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"That's right. That's wrong. You're all wet. So are you. Now listen vein JN ate You How dis here TIL poke you jn. the Anyone who has thought about the above problem knows a clear ‘answer can’t be had. Tt can’t be arrived at in a tavern, in the the grocery store, ga
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. 80, when the speech division at Butler University announted a debate on the tricky and highly combustible question, I was out there in front row, listening. :
“Debaters . . . the question answergd for {left - to right) Kimball Long,
remains un-
Thomas Jett, Rod Embry and Jeanne McCoy.
physically. He . position that the home must be improved, strength-
biologically, ened. .
Woman's Place in Home “BASICALLY, woman's occupation is still keep the family at the highest level possible, Rod said. “Her interest is still in the home.” That's: when economics reared its ugly head. A woman often has to supplement the income was the keynote. Jean Long next cross-examined Kimball. The
answers had to be given yes or no, She stated|
that the purpose of the discussion was to arrive at the truth and proceeded to ask questions which must have been made up by an experienced prosecuting attorney. The technique had Kimball answering yes to questions he would rather have answered no to and vice versa. t “Do you think men would make good nurses?” was one of the questions. Either way, Kimball was hooked. , Thomas Jett had his turn to cross-examine Rod
you agree that career women could be very unhappy?” What would you say? ; The rebuttals didn’t clear up a thing, Probably merely confused the issue more. I know nothing was any clearer for nie. a Thomas Jel came out of the ordeal with a closing remark that made a “lot of sense. He sald, “The woman belongs where she thinks she belongs.” You can see . .. . OOpS. I've mulled that over in my mind for 15 minutes and am getting nowhere fast. “The woman belongs where she thinks she belongs.” Where does. that leave a guy and his question? You're right—where he started. I give up. ;
New to New York
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 13—It was just three years ago today, if you will pardon a little personal history, that your correspondent, gravely chewing on a wisp of hay, stuffed an extra shirt into’ his byndle and set out to seek his fortune in this great big wicked town. Oh, I was a shy bumpkin, then, I can tell you, ~—apt to blush furiously and toe the carpet for no reason at all. I was frightened in the subways, scared of the cab drivers, frantic in the presence of the mighty. Ju those
captain from a waiter, a waiter from. a busboy. As a matter of fact, I still can't. Ah, those ingocent days, That was when I called people by their full names, If I were referring to Mr. Bernard Baruch, for instance, I called him Mr. Baruch instead of “Bernie.” If I had seen the Governor of New York, I didn't say: “Ran into Tom the other day, and he said + « +" I just mentioned that I had been in: the same room with Mr. Dewey. 3 I have to laugh,-now, at my innocence. I was so stupid I wore brown shoes after dark, ‘and I am still so stupid I wear brown shoes after dark. I was so stupid I said “thank you,” and “please.”
My What a Colorful Town
I THOUGHT all the cab drivers were homely philosophers and I chuckled when 6ne of the more homespun members of the guild tried to tree an old lady on a fire hydrant, the while screaming: “Drop dead, ya doity bum.” My, I said, what a colorful town. Just to show you how unsophisticated I was, the first story I wrote was a rundown on the heaith of the livestock in Macy's fifth floor
Yorker, of course,
meadow, It seemed odd to me that you went to a department store to buy a cow, although New York took it for granted. It still seems odd. The first time I saw a bear get out of a taxicab, and lumber into the Stork Club, that seemed odd, too. At the time I remember being puzzled over the fact that a moth-eaten old bear could get into a ginmill while some people couldn't. That was before I became a full-fledged New
I guess 1 never fully appreciated thé power of journalism in this town, either. I never had any pipelines Into the State Department. I never made or broke a single politician.
