Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1947 — Page 19
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“o freight don't fume and fuss. Why not do a little
reading? Read what? Read the side of the boxcar. What's written on a boxcar will never become best-seller material, but what can you expect for free on a railroad crossing 6 a yard? James B. King, yard clerk for the Nickel B te road at the E. 35th st. yards, was my. tutor in boX®r literatiire. : i If you intend to do some reading in the future, it's only feir that you should know that you'll never get a complete story. Even Mr. King, who has worked on railroads for 35 years, can't get the whole story from any one set of hieroglyphics, . “You tell me what you want to know and I'll try to explain,” Mr. King: said as we started down the tracks. @ Some cars were marked with yellow chalk and others in white, The explanation was simple. Baltimore & Ohio people use yellow chalk and Nickel Plate people white, Mr. King couldn't explain who put the next item in blue chalk but he could say why. “Headaches to load,” was self-explanatory, Someone got tangled up with rough merchandise, “You can find almost anything scribbled on railroad cars,” Mr, King said. “A railroad man with a piece of chalk can't resist expressing himself in one way or another.” >
Different Codes for Stations
IT'S NOT UNUSUAL to see examples of art, -
“Bozo Texino” was the title of a cute cowgirl on a coal car, : ; Numbers are absolutely rampant, But with num~
ADDING TO BOXCAR HIEROGLYPHICS— Yard Clerk James B. King scrawls 43 which might not mean anything to you but it means Buffalo,
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bers, which are classifications for cities, you have to] be careful. Every railroad has a different code for|
stations, Lig Nickel Plate uses 209 for Tipton, Ind., 80 for Lima,
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is dying out ahd I'm glad." Markings such as “Lou 3” and “Dan 27" were | easy. They're just an abbreviation of Louisville the | third of the. month and Danville the 27th. °
“You can't say for sure which month though,”| &
explained Mr, King, “Markings should be rubbed out but you know how it is. No one is perfect.” : “Ever find any poetry or free verse on cars?” I asked after we a couple of unexplainable letters and numerals. » 1 hit a tender spot with Mr. King. He had found examples of all tyPes of boxcar poetry. Would I care to hear a recitation of qne short poem he had seen and took the trouble to memorize? ~~ *Bhoot.” “Could we but for one full day, Let love.and kindness have full sway, And forget to judge and criticize, And look on the world with loving eyes.” “Not bad for boxcar poetry is it?" I had to admit the thought was fine: Scrawled in blue chalk on the next car was the name J. B. King. It seemed awful peculiar to see Mr. King's name on a hoxcar. Mr. King took his chalk and with a flourish wrote his name. “That's the way it should be done. The one in blue is a poor imitation,” Mr. King said. Then I got the whole story. About 35 years ago, Mr. King, then a young man in the railroading game, began to write J. B. King on boxcars with a style which caught the fancy of his fellow workers.|
The name was written without lifting the chalk from| :
the surface. And from all appearances you couldn't! tell where it was started and where it ended.
Every Boxcar Has a Name
“AN AWFUL LOT of railroaders don't know who I am but they know the.signature” Mr. King said.| “It's been written for many years by a lot of chalk wielders.” Did you know every boxcar has a name? - The name is the largest number on each car whether it be a boxcar, flatcar or tankear, Of course, the usual dimension and. capacity figures are no problem, If I can figure them out, everyone can. But a small, stenciled RPKD 2-15-46 had me stumped. 3 Mr. King had the answer. The journal box (hubcap of a railroad car) had been repacked with oily waste February 15, 1946. High on another car were the figures 21-MD-8,! 25-NH-8 and 20-NC-6. The only explanation Mr. King could offer was that someone was doing a little paper work while standing on a loading platform. { “As I said, a lot of this’ stuff is unknown even to a guy who has been with it for 35 years.” { Who cares? A little mystery in a story makes it! better anyway. |: : :
N. Y., to him,
Britain Listens
By Robert C. Ruark ’
LONDON, Sept. 5.—Winston Churchill is trumpeting at his flock, preaching the gospel of free enterprise and away with government controls. He is finding new listeners every day. At the same time, Clem Attlee’s Labor government has told England to take another reef in its already shortened belt; to prepare to work harder; to dress more shabbily; to be colder, if necessary, this winter; to smoke less, drink less, laugh less—until, by some still undefined miracle, the crisis will pass and England can smile again. It is an unsympathetic program. The Labor people are caught squarely on a hook of their own devising. They fomented, steadily, a program of demand for many years, and now, in the first incumbence as the ruling party,” they can't satisfy the demand. 1 was talking with a young member of parliament from Bilston, in Staffordshire,” the other day. His name is Will Nally, and he comes from an unbroken line of coal miners. He himself worked in, the pits before he became, first, a journalist, and later an MP, Mr. Nally is an ardent Laborite, but he surveys. the scene with great honesty,
Laborer Is Better Off
MR. NALLY, just back from his constituency, sheds one unusual light on the drab scene in Britain today. He claims the heavy laborer is much better off than he was before the war, and that the brunt of the current crisis is being absorbed by the white collar, lower-middle and middle classes. “Ten vears ago the kids in my disfrict were. getting a hunk of bread with dripping for their breakfast and no lunch at all,” he says. “Today they ave a hot lunch at school—meat, bread, milk and two veges. Then they come home and complain about the quality,
“Milk consumption is up 10 per cént.. Then men are drinking three times as much beer as they once were able to afford. The nippers feel put upon now if they can’t get to the cinema twice a week. : “What we have done is raise the standard of individual necessity in England—we preached it and screamed for it, until the miner and the factory worker isn't content any more with the old standards. And now my party is embarrassed because we
can't deliver what we ordered. | -_—
“You can sum up the whole thing by saying that the working classes don't realize, and can't appreciate, how much their consumption of soap, say, has gone up: But the white-collar classes do realize bit terly how much their soap consumption has gone down.” Apart from Mr. Churchill's needling, there is a heavy skepticism about the real efficacy of Mr. Attlee's newest program of increased austerity. The government aims more or less to freeze certain types of laborer in heavy industry, but there is no draft of labor, and no guidance into the vital industries.
