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spotlight platform. For days I'd been trying to work up enough nerve to make the initial move.
Like Scalins Mt. Everest
“WE'LL GO UP about 10 minutes before the show starts,” Mr. Holland said. “You'll only be up about 50 feet in the air. Good place to see the show,” The more I thought of the climb the worse it became. About the time Mr. Holland appeared and motioned for me to follow, I felt as if I were starting out to scale Mt. Everest. “Be careful of the splinters sticking out of the side of the pole,” cautioned the spotlight man. Mr. Holland started up fifst. He went up the fron spikes ad/if they were stairs. At the halfway
"STAR OVER THE STARS"—Ed Holland Jr. is closer to the ‘real thing than any other "star" at the Butler Bowl. His 3000-watt spotlight gives off more than a twinkle during a performance.
Poor Staging
NEW YORK, July 16—In my new job as selfappointed councillor to the Democratic Party, I suggest they hire Billy Rose or Mike Todd or some other qualified exponent of show business to teach them how to stage their act. They are sup-
. posedly playing the big ime, and that late unla-
mented extravaganza in Philadelphia was strictly from amateur night. The veriest tyro of the theater knows that for successful drama, the hero is supposed to win the. girl in the last scene. It is bad practice when the villain foils the entire cast, in scene 3, act 3, and snickers harshly into his' mustache at the downfall of yirtues It is also supposed to be poor boxoffice when all the heavy drama takes place after the theater
has heen cleared of patrons, and only the char... “THIS SIDE-SPLTPTER. Nowever, was soon Yo
ladies are left in the joint. I have a slight impairment of confidence In the Democrats, as molders of my destiny and steerers of the fate of the world. ' This is because during the past week they have reminded me of nothing so much as a cellection of silly schoolgirls, screeching and hoisting their skirts at the sight of a mouse, while the house is calmly allowed to burn down. They walked into Philadelphia with the avowed intent of consigning Mr. Truman to the deep. They had more plots and counterplots than a shilling shocker. They strode in screaming: “We'll moider the bum!” When the smoke cleared, Mr. Truman was hipdeep in the carcasses of his adversaries, and, biess de lawd, had even begun to appear heroic, just by contrast. -
Nobody Around but Us Chickens
TO THE wreckers—or rather, the wishful wreckers of Mr. Truman—it might have appeared to be good business to keep him waiting in the wings for three hours, and to allow him to speak his piece in the wee minutes of the morn, to a snoring audience. tt But it turned out that the only hunk of good politics that was committed all week was delivered by Harry T. ardund 2 a. m., when there was nobody around to hear him but just us chickens. For party purposes, that was hiding the climax
Plug Your Ears
WASHINGTON, July 16—You don’t catch me denouncing President Truman for calling Congress back a week from Monday. I'm going into the ear-plug business. And if I become a multimillionaire, Mr. Truman deserves all credit. The profits should be enormous, even though my enterprise is a public service to save innocent taxpayers from the caterwauling that threatens to deafen this nation. Wear a pair of Othman ear-plugs or proceed at your own risk. My research laboratory also’s developing for the de luxe ‘trade a special nickel-plated brace for those who would avoid having their ears bent back permanently. a I've been circulating through the halls of Congress, making ‘a sales survey, and even now the noise is building up like a siren getting started. Everybody's sore, including the Capitol Painting Department, which hardly, got its summer recess scaffolding erected before Mr. Truman ordered it back to the cellar. The restaurant department hardly got its summer recess scaffolding erected before Mr. Truman ordered it back to the cellar. The restaurant managers had just fired all their waiters for the year 1948; now they've got to hire new ones,
That Moan Will Get Louder
THAT low moan you hear (take warning,
Prospects, it'll get louder) comes from the scores
of Congressmen and Senators who sublet their Washington houses as usual for the rest of the Year. Come July 26 and they'll have no place to live. That's why you need ear-plugs. There’s nothing louder than a homeless Congressman called back from the middle of a fishing trip and engaged in a filibuster. Sen. Robert A. Taft's jaunt into Quebec was stopped almost before it started. Rep. Clarence TOWN never got a charce in the north woods at a single trout.
