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By Ed Sovola

“I HAVE never heard one Mantes . people

Mrs. Leonard Troy, chairman of education and instruction of the Fanny Crosby Foundation for the Blind, was speaking. Room 118 in Treadwell Hall at Arsenal Tech buzzed with excited voices, A year ago the Crosby Foundation began classes in the crafts, proceeded to dancing and swimming. Four weeks ago, Mrs. Troy said, longhand instruction was started. The project, as far as she knows, is revolutionary in Indiana. “If we are half as successful in teaching longhand as we were dancing, swimming and the crafts, all of us will be very happy,” she added.

Braille Isn't Enough

MRS. TROY explained why the need for longhand was so great. A blind person learns Brallle in state schools. In order to sign checks, legal documents, often brilliant blind persons must resort to the X, ‘Student Neal Benner is one of the seven en: thusiastic writers in the class. “Longhand is something every blind person should know,” Mr.

‘Benner sald. "I always thought they should have

taught us that at the State School for the Blind.” . He has two immediate aims in life. Just as

soon as he learns the entire alphabet, Neal plans

to write his sister and his teacher a letter.

“You .can write a letter now,” jokingly urged :

Mrs. Troy. “Chances are you won't need the last three letters of the alphabet.” Neal wanted the works. He had many things to write, There was eagerness in his face,

One of the three R's . . . Virginia Norrick watches Hugh Overlease coin a favorite thought.

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Each student had a teacher. IU's volunteer work. Mrs. Troy thinks the task is as challenging to the teachers. as it is to the students, “We want to prove to interested parties of the state that longhand can be taught successfully,”

were shaking with laughter. Mr. Overlease, trying his hand with a few creative sentences, was stymied. “Babe can drink from. a gl . . of beer” stood out black and legible on his sheet of paper. “Miss Norrick,” he was saying, “quick let me ‘have the raised alphabet card, Let me learn how to write the s before I go home tonight.” Mr. Overlease good-naturedly took the kidding about his original sentence. Especially since nowhere in the exercise sheets does the word beer appear, Besides Miss Norrick, the teachers are Mrs. Beverly Quinn, Earnestine Simons, Minerva Djtton, Lois McKinley, Jean Woodworth and Louise Clayton. Not for a minute during the two-hour session did any of their enthusiasm flag. Mrs. Tray was always ready with a word of encouragement. The students were as eager and determined as I have ever seen. Mr. and- Mrs. Thodore Morris, sitting across from each other, were making a contest of the longhand course. Mrs. Everett Hawkins had the distinction that evening of writing the longest word, handkerchjef. William Goodner wrote so well and fast that he was asking for more letters, And more homework. Mrs. Robert Clevenger wasn't so sure she wanted more homework than usual.

Handwriting Is Legible

LOOKING AT samples of the homework and) what was being written in class, it occurred to me that a refresher course in penmanship might do me some good. Every student in the class wrote with more legibility than I do. Il The Palmer Penmanship Method is used to] start the students off. Writing guides keep the work in a straight line and within one inch of space. Eventually the guides will be discarded. Besides the vital ability of being able to write, Mrs. Troy hopes to build up confidence in her pupils. Offhand, I would say the confidence is there. Has been there. And the ability to write, well. when students yeéil for more homework and more instruction so they can complete a favorite thought, such as Mr. Overlease had, the people from Fanny Crosby needn't worry. Mrs. Troy kindly gave me several sheets of instructions. Legible notes in my pockets will be quite a change, yes, ma'm,

Ways of Thrift

By Robert C. Ruark

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov, 25—I have just observed a monument to thrift, in the old-fashioned sense. It is the Mormon Church's general welfare project, which started from scratch in 1936 and now is assayed at some $10 million in real property and assets. It is a striking example of self-help. The Mormons believe that God is an exalted man and that man is literally a son of God— a son who, if he minds his ways, may grow up to be like his father. The Latter Day Saints train their people for literal Godhood in eternity. The welfare project is one of seven steps in apprenticeship to Godhood—namely, a phase of independence, thrift and communal interdependence for mutual good. a The church was proud during the depression of its rejection of relief for its people.

In a Land of Plenty

THE WELFARE program was born of a decision to squirrel away a vast hoard of food and goods as a bulwark against another depression or a destructive war. There are more than 115 storehouses loaded with everything from mattresses to shrimp cocktail sauce, all produced on church-owned properties by gift labor. The church owns canneries, 349 farms of varying production, a coal mine, a mattress factory, a cotton cloth mill, a shoe-making set-up and dairy farms and plants. Its granaries are jammed with grains. Everything it dispenses, from flour to overalls, is produced by 95 per cent free laoor, as a contribution of the people to their own general welfare, From threshing on the farms to clerking in the welfare butcher shop, all but a few key personnel donate their time and encigy, and even the salaried workers are supposed to take as much pay as possible in foodstuffs and other products.

