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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-06
Back Yard Gardening
Dahlia, Aristocrut Among Flo7Uers,
VIII Lend Brilliance to Your Garden

Next to vegetable gardening. an inn
portant item on your budget is growing
aowers for the home. To give you the
most authentic information on this sub
ject. The Times has asked some Of the
outstanding specialists in this field to
write series of six articles, each on his
own speciality. Here Is the first.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-06
C0NSTIPATED
80 YEARS
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

For thirty years 7 had
chronic cons tipatio on.
Sometimes i did not go
for four or Ave days.
| also had awful gas
bloating. headaches and
pain In the back. Ad-
'erika helped right away.
Now 1 eat sausage,
bananas. pie. anything I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-06
BEGIN HERE TODAY

Toby Ryan. 10. Is a commercial MODEL.
posing for photographs To be used In
entertainments. She shares an apartment
with Harriet Holm. also = model.
At charity style show Toby meets
wealthy Tim Jameson. who showers her
with attentions for y time. Tim leaves
town for "a few days" promising to
call Toby AZ soon IS he returns. The
time stretches out and no word comes
from him.
Toby spends day con location"
making photographs 10 illustrate = may
sEine story. when she reaches home
letter IL waiting for her.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-06
Your Garden

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i. U. Club to Hear Bowling

"The Inherent Powers OF the
Court" is to be discussed by Henry
M. Bowling. indianapolis attorney.
at the Indiana University Club
luncheon this afternoon in the Co.
lumbia Club.
Evening star., 1936-10-04

fame to the city. are built the beauti-
full homes. While the downtown sec
ton rests in Jones Valley, all but the
colored people and the poor worker.
live on the slopes Of the Red and
Shades Mountains, extending 6 miles
to the south and east of the COM
mercial center. What makes 1t 20
delightful Is that no attempt has been
made to urbanize this region, and you
find it rural and picturesque. No
wonder the women call their city the
industrial city beautiful!
Another fact that the women en-
phasize with great pride Is that Bir-
mingham Is the greatest Sunday
school and church going city in the
world, as shown by recent study
made by the International Sunday
School Council of Religious Educa-
ton. For the church plays an i'm
portant part in the social life Of
their city.
However, this desire to be good is
an aid, not hindrance, to our liberal
outlook" they say. And as an ex-
ample they quote from an article pub
lished in the editorial pages Of their
afternoon newspaper entitled, While
Birmingham Goes to Church on Sun
day." which pointed out to its readers
the distinction between religion and
church, and showed that neither the
French Revolution, in Russia today,
nor in Spain among the loyalists, is
religion actually being crushed and
dead. And then the women ask.
In what other city in the South will
you find such honesty Of expression
and belief in the newspaper mirror
ing the feelings Of the people?"
Evening star., 1936-10-04
|ANT COLONIES ARE HOBBIES
Newest Pets for Home Amuse With Cape and Are Admired
Because of Their Celebrated Industry-Trbe Is Found
| to Thrive in Humidity of Washington.

colony, in that 1t is founded around
a queen ant, who rules the male and
female workers in her realm?
That the males play an unsports-
man like trick on the females by dying
very early in life, leaving the business
of keeping the community going to
the workers?
That each ant in a community is
assigned a certain duty. each CO.
operating with the others for the gooc
of the colony?
That ants are devoted to the mem
bers of their community, instantly
recognizing their fellow citizens and
even saluting them as they pass, while
at the same time they will drive for
eign ants-even of the same species
away without hesitation?
IF YOU have been fascinated by the
multiple blessed events of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guppy. you will no doubt be
equally as intrigued at the process OF
watching the baby ant through his
infant stages. Ant eggs are easily dis
tiguishable In the anterium. White
or yellowish in color, the workers
carry them down into TIE tunnels,
finding the warmest and most moist
chambers. where they hatch in two
weeks. The eggs do not turn into
ants at once, but pass through what
is known as the larval stage. At this
point the workers have not a mo-
until tho C1 TAd lar.
vac are arranged in different rooms
according to size.
In another month the ants are
full grown, but usually covered with
a silken cocoon which they begin to
break during the next three or four
weeks. Watching the ants gather
around the baby when it emergeS
from its cocoon and help it straighten
out tiny legs and smooth its wings
is one of the attractions offered from
the ever changing stage In the
anterium.
With magnifying glass even more
intricate details about your anterium
pets can be discovered.
Ants have been described by ento-
mologists as a superfamily, divided
into five subfamihes. And by their
waist lines you can distinguish them.
It's the node-or hump-that counts.
For instance, the bluebloods Of the
Myrmicidae family boast two such
nodes at the waist, whereas other less
impressive families show only one
hump.
Scientists have described more than
5000 different kinds Of ants. Mr..
Barber believes that the new ant
craze will turn up interesting new
specimens of the ant world and do
much toward introducing new ant
habits and even new families into
the science of these tiny insects.
Evening star., 1936-10-04
By Frances Shippen.

