Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1948 — Page 21

ur order and is lost with orangeades. Fir impossible with ‘a new Boy, Strange ie "%y.it may seem, & car hop has a lot more on his mind than your two orangeades. gtan Willeke, manager of Parkmoor, across _gtom the State Fairgrounds, was most helpful in getting me STAFTEd on the road to successful car ing. First, he turned me over to Ralph orris, a Warren Central student during the week and as efficient a car hop on week-ends as you'd want to jump over. your hood... Then, Mr.. Willeke ve. me a word of advice: “Don’t take too many Bers to begin with.” ee

His Humor Is Unappreciated pY THE TIME Ralph and Robert Manker ed me out on how to take orders, which slips on which hook, what to write on top of my how to work the trays so they don't fall in custorhers’ laps, I wondered if I wanted to take any orders. “Why don't I pick up the empties after the customers are through?" The boys didn't go for that since. tipping. is a vital part of car hopping, cap't say that I blame them. I was merely .esting them to see if théy were on their toes. - “po you want to get that car in station 97” ked Ralph. Robert took the order while Ralph explained about stations, I was ready to solo.

"SERVICE WITH A SMILE"—A car hop's life can be more than a tray of hamburgers and . malted milks as the "new boy" found out.

Family Woes

NEW YORK, Apr. 30—Having seen investigations on nearly everything under the sun in this hectic year, from Howard Hughes to the oleomar-garine-butter battle, the weary city of Washing“ton is going to watch a real big. statistical clambake next week. ; : One hundred twenty-five agencies, representing some 40 million folks, are sending delegates to take the American family apart, examine its - innards; and glue it back together again. The labor unions, the churches, the business and professional organizations, the social and governmental agencies are all rung in on the deal. « From what I can gather, the American family is presumed. to be going to hell in a handbasket— ‘and this is the first'time this many people ever sat down to find out why. They are going to the decline and fall of the fireside through the "hopper, in the forlorn hope that the nation may be ultimately prevented from coming apart. : Through the steady hail of statistics, it will be decided that the housing shortage; the unset. tling influence of a recent war and another on order; the atom bomb; juvenile delinquency; irregular divorce laws; the cigaret habit; increased drinking; the high cost of living;'the airplane; the radio; the moving pictures; the press; a slackening Influence of the church; politicians; universal military training and comic books all have conspired to aid American man in his natural bent for seifdestruction. -

. No More Indians to Shoot Af

A SCREAMING shortage of Indians to shoot, trails to blaze, gold to dig, trees to chop and horions to watch have made Homer Q. Sapiens itchy in his walkup log cabin. A growing tendency on the part of Missus Sapiens to assume pants has contributed to the tension. The verdict will be, undoubtedly, that there are too many complications to the businéss of bacon: Winging, and that something should be done. It was my Grandpa's steady theory that it was wvful easy to find out what was wrong with folks,

Quack, Quack

WASHINGTON, Apr. 30 — Yesterday it was fizzly bears (and other beasts with claws) under. ~ onsideration by the ‘Senate. Today: Ducks ~~ “UB Homer Ferguson of MIcHigan, whom vestigated Benny Meyers, Howard Hughes, the Pan-American highway, the War Assets Administration, and other things I can’t remember Row, is heading the duck inquiry. Kind of a relief, too. The white-thatched gentleman from Michigan can relax. There is nothing political about a duck. The problem simply is this: Shall ducks be thot at or just looked at? Are they scenery or meat? If you don't think that's serious, youre no wildlife enthusiast, There are two schools of thought on the duek question. They made the feathers fly, What brought this up was a two-prong bill by Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, who likes to shoot at ducks. His idea was to raise the duck-shooting fee from $1 to $2. By doubling the Money the government can spend on conserving the ducks, he might double the ducks themselves. When that happy day comes, or even if it doesn't, Sen. Robertson's bill would allow the Secretary. of the interior to permit duck shooting An any game preserve where the quackers seem 10 be too thick.

