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27 THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, JULY 10, 1932. WED RECENTLY. SITTING UNDER A PASSION FLOWER "My wife is away for the summer BY 0. 0. McINTYRE ROM the mall bag: "Do you remember the Captains' Club? As I recall it was started by you and the beloved Capt.

Melrose. Anyway, at a civic luncheon today six of us at one table dis Pessimist Also Wrong About Present Economic Ills of America, Says Smith English Department Store Owner's Belief That "Democracy Is Failure" Looked Upon as Natural Thought for Subject Under Monarchy Rule. BY ALFRED E. SMITH. DISTRICT LODGE SESSION MEDARYVILLE.

July 9. Fifth district Knights of Pythias lodge members will hold a banquet meeting in the M. E. Church heret Friday night. Dr.

C. E. Linon, deputy grand chancellor of the district, will be in charge. Reports from fifteen lodges in the district indicate that a large delegation will be present. MAIL CARRIER RETIRED- FOWLER, July 9.

Edward Vaughan, veteran rural mail carrier out of the Fowler post office, was re tired and placed on a pension hera today. He has been carrying mail here more than twenty-nine years. Postmasters Will Be Guests of George Ade Special to The Indianapolit Star. KENTLAND, July 9. Postmasters of the Second congressional district will hold their first summer all-day picnic July 22 at Hazelden, country estate of George Ade.

Postmasters and their families will be the guests of the author and plans are being made to accommodate more than one hundred postmasters and their families. The day's activities will open with games, golf and other athletic contests. At noon a basket dinner will be spread on the lawn in front of the Ade home and extemporaneous speeches will be made. nu, in course, i ve oeen a peneci ass. Yet rather harmlessly so.

Anyway I took a young lady out to dinner several times, bought her two boxes of candy and wrote her a silly note. She knew all the time I was married, but now a lawyer is threatening me with a breach of promise suit for $50,000. Next to kidnaping, the growth of blackmail in this country is one of the most serious menaces. I have told them to do their durndest." W. New York.

You did right and send the lawyer's name to the bar association. IE are deluged with diagnoses of the troubles that now afflict the world, and particularly the economic difficulties facing the people of the United States. Nobody is so ill informed about the causes and effects that he is unwilling to venture covered we were captains and it brightened up a very drab affair." G. Dayton, 0. Without beer, a captain is not much fun.

But I salute! "Perhaps my sense of values Is warped as the result of the last few years. I am fairly high salaried that is, about 18,000 a year. During the war I converted all my securities into cash to buy Liberty bonds. I gave two sons to the expeditionary forces and only one came back. For six years I have tried to make out an equitable income tax.

In each instance there have been extra assessments and my protests were overruled. I know I was fair and the government was not. This worries me more than the matter of the few hundred dollars. I also am wondering how it is that my townsman, Andrew Mellon, and members of his family are returned such huge sums by Income tax officials? I say, I wonder?" Pittsburgh, Pa. There are many others wondering with you, sir! John Chapman, who says It can be done, asks any one to punctuate this to make sense: "Smith whereas Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner's an idea as to how we came into this station and how we can get out of it.

Among the factors most widely credited with causing the are prohibition, tariff, the English, the Germans, the French and the war. There are two main schools of thought, if such they may be called, among those who are pointing the way out or making "prophecies. One of these says that prosperity is just around the corner and the other says it is communism, rather than prosperity, 'that is lurking mysteriously just out of sight. ift ii irci IK didn't think it was a snide of the film company exploiting him to filch Clare Briggs's title, 'When a Feller Needs a without the slightest credit? That was a pretty raw bit of business." E. D.

Chicago. Why not write them? "Everybody liked Chic Sale in his late film with that amazing young tear-jerker, Jackie Cooper. But Chic is also such a splendid character you know him better than I and can vouch for that that I wonder if he MRS. WARD BATCLIFF. Mrs.

Ratcliff was Miss Norma Dickey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Dickey, 3768 West Washington street, before her marriage June 24. given to a speech made in London by Gordon Selfridge, an American-born. English department store proprietor.