IF YOU haven't ants in the home,
you're passe.
No use throwing up your hands
= in horror, declaring that for years
you and your neighbors have fought
the tiny pests. For ants-oh, yes, in
their place, Of course-are the very
newest educational home hobby.
Pet birds are history. and the guppy.
that little fish that SO recently took
the country by storm, must swim into
q back corner. And all for that insect
whose industry We were taught to
admire in school and whose appear
ance we learned to abhor in the
kitchen.
Ants are the newest pets. And an
ant colony is supposed to bring more
pleasure than the singing Of birds or
the breeding Of guppies.
ANTS are the busiest creatures in
the world, as we'll as being the most
intriguing" according to T. H. Barber
and Thomas M. Lyons of Denver
Colo. whose idea Of presenting ants
to the public in the glassed-in anterium
has spread from coast to coast.
One actually grows fond of the little
creatures, as they furiously work, with
Evening star., 1936-10-04

their newspaper desks when he put on
What Price Glory" that he introduced
Authoress Clare Hummer to the the
ater with Good Gracious Anabelle," )"
and Don Marquis with "The Old Soak, I"
and, most of all, that there Is still q
living theater in which stars and play
wrights may be discovered, iterate
ideas expressed.
Mr.. Hopkins was a newspaper re-
porter, a publicity agent and a man
ager of small vaudeville skits before
he made his debut as a major producer
with 1.-The Poor Little Rich Girl" in
1912 All three types are notably
voluable in the expression of their
opinions about almost anything, but
there Mr.. Hopkins has not run true
to type. He Is famous for his silences,
even when he Is collaborating on the
production at hand. And like most
men Of the sort, he is quite aware that
he has never hurt himself or anybody
else by something he didn't say.
Evening star., 1936-10-04

These women wrote up all the old
historic houses in Alabama. They
showed all the old rural plantations
in the State and their history. As q
frontispiece. they have map explain
ing exactly how the motorist can reach
them, with all the highway locations.
They were mighty pleased when they
received this years prize from the Ma
tional League Of American Pen Women
for the best non-fiction submitted.
Their only regret seems to be that only
two Of the Birmingham houses could
be included. However, the modern
homes of the city are so handsome
that they feel they are making a great
cultural contribution with them.
Proudest of all are the women here
of their symphony. 1t is the first real
symphonic orchestra to be developed
in the South, and they feel it expresses
the great cultural changes taking place.
NINE. BIRMINGHAM is sentimental
N over her city. She calls it a
new city, since it was founded dur
ing reconstruction days. And is
great booster Of the fact that the
downtown section Is squarely laid
out and so we'll systematized that
every location is easy to find. Alas,
to the stranger, fear 1t offers dirty.
drab and ugly appearance, with streets
always filled with the poor Of the
city. For here, If you have anything
at all, you have car and ride in
1t. However, this feeling is quickly
lost when one approaches the resi-
Dental environs. For in those very
raa,intainS uhich hroai1ht rnld and
Evening star., 1936-10-04
POE IN NEW DRAMA
Arthur Hopkins, Magnetic Figure in The
ater, Casts Hull of 'Tobacco Road
in "Different' Role.
By Robert B. Phillips, T.

