Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1948 — Page 13

than * CF Lafayette, Evansville, Anderson and Muncie whoop it up. :

There are some things I don’t appreciate about poys.. For instance, the delinquents-for-a-who were throwing water out of the window e English Hotel. I almost ran for a eop. emembered the finals of 1938 when my r came here to “win” the state finals. 0, was ‘my magnanimous comment. As they stick to water, everything will be

day

Let it B long ant. And He Wanted 50 Bucks

WITH MY TICKET for the finals safely tucked way, 1 observed the enthusiasm that comes once ” twice in a lifetime. > Then this “Man of The Times” thing had to come along. It didn’t bother me at first. What's go wrong about being mistaken for a typical

Hoosier. ht guy that stopped me, one of those

4 up but he had to come over and put in his bid

"THE MAN OF THE TIMES"—Me could be standing right next to you. ‘Mr. Inside" pleads today for someone to ‘identify the "right man."

Rich Buckeroos

qualify he'd have to have the latest edition of the paper and say, “You are The Man of The Times.” Those are the rules. : ! “Oh. But yours...”

On the “corner of Illinois and Market Sts., someone tapped ‘me with a paper and said, “You are The Man of The Times.” ' , - The lights changed a couple of times and the Muncie crowd had disappeared by the time I convinced Fred Hasse, 3710 Roosevelt Ave. that I was nothing more than a newspaperman on his day off just waiting for the time to start for the: Fieldhouse. . Seeking refuge in the Mirrabar at the Lincoln Hotel was a mistake. With my glass of ginger ale, Clarence (Duke) Albering wanted the ‘$50. “Duke,” I said, “please, don’t bother me. This is my day off.” - . Bartender Glen Lagle had the rules all fouled

for the dough I wasn’t passing out. I gulped my ginger ale and beat it immediately after Betty Brown, with a tray of drinks and all, erroneously identified me as “The Man” and said

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moments. The guys up there should know better. At the Fieldhouse, I was accosted no less than five times. Almost spoiled the tourney for me. Sunday morning, Ben Dock, druggist, tapped me with the Chicago Tribune and thought he was going to get the $50. Needless to say, I stayed in the rest of the day. And until this thing is cleared up, I'm going to stay out of sight. Look, my friends, I'm not “The Man of The! Times.” Read the paper and go ‘out to the designated spots at the specified hours and get him. Tap him, rap him, but identify him. It's worth $100 bucks today. It's worth more than that to me.

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By Robert C. Ruark

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EL PASO, Tex., Mar. 23—One of the unwritten - faws in the West is that you never ask a man how many cattle he runs. It used to be bad manners, like asking an KEasterner how much money he had in the bank. This taboo has been even more strongly enforced in later years, since the advent of high taxes, and the number of a man's herd has become a secret between him and the tax collector. The cowman has tax ‘troubles, too, but even with tax trouble he never had it 80 good, or had prospects so fine. I've been cowering on the fringes of two cattle men’s conventions-—one in Albuquerque and one here—and if anybody has weathered the inflationary storm, it’s the cow grower. I have never seen so many big Cadillacs and Lincolns and Buicks. Money flies around like the old black marketers used to throw it in Miami, during the dear, dead days of the $1500 necktie. Ranchers who were teetering on bankruptcy a few years back are out from under free and clear, with a bankroll an antelope couldn’t hurdle. They still have two bugaboos—drouth and disease —but their market worries have been laid to rest for many a moon, and the high cost of hamburger doesn't threaten to worsen for a decade.

