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Inside Indianapolis

SOMETIME WITHIN the next week a lot of division heads and their assistants will gather about a round table in the conservation department. About the only way anyone will be able to tell who is sitting at the “head” of that round table will be to watch for the man who-listens most attentively and speaks the least. That ma Will be John Nigh— businessman, hunter, Hoosier and the state's new conservation director. Balding, tight-lipped and unobtrusive, Mr. Nigh will be doing a two-fold job at that conference— meeting halfway as tough a set. of problems as any minor state official could have, gnd introducing him=self to the department as thé man who will run the show from now on. As he stepped, only a few days ago, into the breach left by an intense political battle over department control, skeptics asked openly: “What does John Nigh know about running a aepartment like that?” The round table is part of the answer. He finds out what he doesn’t know from those who do know. The rest of the answer, if any more is necessary, can be found in the man himself. Never Connected with Failure THE NEW CONSERVATION chief takes over as the common, garden variety conservationist with a demonstrated talent in personnel direction. His background is typically Hoosier. He's a lifelong (54

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MOST OFFENSES

FAULTY BRAKES.

SEEN CAUSE OF

Old Model Car Just Will Not Respond Like New Ones. By LOUIS ARMSTRONG

"John Nigh , , , garden variety conservationist.

and soft-spoken manner made observation of the

years) resident of Greenfield, attended school therén_ jaw a little easier, perhaps, biit whatever it was he

married there, raised his son there, was in business there and red be there yet if war shortages hadn't taken the joy out of business for him. The fact that he’s what the books call a “selfmade” man doesn't make news because he’s made of himself what .a lot of other Hoosiers have made of themselves—a substantial citizen. But he doesn’t know the meaning of failure and has never been connected with one.

Mr. Nigh was in the haberdashery business when he war rolled over that field of eirterprise. He didn't care for the idea of beihg “out of everything” so hé took-a spot, when it was offered, as chief of the conservation department's enforcement branch. He likes to hunt, denies .-he's a ‘good shot” but smilingly admits he gets his share, has for many year de the great outdoors his hobby. As enforce-

ment chief ‘he t state, produc division of run withou learned Deal

ok over the game wardens of the d in a little more than a year the one the conservation department that was t bickering, backbiting and “politics,” and a lot for his trouble. 1g with game wardens, the kind who know: their bu 5, & man learns a lot about conservation. He learps-it in terms of fish and game, woods, the folks who use woods as places to have picnics and to hunt small game. Those are the terms in which Mr. Nigh speaks when he talks conservation.

oS Those are the terms in which members will think of the department when he gets it into high gear again and gets a lot of “squeaks” out of the machinery.

As a former sheriff of Hancock county, Mr. Nigh

didn’t have any trouble while he was in that office. Workers Report He's a ‘Good Egg’ AS A REPUBLICAN county chairman since 1938, and a district chairman since the reorganization of this year, he has. taken his “finals” and passed the test as an organizer. setup of the fish and game division proved the point that he can do an administrative job firmly but without setting up undercurrents of dissatisfaction and dissention, From office boys to game wardens, tHose who have worked with Director Nigh report he's a “good egg.” His shirt contains only John Nigh, they say, no stuffing: Although he has a melodious bass voice and could probably bellow like a bull, Mr. Nigh has found through long experience that more folks listen when you whisper. » And ‘whisper he does, a good part of the time, The possibilities of his treading on toes of those around and under him are best demonstrated by the fact that although he completely reorganized his department at a cost of 25 pounds to himself, a lot of folks in the department stil] don't know him. His friends are easy enough to find, but the world is not very heavily populated with individuals who know John Nigh “very well.” That, his friends say, know him well you have to study hard, just come out. As for enemies,

is because if you want to it doesn’t have

what ex-sheriff doesn't

had a taste of being a public official. . His easy smile them? (By Robert Bloem.) A Note to Santa By Frederick C. Othman WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Fellow males,. I have I'vé jus: fired my private policeman. The same goes

seen this with my own eyes:

with two turtle

A red and yellow necktie es racing four rabbits down the front of

it. The rabbits are winning. How, sir, would you like to wear it? Do not laugh. You may have to. Your wife may present it to you for Christ Woe is yours,

This atrocity is only the beginning of gifts (I have made a survey) that should be inflicted on no man, John L. Lewis included, 20 shopping days hence. I have therefore compiled a list of things I don't want for Christmas. It is pasted conspicuously to my parlor tabl : emen, vou also may care to clip and tack

it where your female Santa Claus cannot ignore it, I don’t want an electric fingernail clipper, also good fo enails. Nor a chest of assorted tobaccos to ble nd : mysélf, nor even a key of 18 carat gold for my front Zz door. I remember a movie actress who had a golden gey and. what happened to her wasn't good. Eighteen cravats in the colors of 18 Scottish clans re not for me. Neither is an aluminum smoking pipe, with a built’ in radiator, not even “if the coal

stile still is in progress. Oranges that will keep six months because they have been dipped in liquid cellophane don't make me drool. I have no use for an automatic duck caller which, when wound, goes quack.

