Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1947 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis

SOMETHING WAS WRONG around the south “tent oh the west side. of the swine barn at the State Fair. “Why so sad, Don? Here I expected you to be ally

Halfway to the show pen the boar, Improver Lad: smiles at the big show.” ~Donald Pratt, R. R. .1, box 367, snapped at a

decided he was going to the front office. He became my sole responsibility as Don's ghts behaveq rea- er Pl ‘piece of straw ‘he was chewing. sonably well for pigs.

By Ed’ Sovola

That's where the per-| suaders come in. A tap on the ear and most of the time they'll behavé.

they want to go in another.

SECOND. SECTION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1947

to two years ork the labor ‘he court ore all but $1000 mated to be

“Doggone it. Ed,” Don said, “I haven't won a * There were anxious moments. To the two un-| thing so far and 1 showed a gilt and a barrow.” Don, who I had talked to a couple of days before the Marion county fair, seemed to have lest a lot of the fight he had and which I wrote about in a story of a 4-H youth on the farm. “Maybe your luck will change,” I said hopefully. Don Wegan spraying a mixture of mineral oil and fly spray on three Duroc gilts and a boar,

Loses All City-Boy Complex

“™M SHOWING these four as my breed litter, Say, I'm showing in a little while. How about giving me a hand getting these pigs to the show pen?” Don was serious. I had never driven a Pig in my life. “What do you do?” “Just see that they get into the pen,’ handing me a stout cane. Immediately I lost all my city-boy complex. I had seen exhibitors wield canes on pigs before. To the question of did I look like a big Duroc bréeder, Don had nothing to say. My attempt at humor fell flat. Don was really pitching for his next showing. The voice over the loud speaker announced the winners in the Chester White breed litters. Shortly after came ‘the announcement that the judging of Duroc breed litters was to take place. “Let's go,” Don said as he thumped the four Durocs to their feet with his short billy club. Durocs can be cantankerous critters, They go every way but the right way. Get them in one aisle and

known men who helped me get that beast into the|

arena go'a thousand thanks. y Don wanted to know what had happened to me | when I arrived. With the best diction I could muster |

at the-moment I told him. “Did you use thegeane?” DID I use the cane? I used everything but the rafiers. But you know, all| Don did to get Improver Lad in the pen after we, were in the arena was to give him a slight tap on| the ear. - William Adamson, Don's agricultural teacher at! Decatur Central, came over to see the litter. Mr. Adamson thought they lotked fine. Don was apprehensive, In fact, he was so Rpprehensive | I began to get jittery. The grandstands were full of spectators. The pens | were full of Durocs. . Don was worried but he was full of the old fight to win. The only ting I was full of was cotton candy and hope for the best. The sober-faced judge began to make the rounds. It seemed to me he hardly looked at the litters. Mr. | Adamson said the judge knew what he was doing. Don got the Durocs in perfect line when the judge ppssed our pen. I stood at a rigid attention. Anything to help. Anything to make our side look a little better. The judge went round and round the pens. Men with sheets of paper took down names of the exhibitors. The whole proceeding looked ell messed up and I said just that to Mr, Adamson. He told me to keep my shirt on. Finally the judge told Don to drive his litter out in the open. We did. The judge looked them over for the umpteenth time. With nary a word he went off again, Were we or were we not in the running? Mr. Adamson thought Don wouldn't place less than third. Deon had his doubts. There was nothing! to do but wait.

Judge Pokes Durocs With Cane |

JUST ABOUT, THE time I was going to beat | myself over the head with the cane, Don got the | nod to drive his Durocs in tHe number one pen. But | that still didn’t mean anything, Mr. Adamson said. | The judge was just sorting the litters. out for the

' Don said,

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MODERN DANIEL BOONE — Walter Muething, ANNIE, GET YOUR GUN — More and more women every year are becoming

final say so.

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a boo, rah or fiddlesticks.

made it. over and checked Don’s name and handed him two blue ribbons. other was a litter club special.

Don,”

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BEST FOOT FORWARD—Donald Pratt starts two of his Curocs off for the judging arena. On t the way back they weren't just Durocs, they ‘were Champions, '

a smile from ear to ear.

happy ending I could have carried those Durocs to

throuzh.”

The judge came over, poked the Duroes with his| ane, stepped back, looked again, went to next pen, ame back and looked some more. All this without |

Don was first. We | Men with scorecards or something came

And then, then came victory:

One was marked first place and the |} :

“Let's drive the litter around the fair grounds 1 suggested after the judging was over. Boy, was ready to show the world. “No, let's go back to the pen” Don said with “I'm tired.” So was I, but after being part of a story with a

he Circle on my back. “Step. aside stranger, champion Durocs coming You should have seen-that trip back.

