Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1947 — Page 21

« “ABOUT THE ONLY class you can is the sheet metal class.” . Sheet metal? How about bricklaying, plumbing or ‘ steamfitting? H. Harold Walter, director of evening classes at Arsenal Technical, said sure but not right i now, i I settled for the sheet metal class. Mr. Walter told me to report to James Miller, instructor. He would give me all the help I needed to “do things.” Mr. Miller, metal shop superintendent of the Henry C. Smither Roofing Co. during the day, skeptically welcoméd me into the sheet metal fold. A good judge of ability. Mr. Miller pointed to 18 apprentices huddled over T-squares, triangles, detail paper and rulers on their desks, “All the men here do sheet, metal work in the daytime,” Mr. Miller. said. “In these classes they brush up on theory, layout work along with actual work problems,”

All Answers ‘No’ :

SOUNDED FINE TO ME. Here were men who were interested enough in their trade to study two evenings a week. y I was asked several pertinent questions to which I had to answer “no”—"no"—'no.” No experience in

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“thing” was disrupting an evening sheet metal class at Tech until the students joined forces.

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Porter Shrines Lore To Visitors

+ By Ed Sovola . aba sheet metal work, no drawing equipment and no shop experience of any kind. I was making a great im-! pression with teacher. ) i f Mr. Miller rounded up the drawing equipment and handed me a green book titled: Sheet-Metal Pattern Drafting and Shop Problems by James S. Daugherty. After one hour of brain-racking study and concentration I approached Mr. Miller hesitatingly. “Sir” 1 said. “Geometry knocks me out cold. I read enough of the book to know that an ogee gutter,

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four-piece 90-degree gutter, T-joints, quarter circle gutter, tapering collar for roof having a double pitch is beyond me. May I withdraw from the class?” After some discussion, Mr. Miller said he had a solution. He didn’t want me to leave the class a failure. Bad an my psychological makeup. | “How would you like to make an ashtray? That's deviating from the course a great deal but in your| case we can make mn exception.”

Checked Out More Tools

AN ASHTRAY WAS okay with me. the other members of the glass think? said to forget about that. From William Gerlach, tool room attendant and senior at Tech, Mr. Miller checked out a pair of shears, a.12 by 12-inch piece of shiny tin and a fourpound bumping hammer. : The idea was to cut a six-inch disc and then pound #t around the edges until it became cupped. From there T was on my own with the design. The entire class moved uneasily as I began my “pumping.” By the time I was through several of the men gathered around me. My hurried explanation seemed to satisfy them. In fact, they would help me finish the ashtray. I know why, too. Clarence Dillehay and Joe Striby put a fancy rolled edge on the cupped disc. Clarence's brother, John, cut the strips I would need for my “different” ashtray. John cut the strips on an ugly-looking ma~ chine called the square shear. I told the men I had no intention of disrupting the, class. They said they were taking a little recess. Prank Striby assisted John Dillehay with the soldering iron and heating apparatus. Carl Partlow explained the technique of soldering tin. Sprinkle resin dust over the part to be soldered, dip the hot iron into- muriatic acid cut with zinc and melt a bit}. of solder with the point, Then apply the iron to_the| parts to be soldered. rr | Ray Stringer brought up the questiop-of using sal ammoniat acid instead of resin. Mr” Miller said the

What would) Mr. Miller

AUTHORESS' HOME—This log house in the heart of Geneva acid could be used but the resi Was just as good. | once was the home of Gene Stratton Porter, one of Indiana's literary Design Puzzled Men greats. Named for the Limberlost swamps and marshes which long MY DESIGN for the upper part of the ashiray« since havesbeen drained, the home now is a state memorial symbolic 1 6st of the men. My argument was tha : pustied mil of the men. My A heical ore. of one of the stats s most popular legends. » "®

One in Geneva and Other Near Rome City Still Retain Bits of Setting Used by Authoress

