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30 THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY. STAR, JUNE 5, 1932. A Few Shots Through a By O. 0. McLMYRE.

Goose Quill Worley House at Ellettsville Stands As Monument to Pioneering Family production of columnist films Problem of State Water Power Rights Drawn Out Controversy Question Something for Supreme Court to Decide, Says Smiths-Declares He Is Tired of Seeing Issues Become Political Football. BY ALFRED E. SMITH. -rpHERE is hardly a subject of political discussion which is as 11 controversial and at the same time as little understood as the subject of water power. The amazing electrical inventions 'and developments of the last quarter century have brought this subject to the fore.

As always happens in such cases exaggerated ideas Jwere widely entertained as to the social and industrial benefits and Jthe profits to be obtained by generating electrical energy from falling Jvrater. The possible benefits and profits are undoubtedly large but they are nothing like as large as some people think. In the first there are comparatively few streams which produce firm, all-the-year-round power, as distinguished from the so-called dump Jpower which is seasonal and can only be used to supplement power Jgenerated in steam' plants by the burning of coal. tn if iff -Li'dA the left Is the name of a stone mason, Thomas Mcintosh of Green-castle. This is one of the few houses which show the names of the men who planned and built them.

The portico shows elaborate groins of stone terminating in carved heads. On one of the "reveals" to the 'doorway are cut the initials of F. E. the owner. The window "reveals" are rounded in the first and square in the second story.

The conservatory has stone walla and a black and white marble floor. Bosses, or coigns of stone ornament all the corners and the tower is trimmed with more stone around the palladian windows and those in the peak as well. Rooms Large and Light. There is a wide porch across the front of the house and down one side to the conservatory. The hall in the center of the house is ten feet wide and not less than fifteen feet high with an elaborate stucco decoration in rectangles.

The rooms are very large and well lighted. The stairs which rise to the second floor are of fine design. On the second floor, in the tower, begins a most interesting feature of the house, a circular, narrow stair which turns twice on itself as it rises to the third floor ballroom and into the peak of the tower. Built-in wash hand stands are features of the bedrooms and large closets. A recent letter from Mrs.

Worley, who has lived in St. Louis for many years, says: "The house was built in 1876 and we sold in 1898. An artist from New York painted a beautiful picture of it a few years ago which was hung in a New York exhibit and a reproduction of the painting and a description appeared in the New York Times. We had many distinguished visitors, among others, Baron Chinda, the Japanese diplomat; Mr. Riley, Mrs.

Bancroft, the widow of the historian; David Starr Jordan and other members of the university faculty. Glass, Bronze Aquarium. "There were two ponds, one fed by place at Ellettsville. Two are being abandoned Napoleon once contemplated suicide but turned from it as revolting Jeanne Aubert is buying a country place at Sevres, on the outskirts of Paris The El Garron and Casino are doing the biggest after-theater business Mrs. Paul Whiteman owns a large apartment house in Hollywood Elizabeth Marbury has been smoking cigarettes for sixty years Floyd Gibbons wants $1,750 a single broadcast.

Two of the "mouthpieces" of the Begins Work as Director of Y. W. Camp Delight MISS DOBOTHA CLELAND. Miss Dorotfia Cleland of Fort Wayne began her duties as director of Camp Delight, Y. W.

C. A. sum underworld handle faked up breach of promise suits on a percentage basis Lupe Velez crosses herself before each new scene Bert Taylor has a triple deck modernistic penthouse with many rooms of solid mirror He is Lupe Velez'a shadow Ziegfeld sends telegrams from his apartment in the Warick to his theater across the street A magazine is to show the beef parade was a publicity stunt cooked up by the big brewers. (Copyright, 1932, McNaught Syndicate, IncJ mer camp on White river, a few days ago. Miss Cleland was for five years the Girl Reserve staff of the MunciJ Y.

W. C. A. For three years this period she was executive of the department. She is a graduate of Indiana -university and has attendefl the Y.

W. C. A. national school fof professional training in New Yorlf For the last half year she has been studying at the school of applied science of Western Reserve univenV sity of Cleveland, O. jj Camp events in June will include a luncheon-meeting tomorrow, closing the year's work for both thB public affairs and the personal ser ice committees a supper-meeting for the Social Workers' Club tomorrow an overnight party of South side high school girls Sunday and for thl next weeK-ena tne Alumnae Club oj Manual Training high school and group of girls from the Y.

W. C. AV health education department. The regular camping period fr younger girl3 will begin June 14. High school groups are scheduled for June 14 to July 1 and grade school for July 6 to Aug.

3. Regisj-tration may be made for week-end) or for longer periods. i The camp is reserved for employep girls from Aug. 5 to Sept. 6.

Tri camp is open to all girls without regard to Y. W. C. A. membership.

I ,00 St. Lawrence river, and insuring to every housewife within hundreds of miles the use at very low cost of all kinds of labor saving devices from washing machines to waffle irons. Construction Delayed. Actually the situation is that the development of state power on the St. Lawrence is a long way from realization and that it will not be accomplished by talking about it, but by a great deal of hard work, clear thinking and perhaps even prolonged litigation.

