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Inside Indianapolis

COWBOYS AND their “faithful pintos” are o. k.

as screen tare, but the kids in the 1000 block on He's

Union st. prefer their own “man with a horse.” Gus Bova, 971 8. Delaware st, who's been the fruit and vegetable man out on the South side some 15 years now. . .. Roy Rogers and “Trigger” don't run a close second to Gus, as far as the-kids are concerned. . As soon as he turns his horse and wagon onto Union st, the children pour out of the houses, clamoring: “Let me ride today, Gus, take me.” Gus usually stops and loads a dozen or so in between cantaloupes and gap the cob, lgtting them ride to the end of the block. . When he stops; he lets the tots who are too small to compete for rides, sit in the driver's seat, and if they're quiet he lets them hold Nellie's reins as he sells produce to their mothers ... Count less South side albums have pictures of offspring posed on Gus’ wagon. As we passed the other day,

The “favorite horse” of 1000 Union st. . . .

Harriet Kay Glasier takes her turm “holding” Nellie while Gus, the vegetable man, goes ahout his work.

Atop Pike's Peak

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 25.—Today I rode in one of the little locomotives of the Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog railroad up the nine-mile climb to the summit and back. If you have never seen these ontlandish-looking mechanical burros, ask Grandpa to tell you about them, He and Grandma ‘made the trip back in the '90s. Perhaps with the engine I rode—No. 3. It and three others, so W. H. McKay, the master mechanic, tells me, have been snorting and puffing up to the peak for 52 years. Mr. McKay adds that they will soon pass from the picture. In 1939 the road started a modernization program. A 24-passenger car, powered by a six-cyl-inder gasoline motor, was put into use as an experimental unit. Later they bought a 52-passenger car with a Diesel unit. Both types of equipment functioned well, Mr. McKay reports, and they have been in use since then. Another Diesel unit is on order. Today, though, both modern cars happened to be out of order, and the pld steam donkeys had to handle all the traffic, heaviest in the road’s history. The passenger car is not coupled to the engine. Toe engine just pushes against. the car's roller bumper. On the return trip gravity is the only coupling needed. And if the engine should jump the track and go rolling down the mountain, it wouldn't jerk the coach with it. The brakeman would apply the brakes and stop the coach. The trip I made was an emergency run. The coach of one of the regular trains had developed trouble and a call had come down for another car.

Coal Is Shoveled Constantly

SO ENGINEER T. J. Weigand, veteran of 31 years with the cog road, was assigned to take No, 3 and push a coach up the peak, No fireman was available in a hurry, and another veteran engineer, Frank Smith, who has been cogging 22 years, volunteered. Up the mountain we went, roaring and rocking, smoke and cinders pouring from our high stack, the cogs pounding, “steam hissing, making about eight miles an hour. . When you look either forward or backward at the grade, you are amazed that you are elimbing at all.

Science

I THINK those correspondents aboard the Appalachian who had been so hasty in disparaging the atomic bomb on A-day, began to regret their words a little during the following days. We got our first view of the target ships when we moved back into Bikini lagoon shortly after noon on A-day, July 1,. Though fires were raging on & number of the target ships, the general impression, gained through prism binoculars, was that the damage was not very great. However, we did not get very close to the target ships that afternoon. The water of the lagoon was still highly radioactive in spots and the radiological safety patrols ordered us to one end .of the lagoon where we anchored about a mile from the white sands and waving palm trees of Bikini island. The next morning we were permitted to steam through the target array and by the afternoon of July 2, it was considered safe to permit us to go close to the target ships in a fairly small craft, namely, an LCT, These tours on July 2 gave us our first inkling of the fury of the atomic bomb.

No Confirmation Issued IT WAS apparent at once that the atomic bomb had not exploded directly over the orange-painted Nevada at the center of the bull's-eye but had exploded some 500 yards to the southwest. That figure, of course, is & pure guess. But it is also the guess of Dr, Karl Compton, chairman of the joint chiefs of staf! evaluation committee. Joint army-navy task force one announced in advance that it would issue no official information on the subject of where the bomb exploded, and that it

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday. —Yesterday evening, I went with Mrs. Morgenthau to a preview of a film on a section of Africa under British control. The color photography was beautiful, and it was extraor-

dinary how well the natives did their parts since, in

the whole film, I think there were only one or two professional actors. I find that I am a very poor : Judie of whether a film has general appeal. Often I fail to see the reason

why it appeals to one particular group or is very much

disliked by another. In front of me, last night, sat two young men who thought that this film would have to undergo considerable changes before the public would really take an interest in it. It certainly showed the best type of British colonial official, and it brought out the problem of tropical diseases and the efforts made to cope with them. I doubt, however, whether there are many countries under foreign rule where treatment such as was pictured in this movie is universal. Where there is one really good administrator who takes a sympathetic

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blond, blue-eyed Harriet Kay Glasler, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Glazier, 1005 Union st, was sitting solemnly at the reins “holding Nellie for Gus.” When he finally had to lift her down so he could move on, Gus gave her the same promise that he’s been trying to fulfill for years. “Some Sunday,” he says, “I'll come out with the wagon empty and let all of you ride around all day.”