IT HAS long been the boast of
Arthur Hopkins that, as the
atrical producer, he makes no at
i tempt to discover what the public
wants or will buy at the box Office,
but instead devotes his energies to
putting on plays which please him.
It might, therefore, be suspected that
the rotund, seasoned manager, who
will present Washington with a play
about Edgar Allen Poe on October %,
has led hard and Improbable life
in the theater.
On the contrary, Mr.. Hopkins
quixotic attitude, combined with
sound Judgment and good taste. has
borne rich fruit, the profits Of such
meritorious and popular productions
as What Price Glory" Anna Chris
tie" THE Hairy Ape" "Burlesque,"
''Machinal" Gin which Clark Gable
played big parD and Paris Bound"
Therefore, when the latest offering
of the Hopkins Office comes to the
National Theater, the wise will ex-
pect q shrewd and showmanlike
drama, rather than the dreamily ar
tistic botch that might be made OF a
stage biography of the most romantic
figure in all the history of American
letters.
THE meteoric resplendency of Poe's
l. life, its pitiful romance and
tragic end have necessarily intrigued
novelists and biographers, but most
of ALL an existence so swift and COM
pact in all its elements should be
suited to adaptation to the drama.
At least Mr.. Hopkins is banking on
1t and he has engaged Henry Hull
to play the leading role, an expert
ment in breaking an actor out OF a
type" that has become firmly atfixeo
10 his name.
Mr.. Hull has played Jeeter Lester
10 long In Tobacco Road" that many
who did not know him before imagine
that he is a bearded old man, VINO
chews tobacco, talks Southern turkey
dialect and never owned sult OF
clothes that wasn't patched.
As a matter of fact, before Tobacco
Road" Henry Hull was regarded as
one of the more reliable leading men
on Broadway. Nevertheless, the pop
ular illusion, the inevitable associa-
tion of an actor with type, remains
to be broken.
That also will be no novelty for Mr.
HOPKINS. Years ago he cast the i'm
mensely popular light comedy actor,
John Barrymore, and made dramatic
star of him in Richard III" and
s'Hamlet," united John and Lionel
Barrymore in "The Jest" took Pauline
Lord out of a minor role in road
company, put her in ION Trial elmer
Rice's first play and then In the
successful "The Deluge," Samson and
Delilah" and Anna Christie"
MR.. HOPKINS is no novice at the
AA game, nor has he seen every script
he believed in become hit. Some OF
his most reliable henchmen, Philip
Barry amongst them. have handed him
duds, but he has had the satisfaction
Of knowing that he took Laurence
stallinzs and Maxwell Anderson from
Evening star., 1936-10-04
BIRMINGHAM WOMEN MAKE INDUSTRIAL CITY BEAUTIFUL
CULTURE. TAKES FIRST PLACE
Proud of Place World of Manufactures While Studying Trends
in Government and Caring for Those Who Are
Employed Literary Life of City,

the importance Of the middle class
is negligible, for where salary people
in other cities are labeled white collar
or middle class, here such divisions
are on different lines. Money has
nothing to do with social recognition.
That you either do or do not have
social pre-eminence has been ground
into you from babyhood on. In either
case you have your place and your
work to be done.
In the heavy industries you find
few wives employed. As one woman
put 1t, who ever heard Of a woman
working, in a steel mill or mine?
However, Mrs. Housewife must take
her husbands job seriously. Often
she gets up at am. to get his break
fast and fix his lunch basket. She
must be on the job no matter what
the hours of his shift may be. Her
duties are many, and that she has
done a good job was shown during
the depression. A social worker, in
emphasizing this point, challenged
me: Go into any city and you will
hand in hand the way we had it here
during the depression. In most places.
domestic relationships among the poor
were seriously upset. Not here. for
our working man respects his wife.
He considers her cooperative wage
Garner"
T FIND that the Birmingham social
ite also has her job. 1t is one
entirely aside from being charming
hostess in her delightful home. While
she adores belonging to the magnif1-
cent private country clubs, when her
means permit 1t, or in participating in
the gay dances and elaborate dinner
parties, she, at the same time, feels
definite sense Of community obliga-
ton and responsibility She will do
volunteer social work. serve on the
Community Chest Board or in other
civic capacities as need demands. But
on the whole she prefers a more per-
sonal relationship. Where her hus-
band is in business, she regards it as
her job to become acquainted with
the family life of his workers. She
goes into their homes, teaches the
women how to cook, how to budget
their money. what diet to give their
babies. Health and education for
their children, as we'll as decent hous-
ing for her particular workers, she
regards as part Of her job.
But times are changing. and the
great battle of paternalism versus
unionism has swept the country. These
women are intelligent. They are
closely following the trends of the
times, and most earnestly are trying
to understand them in terms of their
own personal problems. You find them
sadly admitting that where the en-
ployer and his wife have not taken
a personal interest, conditions are apt
to be horrible.
often you find these conditions
among families getting good wages"
challenged a much bewildered liberal.
as We sat on her beautiful terrace
discussing conditions. II agree with
the great labor movement in this
country-and yet those workers here
who have decent homes, whose chill
Evening star., 1936-10-04
Civic Theater Cast