Office Worker Is Bitter
THE OFFICE WORKER is bitter because, in the matter of food, he figures that he will absorb the whole rap.
The miner's family gets extra rations—the office
- clerk gets'less. The steelworker gets more tea—the doctor's receptionist gets less. | 0 ica |
England's great middle class has absorbed a ma-! jority of the licks so far, and it is not enthusiastic| about taking more. Which is why, more and more, | “Hear! Hears!” punctuate the biting remarks of |
"man with the big eigar.
Crowded Planes
— WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—I don't suppose there is any worse experience than sitting next to a fat lady in a 4-motored airplane while she eats bananas ard neatly stuffs the skins into the seat pocket with the time tables and the free sun goggles. The deluxeier the plane, apparently, the more the lady oozes over the side. of her seat, I kpow what I'm talking about; I'm writing these lines with one arm stiff (from the lady leaning on it) and a permanent distaste (induced by her) for bananas, I hate to say it, airlines, but in my travels lately as 4 cash customer over assorted routes—some of which ‘charged extra fares for special service—I was reminded of excursion rate riding on a day coach of the Yazoo and Eastern. : Squalling babies, crumpled papers, ladies lurching to the rear of the coach for a drink of wafer, snorers, playful brats and cramped seats all were present at 8500 feet altitude. Only the cinders were missing.
More Comfart on Local Bus MY PRINCIPAL complaint, fellows, concerns the way you ripped out the roomy chairs in some of your Constellations and DC-4's and jammed up to 59 narrow perches into airplanes originally intended to hold some 15 fewer passengers. A customer gets a more comfosable ride on the local bus to Takoma park. These planes used to carry two rows of double seats with an aisle in the middle as in a street car. Then some ‘master mind cut the width of each-seat, squeezed the aisle so tight the thinnest stewardess has to walk crabwise, and put five passengers abreast instead of four. : Six or seven hours in the center pew between the
. |month, Sept. T to Oct. 7, were out- Fresno also is the center of the dried-fig industry, By Frederick C. Othman |lined at a meeting of 20 Jewish
groups at 3456 Central ave, last] night. |
hungry fat lady and a sleepy gent whose feet kept tangling in mine is enough to make a customer
complaints. They said only some of theif ships wére
jammed with so many chairs, Claimed they did the|are Mrs. Manuel Segal, Mrs. Louis thelr fruit and to advertise it. And i 4. aq
jamming not because of greed, but to take care of Senter, Miss Marion Bluestein, Miss they set standards for themselves the crowds. Maybe I played in hard luck, but every|Clarissa Hollander and Harry Trau- which they asked the legislature t0| pyp CALIMYRNA, a big white four-motored plane I rode has chairs suitable only|gott.
for Hollywood's thin man,
Babies aloft are something else. Each plane I| director of the association here,
0., 43 for Buffalo, N. Y.,, and 4000 for Sndinompuits | N } 3 \ “Kok” is & switchman's idea of Kokomo. a 10 a u X o C u IV Wi “What's that Roachdale and an encircled W| ‘ ' an?” | . . - . +“It-means-the car-is to be weighed when it arrives "| oo. " ; : : in Roachdale,” answered Mr. King. - “Ah, I see Kil-| —K ma . roy was here in November of 1046. The Kilroy stuff ) . |
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Momentarily the government proposes’ —
to use the old German system of differential rations! to make heavy industry more desirable and thus! ont evo e attract fresh labor, .
