Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1941 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1941

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DENVER, July 22.—Joe Williams, that old Kipling of the sports pages, was sitting on a deep divan the other evening belaboring this harmless correspondent for not writing a column on some sports subject now and then. : Joe was out here to cover a golf tournament, and I am out here because I'm lost and can’t find my way out of town. So I said to Joe, “You're right. And I'm willing. But I don’t know the difference between football and horseshoes. What will I write about?” And Joe said, “All right, my stupid friend, here’s one right in your lap. Go out to the golf tournament tomorrow, pay no at- . tention to the golfers, but write about the silly people who run themselves to death chasing around ahead of the players.” : “It's the greatest story in America,” concluded Joe. “I should write it myself.” . So that’s how I happened to go the final round - of the recent P. G. A. Golf Tournament. It was

"/' . just as Joe said. The way several thousand people

run their eyes out keeping ahead of the players could really be classed only as a mild epidemic of. local insanity. : ' My brother-in-law and I never placed less than fifth in the racé to the next hole. We would have . beaten the whole pack except that we had never _ been on the Cherry Hills course before, and we frequently ran in the wrong direction and- would have to back-track.

So He Sees a Golf Tournament

Have you ever been to a championship golf tournament? It’s fun, provided you aren’t especially concerned with the golf. The strategy of tourna-ment-watching is to run way ahead to the next hole in order to get a good place, and then, just before the players get there, break and run. on to the hole beyond, in order to get ahead of the pack. By the time you've kept this up for 18 holes you've covered around five miles and haven't seen any golf at all, : Outside of this maniacal stampede from one hole to the next, a golf crowd is certainly well behaved. The only person I saw in the whole throng who . Seemed actually to be having a whale of a time was a middle-aged fellow sitting in the shade on the bank of a creek that runs through the course. He was pretty well teed up (golf term) and he kept cussing and laughing and asking how the match was coming along, and his wife told him that if he wasn’t careful he was going to fall into the creek, and he said he didn’t give a damn if he did, it might be fun. You've heard about the awful silence that comes

they had lost within an 'heur.

By Ernie Pyle

over a golf crowd when the players are ready to putt, I suppose. Nobody dares make the slightest sound, you know. ! There are thousands of people jammed in a huge circle around the green, and yet I'll swear you could hear a whisper a quarter of a mile away. This is known as golf etiquet. Unfortunately for the perpetuation of this tradition, I went to the golf match without eating any lunch. As a result, combined with all the running, my stomach got the rattles. Every time I took a breath, there would come from within me a long,

"uncontrollable rumble. °

I tried to hold my breath, but the players were slow, and eventually I'd have to let go and take a deep one, and then it would sound as if I were tearing up the pavement with an air-drill. People “were glaring at me, d going ‘“sshhhh,” and F don’t know how many putts I caused the players to miss. The disturbance was finally quieted by a policeman bringing me a sandwich. I was terribly embarrassed. 1

Posing a Mystery Probably the funniest sight at a golf match is

to see four fat women running down the middle]

of the fairway, trying to get to the next green before the players drive off. Of course they never 'get there, because they can’t run that fast. When they're about halfway a policeman yells through a megaphone, “Clear the Fairway!” ” It’s just as though you had shot the women. They break instantly, like a rabbit when he hears a gun. Two dart in one direction, one in another, and the fourth starts running in curves, not knowing which way to go. They lean sideways as.they run, and even the policemen have to grin, and wait goodnaturedly till the wounded fawns have reached safety. Some people actually go to golf matches to reduce. We heard several fat people joking about the weight Which led my brother-in-law to raise an interesting question. He figures that with 5000 people running madly all afternoon, several thousand pounds of flesh -must disappear, Put this all together, and it would be enormous, like a truckload or a box-car load. And yet you don’t see it lying around anywhere. The golf course looks -just the same after they've gone. Where did this lost fat all go to? All right, where? I could write lots more about what a silly exhibition the public puts on. Except, as I say, my brother-in-law and I got co excited we ran faster and longer than anybody else, which sort of interferes with my critical approach to the subject. So let’s stop. : I hope this passes for a sports column, and keeps Joe Williams from jumping down my neck between now and the World Series, which I expect to report in full, play by play, over a leased wire, provided somebody will tell me when it is and who's playing.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”

