Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1946 — Page 25

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THE WEATHERMAN is a prince. of a feliow. He's a swell guy—a gentleman and a scholar, That's what he is thought of by the men of the city’ maintenance and fire departments who are ; decorating the Soldiers and, Sailors’ Monument for ] Christmas. I'd be willing to bet if he showed up on the } Circle and announced himself, he'd be hoisted upon strong shoulders and given a round of “HIP HIP HOORAY." But—if he opens his bag of tricks and lets fly with snow and sludge before Tuesday when the decorating is expected to be finished—well, he better just steer clear of that area. The work is going along at a pretty fast clip. A little snow might have speeded up the placing of Santa's sled. After dragging, shoving and pushing it from the truck to the base of the fountain spill= way where the “Night Before Christmas” grotto scene, is going up, Leonard Carmack, 1030 Hosbrook st., decided “it was a long drag.” Raymond Reel, 2008 E. Maryland st. and James A. Schultz, 1836 Lawrence st., two other members of the maintenance department “in the same sled” nodded their approval. Karl Zody, 3535 E. 10th st. and Marvin Spurlin, 2708 English ave, were wrestling with “Blitzen” on the upper level of the fountain, In the scene a gnome will be polishing Blitzen's hooves in preparation for the Christmas Eve ride.

Green Christmas, Anyway

THE TRADITIONAL Christmas tree is being put to a good use throughout. Most of the larger spruces are coming from the city’s Riverside nursery. More than a 1000 cuttings have come from the state con-

servation department. If it isn't a white Christmas —it sure will be a green one. There's plenty of work to be done that calls for extension ladders, nimble feet and balance. The city fire department pooled its resources and manpower for the job. : Lt. Edward McGovern brought hook and ladder truck No. 7 and-a crew of five men. Frank Braun, master mechanic of the fire department repair division, brought a crew of six. The group is responsible for putting up the 25foot trees on the light pedestals. There are four trees to a pedestal. The hook and ladder company threw up ladders to the top of the pedestals and said that not one repair man would fall off while they were on the job. Clarence Mathena, 1249 Burdsal pkwy. repairman, was: the first man up the ladder. To him belongs the distinction of wiring up the first tree on the pedestal and having unlimited faith in the men of hook and ladder truck No. 7. I mentioned to Lt. McGovern that Mr. Mathena

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STEADY AS SHE GOES—Clarence Mathena, 35 feet above the cold concrete, fastens a Christmas tree on a light pedestal.

was up rather high. Besides, the ladder looked pretty slender. “Oh—that’s not high. He's only 35 feet above the concrete,” he answered nonchalantly.

Another Engineering Feat

NONE OF THE MEN thought too much about putting up the trees. What they were worrying about was the huge frame that was to go up on the south side of the monument. It will serve as a background for choral.groups and the “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” sign. On the north side of the monument another engineering feat will have to be performed to place the “Peace on Earth—Good Will Towards Men" sign. Squinting his eyes and looking up where the men will be working, Mr. Braun: flatly stated that the weatherman “Better not let us down.” There's a little speculation about the life-sized figures for the Nativity scene on the east side. They | were made in Tyrol, Italy, and are supposed to be in| Boston at the present time. | The figures better get here because Technical high! school boys are just about ready with the scenic backgrounds. Another small item the Christmas committee is| worrying about is the $1000 it still needs to pay for| the decorations. The whole project is voluntary— | labor and money. The labor is ready and willing ta! complete the job for Indianapolis citizens. I If you have a little extra cash you might call Paul V. Brown at WA-4576.

Cheerful GOP

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The round little fellow with the serape accent said if the Republicans, by

to investigate, he hoped they'd include Puerto Rico. A lock of gray hair curled over the pink brow

of Chairman Reece of the Republican national committee. He beamed. “We are not going to overlook any greerr pastures,” he said. The members, assembled in their first formal : meeting since the election, laughed. They cheered. : They clapped their hands. I haven't seen so many cheerful people in Washington (come to think of it) in exactly a month. The ladies wore frick hats, corsages and big smiles. They all were young, beautiful, and good. The gallant chairman said so. The gents looked chipper, too. Their faces were shining; their comment appropriate. Take Governor Ralph F. Gates, newly elected committeeman from Indiana, “When a child is born back home,” he said “in his acceptance speech, “his first intelligible words are these: ‘I am.not a candidate, but if sufficiently urged, I will accept.’”