SECOND MEMORIAL—Really a part of the same effort to memorialize Mrs. Porter is this huge cabin in Wildflower Woods near Rome City, where the noted authoress lived from 1913 to 1923. It is located on the edge of Sylvan lake and is surrounded by an endless

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variety of wild flowers from which the wooded seci’ [the entrance hall and dining room| This cabin, on -Sylvan lake in mission p. {are paneled in quarter-sawed oak Wildflower Woods, was the home of memorials, wood. Downstairs rooms include a Mrs. Porter .from 1013 until 1923. nn HEIN BACH cane; Gene SAYRE ux. oro

tray had place for approximately 25 short butts. Thatis.net.had for. oye. little ashtray. cae The men co-operated beautifully. They even give] TEE ORLY; TRIPREY, ETRE SOOT 'iTdToss VRHETIeR of WiTNoWers sh me a chance to solder one of the cigaret holders. Mr. music room, two bedrooms, kitchen wild life flourish within the prim- Porter designed d Miller remarked that I used much too much solder. A two-day journey through scenic northeastern Indiana will enable and bath, There are four bedrooms eval forest where Indiana's most orter designed and superviest After the ashtray was completed 1 Otered Yo put the vacationist to see two beautiful state memorials, both honoring upstairs, oe ape oa 5 rig construction of the Homes when away my tools. The Jen Sig 20 pp Y Gene Stratton Porter, popular Hoosier authoress, | THE custodian .at .Limberlost in, of her life pe “they were constructed. Many of ’ woud Sake care of nothing left to do but go home,” I One is at Geneva, and the other near Rome City. State Memorial is on hand through-| Here again sa two-story log the fixtures inside were of Mrs, gu The most direct rcute from Indianapolis is over Indiana road 67 out the day to relate the story of cabin of Wisconsin cedar logs and| Porter's own design, and two carved my helpers said beaming as to Portland and U. 8. road 27 from there to Geneva. Mrs. Porter's life in the Geneva containing 14 ‘rooms. ~The entrance! ®™ perched atop the gate-posts | Once in Geneva, a former oil- |cabin, and admission to both me- hall and dining room are paneled | At the entrance of the Rome City " "Now men,” T heard Mr. Miller say. “Shall we go boom town, the nature-lover finds Which once were evident have been morials is adults, 25 cents, children in wild cherry, hand rubbed and home, were carved out of Bedford ahead with our work?” : it easy to realize why the noted drained, the tradition and legend under 8 years, 10 cents, plus federal waxed, while upstairs rooms are ..mestone. from a design prepared Oh, well. Got a fancy ashtray out of the deal any- woman writer discovered such a Of the “Limberlost” still exists in tax, trimmad in S a hard pine by the author. way. . wealth of material for her nature the vicinity. | Leaving Geneva to visit the Gene . Pp PR PIE | In view of her many contribuA ee mim 00ks and novels. Even though the The name was originated by na- Stratton Porter State Memorial at AN OUTSTANDING feature of tions made in the fleld of natural" 5 ‘majority of land. surrounding the !'ives of Geneva when a workman Rome City the motorist should head (1e cabin. and one which always science, the State of Indiana mainB Robert C Ruar town has been stripped of the vir- Wandered into the swamps and was north over U. 8. Road 27 to Ft. : u : WAYS tains the two memorials honoring y is DRE angi timber that formerly added to lost, : |Wayne. From there take Indiana “UFActs the’ Visitor, is the fropt Gene Stratton Porter. , : the beauty of the fegior, (herd krco *B wns.calied “Limber Sum st 2 aes Wondudlville, turn west room fireplace which contains

said. “That's just about it,” I headed for the door.

— PARIS, Sept. 19.—More than any ether European capital I have seen, Paris has.swung swiftly back to a surface approximation of its prewar status. 1t is gay; there is plenty of everything for the man with money; it is unscarred physically by war. It has the outward look of a city which came easily

through a crisis. The shops are clogged with luxury goods. nightclubs are going full blast.