But the Hunters Pay the Bill

THE DUCK LOOKERS sald that was horrid. The duck hunters said it was wonderful. The lookers said they didn't trust the secretary of the interior to use good judgment on where to shoot a duck. The hunters said if you can’t trust A member of the President's cabinet to look out for ducks, who can you trust? “J refoice,” said the nimrod. senator from VirRinia, “that the ladies and gentlemen of the Audubon Society only want to look at ducks. But the’ hunters pay the freight with these duck stamps and we can't get away from that.”

The Quiz

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“Yes, sir. Will that be all?" : Taking the hint I said farewell to the the: ple-| turesque couple with no sense ‘of humor et hounced up the stairs to the soda fountain. Harry oodruff, sophomore at Shortridge, took the

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1 readied my tray with kin, stra ne €lps of water. Ralph and Robert informed me | Roving ‘Expert’ Workmen

would have some “real” fun when the joint got: Rackets Also Show Up Here

busy. ; My cus tomers glared in silence while I fiddled Spring has brought more to “Indianapolis householders than {April showers.

With the gadget under the tray. I offered to wipe | Housewives report they are being plagued by itinerant peddlers the

the Water off the. man's coat but he said, “NEVER Ralph came to my rescue and fastened the tray|*0d rind a eorkmen io PRAT, Sumbers

to the car door. I would pick a 1948 model with | \"d/anapolis Better Business Bureau, Inc., reminds that irresponsible.

aging sides. i doorbell ringers collect large sums of money for inferior service and “Tipping asound here is prett: _ {sn't ft» Cheap merchandise. The “day” boys AIAN agree. There was somel “Only this week we have had/ing this kind of merchandise idle chatter about “earning what you get.” (numerous complaints of the old from out-of-town firms and doorService becaw ‘humus’ * and ‘model house’ to-door salesmen. oR middle name. oy ao. 8 off my ee "}/swindies.” says Lowell P. Nich-| If the salesman for a nursery clipped a fraternity brother from my_college days 018s. assistant manager of the offers to return and plant the

for a quarter. His crack about not putting my |PUTeaU. ee 7 | stock “you” buy from him, make"

education to good use was uncalled for. He n=. + |him put tife agreement in writing scoffed when I told him I was planning on opening THESE RACKETS and nu- and sign his name, Too many A string of drive-ins. He was lucky I didn't Jet merous others worked on an un- times such salesmen fail to show the air out of his {ires. {suspécting. public ‘are outlined in/up after they have your order,

th B h current bull ul ' Most Customers Are Pleasant Ip CF te chr ae described! Controlled ' Grass Seed

LITTLE THINGS like that will happen. Most [2% follows: | Believe it or not-—people are customers were pleasant. Especially pe in new Hummus P ed di still buying grass seed which they convertibles. You soon learn, however, that a/ {are informed will produce grass young man with a girl companion tips better] YOU are thinking about your that will grow to a desired Two or three girls in a car—nuthin’. Just conver. garden, and very frequently your height, - cease to grow, remain

sation. Vv : {enthusiasm overcomes your cau-|fresh and green during the entire ‘Business’ picked up as the afternoon dr tion: Trucks pass your door filled season and will never require on. Three orders working didn’t bother me much. | With rich, black “humus.” |mowing!

When I got into four and five orders with ham-| The trucker stops, lifts a bas- If anyone tries to sell you the burgers, French fries, malts and shakes, hot dogs, [Ket of the eve-filling stuff from stuff, hang on to your money, parfaits and sundaes, that's when the ol’ noggin Dis truck and begins to sprinkle There just “ain't no such animal.

began to spin. Confusion ip the parking lot and|it on your lawn. in front of the soda fountain. It was everyone | When the fellow tells you it jo ITO Surgeons 3 for himself. {only 50 or 75 cents a basket, and] WHAT CITY or country dwell-

People have a tendency to , that you won't need much of it to er has not been approached in the they a to wait: The Apr viel hor cover the entire lawn, you become spring by “tree surgeons™ who of. when a flustered car hop fs directly in front of Positively enthusiastic, You tell/fer to treat or trim shade trees? an" atitomobile Ts most disconcerting. A very good him to go-ahead with the job; Often these so-called. - “experts. way to disrupt operations. You may watch him. You may Put your treés in such condition It's not good business-but I was forced to stand even- start to count tle numper that it takes years of care to