Housing a Problem EVEN THE scene, in the South American room of

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{ the Statler hotel, was gay. Samba dancers threaded : i among the palm trees painted on the walls, Yellow fr ost ed circles cascaded down the apple green drapes. The cut to fit. well-chewed cellophane on the cigar of Senator wil- . liam Langer of N. D. glistened in the spotlights. ayon satin Mr. Reece said one problem the Republicans

might as well face now is housing for themselves at their convention in 1948. Ome of the committeemen agreed; he said hotels already were booking rooms

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5S. DOWN. a for summer after next. He said this was a good sign. INGERIE “If worse comes to worst,” said committeeman The Republicans adjourned then for lunch. A Raymond Haight of you-guess-where, “you can come good lunch, too, with plenty of sugar in the coffee 3 to southern California, You don’t need houses there.” and cream on the cake. A TR FA RA RP / —

chance, were making a list of Democratic scandals |

‘Well, sir,” suggested Guy Gabrielson, a gentleman from New Jersey, “let us remember that Atlantic City is a pretty nice place. It's get an ocean, t00.” Mr. Reece turned that one over to a special subcommittee and the committeemen had a few thousand words to say about those Democrats. Not all uncomplimentary, either, ’

Mr. Halleck Speaks

“WE'VE inherited something of a mess in this

dinners at his home last year on

SECOND SECTION

Champs’ Squad FES Still Intact Bp After 26 Years

Yearly Get-Together Planned by Group

By J. E. O'BRIEN The Morris Street Methodist church baseball team will | meet this evening at the home of Mose Collins, Route 5, Box 454—and ordinarily such information would command a short paragraph on the sports page. But this is a meeting of the 1920 {team, What's more, after 26 years \there still will be a 100 per cent turnout of the players. Mr. Collins held the first of such

the team’s 25th annversary, and . the players expect to continue the get-togethers on the first Friday of each December as long as two men survive. Over tonight's dinner there will be considerable reminiscing of the old Morris Street team—a right pert outfit in city sandlot circles for at least five seasons. Recall Humorous Incidents { During that time the team won {the city Class A championship for three years in a row and lost only | three games over three 20-game seasons. The players undoubtedly will re= call these feats as well as the humorous sidelights that marked their {play—incidents like that of one | Saturday afternoon at Riverside ipark when an unnamed Morris {Street pitcher threw a cud of chewling tobacco at a heckling spectator, Years usually scatter such a group, but all except one still reside in Marion county. The lone loutsider is Dave (Chief) Ruehle,

catcher,

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‘Right Pert’ 1920 Baseball Tear e-Groups For Annual Dinner

Morris Street Methodist church baseball team lined up in this fashion after completing a successful season in 1920. The players are (left to right)- George Bates, second base; Russell Dierdorf, outfield; Johnny Salter, third base; Mose Collins, shortstop; Carl Hoffmann, outfield; Ed Hartman, catcher; Ohmer Dudley, outfield; Oscar Buehler, pitcher-outfield; Otte Hoffmann, pitchpr; Dave Ruehle, first base, and Charles Kleppe,

country,” began Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, the |i,.o team's first baseman, who is

chairman of the national congressional committee. | journeying over from Cullom, Ill.

