Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1947 — Page 13

Inside Indianapolis

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN to a mascot whether. he be a man or beast. It just shouldn't happen. ° When Anne Schutt, president of the Z. E. T. A. club of Howe high school approached me on the subject of being a mascot, I was flabbergasted. - Questions popped into my head. Did I have the requirements? The club voted yes. What were the duties of a mascot? Very little. Would I be treated with all the respect due a faithful mascot? Anne vowed the Z. E. T. A's would give the mascot the best of care.

The day of the initiation was set. Simple in-

structions were issued to the candidate for the posi-

tion of mascot. - I was to report at 59 N. Bolton ave. at 7:30 p. m. Oh yes, wear clothes a little on the old side. ; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Miller, parents of Judy Miller, vice, president of Z. E. T. A, met me on the front porch and immediately put me at ease. Mt, Miller said the girls had “something” planned but he didn’t know exactly what. Anyway, it shouldn't be too bad! Just as I. was beginfiing to relax, Anne Schutt motioned for me to-step into the house. Trying my best to be a good mascot from the start, I obeyed.

Something's a-Cooking, for Sure ALL EIGHT of the girls looked solemn. This initiation rigamarole apparently’ was going to be serious. A quick survey of the room didn’t disclose the usual paraphenalia present at initiations. Inner Guard Katherine Nitchman left the room followed by Joan Bayly, Joy Wilson, Pat Heller and Peacho Johnson, Something was beginning to coo! —for me, : Phyllis Bolds, Anne and Judy asked me several questions pertaining to nothing in particular while I

PORTRAIT OF A MASCOT—(Any resemblanca of the real mascot to the one on the wall is purely coincidental). Z. E. T. A. President Anne Schutt (center), gets suggestions for her art work from (left to right] Joy Wilson, Judy Miller, Phyllis Bolds, Katherine Nitchman and Joan Bayly.

+ conduct our mascol to the center of the floor.”

By Ed Sovola

waited for something to happen. The war of nerves was beginning to tell. i Inner-guard Katherine reappeared in the door-| way and said the limousine was at the “door. The| storm broke, |

In two shakes of a mascot's tail I was wearing a long black coat, babushka and a holster with a water pistol around my waist. In one hand someone| shoved a bouquet of paper flowers and in the othr two eggs. “Outside to the limousine,” I was commanded. What a limousine. What a letdown. My limousine | was a four-wheeled red wagon which I was instructed! to pull toward E. Washington st. '

My other instructions were to sell the paper flowers, get, 10 autographs for the eggs and water fresh! Rowers along the way with my water pistol. | Extreme self-control and courage saved me from disaster, Any deviation from my prescribed duties along the torturous route to mascotdom was promptly reprimanded. There was talk of “30 lashes for this,” and “25 lashes for that.” Autographs were difficult to get. I don't blame some of the people for running. I thought watering flowers with a water.pistol was utterly ridiculous. The girls thought it was gréat sport. | After the autographs were procured, I was handed a songbook with instructions to sing out so every resident in Irvington could hear. Ah, the way I sang YT expected the citizens to throw money at me, No one did. Did you ever try rolling a raw egg along a sidewalk with your nose? Need I say more? Finally we were at the Miller home again. I asked if I had passed my tests. The Z. E. T. A's scoffed ahd hooted at me. As I passed through the door, Mr. and" Mrs. Miller smiled in a way that meant, “Be brave.”

Dog's Life for a Mascot

KATHERINE NITCHMAN waved the girls down-| stairs while she put a leash around my neck. Then a red T-shirt was thrown at me. “Put it on and be quick,” snapped Katherine. I was led by the leash to the basement where the| Z. E. T. A's were gathered. Candles flickered and| the air of mystery hung heavy. At last the secret ritual was to begin. I was at the end of my leash or the rainbow. At that point, I didn't know which. The officers explained the secrets and the purposes of the club. The dignity and the seriousness of the ritual that followed was a welcome relief after what ‘I had suffered. Katherine kept jerking the leash, This, no doubt, was to let me know that the precise moment of my acceptance into Z. E. T. A. was nok at hand. The words I was waiting for finally were pronounced by the exalted president. “Now, Ed Sovola, having taken the obligation, I now declare you chief mascot of the" Z. E. T. A's. Inner guard, please

One more jerk on the leash and I was in the center of the room being welcomed as the mascot. Anne called for refreshments. All I could say after they were brought in was, “Aw, you shouldn't have done it.” ; What an evening of contrasts. One minute you're an untouchable and the next you're treated as

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royalty. Truly, a mascot doesn't lead a dog's life all the time.

