WALTER P. CHRYSLER TELLS OWN STORY
Fight—A family
that helped
tame the prair
ies in the 70’a
when Indiana
were still a real
danger. Reading j
to right, Walter J
Chrysler’s J|
Mother, Father ||
and Mother’s ||
sister. j
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• ’ A railroader’s home
I in Ellis, Kansas,
•, . where the auto man
M lived as a boy.
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Walter P. Chrysler,
above, at age 2. Left,
\ “a tough kid.” Below, at
about 20.
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Pictures by courtesy of the Satur
day Evening Post
ALTER P. CHRYSLER, the auto
1 T mobile manufacturer, was a small
town boy in the truest sense of the word,
the marble champion of Ellis, Kansas,
who became a champion in one of Ameri
ca’s great industries.
Mr. Chrysler calls his story, “The Life
of an American Workman,” in the first of
a series of articles beginning in the cur
rent issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
He paints a vivid and homely picture of
the childhood of an ordinary boy in the
pioneer days of the West. It is the en
vironment of millions of Americans who
established the first rough com
munities of the Great Plains
States, the generation from which
rose many of today’s outstanding
industrialists. 9
Walter was the third of four
children. Both his parents were
of German descent. His father,
Canadian-born, was brought to
Kansas while an infant. His
mother was “a lovely Missouri
born girl with a peach-bloom com
plexion” who became a big, power
ful woman of the frontier.
That was in the 70’s before the
prairie had been tamed. Then the
hoofs of buffalo and antelope
crushed the short grass around
the scattered houses that com
posed the town of Ellis. Indians
were still a real danger—‘‘a scalp
raising fear,” Mr. Chrysler relates.
He was a year old at the time of
the Custer Massacre, (61 years
ago Friday, June 25), three and
a half years old when a band of
Northern Cheyennes, led by Chief
Dull Knife, slaughtered white peo
ple in Decatur and Rawlins coun
ties in the fall of 1878.
No wonder Mr. Cfcrysier says,
'■You had to be a tough kid.”
"For that matter,” he continues,
"if you were soft, all the othei
kids would beat the daylights out
of you.” At the age of five, he re
calls being sent to the store or
the other side of town for coa'
oil. Another boy ran toward him
crying, "Indians are coming!’
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Young Chrysler took 'o his heels,
of course, but he did not drop the
oil can while scooting for home.
The Chrysler home was charac
terized by the warm culture of the
German family. The auto man
describes in rich detail the in
dustry, the frugality and the de
sire for a better life which were
the motivating forces of his par
ents’ lives.
Why, his mother presided over
the only barbershop his father ever
knew. “Work? Of course, a boy
had to work in a household where
my mother was the ruler." Later,
as he grew older, Walter took jobs
outside his home. He sold fancy,
lace-edged calling cards to the
women of Ellis. He shared the
chore of milking his mother’s cows
and peddled the milk to the neigh
bors. During a summer vacation
from high school, Mr. Chrysler
writes that he got a job as delivery
boy in a grocery store and worked
from six o'clock in the morning
until ten thirty at night for ten
dollars a month.
Henry Chrysler, the father, had
enlisted in the Civil War as a
drummer-boy when he was twelve
years old. After the war, Hank
Chrysler returned to Kansas and
went to work in the railroad shops
at Armourdale. He became an en
gineer and piloted the work train
that laid the first rails across
Kansas. His son writes that when
the old woodburning engines were
replaced Hank Chrysler took the
throttle of the first steam locomo
tive on what was then the Kansas
Pacific Railway, (now the Union
Pacific).
The youngster was permitted on
rare occasions to ride in the cab
of his father’s thundering engine.
To that environment Mr. Chrysler
attributes his love of machinery.
As a result Walter lost all in
terest he might have had in cows
and grocery stores. Moreover, he
refused to take advantage of his
father’s offer of a college educa
tion. Instead be became a sweeper
in the machine shops of the rail
road, determined to become a
machinist’s apprentice.
The elder Chrysler declared an
grily that the boy should not learn
machinery and he would not rec
ommend his son for the job. How
ever, Walter got into the shops as
a sweeper—ten hours of back
breaking toil each day for one dol
lar. After six months of sweeping
he was accepted as an apprentice.
His father was won over and he
started unknowingly on the road
to Detroit.
Top Ice CreamWith
Delicious Preserves
Homemade Sundaes Delight All
WHETHER you make ice cream
or buy it, you can count on its be
ing one of the favorite dishes to oe
enjoyed by the family There are many
ways to dress up the ices, sherbets,
and ice creams, but the addition
of fruit preserves and jams offers so
much in the way of convenience and
variety that it undoubtedly heads the
list
Sundaes are always a delight to chil
dren and make a wholesome and wel
come dessert when made from any one
of the variety of fruit preserves avail
able in the grocery stores today Keep
your reserve shelf filled with an as
sortment of these and serve them often
Ice cream contains all the food ele
ments found in milk, and milk is said
to be our most nearly perfect natural
food Therefore, when serving ice
creams to your family, you are giving
them wholesome food in a form that
they all enjoy In adding preserved
fruits in combination with ice creams
you are adding the food nutrients of
the fruits as well.
