Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1948 — Page 11
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Inside Indianapol
EVERY RESIDENT within the corporate limits of a city should know a thing or’two about it. By a thing or two I mean something other than: *It's a lousy place to live in and the local option ASiement is gaining strength.” There are a great many things a taxpayer should know. My sample list, for example, would include at least one alderman, secretary to an elected official higher than an alderman, what time of the evening the street lights are turned on, the age of the mayor, two firemen personally, one patrolman or a sergeant and what sort of civie flotsam finds its way into street-corner trash containers. x The last item may surprise you. And well it may. I realize it's rather difficult to recognize them as trash containers. For a long time, I, too, thought they were a different kind of an advertising medium. Now that you know a thing about your city, let's proceed to the or two. (A thing or two.) p
Just Ask Someorie ‘
I'M TAKING IT for granted that you know a fireman or an alderman and the rest of the things I mentioned. And if you don't they're easy enough to find out either by asking someone or calling the City Hall. What finds its way into the trash cans, however, is another matter. Right? . Right. You may, on the other hand, ask: “Why conduct such a survey?” To which I would answer; *Why not?” and go on anyway so you might just as wellsbear with me and find out a thing or two about the street-corner trash containers. 7
ON LOCATION—With reasonable excep tions, you can almost guess what a trash can will have in it by its location. This was revealed in a "thing-or-two" survey of the city. .
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The Indianapolis Times SECOND SECTION | _TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1948 TTT saanei=ii Here's How You Give That ‘From those three items, the list spreads out| : % :
like butter on a hot day. The location has a lot| ¢ » ; of influence on the contents of a trash can “Of 4) ; ‘ 1 will attempt to show you. : t ’ : wv The trash receptable on the corner of Meridian | (0]0) - 0 r IC & e ra
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and an old umbrella. Location has a lot to do with the contents, don't you agree? You wouldn't think it but whisky and wine bottles find their way into the trash boxes. Not many gin bottles, however, and from that we may ponder the possibility that somebody is switching. If not switching, then throwing gin bottles in alleys or standing them up alongside buildings. If not those two, then people aren’t drinking gin. 1 don't know how else to explain it. Before 1 forget, all alcoholic containers were quite empty. That may mean something to someone.
There Are Exceptions
SOMETIMES LOCATION has little to do with the contents, I'll admit it. But you must remember, when you're working with statistics and
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In front of the Indiana Trust Co. the trash container there is a good example of an exception. 1 looked through the swinging trapdoor at five empty Sterling beer cans, an empty bottle of Listerine, apple cores, popcorn seeds, a wad of forms with the heading: Your picture has just been taken,” and not the usual amount of papers, | envelopes, Kleenex and snuff boxes. No old de-| : posit books, old directors or money were to be found. At Alabama and Washington Sts., close to the police station, 1 found an old iron bar ‘and an! empty bottle of a gheap perfume. Oh, there were| some papers, peanut shells, letters, too. But, the! iron bar and perfume bottle, those were finds, Across the street, in front of the courthouse, there are old baseball tickets, toothbrush, empty denture adhesive can and an inhaler as examples of exceptions to the usual junk. The thing that surprised me the most was not finding letters in the trash cans around the post office. I thought sure some joker would mistake the trash slot for a mail slot. Very disappointing. And speaking of disappointment, I'll say depression. Looking into trash cans isn't exactly the| most cheerful and stimulating pastime in the | world even though you're trying to find out a/ .. thing or two about one’s city. } Say, how old is Mayor Feeney?