Mr. Selfridge, speaking before the American Chamber of Commerce in London, gave impressions he had collected on a trip to the United States. These conclusions as to the condition of the American republic am pessimistic in the extreme, and his diagnosis of our ills There are very few people in America who look toward communism as a blessing that may come put of the existing economic disturbance, but there are a good many who say the condition of the country is likely to bring on an unparalleled disaster, which they visualize as a soviet state. Kecentl very wide publicity was Hoosier Recalls Indian Grandmother Gave Cookies to Tribe at Cabin Home 29-37 NORTH ILLINOIS STREET Down Go the Prices in This Clearaway of $350,000 Slock of Spring and Summer Apparel at Still Lower Prices Monday! A a "Woman. Thinketh By Penelope Penn.

CITY which wears no tablet because I got my so-called education there bade me return recently, not for a doctor of laws degree or any little thing like that, but to enact The member of a Missouri commission to present a photographic pageant of Missourians at the Chicago exposition called, according to an A. P. dispatch, at Plattsburg, recently for some Information about this writer. One of the town's long respected residents is quoted as follows anent the subject: "Most of us remember Mclntyre best as a trick bicyclist. And that is about all he was fit for." You can't fool the old home town.

Short shavings: George Arliss's real name is George Augustus Andrews He was born in London's district, Bloomsbury. Gilbert Miller is always hungry. "The Interne" shows how young doctors often become callous racketeers in overcrowded hospitals. There is no twilight In Central America. A big East side brewery is now the Wickersham garage.

Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld was born on the Danube. Two New York newspapers forbid the expression in their columns. Mary Boland was born Maria Anna Aznrs Boland. George White is nearly always red-faced from tight collars.

Mickey Neilan is making records for radio release and prospering. Claudette Colbert and Norman Foster do not hesitate to air their family quarrels among friends But say they arc desperately In love. The Jumping Cactus is a new weekly in Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. and Mrs.

Valentino Williams are on separate lecture tours. Pauline Lord was born in Hanford, and is known to her intimates as Polly. Napoleon was nauseated by odors of cooking Yet had a grand appetite. Many Paris dressmakers are moving to London, which may become the new style capital. The late Frank VanHoven's brother is responsible for the amazing publicity about marathon dancers all over New York.

Earl Carroll booked six sensational acts in Europe. J. J. Shubcrt Jr. is in the final year of law school.

Three society girls went to Europe this season third class Depression. Jack Barrymore's movie income Is $175,000 a year. Clark Gable was born in Percy Hammond's town, Cadiz, O. His parents were Pennsylvania Dutch. Ring Lardner, who made literature out of illiteracy, never wrote an even slightly off-color line And abhors it in others.

(Copyright. 1932, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) 10 75 to 16 75 DRESSES Including Many Half Sizes The barn and home on the Marvel farm near Traders Toint. 1 Wash crepes, chuddahs, shantungs, prints jacket styles, capelets, sleeveless frocks. Fourth Floor, reflects his long and prosperous residence under the British monarchy. Believes Democracy Failure.

In brief, Mr. Selfridge ascribes our ills to democracy. He says that he is strengthened in his belief that democracy as a system of government is an absolute failure. Mr. Selfridge, of course, is entitled to his opinion of democracy.

Most Americans will go no far along with him as to admit that a republican form of government has not proven a panacea for the ills of mankind. Mr. Selfridge told the Chamber of Commerce, "Democracy never inspires, never docs anything on its own accord, never assists, hinders wherever it can, always holds back." This sounds like the sort of defense we might expect to hear from a great Englishman, if the British monarchy were in disrespute, or in danger of present extinction. However, reports of returning Americans indicate that the British crown is as stable as ever it was, and that they are still changing guard at Buckingham palace with the same old dash and dignity that have characterized that ceremony from of old. There seems to be no reason of policy why a great merchant of London should launch such a bitted attack upon our theory of government.

So we must assume that Mr. Selfridge really feels that the United States is in a bad way because of democracy. Says Mr. Selfridge: "It is an extreme sorrow to me that the country I love, where I was born, and where I have so many friends, seema to be going through a period where nobody can step on the bridge and steer the ship." V. S.

