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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

_YOU CAN ADD the ol lunch whistle to the long list of familiar sights and sounds that aren't so familiar anymore. Factory whistles are getting as scarce as horses and buggies. ‘When you do find one, do you suppose it’s untouched by the hand of progress and invention? Do you suppose the men with tool boxes for brains would allow a whistle to blow by having some good boiler house Joe pull a rope. Not on your life. The whistle has to be improved somewhatt The steam, has to go through here, an switch yonder, tripping a lever above the calendar switch which in turn kicks off a teensy-weensy valve which sends 100 pounds of steam finally to make like a lunch whistle. Very clever. Sometimes all this progress in industry burns me up. You go to a place like Lilly’s and ask to see the man who would know about the lunch whistle because you know Lilly's is one of the few places in town that still uses one.

The Whistle? Oh, the Whistle JOHN C, SIEGESMUND sounds like the kind of a name a man who would know about a whistle should have. There's no boiler house near the office af the difector of the engineering division but you still go ahead. Sure, Mr. Siegesmund knows about the lunch whistle. See those two clocks on the wall outside the office? One is a Naval Observatory clock and the other is connected with the programming mechanism. The whistle? Oh, the whistle. Why sure, the whistle. Ralph Reidy, foreman of the electrical divi-

The steam whistle is several blocks away but here is the mechanism that makes it work. ‘Just like a music box," says Ralph Reidy, electrical foreman at Eli Lilly, where a lunch whistle blows at noon.

sion, points to a section of concrete somewhere in Building 40 or is it 25 and points out machinery] that actually does the work and keeps everything straight. Mr. Siegesmund and Mr. Reidy exchange a few words about the old days when their offices were closer together and the whistle was operated by hand. . | “That was in 1934 that we made the change, wasn't it?” asked Mr. Siegesmund. | _ “Wasn't it a year or so before that?” asked,

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was put in,” a third man, who appeared on the scene, said. “I know because I put it in.” Conner Jester of the supervisory division and Mr, Reidy took over. They did a fine job of explaining the gimmicks on the wall. The programming clock works on the same principle as a music box. Every time you want the whistle to blow you stick a steel pin into the calendar cylinder. The whistle blows the first time at 7 a. m., then 8 and lunch blasts start at 11 a. m. sharp. Whistles blow every 10 minutes until 1:40 when! the last shift gets the signal that lunch is over, At 3:30 p. m. the 7 a. m. starters get the signal to go home and at 5 another toot and the 8 a. m. starters take off. “Keep the clock outside of Mr. Sigesmund's| office right, kéep the steam up and have the! wiring in good shape and you have a good sys-! tem,” sai@ Mr. Reidy. “Add as many pins as there are minute marks| on the cylinder and you can have the whistle, going off every minute of the day or night,” added Mr. Jester. ; A smaller series of wheels which resembled the! larger programming clock keeps track of the days. In fact, it is a perpetual calender. There is a gad-| get that keeps the whistle from blowing Saturdays, Sundayg and days when the plant is shut down. Just like a music box, remember that. “Gentlemen, this is all very interesting but may I see the whistle. May I see the steam come out and hear the noise real close?” : | Mr. Reidy guided me through a series of tunnels, passages and dungeons and it wasn’t more, than two days later that I stood bending an ear to Ralph Thomas, chief operator of the power plant.

Fun to Blow a Whistle

THERE IN front of our eyes and about a foot above our noses hung an ancient handle suspended from an ancient piece of wire which was atttached to an ancient valve lever. “See that light above the lever? When it lights and no whistle blows we resort to manual operation,” explained the man with the real whistle. All through lunch the whistle blew, every 10] minutes. Lilly has a wonderful steam whistle.| Sounds almost exactly like the one we used to have at the glue factory. | The programming clock didn't mess up once. Mr. Thomas said it seldom does. I think it would be fun to blow a lunch whistle and send hungry gorkers to dinner. Always wanted to do that.| osh.