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Worth Its Weight
NEW YORK, Oct. 12—1I will hand you no hash about baseball as the great American social
force: It is merely a pleasant, exciting game, and some of the peoplé in it are just as mean, petty, avaricious, cheap, spiteful, ungrateful and ornery as people in any other pursuit. This year, though, there has been more interest in the pennant fights, and the series, than I remember seeing ever before. There has been more inferest in baseball than in Mr. Dewey, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Truman, Mr. Stalin, and the airlift in Berlin. i 1 do not think it.is all due to the closeness of the American League scramble, or the drama of the playoff, or the clenéh-toothed tightness-of- the series. a Baseball has one wondrous quality: Neatness, "order, "discipline, call it what you wish. “It is exactly 60 feet, six inches, from the pitcher's mound to the plate, no more, no less. The bases are 90 feet apart. The rules are invariable. A man gets three strikes, not four, or two. He walks on four balls, and no momentary legislation can--pass-him. on. three, or five, The umpire is never wrong. . . "He may be blind, he may be addled by an evening’s roistering, he may be sick and sore and even consciously unfair, but he is never wrong.’ When he says ‘yerroutt!” yer out. When he says “Bteeeeeryke!” it is not a ball. - . Four and one-half innings constitute the “minimum time in which a game officially may be played. The team ahead at.the end of nine innings is the winner. There is no flexibility—no “if” quotient, no. extenuating circumstance, no pertinent gecond-guess.
Comforting Game to Watch
BASEBALL is a comfortable, comforting game to watch—pleasing in its geometric patterns and soothing to the eye. Its practitioners are neat men in neat, clean ciothes. There is little to object to In baseball az you "see it. Umpires, when they are being trained. are taught to face the stand® ‘when brushing off the plate, in order not to present the audience with a vast expanse of blue-serge stern. Even in that esthetic detail, baseball is exact.
MR. RUARK'S COLUMN also will appear in THE SUNDAY TIMES.
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The Golden Egg By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Fred Allen announced on the radio the other night that he was going to hold a stop-the-music program in which the principal prize would be a shovel—and 20 minutes
in Ft. Knox. Comic Allen thought this was a joke. He didn't know it was kind of actually happening.
I don’t mean that any South Africans are {nto our gold horde with shovels. But they seem ta-be accomplishing the same general result with a reverse technique. The Canadians, too. As a citizen who knows nothing much about gold except what's in his teeth, my problem is to explain what's happening. If the federal reserve governors kindly will refrain from shuddering at my oversimplifications, here's the tale of history's biggest golden egg: In a hole in the ground in Kentucky we now have buried 20-odd billions of dollars worth of gold bars, which Were dug: up from-holes-in-the ground elsewhere. To anybody who-digs up gold anywhere in. the oporid; we are delighted. to. pay him 35 American dollars per ounce. Then we rebury his-gold “In our Kentucky hole and he spends the $35 cash for American machine tools, bubhle gum, locomotives and bobby pins. . " ‘it's.a-Cockeyed. Problem’ | THIS SOUNDS cockeyed Already to an ignora™ mus like myself, but it is only the beginning: Canadian gold miners say they can't afford to dig gold out of their holes for any measly $35 per ounce. So the Canadian government pays them $42 per ounce, sells the same gold to us for $35; and pockets the $7 loss. . Now come the miners of southern Rhodesia with the same unhappy problem. If they can't
get more money for their gold, they're going to’
shut their mines.
MR. OTHMAN'S COLUMN also will appear in’ THE SUNDAY TIMES.
‘The Quiz Master
What effect did the Civil War battle of Hampton Roads have on the navies of the world? It marked the end of wooden battleships and the beginning of & mew era In W h steel was
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= TE Te NO TEARS, HERE—Smiling sweetly, Miss Sally Lake, R."R. 16, By Robert C. Ruark -Box 361 L, offers a dainty finger from which Miss Catherine Tuggle _.| (back to camera), laboratory technician at Indianapolis Veterans Hos-
All these things appeal to a people soré beset pital will take-hemoglobin. test count. This is. the first step in process. by * uncertainty. unpredictable crisis, danger, | ing Miss Lake as a blood.donor. Mrs. Harriet Bailey, 5135 Hardigan Henuble. wer Ana HL Yo nat Oe en Weoki Rd., Red Cross volunteer staff assistant, has just taken necessary inball field, because Negro, Jew, Italian, Pole, Eng-| formation from Miss Lake. lishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Mexican labor ] under the same set of rules, with equal penalty for infraction. In a sense, baseball is the single great illustration of the American dream—whereby a kid from| the slums, regardless of. early opportunity and up-| bringing, can hit the jackpot by exercising a skill. Before kids decide to be President, they decide to be Joe DiMaggio. . Baseball breeds some unpleasant types, some chéapskates, some =narlers, some cowards; but there is nothing in the game itself to encourage! any unsavory. trait. Baseball also can produce a| § polished gentleman like Hank Greenberg, a so-| phisticated businessman like Feller, and it can reform a juvenile bad actor like Babe Ruth.
