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Inside Indianapolis

' THIS IS BY way of a free classified ad inserted for Coach Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle in behalf of Butlér university. Tony. and Butler want 3000 loyal fans, not counting students, pledged to attend all home games, rain of shine, regardless of who happens to be the opposition, Around a core of 3000 non-student rooters, Tony+is confident he can snowball Butler sports into the big-time again. Tony himself already #8 “big time,” regarded as such in sports quarters throughout the nation. As navy coach at Great akes ‘during the war, he produced what many fans swear was the best basketball team in history.. Of course, he had the material, the cream of the crop from colleges all over the U. 8. But the material also had Hinkle, Tony won't admit it, but he could take his pick of any number of-choice coaching jobs in big name schools. But Hinkle is Butler university and Butler university is Hinkle and sportsmen - will bet that never the twain shall part. However, as of today, Tony's slightly’ miffed over the way Indianapolis neglects his first love in the field of sports. In his humble estimation (humility is one of his traits), fans hereabouts are too obsessed with Hoosierdom's “Big Three”"—Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, to ap-

preciate what's transpiring in their own front yard,

out at Fairview. As notable examples, he cites Babe Dimancheff and Joe Kobda, both of whom pastimed for .Butler before moving to all-American honors at Purdue.

Rolls Own Cigarets

A SAD, EARNEST gentleman whose physique and mannerisms are somewhat Gary Cooperish (Tony

rolls. his own cigarets), Hinkle doesn't sulk or broadBut he privately

cast his complaints resentfully.

Tony Hinkle. . . . “The old home-town could help.”

Messy Clerking

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5~Only thing we've plenty of (watch that grammar, Othman) is federal clerks stabbed by their own paper spikes, conked by their slippery floors, and mangled by their electric fans.

A gruesome place is the government. The clerks work so hard in their headlong rush to serve the taxpayers that 49,000 of them a year suffer grievous juries. This is messy. It is almost impossible to get the blood stains out of the carpets. The clerks have got to be more careful and, in particular, quit chopping their fingers in the paper cutters. The damage to themselves (and the carpets) is bad enough, but what their piteous yelps do to the nerves of their co-workers is worse. Throughout the government a mighty safety-first campaign has begun. The new rules are going to every laborer in this, the temple of the paper clip and the home of the 17-carbon letter. I am fortunate to get my hands, while they still are whole, upon a sample set of regulations as issued by A. E. Stockburger, assistant administrator for business management of the civil aeronautics administration:

Skin Shins on Cabinets

TOO MANY workers in the federal vineyard skin their shins on open filing-cabinet drawers. Too often the cabinet, itself, topples over and crunches their bones. : They must quit sitting on swivel chairs with weak bolts, cutting themselves with cracked glass on their

"A “ ti ¢ ROUGH AIR and the jet plane pose interesting problems. - Hot air ascends, cold air descends, sometimes in the form of veritable fountains, geysers, or Just huge volumes 6f rio particular shape. A plane in flight naturally is affected by such air movements. " The faster the plane travels, the more violent its collision with the ascending and descending currents of air’ Some years ago, with the aid of an instrument known as an “accelerameter,” I measured the shock sustained by a Grumman fighter flying at cruising speed (210 miles an hour) through rough air. The shock ‘was three and a half G. (“G"” stands for gravity). Your weight.or a plane's weight is one G. The change in direction of travel in a bump can multiply your oressure against a Seat. The faster the plane, the more violent the shock as rough air is encountered. So, when we come to the speeds of jet planes we are really walking aircraft into stiff body jolts.