Hungry England

Mr. Ruark visited England after leaving Italy but returned to Leghorn at the request of Gen. Wyche . , . Here are some of his observations from Britain.

LONDON, Sept. 2.—1I expect this Is the first column ever written out of London, in -a-time of crisis, which did not use a cockney charwoman to express the indomitable British spirit by saying “Coo” and “Gorblimey.” For this sign of omission, I will probably have my correspondent’s badge yanked, but -unfortunately I have not been meeting niany’ charwomen lately, I have just been meeting ordinary Englishmen who are taking their newest crisis in somewhat the same spirit that they met the blitz and later, the buzzbombs. That's to say, a sort of desperate amusement cone step this side of tears. “here is not much you can do with the crisis, as it is called by everyone, but scoff at it. Too much has happened to Britain in the past few years—so much that-a new-eatastrophe-is-anticlimactic.—All I can think of here is the old story about the man-on the train whose wife's coffin was in the car behind, his sick baby had just tossed his wallet ouf the window and swallowed the train tickets, and very little else of importance could happen te the man.

Can't Get Much Hungrier LONDON IS HUNGRY, and it doesn't see how it can get much hungrier; to conform with the- noble i aims of Mr. Attlee’s program. A man who gets two eggs a month is unmoved by the idea of getting an egg and a half—especially when the margin for error in the distribution of eggs has only been allowing him one actual egg in 30 days, anyhow London froze stiff last winter. In one of the best hotels in town, the average temperature was 37 'de-

grees for several ee can get colder than that. bad in London today. —A shirt, worn for four days, gets a touch gamey. But if you haven't the coupons | uss to buy new ones, and the laundries only deliver once every four weeks, you just naturally wear the same shirt more than once. The answer would be to wash|3% the stuff at home, but who can wash with no soap? @

conversation is puzzled.

out of this thing?” never before has been seriously posed by what we call the common man in England. Nothing the gov-| 7 ernment has offered to date has answered it.

By. Robert C: Roark |

—— London does not see how it A lot of nice people smell) §

You never see a fat man in England today. What

you see is people with six inches eof slack in their § pinafores-—or thin people with distended stomachs from eating too much bad flour paste as a filler.

The black market in England is most in evidence!

at the clubs and private eating houses and hotels. | | They are forbidden ground to the ordinary man, account of no money.

What Happens to Us Now?

IN THE PUBS, where there is plenty of beer, the “What happens to us now?”|

It is a question; I-suppese-which.

The Englishman finally is in the position of to

rich kid who has just heard a confession of bankruptey from his father, and has learned that even| his bowl of porridge has a lien on it.

The Britisher| s_ bitter, with half a million civilians dead in thet

war, and the house bashed in, and no reward now! except more privation. ¢

Atleast “during the war, there was an- enemy to |

kill to lend a worthwhile spice to-the sacrifice. He is dismayed by the peace, where he was not dismayed by the war. can't see the turning of the road?

But what is a bloke to do, when he Cut his throat?

Mad at Ourselves

I — WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-~Hold tight to your steering wheels, taxpayers, and ii tell you about our two —count ‘em—Pan American highways in Guatemala.

The Guatemaltecans think we've got bats in the belfry. I won't argue with 'em. After taking a long look at our two roads, which we seemed to have built because we were mad at ourselves, all I could do was blush. When I checked in at the Palace hotel in Guatemala City on my vacation, the name of Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) was about six lines. up on the registratiol book. The senator was trying to learn why our prodigal government got into such an’ argument with itself that it spent .our millions building parallel roads leading from nowhere to nevernever land.

Wanted Road Pronto

THE SENATOR will make his report later. -I'm making mine now: You know. about the Pan American highway, which is supposed to link North and South America, and which now gives tourists a hair-raising automobile ride from Texas to Oaxaca in southern Mexico. From. Oaxaca to the Guatemalan border there is no fibad, nor even a cow trail, because there, are no Saws Just desert. Came the war and the master

Rooneys Bury Ax

I — . HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 Exclusively Yours: Sonny Tufts is the leading contender for “The Life of Babe Ruth.” , . . The Mickey Rooneys have been reconciled, and Mick is making a desperate effort, friends say, to make the marriage click. . , , Parent trouble is holding up the marriage of Beverly Tyler and « Tom Drake. ., . Howard Hughes is collecting $100,000 from Paramount for Jane Russell's acting ‘stunt In “The Paleface.” Bette Davis- husband, William Grant Sherry, just sold two paintings “td Roz Russell, one to Greér Garson. Greer, by the way, is at Carmel, Cal, drafts ‘ing that sequel to ‘Mrs. Miniver.” She sold L. B. Mayer on the idea herself. ;

Durante Dialog “, THERE'S a running gag in “On an Island With You” of & matronly extra haunting assistant movie director Jimmy Durante for a role in a picture, Finally Mr. Durante scréams: “I wouldn't give yo a job if you were Gpeer Garson’s mother.” The woman playing. .the extra is Gres; Garson's Maier, ima Ross.

