Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1948 — Page 11

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I'm not the shrinking violet type but Tm not. Ino. busting Into any room, not even on the third floor me of the biggage room bullding of the Union Sta- '

comes through a door marked simply: J; i Sn olis HO Gauge Model road Ch mpi: nap. cont boxcar would be reduced

CASe you're

everything is built according to scale, eighth of an inch equals one foot.

ica, The same boxcar

‘entering a’ roundhouse when all the are spewing smoke.” . :

“uwhat's going on?"

was sighting and gave me the once over.

nn : sighter sald, “he couldn't be.an O gauger.” Seventeen Failed to Report

Stepping into the Foom can be compared 1 good at al

“Hi, fellas." I believe 1; the direct approNch. Mp samme ALS Gandy dancer is"

From across the room a volce asked if T were that a dance track layer, | an O gauger. A man with his back to me raised sandy hier , his nea from a section of tiny track which he pounder, roadbed painter, joiner or anyone dol

20 riches which the men said is When in HO land do as the HO% do.’

-- Mr, Lamon, ‘with a voice that would On a real railroad project, called across the r

work on the road.

“He. -looks halfway intelligent” the “track Work Is What They Do

“A LABORER?”

: Gandy dancers from every section of the 10 by I THANKED John Vawter for his kindness: 14-f00t layout chorused, “Yes.” Mr. Vawter introduced me to Robert Lamon, superintendent of construction, who introduced Juestion their husbands when they say, “I'm going me to Everett Lehnert, president of the club, 1 '© the club tonight to do some work.” Work is x debated whether I should ask what an-O gauger “DHA! they do in the eastern division. 92 NR was while I met the rest of the club members. = There were 18 in all working on the two-level] Men move right along. About the only man who mw model railroad. Seventeen other members of the : W28 resting on his laurels was Earl Templeton, club, which is limited to 35, failed to report for of

Wives of the model railroaders should never

In spite of the noise and shouting, Mr. Lamon’s

, the’ “Crifimy News.” That's-what they it. Cruminy means the caboose and not the

LE. “Templeton was taking it easy bécause he

ear night, onl hh work. . ji 3 y ” Mr. Lehnert explained (I have plenty of cour- ©0Dtents of the newspaper. ave fo stay up .f.. dge at times) what an O gauge railroad was. It's

\RS_to see a & or

remodeled and LION to show Ur newspapers or to come to

"WORKING ON THE RAILROAD"— There's. more hot air than steam in HO ‘vailcurve (left fo right] Everett Lehnert, Les Gor: don and John Vawter are all "business,"

Rank for Ladies

NEW YORK, Apr. 27—As a practicing champion of womanhood, I rise to take issue today with the House of Representatives: The House is

dipped little girls’ pigtails in the inkpot when . : they were younger churls. : Em ‘In this day of desperate decision, the House : Sw z i ‘has just refused to vote aye on a bill which

would give the WACS, WAVES and BAMS a

permanent military status. A BAM -is a lady leatherneck. . ' The Senate wanted a permanent status for . ; the distaff warriors, with all privileges apper- ? taining thereto, It. voted yes. But along comes the House to sa¥ it.doesn’t mind winning a war with... womanpower,.. but it. has to. be. reserve womanpower. It-can’t be a regular Army, Navy and Marine. ’ oe Rep. Margaret Smith, of Maine, said that if 3 the ladies weren't given the promotional and retirement rights allowed the regulars, the. wrong kind of dame would be attracted to the service. She undoubtedly, remembers that hearty stripteaser who bobbed up in thé’ WACS, a few years i back, to everyone's redfaced dismay. Not that I i 3 don't think the war couldn't have been enlivened .’ J by a few judiciously distributed strip-teasers. It

got pretty dull, in spots. : »

Co-Ed ‘Military Schools, Too? ON THE OTHER side of the fence was Rep. E. A. Mitchell of Indiana. He said that if we raised the WACS and WAVES -to permanent status, West Point and Annapolis “would have to become coeducational pretty soon.” Is that bad? Ths Everytime I pick up a newspaper or switch on the squawk-box, somebody says this next one is for keeps. There'll be a 100 per. cent draft; everybody: will work, fight or die with small regard to sex or creed. This is not my idea, I hurry to say: It'is what I hear from Washington, a the. big- wheels -are workiig: on..appropris‘tions; > and’ ‘promoting thelr - Branch ve service, and advertising their pet exterminators. If it's all ‘going to be so horrible, then it seems to. me. it's horrible enough ‘for all us kids. That being ‘so, I'm no longer shocked by the

