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Inside Indianapolis By Donna Mikels

WE DID a little prospecting out on Prospect st. yesterday, in the 2500. block to be exact. We were attracted to that particular block by strange assortments of orfiaments above a Shed at 2546, the home of Mrs. Mary Hood. We're not the only person who's stopped in and dsked what a miniature house and two statuets are doing on top her shed. The ornaments are just three of the many things the late . Mr. Hood made, MTs. Hood had them put “up out the.way” until she has time to repaint them. In er house Mrs. Hood has a cabinetful of souvenirs which she and her husband collected during many years with a traveling medicine show. . . . Another collector is Mrs. Hood's friend, Mrs. Edith Pierson, 2526. "Prospect. Mrs. Pierson has cabinets and whatnots full of “doo-dads” and. her specialties, ash trays. She also has some beautiful handpainted dishes, glasses and ashtrays, all done by her niece, Miss Roberta Lipp. Another of Mrs. Person's hobbies is obvious from one look at her front porch, crowded with potted plants. She has all varieties of plants, and several species of snake plant, also known as “mother-in-law’s tongue.” - Apropos of something or the other, one of the “tongues” was tied up. Mrs.

Pierson said there was nothing symbolic about the tie; the plant was accidentally broken and the string around it acts as a splint,

Prospect st. 's top needlework team. ‘vale Clara Meacham (left), and her mother, Mrs. Sam Evans, both of 2542,

Gilt-Edged Living

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—When a cup of coffee

at dinner costs 30 cents something is wrong. When a second cup costs 30 cents more it gets funny. If it hadn't. been my 60 cents for two mugs of java, I might have laughed. Maybe. Friends, do not envy the idle rich. I just got back from a week with these overstuffed babies at a hotel we'll call the Swankleigh-Goldritz, on the board walk at Atlantic City. Listen: The room clerk gave me the first jolt. . He in the house was taken. His voice had tears in it. Would I mind taking a ¢heap room? I took it. It needed paint. It had one window, with a magnificent view across a narrow court of red

brick wall. It was eheap, all right. It only cost $10 a night, single. I think the pillow was stuffed with shavings. It rustled in my ear.

So I was up late one night, writing a piece about the big beauty contest, and getting hungrier by the minute. I called room service for a chicken sandwich and a cup of coffee. The check was $1.80. I pped the waiter 50 cents more, because 25 cents pces at the Swankleigh are not recognized as legal der.

Prices Are Lower Elsewhere

NEXT MORNING a reporter friend dropped in, while I still was shaving. I should have known better, but I called room. service for one orange juice, one tomato juice, and two coffees. The prices: $3.25, including half dollar tip. Then we went out to breakfast. My last night in town I had dinner in the Swankleigh’s main dining room; a small shrimp cocktail, two slices ,of cold duck, a dab. of fruit salad, and

A . t1 NEW YORK, Sept.- 10.—Aviation enthusiasts who watched the first jet closed course race in history at the national air races in Cleveland are predicting rocket- -type, supersonic speed airliners without fixed wings for the future, although this had seemed impossible to most of them prior to the race. The race was the “J” division of the Thompson and for jet propulsion planes only. What raised many . eyebrows was the fact that the racing P-80 “Shooting Stars” traveled around the pylons for miles in a vertical bank position. The only “lift” provided to keep the fast fighters in the air, therefore, was the very small surface provided by the slender sides of the streamlined fuselage. The wings themselves were in vertical position and thus afforded no lift.