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mala to push through the highway there. the army engineer corps.

From Jungle fo Jungle

the army wasn't even speaking to the PRA and, of “course, and bull-dozed a road south through the™jungles sights on long rifles. on the west coast flains

road a few miles inland and a few higher in _the mountains. begin in a wilderness and end in a ditto.

road still is being ‘built. ever did learn what the pair of roads cost. know is that the experts originally said the completed road to Panama would cost $25 million.

.00i0g. the Hildy Johnson role.in.: The Front Page” on the Detroit stage. . . .

HT minds here decided that the Pan American highway| had to be finished pronto.

The public roads administration rushed to Guate-' So did

“We'll build the high road,” the PRA said Pr “And we'll take the low,” the army replied. .

THIS ARGUMENT went from bad to worse until

vice-versa. So the army stuck up its nose FRIENDSHIP, Ind. Sept men fired.

The public roads administration built. another Both of these highways | elation championship matches, The|The army's road never was finished. The PRA’s | five- day meet ended yesterday and 1 doubt if Senator Ferguson | closed the annual shoot which has All 1 been held here since 1934. And it was the biggest session in history. More than 30Q registered

So far they've spent $77 million. The jungle 1s rifiemen and women unlimbered an

closing in on much of their handiwork and they now assortment, of muzzle-loaders.. Some estimate that it will take another $65 million fo Of the guns saw service in pioneer finish the job. *

days, others were only a few weeks old All, however, were muzzlewaders,

B E ki J hn Has 5700 Members y rskine onnson Shooting the old fashioned guns benm— .s a: sport which seems to be catchDurante ee the ing the public eye rapidly, Currently ‘there are 5700 members of scattered over the

A teen-ager rrom— Mr. M:G-M studio and said: “Why, Mr. Durante, your nose isn't half as big the association as it looks on the screen.” world.

“Shhhhh,” whispered Jimmy, “L. B. Mayer. may ~¥Oor this meet, members be listening.” , from every sectien of the

Ava Gardner just posed for a series of 300 still lo. participate. photographs at Santa Barbara. her the Jean Harlo% bulldup.

came nation

M- pu i sing life, most .of them spending the five ; days housed in tents, Many of whe members are-mechagics by trade. “They ‘almost have to be,” said E (Red) Farris, secretary from Portsmouth, O. “There always is {something wrong with a gun, It takes a mechanic to fix one.” r Some Women Experts

A new beauty around town, LayRhea Michele, will be screen-tested by M. two studios.

Two Wild Bills MEMO to 20th Century-Fox: How about William Elliott for the Bill. Hart film biogfaphy? He

éven looks like Hart. ever. The association rapidly is acRKO will start firing the long-range publicity quiring more and more women. Seyguns soon for an Academy Oscar for Rosalind Rus- eral of them have become so skilled sell's’ performance in “Mourning Becomes Electra.” they make many a man take a back Her “Sister Kenny” last year, they say, lost to seat on the firing line. Olivia de Havilland by only 27 vo'es. }

Columbus, O., pours powder into his old rifle at the championship shoot of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle. association of t Eriengship, Ind.

: HEAVY LOAD — Three youngsters entered in the junior events carry a six-foot, 85-pounder out to the firing line. they ask, over the small bitter. .“How do we wiggle Ralph Dunn of Ft. Wayne, Ind. The beys are (left to right) Darrell Muething, Columbus, O: “Anthony Whales, Carlisle, bo John Van Way, e, Ind.

each fired he fell back frm ‘the line to reload. Powder spilled thousand feet into A5 each from horns and balls were tamped with rods. This was the last day of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle asso- |

«Portsmouth, O:

While here they live a pioneer

hold a two-day institute Thursday |

Besides the national meet, the a8-layiwanie st.

‘members of the association. And they are proving they can handle the old muzzle loaders, too. Here Mrs. Ellyn Grote, Canton, O. (left), checks the shot of Mrs. J. E Hirtle Jr, Bath, Pa, as Mrs. Ada DeWalt, Canton, O., records results.