—Nof Entirely Barren, of Course
I NEVER indorsed a beer advertisement, got nominated for man of distinction, or came out in favor of any single brand of coffee. I never even wrote myself any congratulatory letters on what I fancied to be scoops. The three years haven't been entirely barren, of course. I saw Van Johnson once, just as close as from me to you. I can now tell all the Kriendlers at “21” apart, and find them friendly. And I got the same tailor as Haile Selassie. I have met, at one time or another, Michael Arlen, Nellie Lutcher and Professor Seagull. almost got sued, once, by a society of baby-sitters. I am able to call strahge women “darling” or “sweetie” without batting an eye, and can curse fipently at cab drivers, bus drivers and truck drivers without upsetting my digestion. There was one time when it looked to me as if I'd develop a little social status, account of living almost on a corner of Park Ave. But I
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Jone Ave, is blocked by apparently do not pay. enough to maintain essential bridges. This ancient structure in Keystone @ striped rail. It means the bridge is “out.” The second in the Ave. at Fall Creek was closed as unsafe last year. Since then, traffic in busy Keystone Ave., main double span at Fall Creek, this structure was a hazard for a gen. north-south route for eastern Indianapolis, has been blocked. The bridge was closed shortly after Sra on, Cotors I Faally was closed: Coury tedCorts oC ctl
Although Marion County taxpayers pay more into the county treasury than ever before, they * The approach to this bridge in K
extensive resurfacing was done on it.
about reopening Keystone Ave. closed o to the north, the structure stends es a monument to
County Commissioners can't yet say what they intend to do ' ! the county ghway "system." 4 y
Although this primitive bridge over White River at Kessler Boulevard is one of gerous in Indiana, few accidents have happened on it. A weather-beaten sign "SLOW if one.peers at it intently warns the motoring public that something may happen to Highway Commission proposes to remedy this some day if it motorist who uses this structure, Narrow and rutted, the bridge is wide enough for only one-w:
- This sign points south at W. Maple Road Boulevard and . White River. Although the boulevard continues merrily on its way across the river on the west bank, there is no bridge to connect it with the section of the boulevard on the east bank. The State
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Old Corn Cobs
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, Jap. 13—The reason it costs
_ sn American husband so much to keep his wife in
rayon dresses, the man said, is because the government of Quebec pays cash bonuses for new-born babfes. - « Rep. Stephen Pace of Georgia, Chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee, wasn't sure he heard right. He shook his head, as if to clear his ears, and he cried: “Wh-what?” “Oh, yes, sir, babies,” replied the serious and dignified Dr. Guido E. Hilbert, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry. The gentleman from Georgia said he still couldn't understand what. the infants of Canada had to do with the cost of dress goods in the-U, 8. A, ; Dr. Hilbert sighed. The explanation was very simple. Rayon is made from wood pulp. Wood pulp is produced in Quebec. It has been scarce lately and high in price. “It used to be,” he continued, “that the farmers in Quebec spent their summers growing food. But they needed cash and they got that by going into the forests in the winter, felling trees. “Then the government passed this law giving a bonus for bables , . .” “Yes?” asked Rep. Pace leaning forward “ .. And this bonus was cash for each infant. born.” continued the imperturbable scientist from the Department of Agriculture. “So these farmers found they were receiving all the money they needed’ from their bables and they didn’t have to spend their winters in the forests.”
An Eloquent H-m-m-m-m
“H-M-M-M-M,”. said Congressman Pace. (I was an eloquent h-m-m-m.) ; “Yes, sir,” agreed Dr. Hilbert. “It created a
desperate situation for the lumber companies. They had great difficulty getting help. They had to offer high wages and so, of course, the price of pulp went up.” This, in a way, was good news for Rep. Pace and fellow Congressmen, who were worrying about how to get the iadies to use more cotton, Canadian
babies were raising the price of rayon, the doctor said, while corn cobs were hoisting the cost of nylon. Rep. Pace said please explain about those corn cobs. | “The Du Pont people used to advertise:that they made nylon of coal, water and air,” Dr.| Hilbert said. “The principal ingredient was benzol, | taken from coal. But now it is in short supply. | “So the Du Ponts set up a plant in Buffalo, N. Y., to make furfural from corn cobs. fural then can be used in place of benzol to pro-| duce nylon, and this indicates increasing costs | for nylon hosiery.” | As Of now, he explained, farmers practically| give their corn cobs away, but in future will sell them as a valuable crop.
Corn Cobs Beat Cotton
“WHAT .is better about these old corn cobs than cotton?” asked Rep. Pace. “Why couldn't they harvest the whole cotton plant and chop it up and use it like they do these corn cobs?” They could, said Dr. Hilbert. But they don’t because they don’t have to harvest corn cobs.) They're already piled up in.the barn yard. And,| anyhow, a bushel of corn cobs will make more furfural than a bushel of cotton plants, The doctor went on to say that some of the chemical outfits also were making cloth of natural | gas, but that this wasn't such a good deal any| more because gas was getting costly, too. Rep. August Andresen, Republican from Minnesota, wondered whether science had made any yard from potatoes. | “No, sir,” sald Dr. Hilbert. “Potatoes make alcohol, which can be turned into fibre, but it is too costly.” { “At one cent a bushel potatoes are too costly?” demanded Rep. Andresen. “I'm not talking about subsidies,” snapped Dr. Hilbert. “Under normal conditions it does not pay to make textiles from potatoes.” Been a long time since I've spent sugh an instructive morning.