Shales of Pompeii

By Robert C. Ruark

POMPEII, Italy, Aug. 27.—I have been stumbling around rypins and peering at the ancient stiffs jin catacombs lately, in pursuit of culture, and I must say it is a very depressing business. After you gander at the dusty debris long enough, you come up with the thought that mankind always

‘ winds up in disaster, and that we haven't progressed ,

an inch since old Vesuvius cbughed and buried the sinful citizens of Pompeii. We have merely contrived 4osecomplicate the process of extinction, 1 men is, every time you get the plumbing to working ‘good and the taxes paid up and a couple of bucks in the bank, along comes something like a volcano or an atom bomb to entomb the constituents in hot ashes. Two thousand years later the guide halts the rubberneckers and says: “Regard, what's left of the house of Lucretius Pronto,” or “Regard, gentlemans, the remains of the Temple of Jupiter.”

There's Nothing New

I WOULD SAY that we have nothing now that they. didn’t have then. c Every temple had a cohvenient saloon around the corner, and the biggest business in town was the hot bath, where the roisterers came to sweat off the excesses of a rough night with the wine vats, The rich kids had it all, as usual, while the poor folks slept in the alleys, because of the housing shortage. A couple of bloated bachelors named Vettii owned . the showplace of the town. They had a room full of racy etchings ta show their lady friends. The young man of Pompeii divided his time between the ‘prize fights, the hot baths and the nightclub ‘sector. ‘Freedom of worship was assured, because you could pray to anything from Zeus to a

Film Comeback

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27.—They say Jimmy Stewart is a forgotten man. I'd like to argue about it, but the boxoffice data on his last picture, “It's a Wonderful Life,” makes that “forgotten” business hold water, It was a good picture, It had comedy, hometownness, good entertainment and a lot of good supporting players around Jimmy. But now that it has played- all around the country, they added up the shekels on paper and Jimmy's agents said: “Sorry, Jimmy, they've forgotten you. You'll have to start all over again.” That's the reason, as I told you the other day, why Jiminy's playing the lead role in the Broadway play “Harvey.” He 1s out to win a new fan following, get all the publicity he can get. That's not all of the campaign, either.

Getting Popularity Back THE NAME and face of this Hollywood bachelor will be seen on billboards and in your favorite magazines in a host of advertising tie-ups. It's another way to get your popularity back. There are a number of steps in a comeback, all carefully worked out by the Hollywood agents who handle the stars. Another one Jimmy will try will

How to Get a Job

NEW YORK, Aug. 27—Alfred D. Fegely never ceases to wonder at the courage of family men, especially when the kids get hungry. “It's good times now,” Mr. Fegely said, “and you

billygoat. The women all turned up in the temples to show off their fancy new sandals and fipswept hairdos. The politicians were .always chewing over something in the Forum, and getting no place, be-

4 y % PRIZE PHOTO — Troy L. Veller, winner of the third week's prize of The Times Amateur Photo Contest, calls his entry, "End of the Row." He ‘used a 2!/4x3//4 speed graphic, Super XX film pack, shutter speed of 1/50th second at f. :16. The

picture was taken outdoors

cause binebye it got so hot they adjourned the meet- |§

ing to Mame's place.

Remember New York?

AND THEN, onesday in 79 A. D., Vesuvio cleared its throat and spat, and all them as weren't fried in the ashes got polished off by deadly poison gas— blighted at the peak of their cultural, political and scientific achievement. : Which, in my morose mood, makes me wonder how long it will be before some garlic smelling guide halts his brood of buckteethed schoolteachers in the shambles of half-excavated New York to say as follows, “Over there ya see the ruins of the Waldorf-As-toria, where the ee-lite of the world useta hole up when they come to town. Now, just ahead ya see a hunka marble—all that's left of the gents’ room in Rockefeller Center.

