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MEN, LEAVE US FACE IT. We're slaves of fashion. We're pantywaists. We're just plain nuts for wearing ties in this heat. “Where's your tie?” you ask. In the wastepaper basket where it belongs. It should have been there a week ago. A month ago. “The first day of summer. Bitter? You bet I'm bitter. _ Men are inclined to make fun of women's fashions. What a laugh. Just stop at any downtown corner and watch both sexes walk by and notice the wearing apparel of each. ' You'll see women wearing light, short-sleeved blouses open at the throat. Some blouses will be as thin as spider webs. Madam, as a rule, will not be wearing stockings. Her shoes are so cut up you wonder how they stay on her feet. - Sir, you can take time out now and wipe your ‘forehead. Don’t loosen your tie until you're ready, to take the pledge which runs from now until Labor day. (If the thermometer stands anywhere near 80, ‘the time should be extended.) Say you're on the corner of Washington "and Meridian sts. Mr. Office Manager comes puffing along. He's not satisfied with wearing a tie around his bulging neck.. Oh no, he has to wear a suitcoat and a collar pin. :

Fifty-Year Habit WHY DOES HE dress the way he does? I don't know, He doesn't know either, except that that’s the way he has been dressing for the past 50 years. Right behind Mr. Manager is Mr, White Collar. All he knows is that it's an office rule to wear a shirt, tie and coat. The boss man wants him to dress right for the clientele even if it kills him. And the funniest part about the whole business is that Mr. Clientele drags himself along Washington st. wearing a tie and coat. He's trying to “look

EXACTLY WHERE IT BELONGS—A hideous hot-weather Sppendage, the tie finally finds its resting place for the duration. Anyone eise care to follow suit?

Moonshine Lull |

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 13 (U. P.). — Southern Ohio moonshiners and their brothers - under - the - still throughout the nation are the victims of the war, prosperity and their own slovenliness, “Revenooer” John R. Runkle said here today. However, the treasury department men predicted $hat the drought of smoke-house liquor would efid immediately if we hit another depression and materials became easily available. Mr. Runkle, who's been with the bureau of internal revenue alcohol tax unit since 1931, said the manufacture of illicit booze waséwell under control. He said investigators like himself seized 10,633 stills fn 1940, but only 6053 in 1946. They picked up 254,594 gallons of booze in 1940 and only 79,204 gallons in 1946. Mr. Runkle said sugar rationing hit the north hardest. Southern booze men got their necessary sugar from the black market and by not allowing the refinement of raw syrup. The draft put some potential moonshiners into shoes for the first time, the rangy agent said, and the lure of easy war industry money was too much for the stay-at-homes. “Furthermore,” he said, “there's more money around now, and a man with money is going to drink better liquor.” But the finishing touch that. brought a plaintive furrow to Mr. Runkle’s brow was the low standards of the present-day alky-cooker,

No Pride in Work Any More

“A DIED-IN-THE-WOOL moonshiner used to take pride in his work,” Mr. Runkle said with the respect of one craftsman for another, “He'd cook with nothing but copper pot, coils and cooking keg. And he'd keep his mash clean, too.”

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right” when he talks to Mr. White Collar get in to see Mr. Manager. x Does that make sense? It doesn't to me. Gad, what a beautiful sight my tie makes in the waste-

so he can

Amounts fo Nothing NO, BY THE TIME the two men meet for lunch they're beat. Beat but presentable, according to unwritten standards that really don't amount to & tinker’s darn. Across the Street a man takes a plunge. toward] the sidewalk. - You rush over to take a look. You notice he has a tie. His face is the colorfof & ripe

tomato. : Pretty soon an interne pushes his way through the crowd and takes a look. The first thing he does

is loosen the prostrated man's tle. Then ‘he tells the crowd to step back. “Give the man air,” he orders while a stretcher is being bro ht from the ambylance. : You a few seconds. Step up and ask the doctor what you should do about your own clothes. Go ahead. To make it look urgent, stagger a bit as you grab his lapel. He'll tell you that most ing in hot weather. “The whole body has to breathe in temperatures

fike we've been py it it doesn’t, the heart

men wear too heavy cloth-

works extra hard kiheat prostration isn't far behind,” the doctor will teil you.