The Quiz Master
Where was the largest lu f silver mined in the United States? mp o
It was taken f the Smuggler Mine, Aspen, Colo, in 1394, 1t weighed 1840 podnds.
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maybe. to give a man some moral support. There wasn’t much else. Mr. Holland was adjusting his when
off the spot at the end of a scene. It works better than merely turning the light off. The overture started, lights dimmed, I grabbed the pole again and Mr. Holland adjusted his earphones. Curtain. Action. Almost immediately I could feel the heat from the lights as the curtain parted. Mr. Holland became a busy little bee.
The antics on the stage relaxed me to the 4
extent that I let go of the railing and began chewing my gum again. When Virginia Margot Bonvalet appeared, I even leaned forward a little. . \ “How are you doing?” asked Mr. Holland. To my great surprise I could speak. I said “Fine.” The colorful presentation below took my mind off the fact that the pole swayed every time Mr. Holland moved. That's saying a lot for the show.
One Climb Enough for Him
MY BIGGEST moment came when I let go of the railing and just sat up there free as a bird. It was a mistake to look straight down. Holding the pole isn’t much fun. Thinking about the trip down wasn’t either. Thinking about the ol’ maxim of “what goes up‘must come down,” scared the daylights out of me, ; Mr. Holland worked as if he were in the middle of a fooiball field. He had a job and was doing it, lucky fellow. At the end of the first act, Mr. Holland said he was going down for a drink of water. The climb down and up wouldn't be worth a drink of water to me, Something stronger, yes. x About all I remember about going down fis that progress was slow and several times my hands seemed to stick to the iron spikes. “We'll go up in about 10 minutes,” said Mr. Holland. Le That's where I came in. Not again. The general admission seats suddenly became quite attrac-
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By Robert C. Ruark
from the customers—playing solely for the cleaning woman. Either Mr. Rose or Mr. Todd would have insisted on a delay, in order that the only valid! drama of the convention might reach the maximum number of voters. I have seen some concentrated silliness, in my) time, by the frantic efforts of the We-Hate-Harry bloc to pull candidates out of the hat was the alltime top. :
When they finally came up with a ticket of |B Claude Pepper and Helen Douglas, I began tol}
watch for the acrobats and the dog-and-pony show to follow.
Climax Wasted on the Help
be topped by the Jake Arveys and Frank Hagues and Jimmy Roosevelts, in their sheepish return to the fold. » There was'actually more dignity in Alabama's walkout on the convention than in the over-all conduct of the conclave itself. Things had progressed to such a peak of ridiculousness that the Truman demonstration, after the efforts to discredit Harry, reminded you of only one thing: During the war, when a Jap-held island ‘was nearly cleaned out, the handful of survivors often got drunk on saki and dashed down the hill to death, shouting banzai and making believe they didn't care. That was the Truman demonstration, with its loosed doves, prop Indian, and dancing delegates.
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bellowing ersatz bravado as they slit their river at the Kentucky Ave. bridge, ducking underground in the
stomachs. t Then the little man, who had been sitting In an alley for three hours, came aboard. In two minutes he had re-assumed leadership of his battered party, and had spread the only confidence to appear all week. : When he finished, you felt the Democrats still| had a chance, and that Weak Harry, Poor Harry, |
Dumb Harry, Maligned Harry—he was the bull| goose. [ Considering they hadn’t been able to turn up a lame gosling, al! week, it seemed a shame 2)
the dramatic climax was wasted on the help.
By Frederick C. Othman
Rep. Harris Ellsworth who stayed over for the Republican convention, barely got home to Roseburg, Ore., before he had to start packing for the return trip. The page boys had to forget about their summer camps. Hundreds of Washington correspondgnts canceled vacation plans. But that’s just the preliminary noise.