- Tor Fon

WASHINGTON, Apr. 27—All this talk about

ra Tone Arm is Staring I'm an old revolution ex

pert. And the babies in the revolution business that I have known were in it for fun. The

n ever fo have the Cond Communists may be egging 'em on and applaud, has: Silent Speed Reco ing the results, but I can report only tha he ee “works byl were revolutions Soul "of “the border-before- there gn robbing hemks-as-they-came and eventually’ htning ast . . * was such a word as “Communist.” th built-in Wavemagneh. My last experience with a evolutionist wa rd : "Glice last summer, when I was a tourist min 4 | spedker. New own business” in Guatemala City. Across the

street from my hotel was a night club called 5 the Casa Blanca. It made so much noise all os night every night that the guests Bad to attend in self defense. There was no sleeping until > the band went home at dawn. Ne ; 80 I was in the Casa Blanca.one night when N \ ' a friend said, “Hist, there's the leader of our > next revolution.” . y In the shadows by the bar was a fat and — happy man in a blue suit with a bulge on his hip. He dropped over and had ‘a drink and I swear he‘seemed to be taking bows as GuateMmala's boss revolutionist. The shooting was Scheduled to start, according to him, last winter, I never did understand exactly what was his beef, but in the meantime the government of Guatemala got into a first class argument with the British, trying to chase ‘em out of British Honduras, which is next-door. . 8

Wants to Take on England MY LATEST report from Guatemala (from & man who wasn't trying to be funny) —was that the fot general in charge of the revolution had Abandoned those plans for a still better fight; was working now on a war against England. He hadn't declared it yet, because the president of Guatemala didn’t think it was such a hot !dea, but he was drumming up public sentiment.

Gia 2 uk] men love it. On an important

composed of a bunch of churls,- who probably.

thelr Branches. ol the Only A ‘ WAT} if they're useful enough to be ehiployéd at all, they're as much entitled to § regular rating as a trade school alumnus or a converted male

Lehnert said it was, so we'll lef it go at that.

shouting.

next October. ? :

. has more fun than an HO gandy dancer?

sergeant. .

They Did Much for Morale

BUT, NEED OR NO; the WACS and the WAVES and the SPARS did a good job according to their opportunity... While I doubt if they actually freed much vital personnel for combat, they had a definite publicity value, made a definite morale contribution, apd they were generally as competent as their feel bound ale sn = counterparts. The war dogs came in handy, " ‘ » ra | Marion County Pupils Rank What I am saying 8 that if the ladies were patriotic enough to swap their frilly unmentionables for khaki unmentionables, and take a chance on dysentery and an occasional bomb and the vagaries of the Pentagon as well as exposure

but not as Jap-killers. So did the taxpayers.

explain. - In model railroad circles, HO means

constructed a double cross-over. It's supposed to be a tricky piece of track and switch work. Two engines can be switched to Your different tracks with the double cross-over. From what! I saw of the thing—I'm not an expert. however— I would say it wasn't too complicated. Mr.

M. J, Olsen and Leslie Erzinger were trying to complete a turn which called for a 30-inch radius. | Andy Anderson almost caused a ‘riot with his] hammer. He was-using. a nail to fasten a plece| of lumber. Half of the crew took, him to task for it. Tt'seems screws are to be used in any and all base work. Besides that, a hammer made too much noise. The men couldnt hear themselves

Mr, Lamon settled the argument. You never know when the guys are. serious or kidding. A foursome of gandy dancers like Jim Smith, Fred ~~ Wichman, Clifford Steele and Ray Burns will.go along quietly for awhile and then all of a sudden all heck will break loose. You get so you don’t pay any attention fo outbursts. That's HO. That's « railroading. i The last spike in the eastern division will be foud. Mr, Lehnert said. . The club expects to drive

“That's if we don't decide to tear the whole| © works up and rebuild,” said Les Gordon, an - authority in model railroad projects. Ted Toma- . —zewskl, gandy dancer, was all for tearing up some track and rebuilding. Pro_.and. con arguments filled the room. That's where I came in. Who

By Robert C. Ruark

idea of a lady’s powder-room in Bancroft’ Hall, at Annapolis, and a well-turned leg in the radar classroom. If the next one's as push-buttony as they claim, I would just as lief have a competent switcliboard’ operator going for me as a tank

It turned out, we needed our Muffy fighters in the last thing about as much as we needed the movie stars who made one turn around a theater of war and then come home to Hollywood. That's vot 4 criticism: They were both helpful, but not indispensable. We .could have sweated the thing without -the gals inthe cute mainbrocher- suits. Oveta Culp Hobby was a less critical commodity, for my dough, than a talented thief for a supply

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High in English Contest

to moon-baying majors, they ares good enough tion, spelling; vocabulary and grammar?

for the rights and privileges of regular Army or Navy status now. No draft drove them to the colors; and if we use them at all, we ought to

keep them proper.