II ''~~>>osS~@ " ~~'~S S@>S@eSA A4s-ss
found its Cleopatra, its Caesar
and the rest of the people of shaw's
comedy, Caesar and Cleopatra" to
open the groups season at the Ward
man Park Theater October 81.
Yvonne Kushner will be Cleopatra,
George Harrington will play Caesar
and other roles will be filled by Elinor
Cox Karsten, Thomas M. Cahill, Paul
Bradbury Walter, Norman Rose, Har-
rold A. Weinberger, John Rappolt,
Mannix Walker, r. ]. Watson, Gren-
willie Longerbeam, Wilton Mendelsohn,
Wade Robinson, Charles Grunwell,
Sam Schor, Harrison Libbey. Roland
Gaylord, William Jordan, Paul Muir
ply and Edgar Kloten.
Apollodorus, an important role, has
not yet been cast and there are other
smaller parts still to be filled.
Director Day Tuttle Is rehearsing his
players nightly ct the Civic Theater's
Workshop.
Evening star., 1936-10-04

dren are raised correctly and who are
living best are those whom we guide.
You will find the Southern woman
from either class preferring to deal in
personalities" she continued. Trade
unions and sweat shops mean nothing
to her unless her husband happens to
belong to the union or has union
troubles"
I have also found a great deal of
antagonism here about the "shoeless
South" stories. Another question that
many Of the women who avidly read
all the news out Of Washington ask Is
on the statement made by Nine.
Secretary of Labor. "Miss Perkins says
that when we buy a dress for $5.75,
it means some girl is not making
living wage at her work" Then they
ask, How can buy dress for more
when have not more money!" Other
women, I find. have been studying
this question and are answering in
terms of "it is not price alone that
counts" They are endeavoring to
show that good material, strong sew.
ing, and style are also important and
must be counted in the price, or else
the women here are being cheated as
we'll as the girl in the sweat shop, by
cheap goods.
THAT Birmingham women are in
terested in consumers buying
education has been recognized by the
owner of the city's finest department
store. And in an effort to encourage
this, and to spread the knowledge more
commonly, he recently created a new
Office on his staff, called Public Rela-
ton Counsel. An outstanding social
worker, who has won national repute
and brought glory to her home city
Of Birmingham, has accepted the place.
At the present moment she Is filled
with enthusiasm that Birmingham
women, through the consumers point
of view, will build up a splendid de-
mand for the right kind of mer-
chandise. Since this is the first expert
ment of its kind in the South, many
leaders are following it.
While the women insist that they
hate to be mixed up with anything
politically, I notice they have taken
on a splendid w. P. A. job through
their garden club work Working
through the public officials here, they
have procured from the President
sl24.853 grant for Identification Of
Birmingham. However. their main IN
centive Is to put to work 1000 lone
colored women, who are on the relief
roll, doing the kind of job they like to
do. These women, with the aid of 800
handicapped men for heavy work, will
have the task of making the city
beautiful by planting growing things.
The garden club women are to supply
both the shrubs and the tools. The
PIT. A. Is also cooperating, and as a
start, they are taking four schools in
the city and landscaping them.
Another project accomplished re-
Gently was one undertaken by the Pen
Women personally. It was inaugurated
and completed before the w. p. A.
turned its attention to such projects.
Evening star., 1936-10-04
Bv MathiIde Bahar.
BIRMINGHAM, AL.