Those who are actually “employed” in the project are the needy, about half >f whom would be on relief if no project existed. : Under the Mormon concept there is no cash re-

lationship between work and need. The brothers ie

are urged to work as mucn as they can and to take as little as they can. When goods from this heavy hoard are desired by a Mormon down on his luck, they are issued only on written order by a bishop. A bishop presides over a ward—about 500 to 1000 people. These wards are the subdivisions of “stakes,” ecclesiastical units of an average of 5000 people. While the big central storehouse in| Salt Lake serves nine stakes, each outlying stake| has its own subsidiary dispensaries,

Each area more or less has its or canning, WE hb Kill 4 Si 4 Arizona produces the citrus fruits for canning, | ic } S er is er

San Diego provides tuna and Seattle salmon. From soap to furniture, sorghum to hogs, com-| modities pour in from the area best shaped to pro-| duce them. | The church insists on a'minimum backlog of a year’s supply of everything.

30 Carloads to Europe

AFTER the war ended in Europe, while the!

of necessities to their European members. Projection of the church into industry is gall-| ing to some Gentile members of this community,

peoples, One Mormon told me with a rueful grin that

- » he didn’t approve of -such a hold on any roe Time by any church, but said in the same breath: “I|

sure as hell wish we could run the federal government with one-fifth of the Mormon's efficiency.” |

No Feathers

By Frederick C. Othman

CAMPECHE, Mexico, Nov, 25—1 regret to report that when I ordered a cocktail here where the insidious concoction first was concocted for the delectation of pirates two centuries ago, the bartender stirred it with a spoon. He should have used a feather from a rooster’s tail. Othérwise, I drank a. small glass of history, because my cocktail consisted of rum and a dose of aromatic herbs, exactly as guzzled by Henry Morgan and the other pirates who preyed on the galleons taking gold bullion to Spain. Seems that the Campeche barkeeps always had stirred their rum drinks with chicken feathers. The pirates, béing British and not talking Spanish, called the mugs of pungent liquor cocktails, and $0 the name has passed down through the ages. I asked the proprietor of the Bright Star of the Occident, the waterfront establishment where I downed mine, why he didn't use a feather, too. He said a spoon was better. And also more sanitary, and that indicates that modern improvements are.messing up romance all over, - ’

Completely Fortified

ONE NIGHT, presumably because his cocktail was too weak, Morgan sacked Campeche. He walked off with all the gold, took all the women he considered beautiful enough, and burned the entire city. When the Spaniards rebuilt, they enclosed the town with a high stonewall, and mounted cannon for.the pirates™ benefit. Most of the wall remains standing, the cannon are intact, and in the memory of the oldest citizen nobody has attacked Campeche. It is, in fact, the most completely fortified city in the western hemisphere. This is good for cam-

era fiends, but it creates some elegant traffic jams for Mexicans trying to drive out of town. { Senor Roberto Patrone, the oil dealer who shared a jug of cocktails with me, reported that

Campeche had fallen on evil ways. In earlier times, TeHsbersip application from The he said, the biggest article of commerce was salt. imes any more. Go to the toy nave fallen when the were i Mr. Randall was awakened neighborhood. Sh Be 2 : e : Mr. : , mus When that trade fell off, the locals developed a'department of the Willlam H. frightened by an ASTRA morial auditorium y g . t be an world-wide trade in what they called ink wood. Block So. the Founiau Square train on the two-track Pennsyl-|and field relations of the Teach- driveway, state police said. He This was from a native tree and, when boiled, ® Times and you ania Railroad local line about|ers College at Columbia, Dr. Lin- dressed and gave chase. After to The Times, 214 W. Maryland

will receive one of the member- ;. i ; “ io’ 3 ship cards signed by Roy Rogers. five miles from their home at| den will speak on “Service Trends |losing the trio's car momentarily, St-= Designate on your envelope

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produced a beautiful dye, known as royal purple.

Royalty Business Flops

THEN TWO THINGS happened, mourned Don| Roberto. The royalty business went to pot and! what few kings were left began getting their| purple dyestuffs from the German aniline chem-| ical works. | Since then Campeche has been shipping out| chicle for use in chewing gum, but Don Roberto, said he had read of a new menace in the United States called bubble gum. The blamed stuff is made of synthetic rubber and if all Americans] start chewing same, as he fears, Campeche 1s) doomed. | It'll have to struggle along on its dwindling business in mahogany, catching sharks for the vitamins within them, and selling red caviar. This is not ‘a happy prospect. Of course, said he, if tourists could be interested in trying out those . cocktails and getting their photos taken aboard the ancient forts, things might look up. All I can say, tourists, is that a cocktail in Campeche is sometihng special; there is no pleas-| anter way to absorb history. The hotels are few, but clean, the weather in the winter is superb, and if T didn’t have to earn a living I think I'd stay here indefinitely. Studying history, of course.

