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"The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1048 © BE : PAGE 13

andidates Buttonhole Delegates

By Ed Sovola!

Inside Indianapolis

“NOT A THING to worry about. It's only pure jutk when they hit us. . or not, a golf ball. on the fly is thing to.reckon with in my estimation, «wilbur needs. more golf balls” announced m McC “The last: load won't be good for than half an hour.” Jeep. driver Willis Irvin, whose job it is to ther up the rubber pellets at the Little America ecreation Tenter, glanced 1a my direction. The time of décision was upon me, The driving range was full of eager golf ball slammers and I knew Mr. Irvin couldn't wait much longer.

‘perilous’ Ride In a Jeep

«pLL GO)" 1 announced expecting a word .or

“I'm telling you,” answered Mr. Irvin, “it's just luck that anyone hits the jeep with a ball.” i ~~ Through the celluloid slot I could see, maybe, it was a little: imagination, every slub swinger , aiming at the moving target—us. | “Are you sure the 10 pickers are operating?” | I had my doubts about the pickers which were | nothing else but metal discs like the farmers use, to make ridges in the ground. tT |

Without looking, Mr. Irvin said ‘they were working properly. He was leaning over the steer

Everywhere In the grass, reminding me of mushrooms, were golf balls. At irregular intervals! wu eid a ball would flash through’ the headlight beam, : I was pretty sure I wasn’t seeing snowflakes. “Must be hundreds of balls out here,” I said, breaking the silence, Mr. Irvin went a few thousand better. “When the balls are all out, there should be 13,000 lying around-for me to pick up.” We were cruising directly in front of the bright. ly colored center target when we were hit the first time. That was the first time for me. It sounded as if someone walloped the side of the truck with a baseball bat. “See, we're perfectly safe in here.” laughed Mr. Irvin. “Most of the golfers out here never hit the truck because they aim at it . The ones that don’t ajm are usually the ones that connect.” Mr. Irvin swung near the archery range. 1 noticed several girls pulling their bows with that “Y<shot-an-arrow-into-the«xir” stance. Arrows; Mr. Irvin informed me, were not his worry except inh flight. His job was to pick up golf balls,

‘You Can Get Used to Anything . ..'

I WAS tempted to leave the confines of the jeep and see how the 25-foot wide picker was doing but two more hits deterred me. I took Mr, Irvin's word for it that the thing was picking the balls up. “How do you get the balls that are pushed into the turf by the tires?” Just as I suspected. Machines can do just so much and then it's back to manual labor. Of course, that's done In the morning when there's nobpdy on the range. * Two more direct hits were scored before Mr. Irvin decided he better go in. I wasn't jumping out of my seat anymore, either. You can get used to anything if you put your back to it. ’ When we pulled to the side of ‘the range, Tom | was waiting for ys with his wheelbarrow. In the wheelbarrow were Mr. Irvin's hamburgers, filling the night air with a faint onion smell. They soon

Ripple High School Junior. I climbed in the jeep feeling like an outcast politician. © “Bring me two hamburgers with onion,” called

parrow at a térrific clip back fo the little hut where Wilbur Kemper, manager, was in a dither t his hands on more golf balls, While we chugged into the line of fire, I took

was a framework of heavy wire. The metal doors had celluloid slots which were protected by flexible metal doorstep -scrapers. The body of the jeep was golf ball proof as far as I could judge, That wasn't very far. A ball shot across our bow and bounced along the grass which prompted me to ask a logical question. : -—

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SHIRTSLEEVE POLITICS—John A. Watkins, Bloomfield ‘publisher [right], campaigns for the Democratic nomination of lieutenant governor, He shed his coat as state Democratic delegates gathered in the Claypool Hotel prior to their convention today.

. . THE HANDSHAKE — Most strenuous activity of the candidate is the stringent Th gL Sl requirement that he grasp and shake the hand of everyone he sees. Here Walter Tn ee ne balls irs in the wheel E- Mybeck of Crown Point (right), also seeking the lieutanant governor nomination,

barrow and on the way to the driving range. With| goes Through The motions with B. Thomas May {left} and Arthur Palmer, Huntington fwo_ smacks of satisfaction, Mr, Irvin was on his deleqat 4 way to pick up more balls. oe elegales. His job is just one vicious slice and hook.