Please, No Transparent Suspenders OLD-FASHIONED I may be, but I want no transparent suspenders; I use my suspenders to keep up my pants, not to see thre ugh. Two bolts and two nuts in solid gold at $65 aren’t my idea of the ideal cuff links. A wrist watch of solid platinum I can’t use because

for a band of ebony and 18 carat gold to hold this ticker on my arm. I don't want a fountain pen no bigger than a lipstick. I have no need for a book on how to shoot craps, nor a machine to stamp my own name on my | golf balls, Cologne in four virile scents I can’t use. I don’t want it in gnegscent. o

Settle for Coffee and Kiss

EIGHT IMITATION ice cubes in clear plastics period last year.

sound soggy to me. Even if they do not make a drink taste like a celluloid collar, I don't want ‘em. A billfold of exotic leather with my signature engraved on a solid gold plate ($100 for the works) is unnecessary; I just want Santa to sew up the hole in my pocket. I haven't enough pelt left to make use of an electric hair brush, but my teeth are fine. Give me no electric tooth brush.

His record in the enforcement

“The police traffic department, {with an eye to greater post-war safety for Indianapolis motorists, | looks toward the day when old au'tomobiles in the city can be rele-| | gated to junk-yard graves. With an increase in motor Vehicle accidents and injuries this ygar over the same perdd last year, police ‘declare the cause i# largely due to the number of old automobiles sul) on the road. It seems that older pre-war {models with wheels and bfakes | worn out are still being driven as if {they were new cars and they just will not respond like new models. Figures show that the largest number of traffic violation arrests are for failure to stop for a traffic signal and most motorists after being faced with the charge say they “just couldn’t stop In time.” Thus far this year more than 6000 mo- | torists have been arrested for “running the red light.” Propose Plans But the policeman who rides the motorcycle and sometimes stations himself up the quiet side street really isn't bent solely on seeing how many motorists he can ar-{ rest. Actually his first thought is public safety, traffic officials say, and he has a couple of pretty good (plans in mind which are bound to help.

| Since most accidents occur dur-

ing the hours of 4:30 p. m. and 6 . m, when motorists are madly rushing from work to home, police plan to .eliminate all. parking in the mile square during those hours, thus giving motorists more room in which to maneuver, A second proposal to Increase safety is the removal of the dark shadows in night driving. A check of the scenes of accidents has been going on for some time and at nearly every point whete an accident has occurred at night that point has been given additional illumination. This will particularly cut down the rate of pedestrian accidents, 30,187 Arrests Made Fatalities resulting from motor vehicle accidents are slightly less thus far this year as in the same ir. The total is 52 thus far as against 57 last year at this time.

| In addition there have been four

from

fatalities to date resulting st1eetcar, trolley and train dents as against three.in the same period in 1945. And motor

ace

accidents and traffic

WRI Blame Junkers For Accident Increase

“Once Proud Queen of the Seas Heads for Scrap Heap | in New Jersey

It's the end of the line for the 65.350-ton Normandie as the former luxury liner's hull inches into oblivion. Tugs guide the once proud queen of the seas Sirough a narrow -JASSAyOVaY under a New Jersey Central railroad bridge on its way to the scrap yard,

BARTON REES POGUE .

. Times Rhyming: Roving Reporter

Slightly ll, It's Kinda Nice

WHEN THE KID goes to college . . when you are eating sweet corn from the last rows summer truck patch , , . wr

. write about it. of the |

ite about it. When you are

short on shorts, and experiencing other shortages... . write about them, When you are sick . .. you should have subject But here on earth, I'm quite

material for a column So often young hear

you know about. home for your material.

authors!

Don't go far from There are

stories right in your own dooryard.”|

1 believe I have one right‘in my own bedroom, Why go outside?