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| effort to lift the tension, but al- catching. |The day after we released the problem, perforee, an evidence he would ‘been ways in full charge of operations) The bills should be bound with numbers a Newark newspaper | 1903, as the amd ot en Te vy ti >" Have dogs always barked? and himself, - ’ {special string and paper that| printed every serial number and|call of all gold certificates. —— Bo LS Barking seems to have been acquired by dogs| Lindbergh told me: “Mr, Irey, might easily be identified with the following day every paper in| Despite pleas for extra ' (Tomorrow: ; aka since their domestication. Wolves and other mem-|I wouldn't ask for Capone's re-| portions of string and paper that/the country printed them. A the kidnaper on Loug had a, 1 bers of the ¢anine family in the natural state(lease—even if if would save a we would keep, A dozen different|clerk had sold the list to the|in exchanging $15,000 in gold the y un howl, and make other characteristic noises, life.” kinds of wood weht into making! paper. I ‘he got five dollars. |tificdtes in the few days before! bullet - they never produce sounds properly described| The pay-off itself nted tothe box to hold the money. Sam-| Dr. Souder, the Bureau (Brokerage sccount rec-| amd » as barking. y : Col. Lindbergh a of prob-|ples of each kind of wood were of ~handwrit-'ord of Hauptmann , sii A pall ) / En A lk : 4 1 z — : "2 ! - it a :
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Circumstantial Evidence Convicted Bruno Hauptmann -
Failure to Heed Agent's Advice Fe Jesretully apt. The pasiyge. wis he invested appruximately $15,000 . . eturn o the onx bank to &% a around May 933 Lengthened Lindbergh Manhunt await developments. 03 New OT he $2080 In gold By ELMER L. IREY, as told to William J. Slocum on. certificates on Muy 1, and a rule
IT WAS t THREE times a soft-voiced Treasury agent named Arthur P. wp VAS he Panag 2 sl
Madden managed to get the floor during three smoky meetin, ; where Col. Charles A. Lindbergh sat surrounded by wo Ah officials | Hauptmann : capture. It was from New Jersey and New York. Madden quietly. told them where] pity rag Hirl, bus the care to find a piece of paper that would solve the kidnaping and murder ully saved pieces of wood, string of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. and paper that resulted in his In the 30 seconds it took Mad- conviction. den to outline his plan he found! lems. First there was the matter On Mar, 29, Lindbergh received time to point out that the plece of [of raising $70,000 in cash. Mrs. O° threatening to raise the paper lay only half an hour away. Lindbergh's ‘wealthy parents rom fo $100,000 unless the But it was obvious, so simple, promptly offered him the money, © _naPer Was paid before Apr. 8. and everybody was so. terribly but Lindbergh refused it. Instead! However, the note gave us no busy that it was lost in the shuf-(he sold stocks that had cost him C U8 to how the exchange could fle and as a result it took 30/$350,000 for $70,000, which was| > effected. months to catch Bruno Richard all they, would bring In March of| Of APF. 1,8 month after the Hauptmann. It should have|1p932. {child was taken, came the note
' ; {we were waiting for—directions The money had been stored Inf oor paying the ransom.
a Bronx bank as soon as Condon | After th ah 8 had been established as the inter-| r.the ransom payment in
BRUNO RICHARD HAUPT-| jary. Lindbergh and his wire! the Bronx, with Jafsie Condon as MANN was the guiltiest man Ipaq gone on the radio to promise the intermediary, Lindbergh and promptly recognized it as a ran ever knew, yet he would have in,unity to the kidnaper if the Condon drove immediately to som bill, 2
committed the crime of the cen- poy was returned. They sseyred, Morrow; on E. There was no reason to be sure B®
of that bank required an exchange slip be made out for such
money, The teller didn’t remember the transaction.