Passed Up Statehouse Site.

A HOUSE that was built 85 years ago by the late William Engelking still stands at 1008 Union st It was built there after Mr. Engelking bought the site “in the country” instead of a more central spot which he’d been considering. The spot that.he passed up for the Union st. location now is the site otf the . Mr, Engelking and his descendants have lived in the house continuously since its construction. The present residents are Mrs. Grace W. Benson, the builder's great granddaughter, and her husband, Bert “Chick” Benson. Mr. Engelking was widely known on thp South side as & grocery man. He kept a store at 1001 Unign st. when it was numbered as 101, We got all that information from Mrs. Benson; when we cornered her on her lunch hour from the American National bank,

Gus Has a Competitor ONE OF THE current gripes out on Union st. is about 10 feet of abandoned ‘city property between the sidewalk and the front lawns along 1000 Union and over on. Wilkins st. The residents have to care for the property and cut the grass, but they have no right to use the land. Their fences have to set back 10 feet from the sidewalk, which tends to make the block rather unusual looking. , . . The last minute vacation hustle and bustle filled the Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Brudian residence at 1016 Union st Mrs. Brudian’s daughter, Mr8. Robert Klein, was doing the

zero hour packing for her mother, who's going to| §

Martinsville for a leisurely vacation. . . . We also looked in on the street's flower enthusiast, 74-year-old Henry Miller, 1020 Union st, who thinks he's probably the block's veteran resident. Mr. Miller, who retired after 40 years as a shipping clerk at C. B. Cones & Sons, was getting all his flowers trimmed and de-weeded as he waited for a visit from his daughter who lives in Lexington, Ky. ... As we got ready to leave, we ran into the man who's the closest contender of Gus for the title of “favorite man” with the neighborhood children. He came through,

pushing his ice cream cart. Joanne and Janet Rose|: and Barbara Haas, of| 3 1031 Union st., were the first to reach the vendor] §

Wolsifer, of 1033 Union st.,

with their pennies and to ‘walk away with popsicles.| We made a mistake, though, when we referred to him as the “ice cream man,” in 4-year-old Miss Haas’ presence. “Hmph, he’s no ice cream man,” she declared, “these are pop-sickles.”

By Eldon Roark

Poor Mr. Smith! to shovel coal constantly to keep the steam-gauge at 190 pounds, and as we gained altitude he started gasping for breath. Engineer Weigand was a mighty busy man, too. He stood up, turning valves and levers constantly. And occasionally he reached over and turned a big wheel at the top center of the boiler head. It looked like a steering wheel.

Engines Drink Up Water “THAT'S THE throttle,” he explained. Then he tooted the whistle for Minnehaha -station, elevation

8332 feet.’ Trains stop there for water, and to take on any hikers who may be weary. Above Minnehaha our track seemed to go almost straight up the mountain. Up we went, slowly and furiously. Mr. Smith shouted: “Twenty-five per cent grade. That's the maximum.” Soon we were at Mountain View, elevation 10, 012, another water stop. Those little engines drink up lots of water—about 6000 gallons on a round trip. ’ On we climbed, going so slowly that I could look down and study the beautiful little mountain flowers, Never have I seen such rich colors—blues, purples, yellows, reds. We started up another impossible grade. “Grecian Bend!” Mr. Smith ssid. “This is a 25 per-center, too.” Finally we had squirmed our way above the timberline and made the last long, tortuous push up the bald, pink peak. The stranded tourists—they had been waiting about two hours—climbed aboard the coach. The crew ate sandwiches and made some adjustments to the engine. I strolled around the peak, eating a candy bar, looking out across the plains of Colorado and Kansas to the east, and the mountains of New Mexico to the south. The air was crisp and fresh. In about 20 minutes we started down. Mr. Smith

didn’t have to shovel coal coming down. The train|

comes down by gravity, with the controls set for for-! ward motion and with a compression in the cyl-! inders serving as a brake. Steam jams are applied | to stop the train,

By David Dietz

would neither confirm nor deny anybody’s guesses. Two attack transports and one destroyer, the Anderson, had been sunk, and a near-by destroyer, the Lamsen, had been capsized, and was slowly sinking as was the submarine Skate.