Siz G Plane Shock Reported

THE BRITISH racing team which recently established the official world speed record of 606 miles an hour in jet planes is reporting plane shocks in rough air which run as high as five and six G in straightaway flight. Five and six G to a fighter pilot in the pullout from a dive represents forces of sufficient intensity and duration to drain much of the blood from his optic nerve, thus causing what we term the “black-out” temporary loss of vision. In straight-away flight, however, in a jet plane,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday.—There is one county In New Jersey—Monmouth—which I think does an exceptionally good job through its social services, and this is largely due to an outstanding citizen. Mrs.’ Lewis Thompson has had a hand in all the welfare organizations of the state. But as she lives fn Monmouth county, that county's organization for social service reflects her interest and personality. She cares about people and this interest at home has taken her to her state capital and to Washington, DC The servicemen of New Jersey can be grateful for the programs which she has helped to ipaugurate for them, Mrs. Thompson, of course, could not do her work alone and she has had splendid co-operation. But she gives inspiration and energy and courage such as few citizens give to the welfare work of their communities,

Seek Fund for Building

NOW the Monmouth county organization for social gervice is raising a fund for the erection of the Geraldine L. Thompson building. This will be their headquarters, and its very name will inspire those who work in it to better’ citizenship. In this county, they are never satisfied with the

+ work they are doing. They always want to make it

better and to increase the services which they render. © In addition to the social service organization's present activities, they are planning for night clinics to treat tuberculosis and venereal disease, and to do mental hygiene work.

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hopes some people (sports writers included) will re-

member that - Butler, like Purdue, Indiana, Notre|

Dame, also is in the football and basketball business. He thinks community support is the No. 1 key to] athletic success in a school that doesn’t subsidize its players. Tony believes Butler is headed for another sports Golden Age similar to that it enjoyed in the midtwenties and early thirties when its cage teams won two national championships and its gridders battled Big 10 opponents. He doesn't think the school will

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hit the peak overnight. But he considers Butler's booming enrollment a: virtual guarantee that the university will soon produce enough athletic material | to turn out major teams and enough alumni to fili the bowl. -Butler has no immediate plans to subsidize players, subtly or otherwise, Tony ‘says. “At| preseht, the school's policy is not to subsidize,” he explains.’ “As coach, I follow that policy. If it should ever change, I'd respond accordingly.”

Which Came First?

THERE'S STILL some question around town as to which came first, Butler or’ Tony Hinkle. Tony's been with the university for as long as anybody can remember—since 1921, in fact. He's as close and faithful to the school as.that ivy clinging to Jordan hall. Any attempt to persuade Tony Hinkle to talk about Tony Hinkle ehds disastrously, because, Tony, when he talks, talks about Butler. Some wiseacres contend Tony is better known nationally than the school itself. To this- flippancy, Tony petorts: “Butler has done infinitely more for me than I've done for Butler. ... A coach is just as big as .the institution he’s with.” Tony isn't a Hollywood-type ‘coach given to explosive lockerroom hoopla and flamboyant temperamental outbursts, He's first and foremost a student of athletics and His approach to the subject is that of the scholar, the ‘echnician. On the bench, he's nervous and fidgety, grimacing and gesturing in profound, si- | ient agony. At home, he’s completely relaxed, cuts his | own grass, putters around the yard and this year redecorated his home. He good-naturedly listens to the radio and attends movies with his attractive wife and two daughters, Barbara, 16, and Patty, 15, but his atti-tude-toward these so-called diversions is wry and cynical indeed. .. . A nine-letterman at the University of Chicago, he didn’t learn to swim until 1942, and then only to qualify for the navy. Even now, in a pool he appears to be dribbling a basketball rather than stroking the water. One of the better Hinkle fables is related by a local sports reporter. Before the war Tony had charge of concessions at the Butler bowl and fieldhouse. On. the morning of a crucial game, the reporter sought Tony for an interview. He found him behind a popcorn stand, scooping the crackling kernels into paper bags. “It's the help shortage,” Tony is said to have explained. The typical Indian- | apolis summary of Tony Hinkle goes something like | this: “He's just one helluva nice guy and a darned good coach.”—(By Sherley Uhl.)

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desks, bruising their hips on pencil sharpeners, and | tripping over their phone cords. They should keep their fingers out of electric light sockets, fans (when same are fanning) and duplicating machines. Too often the federal derrieres are whacked by self-closing doors closing too soon.

Carnage Is Great THE SAFETY firsters have abandoned hope that

Times Carrier Buddy "Sheldon loading en his bicycle.