ON TARGET—Every. night it's harvest time at Little America for golf balls and it's pure “luck” if “you connect with ths “moving har: vester, .

By Robert C. Ruark

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Whoa, Horse

SARMIENTO, Argentina, June 15-Today I seem to be a sort of short-order gaucho. All is well, except I keep falling off horses. They are so sensitive. Also there is no back-country word for “whoa ” ~ 'Mammy’s little baby went visiting to an estancia, or big ranch, a couple of hundred kilometers out of Buenos Aires. And before he could hide, they had him wearing boots and some outsize bloomers called “bombachas.” Also a sash. T think the sash offended the horse, The gaucho—or “criollo,” as he's mainly called, is still as much around today as he was back when Rudy Valentino was portraying him in the movies. He still wears them baggy britches, the wide beit spangled with silver coins, and a knife as long as a pump-handle stuck through the back of the belt. ' His temper is still uncertain. Smart people do not attend gaucho dances on Saturday nights, because while the average Argentine cowpoke can’t write his name; he is an. artist at carving his initials on friend and foe. Especially when he takes aboard a quart of cana, a fiery native drink. The gaucho in these parts affects a beret, basque-style, as relief to his fiat hat, and sometimes he sheds his high, soft boots for a shoe that looks just like those horrible ballet slippers our women wear. Most of them are of Irish extraetion, with names like Pedro Duggan—pronounced “Goo-gahn.” Only one of the cowhands on the Estancia 1a Elisia can write.

Poetry on Horseback BUT WHAT they all can do on a horse is poetty. ' They are as much an extension of the big, bony nag as the horse's neck. It is true they” do not talk to the horse. I quote, fram Don Salvador ‘Bondia, the major-domo of la KElisia: “The horse knows what you want him to do.” Don Salvador said simply. “They are very sensitive horses. We do not speak to horses, here.” Don Salvador stuck me on the back of his, favorite courser, a Brown job named Tostado, or

toast. Fe took Tostado out behind the house and| impressed him on the necessity of not killing the visiting gringo, but Tostado wasn’t concentrating that day.’ After a short but violent exhibition, Don Salvador horrifiedly refused to answer for what might happen if I did not get off Tostado and into a cart. It seems our personalities clashed —and I think the beast was planning to eat me.

He Was Embarrassed SALVADOR, a young Spaniard, is something to see on this. miserable animal of his. So .far as I know, he never moved a knee or twitched a rein, but Tostato danced, pranced, opened .and closed gates, ran, walked, cantered, reared and cooked dinner. You couldn't tell where the horse stopped and the man started. This skill also applied to little three-year-old girl children, who came flying down the road on horseback, using no saddle, no stirrups, and rarely a bridle. : : My embarrassment grew as I attempted to eat lunch with only a knife. We had an “asado”— a barbecue—for a noon snack, in which half a cow was grilled over a slow, corncob fire. The gaucho consumes a couple of pounds of meat, at a sitting, and he eats it with his knife. He picks up a * quarter of a calf, sticks it between two slabs of bread, stuffs as much as he can in his mouth —and | then hacks the mouthful free with his knife. I ame out of that one with a split lip. 7 A ee v ’ got to feeling pretty low toward the end of the : y . day: I wasn’t as smart as a horse, as skillful as a YOUTH—John Ryan (right), youthful Bloomington child, and I couldn't eat as well as a cow waddy| ; . : : : a, dT CO maint an tar Parzoll veteran, .is one of three seeking the nomination of secretary of state. Here he gets together with two

The ‘only thing that saved me was a partridge : hunt. : ! supporters, Curtis Kimmel (left), Vincennes city attorney, We were using a pointer named Peron. Peron} was crosseyed, lazy, and he didn't know his own| name. I expect I could smell birds as well as Peron, and I know I found more. : Also I killed a few with a shotgun. and so far| as T was able to see, Peron never fired a shot.