Condition Preferable. There is perhaps some foundation for the belief that this country would be better of than it now is if it had enjoyed the blessing of great and distinguished leadership during recent years. However, it is false to assume that lack of great leadership is a "disease that is corujned to republics. If the ills of the Americans are caused by lack of leadership, what causes the greater ills of the people of England? I suppose it will hardly be disputed that the condition of the aver- tge American is immensely prefera-le to that of the average Englishman, or any other subject of a monarchy at the present time. Scarcity of great leaders in times of crisis is a condition growing: out of our humanity, not out of either democracy or monarchy.

The form of government under which we live doesn't produce leaders. It will hardly be contended, I hope, that any king now living has ever displayed any remarkable qualities of neighborhood when the Marvels did and who had been early friends. "Dad said he used to drive to Madison for rock salt for the stock," Mr. Marvel said. "And he carried corn to the Geisendorf mill to be made into meal so it could be baked before the flre on this johnny- cake board or cooked In this deep pot with the legs which raised it above the coals on the hearth.

"When my father was just 'a chunk of a he jumped into the creek to rescue a little boy who was drowning, and when people asked his name he ran away all dripping, he was so modest. He was always interested in local history and was sorry that all the family papers from England and from Delaware were lost. Neighbors in early days were the Wilsons, my mother's family; the Burdens and Gladwills, and friends were all who came to trade at Traders' Point." Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hunter of Indianapolis now own the Marvel land with its hills and dales and flowing wells.

UNFURRED COATS the role of Columbia in a Washington celebration. Heat Is withering even to patriotism, so I decided to run down to the Confederate reunion in Richmond to prove an alibi and test that 'patriotism In the lieus where folk sit through "America" and spring yelling to the feet at blare of "Dixie." So I set forth for "Our Southland." That goes immensely with reunion audiences. Any surd-voiced, lack-luster speaker can get one "hand" at least with a mention of the Southland. Two hands with two mentions, and so on. Even a rebel yell will respond to the magic catchword.

And at the Jefferson hotel I was caught up a maelstrom of Southrons, rebel yells, pigeon-wings, war recitals the slurred eighteenth letter of the alphabet. For in Virginia speak a language individuate to the boundaries of that state. 'You get meanings by general inference rather than by accurate understanding, just as you do a foreign language you "studied at school" after a fashion. I met an old schoolmate from Alabama who is living in now, translated by marriage, as it were. Asked how Bhe liked her new habitat, she explained: "You know who I am, back home.

Grandfather was a Supreme court justice, father Governor of our state. Here I am nobody. You don't have to have a nickel to tinkle against a tombstone, nor a rag to your back, but you must have Virginia blue blood. No others need apply. I have joined the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Confederate Memorial Asso-- elation, but I don't inch far into the sacred first families of Virginia.

You are or you aren't." And, really, I found most of the women with very insular acquaintanceship. They knew the elect. The Randolphs, the Talia-ferros (pronounced Tolivers), the Byrds, the Pollards, the Fairfaxes, and so on, frequent each other. Thereby missing the great tingle of life, knowing people who think differently, live otherwise than ourselves. Such a bore to meet only the same folk all the time, especially if they are self-contained, satisfied first families! Nevertheless, it is charming to contact these F.

F. and know that pride of race, simplicity of living, complacence of demeanor and charity of spirit still survive. Governor John Garland Pollard thus represents not only what his people grandiosely refer to as the commonwealth of Virginia, but also that evanescing integrant part of existence known as the family. Before dinner we had a blessing instead of a cocktail. The repast was delicious but not partified.

Smithfleld ham at its best, chicken at its toolhsomest, and plenty of vegetables, salad and blackberry tarts as only a Virginia colored cook can prepare them, served on rare colonial china, graceful Sheffield old crystal, in the mansion built in 1813, every room of which, uncluttered by furniture and gewgaws, spreads with dignity to a broad main hall. This has been the official residence of the chief executive of Virginia since that time when it replaced an old two-story wooden structure, and here many of the world's notables Reg. $15 to $23 Silks, Velvets. 7.00 Rog. $15 to $25 CoatS 10.00 Reg.