We were greatly inconsistent in our last scrap. We allowed our roving Merchant Marine to stay civilian. Yet we insisted on shoving our stenographers and file clerks into uniforms, while subjecting them - to the military ‘equivalent of

point T muke is that; tn everybody's

civilian with the papers to prove it.

By Frederick C. Othman

Another revolution in which I found myself in. the middle involved shooting. though the ha tives told me the troops made every effort not to hit each other with their pullets. It was kind

of. scary at that. : Gen. Gonzalez Escobar led his troops up from south of Chihuahua in 1929, blowing up bridges

- captured Juarez, across the Rio Grande<from

El Paso, Tex. I was there as a war correspondent.

The General Served Cold Beer

ILL NEVER FORGET Senor Gen, Escobar. He

“held a press conference in Juarez’ leading hotel

and on a big round dining room: table he ‘had

‘a pile of gold and. silver pesos he'd lifted en

route north. He was going to liberate the Mexicans from their oppressors, he said, with a bellyshaking laugh, and then he was going to govern Mexico as it ‘never had been governed before. - He served ice cold beer which he had liberated from Juarez’ leading brewery and a good time was had by all. r The next day the federal troops arrived. They shot over the heads of the Revolutionists mostly and managed to break half the windows In Juarez. Gen. Escobar’'s army fled southward and the senor general sneaked across the border with a considerable portion of his loot, at He eventually made his way to Canada, where I understand he lived pleasantly ever after, or

would have been delighted .to have been a Communist if that could have helped him win, but at heart he was a capitalist. With other people's capital, ; “And I-hope I'll not be accused of taking Latin America's revolutionary troubles too lightly. I only think it's a shame the Communists are trying to take all the fun out of revolutions.

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Picture-Story by Victor H. Peterson

TUESDAY, APR

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High School.

N : : 3 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Apr. 27—Are you a bit rusty on punctua-

If 6, you probably would quail if faced with the 23-page English examination 200 Hoosier youths battled mentally Saturday at|

the annual High School Achievement Program contests at Indiana |

University. competition, some 600 of the top tO earth.”

Bolly, Technical High 8¢hool, while Ina J. Marshall, Beech

an. athletic contest. The thrills | "TORE;

phere of mental gymnastics,

ligent citizenry of tomorrw, o »

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Try it. “Money spent on’ cumunity liberries is undoutedly more ening to the piece and well-

sined to arouse unreasoned pred-| 'o ‘earth’?” Miss Marshall furrowed her) brow. as she chose synonyms for “The storm obviated the neces-

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porter, (e) accomplice.” . "® 5» mn MISS: DADY thought more May 4 primary,

In the final ound of state-wide | PEt 1t correctly from Fourscore|

Are these grammatically corllect ered bigs asta ane x half Jond ex-|Tect? Yes or no, pondered Elinor amination in- English, Latin and|Z: James, Crispus Attucks High Er es ei spoms tions and sectional competition. %7) coming B the Takes with vs.” | Marion county was strong in . e elm in the front yard the English examination. - war now a tall, stately giant, » # = = \ Seing platen oy lacks great a J.| grandfather in 2” TOP SPOT went to Edna 3. “Oh that jt were ford people-to beh » »

Grove High School, placed second |” GARE THESE sample sentences #8 . _ Broad Rip-| ¢otrect in structure? toh Puy third skrit Ball and Richard Fraser, both of 5 There were no wildly cheering Technical High School, - whirled throngs: to ‘urge them ‘on- as at; the. mental. gears: for- righ. or,

~ Richard M. Frazer, Technical High School. terms of which were arranged Gee Association ee

. “She is wearing a prett that make for public appeal just| 4 pretty ’ . hat, but no woman looks attrae-! aren't found in the tense atmos tive in long, skirts.” The activity these students en-| Ty “She was very happy, for|the medieval BARE 1H, ROWEVEL “18 EquATY IT] = Was ROINg not ‘more important than’ any 9&nce of the year, Yor th football or. basketball game. afternoon Bob had invit They will help form an intel- 3. ‘The Treaty of Calais, the

{in 1330, marked the pinnacle of power and splendor DIgRest OT EHR at very | _ You have taste-tested the din-|/President of the Indiana Gas As-| ner. Do you want to sit down for the final course? I

Elect Officers

EB SHIEH bean Teese rey Fisher of New Albany.

