem to look right through you. He has a rather dark complexion, heavy jowls, beetling eyebrows and a booming voice. A sparkling conversationalist, he’s a master at repartee which usually is good humored, but on occa‘sion can become rapier-like. He has g gruff exterior and a habit of flying off the handle occasionally. In fact, it’s a byword in church circles that you “haven’t arrived unless Abe Cory has been terribly mad at you once or twice.” : He has a keen Irish wit and a bubbling sense of humor that includes jokes on himself as well as An others. And he gets quite a kick out of perpetrating practical jokes on his friends.

Dr, Cory

Watches the Stars.

A NATURE LOVER, Dr. Cory enjoys seeing the sunrise and sunset. Summer nights, he sits on his roofless sunporch and watches the stars. He’d rather spend his spare time with a good book

A, than at a show: isn’t above reading a good detective

story. Fond of fishing, he has tried his luck virtually all over the world. He will sit and fish all day, even though he catches nothing, and calls it a “good day.” He doesn’t care much for fish as food. His favorite food is custard pie—and more custard pie. He has been fond of bowling for years, but never worries much about his ooze. He played tennis until

~ Washington

* WASHINGTON, " April 3.—This government is playing with the dangerous idea of carrying the technique of a controlled press far beyond anything we have experienced before in this country. A united nations food conference is being arranged to take place within a few weeks, The president has desired to hold it at an isolated location some distance from Washington where the meeting could be easily protected from the public view. Newspapers have been reguested not to’ attempt to send reporters to cover this conference or to fry to talk to the delegates representing the united nations. Such arrangements go far beyond the sphere of military censorship. They reach very frankly into political censorship. ‘Obviously the reasons that prompt the White House ito feel that united nations conference should be thus isolated from the normal operations of newspaper correspondents will be the same reasons that will be found persuasive by admin-

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.giving a million dollars.

legion means. , It all seems a little gruesome, but the legion feels deeply about it.

a decade or so ago, always considered golf “an old{in man’s game.” He likes only good music, listens to war news on the. radio, seldom goes to the movies, Proud of his good sight, he wears glasses only for He sometimes helps with the housework at home. He retires for the evening around 8:30 p. m. and becomes highly annoyed if anyone calls him out of bed. -

Quotes Chinese Proverb

DR. CORY has served the Disciples of Christ church capably in many an important capacity.

college and Drake umiversity, served in China 15

years as a missionary in Secretarial and educational

work. In the early days of world war I he directed the Men and Millions Movement, which raised more than $6,000,000 for the church. He talked one man into Among other posts he has served as president of the international convention of the Disciples of Christ. He served overseas for

“the Y. M. C. A. in 1918. He never refuses to take on a difficult task, goes

after what he wants with the motto: “It doesn’t hurt to have someone say ‘no’ to you.” He's fond of quoting a Chinese proverb: “The king of hell is easily met, but the little devils are troublesome.”

He's a Cigar-Chewer ‘HE ISN'T THE least bit particular about his clothing, and his hats usually look like they had been to the ballpark too many times.

One of his" hobbies is his choice collection. of Chinese curios—pottery, brass and bronze work and

embroidery. He enjoys driving his car, has driven

all over the country on business trips. An ardent prohibitionist, he votes the prohibition ticket ‘whenever that party has candidates on the ballot. He’s an inveterate cigar smoker, chews them more than he smokes them, and wools them around until they look like a head of cabbage. Once at a church meeting, a pious soul denounced him roundly for smoking. Abe Cory listened to the man politely, then quipped back pointedly: “Well, I don’t intend to let tobacco make a fool of ME!”

By Raymond Clapper

are carried off. An irresponsible press can do fateful

damage to international relations, particularly in a time like this. But a free press is not necessarily an irresponsible press.

For evidence in behalf of a free press as against

the 'type of control now proposed for the united nations conference, I go directly to our awn government propaganda service itself. The office of war information is an enormous organization. It .employs dozens of excellent news-. papermen and magazine writers, men who have made their reputations in competitive private life.