” = =» My eyes burn and leak, My ears roar. My back aches. My bones protest. My nose, well it fails to perform in a gs thoroughly cul- §¥

tured manner. My #& head expands and contracts with each heartbeat. As Johnny Pierce would say: “I'c jist a leetle under the weather”

Mr. Pogue

... Write about it. i

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the cry, “Write what but I fear death much sooner from I'm

starvation than from the attack of flu I have. But what are they doing down there?

| Here I lie a-bed upstairs, As lonesome as an owl, My sole companions,:pills and pints, { And bones that twist and scowl; And all the white my sulpha grinds, And whiskers longer grow, wonder what the women folks

[

They're such a social lot down

But I am not so far gone that! there, I cannot hear the radio in the] They laugh and work and living room battin’ away at the chat, ih a ns So Ta But with the radio full tilt , | I can’t tell what they're

the radio . . what lot of punishment

take,

a they |

” J IN ONE OF the stories a woman is in love with the brother of the man she married. When she meets “brother” all her love for him rises’ in her like a Mexican jumpin’ bean. She runs away, and professes she

1 ¢ a > } f a n of business Already I am a member of the National Press club; from the m jor portic f busi does not remember marrying her

I want to belong to no more lodges, including the

Candy-of-the-Month club, the Necktie-of-the-Month club, and the Pencil-With-My-Name-on-It-of-the-Month club. I don't want a fishing pole with a pistol grip.

I cannot use a bowling ball of mottled red and!

for the Indisnupons policeman. In the first 10'a months of this year

the Sparta et has investigated 6054 accidents and made 30,187 traffic arrests.

With all of this business on their

lover's brother. Her husband goes to see her, doctor . , . then, wow , , WOW . . “There

description of perdition:

green plastic, nor a second-hand warship in reason- hands the police have found time 1 be weeping and wailing and

ably good condition.

of playing cards with 52 nekkid ladies painted on |infractions of the rules,

their backs: attention to the spots.

{ Thanks for listening, Mrs. Claus; I'll gladly settle you out here are some more:

on ‘Christmas morn for a cup of coffee and a kiss.

When I play poker I prefer to give all my |

Violations Increase tire 4921 for

Then if those figures don't

have been arrested improper turns, 4772 for

motorists making

My Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

NEW YORK, Friday.—I am very glad that we are beginning to think and talk about disarmament. This first move made in the United Nations to request all countries to give information on the number of men they have under arms, both at home and abroad, 1s purely preliminary. .But I think it will have a very good effect and will fix attention on the fact that one of the objectives toward which we are working today is a step-by-step disarmamegt. We know that this must be general. We know that no single country can disarm without inviting disaster, A weak. country is always a temptation to a stronger one. But if all countries,” great and small, disarm together and turn their policing powers over to the United Nations, they will find themselves’ in a far more stable world situation,

Small Nations Fear WORKING IN the United Nations, one of the things which one is bound to run into, sooner or ater, is the fear of the small nations as regards their relationship with the big ones. You will find them pathetically trying to please two or three of the big powers at once, a trick which is not always easy, Hence, the centralization of policing powers and the gradual disarmament of all nations is essential to bring freedom: from fear of aggression, People come to me constantly with admirable pro-

grams for improving good feeling throughout education. Some of them are economic and cultural. | They make a difference in the normal living Standards) of people and in their enjoyment of life. Almost invariably, however, these programs require money, and one finds oneself unconsciously trying to eliminate anything which is not completely essential. For instance, in the United Nations,

been established two specialized agencies which deal West. side residents, with essentials in improving the lot of human beings. the constrictor ESCO. But their work will grow slowly and will that money will have to: be of an entertainer and had terrorized

One is the world health orgahization, the other U be limited by ‘the fact

apprepriated by different nations, Cost of Defense

THE NATIONS which carry heavy

as their internatjorial Probably the biggest expense for all of the countries today is the cost of their defense ment. And yet these expenditures cannot be limite until all the other nations of the world are ready t« do likewise. We learned our lesson, the last war.

istration, as weil

tures simultaneously.

We, the Women

HOUSEWIVES HAVE been warned by a spokesman for the department of agriculture that neither a campaign to force abandonment of sugar rationing

supply of Zar, If the agriculture department is really concerned abhofit persuading housewives to be content with their maybe it would be a. good

present sugar allotment, iden to skip statistics and try a little applied psycholcgy. . For instance, women might be reminded that sugar ationine is a wonderful alibi for cutting down on

cakes 'and cookies.

e baking of fancy pies,

Vacation From Oven THE COUNTRY’S “natural-born cooks” may regret the necessity for substituting bought ice cream for angel food cake or pumpkin pie—but there are plenty of women who are glad enough to Bek. a vacation from the oven. The same thing is true of canning.