Other officers elected are A. E iHatley, Muncie, (Clarence W. Goris, Gary, secre-{tary-treasurer, and J. C. (man, E. J. Mead, Vincennes, and C, K. Graham, all directors.

Board Reports Hike In Spotted Fever Cases

Indiana Board of Health fi

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Money spent on communit ‘any misspelled words in a libraries is undoubtedly more encoura. 5

ging to the peace and welfare amounts all too commonly spent dissemination of propaganda designed udices and to lead to a psychological

of mankind than are the vast on armaments and on the to arouse unreasoned prej readiness for war. Choice of Proper Synonym: fafe of mankind then are the| Porter—for protagonist. vast amounts all to communly Proper Punctuation:

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The man-sitting on the platform now the Geftysburg Adrepeat it correctly from ‘Fourscore’

spent on armuments and on the| 15 the one who asked, “Who here can recite

disemination of propuganda de-| dress; that is, who can can

judices: and lead to a pyscholog: | ~ Correct Grammar: 1. Yes. 2 No. 3, Yes. ; joul readyness for war... Correét Sentence Structure; 1. Wrong. - 2. Wrong. 3. Right. until he died a few years later; He probably}

tes to Give Address

At Chicago Tomorrow Governor Gates will speak tomorrow at the University of Chi-! oo” {cago on “State and Local Rela-| ge tions.” His talk will be the third ge

some ot the toilowing examples. LEIGUE Campaigns For Heavy Vote

sity for our . journey. (a) in.| A Cempaign to get voters to is credsed, (p) called attention to| ‘he Polis-in-the primary election (c), did awiy with, (d) created, Pere next Tuesday has decreased.” started by the Indianapolis “The boy's most powerful pro-|L4agUe of Women Voters. | was the owner of the The League is‘ sponsoring an

8 the League's campaign slogan for the rest of this week on posters in movies, public vehicles and jo downtown stores,

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™ : y | TROY ‘Margaret Morrison Lectures Here __"“God gives health to man never takes if away.” and . This statement was. made by Margaret Morrison, of Boston, in ‘& Christian Science lecture last night in the church edifice, 34th The

18t. and Washington Blvd.

speaker. is-a- member of the Board of Lectureship - of the Mother Church, the First - Church of

|Christ, Scientist, Boston,

“all power; wit pres.

“A full understanding of His presence and power heals the sick ‘mind and body, wakens the dreamer tired of his dreaming,

; “present r = heaven, the radiant realm of spir{itual reality.”

‘Daughters. of Isabella

siss Catherine": Fletcher, 902

{Woodlawn Ave, hai been elected

|state regent of the rs of Isabella, succeeding Mrs. Alma

During the week-end \convens

fation. He is president of the|tion in Elkhart, Mrs. Lillian ndiana Gas and Water Co., Inc.| 0'Day, 1512 N, Meridiin St. was

voted an honorary life me | ship in the organization, Bhe is

. a past state regent.

IU Law School Plans

Banquet as Welcome

1 A banquet will be held at 8:30 {P. m. tomorrow in the Spenesr {Hotel by the Indiank University {Law School chapter of Phi Delta

gures | Delta, international legal fratertoday showed that the number of nity, to welcome home one of its cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever last year was higher than|/New Castle,

|members, Miss Jean McGrew of Miss McGrew, who recently re-

A total of 23 cases was reported{turned from the war crimes In'1947, compared to eight in 1946 trials in Neuremburg, Germany, and a 10-year average of 814. infested | Richman, will spéak on “‘Glim areas were urged to be waccl-

{where ghe was secretary to Judge

of Post-War Europe." ;

{in -a- public lecture series sporisored by the Walgreen

Governor Dwight H.' Green of | Illinois will introduce the Hoosier

Italian and Slav Slain Ii Border Crash

UDINE, Italy, Apr authorities announced than twice as she placed the alt, The campaign ‘was undertaken today that a Yugoslav patrol fired

and: : by - the as the’ such Sentences as: °° | predictions. shat less’ Ha it ation ng

town paper. "(a) critic, (b) ‘su- ambitious advertising campaign | perior officer, (¢) enemy, (d) sup-| With posters all over the city, re. . .|minding voters it is their duty as] citizens to cast ballots “in the

cabarinieri and Alpine| The Indiana Schoolmen’s Ci

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