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ON AN ordinary racing plane with reciprocating

"engine— and less power and speed—the tendency in

a vertical bank is to sideslip toward the ground if that position is kept too long. It apparently did not affect the amazing jets in that way, which poses an interesting possibility when the transonic (630 to 900 miles ‘per hour) and supersonic (712 to 758 miles per hour) speeds have been attained. The point is that if a jet racing plane traveling at 530 plus miles per hour can maintain altitude in a

My Day

HYDE PARK, Manday.—At last T am going to tell you about a bill in which I have been interested for*Some time. It has been introduced in both the house and the senate and has strong bipartisan backing. It would establish a labor extension service within the department of labor, It would provide for a $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 grants-in-aid program to land-grant colleges and universities, and to other colJeges, universities and educational institutions which are prepared to spend their resources and teaching: facilities for the benefit of the 45,000,000 wage and salary earners. The agricultural extension service in the department of agriculture now uses more than $44,000,000 of federal, state and local funds for services to some 6,000,000 farmers and their families, totaling 20,000,000 persons,

Open for Amendments “THIS NEW bill would really carry out the purposes of. the Morrill act of 1862, which provided for the “diffusion of useful information” for the benefit of persons engaged in agriculture and the mechanic arts. This bill is open for amendments between now and the convening of the next congress in January. Therefore labor, teachers and other groups have been

Solve Many Barriers

MRS. SAM EVANS -and her daughter, Mrs. Clara Meacham, of 2542 Prospect, are a triple threat “mother and daughter” needlework combination.

They make their own clothes, crochet and do fancy]

embroidery work in their spare time. The only non-sewer is Mr, Evans, who says he doesn’t think he could “thread ‘a needlg—even a “sack needle.” Mrs. Evans recently completed crocheting a bedspread and her daughter is just half way through one. It took the mother one year, one month and one day. Mrs. Meacham thinks she may try ‘to beat her mother’s record. . The block is by no means free of housing problems. A veteran and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson and three children, are trying to convert Mrs. ‘Hood's garage into a habitable winter home: When they couldn't find anyplace to live, Mrs. Hood offered them the garage, if they could turn it into a home. Mr, Johnson is busy with remodeling, but still hoping he can find an honest to goodness house.

A Big Day for-Serah Jane

YESTERDAY was a big day in the life of Sarah Jane Pothast, who's, in her own words, “almost six.” The first thing she told us when she saw us chatting with her grandmother Mrs. Mary Ross, of 2510, was a breathless: “I went to school today.” She enjoyed her first day, thought her teacher “pretty,” and was feeling pretty happy with education in general. Not. so enthusiastic, however, was her 4-year-old brother, Jimmy, who spent a lonely: day without his sister. “He moped around all morning wanting her to come home,” his grandmother said, “then when she did get here he tormented her until I_had to separate them.” When we saw them the fight was over and they were playing happily, although Jimmy still was a little envious of his sister’s new life. . . . There's another big event scheduled at the Ross-Pothast home this week. Sarah and Jimmy's father, Frederick Pothast, will be home after a year in Japan and the Philippines. , . . One of the prettiest ‘yards in the block is that of Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Barnett, 2515. Mrs,” Barnett is an avid planter of flowers and her husband is a handy man with a mower and hose.’ The result is a very green yard, set off with rows of red sage and petunias. At first the Barnetts' interests clashed; Mr, Barnett found the flowers got in the way of his mowing. They struck a compromise, with Mrs. Barnett keeping the flowers against the house, out of the way of the mower. . . . Right across the street from Mrs. Barnett we spotted another plant fancier, Mrs. Obie Bennett, 2522. Before the cement on their new porch was even dry this summer, Mrs. Bennett had her newly painted flower pots on-the ledges. She gota “mother-in-law’s” tongue start from Mrs, Pierson and some other slips from other friends. Two of her prize plants are cacti, souvenirs from this summer's vacation in Texas.

By F. C. Othman

lemon ice. That's when I ordered a second cup of coffee. The bill was $4.10, including my 60 cents worth of coffee. Do not get the ‘idea I am denouncing Atlantic City. There are many hotels off the board walk where prices are lower. Neither am I throwing darts at the Swankleigh-Goldritz. I got to wondering about what the other customers thought and I looked up the manager, A nice guy, but worried.