Translated, the writin’ on the J

walls says ‘Kilroy was here’ The Kilroys was a very prominent family, which traveled everywhere. “Them people was very advanced in science and art. Their iceboxes was almost as good as the Romans. They had jet-propelled chariots and they harnessed the lightning to their blankets to keep em warm. There's the remains of their biggest temple. Called the Stork Club. See the petrified! rope? Only the best people could git by it.

“Last, ladies, you see ruins of the biggest Forum. |®

It was called The House of the United Nations, and it was unfinished at the time of the disaster.”

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By Erskine Johnson

be playing in a western picture to capture the juvenile, audience. But Jimmy Stewart is not the only one. He was out of the picture for almost five years while he served with A. A. F., and that five-year figure is the limit, according to the boys who know. Clark Gable felt the sting of that absence, and| so did Tyrone Power. It took plenty of publicity| money to put “The Razor's Edge” in the boxoffice running. ‘ Craig Reynolds was third in popularity on the| Warner lot before he became the first Hollywood |

actor to enlist, long before Pear] Harbor. Craig went mitted in the third week of the contest. Mr. Veller, who lives at 1516 with the marines to Guadalcanal, was wounded and,| 8 10th st., will receive the $5 cash prize.

after months in a hospital, was returned to civilian | life and Hollywood.

Tough Time Getting Work

HE HAD been third in poularity at Warners, but, when he came back, he had a tough time getting work at all. The public had forgotten him. So. Craig took a job as an ice-man to tide him over the bumps. The war is over, and fofgotten by too many people already, but Craig is just getting his first break in “The Fabulous Texan,” at Republic.

By Robert Richards

Mr. Fegely takes them up to the top of a 640-foot tower. He shows them a 20-foot girder, eight inches wide. Far below waits the water. He tells them to get to the other side. “I don't tell them to walk,” Fegely said. “Notice that, I don’t care how they do it. A man can get down on his belly and crawl if he wants to. We always leave it up to him. But most of them walk upright—the ones that get over. “Only about one in 10 is able to da it. the others don’t even try. They get up before we leave the elevator. Others freeze

tT V4 i BEST CHILD PHOTO— Marion C. Parker, 5922 Rawls ave., won honorable mention for this best child photo. It was taken with a

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‘End of the Row,’ by Troy L. Veller, Takes Top Honors in Third Week of Event

Troy L. Veller, a foreman at P. roster of winners in The Times Ama His character study of an aged of the Row,” was selected by the jud

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1947

Mallory Foreman's Photograph Times Contest |

in late afternoon,

SELF PORTRAIT — Ivan Cordrey,

1807 Shadeland ave., filmed this picture of himself with a Brownie Reflex, using Kryptar 127 film, shutter speed of |/25th second. The picture was snapped in the daylight. It won honorable mention.

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HONORABLE MENTION — This night study of the Scottish Rite Cathedral was snapped. by Burnie L. Weddle, 1931 N, Moreland ave., with a 127-Size Exacta camera on Super XX film,

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L . RUSHVILLE ENTRANT — Honorable mention honors went to a Rushville resident, Jeanine H. Pearsey, 711 N. Perkins st., for this carnival sideshow study. An Eastman Monitor camera was used. The shutter speed was 1/100th second and the diaphragm opening was f. 45. The film was Verichrome. Miss Pearsey's entry is the first outside of Indianapolis to win recognition in the current contest.