With modern refrigeration methods,
one can store for several days commer
cial ices, sherbets, and ice creams. This
way the busy homemaker can be pre
pared at a moment’s notice to concoct
one of these delightful fruit sundaes
that will prove to be a satisfying food
surprise to all members of the family.
Most everyone enjoys nuts in com
bination with ice creams, and following
is a sauce for ice cream that introduces
this well liked flavor by the use of pea
nut butter.
Peanut Butter Caramel Save*
\ 1 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons table rreacs _
1 tablespoon butter ♦
5 tablespoons peanut buttet
s Combine sugar, cream, and buttef Allow to
cook until syrupy (boil about four minutes)
Remove from fire and cool Add the peanut
butter, blend well Serve on ice cream and top
\,wit h whole or chopped nut meat*.
Modem Columbus
HAVANA, Cuba . . . Lieut. Anto
nio Pelaez, of the Cuban Navy,
will command three airplanes
named the Pinta, Nina and Santa
Maria, after Columbus’ ships, on
a good-will tour of the Americas
on August 3, the 445th anniver
sary of Columbus' discovery.
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1 raveling Around America
I • MODERN MURALS IN CHILE ■
■I . COMPLETELY disproving the
Wm O idea that all is primitive in
■ South America—a muralist of the
■ modem school is shown painting a
f panel presenting a modernistic in
terpretation of jungle scenery for
the Hotel O’Higgins in Vina del Mar,
the “Biarritz” of Chile.
\ Last year Helen Treadwell, well
9 known mural artist from New York
9 sailed on one of the weekly cruises
F to Pern and Chile, for a three weeks’
vacation, little dreaming that there
would be any demand for her very
■ modernistic type of work down
L/ there. She proved to be a much mis
% taken young artist, however, for the
|L Chilenos, quite as chic and up-to-the
\ minute as their northern neighbors
IK above the Canal, are Quick to follow
current trends and It was only a few
days after her arrival that Miss
Treadwell was commissioned by
Don Sergio Priete, the alcalde, or
Mayor, of Vina del Mar, to paint
modernistic panels for the million
dollar gambling Casino at Vina del
Mar and for the new O’Higgins,
leading hotel at the seaside resort—
the latter furnished and decorated
In the ultra modern manner of the
newest Mid most exclusive hotels in
our own-ptountry. During her stay
which was prolonged from three
weeks to more than a year, Miss
Treadwell executed several murals
presenting modernistic represents
tions of Chile’s scenery, her foresl
animals, her natives and the cuecs
dance, the popular “step” In Chile
French Toast Sandwiches with Jam
Here Is Answer to the Ever Present Question, "What shall I serve?"
IF you have a young son or daugh
ter who likes to help in the
kitchen, you will surely wish to re
member the opportunities which
French Toast Sandwiches afford.
Children always enjoy sandwiches,
and when youngsters are permitted
to prepare a few for themselves, they
seem to appreciate them more than
ever. French Toast Sandwiches are
so easy to make that any child can
prepare them.
Those who entertain at breakfast
will find the French Toast Sand
wiches a fitting answer to the ever
present question “What shall I
s6rve?“ The possibilities are really
unlimited in this new and attractive
sandwich which will fit into yonr
breakfast, luncheon or supper menus,
equally as well as the afternoon or
evening snack. ;•
The ingredients necessary for Its
preparation are such old standbys
that your pantry shelves will un
doubtedly hold them ready before
yon ever check the recipe.
The return appearance of this taste
treat on your menus will call for
variety and this can easily be ac
complished by varying the flavor and
type of topping used. Fruit preserves,
jams and jellies are available at all
grocers in unlimited variety, so you
should have no difficulty in using dif
ferent types of spreads for this sand
wich.
Treat your friends find family to
this delightfully different sandwich
that can truly be called delectable.
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French Toast Sandwiches
Prepare sandwiches in usual manner
and trim off crusts. Secure each corner
In place with half a toothpick. The filling
used in these sandwiches should be as free
of moisture as possible. Cheese spreads,
or prepared meat and sandwich spreads
of any kind are particularly well suited
for this purpose. Dip each sandwich in a
mixture of beaten egg and milk, or a thin
fritter batter, and fry In deep fat (4"
d<Sep Is sufficient). Drain on absorbent
paper. Serve piping hot, topped with fruit
preserves or jam, such as strawberry,
cherry, raspberry, peach or loganberry.
For a less hearty sandwich—omit dipping
in egg mixture and fry until golden brown
in deep fat.
! COMPOSER JOHNNY
GREEN at work. The
talented young American
musician is busy writing
new tunes for his Tues-.
day evening NBC-Red
network broadcasts.