Druggists’ Friend

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—Some wag said there is nothing wrong with drug stores that a few pills wouldn't cure. “Hold on a minute,” butted in gray-haired Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president emeritus of Purdue University. “Drug stores have been selling a lot of things besides drugs since the Revolutionary days.” The good doctor said it was a fact and he could prove it. He has just completed a two and onehalf year survey to determine what's good and what's not good about drug stores. He discovered some interesting things. ; For instance, back during the Revolution, the man who stirred up the cures foy lumbago and gout also sold window shades, putty, glass and linseed oil.

Has to Make a Living “PEOPLE POKE a lot of fun at the druggist for running a department store, but how else could he make a living?” Dr. Elliott asked. There's not a very big profit in a dime box of aspirin. So it is that you can buy a jig-saw puzzle, a pair of pliers, beach sandals, a three-cent stamp, a 49-cent ball point pen or a strawberry soda in addition to liver pills at almest any drug store. “Besides,” Dr. Elliott sald, supplementing the summary of his survey, “that's what the people seem to want. The drug store has become a sort of social center. The druggist has to keep open at. all hours to supply the neighborhood with hot

But No Jack

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—You réemémber the auto salesman who admitted he made his customers buy a $28.50 electric razor to plug into the dash as an accessory before he would sell ’em a sedan? That is only the beginning. Since writing a plece about the auto hearings of Rep. Kingsland Macy, of N. Y., with special emphasis on the shaveé-While-you-drive widget, I have been hearing from the customers. One of them showed me his sedan; I was afraid to touch it, because it looked like it was about to ‘pounee,

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A Few Added Iteris

THIS MOTOR CAR had all the usual items, such as radio, heater, foglights, special steering wheel, and windshield wipers front and rear. This beautiful maroon heap also carried: ONE: A gasoline tank, which whistled when it got full.’ i TWO: A horn which went beep-beep if the driver forget to take off the emergency brake. THREE: Widgets which went pin-n-n-n-ng, if any of the four fenders got within three inches of a curb. : FOUR: A bottle of distilled water upside down on a bracket under the hood; from it ran three rubber tubes to the cells of the storage battery, so they wouldn't run low. FIVE: A bottle of plain water to spray automatically on the windshield between showers. My man bought his car in New York; he never has learned exactly what these widgets cost him, ‘but he thinks they're fine. He wouldn't have bought 'em if the dealer hadn’t insisted, but now that he's got ’em, he enjoys ‘em. What he can’t understand is why the salesman let him off so easy. He had to buy a trunk to go in the trunk compartment, of course, but the

The Quiz Master

Does Alaska have the dial telephone system? Alaska’s first dial phone system was recently opened on Kodiak Island. The exchange was dedicated with a three-way conference call linking Kodiak, Chicago and Washington, D. C., over a 4840-mile circuit, the longest civilian telephone hookup ever made acriiss the North American continent.

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Is the “Civil War” or the “War Between the States” the accepted title of the war of 1861-1865? Both titles are used, although the former seems to prevail in the Northern States and the latter in the Southern States. In his Gettysburg address, Lincoln referred to the war as a civil war, while Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, entitled his book, “The War Between the States.” ® 4

To commemorate what event was the cathedral at Moscow erected? The Chirch of St. Saviour was built to comMemorate the departure of the French army from Moscow in the Napoleonic Wars.

By Harman W. Nichols

water bottles. He might as well sell the folks cigars, or a deck of playing cards, while he's up and about. “The drug store has come to occupy an important place in American life.” He said you'd be surprised at the people who wait until Christmas eve to do their shopping— at the drug store. “Isn't that a kind of public service?”

Still Fill Prescriptions

IN DIRECTING the survey under sponsorship of the American Council on Education, Dr. Elliott traveled more than 40,000 miles. He visited 30 colleges of pharmacy, and snooped behind the counters of around 300 drug stores scattered through nearly half of the states.