The _ woman

nor a lifting of price ceilings will increase the nation's

who has no knack. for filling the basement, “shelves

By Ruth Millett

with the kinds of jellies and, jams her mother used not being able to get enough sugar to do “much jam-making.

to make has had a wonderful alibi in

Biggest Headache are: all the overweight womer

trying to reduce. How abou if sugar

Housewives’ AND THEN who claim they reminding them

there are that

face? all right under sugar they'll even miss the

stare them in the Women are doing And likely as not but I didn't have the sugar,” when it's-taken from them. There's one other “th ing, too, that women migh be reminded of.

There hasn't been much standing-in-line for sugar under the rationing system, or much chasing around Why take a chance

from store to store looking for it. on putting it in a class with soap chips, the trackin down of which has become ‘one of the housewide’ biggest headaches?

Ld ’

~ | speeding,

the world. ‘Many of the programs deal with children and

military budgets are going to find it hard to meet their obligations for defense and for internal developme nts and a#minobligations... — arma-

I hope, after And this time we all must attempt to stay together and to reduce our armament expendi-

gets more plentiful, ! everywhere they go, tempting, fattening desserts will

rationing. old alibi they've been working overtime, “I'd have baked a pie,

4325 for failure to stop at preferential streets and 1997 for reckless driving. { The department isn't too proud of the increase in accidents, but it points out that since the war nearly. all types of violations have been on the increase.

FORMER LOCAL MAN, SON KILL 8-FT. SNAKE

W. 8S. McLaughlin and his son, there have Walter McLaughlin Jr, former recently ‘cap-

in Miami, Fla. The snake had escaped Irom the home

Above all T don't need a pack [to issue 40,143 stickers for various |gnashing of teeth.”

sent,

tured and killed an eizht-foot boa |

in the kitchen below. .

Radio actresses | must go to “the Snake Pit” after | 13 weeks of that yelping.

n u 2 IN- ANOTHER story a widowed mo.her falls in love (not an unnatural tendency), but son is against it. promise that she -will never see this man again. There is Re man in the story (triangles are nic things to have around), and son! finds this man sitting in. the favorite chair of his deceased parWhereupon, and Deweyesquely, he orders MAN out of chair , , . and gets resuts. “Is this kid the guiding light in our story?” I ask the women when they climb the ladder to my room , , , you'd think it was a ladder, as little. as they come up there to see if I yet live! Oh, I am not so far gone, My nose is not so out of kilter, but I can smell the good things cooking My ears are mot so roaring but I can hear the

{a Miami neighborhood before it was old - weight clock bong the o'clock

| hour.

My stomach. is not so weak

{ killed.

SILLY NOTIONS

By Palumbo

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“IT's NOT ME! MY FOOT |S ASLEEP!" . FORE en ED

. poor old tubes . . .

in company with a | . and more | what a. wail that old gal | put on. Reminds me of the Biblical |

her young He makes mother |

Azaleas Need Plenty of Water

{drink each morning

Yat” (I try to pass the lonely hours, But oh, they go so low The time don’t seem to drag | at all 1It’s one o ‘clock. to 1 eat. 2 {At twelve I smelt a smell, A-waftin’ up from pies and things, That suited very well.

Past time

stopped the works?

{I wonder what the | folks

Are doing down below?

women

ily

If you ain't too sick,

For the women down below.

In the

7 oe

future life it's best to,

“Upstairs instead

“Down,”

convinced, It's better turned aroun’, lonesome here. I'm hungry here. f Where did my dinner go? I wonder what the women folks Are doing down below? » I'm having .a -terrible time, eh what? Muscles not relaxed I ‘guess! Well, at last they bring up some bird-like helpings of this and that Most general-

53 now I'm all aglow, I get {fairly good treatment. Leastwise I forget all the bad features, after its over, and sort of feel it's fun to be sick, if the ol

: {illness don’t hold me under too long. | Are doing. down below? | 9: one

"I Does

When a fellow's sick, serve his meals

they

of | To him in bed, and ask how

he feels; Is the mattress. soft and the pillow right? Dogs he want a darker shade on the light? And what can they fix that he'd like to eat, : A soft-poached egg? A bit of meat Ground up fine and boiled for broth? Would he like to have a woolen cloth Put on his chest with conls oil and lard? it bother if children play in the yard? My, they wait on a fellow, hurry and trot, So it’s fun to be sick, if you're not sick a lot.