WE'VE BEEN HEARING so much lately about the difficulty of getting airplane reservations that we decided to do a little investigation work of our own. And we discover that more than 60 per cent of the passengers passing through Indianapolis’ on the three lines operating through here are bent on some mission directly connected with the defense program. What's more, at least half of all the express shipments originating here, terminating here, or just passing through, are related to de- ' fense, too. Just one example: Parts go regularly from the Allison plants to the Illinois Tool Co. in Chicago for precision machining operations and are returned by air to Allison’s. And airline executives expect that in future months, gs the defense program takes on more and more impetus, even a greater percentage of passenger and cargo traffic will be related to _ defense. : One Indianapolis businessman who returned recently from Washington reported that all planes leaving the capital (at three-hour intervals) were booked a week in advance. Just a footnote on defense, that’s all.

You'd Run, Yourself

WE TOLD YOU the other day about the mix-up in the two examinations at the State House, where

» Washington

WASHINGTON, July 22.—The Administration’s methods in dealing (with Congress, it seems to me, have lately improved and fit better into the democratic idea. Once the standard practice was to draft a law and send it up to Congress with orders that it must be passed. Remember the Supreme Court bill. Congress didn’t know what was coming until the complete draft of the bill was sent up with the Presidential message. The bill had been drafted by three or four close friends of the President. Such: tactics put Administration leaders in Congress on the spot. It made them bitter to be kept in ignorance of what was coming and to have a bill shoved at them about which they had never been consulted. Members resented this, naturally feeling they should share in the formulation of legislation. Neither was it good for the Administration to freeze its position publicly and be compelled to resist all change in order to save its face. A more democratic method is seen in the current framing of price legislation. Leaders in Congress and Leon Henderson, Price Administrator, are working out the bill together. . Henderson knows more. about price fixing and the problems that will arise in’ connection with it than any member of Congress can know. Therefore, to draft a bill without his pare ticipation would be foolish on: the part of Congress.

The Political Factors

But there are some political factors to keep in mind. The Administration must accept what it can get, not what it might want. So it is better to lean upon the judgment of Congressional leaders as to what they can reasonably expect to get through. They are the ones who must defend the legislation in committee and on the floor. - They are better able to defend it if they have participated in the drafting and know what it is all about. Some of the most humiliating scenes in Congress have occurred

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—I took two groups _ of people over to the library yesterday and each time found a goodly number of visitors who 'seemed to be enjoying the exhibits. My two young cousins, the Rathbone boys, were very charming guests. They en-

joyed the library just as much as they enjoyed the little boats -on our pond and the swimming in the pool. In addition, they were extremely useful at our picnic lunch, * afid I wished I could always have #7 two such nice young assistants. ; At 4:30, Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau came up for a visit. Then, after a brief talk, I took four guests, who had come up to discuss the refugee problem, up to my cousin, Miss Laura Delano, for dinner. 5 : Today the Arthurdale advisory committee members are coming up to meet with me and to lunch here. Then I am going to New York

one girl had come to take a pharmacy test and was found in the room taking the beauty culture exam. Well, that same day they were having exams for financial institution examiners and one gentleman who was hard of hearing wouhd up, likewise, in the beauty culture divisions. He'd been there about 30 minutes, obviously suffering, when one of the super-