The committee made a lot of recommendations. For one thing, it believes it would be a good idea for drug stores to get a firm grip on their liquor counters and hegve them out the window. “Distinctly detrimental tn» the public standing of the drug store,” the committee said. Pharmacists are supposed to give most of their waking hours to the job of preserving the public health. If they sell a couple of wooly dogs or Christmas cards on the side to help pay the rent, that's all right. : “But,” Dr. Elliott said, “this year close to 400 million prescriptions will be filled in the more than 50,000 retail stores.”

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| By Frederick C. Othman

glove box was delivered empty. Why wasn't it! filled with gloves? He'd like to have had some windshield wipers on the side windows, too, and while he was spending $90 for a radio de luxe, why couldn’t it also have contained an FM set for static-free reception? He said he paid extra to have foam rubber; cushions big enough for beds and extra-extra for nylon slip covers to keep them hidden. wondered, dicn’'t his car come also with sheets, pillow slips and an €lecu.. Janket? DN 38 dic erry gpmpass, but it had no ther mometer, which he said he would have appreciated. , It also had a special dispenser to carry the tissue he'd need in case he ever caught a cold, but it had no container to put same when Ke used it.| This, he said, was an oversight on the part of| the salesman. | They Forgot the Jack | HIS CAR CARRIED a plain old cigaret lighter| that popped out when lit. He wished it had come with a cigaret box that served smokes already lighted when he pushed the button. He said he’d liked fo have had a box of sand to sprinkle automatically under the hind wheels on icy days. And above all, he continued, he wished his car had been equipped with four autdmatic hydraulic jacks, one for each wheel, as he understood came with some British cars. By the way, I said (standing well back in case anything he's overlooked suddenly catapulted out of a hidden door) what kind of a jack did he have? | He opened the rear deck (which lit up automatically), rummaged around in a compartment under the rubber matting, and discovered he had no jack at all. The manufacturer, said he. with! an evil leer that bode no good for Detroit, is going to hear about that.

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27? Test Your Skill ???

Is it true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned? There is a legend that the Emperor Nero fiddled during the fire which destroyed the greater part of Rome in 64 AD. The violin was | not invented until the Middle Ages, so the instrument on which he played, if he played at all, must have ‘been some other type of stringed instrument. Tradition says it was a lute. * ¢ o What is unusual about the ancient Egyptian representation of the human eye? In their profile drawings the eye is represented as in a full face. y + 4% 9

Where does the stroke oar sit in a racing shell? He is the rower nearest the stern of the boat (in front of the coxswain). : ®* * o x Do dragonflies sting? | Contrary to popular belief these insects are perfectly harmless. They are sometimes called - horse stingers, snake feeders and flying adders because they are erroneously believed to sting.

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The Indianapolis

SECOND SECTION %

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1948

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Out in Mr. Schricker's reception room is Mrs. Marcia Murphy who fills in as tem. porary executive secretary and delivers a "sorry not today" to the long line of party members seeking patronage.

"little statehouse’ in his three-room suite at Claypool Hotel. Already handling matters-of-state-to-come, he dictates a letter to secretary Mrs. Dorothy Masteropaclo.

Governor-elect Schricker sets up a

George Dailey, prosecutor-elect, is transacting pre-officetaking business at the county headquarters and his office in the lliinois Bldg. "No.commitments," says Mr. Dailey.

is the selection of some 40 deputies to Jim has set up his "little sheriff's office” in the county

Biggest problem for James Cunningham, next sheriff, help him run his office beginning Jan. I. Democratic headquarters.

Auditor Upheld In Pay Refusal

Counselor May Sue, |

* SP api “Hinges The Indiana Supreme TCourt today upheld State Auditor A. V.! Burch in refusing to pay State Rep. Glenn Slenker of Monticello, his salary as public counselor for i the state Public Service Commission. | But the high court ruled, just as it did in the similar case of Rep. Charles T. Miser of Garrett, that Mr. Slenker had the right to try to" recover his back pay, ” through another legal step. { Judge James A. Emmert issued the court's unanimous opin-| ion, although he dissented in the case of Mr. Miser and three other Republican members of the state! legislature who held other state jobs at the same time they were serving as members of the Indiana General Assembly.