it’s kindanice, {In the course of a year, once | or twice,

| To be laid up for a little

¢ spell

(Not awful sick, but still not| You're over that little

well—

About enough so's the neighbhors'll learn

Of your sorry plight and} show some concern— Call up the house on’ the

| party-line, Or drop in a spell with a quart of wine, [Or some chicken broth, be some flowers,

may-

i lighten the hours.

| friends you've got,

[So it's fun to be sick, if you're]

| not sick a lot.

| When a fellow's better and gettin’ about, The folks'll say, “Glad to see | you out.”

{And everyone sayin’ that they're so glad spell you had, .

And hopin’ you'll ‘mend now, right along, And nothin’ will ever go wrong.

again

(Jés sort a-sets a man up to | say, “I never did know folks La care this a-way.” {You felt all along that you | weren't much good

But what's gone wrong? Who! And a bit of choice gossip to Or rated very high in the

neighborhood,

Who dealt my meal a blow? You will find out then what But you change your mind,

when you get “up-sot,” {So it’s fun to be sick, if you're I not sick a lot.

GARDENING: Most Houses Tou Hot, Dry for Plants—

By MARGU ERITE SMITH AZALFEAS, nursed along gince last Easter when they were gift plants, are beginning to kick up their heels and act baiky, Gardenias, too, their general cussedness when removed to winter quarters Since their needs are so much the same I'm going to put them together here.

A typical problem—Mrs. A. F Bernd, 630 E. Morris st, has had an azalea for two years. It has never bloomed. What can she do

to make it flower?

Here is advice from "Mrs. James R. Thompson; 1133 W, 32d st. She has brought a double white azalea years.

to looker. ry year for. 10 It begin§ around Christmas

time, usually flowers for at least two months, a n n k SHE EMPHASIZES their neéd for plenty of water. Though she | waters most of her indoor plants every other day, her azalea gets a

A safe method

water until it drains through, then empty the saucer. The plant must not stand in water, She does

not give her azalea much sun, keeps it behind other plants in a south

1 window.

| Most houses are too hot, the air too dry for plants. To give hers moist air she opens. a window in lan adjoining room for at least a short- time: even in the coldest weather, longer on mild days. Then ‘she keeps a jar of water on the

window sill beside the plants so the dry air can drink from it. She also sprays the foliage frequently, u o ” | WHEN SHE brings the plant into the house in the fall she takes out as much soil from the top of the pot as she.can loosen without disturbing the roots, replace it with a

| rich mixture. To mai : soil acidity which . azaléas Be for - best bloom, she then rings the plant with alum-| inum sulfate (buy at a seed store). She uses a level teaspoonful “for a tall. eight inch pot, repeating the application once a month. An importafit point in ‘azalea, culture—

hey. form flower buds fo? the next! MRS. EDWARD BAUMAN, wer this winter.

show

Mrs. Edman Bauman, 808 E.

indoor

season during the spring and sum-

mer so needs even better care then than after they begin to bloom, Mrs. F. G. Goebel, 4259 Bowman ave, wants to know how to care for a gardenia. Mrs. Frank C. Miller, 5302 Central ave. (vice president

in charge of gardenias), it: plenty of water. sometimes twice a-day. lett them stand in water, Give them plenty of sun. Don't use bone meal or vitamin Bl. Both gave her bad results. Like azaleas they must hav® acid soil. Yellowing leaves are a distress signal. Mrs. Miller uses” ‘powered alum (contains aluminum sulfate), a level teaspoonful to an eight inch pot, about once a Synth n

says give She waters them But don't

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~ Cs

Minnesota st.,

has many unusual

plants,

has one of the most interesting collections ol out-of« the-ordinary indoor plants I've seen, One kind, a purple leaved Wandering Jew seems quite different from the more common green and purple leaved type. (Either of these is an easy to raise addition to an all-green foliage window, The more sun, the more color, of course), Mrs. Bauman's “buckwheat leaf” begonia brought forth the advice don't give begonias too much water, Her tiny “rosy tips” sedum, its fat green leaves tipped with red, is a | perfect Christmas’ decoration, And ‘do you know the ice plant (mesem= bryanthemum) whose fat little |1eaves are sprinkled with “ice.” Mrs, | Bauman raises it in summer in her i rock garden, is trying it out indoors

Minnesota st.,