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INDIAN FIGHTER-—Adolph (Pop) Niedner, Dowagiac, Mich., tells Miss Norma Walfon, Portsmouth, O., of the days he fought the redmen in the West. He was in the army cavalry from 1880 to 1885

The big job has a brass muzzle and was made by

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Gups of Pioneers and Newly-Made Weapons 'Roark's. Travels— Used on Ramge; Many Women Take Part

By VICTOR PETERSON, Times Staff Writer

2.--Coonskin capped men crouched ower AS -3 Centennials Draw Near

¢Sharp cracks and rolling booms mixed as the

Barbers in California Face Lean Days

C 4 Men Let Beards Grow for Prolonged Events; [0¢kiand, Alameda and others, I . . : have an aunt and some cousins in San Francisco Shuns Exploitation | Alemeda, and they say it is delights By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ful =And lively, too, 10’ Tach, they SAN FRANCISCO, B8ept. 2—~The barbers of California~especially say Shere isn't a dead person in those of the Golden Gate antl the Bay cities—have some lean days Alameda. Although that island city ahead . has a population of 96,000, it doesn't Threé big centennials, stretching from 1948 into 1050, are approach- ive a angle Soumetery: The near« the 100th anniversaries of the discovery of gold, the gold rush, and 8 15 n ah

sociation holds a spring event and! a turkey. shoot the week before! Thanksgiving. run contests throughout the year on ing-

Individual chapters

home grounds. Officers, other than Mr are Maurice (Boss) Johnson, president, Aurora, Ind.; Paul Freese, first vice president, Marietta, O William E. Vanderford, second vice president; Ralph Dunn, third vice president, both of Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Miss Juanita Stepd, treasurer, Portsmouth, O; pen Mellor, chief range officer, Marietta, O,-and B, LeRoy Compton, assistant range officer,

{Market st, the main stem, you can get nudes or hearts with arrows through them tattooed on your arm or chest, and you can enter arcades

Farris,

for a prolonged celebration, and you know the custom in the west The men let their beards grow for their big events. This one will run creation of a centennial commis. °U® nobody will stop you even PHILOPROGENITIVE sion, and it will start to work soon, YOU do not wear a beret. And rd i (£11 o-pro-jen en’ i-tiv)aou There is not likely to be an exposi- Pe surprised at the interest lot of PERTAINING TO THE LOVE OF tion or any great attempt to draw ld gentlemen have in art out here. | . do not want commercial - exploita- OF 1¥ing in doorways Kicking. They NOW, HERE ARE A Indiana Central tion are called “winos” because they get. FEW DOZEN : “We lust want to have a lot of drunk on cheap wine. People don't PICTURES TAKEN Two-Day Institute fun § Jot informal way,” is the'pay them any mind. OF JUNIOR WHEN The HE WAS SI¥ MONTHS OLD va \appeared from other cities, due to . : THIS CITY here on the hilly good times, but there are still plenty | and Priday on the campus. | peninsula; looking dowii on one of of them here. Some tourists Are, Principal address will be given by {ihe best landlocked, deep-water |toliched by their pleas. \ : San Pran- [JL

the entrance of California into the Unio as a state 80 Californians are getting ready |" - WORD A DAY - - By BACH at least a year and a half! \with peep-box. movies. Signs above | The legislature has authorized them say, "For Art Students Only’ people here from the rest of the In the downtown section you country, San Pranciscans say they sometimes see men staggering along * faculty and administration way they put it “If others want ; HN . star of Indiana Central college will [to come and help us have tt, tine.”| JPANHANDLERS have all but disDr. Philip M. Bail, dean of the {harbors in the world, the jumping] And then, of course,

{college of education at Butler uni- | opr place for the Orient, doesn't, re- [cisco has its reckless, dissolute life, |versity. :

Not quite all-aire mechanics, how- |

LEGION TO MEET . pee There is no other city like San|you want, and you go to it and no- | Rae The regular monthly meeting of | Prancisco. It is just itself—differ- body tries to influence you to do the 11th district American Legion ent. something else. will be held at 8 p. m. Thursday| The famous old Barbary Ooast| Thousands of peopls who ‘Work| |in the 40 & 8 Chateau, 421 N. Penn- |is gone, but you gan buy. books on in San Prancisco prefer to live in|

where and how -to sin Andon) the Boy, eities-—Berisley, Richmond, |

Jun NE —_ ht J de FEN |quire special efforts to attract morejits cultural and religious side. i wy, At he ; EY : pedple. has everything. You pick out what! a or J Ne EN | py ) Fey