“ffi the middle of the Tot and shout for the customer of basketfuls Tie uses. “However, properiy reshape them;

who ordered orangeades. Just as T was going to in a little while. he will ask you: Don't turn the job over to anyiat them go at half price, an irate patron put in his | for a drink 6f water. Obligingly One but a specialist in the field. claim. ought he'd pop when I asked him why you go into the house and then! 3 1 he took so long. : |you've lost track of your count. [Furnace Repairs -80, take heed friend, your car hop may be Your bill? Fifty, seventy-five, THE SAME situation’ exists in learning the business. Whatever else he might bejor a hundred dollars, Nor can the case of the itinerant “furnace doing, you can be sure he's trying even though the, you prove that the number of fixer” who offers to clean the : {baskets listed on your. bill has flues, paint your furnace and put /not actually been placed on your|it in “A-1" condition for the fol- ? | lawn, [ons heating season. : | Samples of this so-called “hu-| He dismantles your furnace, By Robert C. Ruark 2: have been tested from time then finds any number of “bro- : : ito time to time. Many proved token’ puss Bx He may sven _an./De nothing more thin material|8C $0 far as reak parts of ot hate tou found it Out, correcting 1 Was: an [from the dump of some Shemical intentionally, and Gecigre that Grandpa had this family business figured out Plant. In some cases the product JOU Ve BO ts ws Arbus Joh. . a long time before they invented sociology as & Nas actually proved harmful to Fle may want fo sell you a comremunerative trade, He used to say that man had STass and shrubs. : [Piel Hew Juthace; like that? #0 many dodlimbed things to do that he never had Termite Experts - 4 ; : fF

time to do a dodlimbed thing. Li edd . Grandpa maintained a merciless warfare; THE ITIN E RANT “termite Linoleum P lors against all the complications. man” will also bear & lot of in-| ANOTHER perennial racket is

_ He believed that if you kept the women in BE He'll probably ex- conducted by the door-to-door

going gets rough. . ti

kitchen, they would have such a short opportunity lamine your trees and shrubs and !inoleum ~peddier. He too has to brook about their lot that there would be no|then declare that he has found Just finished a job in the neightrouble inthe house. : soi ermites-which- will-get- into your Porhood” and has enough mate-| He called the automobile the curse of mankind, [house and destroy it unless you| rial left to cover your floor at a since it enabled you to travel from here to there.|q, something immediately, {bargain price. As a rule it's not| Grandpa said nobody never got in trouble if he| mpoqe boys always try to hurry 8enuine linoleum, it won't fit your: stayed home, {vou into signing. He offers to|Fl00r; and after the salesman has He despised the telephone. He abhorred the | sostrov. the termites and save Your money he usually fails to movie, and claimed that the beauty parlor was vour shrub&—for a substantial/cOme back and lay the job, as an iniquitous sink that filled women's heads with Tee «| promised.

power. Paint and fancy notions. Actually, there weren't any ter- Lorn Tools 3 Lo ; ’ {mites and his worthless sprays : - Jump Over if They Can't Walk land treatments were. teed onl LAWN - MOWERS, garden BUT GRANDPA was a cynical realist. He ants of the harmless variety, ~ [®quipment and ‘the like are ex-

recognized that there was very little anybody| Just remember that there are a Pensive and sometimes hard to could do about anybody elle, short of shooting. number of reputable exterminat- Teplace. Strangers may come to He snorted at reform, especially at the Volstead ino companies in Indianapolis YOUr door offering to take your Act. It never reformed Grandpa even for one day. who will do a good job for you at|t00ls to their shops for repairs or He said people would jump over whatever they . o04r price, ’ 8 ning. You may not see couldn't walk around, and you might as well let . } them again. Check with the shop| them go to perdition in their favorite fashion. Transient Roofers they claim to represent before the