The

. » » EE————S—————N S—————————— 'a number of large, old trees still to following his disappearance, Geneva'on U. S. 6, and north again over stones from several states and for- AUTHOR of 11 novels, six nature a near impossibility to be well-fed. and illegal to be pe geen, settlers began saying, “Limber's indiana Road 9 to Rome City. eign countries, |books, a book for children and two content. London is shabby and battered and gray, lost,” and the expression later was) Upon arrival ‘at the memorial in Six rooms and a bath down- books of poetry, Mrs. Porter had a and its people share the look. : Gri corrupted to Limberlost, Wildflower Woods, the visitor will stairs, plus a photographic dark- following of 50 million readers and Romé is bashed ‘up some. but it is a luxurious is the Limberlost State Memorial. a... 8 {ind a winding path that leads room, and seven bedrooms, a bath her works have been translated into city once more. The luxury, though, has an ille- Situated on the edge of the Limber-| WHEN Mrs. Porter heard the through overhanging trees and and large cedar-lined closet up- seven foreign languages, as well as gitimate air, like a pawnshop window full of stolen lost swamps, the memorial was once story she liked the name and upon shrubs for more than a quarter of stairs, constitute the interior of the braille. Numerous stories by Mrs. Its fine restaurants scream “black market,” |the cabin-home of Mrs. Porter and completion of her home she named a mile. : | Porter were published in McCall's

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jewels: | i | home. and the people who eat in them are in sharp con- her husband, Charles Darwin Porter. it Limberlost cabin. * % x | A custodian also remains in the magazine. . ¢ trast to the majority of Italians whose sharpened [They were married in 1886 and had, A two-story log cabin, the me-| AMPLE parking space is pro- Gene Stratton Porter State Me- | The tour to both picturesque -

faces speak of long and constant hunger. You get lived for a time in Decatur, moving morial hasn't been changed (except vided and a short walk leads the morial, conducting tours through memoriais covers nearly 165 miles

» A year ago, they tell me, the Old Dome and the 5 feeling in Rome that the people who live reasonRotonde, the Coupole and the Deux Magots and the ply well are racketeers or tourists and that it is| other fabled bistros in Montparnasse were as gloomy evi] to be anything but desperately busted. as tombs and sparsely patronized. That may have I have heard of the straitened circumstances of] been true, but today it's hard to find a table at any the Frenchman, but it is hard to detect. In August

the Porter's occupied the home. Gene Stratton Porter State me- cidents of

to Geneva after the birth of aifor furniture replacements) since vacationist to the back door of the the home, and relating certain in-/and can be driven easily «in two daughter, Jeanette. | ‘ motorist

Although the swamps and marshes There are 12 rooms in the hame and morial.

Ask Mrs. Manners—

the author's life in days, without tiring the Wildflower Woods. The same ad- or passengers,

of the better known cafes.

Students Have Money Again LES SIDIS—the Arabs—patrol the pavement with rugs once more, and I know of one instance when a man actually bought one. The students are finding enough money somewhere to be able to afford a pernod while they chatter together in the more intellectual dives. And the people I see nursing a small beer or a dubonnet don't have the look of the chosen féw, as would be the case in Rome. They just look like ordinary people who can afford a short snort in the cool of the evening. That's the thing that hits me most today. The people are beginning to look ordinary, everyday, humdrum. You are not conscious of great segments of people” with strained faces and the battered look that comes to a civilian population which has been too long with a war. In London today it is bad taste to be well-dressed,

Going Up WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The price of the string the butcher wraps around the $l-a-pound beefsteak has dropped a little. 80 has the cost of tung oil (good for head-soaking purposes) and of quicksilver, which is used in thermometers for testing fevers brought on by the high gost of living. That's all the good news there is today from the 1016 little men who struggle with the slide rules, adding machines and telegraph instruments at the labor department, trying to keep tabs on the price of just 2 Staying alive.