Carrier Is Shattered IT SEEMED reasonable to suppose that the bomb blast had been directly over the area where these ships. went down although that may not be quite the fact. The superstructure of the Skate was twisted out of recognition. It was as though some giant had grabbed hold of it and crumpled it up like a tube of toothpaste. Superstructures in general fared badly in the bomb blast. This was true of the Nevada, Pensacola, Nag nd ‘Arkansas. The Japanese cruiser, Sakawa, was particularly battered, its decks turned into a shambles, its gun turrets cracked open, and its stern split. The most terrible picture of destruction was the airplane carrier, Independence, with its whole flight deck twisted ‘and buckled into a sort of roller-coaster effect. We hoped to board the Nevada on July 3 but the radiological safety patrols reported that it was still “hot.” As a result, it was not until July 4 that we made the trip from the Appalachian to the Nevada in the blazing noonday sun in a small boat. We scrambled up a rope net dropped over the side of the battered battleship to inspect its splintered and littered deck. The whole port side of the ship was burnt black and contrasted strangely with the starboard. side that was. still a bright orange. The stack was smashed in, the superstructure bent double, gun platforms knocked off center.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and understanding interest in the colonial peoples in his area, I fear one might find at least two administrators who look upon these people and their development as secondary to what could be gained materially by the mother country through exploitation of the people and the resources of the area,

Criminals Preferred to Bosses

I REMEMBER long ago visiting a prison camp in this country and feeling that I would almost rather ehcounter one of the criminals on a dark night on a lonely highway than to be at the mercy of the boss of the camp. Complete control over defenseless human beings seems to give too much power to the ordinary person, and he sometimes becomes rather arrogant and cruel. Ruling over people who cannot defend themselves is In somewhat the same category as dealing with prisoners, and it requires exceptional human beings

‘By Donna Mikels|

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her young daughter, Brenda, the

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By JACK THOMPSON

LEARN TO swim right in your home. Even if you don't know how to swim, i's easy to teach your 5or 6¢-vear-old child—by using the bathtub or even the wash basin It isn't. silly. It's the theory of perhaps one of the naticn's most proficient swimming instructors. Earl Montgomery has taught thousands of children how to swim at the Kirshbaum community center, Broadmoor country club and other pools. The fellow who once rode a shark at the Miami, Fla. Biltmore botel pool, worries about children and adults losing their lives, because they don’t know how to swim. He’s worried so much that he's evolved his own theories. = » » HERE'S THE Montgomery course in a few easy, simple lessons. ONE: Teach your child to hold his breath. This can be done by taking him on your lap and having him imitate you as you inhale, compress your lips together, then exhale through your nose. TWO: Fill the tub or wash basin in the bathroom and have your youngster place his head under water while holding his breati. THREE: Have the child exhale under water by encouraging him to blow bubbles. FOUR: Teach him to open his eyes under water by holding your hand on the bottom of the bowl or tub and having him tell: you how many fingers you have extended. The first four steps are confidence exercises gnd if taught carefully will help the child to overcome any fear of water he may have, » " " FROM THIS point on, the home lessons are mechanical. The above steps should be ‘thoroughly mastered, however, before proceeding with the next exercises. FIVE: The kick is one of the most important parts of swimming. In order to develop the proper kick the child should lie across a bed, | legs straight, not stiff, and his toes slightly pointed. Then he should be taught to move his legs up and down a distance of 12 to 14 inches. A shorter kick than this is called “jiggling” and is too short to transmit the full power of the thigh muscles to the water, SIX: - Next is the arm motion used in the swimming stroke, Keeping the elbows straight, the youngster should bend over and make long, straight pulls, first with one arm then the other, in a sort of windmill motion, This completes the instructions that can he given in the home. The agenda now calls for a trip to a swimming pool, one that Is supervised, that has a competent instructor. Moreover, there is no need to rush this next step. » » ” A REVIEW of all above exercises and perfection in each is most important in enabling the child to learn to swim easily. SEVEN: Because the presence of a large body of water such as a swimming pool is usually a new experience for-a youngster, your child first: should be permitted to play around in shallow water and prace tice the things learned at home, EIGHT: After he has become

to carry it through for Vie real good of the subject people, i Vig

accustomed to the pool, his next

Mrs. Irene Goldberg, 5440 N. Meridian st., teaches

home course on how to swim-—proper breathing

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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946

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first step in the

Learning to kick is another important step in learning to swim at home. Stretched out on her own bed, Brenda practices this dech-

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this art to your youngster, stand in front of him in water not over his hips. Let him hold: your hands, take a big breath and put his face in the water.” Then move backward slowly, ptilling him easily through the water, Teach the child that water will support him, NINE: After he has learned to float by himself, show your child how to stand up ‘in the water from a floating position, This is done by pulling the knees under the chin to upset the balance of the body then letting the feet down to the bottom of the pool. When he has learned the above

s | your biggest worries are over.