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p d. And him to by Edward M. Drayan, president o Sacramento valleys decided they eeved. And even cause him to write an essay like this. the local Jewish Educational asso- " roy ve and still producing.” The Washington agents of the lines whose serial} ciation, or Tormbd to conduct the had to do something. produce about a ton, dried, per acre, still p cing day coaches I rode were inclined to smile at my|month's activities here. |
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TIME TO PLAY —It looks like fun and it was fun for these professional Boy Scout” leaders to engage in games while attending the eighth national training conference of the Boy Scouts of America at Indiana university. But learning new games was all part of the convention which is planning a new five-year program for the scouting movement. Concentrating on a rustic game of Tic-Tac-Toe are (left to right) Marcus. Rothman, Bronx, N. Y.: James Davenport, LeRoy, N. Y.: H. S. Baldwin, Columbus, Ga.: C. W. Hunter, Bartlesville, Okla.; Leroy V. Brown, LeRoy, N. Y.; James E. Bishop, Indianapolis, and. Victor Kaufmann, Watertown, N. Y. ‘ hua
ALWAYS LEARNING — No matter how high a leader rises in the Boy: Scouts he finds there always is something new to learn. At the conference Dr. H. Roe Bartle, Kansas City, Mo., tries his hand at metal work inthe Trading Post set up on the campus, Dr. Bartle is the scout executive of Kansas City as well as being a member of the national committee staging the eons vention.
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THIS WAY, SIR — Probably the man who needs the least direction as to the path scouting is taking is Dr. James E. West, first chief scout executive in the movement, He now has retired to his home in New Rochelle, N. Y. His love of American youth, however, continually brings him to just such meetings as the one in Bloomington.” Showing him around the |. U. campus are Scouts Floyd Nicholson (left) and
Robert Denelson. (Editorial, Page 20.) French Chief Wins Confidence Vote
. STIFF JOLT — One of the games which caught the attention of the executives was jostling. Balancing on boards, rounded at the bottom, players try to force the opponent off by using plungers as weapons. Here, in a blur, Joseph H. Brinton heads for the ground. Winner of the event was Joseph A. Brunton. Both men are from New York City and work in the same office. They often are confused because of the similarity in their names.
| Roark’s Travels—
- Wasps Tricked to Enter Eyes of Capri Figs, Bolster California Production
. “ » ] dh sect i - Calimyrnas No. 1 Variety for Drying Purposes; a age due to insect or bird dam-, Trees, 90 Years Old, Still Bear Fruit | Culled Nias go thio by-products By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer | alcohol, sirup for non-edible pur-|
FRESNO, Cal, Sept. 5—In addition to being the raisin capital, poses, stock feed, ersatz coffee for Premier Paul Ramadier .won his export : {fifth vote of confidence since Janus
If you want to find out about it, Paul L. Johnson, the young ener pr. jong does a fig tree bear ATY in the natignal assembly today, getic. managing director of the California Fig Institute, is a good man f..ito 203 ta 243 with 54 abstentions.
to see. He explained a few things to me this morning. Aa . i , “We haven't lived long enough to! A meeting of the inner cabined In the 1930's mostly foreign figs were sold in the United States. So answer that” said Mr. Johnson, was summoned to discuss whether
They have 35,000 acres in figs, and ‘there are trees here 90 years old Premier Ramadier should resign in view of the narrow margin of his
Ramadier's Victory
Margin-Js Narrow PARIS, Sept, 5 (U. P.).—Socialisé
Outline Plans
For Observance Here Plans for Indianapolis’ observance
y tee, ded An executive committee, hea yo the growers in the San Joaquin and
(It takes three pounds of fresh figs See p—————— victory, In “1935, they organized the Pig - , ' to make one pound of dried.) Last m The vote came after Mr. Ramae - Other members of the committee Institute to improve the quality of year the growers received $280 a Bedroo Burglars Get dier accused the Communists of exe 3
$28 in Two Robberies pioiting a strike wave threatening Bedroom burglars netted $28 In to undermine the republic. two robberies reported to police to-| The assembly voted confidence in ay. 4 Premier Ramadier's government as Roland Smith, 21, a resident of 200.000 Paris workers prepared to
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enact into law. tender fig that resembles the forToday the organization has 1200 eign Symma, is the No, 1 variety
members—practically every grower. (,. drying, Its production is one
Dr. Gershon Gelbert is executive
patronized carried its quota of infants. I have nothing! against babies as such, but when their ears begin to]
hurt, they don't know about yawning to equalize ol Carnival — By Dick Turner sl
pressure on their ear-drums. So they cry and they!
keep on crying. This is pitiful, It also is hand on the nerves, 1
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Can’t Ban Babies Like Dogs
AN AIRLINE can’t ban babies like it does dogs, 1 know. But I understand one outfit flying between Los Angeles and San’ Francisco has instalisd soundproof nurseries for air-borne babies, THat 1s the airline for me. : Otherwise I have no suggestions. The firms which whisked me to New Orleans, Merida, Guatemala City, Memphis, 8t. Louis and back home did so with the greatest of care. They never scared me once, They came close to no mountains; skirted every storm. ! The sidling stewardesses were polite, too. They! begged my pardon every time they knocked my elbow | off the arm of my too-tight seat. This happened frequently becase they were busy shagging warm milk to the babies. This refreshment did no good. The yowling never stopped.