By ART WRIGHT VETERAN newspapermen, seldom

youngsters of the fraternity . . the newspaper carrier boys. For it's National Newspaper Boy day throughout the United States It's the one day in the year that recognition is given to the aggressiveness, business acumen and citizenship training of the youngsters! who deliver the daily newspapers to the nation's doorsteps. Typical of these carrier salesmen |

lis The Indianapolis Times’ Buddy |

Sheldon, an 8B student at school 44.! ” ” ” BUDDY HAS saved from his earnings for serving 72 customers in the vicinity of his home, 2325 N. Harding st.

an area five blocks long and four

the clerks will give up spiking their hands, now they must abandon their spike- files. They also must quit | pinning papers together. Pins are dangerous, So are scissors. As for paper cutters, here's what Mr. Stock. | ! burger says: “Employees using a paper cutter should be careful to keep their fingers out from under .the blade.” They certainly should. They also should keep an eye open for falling light fixtures. It is not good to be sitting under one of these. Causes headaches, So dangerous is ‘the government and so great the carnage that Stockburger urges caches in each office of tourniquets, bandages, ointments, splints and, of course, spirits of ammonia for those who faint when wounded. He means small offices. If it is a big one full of wastebaskets, splintery desks, chipped drinking glasses, stepladders and other monsters lurking among the help, then by all means it should have a dispensary. I intend, whenever possible, to stay away from the civil aeronautics administration. I hate the sight of blood. Particularly my own.

By Maj. Al Williams

the five or six G is of such short duration that it is all over and dissipated before the blood in a pilot's system has a chance to move.

Helmets Absorb Head Jolts

NEVERTHELESS, there is another problem for the

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BARTON REES POGUE .

friends in the village of his Whit. Most of these eulogies

on the billowy end of a] golden-curbed and gem-pep-

pered avenue of balmy bliss. But I have a sneaking idea that Jim Riley would be uncomfortable sitting on a damp cloud, playing! a ‘harp. He didn't condition himself for any such future, except playing the harp. § That he could do, § he was ag" | natural musician. $ I think he'd a 8 lot rather ‘play a tuba in the old Greenfield: band. And be elbow neighbors with

Mr. Pogue

Jet pilot in that the bouncing around that he gets] at five or six hundred miles an hour involves banging | his head against the top of the cockpit canopy. As| a precaution against this danger, you will find jet] pilots in fighter planes wearing hard leather helmets almost exactly the same as the heavy leather helmets we wore in ‘world war I. There is no question but that the jet engine is destined to become the power plant of future transport planes, large and small. This means that our big domestic and transoceanic transports within a period of five or six years undoubtedly will be running schedules of between 400 to 500 miles an hour, and the reaction to rough air will be violent. Hence some shock absorption scheme will have to be devised to shield the passengers against being bounced around and injured. We can't visualize shock absorbers between the fuselage and the wings which would permit the wings to absorb most of the shock. It will be many a day before we ask more of the anchorings. which hold the wings onto the fuselage than just that job. The simplest expedient appears to be the provision of shock absorbers between the passenger seat andthe floor of the air¢faft.

bo By Eleanor Roosevelt

This will be a real service to wage earners who, unless acutely ill, cannot get away to attend day clinics.

Setting Good Example

THEY even hope to do things for the two diseases which are responsible for the greatest number of deaths today—heart trouble and cancer. This county is setting a good example. One of the things it brings home to us is that there must be some individual who furnishes the driving power and gets other people to feel concern for the well-being of the whole community. Brooklyn has also started a new program. There, the Tuberculosis and Health association and the Red Cross are pioneering together in a course of instruc-| tion for tuberculosis patients in the Kings county hospital. The patients are taught proper diet ‘and the best and quickest way to: prepare their food, since many of them can’t spend a great deal of time on household work, : The course is conducted by Mrs. Jessie Jacobson of the Brooklyn Red Cross nutrition department staff, at the request of Mrs. Louise Heinze, the Brooklyn Tuberculosis and Health associatian’s rehabilitation supervisor at the hospital. Not long ago, 18 patients received the Red Cross nutrition certificate. The same sort of thing might well be done in hospitals all over the country.