“We've got to do something about it. I've talked to a for the occasion. Now the father lot of Democratic congressmen who are coming back of two daughters, Mr. Ruehle fore

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and durned if some of 'em aren't as happy about our victory as we are.” ’ “Just think,” said the white-haired ex-Senator John G. Townsend of Delaware, “We used to come back here every two years and mourn. Now look.” * Chairman Reece called upon Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio, the campaign director. Mr. Brown wore a red, white and blue necktie and a wide smile, He, too, complimented some of the Democrats, “We had the help of many patriotic Democrats in| this victory,” he said. He added that he'd like a little | credit for himself. | “I mean I voted the Republican ticket,” he said. “So did Mrs. Brown, I saw her. ballots.” Some of the ladies talked and it was then that Chairman Reece made his observation about their age, their beauty and their virtue. Senator Langer |! rose to remark that in the long ago, a politician could | make one speech in one part of the country and an- | other in another. This time, he said, their speeches | had to match all over and still the Republicans won.

We used absentee

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday.—There was a little item in the paper yesterday evening which made me wonder what is the basis of law. Sometimes it seems to uphold a right which you recognize as legal, but } which you resent because it seems to deny a deeper i human right. In this case, the Ohio supreme court ruled that a building company in Cleveland had a right to refuse to have children living on their property, and so authorized the eviction of a veteran and his wife and baby, the baby having been born after the couple had ntoved in.

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Property Rights Transcended

ONE CANNOT deny that property owners have the right to dispose of their property in any way they see fit, and if there were plenty of places where people with children could live, no one would be upset

Plus ] Tax i by this incident. In a time like this, however, when , CENTER i all over the country there Is a housing shortage, I : wonder if there is not something which far transcends i property rights in this case. Our whole government ! is based on giving the individual as much freedom

and happiness as he can have without hurting other individuals and their aspirations and rights. It seems to me that, even though it is legal, human rights should not be considered less important than prop: erty rights. Our Russian colleagues in the United Nations deserve, I think, the greatest credit for the co-operative spirit which they are now showing, and one feels

A RU RA RANA

By Eleanor Roosevelt

that, due to their actions, peace has come measurably nearer in the last few days. We would like to congratulate all those concerped on the co-operation and understanding which seems to have been achieved. |

Doubts U. S. Realism

SOMETIMES, AS I read the papers, ¥ think that we as a people are not very realistic. Somebody sends in a report on our occupation zone in Germany, and it is quite evidently a report where all the bad things have been noted, as they should be in a report to

the authorities in charge. We promptly behave as though this report were something unspeakable that would wreck our whole record in Germany, and yet it deals largely with certain individual misdoings. | It would be much more serious if our government had issued directives of such harsh nature that the

recovery of the, people within our zone was threat- | to wear more clothes under rubber out. ened. But as a matter of fact, T think, we can show suits which have flippers on the|

that, on the whole the people in the American zone have been well treated and that their recovery, while slow, is progressing. They have been our enemies, we have fought a bitter war against them, but they

55 Hardy Youths to Swim

merly was police chief of Cullom. Tonight's group will include two grandfathers, Ed (Carp) Hartman {of Route 4, Box 456, and Charles | (Truck) Kleppe of 710 Weghorst st. | Hartman, the Morris Street catcher, now is an interior decorator, while Kleppe, also a catcher, is in the | cartage business.

The Host Was Shortstop All the others are married except Morris Street second-baseman now|

1311 N. Oxford st. Once an out-|Co.; Russell (Muffer) Dierdorf, 2002 fielder with the Morris Street nine, | Prospect st.,, outfielder now with| Mr. Dudley now is employed as a printer. Salter, 619 N. Wallace st. .third Also on hand will be George (Do- {baseman now employed by U. 8. pey) Bates, 1212 Richland ave., the! Rubber Co.

In Antarctic—For Science

Rubber Suits to Protect Group From NearFreezing Water, in Little America Region

| By FRED SPARKS Times Special Writer | ABOARD THE U. 8. MT. OLYMPUS, Dec. 6.—Fifty-five hearty lads on this ship of the Byrd expedition will soon be swimming off the Ross ice-shelf near the south pole. Their icy plunges in the interests of science will be for the purpose of testing the ability of a human being to’ withstand cold water when clad in long winter underwear, woolen socks and a rubber suit, | They are not divers and the only