NOISY — Mrs, Paul L. Hillsamer of Marion (left) assists her husband in his race for secretary of state nomination by directing a brass band on a tour of the tonverition rooms. The musicians paid little heed to quality in their enthusiasm for quantity. At midnight the tired drummer was begging for a chance to sit down

and William Schrader, Lafayette. and rest. ;

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By Frederick C. Othman

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Worry, Worry

WASHINGTON, June 15—I was strolling dowh 14th street looking at all the gold watches,

The government expert with the slide rule in] his hip pocket said unfortunately that more than | hand-painted neckties and luminous bathing suits - half these extra babies are being born in China in the windows that T dida’t want—and couldn't and India. They'll have biX little effect on supply afford if I did. and demand in the rest of the world. | pa lant-]| And: there, gazing at a display of bleached Then, said he, you look at the acreages plani-| cowhide ore. ng $135 op 4 was a bushy- ed in wheat and corn and potatoes. Not..much| haired citizen, going: Teh-teh-teh _. bigger than they used to be, way back when.| ’ ' ’ ' t I 1 ce _and| Turned out to be an oll pal of mihe. a long- You'd think that would keep food scar a a)

time, New Deal economist whose guesses have high priced. Haw. : ” ‘ t been more often right than wrong. He was wor- Blame It: on Improvements ried, as usual. The business of guessing whats THE TROUBLE with that is modern improve-| going to happen mext in the marts of trade is ments. Henry Wallace's hybrid corn is doubling eno to give a fellow ulcers. production. Better wheat is being grown; cotton) Bt Ea did ‘have some idea as we dmbled bolls. are bigger than they used to be. More food | down the street. dodging at each corner $3000 is coming from less land. : { sedans that would have cost maybe $1600 before. A perfect case, he said, is potatoes. The acre-|

the war. f age of same is ‘smaller than ever before in his-| We haven't seen the worst of this in

flation. he tory, but production this year seems to be head-| said. Prices, he said, are going up some more dur-

ed toward an all-time record. ing the rest of this year, because of new wage Better potatoes are being planted, new fertiliz-| hikés and the European Recovery Program, which ers are making ‘em grow bigger, and chemicals will make scarce things still scarcer. to keep down the weeds and the bugs ‘are turn-| My economist wondered if I'd taken any fliers Ing practically the entire crop into grade-a spuds. in the stock market. I hadn't; he said that was a

The result is that the government under the! mistake. The boom in stock is fot yet over. law probably will have to spend miilions it never Of all .this he’s dead certain. Anybody can ©X

pected to support the price of potatoes. { see, he continued, how things are heading in 1048. European crops generally are good. Sugar's alIt's 1949 that worries him. And 1950.

most in surplus supply now and eventually, my . boy figures, there's going to be more food than! You Can't Trust Figures the people cah eat. No amount of federal hocus TAKE FIGURES. You can't trust the blame pocus, no government millions then can_ hold} things, even when they're strictly accurate. It 1s a well known fact, he said,.that there

BLESSED REST—Convention-weary delegate, James

visitor, is greeted by this threesome of pulchritude in the headquarters of Harry . Smiley of Chesterton, finally found a vacant chair after

BEAUTY AND THE POLITICIAN — Bob Hirschauer of Shelbyville, &dnvention .

McClain, governor aspirant. The McClain workers {left to right), Imelda Vander-

hours of trudging through miles of hallways filled with schmidt, Phyllis Huls-‘and Doris Bohnert, all of Jasper, decked visitors with. roses.

delegates.

As Preventable Tragedy Morrison Bows

promise that will humiliate neith- ful Zionist lobby In

up prices. Something's got to go bust.