his cronies: “Durbin” Davis, Doc Milligan, Jim _ Meek, Jerry Martin, George Carr, Will Vawter and the Shoe Shop Gang—none of whom became famous enough to be granted a spot in Heaven by their wor-

shipers. I think he'd still like to be a member of the Dickens club, “where,” Doc Milligan once told me,

“the boys read Dickens and raised the dickens.” James Whitcomb Riley deserves glory and harps and halos for the work he did. But let's leave him in an atmosphere where he will not have to do so much adjusting in order to feel at home.

” Ed ” I CONTEND that Mr. Riley was a great poet, Some of the Ph, D's in English literature will gnash their teeth at that. Get a little touch of Browning and they can't see “the bench-legged poet from the Hoosier state,” for the aura of the elite. I heard a professor in Northwestern university—he is a Huntingtonborn Hoosier, too say: “Mr. Riley was not a poet. Everything the man wrote can be understood by reading it once.” Now, isn't that just too bad. n ” » WELL, I've read them all, and like them, even up to the superb Mr. Browning. But for the life of me I can’t be that high-brow. I like Mr. Riley for his simplicity. His ability to keep both feet on the ground is charming. His common touch is sensible and reflects his genius. To Madison Cawein he wrote: . the simplest thing God ever made is werthy of celebration. You can't tess a pebble ih any. quarter of any back township in. Kentucky and not hit a poem spang on the top o’ the head.” Riley liked the common-place and a simple things of life. He said he wanted his poetry to be like molasses that spread out over the well-buttered face of a slice of home-made bread, and dripped off the edges.

» ” “IT WAS Greenfield,” said the Rev. W. B. Freeland to me, “that made Riley, Riley did not make Greenfield.”

1 mention both of these programs because they may serve as suggestions for improving other ecom- + munities throughout our sation,

Yes, it was Greenfield with her unpaved and quiet streets, her hitching racks around the courte

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1946

gets his pile of Times ready for

| blocks wide, Buddy completes his job in less than an hour. Neighbors could set their clocks by his appearance, for each day—regardsleet or snow-—" Ady loads - his Times papers onto his bicycle at his home and is on his | way. ” » ” | FEW. COMPLAINTS have ever | been made against this Timc car- | rier salesr.an. As he puts it, “I try {to give my customers the very best

| service possible.” To accomplish {that end, he makes sure that each customer's paper is placed at a {convenient place where it will be available. when the Times reader | looks for it. Still Buddy Sheldon finds time to | participate in sports and otherwise have fun.”

“Whén I'm on the job, I work,”

birth as Jim Riley, Jim or J.

locate the poet with the angels, |

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{house and by Walker's store. Her {town pumps. Her grocery stores |with under-thescounter jugs of whisky. Her Adelphian club band {and home-talent plays. Her Wm. Mitchell Printing Co. with Buck | Keefer to set his first poem into ype. | Her green fields and running brooks. Her little stream of Brandywine, her Guymon House and Gooding tavern. But most influential of all, it was her olesome, homey, unsophisti|cated citizens that made Riley the | people's poet. » - " | BUT RILEY offered something on {which Greenfield could work. Boy fand man he flamed with creative ability. One story will suffice for illustration. I knaw it is true for I had it first-hand from a Methodist. Where Frank Lynam now has his mortuary lized Capt, and. Mrs. Matthew Pa Across the street stands the old Methodist church—which Riley once joined, on, what the funnybones then called, six months’ suspicion. I wanted that story of union, and later disunion, so went -to Greenfield's oldest Methodist, Mrs. Paulus. ” ~ » “FIRST of all,” she said, “I want to tell you how Jim Riley painted our house twice and our best driving horse once.” Riley and Jim Meek had been hired by the Captain to do some interior painting in a rental of his. Near this house the Captain had his barn, And on sunny days he

tied his horse outside for an airing. | That day, noon time, he looked | out to see how the animal fared, | and found she had changed color. From bay to light cream. Investigation proved that: the animal had been painted—on one side.