New, Deadly Disease Is Traced to Atom Bomb
By JANE STAFFORD Science Service Staff Writer
jinstitution reported their studies But the element has a half-life of | with this radioactive chemical. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5. — A new,| Plutoriium gives off all alpha rays. too dangerous to use. The cancer , deadly disease of the atomic age Compared to beta and gamma rays, might be destroyed’ but the chem- | was reported to the international these alpha rays have not been con- ical would go on emitting rays §,
over 20,000 years, which make ft
cancer congress today, It is named sidered very dangerous. They are which would cause other cancers. ’
plutonism, for the element, plu- big particles, but they can pene-|
tonium, discovered in atomic’ bomb |trate only through short distances BUS LINES OFFICIAL DIES
research. lor thicknesses.
pei If they strike the! DETROIT, Sept. § ( Po It. has never attacked a human body from outside, they can hardly Ang Us P3,
being. It probably néver will, be- get through the skin. Buf within
Percy L. Radcliffe, 84; general traf-
cause of the care being taken to the body, concentrated in one place, ec anager of Great Lakes Grey-
. protect atomic energy workers. But they can cause hundreds of mice and rats in the that area.
Liss and Miriam B. Finkel of that its rays at the
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great damage in hound Lines and Easfern Canadian i |Grayhound Lines, died yesterday
Argonne national laboratory, Chi-| This might make plutonium good after an illness of several weeks. He eago, have died of it. ' Dr. Hermann treatment for cancer, by localizing recently underwent an abdominal site of the cancer. operation. |
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Hoosier hotel, 440 Massachusetts eP848€ in a 90-minute protest strike ave, reported $23 taken from his 3nd mass demonstration, both under unlocked room during the night, | Communist leadership. Betty Whitlock, 20, of 2041 N. New| The bearded Socialist leader puf Jersey st. told police she-and gine Issue squarely up to the ase fiend were in her apartment Ritchen Sembly—wholehearted confidence in last night when a man entered her Dis government to deal with the bedroom. He ran from the room ¢ountry’s grave economic crisis, never perform their mission, how- , oop with him a billfold con-| Urges End of Strikes
ever, if the growers didn't trick tny| ining $5. | Mr. Ramadier 8 hi fig wasps into helping them. 4d ung his most
EC { t t ’ The wasps enter the eyes of the pointed barb at the Communists in
{the form of an implicit but To Capri figs and lay their eggs. The WORD-A-DAY takaole charge tt ttn growers then pluck the green figs, a said “disturbing elements” wera place them in baskets, and hang y BACH {exploiting the industrial unrest for them in the Calimyrna trees. As | political ' purposes the eggs hatch and the fertile young | The Commundst
' : deputies sag wasps work their way out, they fly ? anaarb : to the nearest figs, which they think PANACEA SoKly Sen), while ihe Tost: of. tie {are Capris, to complete their life Nf. -—g i ; a P or 8 |eyel ' . (pan a-se’a) wow tt po re nclel i ied But tragedy awaits them as they) A REMEDY OR MEOICINE |, new wave of strikes and demons enter the eyes of the big Cali- FOR ALL RLS ” |stratigds. He said they were myrnas. Their ovipositors are too [thr ravely the stability of short for the long tassels on the {the franc and cuttidg under the seeds, and they can't lay their eggs. |authority of the republic. {But in making the desperate effort, | ME A LIFT | ; Even as he spoke, 500,000 Paris | they transfer Capri pollen to the . a
{workers prepared for a $Si-minute Oalimyrnas before they drop to the {protest strike against the dwindling ground, exhausted, and die,
{bread ration and soaring costs of
|of nature's strange stories. A Calimyrna won't: develop unless it is pollinated by a Capri fig. Now, Capris themselves never ripen and are not edible. They are males, and their sole purpose is to fertilize the Calimyrnas. They could
8 u-4 ; {llving. The strike was to be fol REL i ABOUT 60 PER ‘CENT of the 3p howes by & meas demonsttation y FO n ST wo |dried figs are sold to bakeries, and +3 lorganized by the Communists,
go into fig bars. Sometimes all| fig bars are referred to as fig new ,tons, hut that is incorrect. Fig New ton is a trade name owned by the National Biscuit Oo. which has} ‘done so much to popiilarize the ronfection. i
| Up till recent years, all dried figs
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