air they take with them is what | rT Ne they carry in their lungs. The rub- | : Q ber suit covers the entire body ex-| Family uarrels cept the face, which is protected during underwater dives with a Cause of 2 False round piece of detachable glass. | p= The hysky boys are all hearty Fire Alarms swimmers. Mostly in their 'teens,| they'd rather swim than eat, as the Saving £0s%, but sheyre Hot Hee | NYACK, N. J, Dec. 6 (U. P.).— about swimming in the polar lake.|r, Lt. Halvor Iverson, of Savannah, | Bye Kepartuent; rope day | Ga., is their commanding officer. | = " | Lt. Iverson said that it is possible gets his family troubles straightened

i Mr. Secor was fined $50 in police Shortly after the expedition| rt for turning in false fire alarms.

' SAME LINEUP TODAY ~The identical players will line up the same way for a dinner this evening at the home of Mr, Collins, Route 5, Box 454, :

Mr, Collins, the host, was the

{Ohmer (Wooden Arm) Dudley of | employed by the Peerless Electric team’s shortstop and now is con-

nected with E. C. Atkins & Co.

Allison engineering, and Johnnie | Then there will be Carl (Buck) |

Hoflmann of 350 E. Minnesota st. now employed at the National Furniture Co. and once an outfielder;

Millions Face Death By Cancer

CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (U, P.).—Approximately 20,000,000 = Americans now living may die of cancer, Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the “U.S. “public health “service, warned today,

Dr. Parran, addressing a. confer-|

ence of scientists studying gastric cancer, said that in the past 30 years cancer had risen from the

{seventh to the second cause of

death and in the four years of the war had killed as many Americans as were lost due to enemy action, “Unless we acquire greater mastery over this disease than we now have, cancer will kill 20,000,000 Americans now living,” he said. Dr. Parran cited a “wide-spread and understandable public demand” that this nation Jurn its attention to finding the cause and cure of cancer, “with the same vigor and ingenuity we used to win the war.”

Earl Dudley, 1414 Olive st, outfielder Elfresh, an outfielder now with WN, who works at Eli Lilly & Co.; Oscar |C. Atkins & Co, (Lumpy) Buehler of 924 Leslie st.,| Another former pitcher, Huber$ the Morris Street manager; pitcher | (Red) Terrell will come from his and outfielder who is now a printer; | Beech Grove home to attend. Otto (Baldy) Hoffmann of 1328 S.| Even the team's water boy will be Alabama st, transformed from a there. He's Walter Hoffmann, chief pitcher into a realtor, and Sim Mec- engineer at L. 8. Ayres.

Factory Lunch-Pdils Gone; Plant Cafeteria Preferred

Economical Hot Meals at Place of Work Induce Most Men to Leave Buckets at Home

By PETER LISAGOR wo ~TFhmes Special Writer 5 CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—The workingman’s lunch pail, like the $1 table d'’hote and the 50-cent tourist cabin, has become a war casualty, Its gradual disappearance among factory workers can be traced te {the development during the war of in-plant feeding—cafeterias supply |ing men with hot, well-balanced meals cheaply and quickly, The welder or drill press operator accustomed to dried sandwiches, often meatless in wartime, and the | shriveled fruit in his lunch pail took the value of the cafeteria in good |one look at the plant cafeteria menu | industrial relations and increased {—and left the pail in the closet with |productivity aren't likely to let the his high-button shoes. cost of in-plant feeding get out of | He could get soup; a choice of |hand. four main dishes, often including| This analysis of the vanishing [roast beef or pork, ham, spareribs |lunch pail comes from a Chicago lar turkey ala king; one of eight man who should know about such | different salads;. a choice of six |things, Joseph Christensen, who | vegetables; dessert, coffee, tea or|operated cafeterias in war plants milk from Seattle to Jacksonville during

| And plant owners who recognized |the war. In 26 cafeterias, 44 canteens and

SILLY NOTIONS

13 food carts—all managed by exe pert home economists—Mr. Chris tensen fed over 125,000 men a day

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have to live again in the world and they have to believe in the broad principles of democracy if we makes fast in Little America, early are going to live with them safely. | next month the “south polar bear This report should have been made to the army | .jub” will have its first meet, off a authorities, not to ress. They ¢ ave RE ' r cong They should have dealt Later they'll work off

with it very seriously, for the conditions it pictures | SMall boat. are a menace to the health of our troops, and a men- | the ice-shelf itself.