The GOP Has Got a Scheme’
THE BIG barrage of decibels (you better buy a set of Othman ear-plugs while we've still got ‘em in stock) comes later, when the Republicans turn the heat on the man who opened the steam valve on them.. In his speech the other night in Philadelphia, Mr. Truman said he was going to give those Republicans a chance, right now, to carry out their campaign’ promises. Haw. X Those babies with tife elephants woven into their neckties aren't talking for publication, but they have got a “scheme. They're figuring on calling up under the regular order of business such pending legislation as the anti-lynching bill, the fair employment practices act, and the antipoll tax bill. These items nearly wrecked the Democratic convention; what they’ll 46 to Mr. Truman's special session the Republicans contemplate joyously. They figure they'll sit back (wearing Othman plugs and comfortable anti-earbending braces) while the southern Democrats yowl 24 hours a day about the imjustice of it all. At infrequent intervals the GOPsters intend to gain the floor and announce plaintively they'd be delighted to pass some of Mr. Truman's housing and price laws, if his Democrats only would give ’em the chance. Then they hope to relax, while the Southerners redouble their screaming filibusters. Things may not work out this way, of course, but no matter what, the noise beginning next
Othman ear-plugs and, if you don’t want your | ears bent back for good, braces.
??? Test Your Skill ???
Was George Bernard Shaw ever a music critic? Mr. Shaw was appointed musie eritiec of the London Star, under the pseudonym of “Corne a Bassetto.” -
River.
Warning: Unfit for Wading; Keep’ Children Away From It
Pogue's Run, the little creek with a big history, is in trouble
again. Briefly, it stinks.
Hot weather has evoked seasonal complaints from nearby residents that the stream is a nuisance, eyesore and health menace, Nobody had real confidence: Nobody. They were It traverses the city from near 38th and Shadeland Dr. to White
downtown district.
. City Health Director Gerald SWells too frequently and rapKempf admits Pogue's Run is a|!dlY to respond to sewage treat- Park. Both health ment. and engineering authorities spree) Pogue’s Run is not among pri{s lority projects earmarked for city | flowing through the ditch, which action in the immediate future. is supposed to drain storfn water Other branches of the city's diPD critical. The multi- Arlington Ave. and Shadeland Pogue's Run flowed béside the : raga Drive. It ends as a foaming cas- maze of tracks into Union Stacade of drain water, sewage, and tion from tiie east. When the
sanitation hazard.
sewage, only slightly diluted,
only. . » »
DR. KEMPF warns the creek
of dysentery and typhoid may have originated there. But, he adds, there's little the city can do about it short of re-|
TUNNEL JAWS—Iron "teeth" at mouth of Pogue's Run tunnel at New York near Dorman St. snag silt, trash and driftwood: Creek flows two miles underground beneath downtown district to White
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1948
."LOW BRIDGE—Pogque's Run qurgles over scum and rubbish beneath Oriental St. bridge after leaving the Technical High School grounds. There the stream is center of campus woodland retreat.
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Vermont St. in the heart
JOURNEY'S END—Jusf south of Kentucky Ave. bridge Pogue's Run empties its polluted waters into White River, Steep drop from northeast Indianapolis gives stream rapid flow, but sometimes it
dries up complefely.
neighborhoods.
million dollar sewer
| drafted by Moore & Owens, con-| |is unfit for wading, advises par- gyjting Ee proposes recon- | waste,
ents to keep children from its struction and expansion of the banks, and concedes some cases Pogue's Run drainage: shed, but
THE CREEK becomes contamvamping the entire Pogue's Run|inated when combination sewers,
sewer network are
York St.
This . isn't too obnoxious at “high tide,” but when the stream dries up and its sediment is ex-/Was first notorious for flash posed to the sun it emits odors|floods. In the 80's, a dozer perpolitely referred to as foul.