Thank him for the free advice even though you §

knew that all the time, = Joe Doakes Hauled Away

SO THEY HAUL Joe Doakes away in the meat |

wagon. The crowd disperses. Watch Mr, Salesman over there. ‘He's next if he doesn’t watch out. Tell you what, friend. Why don’t you wheel

on the nearest rubbish heap. Then go back to the dffice and tell your boss. you're not. wearing. as tie for the duration. Don't hedge around. Go right up and tell him. He'll pat you on the back. Chances are an office rule “No Ties” will be posted. Pretty soon the whole building will be tieless. Then the whole town. Governor Gates will get wind of the movement and issue a state-wide proclamation. The neighboring states will follow. Finally, from the White House, Harry 8. Truman, sans bowtie, will address the nation. Men will be dancing in the streets. Children will burn daddy's ties by the carload. Women will lead parades celebrating man’s new found freedom. Boy, am I glad I took off my tie before the heat got me.

By Paul A. Deaton

But the sluggard modern still-man is a different case, according to Mr. Runkle. “Within the past 10 years,” he said with a look of disdain, “they've taken to cooking in oil drums. They'll use galvanized pipe to carry the distilling liquor into anything from an old hot water heater to an automobile radiator.” “Do you, think a bootlegger today would install an extra ‘thumper’ coil, just to get good distillation? Do you think he'd pipe a running stream into his cooling keg to avoid ‘hot liquor?” The answer was “no,” both times.

Gone Until Next Depression

MR. RUNKLE indicated he might overlook all this but said he’s found mice, rats and rattlesnakes in hillside dugouts with the ferménting mash. He even found a drunken owl, half-drowned and flopping about in a barrel of mash. : Other factors ruining one of the south’s traditional industries, Mr. Runkle said, were the growing population and a growing social consciougness. “It takes isolated country to produce liquor. When people start moving in around a moonshiner, someone's bound to tell the law.” : Moreover, he said, “with so many taxes, people realize that every gallon the moonshiner produces means nine dollars tax the government doesn’t get, and therefore nine dollars-the honest man has to pay.” “No,” Mr. Runkle said, “the New Straitsville product in the charred oak kegs that were famous from New York to San Francisco is gone until the next depression.” Hard times, he said, would force some men out of industry and back to the stills, and other 'men would have less money to spend on 65-cent shots. “Then,” Mr. Runkle said, “you'll see the return of the moonshiner,”

SECOND SECTION

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mark of distinction. Besides normal hazards, men and institutions of the period faced the danger of Indians, five major wars and a half-dozen depressions. Kingans was founded as Kingan & Co, Ltd, in 1845 at Belfast, Ireland. In this country, James K. Polk, ex-governor of Tennessee, was presi-

By Erskine Johnson

‘Come Wiz Me’

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13.—Sharles Boy-ay was telling: me that this “Come wiz me to the Cahs-bah” business is a lot of hooey. “I never said it,” said Sharles on’ the “Mortal , Coils” set. The “Mortal Coils,” as we've said before, has nothing to do- with the way they used to refer to Shirley Temple in Brooklyn. It is heavy drama about a wife-poisoniiig suspect.. The “Come wiz me” business is the inevitable snapper of Boyer mimickers. And there are as many Boyer mimickers on radio, stage, screen, at night clubs, clambakes and parlor parties as there were flying saucers a few weeks ago. . Boyer imitations, in fact, became an international affliction if not an institution after “Algiers.” “But,” says Boyer, “in that picture I never said, ‘Come wiz me to the Casbah’ because I was already "in the Casbah, so there was no place for the line.”

All Perfectly Legal

BOYER, of the big brown fawn eyes and the sexy voice, said he has a tolerant attitude toward the

widespread imitations, He cheerfully signs three .

to 10 clearances a month for persons wanting to imitate him. Not all his mimickers bother to obtain legal permission, but the movies, stage and radio, financially vulnerable and traditionally cynical, take no chances of lawsuits from anybody, including Boyer. “Some of the imitations are pretty good as I see them.” Most %of ‘em think that all it takes is a king-size French accent and that line about the Casbah, which he never said:

We, the Women

“I DON'T see how in the world she manages to keep four children clothed and fed in these times on

The Boyer imitation Boyer enjoyed the most was by Peter Yind Hayes. : “Hayes was so good,” said Boyer, “that I couldn't applaud. I felt like it would be applauding myself,”