ON SEPT. 12, 1934, a man bought some gasoline at 127th St. and Lexington Ave. in New York’s Harlem. He gave the attendant a $10 bill, and following the general custom of. the trade the attendant jotted the license number of the car on the bill in case it should turn out to be counterfeit. When the bill cleared through a bank, an alert teller
aken six weeks—eight at the most,
Bruno Hauptmann . .’, "quiltiest man | ever knew."
Mrs. Approortment tury without penalty had not the tyne kidnaper that he would T24° St. ‘Where “Ww were all gath-|ing expert, examined the ransom passed highly publicized pipe-dreams of, Har le, we ered. First we looked over the notes. “Every note (13 In i ihe man whe aSatd the in Scarface Al Capone forced us| {note and then Jafsie spoke. Jaf- was written by the man Who police checked the automobile li into a case in which he had no I TOLD Lindbergh that every| "le Was always speaking. | wrate the note that was left in/cense number against the applica business. single bill should be listed and a Well, I talked him out of $20,-| the baby's room. The writer is{tion for that license: They had a - am certain that Hauptmann record kept of the serial numbers. | 200" He was displaying a roll of undoubtedly a German, he has|photostat of the wiridowsill rane would be a free man today had Lindbergh argued stubbornly bills. Madden, Wilson and I all{long thin hands and he is me-| som note with them. They needed not Col. Lindbergh succumbed to against it. {screamed together, “What?” thodical in the best German man- only one quick look at the a stuffy ultimatum I was forced, It was no time for a stuffy “Yes, sir, I saved $20,000. mer. He is illiterate, as his hand|on the license application and the to give him. la y | ." He held out befgre our|and spelling show.” |writing on their photostat. We were in the case only be- *V" ' Lind-| ®Y** 400 50-dollar gold “certifi-| On May 11 Col. Lindbergh was| This was thelr man—Bruno
{had to make one. N cause we had just succeeded in bergh, unless you comply with cates. The 50-dollar eye-catching at sea, running down information {Richard Hauptmann, 1279 E. 2224
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putting Capone in jail for 11| | certificates we had pinned - our! t. . years and Al found the confine-|OUr Suggestion to record the hopes on. n oUF | utiiinen by & Narfoliy Va, Ships Ste Bt are 8 ; Rk i | ria) numbers, we shall have to builder, John Curtis. A radio ment so irksome that he told Arf draw from the case. We can] Now the kidnaper had bills of message brought the colonel] FOR SEVEN days Hauptmann thur Brisbane, the Hearst column- not compound a felony " Linde denominations no higher than home, His son had been found was followed every single second, ist, that given his freedom he po his Ii ‘ a \ 4/ gold 20s, and bank tellers get dead five miles from the Hope-| around the clock. His bank acwould have the infant restored to|bergh pursed his lips and saldie, .... 4s of them a day. Wel well home {count was investigated, his stock his parents, Tokhing. and in Sut of the| could have shot the well-meaning | PE - | market transactions were. Lindbérgh called his good | old meddler. : IN AUGUST of 1932 Wilson | and jn a week his life was an friend, Ogden L. Mills, Secretary | sat down with W. O. Woods, (Open book from the day he had
case, » » . of the Treasury, to ask for help,|] The next day Madden got & TWO DAYS later a ransom bill Mills ordered me to Hopewell im-| phone call. It was from Willlam|wag passed in a Manhattan bankito plead bo She nite Bates; nh mediately. Galvin. Galvin said a new set of und discovered in the clearingly call fn and retire an, Bay his 1034, he was The next day I met with Lind-| ransom money would be drawn house three days later. Nobody of five-, ten- and twenty-| dented home, He sullenly of the -
bergh and his close friend, Henry | up as we wanted it arranged. | remembered anything, of course.|gollar. Breckenridge, who has frequently] Madden and Wilson suggested That was to go on for months aallas Milla, the groups recom | nananabing or thaorigf : been called Lindbergh's adviser; that as much as possible of the and months, even after we paid & mended by Wilson were the ran- oline. ) for gas. Lindbergh had no advisers, | money be In gold certificates be: two-dollar reward to each bank|som bills, Woods was agreeable | Hauptmann wha let rE | cause they were easy to recognize. clerk who discovered a note. but higher Treasury officials and executed on ma THROUGH this turmoil walked Twenty thousand dollgrs of it We released the serial numbers were forced to refuse, |evidence, not the most Lindbergh — pleasant, stubborn, should be in gold certificate $50/to banks all over the country,l On Apr. 1 of the following yearityme of evidence in murder: |
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