R. Mallory Co. today joined the teur Photo contest. gardener which he entitled, “End ges as the outstanding photo sub-

Entries received since last Friday |

type lighting. All pictures becom?

fourth week's contest. The dead-|

night Friday. [3

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taken amateur awards in Indianapolis before. An employee of the Mallory company the past 12 years, his employment there was interrupted during the “war while he served with the navy in the Pacific theater.

land st, Indianapolis 9.

shutter speed, diaphragm opening, Petaluma’s main street is a large .sign that says: “Chicken Pharmacy.’ midnight will, be judged In the That's what it is—a drugstore devoted entirely to medicines and the property of The Indianapolis/instruments for the treatment of ailing hens and roosters. It is ownea hold the chickens, and he just pops line for the current week is mid-| Times and the decision of the and operated by Dr. Dave Davis, veterinatian, and has been at that it to them—two kinds of vaccinae location 21 year. " It is the only drugstore of its kind WINNING PHOTO contests | Friday to Amateur Photo Contest, in the world, and is profitable benothing new to Mr. Veller who has| Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Mary- cause this is the hii of the larg- | “Atle. sheep, hogs and all Other ony vent. And the vaccine for other

lest poultry-producing section of

udges is final. Mail or bring entries by midnight|

| America.

| In operating the Chicken Phar- |ventive medicine is now a big thing, WORD-A-DAY |macy, Dr. Davis complies with all here, and he vaccinates close to the requirements of the California |e - eee

By BACH

The photograph which won top laurels for, Mr. Veller in the current Times contest was taken in 1940 and he says the negative is still in excellent condition, » . .

THE JUDGES again faced a dif-

s The judges found a wider variety

the middle and we have to coax them off or pull them in with a rope.”

No Second Chance

A weekly prize of $5 for the best|’ will continue to be awarded}

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Veterinarian Owner Vaccinates 500,000 Fowls

Yearly; Makes Professional Ranch Calls | «uu

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer : PETALUMA, Cal, Aug. 27—-Over the entrance to a store on I Vaccinated over 3000 yesterday,

” POULTRY MEN questing applications for an as{bring their dead or badly ailing sistant cook and a dietitian, chickens to Dr. Davis, free autopsies and prescribes the | necessary remedies for the flocks. While we were chatting, a farmer brought in two hens in a sack. One was dead, and the other was alive, but in a sort of coma. pe broke its neck.

” FREQUENTLY

Roak’s Travels—

Chicken Pharmacy Slashes Death Rate Among, Flocks on West Coast

500,000 chickens a year. Other vete erinarians also vaccinate thousands,

“IT'S SIMPLE and fast,” he says,

Have done 5900 in’one day.” He has assistants to catch and

; p———— - tions. against eating chickens and €ggs., The vaccine to prevent bronchial ut of course chickens, just as troubles is brushed into the chick-

living things have their allments. [types of diseases is applied on the Dr

r. Davis frequently goes out 10 point of a needle—just a tiny pune * ranches on professional calls, Pre-|upe of the skin gs, a thy

The charge for both vaccinations, {when the owner furnishes assistants,

state board of pharmacy. His assis- gage [is three to four cents a chicken. {tant is a: full-time registered = Blind School Seeks * » = | DR. DAVIS wasn't sure he wanted

me to write a piece about his unique

{ OER( E | On the shelves of his store you| . anne { I'see louse and flea powders, sulfa |drugstore. Some years ago a magd- | drugs, tobacco leaf dust, DDT, vita-| 00 | P| |zine printed an article about it, and min pills, various remedies, sprays, ’

{he received mail from all over the | The Indiana School for the Blind [country—{rom people whose chick{sent out an urgent call today re- el were sick, who wanted to know 5 B y moXe about the store, ete. {~ Hp tried to answer all of them at first, Then he got disgusted, and Need for the new employees WAS wrote each a postcard: “Come out

announced by Robert Lambert, '° ab of school superintendent. Mr, Lam- "eT and T11 tell, you al} . *

bert sald full maintenance consist-| .., ing of board, room and iaundry| linois Legislators service will be provided, The assistant cook will be paid $90 or Denounced by Jury . month and the dietitian, $150 per, DIXON, Ill, Aug. 27 (U. P.) ~The month, Li {Lee county grand jury denounced The positions are under the state Illinois legislators today for “mise merit system which offers sick and use of privilege” in buying wilde vacation. leave with pay as well asilife land for the state and: remembership in the retirement fund. turned six suppressed Indic Applicants may telephone Mr. charging defendsnia, with.

He performs

Dr. Davis Then he

Lambert at BR. 2332 or write to spirac

AR y to him at 7725 College ave; or make Court atf