He explained it this way: | When he got home from work | last Nov. 19, he found a note from his young wife that she had ‘gone home to her mother and taken their (baby. He didn't know what to do,

during the war. They included shipyard workers, atomic scientists, aircraft specialists, radar experts. The “inner man,” Mr, Christen sen feels, needs something more substantial than the dry, uninspired sandwich of the lunch pail. And after his experience with the hot, varied fare of in-plant feeding, he Isn't, likely to go back to the pail,

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ace to the development of respect for us as indi-|

viduals wherever we may go throughout the world.

We, the Women

ONE OF THOSE marriage experts—this one a Boston university professor—recently warned vet erans that they are scaring girls with their “wifehunting” approach. The professor says the girls are complaining that “the boys are bent on wife-finding in a hurgy to make up for lost time"-—they they are “too serious, too soon.” ’ If that is all the 1946 Miss Has to complain about, I for one am not losing any sleep over her sad plight.

Bobby-Sox Sad Age

I WEPT with her when, during the war years, she moaned that she was being cheated of her girlhood. I shook my head sadly over the prediction that because of the war thousands of American girls would have to go hushandless When I saw her sitting with a crowd

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of “the girls’

By Ruth Millett

on Saturday night looking dejected as a juke box poured out the mournful refrain, “They're either too young or too old,” I thought, “How sad to reach the bobby-sox age in wartime!”

New Complaint Too Much

EVEN WHEN some folks tut-tutted over how “bold,” or how “forward” or how “unladylike” the girls had become during the war years, I felt nothing but sympathy. After all, the competition was cut-throat, and a shy, modest violet didn't have a chance, But this new complaint is too much, this sudden coy cry that impatient young men are scaring the Misses America by trying to hurry them to the altar. After all, girls, it wasn’t so long ago that the only thing that scared you was the nagging notion that you might be so old the men would overlook you when they came home, . Remember?

he said, so he turned in a fire alarm. | Two days later he was served with | papers by his wife's attorney de-

The boys will begin by making short dives. Then theyll see how |

| {long they can stay in the water |

He {turned in another false fire alarm. This time he was caught. When the youth left court, he found four firemen grouped in front of the nearest fire alarm box, eyeing him suspiciously. “We're not taking any chances,”

: 'manding financial aid for her. | swimming and diving all the time. Lt. Iverson will stand by with a carefully guarded supply of “medis cinal bourbon,” hot coffee and plenty of blankets, Tests made by navy swimmers recently showed that a man oper-

ating in bare skin starts to turn | they said. blue and get numb after 10 minutes in water under 65 degrees above | 1t Thomas Brady, 24, King's

Zero. The waters off Little America will be between 28 and 35 degrees above. But on all sides will be ice floes and

Point, L. I., executive officer of the unit, said: “Observers with previous Byrd expeditions say a penguin will not go

the ice-shelf itself, Sea Leopards Feared The major worry for the swimmers will be killer whales and sea leopards. The sea leopard is a vicious seal with razor-like teeth. The killer whale has been known to, upset ‘people standing on ice floes. Then attack them ghen they fall into the water, i

in water if it detects the presence of a killer whale or sea leopard in| the area. “So we are thinking of capturing a penguin and tossing him into the

the ice, we’

Mines Have Changed, Too The inaccessibility of many of the plants, the shortage of foods -at home, the many women workers who got out of the habit of pre paring lunches—these, Mr. Christensen cited as other reasons for the passing of the lunch pail, The same kind of warm feeding has been taken into logging camps, to railroad gangs served . from kitchen-equipped rolling stock. And there are thermal containers which . could lower hot grub into pit mines, if there were anybody to lower them. to. If the lunch pail ever rallies from the brink of limbo, it might be through the support of the white collar worker in large cities, have to buck the chow