And | Remember Feller When | I REMEMBER Feller from his 17-year-old ma-| }° jor league days—when, as a talented child he was’
STEADY NOW=—Dr. John S. Szynal, hospital staff doctor, reassures Miss Lake as he starts to withdraw a pint of her blood, while Mrs. Sally Erickson, 434 N. Rural St., Red Cross staff assistant stahds ready to lend a helping hand.. Approximately 60 donors are needed each week. Whole blood “is “Used at both Indianapolis ai Véterans hospitals. Supply is kept at Indianapolis, but can'be sent
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| fields of Van Meter, Iowa. I remember he used to practice-pitch in front of a mirror. and he wore his baseball cap with his! store-bought street clothes. One night at the! Shoreham Hotel we talked for two hours, and he | told me, childishly and earnestly, how he meant | to coddle his career by careful handling, careful living, and stringent public deportment. A million bad things could have happened to Bobby-—young. briefly educated, unsophisticated, | subject to the fleshpots and scads of unaccustomed cash. No bad things happened. Vice Adm. Fred | Kirtland. under whom Feller served on the battleship Alabama. recently cites Bobby as the best| and bravest of his 40-millimeter gun captains, as| the most willing worker, as the most self-effacing | crewman. His civilian performance has been spot-' less as well. So long mas- we have Fellers and Greenbergs and even Boho Newsoms, I will buy baseball 4s worth its weight. And I say again. our abnormal| interest in it this year is heavily due to the fact] that it constitutes one of, our few remaining, un-| tarnished verities.
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STRENGTH-GIVING VITAMINS — Immediately following donation, donors are sent to hospital canteen for some strength-giving vitamins. Here a quartet of donors relax over sandwiches, cookies and fruit juice. As always, a Red Cross staff volunteer is on the scene to lend a hand. In this case, it's Miss Jean Kibler, 3628 Hemlock Ave. Reading clockwise are, Mr. Donald Quinn; 3398 N. Denny St., Miss Sally Lake, Miss Kibler, Miss Joyce Harding, Zionsville, and Mr. John Keelor, 1055 ‘N. Congress Ave.
MICROBE DETECTIVE—While Miss Lake and other donors enjoy a snack in thé” hospital's canteen, Miss Katherine Lindley, Indianapolis Veterans Hospital laboratory technician starts processing her donation. Technicians give blood thorough inspection under a microscope and test it for exactness of type, and fo ferret out any evidence of illness in the donor,
So their government intends to slip them an extra $5 per ounce and will seek approval of the scheme shortly from the international monetary fund. Here's where my story really gets complex. | We've got to buy their gold at our established price, but we seem to be getting too much of the greasy old stuff. Ft. Knox is getting crowded like] a hall closet. The trouble seems to be, according to my off-| the-record economist, that every dollar's worth of} gold in Kentucky is good for $5 in bank credit. Everytinte' one of these babies in foreign lands sends us $35 worth of gold, we automatically get $175 more spending money. ‘We've already got too much. This is known as inflation. The more] gold we get, the more inflation results. |
‘Shy at Othman Solution
“THERE 18 -“NO-argument -among the - experts. .... about this. Tt is bad, but they can’t see any way, = ° to do anything about it. They refuse even to con-| ny ; sider the Othman solution. _ ————— This is based on the fact that nature buried] = ~~ the gold in the first place. - 80 all we need to do| ° % is buy up all the gold mines in the world, after| estimating how much gold is in ’em, fill same with| PR concrete, and Plant grass o hoy mat] rhe will; save: the effort. FUgRI0E ing. up that, gold and then reburying it in Kentucky, Betery releasing about 200,000 miners for other more important work. : The economists with whom I have talked say this is silly. But—and it is a big but—they have not explained what's silly about it. Not to my satisfaction, they haven't. And if Mr. Allen will| hand me his shovel and a ticket to Kentucky, meantime, I'd like to join those South Africans at work in the biggest hole of gold in the world. |
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