County, Township {0fficials to Meet

Plan Annual ‘Parley Here Dec. 1, 2-and 3

diana County and Township Officials Association will hold its 14th annual convention in Indianapolis Dec. 1, 2 and 3 for a : “aadeussion of school © manages ment, poor relief, post-war.ge>-_ ...| struction and government ade ministration. Goverhor-elect Henry F, Schricker will address a session of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees, the largest of the 13 groups affiliated in the organization, on Dec. 2. Approximately 900 township trustees are expected. More than 2000 public officials are expected for the three-day session. Claypool Hotel will be headquarters for the convention land a trade show with more than 50 exhibitors will be held on the | mezzanine. : | Affiliated organizations of the lassociation inglude the Indiana {State Association of Township Trustees, Indiana County Com!missioners, Indiana County Auditors, County Clerks, County ; Ya, | Attorneys, School Bus Drivers, CE ————— se: |County Assessors, County Highs way Supervisors, Infirmary Sue {perintendents and Matrons, Sure iveyors and Engineers, County

Court of Claims It held that Mr. Slenker could file suit in Marion Superior Court in an effort to recover his back

5 # i , 3 . Judges of Superior Court sit as| Andrew Jacobs, Democratic Congressman from the 11th District, already has looked over the a court of claims. | Washington scene since election and has reached this conclusion—""Housing’ is terrible.” All candiMr. Slenker has held the PSC| 4 to tak ernmental reins without a hitch. {Recorders, Township Assessors post since March, 1945. He was| dates must be ready fo take over gov ; — land County Treasurers Associa re-elected to the legislature in|

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legislature began. He was reappointed after the assembly holy and only a Pope may see it. By ler Football Team Ironically, while the excavators, Sigma Delta Chi, national pro

ended its 61-day session. Rl al Mr. Burch has withheld Mr. ROME, Nov. 22 (UP)—Tombs of 16° Popes, friezes, mosaics, Were not able to fin e ac fessional journaiism fraternity on 1 : {tomb of St. Peter they did nd pe Butler University campus, will

Slenker's PSC salary and travel-| jc, rial crypts and ancient coins will be shown to visitors to ing expenses since March, joey. [Si%ars, bulla Fk the Holy Year of 1950 as the result of six vesrsi® the area mausoleums and stat-, nor the 1948 Bulldog football The back salary up to last Nov.| roy qvation, it was made known today. ues of iwo pagans, {team Dec. 3 with a dance in the DO tO sag raV-| Modern art lovers also will be able to ses for the first time| One of the pagans was a girl pgyptien Room of Murat Temple. eling expenses $473.96, a totali, aigcovered sculptures by the 15th century Florentine, Antonio|entertainer, apparently an eXotic/ ‘George Leamnson, Zionsville,

Excavators Uncover Burial Places of Popes, Friezes, Mosaics, Altars, Ancient Coins

Thanksgiving holiday have been!

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sulted in the finds. lor of his remains. But during found on the lowest level of the to the outstanding senior player at the Kirshbaum Center at LiOnS Were carried out between ,.. year visitors will be por. |excavations. They contain fine'of the 1948 squad and gold foot 8:30 p. m. Thursday. {1940 and 1946. mitted to see for the first time examples of mosaics, alabaster balls to all seniors on the team, The dance is sponsored by the, They were discontinued whenthe general site of the tomb, urns and other artistic remains. A board of Tiree ndiatabolis B'nai Brith Young Men in co-|they threatened to undermine the which has betn long knowh. The|On them are sculptured figures of sportswriters, is Bamig S it a operation with the Jewish Young foundations of the great basilica.|actual spot where St. Peter isibacchus, satyrs, Venus, dancingjlater date, select . the oh Adult Federation. Since then experts have been believed to have been buried girls and wood sprites. Butler gridder. Bu

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