Prices Don’t Worry Customers HIS PRICES, he said, were outrageous. He also said his expenses, mostly labor, were so high that he lost money on all his dining rooms. He offered to show me his books. “But these people who come here do not worry about the prices,” he said. “Most of them go in the winter to Florida, where the prices are so high that our’s seem cheap by comparison. I'm afraid the thing is -going to blow up in our faces. I'l] be down in Washington one of these days on my knees, begging you to come to the Swankleigh at any price.” He also said he'd have to do something to make ends meet. Two cups of coffee next week are going to cost 80 cents. “But you haven't seen anything yet,” he said. “You ought to drop in at the Razzle-Dazzle down the walk, and ask room service to send you some soda and ice. Four dollars, unless the waiter notices you | are using your own whisky. Then he adds $2 to the | check, for corkage.” I stayed away from the Razzle,. I got out of the Swankleigh as quickly as I could. Atlantic City is a wonderful place and the board walk is made of mahogany, but $1.45 for toast and two soft-boiled eggs is too much, Fellows in the frock coats, you know it is.

By Max B. Cook

vertical bank position, then a rocket-shaped airliner with only small, sturdy fins for elevators and rudders, should easily be able to maintain flight at transonic and supersonic speeds. If that should prove -true; then aeronautical-en-gineers will be able to turn their attention from the present - fixed wing air-frame problem to that of devising movable wing surfaces which, when speed is decreased, can be extended from the rocket-type fuselage to provide sufficient lift for safe landing,

RETRACTABLE wings may be difficult to devise but science thus far has solved so many “insurmountable” barriers in aviation that that problem, too, may prove not too difficult. Swept back wings, which together form a horizontal “V” with the point forward, have been designed as good possibilities when the supersonic speed problem has been solved. With the new jet (ram and turbine) power ihcreasing rapidly, due to intensive research and experimentation, the fabled “rocket to the moon” may finally turn out to be the newest type 1000-mile-per-hour (and up) global and transcontinental airliner. As Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, army air forces chief, recently remarked, after viewing some latest aeronautical developments, “I would not be surprised to see anything happen.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

asked to study it, and improve it if possible. All| of us should sypport it, because in wider education | lies the solution, we hope, of some’ of our labor and | management difficulties. This is one of those gray, damp September days which remind us that autumn is on the way. We need rain badly. The farmers who have corn still not quite ready for their silos are prayirfg for wet weather, but those who are picking apples are praying for hice, dry sunny weather,

Trip to the Cellar WE HAVE "filled our deep freeze with all the vegetables and fruits for which we could get sugar enough to put them up. I must say it gives one a wonderful feeling of satisfaction to know that, even if we are snowed in this winter, we can always have enough to eat by taking a trip to the cellar. As though the plants knew that their time for blooming is nearly over, some of the loveliest roses of the summer are filling my vases, and the marigolds and petunias are still gay. .Even my pansies are still flowering. The other evening, though, when I was walking my little dog, 1 heard the katydids very clearly, so our first frost is not to far away.

100-Man Posse Seeks Slayer of Two Peace Officers

KEYSER, W. Va, Sept. 10 (U, P.). kin, in charge of the search, said hope they don't take him alive. Cauley was visiting when the shootOfficers and residents of the little mining area of Emoryville ( ulation oy where ore Cauley had shot and fatally woundplace late yesterday, kept a night-{ed State Trooper Joe Horne and long vigil, as the posse was joined |Shetift by 15 Maryland state. police from|of the house saying “I'll be back the Lavale “barracks. . fou”

—A 100-man posse with orders fo| shoot tykill searched, the hills to-|: day for Mark McCauley, about 33,

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against accidents. And 59 miles more of them are under contract for con-

struction in the near future with 11 additional miles on the program for next year, This means Indiana will have about $28,850,000 worth of super highways by the end of next year ~—259 miles of them, something for any state to shopt at in the postwar scramble for. tourist attrac. tions. w & W THE FIRST dual lane, divided highway in Indiana was constructed back in 1937 on highway 40 west of Indianapolis near Mt. Meridian. Nowy nearly half of the mileage on highway 40, the main travel artery east and west through Indi-

{anapolis and central Indiana has

{the dual lanes. Since then, dual lane roads have been constructed on highways 30, 20, 2, 41, 52 and 50. New construction of dual lanes will be on highways 5, 24, 31, 40, 41 and 52.