TEN: Mastery of the kick while in the water is not difficult. Hold your child or have him cling to the edge of the pool in shallow water and kick as he was taught at home.

WATER CONFIDENCE MAY BE TAUGHT IN WASH BASIN—

wim at Home

Next, Mrs. Goldberg instills in her daughter confidence ‘in water by having her immerse her face in the family tub, Here Brenda also learns the exciting trick of opening her eyes under water and counting the fingers on her hands.

Fully confident, Brenda waves to her mother from the Broadmoor Country club pool, while her younger brother, Gary, plays in sand

in foreground.

Earl Montgomery, instructor, watches progress of young pupils at Kirshbaum' community center. Any child can learn to swim at home if parents are patient, he says. .' 3%

ELEVEN: NEXT, teach him to apply , the swimming stroke .he learged at home in the water. See that he develops a strong deep pull through the water. TWELVE: A difficult step is the proper combination of the kick and stroke. It will take a little time but: when he accomplishes it, your youngster actually will be’ swimming. THIRTEEN: This is the last step and is somewhat controversial, according to Mr. Montgomery. He, nevertheless, says it is very important. It is teaching the child to hold his head out of the water while swimming, To teach this, you place one hand behind the youngster’s head and the other under his chin and have him swim while you hold his head out of the water,

Teaching your son or daughter

to swim might be an all-summer job; it might take longer, or ib might not take as long. But one thing is certain—once your children have learned they will never forget and some time during their lives they undoubtedly will be thankful for your efforts. » » w MR. MONTGOMERY says it hurts him more than he can describe to read about and see so many unnecessary drownings each year. According to statistics, he claims,

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PAGE 17 iri Labor Relations Chances Fade For Two Bills to ‘Aid Employers

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, July 25.—The. imminent adjournment of congress lessens chances the senate will agree with the house by passing two bills that would protect employers from “rule changes in the middle of the game.” The rules are the inferpretations of laws by federal bureaus or the final judgments on them by the supreme court. Under existing law, employers are subject to damage suits if the; follow an administrative opinion that later is tossed into' the waste basket. The tossing may be done

by the same administrator or by a court,

~ » » ONE BILL that would correct this situation would protect from damage suits an employer who followed a ruling of Maj, Gen. Lewis 8B.

«. .|Hershey, director of selective service, t1.*/egeral Hershey ruled the ‘|service act guaranteed a veteran his

lective

job back despite any seniority contract of a labor union, This opinion has been overturned by the supreme court. Many employers face suits for back pay from civilians who were displaced by returning veterans, A bill that would protect an em~ ployer from such suits has been reported from the senate military af~ fairs committee—but with strong opposition led by Senator Murray (D. Mont.), chairman of the senate labor committee, ~ ” » A RELATED measure, known as the Gwynne bill, is directed at suits for back pay under the wage-hour law. It would put a two-year limit on the beginning of such suits, and would invalidate them if the employer seemed to be acting in good faith. Both these bills have been passed by the house. The Gwynne bill has been on the senate calendar for more than six weeks, It came up in regular course June 14 but Senator Tunnell (D, Del), a union supporter, objected. As he would be expected to object if it' came up again, the bill's backers must depend upon getting a majority vote for consideration. That becomes doubtful because of the adjournment fever, » * * . THE SENATE judiciary commit~ tee, reporting the Gwynne bill, cited the operation of the wage-hour law, stating: “An employer who violates the provisions of this law relating to wages or hcurs may be subjected to suit for twice the amount involved, together with costs and fees. The application of this law has been greatly extended hy administrative regulations. As a result an employer who may have, in good faith, relied upon a certain ruling, regulation, or practice, suddenly finds himself confronted with many suits, when a change is made either by the administrator or the

the number of yearly drownings in America could be reduced by 95 per cent if everyone could swim 25 or 30 feet. And swimming is something anyone can learn—should learn, he in-/ sists. “After all, over three-fourths of the world is covered by water and almost everyone will have at least one opportunity in his life to drown.” “1 don't advocate the sink or swim method of learning to swim,” Mr. Montgomery stressed. “That's absolutely the wrong way to go about teaching this sort of thing.” He should know, because he has