HA gullet, wraps around himself, and erects so he can keep out of the rain, went up again by another whop-

reported in its weekly survey of wholesale prices.

Ocean of Red Ink SOARING EYEN is the silver that goes into the spoon the baby uses. This is a worrysome thing to the over-worked clerks of Lew Schwellenbach, the secretary of labor. Congressional economy caused the firing of more than 700 of the price compilers. The remaining ones, no matter how they battle the figures, are on the verge constantly of being sunk in an ocean of ink, mostly red. . | : : | Every day they issue spot prices on 28 primary products from burlap to zinc. Every week they put | out their Jist of wholesale prices on 900 different { items, and regularly they're supposed to make a cost of living index. They're late, poor devils, with the

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‘Practically everything else that man puts down his”

ping big percentage, the bureau of labor statistics’

everybody from the Auteuil sassiety shots to the Javel| cobbler went on vacation; out of town and out “‘Shall | Discard Friend Who D y { . : the heat. The amusement centers are jammed, ated Boy | Goi ng With? f 1 ) °

Frippery Fashions Big News | pie : THE A A a a ae Alumna ‘Fears Bobby-Soxer Sorority Sisters; §¢ to the movies. Are you | ferent tactics than you have with know? I would like to improve my certain that the girl asked him, or this boy. 16 gor

more of fashion. Last month the confections of Mag- . f ture but don't know whe gy Rouff and Christian Dior beat out the raising of | Newcomer Asks About Recreation Here | was that his version? CL — re aT he Germg glee], piodystion Jove) in me headitnes, Dear Mrs. Manners: | Whoever did the asking, why NO Bobby Soxer | Improve your posture by exery > ig i y en though feminine frippery is big industry and, HAVE a problem concerning my future—I hope. I meta must you act so jealously and un- I want to visit my alma mater cises at home, in gymnasium

wisely? A man who mars ‘the morals of a girl can't have much character, He may be saying the same things about you that he does about the other girl. He

probably asked you to stay away from her so that you girls can’t clippings to prave it, but to the | present generation you're “old

compare notes on his lime. He | hat” Act but don’t be at. ct your age but de ; would ask you to marry him if he stifling. The city maintains six swim-

Ne vile aren't en- Be interesed in the young “sis- ming pools, several golf courses, You really are "being foolish | ters. Your successes and failures wi oasis, Swarts . ! | won't interest them. People, | Volley ball and horseshoe courts . You wouldn't have to struggle for young and old, will talk if they | and shuffleboard facilities. Gare ] the boy's attentions and fight off | }. "yoo so listen atten- | Meld park has an open air theater other girls if he loved you. Don’t during summer months, and con-

a cold racket, in many respects, Paris is one of the! few European cities which can get away with such a concentration on foofaraws. You know that there is hunger and misery and

and am past the bobby sox age. How can I approach the girls at my sorority house? ALUMNA,

You may have been the most popular coed on the campus with

classes and at dancing schools. The .city recreation department conducts winter gymnasium classes in 15 community centers. Check recreations of your taste with newspaper amusement columns and with women's organizations. :

boy last November and fell in love right away, 1 didn’t have a date with him until February. Then we went steady

inflation and that Paris will be cold again this win- until the last of March. . a v bok id . My best friend asked him to go to the show with her, so en so, it doesn’ ke you in the eye. Paris ; at uw i ; | TE a A ll ain aoe he did. That was the end of our affair until June 30. He if its pants are patched the cut of its new coat takes asked me to go back with ~giouid 1 still try to keep the Toy! your mind off the patches. ’ (him. 1 did. 1 have been ever and leave the girl friend alone or Yo . | since. break with both? They are friendly |

. : again, too. I don’t know what to} | My girl friend never spoke go, a

By Frederick C. Othman to me from March until last week, ‘We both admit that your ro-