In the first place, it should be borne in mind that no one knows what the rights of the states are to water power as distinguished from those of the Federal government. There is a Federal water power act which purports to give to the Federal authorities not only the rights over navigation, which they undoubtedly possess, but also control over the bed of the stream, the flow of water for power and the licensing of any state and municipal plants, including control of their accounting and bookkeeping systems, prices at which they may sell power and other details of management. There is much to be said for an act of this kind and the history of its adoption and operation shows that it has done much to curb selfishness and exploitation, but, on the other hand, it raises grave questions as to what, if anything, the states have left in the way of water power on border streams between 3tates or between states and foreign countries. Personally I am convinced that the Federal water power act, insofar as it reaches out beyond the control of looking out over wood and meadow. They removed the frame house to another site and their only son Francis built this fine house after his marriage to Laura Davis, niece Jefferson Davis of the Confederate army.

Mrs. Worley was visiting at French Lick when she met Mr. Worley. Her home had been at Edgefield, near Nashville, Tenn. Francis Worley was interested in caring for and improving his large acreage.

He built barns and houses on the various farms he owned and put them all in first-class condition. He owned a private bank and built for it a small building of the same style of architecture as this house, on the iiome place. Kntrance Through Portico. The house, built in 1S76, was ambitious. It hag a tower in the center front and the entrance is through the portico formed by the base of the tower.

On the wall to the right a stone block bearing the incised symbols of the architects' profession, with the name Joseph Marshall, Indianapolis. So far, I have not found any one who remembers him, though he is listed in the directory of that year. On a corresponding block to feel it only fair to warn the general pubiic not to expect to see public power plants developed overnight. The only way to accomplish results is to go at it in the same way that the port of New York has tackled its problem. We have found as to bridges and port development that there is a limit to the amount of state and municipal credit which can be used.

On the other hand, thinking people are opposed to giving franchises to private interests. Between these two extremes Hies the Port Authorities idea of authorizing municipal corporation, controlled by the government, to issue bonds to the public secured by the undertakings themselves and dependent on tolls for maintenance and operation. This has all the advantages of public control and private financing. It insures economical operation because it provides that the improvements be self-sustaining. We have found that we are able to build and operate bridges, tunnels and terminals in this way.

There is no reason why the same thing can not be done with water power provided we get away from talk and promises and get down to brass tacks and hard work, and provided also that the rights of the Federal government and of the states and municipalities are clearly defined in a cleancut decision by the United States Supreme court. (Copyright, 1(132, McNaiiRht Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved.) I The subject is one which readily Jlends itself to political exploitation. Naturally and properly, political tleader, economists, business men and the general public divided very in the discussion into two 'camps those favoring public ownership and those favoring private ownership. The sharpening of this 'issue was due in large part to the attempts of lumber and innwer corporations to seize natural resources without proper payment and without any control over the future use of these natural resources.

Early in my political career 4I took a great interest in this sub- ject and was instrumental in saving Mo the state some of its most, valuable water power on the St. river which the state Legislature attempted to hand over to priv-Jate interests. River Subject Complicated. In those early days the only qup.s-'tion was whether the water power i sites and riparian rights would be given to private interests or retained by the state or Federal government. 'Very little thought was given to actual public develoment.

The practical difficulties of actually developing power at the larger streams are enormous. For example, one of the 'greatest possible sources of power is on the St. Lawrence river. This is an international boundary stream. 'Canada has rights as well as the United States.

The Federal govern- ment has rights and powers as well as the state of New Ynrk and two provinces in Canada. The develop- ment of power on this stream 13 also involved with the question of a ship canal and the general problem of navigation. It would be difficult 'to find a more complicated subirt. Assuming that all treaty diflicul- ties with Canada are straightened out and that the canal development with the necessary dam and other incidental works are agreed upon, ine question arises as to just wnat rights the state of New York has in the development of water power. The Legislature of the state of New York, several years of battling with me over the setting up of a power authority, finally conceded the point to my successor.

We therefore have a Nw York state power authority, authorized to raise money by the sale of tax exempt securities for the building of a plant and other works at the St. Lawrence river. All sorts of extravagant statements have been made as to what this agency can accomplish in a short, time. It was even announced a. year ago that an army of men would be working last summer on the actual construction of the plant, thus helping to relieve unemployment, preparing the way for a great industrial settlement along the I YOUR OLD ICE BOX MAY BE WORTH The Frank K.

Worley BY AGNES HAXNA. The Frank E. Worley house stands on the outskirts of Ellettsville in very large grounds and attracts much attention. The handsome residence was built in 1876 of brick with much stone trim, a stone wall around the place, stone walls about the two fish ponds and stone steps of unusual form. The house was built by Frank E.

and Laura Davis Worley on the site of the old home of Mr. Worlev's parents. Hiram and Margaret Worley came to Ellettsville many years ago and bought land, several hundred acres in all, rolling and flat, meadow and stone deposits. The fields wen? cleared of loose stone, walls were laid up with the top course of upended flat pieces of rough stone, the outward sign of the immense wealth of oolitic limestone- waiting to he utilized for building purposes. This region contains vast stores of stone of a fine quality.