Meat at Price of Pearls

IF ANOTHER war comes, their meat will command the price, of pearls. If another war doesn’t, export under the European Aid plans, plus. the maintenahce of a larger defense force at home, still insures them an eager market. The cut off of the flow of cattle from Mexico, because of foot-and-mouth diseasé, has placed still more of a premium on American meat. The wealthy cowman on fiesta is a fairly fearsome object, combining some of the salient characteristics of the conyening legionnaire and the cavorting undertakér—a professional man who has always been gay at convention-time, since he too is assured of a permanent, static market. The hotels ring with the startled cries of the pinched elevator gifls; the lobbies are a sea of white Stetsons and hand-carved boots. The barroom juke-boxes bleat like mired calves; the

Just Whistle

WASHINGTON, Mar. 23—8cience its wonders Is performing, fellow householders, but I regret to report that it has not’'yet managed to make : the grass on the front lawn cut itself when you Whistle at it. Later on, maybe, will come that wonderful day when you stand on the front porch and push a button. This makes a thimgumbob in a small box go “tweet,” and all the grass within shoutIng distance is mowed by supersonic sound. My research into this subject was caused by the sorry fact that suddenly spring has busted out all over in McLean, Va., where the beaten-up old house of the Othmans is surrounded by several &cres of turf, For months it has been a beautiful brown with Patches of handsome yellow. Now it is green. This indicates the durn stuff ‘is growing and Must be éhopped down. Either by me, or by Science. So I got in touch with the experts at the Agriculture Department. ey have chemcials, they said, that kill dandelions in the grass.. They've also got stuff that kills the grass, itself. But they don’t have any Grugs that stunt jts growth. What, 1 asked, Deut this supersonic sound I've been reading h Ah yes, they said, they're working on it. They Ve a kind of siren that makes so much noise YOU can't hear it at all, But the sound waves Pounding invisibly through the air are So powul that no telling what uses they'll have, Brass cutting included.

What It Does to Milk

AS OF NOW, the boys are making horns go oe and ‘killing Ty which can’t stand the noiseles.. C7, 581d also that when they tarn the ag ess noise upon a quart of milk, it mixes Water in same so thoroughly with the butter

The Quiz Master

How man y times was William Jennings Bryan A candidate for the Presidency? candidg times. In 1896 and 1900, he ran as a ate of both the Democratic and People’s

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waitresses and barkeeps run double shifts andlooks to me like decadence may be setting in.

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fall asleep, dead beat, with their shoes on. Poke ames Wa Nien ama handsome and’ The e gallo ce th 28 hed p udding against the I tried to figure out what it costs the cowboy-come-to-town to dress the part, and I ey: can rig out a chorus girl for considerably less. A pair of good boots, made to order and tastefully carved, will go anywhere from $60 to a couple of hundred bucks: a good white hat is worth about $40; the gabardine shirt, undecorated, comes to about $30, and the dress-up suit is as costly as a playboy’s suit in New York. A dressgoods man I met in Albuquerque haunted the convention there, selling clothes to the cowmen’s wives for prices that would give a small shock to Hattie Carnegie. Some of the wives wear dlamonds as big as walnuts.

Ex-Air Force Pilots THERE WAS a day when ‘a was a highlight affair for the western rancher; the airplane has made him a commuter to New York and the gay spots of Miami, Cuba and Mexico. I met few people who hadn't seen more Broadway shows than I have. While a great many cowmen fly their own planes today, the little bars are fairly well speckled with young men wearing semi-eastern clothes, and they turn out to be ex-Air Forcers who are making their living as private pilots. They literally throw the horse in the pickup truck today, and ride the range in a Ford V-8. They have learned to buzz the cattle in order to crowd them off the landing-strip, and a type of rustling has sprung up whereby the rustler is apt to step out of a Stinson, rope and dress cut a stray calf, toss the carcass into the plane and take off again. . The West may be wild and woolly still, in spots, but civilization is a-crowding in fast. If Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey don’t take refresher courses pretty soon, one of these days you're apt to find Clifton Webb playing lead roles in the horse operas. I won't say the cowmen have become effete, but I saw more than one take off his sombrero before he sat down to eat, and it

trip to Chicago

By Frederick C. Othman

fat that there’s no chance of cream ever forming on top. This is called supersonic homogénizing, and some dairies are experimenting with it already. : Best of all, said my pals in the laboratory, is what happens when they boo (scientifically, of course) at a tough beef steak. Those soundless sound waves churn around inside that chunk of meat, chopping each little cell into molecular hamburger, and producing a steak so tender you've got to be careful when you lift it, or it breaks. As for cutting grass, they weren't so sure. They'd read about this possibility, they said, and they supposed there was no reason why each blade of grass couldn't be made to vibrate until it cut itself off. But they're not working on that problem yet.