Pretty Trudy Wood will
sing Johnny’s songs.
... ii inunm—inn~n-33...
P'long shot comes Thome!||
^Rounding the last stretch atl
Narragansett Park, Pawtucket,||j
H R. I., Victorious Ann drives ||
1 thru the tape for number onel
if place in a recent racing classic ^
THE WORM THAT:
TURNED seems to have j
hooked this young lady as j
she tries an "Izaak Walton"
on the campus of the College
of Our Lady of Good Council, I
White Plains, N. Y.
ROYAL FAMILY AT HOME: Britain’s Monarch, George||
VI, and the Queen steal an hour from their duties to||
play with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, m
It is such unposed photos as this that show how human §|
the figure-heads of history really are. • ||
PAUL G. HOFFMAN, Chair
man of the Safety Traffic
Committee of the Automo
bile Manufacturers Associa
tion, and President of Stude
baker, has been elected Pres
ident of the newly formed
Automotive Safety* Founda
tion through which The mak
ers of cars, parts, tires,, and
motor finance companies are
spending upwards of a half
million dollars In 1937 for
highway safety promotion.
DID YOU EVER SEE a
ghost talking? Well, here's
one. Bill Adams, former
Shakespearian actor, who
won world-wide fame as
President Roosevelt’s radio
ghost voice on the March, of
Time, Is very much alive as
feature editor of the "Heinz
Magazine of the Air," Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fri
days over CBS.
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MINNEAPOLIS-QUEER CITY OF TWO PLAYGROUNDS
GATEWAY TO STATE
OF
LAUGHING j
WATERS A
(Center) Aerial view of
Minneapolis, showing 3 of
its 11 lakes. (Top left)
Minnehaha Falls. (Top
right) A 30 pounder is a
common catch. (Lower
left) It’s supper time for
these Minnesota wood
folk. (Lower right) Minne
apolis skyline seen across
one of her lakes.
MINNEAPOLIS is America’s chameleon city. It is all things to
all people; self-sufficient as her own "Yem Hell,” as the
Swedes called James J. Hill, empire builder of the Northwest; con
tradictory as a woman, and a town everybody knows about but
few people know.
Queen over winter sportland, renowned for her winter sports
events, net nrunani snaiets, sue
equally famous as the gateway to
the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes,
summer playground of the United
States.
Hundreds of thousands of tour
ists flock into Minneapolis each
year, by plane, by car, by stream
lined train. Their minds are bent
on the spell of the lakes—on trout
(400,000,000 fish fry are planted
In the lakes each year by the state
fish and game department), deer,
mysterious forests, flashing cas
cades of rivers, fishing nets, moose
feeding on swamp sedges, the
wind-fresh adventure of the north
land where 7000 miles of state
highway link the city with remote
tcanoe trails of the Superior Na
tional Forest. And they go away
convinced that Minneapolis is con
fident, clean, important; and beau
tifully sympathetic toward fisher
men, with her big fish contests
conducted by the newspapers and
prize catches exhibited in windows
of downtown stores.
How intimate a picture do they
V
get of the town they pass through?
Some of them enjoy the wide
boulevards that girdle the city
with fifty-eight miles of macadam,
envy the natives their eleven
lakes, their 144 parks, their order
ed citizenry that knows no slums.
Others may stop to consider more
seriously some of the contradic
tions that fascinate travellers from
abroad, to whom our American
cities are as distinct in flavor as
are Paris or Florence to tourists
from the United States.
Minneapolis is eighty-one years
old—a ripe human span. In those
eighty-one years she has exchang
ed half a dozen crude huts beside
Father Hennepin’s Falls of St
Anthony for steel skyscrapers
thirty-two stories high. And the
descendants of a handful of New
Englanders who barricaded them
selves in Fort Sneiling to protect
the white fur traders rule a citj
that has almost, but not quite
forgotten lawless Pig’s Eye Par
rant, who came down the Red Rivei
®-—
Trail from the North to found St.
Paul across the river.
The Mississippi’s rocky gorge
still cuts through the city, but to
day her banks are lined with ele
vators that store 83,063,000
bushels of grain, waiting to be
^processed into flour by the “Big
Five’’ of the milling industry of
the world. *
The contrast of her resources is
still keenly defined—the gracious
plains to the south yield her the
largest butter production in the
country — the arrogant Masaba
Range to the north, the greatest
amount of Iron ore. She is ma
ture, sophisticated, twentieth cen
tury. Yet because her security
rests on things of the earth, she
has remained well-planted in the
soil with the peculiar stability of
an agricultural community.
Children from neighboring farms
come to her University with its
550-acre campus, listen to the
great Minneapolis Symphony or
chestra, go home for vacations.
But a music remains with them, a
sound that haunts every visitor
to the land of lakes and calls him
back again and again, a sound no
other city in the N world can dupli
Icate—the voice.'of the laughing
waters that gave Minneapolis her
name.