Grandpa would have been interested in the i tia tools leave the premises. findings of the national conference on family life, | “JUST PASSING —noticed your,

just as he would have been mildly intrigued by [Toes ends FitiigT1 gu expt Made] House the Kinsey report. : | " But eT vona have inquired, querulously: “Now |t0 be working in this neighbor- wt EWARE of Ihe modal SH that you know all these things, what do you aim . " “fast talk individual lai to do about them? Build everybody a house that| Experienced? Yes? Experi-| 0 Eo Ade rig op a hasn't got one? Make immorality against the law” enced in hoodwinking the public! | ¥! nel He a ally loca n Refuse to have any more wars? Abolish divorce?! Give him. the job and you'll get] He EE that because h Throttle the politicians? Write an injunction a staggering bill Sug. Bevhaps Al ents the averting io he reps | against sin?” ’ roof that will leak e a sieve I go along about the same road as Grandpa. the next time it rains. pia Somsruction sem, he woulda) Granted that we are in a mess because of -in- Then where wilt -you find The Il cost you “absolutel Ming. "nl créased complication in the business of living, will, “roofer” to. make. good on his lib-', HSE: every otier Job _ somebody please rise up and tell me just how we're era) guarantee? they sell in your locality willl

going to uneombplicate it? Nursery Stock Sra}. your account to the extent! - Distant firms often offer what! Something. for nothing? . Don't! By Frederick C. Othman Appear to be rare Dargain® In you believe it! A man near Mar-| 7 {bulbs: ~ Often they are extremely jon fell for the stunt a few weeks] {small and do not bloom the first ago. The result? A bill for $678.| year—if at all. - Sometimes the! Any responsible siding company, bulbs. don't arrive at all. {would have done the same job!

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‘Buyers, Beware: Spring Brings 'arning On Itinerant Peddlers

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RECORDS ON RACKETS—Lowell Nicholas, assistant manager of the Indianap olis Better Business Bureau, and Miss Maxine Hughes of the office staff go to the bureau's voluminous files for facts when a new suspected racket is reported. ;

How To Avoid Fakers.

1. Deal only with firms whose dependability and reliability

obligation to pay for or return merchandise which you didn't

.can be established by intelligent inquiry.

order. Your only obligation is to

2. Be sure the salesman represents the company he claims [retain it for a reasonable length

to represent. 3. Don’t sign papers before you understand the terms and conditions of the sale. : = 4. Before you sign, be sure that the name and address of the firm is printed on the contract. “ ; 5. If promises are made verbally, be sure that they are represented in substance in the contract. 6. Retain a copy of the contract, 7. When you are satisfied that the job is completed, only then should you sign a completion certificate. 8. Pay your bill by check or money ordet made out to the firm. Don't pay cash to a salesman. : : 9. Compare price quotations with those of other firms. 10. Beware of inferences that because a loan is insured by a Soierhmani. agency the agency guarantees material and workmanship, :

A AAA RSA ruck edd {dation preparation, good asphalt T P lers 4 !mix-properly applied and rolled THESE BOYS well everything with a power not a lawn roller.

from “valuable furs” to “orien-| Many companies soliciting this

{of time.

Septic Tank Cleaners

A man approaches & housewife stating that he is in the vicinity cleaning septic tanks and d wells and offers to do the jo! for “one cent a pound. vr After some two or three hours work he presenis her with a bill for perhaps $88.50, claiming that he has removed 128 cubic feet of sludge, snd has figured the bill

terial fo the This is an old trick. Many people pay the bill for fear of a w suit which might reflect on their credit You can avoid this situation by dealing with reputable firms,

ta ruse Higutom o & truck Btiype of work do not have a power ous Dr: ey an : ih » roller, © Be sure your contract average person's ina Y 10 clearly states the work to be done

judge the real value of the merchandise they have with them, | {fotindation ._ specifications, type

in buying over your doorstep As guarantee). : you do in buying over the counter ‘ at your favorite store. Unordered Merchandise Remember, there are plenty of, _____ TT — reputable firms that usp direct] WAVE JOU every paid-C."0."D:

selling methods. “But Know WIth chaFges oR goods” not ordered?)

whom you are dealing. Remember it's against the postal : \ laws to send such collect parcels Driveways {through the" mail. Report any WHAT is necessary to make a! violations.