$25 to 39. Coats 14.00 Second Floor, BY AGNES McCUIXOCII HANNA. "Because they knew my grandmother then a young wife was an Indian girl and a member of their own Pottawatomie tribe, the Indians came to her log cabin and asked for cake. She baked ginger cookies, using sorghum molasses for sweetening. Then they would dance round and round in her dooryard.

This happened not once, but several times." Everett E. Marvel, who told me this story of his grandmother, lives not far from this house which replaces the grandparents' log cabin about five miles northwest of Traders' Point, just across the Hendricks county line in Brown township. Mr. Marvel is much interested in pioneer times and likes to talk of them. His great-grandfather was Robert Marvel, a sailor, who came to the American colonies from England and settled in Delaware.

He was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and early in the nineteenth century he started for the West with his family. Scouted for Home Site. One of his sons married an Indian girl, probibly after the family had moved to this locality. Passing to the west of the' new and sparsely settled capital city, Indianapolis, they camped from day to day and scouted for a home site, for land to "take up" from the government. Finally two separate parcels, each of forty acres of wild land, were selected and entered during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin VanBuren.

This land was attractive because of the ease with which six fine flowing wells were made ready for use. The log cabin was built in the lea or shelter of a hill and this old barn was built on the top of an adjacent one. The walnut and poplar timbers from the old cabin were used in part in this cabin which replaced the old log structure before the civil war. Resemblance to Kin Marked. Mr.

Marvel, whose resemblance to FUR-TRIMMED COATS 0i 29-37 N. Illinois St. Reg. 16.7 to 29.73 Coats 1 0.00 Reg. 29.75 to 59.75 Coats 1 9.00 Reg.

$45 lo 69.75 Coats 24.00 Keg. 79.S0 lo $12S Coats 39.00 Second Floor. 16 75 to $35 DRESSES Spring and Summer Frocks leadership. Also, I believe, it would be as difficult to find in England as in America a person who would argue that the institution of royalty has anything to do with the production of outstanding men to guide the destinies of a nation. In fact, there is greater likelihood that competent leadership will be produced in a democracy than in a monarchy, and the reasons for this are so obvious that it seems hardly worth while to go into them extensively here.

Mr. Selfridge didn't presume to issue a prophecy in consonance with if Ideal for vacation and travel wear prints and dark frocks with jackets. Fourth Floor. his Indian grandparent is very MJIA marked, told of clearing the fine land of its immense timber stands, and of the many relics of the early Indian tribe which he had found as a boy his pessimistic views of conditions in the United States. He could haraiy have done so without predicting swift and catastrophic disaster both in America and England, lor there when working with his father.

It is said that no drpp of blood was ever shed in Hendricks county in between the whites and redskins, of are few English statesmen who will not tell you that their country is the greatest democracy in the world. whom a thousand followed Col. Abel C. Pepper and Gen. Tipton, leaving the forests of their childhood for the We Americans undoubtedly nave 29 75 to 49 75 DRESSES Amazing Values Every One made our mistakes, and it would be new lands west of the Mississippi.

indelicate to go into the international ramifications of some of these errors of a great republic. Viewing the condition of the world as a whole, raurhaps we may be pardoned for saying that we are not the only ones who have made mistakes in the last two decades. Dressy frocks for afternoon, dinner and club wear light or dark shades. Fourth Floor, I Ft I i suits- Always interested in aboriginal and pioneer days, Everett Marvel has made a collection of early implements, among them a round stone ball, a most unusual weapon, which was hurled from a net made of thongs. Another rare piece is a basalt hatchet, whose shaft was broken many years ago.