B1CM1NS1f1AM, fAAA
~ BIRMINGHAM women are grow
~ ing articulate In expressing
the spirit of the new South.
But far deeper than the eco
homie developments are the intel
iectual changes evidenced among
them.
The women tell me that it is the
effect of industrialism that brought
about these changes. For Birmingham
has never been a typical agrarian
Southern city. 1t is an important steel
center, which came into existence
with the discovery of large deposits
of iron, dolmite and coal in the sur
rounding red-earthed mountains.
Madame Birmingham speaks proud
iy of the great industrial forces in
her city. Yet she will pause to ex-
plain gently that the women are on
guard to counteract any sordidness
that such forces may give. 1t is
their aim to provide a cultural and
educational background, and they are
therefore investigating many fields
and SCHOOLS OF tnOugnt.
At first, this took the form of liter
ery organizations. writer's Bahar
clubs and poetry societies. Yards OF
poetry, they tell me, were written
some of it excellent. Today you find
about 20 Birmingham poetesses are
being read in national magazines and
newspapers. And numbers are still
writing, even though unsung. So
great has the public interest in poetry
grown that during poetry week last
Spring an exhibit was displayed in
the windows of the First National
Bank.
GOMEHOW one gathers, after speak
ing to many women, that the
vogue at the present moment is to
be beautifully liberal. National prob
lens are being meditated upon and
intelligent opinions are expressed. I
was even given to understand. by an
important woman editor, that those
women who find that they cannot
give intelligent study to new trends,
since it is beyond their experience
and grasp, are actually envious of
those who can. Every one wants to
read and keep up with the times.
You understand that this is not
the attitude of Mrs. Average House.
wife" she fastened to explain, but
of the leaders, who in turn always
sway the women. It is the same here
as anywhere else, some women are
unaware of everything, others hate
change, but the rest of us want to
learn, to understand, and fear are
greatly confused by many changes
and attitudes
Because of Birmingham being a
Southern industrial metropolis, the
women claim that they have always
held a more important place in the
social structure than the women in
neighborhood cities; that man re-
CARDS her as a partner rather than
O burden or an ornament.
She also believes her problem to be
very different from that of the women
In other cities. In the first place,
Evening star., 1936-10-04

little privacy, behind glass walls, Mr..
Barber declares. You will laugh at
their capers, feel sorry for them when
their tunnels cave in, and marvel at
their untiring work, he says.
The private lives Of ant colonists,
presented In this unique manner. first
caught the public's attention at the
Chicago Worlds Fair, and since that
time the living habits Of these minute
insects have become public property
throughout the country. Undoubted-
ly, an anterium in the home is the
newest pet fancy.
With the minimum of care you can
watch Mr.. Soldier Ant protecting his
community, or Miss Nursemaid Ant
watching the young. or Mr.. Builder
Ant constructing additions to his
home.
SPEAKING of care, here's one pet
you needn't fear overfeeding. For
the ant has excellent table manners
and is no glutton at his daily meal.
If you feed him too much, he has
enough sense to eat the right amount,
storing away what he doesn't need.
His temperance along these lines is
probably the chief reason contributing
to his longevity. Some entomologists
have kept ants as long as seven years.
Feed your colony a bit of sugar or
honey every day with funnel through
the cork hole in the top of the ante
rum; clean the glass with cloth on
wire when the glass becomes muddy,
and moisten the soil very little when
it becomes dry. and you can maintain
a colony indefinitely, Mr.. Barber says
Ants should want no better home than
right here in Washington, for they
thrive on humidity.
Watch your ant community behind
its glass walls and you will learn that
the little nhabitants-usually about
20 in number-have definite system
Of living.
Did you know that an ant colony
has something in common with bee
Evening star., 1936-10-04
Hummingbird American.

The hummingbird Is q distinctly
New World bird, being found nowhere
other than the Americas.
classified, but only one type. the ruby
throated, is ever found east of the Mis-
SisSippi.
Evening star., 1936-10-04
Saturday

Jimmy Allen in
Sky Parade"