» » » THE TWO boys were called down and accused. Riley adnitted they had done the dirt, though Meek denjed. The rest of the day was spént in ridding the beast of her new coat, or half a coat. “Why painted on one side?” 1 asked. “Because of their method was Mrs. Paulas’ reply. “Those boys had stood in an upstairs window and with their brushes had thrown the animal's new coat at her. Refusing to turn the other side she got coated on only one elevation.” ".8 > WE LAUGHED, and asked, “You have called them boys all along. How old ‘was Riley?” “Just as near as I can figure out,” she replied, “he was aout 21.” The genius that later ‘wrote the poems dear to the Hearts of us all was at work had been at work. ~ ” u I AM GLAD. that through the efforts of the Riley Old Home Society, of which Arthur Downing

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AGGRESSIVE, BUSINESS. LIKE CARRIERS RECOGNIZED—

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Mrs. William Bemenderfer, 2325 N.

Harding st, finds Buddy a promising “big businessman.”

he says. “Then I do my playing.” His after-school-routine this season Of the year consists of deliver-| ing papefs, playing football, and then doing his school home work. He likes to play line. positions and |’ particularly likes to catch forward passes. n ~ » DURING BASEBALL seaso .e plays with tlie Riverside Indians team. During last basketball season he was captain of the Riverside Cub team. While making collections from his patrons, Buddy constantly looks for old coins: Usually he finds them in the change he gathers, sometimes he buys the coins the Canadian nickel he bought

from a housewife for five cents: His |. ,

present interest is in Roosevelt dimes . ., has 16 of them. Buddy says he's looking for a

Greenfield it the People’s Poet

GREENFIELD, Ind, Oct. 5.—A lot of tributes have an lives in Greenfield, and any one | Quer by Gem, been written to James Whitcomb Riley—Dbetter known to his

Us may say. Hello there, Mr. Riley, Jim, J. Whit, It doesn't seem you're gone from us a bit! There are homeless children! in Indianie That make us think of Orphan Annie, And now and then a girl we meet In front of Strickland’ Main Street, That takes us back to time) out-worn | And the sweetheart that you} said was your'n.

Brandywine chatters as al- Some folks say you weren't a

ways it chattered, |

oet, Slippin’ along as though noth-) They all sw ell up and say they

ing mattered,

And Sillin’ the same old swim. But I surmise that you don’t |

min’ hole -

Where glad lilies rock in the! What the critics think or say

billows that roll; And now it comes to bel October, With hills a-glitter, soon to be sober, We hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkeycock,

For the frost is-on the punkin| What you wrote is filled with

and the fodder’s shock. There's still a heap of rag-| gedy-men Could work for your pa, and sometimes "nen Shake for kids “a Rambo apple,

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” » ” THAT $50, he says, would go toHis present is seven years old and two of

ward a new bicycle. ‘bike

[those vears he's used it on the paper route. Despite his crowded schedule,

Buddy finds time to do good turns Like carrying out the ashes for a housewife or doing other small chores that he's

for those he serves.

too modest to enumerate.

In addition. te the fun he finds in his job, Buddy sums up the advantage of his career as a Times car-

rier salesman like this:

“It teaches me how to get along makes me hurry . teaches me how to save money, . and it has taught me that people are

with people , . , to be a good businessman . .

quite interesting.”

*. Times Roving-Rhyming Reporter

. picket lines will be ignored.

. says ‘his aunt told him it would be worth $50.

«0 PAGE Labor . $e Public Opinion f . Seen Turning Against Strike By FRED W. PERKINS. Seripps-Howard Staff Writer PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5.—The bulk of public opinion in Pittsburgh is always with the working man in dis putes with employers. It was with the power striker at first, but now it’ is perceptibly swinging against

them, The losses in payrolls and busi- | ness income have become so great and so generally distributed, ‘at thousands more each day want to know why George L. Mueller, leader of the independent power union, continues to refuse arbitration which

ha, been offered by th Duquesne Light Co. i a

The swing in support has been detected in sampling talks with people on the streets.