22 years. en ” “ A HOOSIER of renown in the swimming world, Mr. Montgomery, in addition to his work as director of education at Kirshbaum, makes a daily circuit of Big Eagle creek camp and the Broadmoor to supervise swimming pool operation and aquatic instruction. During his long water career he| has had many harrowing experiences. Twice in Miami, Fla. as swimming instructor and pool director of the Miami Biltmore hotel, he| rode huge sharks, He once taught swimming to students at the School for the Deaf here. Among other things he has had charge of all swimming pools under the jurisdiction of the city park department and. for some time was head of the Red Cross water safety campaign here, A veteran of world war II, he served as master sergeant with the

army amphibious services in Europe. '

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. WHEN LIGHT is reflected from a shiny surface, or when it strikes the eye directly, it causes a contraction. of the pupil and uneven stimulation of the retina. This may be a source .of headaches or of automobile accidents. The human eye was developed for use out-of-doors, and bright light does not cause it any diffi

culty, except when the intensity |

is too great. Sun glasses afford relief from glare, if they are the proper type. The inexpensive variety is often made of pressed glass, and, because of the uneven surfaces through which the light must pass, these glasges may be a source of eye-strain, If you wear sun glasses, purchase ‘the variety. made of optical ground glass, which shuts out most

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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Outdoor Reading Can Endanger Sight—

Summer Sunshine Bad for Eyes

interfere with color perception, Individuals with errors in refraction may have their correction ground into their sun glasses for use out-of-doors, Reading out-of-doors in the summertime may cause eyestrain from glare if the light is reflected directly from the glossy page into the eye,

» 8-8 SUMMERTIME readers also develop eye-strain from reading. lying down in such a way that the book, magazine, or paper is not held .in the proper position. The student with. an eye diffi culty should give his eyes a rest during the summer months, Although eye examinations indicate that students’ eyes are rarely harmed by study, there is a certain variety of eye-strain, notably myopia or nearsightedness, which

‘has a tendency to become Worse

during childhood and early adult life.

» ” ” MYOPIC PERSONS should have their eyes checked from time to time, and should give-them a rest from fine work at every opportunity. Eye infection may result from irritation by strong light, although the usual cause is a germ or a virus which has been picked up through contact with someone else who has an eye infection. Use of a common towel at the beach may be the source of these infections.

» » EJ QUESTION—We have a {friend who has been told that he has stomach ulcers and that the. cone dition is getting worse. What can be done for him? ANSWER-—An ulcer that does not get better under medical treatment

enactment of the {many cases bankrupt the employer.”

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courts. The enforcement of this new liability dating back to the law would in

THE JUDICIARY committee pointed out that “the code of federal regulations now has 41 bound volumes. The daily federal register has become s0 bulky that few can find time to read it, “Yet the manager of a small business must understand and’ comply with these multitudinous pronouncements or run the risk of suits for double and treble damages or drastic arbitrarily fixed penalties. “Even if he could accomplish the

“'femarkable feat of understanding

and complying with all this, he would still not be safe. For without notice, these rules might be changed and that which was lawful when done now becomes unlawful in retrospect.”

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Atomic Age

Is Getting U. S. No Place Fast

“ATOMIC. AGE Has First Birth. day,” reads a newspaper headline, In case we've confused the atomic age with progress, .let’s look at the American family and at how it is living in this atomic age.

to rent, and its members are called “crazy” if they start to build. And no wonder. Building may be beld up for months because of some necessary item, like flooring, which just can't be gotten, If there's a new baby expected, Mama is tearing her hair (and tearing up full-sized bed sheets) because she can’t buy baby gowns, crib sheets, etc.

. no : THE chances are that Papa has not been able to buy a white shirt since his discharge from the service, The family can’t get a new car. Not even a tricycle for Junior can be found. Mama is going stockingless—not by preference, but by necessity. There’s butter—but it's too expensive to eat. ” » . THE folks have earned a vacation, but they're told they had

sure of a place to sleep at night, There are plenty of cotton playsuits for Mama (as if she had time to play, these days), but no sleeping garments for the smallfry. With money and a long shoppinglist’ in her handbag, Mama is urged to go on a buyer's strike It's great, isn’t 1t—this atomic age which is porting 3 us owiigts

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