Gooseberry Bushes, Too

I AM AFRAID they are worry-warts, crossing bridges before they get to ’em. They said suppose 1 had a supersonic sound generator at my house, and it wasn’t tuned into the wave-length of the grass exactly right. : Why, they said, it might mow down all the gooseberry bushes, saw off the boxwood bushes and possibly, just possibly, shake the house into a pile of finely granulated sawdust. They weren't promising these disasters, you understand, but they did claim that this supersonic business may be dangerous until they get it under control. If they ever do. ! : 3 They began experimenting with it during the war, and while it never did help in the besting of the Nazis and the Japs, they learned enough about it to presume that some day the supersonic whistle may do much of the work that now depends on elbow grease. They recgmmended in the meantime that I sharpen my lawnmower. And prepare, as usual, to spend my days pushing it.

272 Test Your Skill 27?

How long is it before an oyster is large enough for the market? ; It depends on the locality, but generally two to five years is required for an oyster to reach marketable size. sv y

* - Why does Mexico have a greater variety of plants than any other country in the world? ' The topography and resulting variation in

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SECOND SECTION

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1948

How American Red Cross Units Stand By For Big Emergencies

[Photos and Captions by Victor Peterson, Times Photographer-Reporter)

DISASTER STRIKES—People are grateful that mass disaster seldom strikes a community. ‘But when it does, citizens wisely summon the American Red Cross. This relief crew shows graphically what they do. The current drive for $396,000 is lagging. The money desperately is needed and the campaign closes Thursday. In a de-

molished building Red Cross Worker Bernie Borane demonstrates first aid to Charles Greves, who plays the part of a victim.

and determine its extent.

AID FOR INJURED—City firemen assist in the rescue of Mr. Greves. They are but a few of the many persons from organizations over the city who are called on in disasters. Shown with Mr, Greves are (left to right) Otto Weer, Mr. Borane, John L. Bonnell and Albert Albin. Ready for mobilizations are a variety of 150 boats, 1200 trucks, 19 ambulances, 110 first aid instructors and scores of workers besides 800 doce tors and 450 nurses. Hospitals are activated and drug firms: alerted. Specified groups immediately make ready hundreds of public buildings for emergency housing. Food and clothing stocks are supervised by others. Nothing is left to chance. In city after city similar plans have averted or alleviated untold suffering of thousands.

BEEHIVE OF ACTIVITY—Cots and blankets appear as if by magic and victims are given emergency treatment. As firemen carry another. injured person from the building, volunteers have pulled the mobile Red Cross Canteen unit to the curb and ~are dispensing hot coffee and sandwiches. Later engineers survey property damage

HELP NEEDED—If the those originally on the scene, ful U. S. Naval Training Reserve Corps mobile radio unit.

Russell Hirschman, communic

directions to Graham Lashbrook, elect. tach. mate 1/c.

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disaster is too great for help is as near as the power-

ations chairman (left); gives

Home Show to Feature

Model Building Contest | Indiana Real Estate Board will

sponsor a miniature model home| building contest as a feature of) the Indianapolis Home Show,|

Apr. 16-25.

than 20 years of age, may enter] the contest, which has a $25 first prize. Other prizes are $15, sec-

ond; $10, third, and 10 honor-\pe yged’'to make them become able mentions. Only $2 may be, more stabilized era. spent in building the model.

Carnival—By Dick Turner

Mr. Mooney.

"He's getting serious,

Elmo! He's asking how: mich ‘money you Mave in the bank!’ .