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill ???

Who posed for the monument “Range Rider of the Yellowstone”? This symbolical monument was the work of Charles Christadoro and posed by “Bill” Hart and ‘his horse, Paint. . g AR

"Where is .the “Mother Lode” region of the United States?

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What is the oldest house of worship in the country? ; Old Ship Church, located in Hingham, Mass., is sald to be the oldest church structure in continuous use in the United States. The frame and walls stand as erected in 1681 by shipbuilders. X * * @ tis Where is the oldest city in the United States charter? »

fought for life today after surviving a 100-foot fall which killed her|, .. has turned the tables. Now

younger sister and left her terror-stricken for 17 hours as she strug- “ " , i ‘ che tits TE mre ite at he “shoots” the photographers. ‘be found in the bigger color comic ‘section of The Sunday Times.

sister, Elsie J , 11, in below-fre : : government was still working out a food "relief | they. hin dg a Tr ezing temperature all night after ¢. j stant use when photograph- of material sought when they turn to Mr. Hess’ drawing next Suns

program, the Mormons quietly shipped 30 carloads trestle to the bottom of. the gorge When she fell going tothe aid late Wednesday.

1 leg, head and internal injuries her up the sides of a steep cliff 3 especially the merchants, but *all admit the effi- : ! i eo ) other callers have become a part : | : fstrengin. . Bl ig: iy a Fe After Road Chas

ciency of the Mormon organization and its tre-| . - strength. } mendous influence. on the imagination of its There Is Still | Rescued by Boys

and younger still may- join the scribed as critical, she managed To Address Alumni Unit Crisler, 43, Anderson, and Ira/in The Times with the winning

sored by The Times and the Delp her sister when the younger, Dr. Arthur V. Linden of Co-

Mayor Ready To ‘Shoot’ Visito

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Often photographed Mayor Feeney turns the tables on photographers, keeps picture record of visitors to his office.

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The Mayor and his camera go to a football gore, and bring back a picture of Tech High

When there's a candy sale, the logical place to start is at the ry office. Mr. Fesney

chapl’s varsity cheerleaders. Delegations visiting the Mayor's office are snaps a group of Bluebirds. 5 rr 2 always in danger of being shot. "| just point Tb .b *r + and shoot," says Mr. Feeney. : * * ¢

Girl Survives 100-Ft. Fall He's Camera Fan, See Sunday Times Comics Keeps One HancY For Hints on 2 Contests

le. doi Tt : : fan. { ] Struggles for 17 Hours in Bitter Cold Bic acoustonaed to Jooking into ‘Good Old Days’ Feature, ‘Grandma’ Strip To Bring Out Body of Victim of Plunge the business end of newspaper May Give You Ideas for Winning Entries. CHESTER, Pa.. Nov. 25 {UP)—Twelve-year-oid Betty Henry SWMeas i while photographers). By ART WRIGHT . squint through rangefinders, Hiz- y

Tips for winning cash prizes in two current Times contests will

Sui ‘ A loaded camera is perched on Writers of letters suggesting ideas for Erwin Hess’ “Good Old Clad only in a snowsuit, the girl lay beside the body of her , ‘.orner of his desk and ready Days” color comic feature will find a perfect example of the typs

ers enter his office. - ‘day. What you see there might suggest an idea that “you — -— “national recognition plus a $10 cash award . . . or 2d place {of $5; 3d of $2 or $1 for one of the next three prizes. First prize {winner also will get the original drawing made by Mr. Hess on the idea.

of her sister. Newsmen aren't the only targets

I f the Mayor's flash-equi p Elsie apparently died instant-i Unaware that Elsie was dead, hy Yayopa SasneouprentS Face Charges

y in the plunge. Betty suffered Betty tried desperately to dragiijons Boy and Girl Scouts and