OWI Spurns Own Propaganda

YET, THE SKILFUL propaganda prepared by

these expert craftsmen falls short. It doesn’t ring true enough. So OWI sends out, for the information of the people in foreign countries, the actual daily columns and editorials of well-known American writers and newspapers. * The government prefers to send abroad the regu-

lar work of these writers, and to give newspapers abroad the opportunity to print current columns of

Born at Osceola, Iowa, he was educated at Eureka, Ill,

So far this year the city has lost $29,000 in miscellaneous fees through

fees and court fines. Another $33,000. was lopped off the first four months’ revenue yesterday when the

tor vehicle fund proved to be $33,000 less than had been anticipated the budget. Added to these woes is the fact

budget allotment for the first quarTr. ‘ Financially speaking, said Mr. Parsons, Indianapolis now is coasting along on a $600,000 general fund, most of which was inherited from the previous administration. Under present budgetary provisions, however, that fund will shrink to about $200,000 by’ the end of this year. It remains to be seen whether the $200,000 residue as provided for by the budget actually will be on the books next Jan. 1. Chief obstacle standing in the way of a limited spending of the reserve fund is a general demand for wage increases in practically all city departments.

Salaries Go Up

Salaries of sanitation plant workers already have been augmented, and those of street department laborers would be hiked under an ordinance soon to be introduced in city council. Also in the making is an ordinance seeking immediate expansion of police department payrolls. A survey indicates that salary boosts in almost all municipal departments probably will follow in line with soaring war-living costs. ‘Joker in thé “widespread clamor for better wages is that all such additional money demands will have to be ladled out of the general fund, if they're to be met at all. And that doesn’t constitute the only stress and strain on the city’s financial reservoir. The city council recently appropriated $125,000 from the general fund for upkeep of the venereal cliinc. In addition, the present administration has incurred a number of repair expenses which weren't fore-

‘|seen by the 1943 budget-makers.

Another monetary problem faced by city fathers is the inflated cost of materials needed for continuation of the public works program.

Improvements Limited

Some of these zooming expenses could be financed through bond issues, but Mr. Parsons pointed out that swollen income tax payments under the planned “pay-as-you-go”

further investment of “big money” in the city securities. The solution, as seen by the deputy controller, lies not only in an increased city tax rate, but also in general curtailment of operations by all deparfments. Staffs will remain slim because of the labor shortage anyway, he believes, and municipal improvements probably will be greatly limited.

H. WEIR COOK TRIBUTE SET

reduced income from various license

quarterly allotment of the state mo-|-

system are likely to discourage]

children’s plots will be staked out and an increase in the number of home gardens is expected. A few pupils will have 25 by 25-foot plots at school and home gardens, too. If a pupil raises a successful garden, he may apply for additional land at school. The fee for each plot is 10 cents. Mr. Nave points out that an exchange of money

that the city slightly exceeded its|8iVeS the boys a feeling of respony. slightly sibility and makes the project seem

more worthwhile to them. Instructors aid pupils with garden

plans, Only a few crops such as

watermelons and musk melons are forbidden. Other than that, the boys are on their own individual projects. They do join Mr. Nave

Veterans all—members of school 72's Summer Garden club stake out plots for victordy gardens on land

behind the school. ert Book (right). Kissel.

in working on a garden for Miss Grace Gass of the home economics department. Produce from the community garden is used in instructing classes’ and for special school -luncheons. Mr. Nave rates all gardens at home and at school on a form issued by the school board’s special education department. Points included are proper wedding, excellence of produce, number of items, etc.

At the school’s annual fall ex-

Norman Long of the school shops is plowing the eight-acre

hibit of fresh: and canned garden produce, three types of ribbons are awarded. They are for home garden excellence, school garden excellence and outstanding handicraft work, Through the school, the community has become garden minded. Occasionally, parents or other gardeners win ribbons for work on plots adjacent to the children’s gardens. The winner each year is called a master gardener. There will be 36

plots averaging 50 by 100 feet for

Lyle Nave, director, explains the staking systém to Marvin Brummett (left) and RobCarleton Millhous wields the ax on stakes supplied by Lyle Priest and held by Harold

tract.

adults this year at the school. Adults made contracts for the land with Miss Helphenstine. Altogether eight acres of land will

be cultivated at 72 this season. As soon as plowing and staking are completed, planting will begin. Mr. Nave hopes to have the job finished by spring vacation. Come what may, gardeners wil be there as soon as the ground's ready—most of them will be veterans too.

China's Resentment Grows Over the Allies 'Neglect'. Of Acute Problems i in War Against Invading Japs

This is the fifth of a series of articles by A. T. Steele who has just returned from the Far East.