Hits ‘Ugly Rumor’ NOTE from Charlie McCarthy: “There is an ugly rumor going around that Bergen has turned legitimate actor (a role minus Charlie in “I Remember Mama”) and that I am through. They also said I've worried myself so thin I can sleep in a pencil-sharpener, Let me say I'm enjoying just dandy health and am as happy as the day I killed my first woodpecker.” Telegram from Jack Parr: “If Hawaii finally besomes our 40th state, this means the flag will have 48 stars and a pineapple.” Orson Welles appraised a foot-high statuette of himself in clay for “Macbeth,” then soberly picked up a scalpel and flattened out his stomach. The only time in his career, I guess, that Orson has ever cut his part. : Vera Vague is back in town with a fancy New York wardrobe. 8he no longer wants to be known as a zany comic but as a well-dressed comedienne, Producer Seymour Nebenzal is paging Katharine Hepburn for the Helen role in Thomas Wolfe's. “Look Homeward, Angel.” Joan Leslie wanted to know exactly what to do for a love scene with Jimmy Craig in “Northwest Stampede.” “All you have to do for this shot,” sald Director Al Rogell, “is just sit there and sex.”

By Ruth Millett

wreck the budget?” rather than “What would be good

dent; Texas was in the process of

ling for war with Mexico, and slavery was a burning question.

#" » ” JUST 16 YEARS later, as Kingans moved to Indianapolis in 1861, slavery burst into the fire of war pitting brother against brother. Founders of the Irish-rooted industry were Samuel and Thomas D. Kingan, bewhiskered gentlemen who saw opportunity beckoning from Brooklyn. Around the corner from Kingans in Belfast was a competitor, J. & T.

Russ Radio Favors Third Party Here

LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—~The Moscow radio came out today in favor of a third party in the 1948 United States elections. Moscow, in an English language broadcast, said America's present two-party system was anti-demo-cratic, playing into the hands of Wall Street, 5 Wall Street, sald Moscow, was able to “gain full control of the entire civic and political life of the United States.” Moscow charged that both the! Democratic and Republican parties now sought to do basically the same thing-—satisfy expansionist aspira-

tion.” | The broadcast said that despite the fact that the White House and

FATHER OF KINGAN & CO.—Sam-

company in Belfast, Ireland, in 1845.

This year marks the 102d. At the helm of the industry, both here and in Belfast, Ireland, are men whose direct ancestors have been associated with thé trade 100 years or more. A span, of 100 years in the life either of a man or of an industry is a

annexation; the nation was prepar-|.

"Inoticeable, came to this country in

The Indianapolis Times

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1947

LEADER | of the local arti

READY FOR DELIVERY--Kingan horse-drawn wagons are lined up at the loading dock ready to start the sales routes, The company later led the way in covered meat wagons as a means to prevent contamination of their products. :

’ Packing Company Founded in 1845 at Belfast Second Oldest Firm of Kind in U.S.

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KINGAN & CO. is in its second century of service as a packer of

Sinclair & Co., Ltd. with 13 years head start in experience. As the years passed, the companies grew closer to one andther rather than farther apart. In 1875 | they amalgamated, and today W. R. Sinclair holds the reins as president of the firm which is the sec- | ond oldest packer in the nation and | among the first 10 in size.

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” » n SIX YEARS after the infant] industry was founded, the brothers

Kingans could export the finest of | pork to the British Isles. But Brooklyn was too far from stock and stockyards, and two years later the plant was moved to Cincinnati, O., the center of the hog market. | However, as. most of the top! quality hogs came from the Indian. apolis area, the brothers picked up stakes and made the final move here.

” - n 80 RAPIDLY did Kingans establish itself, that in 1865, when the plant burned to the ground, a southern newspaper in Richmond, Va., wrote: “A dispatch from Indianapolis says that the extensive porkpacking establishment of Kingan & Co., the largest perhaps In the United States, and one which has furnished the government with more war-time meats than any other, was destroyed night before last by fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. Insurance, less . than $200,000.” i America had opened a far greater trade area than the most wild expectations dreamed of for the firm founded to be amr exporter. Vs More and more meat was channeled - for home consumption. In 1920 headquarters were moved here, and the company was reorganized into an American corporation.

» » n THE SOLID American base tipon which the firm rests today parallels the life of the company’s president. Born" in Ireland, Mr. Sinclair, whose brogue still Is more than

1906 to learn the U, 8, end of the He was to remain two years, but

liked it so well he stayed. In was elevated to the presi-

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Ringan, brother of Samuel, pioneered icial refrigeration in the industry.