Strictly an‘ amateur, Mayor Feeney doesn't attempt to proeShe was exhausted from ex- €88 his work. But he has a defipb ) . «.. ‘nite rule for success with his Posupe Hes five boys on an “ex-'p yy Truck, Furniture GRANDMA color comic strip you ploring rip “heard her moans “I have a camera that does all State police were preparing will see the type of person The at noon yesterday and brought/the thinking for the amateur,”| harges today against three men| ] - help. Betty's first words were: he said. “Ne-filter, no meter and pA a in ay aga chase a Times Is seeliing for the Grand ) ‘I'm hungry. Then she was/no focus. Just point it and snap.”| Hancock County in the theft of a contest. The person nominatOpen to Boys, Girls lifted to safety up the steep cliff Results are a series of “Photos's 10aded Fortville furniture com-|in8 the best fun-loving grandma By ART WRIGHT by litter and ropes. by Feeney." pany truck. in any neighborhood will get a os " Later, at Chester Hospital, ) Held are Fred Steffler, 45, of [$25 cash prize. Also the letter Boys and girls 12 years of age where her condition was de- Columbia U. Official 420! E. St. Clair St.; Lowell F. writer's picture will be published

’ $25 Cash Prize Accused of Stealing When you see Charles Kuhn's

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Blackwood, 41; Cleveland, O. grandma. And there will be a The trio was captured yester- surprise award for grandma. All ; girl “suddenly screamed and fell jymbia University will address day by State Police Technician you have to do is write a letter Fountain Square Theater. + : : You don't ev nave $5 cl off the trestle, then, I fellithe Columbia University Alumni Charles Epperson of Pendleton keep. it short--describing the 1 don't even have to clip a through, too.” . Association of Indiana at 8 p. m. Post and John Randall, farmer, grandma everyone likes becausq Police believed the girls may tomorrow in the World War Me- of R. R. 1, Lapel. {of the cheer she brings to the

Roy Rogers Riders Club spon- to tell doctors that she ran to

Executive director of placement When the trio pulled into his!actual person. Send entries for both contests

nearby Rutledge, Pa.

| " S———Only members are permitted to CARNIVAL

take part in the contests being . staged. The outstanding event is { the Mystery Tune Contest with a new tune each week. The “ member submitting the best question card entry will get a free trip to Hollywood with mother or dad to visit Roy Rogers. The mystery tune is played daily at 10 a. m., 2 and 4 p. m, at Block's toy department and at all shows at the Fountajn! Square Theater. Question cards are available only at the theater, Free candy will be given tomorrow at the Roy Rogers show at the Fountain Square.

in the Teaching Profession.” Mr. Randall enlisted the aid of “Good Old Days” or Grandma et eeneiee | T@CHMICIAN Epperson. Contest. * | Picking up the trail again, the ,, ! By Dick Turner sate policeman forced the fleeing of ae come. the propetty car to halt by forming a road turned and the decision of the block with his car. The men j,4qocs will be final surrendered at gunpoint and lead] : the officer to the abandoned

. Ra Warn Motorists State police said the moving van was loaded with some s3000, OF Glazed Roads {worth of furniture taken from High 'the Lapel Furniture Co. It con- ghways are glazed with ice [tained numerous rugs, a cedar|in the northwestern portion of chest dnd other pieces of furni- the state and motorists must pro

ture. ceed with ’ State police said auto banditry caution, the State High-

"Mystery Tune Contest

today at Greenfield. | Slippery roads were Lie fr Steffler, who also gave an the vicinity of fe un rted in Anderson address, has a long South Bend, Valparaiso and criminal record; state police sald. Hammond. Roads , Gary u He once served a term at Alca- ice in the remai were clear |traz Prison, nder of the, state,

| Steffler and Crisler are being | 38 Refugees En R '

Unemployment Claims Up 35 Pct. During Week

Initial claims for unemployment compensation increased 35 per cent last week, but the Indiana Employment Security Division sald the comparative fig-| ures didn’t reflect a true picture of the job situation. There were 10813 claims for, the week ending Nov. 19, as com-| pared with 7996 for the week ending Nov. 12.

‘However, Director Everett L. Gardner said the big incréase was!

questioned in the Hancock) (County Jail, "Greenfield, while To Hoosier Homes

Blackwood is held in the Madison County Jail, Anderson. “y"* Indiana will be the new homie Streeter of 38 refugees’ among the 1270

Plan Reception = {rons scheduled to arrive from

Europe Monday in New York For Ex-Contractor (voard the USAT Generst —~ A reception for Hugh Mc-

Donald, 90-year-old lifelong Indianapolis resident, apartment-|Ugee, owner and former contractor,|comé {i will be given from 3 p. m, to p. m. Bunday. - 7 Mrs. Josephine McKee, his niece, has invited friends to help

partly due to the fact there was | N' 7118 ) M cDonal a holiday-~Armistice Day-—dur- | ao hh M q Selebrats a comm ing the week ending Nov. 12. | Lorn wus ov ses arm. me + wen. 0 our. or, : Dithgar 35 Yor home, 4304 Oene

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