a - » STATE highway department engineers said eventually there will be dual lane roads all the way from Indianapolis to Louisville, Cincinnati, Ft. Wayne and on 31 to South Bend. Highway construction has gone

‘la long way since the first state

wide paving program -was started back in 1919. =~ At that-time, the highway com= mission bought rights-of-way only 50 feet wide for cramped, single lane pavements. Later they figured 80 feet minimum for rightof -ways. » BM » BUT, even then, engineers didn't figure on such an increase in travel. They found the 100-foot stretches

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1046 STATE'S LUXURY ROAD LANES WILL REDUCE ACCIDENTS—

New Dual Highways Planned

By NOBLE REED

INDIANA is going to be up in the front ranks among states providing luxury motoring on dual lane, super high-

And luxury motoring on these sweeping ribbons of concrete is no overstatement because every time your speedometer clicks off a- mile, it represents an expenditure

Indiana already has 189 miles of these dual lane, divided highways which have been heralded as almost fool-proof

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Books, Diapers By DOROTHY WILLIAMS

United Press Staff Correspondent 2 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—~It will be bassinets and books; diapers and logarithms for about 90,000 college men this fall The Uhited States office of educa« tion estimates that about one-third of the 900,000 veterans now enters ing colleges and universities are married. About one-tenth have children. Most of these wives and families are expected to establish their cole lege day homes on the campuses or in nearby areas,

. La J . TO GET some idea of how G. I, student’ brides will spend their time while their husbands are in class, the office polled married vets erans last semester at Ohio State university, the University of Illie nois, the University of Denver, New York university and Marietta cole lege, Marietta, O. They found that 10 per cent of the wives of G. I. students were

time courses, Another 10 per cent were taking part-time classes. d Thirty per cent of the wives were employed at the colleges or in nears by communities. About one-half were occupied solely as homemakers and most of.these had children. ”

of education predicts that similar conditions will obtain for student

‘veteran families “at colleges “and

universities this fall, “If the employment situation tightens, we may find fewer of these G. I. wives working,” he said, “but, otherwise, I think the situae tion will be about the same.”

campuses by newlyweds and young married couples is posing numerous problems for the institutions of higher learning. 3

. » » AT TEXAS Agricultural & Mee | chanical college, for instance, there |was the problem of clotheslines, hung with diapers and ladies’ pretties. The school planted a hedge in an attempt to hide this laundry of G. I. student wives, bug the shrubbery failed to grow to a sufficient height to do the trick. The college has converted two of its most historic dormitories, Harg and Walton, into two-room aparte ments for married veterans, Other G. I student couples are living prefabricated dwellings near the college stadium. Other schools across the country are taking similar steps to accome modate their going - to - college newlyweds. ® MARIETTA solege is opening its classes without charge this fall to the wives of the veteran students,

next year motorists will whiz in

sions, so recently all rights-of-way |sible for even the most careless calls for it in the next 20 or were stepped up to 170 feet for drivers to get in the way of traffic|years. plenty of elbow room even for|coming from the opposite direction. | The standard construction speci-

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ALSO the 50-foot dividing park-| ways is concrete seven to eight The newest dual lanes will be ways will leave room for construc-!inches thick in the center, increasseparated by 50-foot turf park-|tion of additional lanes, even four ing to nine inches at the edges.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Meat Not Necessarily Harmful to Aged. .

Balanced Diet Is Needed By Elderly People

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. AS WE GROW older, our thoughts turn to those things which will maintain our efficiency and if possible prolong our lives; there is little hope of life, prolongation through special diet, although premature death may be prevented by avoiding dietary extremes (overweight). The diet of aged persons should be the same as that of children except for energy foods. A well-balanced menu containing {meat, fish, eggs, cheese, milk and | dairy products, vegetables and fruits and limited amounts of energy foods is indicated.