Niece of Jefferson Davis. The Worleys had a frame house standing at the base of lovely rolling hills, fronting the south and to solve this problem is to get it into the Federal courts. I am told that it is difficult to raise this issue even though it involves the rights of the state against the United States government. Even though there may be technical difficulties I am sure that way can be found to litigate this question through the United States Supreme court, because it is obviously precisely the kind of question for which the Federal courts were established. Until this question is settled we shall not get anywhere with the St.

Lawrence power problem or with similar problems on other streams. Certainly it is ridiculous to have a selling of bonds, even after the depression is over, to the general public in connection with a state department which is so hopelessly entangled with national and international questions, until the rights of the state are finally settled by the United States Supreme court. Tired of Political Football. I am still firmly convinced that the states own and control water power, subject only to the Federal navigation power, and I am still firmly convinced that the states should own and control water power plants at the streams, but I am getting more and more tired of seeing this question become a. mere political football with extremists of public ownership and private development groups, and An Appropriate Gift 4-Piecc Coffee Sets Similar to Illustration Oricinally Sold for $13.00 .49 Beautifully finished and priced most reasonably.

8-Cup Coffee I'm, Cream and Sugar, l.VIneh Round Tray. Other Sets of Heatproof China or Chromium Plated. Up to $48.00. Street floor. of is I a cold water from a spring in the cave, for mountain trout, and the other, the larger one, where we could bathe and on which a boat named White Wings floated, and the fountain in its stone pool.

Then, too, the glass ana bronze aquarium in the conservatory with its jet of water was' fed from spring water. In the park were several wild deer and I had two bears which were sent to Indianapolis when they grew too large for pets. We had forty acres in the park and there we held picnics and old set- tleis' meetings. "My husband died in 1919 and my sister Florence last autumn." The story of the Btone used so largely in the construction of the house is interesting. Capt.

Gilbert K. Perry was interested in opening up quarries and Mr. Worley traded a farm of 160 acres to him for the stone needed in the walls for the yard and the two pools; for the trim of the house and the foundation, and also for the piers on which the large live stock barn rested in those days. The stone came from the deposit on the farm, and the land was bartered for the stone and the labor of getting it out and to the site of the new house. Interested In Jersey Herd.

Mrs. Worley interested herself in Jersey cattle and opened a model dairy. Fine butter was shipped to Indianapolis, Louisville and to friends in Chicago, according to a Blooming-ton woman, who remembers that her brother was a patron of the Ellettsville farm herd. W. B.

Harris spoke of Mrs. Worley's interest in agricultural extension work. "She was a friend of Mrs. Virginia Meredith," he said, "and after she LI. 2321 Irvlngton 5534 E.

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Attitude of the French press toward America. The flood of kidnaping books. Flag pole sitters. Dinners al fresco. Salt water taffy.

Spare ribs without Bauer kraut. Blue pencils. Gossips who begin with "I don't believe it, but I heard, etc." Big game hunters. People who try to exploit social connections for commercial gain. Cymbals.

Ukuleles. Matt C. Brush. Japanese valets. Autograph hunters have a new way of getting reluctant signatures.

They write to the celebrity asking about some question in which they have learned he is interested, nattering him pro foundly as an incidental, and it works in almost every instance. I've read columns of eulogies about Walker's beer parade and I'm not at all prejudiced. But the truth is, it was a distinctly tacky affair. Short shavings: Sir Hubert Wilkin's diversion is the cello Douglas Fairbanks did not inspire great curiosity in Tahiti John Jacob Astor's country home was at Eighty-sixth street Admiral Nelson was a victim of mal de mer most of his sea days John Ers-kine is book reviewing for a tabloid Arthur Pryor has never discharged any one from his band Sime Silverman has been at Palm Springs where there is very little variety Captain Patrick Irving Francis O'Hay owns a filling station at Taos, N. M.

Bill Halligan says Phar Lap did not die from eating California grass Bill has been thriving on it for a year "Two Gun" Crowley's brain is on exhibition at Sing Sing The Prince of Wales sports shirts striped in blue and red Broadway's newest columnist, Paul Yawitz, carries a cane and sports a lapel flower Mayor Walker hasn't a single gray hair Eddie Cantor has joined the Malibuites Joan Crawford makes hook rugs Jay Jerome Williams is publishing a newspaper monthly for boys and girls It is called Alger's Newspaper. Hollywood studies find an over set up her large dairy she used to speak before women's clubs on farm problems. The feed for the cattle came from the family farms, but the venture was too large for our town and the time, and it was liquidated. Mr. and Mrs.

Worley went away to St. Louis. Mrs. Worley was one of the commissioners for the world's fair in Chicago, and other positions of honor." This house is a landmark, its situation at the foot of rolling hills is lovely, and its huge trees give it shade. Like many others of the same general style, it is a monument to the early capitalists in small or large towns.

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