Economy Cited as Goal | On New Auto Designing

Willys-Overland President Sees Shrinking

Purses as Factor in Ideas for Future

| By JOHN W. LOVE, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Sigh School godents, Not mare] TOLEDO, Mar. 23.—James David Mooney, president of WillysOverland, thinks the long life of automobiles in the war and postwar years has been changing the builders’ ideas on design. Mr. Mooney believes the day is past when styling of cars can outdated. He is confident we're in

“Designers used to bring in plectures of new cars and defy the engineers to make them work,” he said. There'll be less and less of this, he thinks, and the reason for its decline will be a need for economy. Cites ‘Cover Charge’ “At present it costs you $6 just to drive into a repair shop. Those!

boys have a cover charge,” sald|

Mr. Mooney thinks he sees| signs of diminishing purchasing] power in the U. 8. i His crystal ball, he says, shows| automobile production catching up with demand in a few months. Apparently this is happening to certain high-priced cars already. Bome of the forecasters have been saying lately, however, that waiting lists for the lower-priced cars will continue through 1949. 15,000 Per Month Willys-Overland’s Toledo plant is now producing at a rate of 15,000 units a month, most of them its Universal Jeeps, the remainder station wagons and trucks. Al of them have fourcylinder engines except its new station sedan, a six. For the present, Willys-Over-

land has all the business it can|Rev.

handle in its special niche, the jeep and its adaptations. One or two of these are still to be brought out, such as the “jeepster,” a sports phaeton, in the late spring. Expansion is held back by sup-

plies of steel and labor, but the

company aims to'step up gradually to the full capacity of the plant. That would be reached at

about 300/000 units year, the goal for 1049, !

{Feeney Urges

Holy Week

Attend Church,

Mayor Al Feeney issued a Good Friday proclamation today urging all Christian citizens to ‘attend some religious service on that day. “Especially do I recommend the custom of pausing for one minute of silence at 2:59 p. m. in stores, factories, offices, public places, homes and on the streets wherever that is possible,” - he said. “It is to be hoped that those who observe this day will ask Almighty God to bring peace to the world and make all men realize the terrible futility of] war.” The proclamation was issued in| co-operation with the Inter-| denominational Good Friday| Committee of Indianapolis. The City Hall will be closed | Friday, the Mayor said.

Services Listed

Missouri Churches will present Dr. George V. Schick of 8t. Louis in a sermon on “The Tragedy of Calvary” today at noon in Keith's Theater. The Rev. Willlam H. Eifert will serve as liturgist and the Bt. Paul's Children’s Chorus will sing directed by R. R. Lassanske. The Rev. Herbert Berner of Cincinnati will preach on “Redeemed from Sin” at the same place and hour ‘tomorrow.

will lead the Trinity Children's Chorus. Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Berner will speak on “Redeemed from Death” and the Rev. Walter C. Maas will serve as liturgist. 8t. John's Children’s Chorus will sings directed by R. Theo Wukasch. Bt

to.3 p. m. Good Friday, also under the auspices of the Missouri Synod Lutherans, °

Synod Lutheran

- Services will be held from noon

Butler to Hold

hi » S * Religion Series “New Testament Faith and Its Relevance Today” will be the gene eral theme of a series of four. lec. tures to be deliverd by Dr. Amos N. Wilder Apr. 13 to 15 at Butler University. Dr. Wilder, prdfessor of New Testament Interpretation at the Chicago Theological Seminary and a member of the federated faculty of the University of Chicago, will deliver the lectures to the School of Religion. Dates and lectures for the series are: 7:30 p. m., Apr. 13,, “Faith and Its Language in the New Testament”; 11:30 a. m.,, Apr. 14, “The Proclamation of Jesus”; 3 p. m.; Apr. 14, ‘'The Message of 8t. Paul,” ‘and 11:30

. m. Apr. 15, “The Johannine Version.”

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

A BODY GIVING FORTH LIGHT, ESPECIALLY A HEAVENLY BODY; AN EMINENT PERSON; A LEADER