and foods prepared from cereal, grains because they are relatively | less expensive, Is meat harmful for the aged? It elderly men or women have good teeth they can eat any kind of meat which does not distress them and they can eat as much meat as they did in the prime of life. The idea that meat is harmful to the aged was based upon an erroneous concept of its effect upon the kidney. » » ~ IT IS APPARENT now that the warning to eat less meat may have been a scheme concocted by some miserly fellow who had to feed his

{mother-in-law and wanted to cut

the cost. Constipation is not necessarily an accompaniment of advancing years, as it is just as frequent in the young who have poor dietary habits. Simple constipation can be re-

eral oil and enemas, eating two or more dishes of cooked fruits each day, two to four servings of cooked

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TOO OFTEN the elderly try to| maintain themselves by eating too | much bread, cookies, pies, cakes:

lieved by stopping cathartics, min- |

amount of water including a glass | Better still would be to maintain eliminated by thoroughly masticatthe weight 10 to 20 pounds below|ing the food and avoiding gas proaverage after the age of 45 or 50,| ducing foods.

after arising in the morning, and taking some regular form of exercise, such as walking a certain distance each day. - » o EXCESSIVE weight in the aged is a handicap to getting around and simple weight reduction i is indicated.

as life expectancy tables show the longest life in underweights.

If large quantities of food distress | with mild diabetes . which

aged persons, smaller amounts at | frequent intervals should be tried. ‘Tendency to gas formation can be!

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» » ” MANY ELDERLY persons suffer makes them ill. Elderly persons have a tendency to be food faddists and they may try this food or that with the hope of getting a miraculous result. There is no miraculous food and reliance which should be placed on

[a well-balanced general diet at all | ages.

. ” » QUESTION: 1 am a young man and have arthritis of the spine. Is this common at my age, and what is its cause? ANSWER: Arthritis of the spine is fairly common in young men. The cause 1s the same as arthritis elsewhere in the body. Arthritis of the spine tends to be self-limited but it may leave a Stiff back.

1000 NEW STUDENTS GREETED AT TECH

With the theme: “I Represent Tech,” Octavine Gent, freshman, presided at a meeting for 1000 new students in the Arsenal Technical school.gymnasium yesterday. Principal Hanson ‘H, Anderson welcomed the registrants and short talks were given by Miss Gertrude Thuemler, dean of girls, C. 2 Teeters, freshman guidance counsellor, and Harold Walter, director of guidance and counselling. Ajonzo Eidson, instructor, conducted the summer school band and & trumpet; trio composed of Wilbur | Miller, senior, Delbert, Dale, sopho~ more, and Ronnie Beechler, incom-

The University of Denver has included a nursery school for the ‘children of G. I. students in its [relatively elaborate trailer colonies for married veteran enrollees. Many schools have worked ous | joint programs with the surrounde ing communities to- open up recreeational and social “activities, beyond those afforded. by campus life, for their student couples.

We, The Women

Thrift Found Vital in Time Of Inflation

By RUTH MILLETT

CHILDREN from eight schools in the lowest income areas in the United States are getting a. new kind of education designed to dee termine whether or not a more practical education of children can raise the living standards in low income homes. . For instance, in one school in the eastern part of the United States where students formerly were often out of school because of a lack of suitable clothing, the children are taught to sew on buttons, to mend rips, to keep their clothes washed, ete.

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” » " THE PROGRAM, which has even included the rewriting of textbooks to ‘make them more practical, is reported to be proving helpful, It looks as if children from all income groups could benefit from some of that kind of teaching. For we're finding out how little a good income means today--unless [it is stretched by the know-how [needed for wise buying and proper |care of possessions, ; n THE FACT that Dad may be making twice the salary he was making before the war doesn't mean much to a family today-—not at the prices they are paying for everye thing they buy. In order to live as well as they used to on the smaller salary, the family has to practice old-fashioned thrift.

» » » THOSE WHO do are getting along fairly well. Those who-don's are living from hand-to-mouth—e and none-too well. There has been so much talk during the last few years about “adequate income” and “security” that it has often been overlooked that a family needs more than an “adequate” income. It also needs to know how to keep an income adequate by the old-time virtues of thrift and wise spending,

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