» ” » IT SEEMS to be general even though a majority of the A. F. of L. sireetcar unions has just refused to vote on an ultimatum that Mr. Mueller agree to arbitrate or his

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The traction men's vote leaves the tieup just where it has been since right days ago, when the Mueller pickets first appeared at the car |barns, The strike against the power plants had begun four days earlier, Another indication of the turning tide in public sentiment is shown by a flood of “letters to the editor." In the early days of the power strike they “were heavily pro= Mueller. : ; ; 8" THEY - criticized the injunction: against the power strike and the sentencing of Mr. Mueller to a year in jail for contempt. This public sentiment was a strong factor in ‘nullifying both the injunction and the jail sentence,

But now, with the power strike dragging on, the letter writers have reversed their attitude. They might still oppose the meth- ° ods that were used unsuccessfully by Mayor David L. Lawrence and three common pleas judges, but now ‘the writing public urges that the dispute be compromised or arbitrated.

n » » MR. MUELLER has modified some {of his union's many demands in a manner that might indicate a compromise but his modifications do not approach what the company nas offered, and he has steadfastly refused to arbitrate,

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the little wild plums That'ud make a fellow suck! 000. his thumbs

The hope is that the public's new ebb way of looking at it will’ hasten the end of the power tie-up. . The number of people made idle The paw-paws are ripe, and|by the power and trolley tieups combined is now estimated at 100,-

Nearly all of them are payless,

Clean to his elbow §—MYf— Me some more or let me die! There's lots of squids, funny elves 2

and they are storming the state un{employers compensation offices. In Pennsylvania persons made

and ign involuntarily by a situation like

{this can draw a maximum of $20

That turns in-out, and swal-|{a week after five days. Strikers have

lers themselves,

son E. | And still there's goblins up

folks’ stairs

| That get little kids don’t say |p,

their prayers.

know it, care

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your poetry

Than have the critic's clasp

of hand On stuff that mighty few can understand—

mirth And people who know its price and worth. Then and now and ever You are not gone! You never Will be gone! Not a bit! You're in-our-hearts-to-stay, J. Whit!

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[to wait five weeks. The benefits last 20 weeks. » " n AMONG the biggest sufferers are department stores, which have been closed for general business since the power strike began. They are closed primarily because they were excluded in the rationing of what power is available, Eight principal hotels are closed to new guests, and guests who were {in before the strike started five days ago sleep in unmade beds, do their own cleanup work, and lack hot water, Hotel bars and restaurants are closed. You can't buy a newspaper in the hotels—delivery men won't cross the picket lines. Conventions have been a big industry - in centrally located Pittsburgh. It is estimated that hundreds of such gatherings have been diverted elsewhere. Five big ones have been cancelled.

Ve, the Wome | We Can't Buy, But It's Fun to Look Around

By RUTH MILLETT

IN CHICAGO a butcher asked OPA for a ceiling-price list.. He said he had nothing to sell—that he {simply wanted something to read. Lots of us know how he feels. That is why We go down and admire new, shiny electrical gadgets “For Display Purposes Only”—and then ask if we may be put on the Waitg list, please. ” THAT 1S iy — keep on studying house plans containing all those wonderful ideas for “tomorrow's home,” even though we know full {well that if we are lucky enough to | be able to build anything within the next two or three years, it will be built according to what we can get, rather than according to what we want. That is why we order tempting dishes from restaurant menus without first asking, “Do you have such-and-such?” We know we'll end up with fish, but gives us some sort of pleasure to order meat first. That is why we like to read about’ all the wonderful new inventions . that will go into production “some= | time in the future.” ” » |» THAT'S why we hep stopping to ask the dealer, “How's about it?" * We can't really believe ‘that things are quite as bad as they are. And even if they are that bad, what's looking and planning? Beuig nothing better to do, we busy doing a lot of