By A. T. STEELE

Copyright, 1943, by The Indiagapolis Tn and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

As the senior victim of Japanese aggression, blockaded China is increasingly resentfiil of what she considers united nations neglect of her acute problems. A number of things have contributed to this unhappy outlook of Chinese public opinion, among them are: - 1. Delays ig the reopening of the Burma road, 2. The greater attention being devoted to other allied fronts. 3. Failure of China to obtain a place of full equality on allied war councils. .4. The steady deterioration in China’s economic position. : This concern is growingly reflected in Chinese newspaper editorials. It is only thinly disguised in the utterances of some Chinese officials. But to get a rea! earful, it is necessary to go to‘China and talk to the people there who are taking it on the chin. Yet the Chinese are neither desperate nor thinking of compromise with the enemy. As far as Gen. Chiank Kai-Shek,

is unthinkable. And, incidentally, the generalissimo’s prestige and influence in China are are greater today than ever before. His popularity has grown, rather than diminished, as China's problems have multiplied. It is as strong in the occupied as in the unoccupied regions. The tide which threatens China today is mainly an economic one. Notwithstanding such material help as weyare sending China by air, the country is likely to become weaker with every month that the blockade remains unbroken. ; China's | economic woes are legion. Topping ‘the list are thé’ ‘twin evils of ‘shortages ‘and high prices. Prices range from 40 to 80 times higher than in 1937 and the ascent continues. As in most countries at war, hoarding and. profiteering have been unhealthful ' influences, which even occasional executions . have not checked. The economic crisis has brought a steady decline in the standard of living of a people whose standard was already among the lowest. It is no exaggeration to say that more than 90 per cent of the people of China are living in poorer circumstances than the poorest 10 per

at least, is concerned, compromise

cent of thé population of the United

States. ; Inflation hits hardest at people wtih fixed incomes, and this is especially true in China where the small but important salaried element have suffered out of proportion with the mass of the people. In some places, as in muchbombed Chungking, many salaried people — including junior government officials and teachers— are living in flimsy, mud-walled, thatch-roofed huts, without heat in either their offices or homes during the chill winter months. Undernourishment is steadily un-

trition is extremely eommon among ichildrén." * * *%# =» If China's whole popalation were hit as hard as these wage earners, the country’s plight would be desperate indeed. But fortunately for China, the great mass of her population (about 80 per cent) live on the farms. ‘The peasants as a whole have not fared badly, despite heavier taxation and rising living costs, for they have received benefit from higher crop prices. Nor have the merchants suffered, nor, for the most part, the" coolies, The foundation of China’s rather primitive economy is food. China has had severe famines in isolated regions during the last year, mainly

dermining their vitality and malnu-

in Honan and in the coastal areas devastated by Japanese attack, but over most of free China the crops were fair. The big shortages in free ‘China are munitions of all kinds, manufactured goods of all kinds, transport facilities of all kinds and of course medicines of all kinds. How long China can go on like this is a question that has had experts and pseudo-experts guessing for the past five years.

a great variety of measures to com= bat the economic crisis and while théy may have slowed up the procs ess of. deterioration they have a stopped it. Economic collapse in China has : been often predicted,oduring those years, but the Chinese, for all their woes, have kept plugging along. America’s entry into the war and relief from bombing have had a very stimulating effect on Chinese confidence and morale. As long the general military picture remains in our favor, as long as China remains.-sure of ale lied victory, as long as crops in China are good, the long-suffering Chinese people will be able to put up with considerably more punish ment. ‘

Next: Will Russia Fight Japan?

Equinox, Full Moon Conflict

Account

By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor

' Easter this year will be the latest that it is possible for the holiday to occur—April 25. Easter has occurred that late only once since 1800. That was in the year 1886. It will not occur that late again in this century. Dr. J. J. Nassau of the Case School of Applied Science explained why this year’s Easter is so late: “According to the rules set by the Council of Nicaea in 325 A, D., Easter is the first Sunday after the

for Late Easter

equinox or beginning of Spring. “But if the full moon and the beginning of spring coincide, then the next full moon must be employed. This year both the vernal equinox and full moon occurred on March 21. That is why Easter is so late.

March 22. This happens if the vernal equinox is on a March 20 which is also a Friday, and if the full moon occurs on the next day or Saturday. Then the day after that is Easter Sunday. That has happened a number of times since

first full moon after the vernal

1800.”

“The earliest Easter can occur is| .

SEEKS TO SPEED RATION DETAILS

OPA Asks Retailers to Have Stamps Counted

Before Transfer. |

Retailers without ration Bank accounts were asked today to have ration stamps, which they give up for delivery of rationed commodity items, counted and prepared for transfer in advance of delivery.

after reports that wholésalers had

The suggestion was made by OPA]

Your Blood Is Needed

April quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center — 5400 donors. Donors so far this month— 240. : Yesterday's quota—200. Yesterday's donors—127. You can help meet the quota by calling LI-1441 for an appointment or going to the center, second floor, Chamber of Commerce building, N. Meridian st.