Another thing contributing to the creek’s reputation is the community habit of dumping excess garbage into its current. cans, eggshells and beer bottles litter the creak bed, especially in those sectors below Brookside
Pogue's Run has always been and pilings,
town's most thickly populated career as a Manual High School
study project. w - ” POGUE'S RUN, she discloses,
sons were hurled into its swirling waters and several drowned when floodwaters battered down a bridge over the creek at Union Tin Station. But Pogue's Run was bridled downtown by a $1,009,657 tunneling project in 1914-16. Cons crete boxes, 8x20 feet, sunken underground, now contain the creek in its two-mile course from
POGUE'S RUN begins as an New York St. to White River. idyllic little brook in rustic wood-| lands northeast of the city be- the -city’s vast track elevation [teen 34th and 38th Sts. and Prosram. The railroads paid 75
This was part and parcel of
per cent of the cost. At that time
[tracks were raised, engineers had
En route it meanders through to avoid the creek. So they buried
[BrsoRede and Spades parks, it. this is vi . across a corner of the Technical ® » =» he Ee ewe 38 a" long-range High School grounds, then Slices) CONSTRUCTION of the sub2 = =» [Petween homes and factories be-|terranean waterway was begun
fore disappearing beneath New|in 1914. And except for a flash
flood that swamped machinery work proceeded
drainage system. Chemical puri- carrying both sewage and water, a civic problem child. One of its smoothly. At the 1916 dedication
fication is seldom effective
in overflow. fickle rivulets like Pogue's Run, | pollution sl
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During heavy . rains best chroniclers is 18-year-old | ceremony Mayor Joseph E. Bell uices into Pogue's Run Miss Mary Jo Cassady, 1650 Barth| and Track Elevation Engineer
he explains. The creek ebbs and!as it snakes through some of thelAve., who traced the stream’s! Frank Ligenfelter drove a. Model
MIDTOWN NATURE SCENE— Even
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= Little Pogue's Run In Bad Again— Branded Eyesore, Health Menace
(Story by Sherley Uhl, Photos by Victor Peterson)
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south of of the commercial district
T Ford through the huge culvert The Pogue's Run “box” spear: southwest to the Virginia Ave viaduct, turns right under Unior
to a point beyond SBouth St. when it angles sharply to the west, If then cuts beneath building: fronting on 8. Illinois 8t. and swerves southwesterly under the Hlinois Central tracks and into the river south of the Kentucky Ave. bridge. # w » OTHER Pogue's Run highlights cited by Miss Cassady: In 1883, Democrats staged a demonstration on its banks against the war and the national adminis. tration. A few shots and many angry words were exchanged, bu Federal troops quelled the riot It later was called “The Battle of Pogue's Run.” Tein © The stream was named aftér Indianapolis’ first settler, George Pogue, a ploneer from White. water, He built a cabin on the creek bank near what is now Highland Ave. Later he disappeared mysteriously. Legend has it that he was slain by a Delaware Indian. But some historians believe he was a victim of the then turbulent little creek that now bears his name.
Butler Announces Will Pyle, Aunt Mary Feeling Fine
Evening Schedule |
Butler University announced today 172 classes will be offered |
this fall in the school's evening is); green corn and the fields of golden wheat in the lush country-| Sundays, | side surrounding this Wabash River community. There was a crack of lightning and the low roll of thunder as nie's home are increasing. One; a few raindrops began to fall,
division. Registration for the classes will be held Sept. 20-25. The University College for freshmen and sophomores will offer a total of 56 courses in Eng-| lish, psychology, philosophy, re-| ligion, laboratory sciences, mathematics, social sciences, languages, literature, fine arts, home economics, accounting, finance, secretarial science, education and public speaking. List of Courses
The College of Liberal Arts for]
nomics, library science, psychol-| ogy, religion, Spanish, sociology! and zoology. |
offer instruction in
guidance, psychology,
special educatioz.
“You go out and close the {granary door, Will, while I close on which Ernie was reared. {the windows, although it seems
ito quicken.