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land I think she’s in some kind of mantic future, and present, are

|difficulty and wants to be friends.| shaky. The boy wasn’t tee em- | discard tively, LM ! i th you’ ; o Ie. 22 Shot x makes ich difference, because ; don't. The boy said that she| (husiastic about you if he w Slee Wo Jttend-eyou : a v are given " uns) places ee For the last 10 weeks, the unhappy experts an-| Bsn’ any § and asked me to, from November to Febr uary to ask Stop listening te wrangling. Thé ‘New in the City feature community center dances.

stay away from her. He also keeps! you for a date. Two months’ datnounced, the cost of practically everything has been| , io that he wishes I were his| ing since doesn’t mean he is yours.

going up with never a pause, or even a slight relapse.| uso 1¢ that's all the farther it| He couldn't have beem very in-

t { As of now the general commodity price index 2! goes. | tatuated if. he your. |

boy probably is trying to keep you both until he finds the right girl. I would find myself a new romance and apply altogether dif-

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You may tramp trails at Woellen’s gardens and Holliday park, or visit Garfield park greenhouse and Riverside nursery,

Wemmer Appoints Veterans’ Leader

I'm new in the city and am aw-| {fully gloomy. Don't you think that \I could become interested in some-| easy 7 per cent~below the all-time peak of May, - i a thing beside men, few of whom I| 1920, when the shipyard workers were wearing out the : . } { . ” SS a ~ last of their world war I silk shirts. In June of 1920, Dancing Star, Wife Pendleton, Ind., Woman Delaware Women prices were on the old skideroo. ‘Have First Baby Will Be 100 Tomorrow s We WU pen olse c The bureau of labor statistics draws no conclu- HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19 (U, P.).| PENDLETON, Ind. Sept. 19 | To Get Cancer Tests WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 19 *|(U. P.).—A cancer control program,

sions from this fact; doesn’t even mention it. But!_aAn eight-pound, . two-ounce boy P.).—~Miss Henrietta Ginn, who has . ’ the bureau’s hard-pressed men can hope,’ can’t they? was born. £4, Mi% Dan Dailey, wiie lived in her farfn home near here) | { I they can keep quiet adout it? © UU5¢ ‘the stage- and screen dancing since ehionood, will observe Heri leading tor twice-yean)y.. examifia-

Costs 41 Per ( ent More fo Eat Istar, yesterday and was promptly 100th birthday anniversary tov! Rick tions of all women in the state over: 3 x ¥ named Daniel James Dailey III. . mort v chard Bolling of Kansas City, 40 vears - old was approved last Charles W. Brownson; president. THE SAID, m any event, that today it costs 41 4 : national vice chairma the C 1 4 man of h n ght by the Delaware division of of the entral Wall Paper and

Mg J | It was the first child for the, 8he was ‘born in Henry county i ’ i per cent more to eat than it did a year ago; 31 ! American Veterans’ committee, wil ; per cent more to wear shoes; 35 per cent more i ig Vu married in Newland moved here with her parents 8/he featured speaker at the Indian- the American Cancer society, build a house; 20 per cent to keep it warm and 19 per|- 2 In few years later. ' ,lapolis A. V. Cs third annual open] TWo-thirds of the 320 physicians . . . {house at 8 p.” m. Monday at the in the state will be used to give Carnival—By Dick Turner

cent more to stay out of a nudist camp. The figures, as compared with 1926—which the) [Redmen’'s Wigwam, 137 W. North specially-devised, 12-minute exam-' { (st. |inations of the 47,000 women in the 4

Paint Corp.,, has been -appointed by William H. Wemmer, Republican mayoralty candidate, to head a group of ‘war veterans in the municipal election campaign, ; Mr. Brownson said his eommittee will organize war veterans in every section of the city “for an intensive campaign to elect Mr. Wemmer mayor.” He said the campaign slogan for the group will be: “A veteran knows EE ——————— mee pest, what his community needs.” | Mr. Brownson is commandér of WORD-A-DAY \the Holliday post, American Legion,