ott 2, soma, Nuss wii es Tag Paper Wing [Carmival--By Dick Turner Health Board

mise.” Raise the price of duck stamps to $3. Or even $5. That would nurture more ducks. It . : w might even discourage some shooters, though Mr, atio J ng : Shoemaker doubted that, . at amazes him, he said, is the fact that the . oe — who kicks about the price of & duck Gets * All-American : stamp thinks nothing of spending $5 for a jug! Award Again

of whisky to while away the tedium while wait-|

ing for the ducks. The Arsenal Cannon, weekly!

k publication of Technical High School, has again been awarded The More Dollars, the More Ducks the All-American superior re “YOU MEAN that he spends more for the highest of four ratings, for the revenue stamp on his bottle” demanded Sen. 1947 jggies. . Ferguson, “than he does for the stamp to shoot| yargaret Gamage and Pauline his duck?” ‘. |Ritter were co-editors for the fall That, said Mr. Shoemaker, was exactly what he ‘semester. . meant. And another thing, added J. T. Quinn,| The Cannon received excel the head game warden in Virginia. The duck jent rating on news features, fea-| hunter leaves his whisky stamp in the duck blind; ture -. stories, editorials, editing his duck stamp he takes along to use again. {and headline writing and a new Albert M. Day, the interior department's boss nameplate, designed by James duck expert (you could teil by the ducks hand- Carpenter, received special menpainted on -his cravat), sald he and the ducks tion. . | would be grateful for more money. The more Reprints of three posters by! | dollars, said he, the more ducks. {former Technical High School! As of now he has 3.5 million acres of duck pupils appear in the book, “Plan-| refugees, but he still has plenty of room for extra ning and Producing Posters,” by| ducks. Even so, he added, some of these refugees John deLemot, art director of | contain so many ducks now that it might not be Latham Foundatjon. l a bad idea to open 'em for a little shooting. | The original posters were by The battle went on from there. I personally Charles Galt, Helen Richman and can take ducks or I can leave ‘em, but I like 'em Fern Clark, a)l of whom were best stuffed with almonds and sprinkled with members of Charles Glore's com-, tangerine juice, Chinese style. I don’t know how mercial art class. Sen. Ferguson stands. The book, published by Me-| : Graw-Hill, also contains 12 other|

297 Test Your Skill 222 Acts ritumteat ign dams ! is featured on thie jacket of ‘he

" 4 a E, o> “ ; te thei tock. f new book, “Psychology for Liv-| I want fo matry yout bo oth het J id up, So please start [Bate their stocks of such gup-

Issues Warning

i ; | Seeks Dangerous i |-- Intravenous Food {The Indiana ‘Board of Health | said today all hospitals and drug | wholesalers in the state have been {ordered to he on the lookout for {an Intravenous feeding solution | which ‘has caused several deaths {in the south, "a The solution is used in hospi{tals to feed critically ill patients intravenously. Bad reaction from administration of the particular product was first reported to the {American Medical Association by {a Kentucky physician who sald. it | made his patients violently and | eritically 111, 5 Per Cent Dextrose | Several hundred bottles of the | batch believed by.the U, 8. Food | and Dfug administration to be {contaminated still are unac- | The product is a 5 per cent dex- | trose and ‘normal saline solution {put up in one litre bottles by the | Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, {Cal The flasks bear the company's code number CM 8164. ‘Although [it was not definitely known that any of the solution was shipped to Indiana, all hospitals and dealers. have been ordered to investi-

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can flag in the Pacific? ensemble, directed by

The United States

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What was the first warship to fly the Ameri: on the program will be the string'ple in ceremonies beginning at 28147, VFW, in Rollerland. Miss declared today by iam Nh ;. jense d'by Richard at 15" Sta- Betty Black, president of the Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. = frigate Essex on Jan. [ton ‘and the Boys’ Octet, psn St. She will be assisted by, post auxiliary, is in charge of ar-| Both are

AUXILIARY PLANS PARTY A Zoent : per share dividend A skating party will be held on common stock and a quarterly from 7 p. m. to 11-p. m. tomor- | 25-cent dividend on 5 per cent row by the Edwin D, Cox Post cumulative preferred stock were

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‘Traveling Painters

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