When this h , Took out. That's the point. |} 2 . never has been such a boom in babies. The pop- said I When? My man said he honestly dian’ Writer Sees Palestine War

ulation of the world is increasing at thé rate of know. But he would hazard a guess. It would be . le : , America's Role in Dreary Affair

20 million a year. sooner, rather than later. That's not very definite, r a aid id f ish V {*F ga mor Arab, | It is the general expectation, Lai to Bi or Jewis ole uch a. compromise would Te: instead, that the Zionists will re-, 0 rc aC S

And with 20 million new mouths to feed each but it's one way economists keep out of the dog 12 months and 20 million extra folks growing up house. ; i and needing shoes, you'd think there'd be a con-- Nor is it very cheerful. 1 told him he probably By LEIGH "WHITE, Times Foreign Correspondent quire the Zionists to give up their ceyve continued American support v NICOSIA, Cyprus, June 15--American policy in Palestine is vain dream of a sovereign state, their fanatical insistence on a| tt and submit to controlled Immi-|govereign state—a demand that| TONDON, June 15 (UP)~-Her-

stant demand for about anything you could men- was all wrong, I hoped. tion. At that rate prosperity ought to last for- He sald He hoped so, too. The way he said unfolding like a Greek tragedy. with the Zionists playing the un{Sration. The Arabs, in turn, ., Arab government could pos-|bert Morrison apologized to Winwould be required to grant thei gnjy accept and still remain in!ston Churchill last night and

ever, it was enough to give a fellow the jitters. | witting role of a collective nemesis. . ’ » Most of those who have been involved in the .sorry affair Zionist . nists autonomy within a fed-(nower., | pari t tradition may eral Greater Jordan, with equal arliamentary

| diplomats, educators, businessmen, soldiers and correspondents { hat what the American government is doin il} believe { 8 § will end In, hts before the law ~including| AE ia iso ine oh) ‘the right to purchase land. pected nye indefinitely, use of Commons. generating chaos una revolution "8 in the House of :

| disaster for everyone concerned.| Yet they all seem to feel pow- 8 Tight to : erless to prevent it. an objective trend-spotter and 0 effective the compromises), Mr | I out th 1 | h F say that such disaster can be analyst, sparticularly of events ‘would also have to offer a prompt Shrdughont Sus Misti East andl ns at Mt. | in Europe and the Middle East, |sotutinn to the problem of theiyw,rig on one side or the other len hill dra an For what purpose wai the ship Jacob Ruppert from the realm of domestic party, offers his story today with the 200,000 Jewish displaced . persons + {Churc was drawing $8000

averted by removing Palestine employed? \ |polities. and putting it . back! followinj ; |In- Europe. ploy pol g ollowing word to his readers American Congress would have to|Increase in consequence, and so opposition.

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The Quiz Master

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Basketball rates » toss-up with hockey, ac- therafier she was taken as the most dificult of by Queen Mary. 3 Bt m : using the Jewish vote as an elec-| tra ly.” " 5 East, however, see much likell- i } : 4 \ ing a with camerss snd commentary. Are the feathers of the peacock ita true tall? tioneering weapon. U. 8. policy| — et == {hood of such a statesmaniike ao: Fife Saeing a he Jeak Pips Brus nt i : gn : This wealth of plumed does not represent the (in Palestine could then be car-| The present truce offers what lution to the problem. They be- use: of organic chemicals which, ! a ! aH * Action is Nghtning fast in both gambs. - "tall but 1s made up of the feathers of the lower 'ried out by the State Department may be America’s last opportu- lieve that our leaders, in fade of Mixed with the waler used, gIVe|yy fur oiroulated hi Frime.d ; Of what English queen is it sald that she was part of the back and the upper tall-coverts. The Instead of party Satiogad commit- nity to bring about an effective the coming eles Il lack the an increased extinguishing agtion'ys the press within =, of y. 4.71 tone tall Hes behind it and its a%.a support, lees, iri - * ‘compromise in Palestine--a com- moral courage ‘to the power- of 200 per cent to 400 per. : hours. : on : : » vr " hb; v v : : pe . ’ : : i 5 BoE of s i ai Yad 2 ¢ - - yi 0 Go J § ;

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