Other things are tools for skin dressing and coin grinding, which he has refused, to sell to other collectors. Trees Planted by Father. "They talk about this being a mechanical age," he said when we were looking at his treasures. "There's not a man alive who could shape such tools for grinding corn and dressing skifts, nor put such an edge on flint arrow heads; it took fine work to chip flint into such shapes." When I asked him about the cot-tonwood trees under which this little house hides, he paid they had been planted as "whips" by his father, Josiah Marvel, the grandson of the English sailor who later became a member of Congress from Delaware. When the Marvels came to this part of the country, there were bear and deer in plenty, with more than ttfo hundred species of bird life.

By the time this second house was built, the family was raising cattle and hogs and horses and was selling butter along Blake and Patterson streets to city families who came to the have been entertained with that blending of stateliness and gentility which constitute the Virginia manner. Before the mansion is arched a large horse head of iron on a standard, where their mounts were tethered by cavaliers calling in courtesy or affairs of state; fancy the type of costume such a horseman would wear British Burgoyne, French LaFayette, knights, senators, emissaries of nations, colonials In stocks and, during "reconstruction days," when Virginia constituted "Military District No. 1," Gen. Jim Schofleld, military commander, occupied the mansion and shackled his mount to the ring of the iron hitching post. Ah, if that iron horse could neigh, it would be no mere twitter, but a whinny of magnificent pride in his service to his commonwealth.

The beauteous Suzanne Pollard is now Mrs. Boatright and lives in Washington, D. but the week-ends with her father and was present at the strictly family dinner and the next day following was to see- her younger brother, Charles, wedded to a maiden even younger than his young self. The queenly little chatelaine of the mansion is Peggy Clarkson, who, before marying John Pollard Jr. two months ago, carried off all the honors in her graduation class at Newcomb college and was accounted its most popular senior.

She is beautiful and sweet as well as intellectual, and a fitting mate to her young husband. The manse in Richmond will always come to my mind as a home; a spacious place with the accents of refined generations sensitized against grossnesses, and where the Pollard family, real people, did not have to learn, but inherited the grace of living beautifully. And there was the Negro chauffeur, Robert, whom the Governor placed at our disposition night and day, who, when he called for us at the Jefferson hotel the first time, we mistook for some envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Haiti or Siam, or the Transvaal. He was so gorgeous' in attire, corded with bullion, his uniform fitting perfectly his sjx-foqt-plus handsome figure. We gave him a glance, and the coat of arms of Virginia on his great car, and called a taxi.

After that convoying home we knew Robert. It was he who urged upon us the 'glorious drives, especially the memorable one -to Williamsburg, and he paused at every marker on the historic road that we might reacquaint ourself with revolutionary and '61-'65 history. He proudly announced he had driven three Governors of Virginia. It is this pride of office which invites a young cousin of the Pollards to bowl her simple little two-seater of a popular make around to the back of the mansion. Jessie Pollard laughed in telling It.

"But to make up for his distaste for seeing a cheap car in front of the Governor's mansion he always washes it by the. time I leave. So I forgive him." My biggest reunion thrills came in Richmond's churches; St. Paul's, where the pew of Robert K. Lee is blanketed by the Confederate flag and upon which a tablet, forever marks the place he worshiped.

Near, by is the pew of the first and only President of the Confederacy, in which he was praying at service when the dispatch was handed him, from Lee, announcing that he could no longer hold the city of Richmond. Mr. Davis left at once, shuddering from the shock, but quick to use such expedients as were, at band. And then old St. John's, where, in 1775, a convention was held to deliberate upon the oppressive measures adopted by the British government for enforcing the collection of taxes levied upon the colonies.

As the largest auditorium in Richmond the meeting was held In this church, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, being present. Many of the members of the convention hesitated to commit Virginia to any act of resistance, but 30-year-old Patrick Henry, occupying Pew 47 (now marked by a bronze tablet), rose and flashed the electric spark which exploded the colony in revuiutlon when he exclaimed with the flre that must have inspired lio'uget de l'lsle in France: "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or me death." In Richmond also, is the W'hite House of the Confederacy, now a museum, each of the thirteen confederated states having in it a memorial room. Visit Virginia, if you love your country and its valiant early history. Its estates on "the noble James," Shirley, borne of the mother of Robert E. Lee, and Westover the latter the ancestral roof of the first colonial Governor, William Byrd their gardens of Dorothy Perkins roses, irises, purpurin and white; hollyhocks, lilies and fields of Michaelmas daisies, enchanting eye and nostril.