By BACH | vice ‘president of the Indianapolis

bureau chose as a good, normal year—are horrifying. ; Mr. Bolling will outline the A. V slate over 40,

I won't even mention ‘em, because why should 1| C. program for the coming year The women will be asked to pay

give you the willies, too? ; dis Hen WI ed | y That takes care of the weekly figures. The dally specifically on housi 3 for each of the examinations pec y on housing, prices and 00 con afford it.. The society,

report, which brings some of the data practically up increased subsistence benefits for! { to this moment, is more cheerful. Tomorrow may f {veterans in school under the G. 1 /hovever. will attempt to raise $100,-| ruin the whole thing, but as of now the prices of bill of rights. : 000 to assure that all women over | barley, butter, cottonseed oil, hogs, rubber, beef 40 in the state are examined. steers, and wheat have dropped a few pennies. The bureau of labor statistics has got its fingers crossed. Unofficially, that is. No comment, atherwise.

His appearance here will touch off a local membership drive and formu-| lation of an A. V. C. program] locally.

Mr, Bolling served four years in|

a © Who's S d? 0 S JdcareqQ: HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19.—~America’s most-deco-rated GI—baby-faced 23-year-old Audie Murphy, of Farmersville, Texas—stepped in front of a movie camera for the first time and broke all Hollywood precedent by NOT saying: “I've never been so scared in all my life.” Audie, holder of 17 medals including the congressional medal of honor, distinguished service cross and four purple hearts, told me instead: “You know, I think I'm going.to like this acting business.” ; Audie is making his film debut, after a year of dramatic coaching, as-Alan Ladd's West Poin pal in Paramount's “The Long Gray Line.”

No Piano, Thank You AUDIE WAS invited to Washington to receive the medal from President Truman, but preferred to accept

junior chamber of commerce and a

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{Arthur's staff, FELICITATE Raw Food Theory

de Gg JAS be The meeting is sponsored by the (fe-lis i-tat) VERB Disputed by Experts five Indianapolis chapters. Andrew) TO CONGRATULATE NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (U. P).—

| Pelfrey, chairman of chapter one, {will preside, ; The long accepted theory that raw

'Million-Dollar Fire

By Erskine Johnson

“It’s no big secret, Audie,” he said. “Just read your lines like you mean them—and stay out of night clubs.” Audie Murphy left a $15-a-week job in a Greenville, Tex., radio store to become a buck private at 18. | He went through the campaigns in Africa, Sicily, |

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t d France, advancing to first li iO | ps lialy an Re, agivancing : 8 -Heanunt, | Sweeps Army Depot EIGHT POUND _ |tatoes and probably other foods g First Hand Information : | GRANITE CITY, Ill, Sept. 19 (U. v/ \l/ actually gain in vitamin conten * {when cooked properly.

AUDIE PREFERS not to talk about his heroic deeds, but he does like to tell this story: He was at the front directing, by telephone, artil- | lery fire for a battery three miles behind the lines. The Germans were rapidly advancing and a nervous artillery officer kept asking Audie: “How, close are they now?” “How close are they! NOW?” : : | Finally, the Germans got too close even for the indestructible Mr. Murphy and as the nervous artil-| lery officer asked again, “How close are they now?"

1 |P.).—Army officers said today that a fire which swept through an army {engineer depot did damage esti{mated “conservatively” at $1 mil- 7 *, lion. ” ! The fire broke out about 5:30 {p.m yesterday and burned out one whole section of the block-long| building, destroying valuable photographic equipment. | Five other sections, protected by fire walls, were damaged only | slightly. Three other warehouses KR. , : = potatoes were slo {nearby escaped damage. | FEA | tes Just

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