Sixteen bands led thousands of children in a parade last night that opened officially the week-long Aluminum-for-Defense Campaign here. The admission to the parade was an old piece of aluminum-ware,

visors walked up and asked if he was having trouble. | ¢

“Trouble?” he barked. this, anyway?” She told him. Face red, he left. Running,

This and That— i,

VIRGIL M. SIMMONS, the former State Conservation Commission director and now head of the Public Works Reserve Board in Indiana, is recovering from an emergency appendicitis operation performed early Sunday in a Bluffton hospital. , . . Ronald Hazen, chief engineer of the Allison plant, has just arrived back home after a five-week trip to England. . « « The Police Department Las contributed its hit to the Aluminum Collection Campaign. Pots and pans which have figured in records and have been stored in the property room were donated to the cause, but

the biggest item came when the officers heaved four old slot machines into the aluminum bin set up at headquarters. :

“What kind of an exam is

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Even Mayor Sullivan brought pile.

By Raymond Clapper}

when an Administration leader, trying to defend a rubber-stamp bill, has had to excuse himself from the floor and run to the telephone to ask some Government official what a certain section meant. Leaders are more eager to defend a measure which they have had a part in preparing than if they are come pelled to stand in their places knowing that everybody knows that they are nothing but august ruboer stamps. You say Congress should do the lawmaking alone. Well, that is a schoolbook idea in these times. Most legislation now is highly complicated and technical. [t is too complex, too tangled up in administrative requirements, to be the sole responsibility of legislators who must spread themseives out thin over a wide field. Dictators have taken a short cut and eliminated the legislature entirely. This Administration tended in the same direction, preserving the formalities but hardly the spirit of the legislative process. .

Praise for Wayne Coy

Congress is poorly equipped to frame complicated technical legislation and must lean on executive familiarity with the problem in hand. But the executive is pporly equipped to do a complete drafting job because Congress has political problems and limitations which must be taken into account. Leon Henderson and Congressional leaders are poolirig their knowledge and judgment in price legislation. That is the way it should be done. The same procedure has been applied belatedly to the draft property bill. The War Department originally sent up a bill which blew the hats off Congress. After that blunder, a redraft was prepared through conferences between Congressional members and the War Department. Assisting was Wayne Coy, of the Office of Emergency Management, who has proven more diplomatic and therefore more effective than some other of his New Deal colleagues. The result was a draft which was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Leon Henderson and Wayne Coy have shown ability to work with Congress in shaping tecknical legislation in a way that sets a desirable pattern for the future and puts new life in the democratic method,

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

Parent’s Magazine has now decided that the girl in her teens has no magazine designed for her particular interest. Therefore, they are getting out a Publication entitled: “Calling All Girls,” edited particularly for the gentler sex. I was reminded on Saturday, by one of our guests, that a couple of years ago we celebrated my brother's birthday in North Carolina and attended the pageant of the lost colony at Roanoke Island. In July of this year, Roanoke Island began the celebration of th ‘354th anniversary of this lost colony. ; . As we look at what is going on in! Europe today, I cannot help feeling that this is the year for all Americans interested in their own history to see this pageant. There is 50 much in the play pertinent to what is going on in the world. Great Britain was

fighting Spain in those ddys, as she is fighting Ger-|’

many today. The spirit which made her victorious then, is what must be counted on to make her victorious now. : I do not think anyone can attend this outdoor theater performance without feeling an admiration for the artistic quality of the production and acquiring a genuine interest in the locality, and its

The Camp Fire Girls from School 4 were there to do their ypart.. They represented

Cam-ti-kaya Grouv No. 51.

He shows it to Keith Gregg, aluminum campaign organizer. Workers hope to gather 100,000 pieces before Saturday.

Leading the contingent from School 16’s playground was Frances Sheehan, 1304 Everett St.

a contribution to the aluminum

Charles Gisler Jr., 3068 E. Fall . Creek Blvd. was ready.

Majorettes Hazel Gleason (left), 135 St. Paul St., and Mary Carrico,

1309 Standish Ave. led the V. F.

W. Sons, Marion County Council,

They balanced aluminum pots on the-ends of their batons.