Just now, in the dry season, you may step across the historic James on stones in some sections; perhaps later In the summer one may cross it dry shod as one does the bed of the Rio Grande in August. But there are charms about all of Virginia's yellow rivers, suggesting an Intimacy Impossible to great volumes of expanslonless waters. Monday's Value Surprise! FROCK SALE "Copies" of $7.95 and $10 Summer Styles Keg. sis to $2S Suits 9.00 Reg. $25 to 39.75 Suits 14.00 Reg.

39.75 to 49.75 Suits 1 9.00 Reg. 49.75 to 79.50 Suits 26.00 Second Floor. MAIN FLOOR CLEARANCE- Still Need for Belief. Now, as to the future. Of course we are going to come out of the depression.

It would be folly to minimize the seriousness of the economic situation which leaves so many persons unemployed who are willing and anxious to work for a living. It would be vain to pretend that we can solve the major problems of human association so long as such unfortunate conditions can exist. But I don't know of any sane person who has been so foolish as to represent to the world that we Americans have achieved perfection in government and in economic adjustment. There is still need for major measures of relief. I have outlined my own ideas as to what some of these measures should be in this series of articles heretofore.

The country is moving rapidly toward the correction of one of our great mistakes. Prohibition as we have known it since the war is to be wiped out ps soon as the American people can register its determination in this regard. A considerable measure of prosperity will grow out of the correct of this mistake. Other political errors will be corrected also, in due time. While political action can not suddenly restore the prosperity we knew a few years ago.

I believe this country will be the first to enjoy really prosperous times again. Important relief measures, such as public works, involving the letting of contracts, are difficult to get under way in a democracy, due to the political machinery which was originally designed to protect the public treasury. Probably our experience in the present period of unemployment will result in the formulation of laws which will make such relief measures easier to understake in a future crisis. For it would be vain to suppose that this is our last depression as it is foolish to ignore the fact that it isn't our first. Depressions come and go.

The bigger we are, the harder they seem to hit us. Some day we may be able to provide against economic crises. But such provision will not grow out of a change of form of government, either to monarchy or to communism. (Copyright, 1932, McNaught Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved.) Fingerless Velvet Mitts Match Evening Gowns PARIS.

July 9. Velvet mitts are next. Midseason fashion shows displayed fingerless mitts of transparent velvet to match the evening gowns with which they were worn. Th. mitt a whifh WPTft lPSS than elbow length, were worn wrinkled Reg.

1.95 to 2.95 Sweaters 1 .00 Reg. 3.95 to 6.00 Swim Suits 2.79 Reg. 3.95 Lacy Knit Frocks 2.98 Reg. 5.95 to 7.50 Sports Frocks 3.00 Reg. $15 to 16.75 Sports Wear 7.50 Reg.

i.5o to 1.95 Silk Lingerie .75 Reg. $5 to $10 Pajamas 3.89 Reg. 79c to i.oo Silk Hosiery .48 Reg. 1.95 to 2.95 Handbags 1 .29 Reg. 1.95 Cotton Dresses ,1 .39 They are "copies" but WHO CARES when they are so lovely? New Sports frocks, "Sunday Nites" (you'll want to wear EVERY night) and afternoon luncheon frocks! Capes, Jackets, Boleros, bows sashes they've EVERYTHING to make you WANT them! Cantons, Rough Crepes, WASHABLE CREPES, Flower Prints, Stripes, Dot Prints White, pastel colors, navy blue, black.

DOWNSTAIRS STORE softly down tne lower arm. non aquarelle shades are the favorite colors. Wool Corduroy Popular Summer Sports Costume PARIS, July 9 A new wool corduroy has made its debut for summer Bports wear. It is woven with a wider rib than the velvet variety and is generally used In white. One of the smartest summer sports costumes is a little jacket suit of white wool corduroy worn with a purple beret and scarf of knitted wool..