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Kingan & Co. Defies Depres -Wars In 102 Years Of Ser

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/ PROTECTING THE PUBLIC—In 1898, just 10 years before government inspection became mandatory,

SAUSAGE MAKING, 1900—A far cry from present-day standards is this scene in the Kingan plant. Most of the employees were Irish and lived on Irish hill. Typical is the plug hat and handsome mus-

taches of the workers.

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out plarit grew and new and greater Kingans after the fire of '65. ONLY three years later, through the experimenting of Thomas Kingan, the local plant introduced what

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disastrous fire in 1881, the firm inthe first mechanical hog {scraper. It was a developmént of James Cunning, plant superintendent. { Then, virtually of necessity, the {firm expanded rapidly to meet the {growing demand of a growing na(tion. Branch after branch ‘was opened, and Kingans pioneered with what today is a meat taken for , sliced bacon. »

ceased to be

sn IN TIME the firm

Ma pork-packing plant exclusively and |

went into production of all types of | meat, Kingan horse-drawn meat wagons | {became familiar sights on Indian- | {apolis streets as the firm grew. The | | mated teams and pairs of four were!

Kingan & Co. instituted such service in the local plant.

light was by tallow candles. They labored beneath ground much like miners, . . ” THE BRAWNY, mustached men with plug hats knew their trade, Their brogue. was thick. They were Irish and they lived on “Irish hill" near. the plant or on “Shamrock hill” across White river.

Some of these men had worked -

for Kingans in Ireland and wers brought over by the founders. Others wanted to work for Kinge ans, and they wanted to come to this country. Many, without the slightest idea they would have a job, shipped their trunks from Ireland addressed “c-o

is believed to be the first artificial the pride of the plant, virtually| ppen - they reported here for

cooling system in the entire ndustry. This made possible the year

the summer months. In line with

show horses. | As the carts rumbled over eopsied) or unpaved streets, seated at the

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Their friends worked in the plant,

| progress, and following a second many in the cellars where the only

work. And in family after family, many born on “Irish hill,” second, third

opened a plant in Brooklyn. Amer- around packing of meats. No longer | reigns were men who helped form |, 4 fourth generations still draw a ica was to be the source from which | would just a skeleton force work in| the backbone of Kingans, ”

Kingan paycheck, (Tomorrow: Irish Hill).

Roark’s Travels—

‘Threat of Staying Home From School

Is 'Big Stick’ in Steamboat Springs

Big Attraction Is Skiing; Sport Goes On

In Main Street of Town Named for Geyser By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo,

children love to go to school. If a

| her youngster to make him be goo

Aug. 13~This is the place where mother wants to throw a scare into d, she threatens to keep him home. |

The kids not only are taught skiing from the first grade on through |

high school, but get full credit for coach, is the professor In charge, work as well as runs down the course, The town has another distinction in which Mayor Claud Luekens,

garage operator, takes great pride,

“We have the only high-school ski band in the United States. When it drills and parades, évery member is on skis.” - Snow sometimes gets 18 feet deep, and the mercury drops to 30 and 40 below. But it's a dry cold, and the townspeople say they don't mind it. That's when they get out and play. They hold a winter carnival—ski“ races right down the main street, which is lined with all kinds of huge snow men and animals, some’ artistic, some grotesque, some funny. s . ~

THE SKI jump, said to, be “the finest competitive jumping hill in America,” is on the mountain overlooking the town, People can sit at the windows in their homes or stand on the main street and see

it. Al Wegeman, veteran skier and | His instruction includes blackboard | geyser. and years ago it made a {sound like a steamboat. When a |deep cut was made for the highway {it did something to the spring. You can’t hear it any more.

» n n WHAT DO you think would be a good name for & newspaper pubs lished in Steamboat Springs? “The Exhaust” or “The Whistle” would be pretty good, but Charley Leck-' enby prefers “The Pilot” for his paper, “It's a natural,” he says. He was born in Columbus, Miss, and came here when he was 16. Hiked over the mountains. That {was 57 years ago. He went to work in a printing shop, learning to set type, and seven years later he owned the paper. He has been the publisher and editor ever since. On the walls of his office are plaques he won. for publishing the “best-appeating weekly in Colorado

in 1933,” and “the base historical §

miles long, was built by a large improvement district. It was started in 1923 and finished in 1927, and then leased to the Moffatt railroad, now a part of the Denver & Rio Grande. Mr. Leckenby is the only living member of the commission that built it. “People who come to see me are impressed by that big check,” Mr, Leckenby says, “It keeps my credi§ good.”

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

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SINCERE SORROW FOR WRONG DOING

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