Every Kid in Town Was There—Headed by Governor, Mayor; Even Peanut Vendors and Police Chief Had to Donate fo Cause

By SAM TYNDALL The aluminum for defense campaign got off to a clanking start last night when some 15,000 youngsters beat on their pots and pans out of time with 16 bands in the largest kid parade ever staged in Indianapolis. Every child in town who could talk mom and pop into letting him go, marched hilariously from South and Meridian Sts. to the World War Memorial Plaza. There the children dumped their pieces of aluminumware into a big pile, sang “God Bless America” and then were hurried home to bed. Those who couldn't join the marchers sat on the sidelines with their parents. * : And aluminum campaign officials reported today that not one child (regardless of how hard he may have tried) got lost from his par-

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Parade Marshall Homer Capehart,

who has marshalled more than one parade in his time, ran into something new last night. The paraders were really on time. At the stroke of 7, the announced starting time, thousands of boys and girls were waiting impatiently, with a pan in one hand and a flag in the other, for someone to start te

usic. : Mr. Capehart took his cue from the noisy youngsters and jumped into. a police motorcycle sidecar and speeded up. and down .the formation we're ready to go.” began at 7:15 p. m. R88 Heading the parade were Governor Schricker, carrying a longhandled. broiler; Mayor Sullivan

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with a pan, and Col. Walter 8.

Drysdale, Ft. Harrison commander,

with a “hurry it up now |

After the Governor reached the, Chief concern of the motorcycle Plaza #nd had thrown his broiler|escort which cleared the march into the aluminum pile, he took off |line with its red lights and sirens, his light gray felt hat, mopped his|was a contingent of youthful pot brow and said: and pan bearers who persisted in “We walked too slowly for those |breaking ranks to dash up between kids, but that’s hard work.” the motorcycles.

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Uniformed Legionnaires who

turned out in large numbers to].

“convoy” the children broke their own ranks to herd the flock back to their positions. # o »

Several hurriedly improvised “floats” appeared in the parade. Biggest attraction was an avtodrawn trailer strung with clothesline on which hung every type of aluminum kitchen item that could be ferreted out. The float was an enterprise of Boy Scout Troop 116. :

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» J ” And the biggest attraction of the parade on the basis of an extemporaneous shouting vote from the

sidelines, - was a small pig which ran along between two large bands,

pulling a red wagon.

In the wagon was a large board-ing-house style percolator, which bore the words “Uncle Sam.” ” ” ”

Several members of the Junior League waved pots and pans to the crowd from the front seat of a sta-tion-wagon. The back end was piled ‘high with aluminum-ware. » » »

No one dared to make their appearance on Madison Ave. where the parade ‘line formed, without showing his offering. Even peanut venders hung pie pans from their bhskets. The pie pans went into aluminum pile alonig with all the rest of the articles. : » » » A rousing hand from the crowd weifit to crack troops of the 201st Infantry from Ft. Harrison which set the military pace in the parade behind its own band.

Police Chief Morrissey, who per-

“Keeper of the Central Pile’ on the Plaza was Jack McClain who had “Uncle Sam" painted on the tea kettle he brought.

and American Legion “forces” ase signed to make it safe for the chile dren, admitted that all the scrap metal dumped in the back seat of his official limousine were parts from old slot machines salvaged for defense from the police department property room. Chief Morrissey pointed out thas bachelors don’t have kitchens from - which they can draw used aluminum and the next best thing was the property room. *

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Zow, 'aced shoes are called -?

2—An ostrica thrusts its head inte the sand because he wants te ~ hide or to seek for water? 3—Paleozoic is the name of a plant, a geologic era, or a rare dise ease? 4=Who wrote “Ivanhoe”?

5—~The name of which flower fits phrase: “As

6—What is the national emblem of Scotland? i T7T—What word denotes the science of animals? :

: Answers 1—Oxfords.

2—To seek water. 3—Geologic era. 4—Sir Walter Scott. 5—Daisy. 6—The thistle. 7—2Zoology. . » ” so

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