Ernie's Folks, 82 and 80, Find Crops— And Tourists—Plentiful This Year
By EDWIN C. HEINKE, Times’ City : Editor DANA, Ind. July 15—The hot summer sky darkened over the
|being done by neighbors on a {share basis. Aunt Mary and Will have com- . pany nearly every day and more {on Sunday. Lots of friends and {relatives drop in, especially on and the
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physical was killed in the Pacific, got the] ’ "5 education, administration, history windows closed and came back WHEN © land philosophy of education and into the living room. : : EN THE CHICKENS are “It's a good thing I got those!
Work in accounting, economic chickens up to the freezer inion for the winter.
theory, finance, insurance, ste-|Dana ‘this morning,” sald Aunt
Will nodded his head approvY.
nography, business organization and administration, marketing! public utilities and transportation and journalism will be offered by|
They're in good health, except {a shame to keep that fine breeze for Mr. Pyle’s failing eyesight and jout,” Aunt Mary Bales told Will the fact that Aunt Mary is get[Ye father of Indiana's Ernie ting just a little hard of hearing. | Pyle.
a few more for the Pyles to draw
| ' . M,C. ‘along fine these days on the farm| «gHEP,” ERNIE'S old dog!
wasn't to be seen during the! storm that struck the locality, He|launched the crackdown more was under the porch because he than a week ago adjourned yesiis afrald of thunder, Mr. Pyle But they accept these things phil- said. osophically because Aunt Mary is ! MR. PYLE'S eyesight has failed 82 ‘and Will is 80. junior, senior and graduate stu- him seriously in the past several dents will offer courses in botany, years since he last came to Indi-
English, speech, geography, his- anapalis but he knows his way|ered quickly. tory, political science, home eco-lahout familiar |
goings-on at the Pyles.
tourists who!
And sometime before too many . Tb more years elapse, Aunt Mary Scientech Club . dreams of a trip to Los Angeles
h the car to the freezer at) Tosere sh 8 has Jota of friends and i
Continue Raids At Anderson
Times State Service ANDERSON, July 16-—Ander-gons’ gambling ¢leanup rolled on iiast night with a raid on a Main establishment operated by Dale Huntzinger. City detectives
Inside a comfortable farmhouse guest book has been filled up and ted tipbooks and punchjon a country road just outside of Dana there was a good deal of Mr. Pyle has another started. confiscated Hp P scurrying about. -
boards and Huntzinger was charged with keeping a gambling house, The County Grand Jury which
{terday. For the past two days it {had queried witnesses on gaming land othér county vice conditions,
| That's all to report:about the and heard complaints from a They number of persons. 2 | Aunt Mary sprained her back hope to get into Indianapolis to! Grand Jury Foreman Lestis {three weeks ago but she recov-|visit relatives and friends in the Johnson expressed confidence the She isn’t quite as next month or so, probably in the anti-gambling order was being surroundings. spry as she was when she last|fall when the weather gets cooler. Straight as a die he went to the/came to Indianapolis but she’s] granary door as the rain began still able to take care of a truck garden at the side of the house,| The College of Education willl Aunt Mary, Ernie's famous kill the chickens, dress them and ementary aunt whom he wrote so much drive week will be scalp-crinkling. Your only hope is!education, secondary education; about in his columns before he Dana.
{enforced throughout the county.
To Hear Harlan
| Paul H. Harlan, vice president
| In the meantime, like the near- and sales manager of Electric
(aroynd the “Pyle Home” sign on all stored, there will be 36, maybe 4) whe B Lhd front Oe Sclentech Club, Inc.
The 77 acres surrounding the HEADS TRAIN’ FUND DRIVE Pyle home are producing good crops, just as beautiful as all the the Indiana National Bank, torest on the land in the county day was named treasuger of the : and every other farm county ih|$14,500 Indianapolis fu
Russell 1. White, president of
drive to
the College of Busifiess Admin-i WHICH TELLS YOU that Mr. Indiana. Mi. Pyle will get a good finance the appearance of the crore
istration.
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“Pyle and Aunt Mary are getting price for the
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