CLAIMS SUFFERING - AMONG PENSIONERS

WASHINGTON, April 3 (U. P.).—

The Chinese government has tried

cials ubsequent united nations istration’ off When 5 ‘many of the American columnists, because this is the

Xe “eonferences are held. I ted to accept 8enuine propaganda of truth, the genuige discussion Newspaper editors have been reques accep’ frat goes on in America.

. What else will they be asked to accept tot is established? P Abroad they don't want special propaganda written particularly for them. They don’t hdve con-

fidence in it. ' Press Given No Opportunity 0 oir Hal alah the vi Rd THERE COULD have been no objection if the posed

of the press from such a nonmilitary affair as an government had called in| the press, explained some internationsl food conference is that the same reasons of the considerations, and emphasized that interna- will be used to’ impose a similar blockade on the tional relations might be done serious injury by irre- press after the war. If we are afraid a free press sponsible handling of news or comment. will damage the united nations now, won't we still be But the press is being given no opportunity to be afraid of it after the war? . either responsible or irresponsible. It is proposed to

8 2 =u shut it out flatly. (Editor's Note: Since Mr. Clapper wrote this Anyone will recognize hat the united nations are

column, the White House has announced that a still in the formative period, that their first meet- press office would be established to facilitate coverings may thrive on withe depending upon how they

age of the food conference.) ) Y it

‘SEATTLE, Wash, rid ay. —VYesterday we took the early mornmig’ ferry over to Bremerton and went through the naval hospital. We saw primarily wards ‘of sick men back from active service. Ome boy, recommended for a medal of honor, because of his courageous behavior at Dutch

Sherman J. Bainbridge, general manager of the Townsend national headquarters, said in a letter to

President ” Roosevelt today that soaring wartime costs have created acute suffering among the 2,414,486

THIS CURIOUS WORLD spent considerable time in counting

loose stamps handed to- them in ‘| bulk by retailers. Independent meat and fats retailers whose food sales totaled less than $2500 in December are not permitted to open ration bank accounts, the state OPA said today.|ld-age pensioners. The action was taken to relieve| Bainbridge, whose letter was rebanks from the pressure of handling| leased by Senator Sheridan Downey. an excessive umber of ration bank (D. Cal), said that payments rersiobenog ceived by the aged now average less than $23 a month. 4 He suggested that nutritional standards be set up for the pensioners and the surplus commodities food stamp plan be reinstated for their benefit.

HOLD EVERYTHING

Legion Groups to Hold Memorial Services Tomorrow.

‘The American Legion and Forty & Eight will hold a public memorial service from 11:30 to noon tomorrow. for Col. H. Weir Cook of the army air force who died March 24 in the Fiji islands from injuries received in an airplane accident. The services will be in the World ‘| War Memorial auditorium and will] be broadcast by WIRE. Col. Cook, an American flying ace in world war I, was the command-|

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt |

#5 ast he Rind of 00d to Wid they sre ccasiomc. It is also perhaps due to the fact that servicels today puts men under the kind of nervous tension which is apt to bring on ulcers. I sometimes wonder it we should give our children better preparation in their early years for our modern world,

® = » \ The ODT moved today to assure continued school attendance for the remainder of the school year by informing school bus operators who! have not. feceived their revised cer-

RECORDS SHOW NO Al TIES

RPLANE CASUAL DEFINITELY DUE TO LIGHTNING!

Harbor looked well on the way to full, recovery. He sould tell me little of what minute he had been conscious and

‘the next he had been apparently .

complet ly knocked out. Another boy, a hess" mate, also recom-

A dob bravery, had been in

“their assembly for a. few minutes.

Pp I'was interested to meet one boy whose. father, Dr. Mason, I have long known in Washington. So, 1 shall be able to tell Dr. Mason how his son is

progressing. ‘1 saw the officers’ quarters this time, which I had not seen on my previous visit. On my way back to the ferry, I stopped at the high school to speak to

Anna and John met us on our return. John has}

been East on business and had seen everyone in|! Washington nearly a week after I had left home. We spent a few quiet hours together and in the r- evening the commatiders of - ‘the ‘army and navy|t forces in this. "Admiral Frank ‘J. Fletcher|

a gun crew on a mer-