Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1948 — Page 25

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EN THE FROST is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock”—it's plenty cold out-

_ side. Especially if you're sitting around Srying _10 catch a glimpse of frost...

Phenomena, any kind of phenomens. i are FORD observing in my way of ming. Frost, it's appearance and artistry, is {Phee nomena—plural, friend , phenomenon—singular, I checked: That's all right, they eonfuse me in an OM moment, too.) Whut else is there to do with a phenomenon but watch it? Have you ever watched the frost come on the pumpkin? Don't do it. The reason 1 say don't duplicate my feat is that you'll Be disappointed in the whole show and probably catch a bad cold, That is something I don't want happen: If you have any curiosity at all about how the frost comes on the pumpkin just bear with me.

T... Usual Laboratory

‘AS USUAL I chose University Park for my laboratory to study. how crystals form by the precipitation of atmospheric vapor at shivering temperatures. When one plans to sit several hours with a couple of pumpkins, pick a spot where it's easy. to run, I always say. Sometimes. it's hard to-explain quickly and- flight is-the only alternative, To be completely honest about this thing, I must confess I didn’t know very much about frost when I started for a park bench with two small Not that plenty of frost hadn't been

gazed at, not at all, but simply becausé either the frost wasn't out when I went to bed, or it wasn't out before I went in for the late show,

Watching 4 hetaiontn loon to take sis is tedious work. Frost doesn't come -on a pumpkin jor the ground) with the speed of greased ightning. Not even slow: lightning.

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or it was out before ‘my local pub closed its doors, according to the state law, requiring me to walk home enchanted by the hoary. splendor of used car lots full of frosty bargains along auto-

mobile row. You can-teli-I'm not-a-fodder-in-the-| ll

shock man. Watching frost come on the pumpkin is. a thankless

endeavor comparable to sit-}

ting through a lousy double feature, only colder. And a park bench is harder than most theater seats, But, that’s the price of research. My City Market pumpkins were quite warm when I set them on the cold, cold ground. They were also’ a little soft even though they cost two-bits apiéce. "The man had the gall to tell me I was lucky to get soft ones at this time of the year. Impatience reared ifs’ ugly, head after about 20 minutes and no frost. My feet were colder than the pumpkins. ° A gentleman ventured close enough for him to see the pumpkins beside the park bench and for me to ask if he knew how long it took for frost to appear. The fellow left without answering my civil question. Every 15 minutes I felt the pumpkins, the park bench, the ground and my feet. My feet were still ahead at the end of an hour and threequarters, James Whitcomb Riley, the author of “When the frost is on the punkin’ (pumpkin)” would have’ been proud of ‘such an gisignment, I repeated over and over. And if he had been with me he would have known how to chase the chill from the bones. Imagine forgetting a thermos of hot coffee or something on a project involving x posure? The pumpkin cooled Slowly. The bench bes came more comfortable, the stars seemed to be twinkling with more brilliance as the night wore on and the frost took its sweet time in making with, the phenomenon.

Man, Alive, It's Slow _

| Not the Kirid that. ferks eYeRy- mieten

The kind that has the continuous movement into eternity. Well, if you have watched a minute hand, you only have a slight idea of how frost comes on the pumpkin. Slow, man alive, it's slow. The frost made it’s appearance about the same time the little corn on my. left foot got a dose, 1 won't swear that it is absolutely correct although the toe did feel better after a gentle rub. ‘Rubbing the pumpkin gently made my fingers

SECOND SECTION

and Shirley Schwier.”

hoist. Precipitation and freezing was taking place. In the glow of park lights the pumpkin finally began to show a little sparkle,

Once the crystals began fo form the whole

process seemed to speed up making my cherry] red nose reflect brightly against the gathering]

crystals, My face soon was flushed with victory and achievement. Adm, Richard E. Byrd was the first to gaze on the South Pole and went back for a second look. ‘It was good to think of being the first (unless challenged) to watch the frost come on the pumpkin. | Enough bf that phenomenon, |

Heavens to Betsy =

Revo and Florida and the Virgin Islands ana 001

NEW YORK, Dec. 3—They are making a big thing out of a “divorce racket” investigation in this town. The word is spread ardund that divorce is New York is all pockmarked with perjury, con-

spiracy and encitement to bear false witness. They got a private peeper over the barrel, and

--gome-lawyers.on.the. hook. . They got some poor

dull little girl who says she received 10 bucks a

throw for providing technically “ififiocent evidiénce | i>" &

of adultery with strange men. They say these.people helped other people get sundered from each: other by rigging evidence. Conspiracy and collusion is writ deep on the

, docket. Goodness, gracious me and ‘also heavens

—you should pardon the expression—to Betsy. I have one suggestion: After the DA retires,

covered with glory; from this world-shattering ex- -

pose, there is a great unplumbed field for investigating the little known fact that the sun rises in the East, and the sordid allegation that one swallow does not make a summer. Investigate this, Mr. D. A. Hound the culprits‘ to their lairs. Oh, brother. Being a naive type, I thought everybody had

—recognized by now that the divorce machinery is

man’s finest monument to the pointless stupidity of man. And it is certainly a beautiful testimony to the cynicism of bench and bar.

Arrest Me Some Judges

ARREST me some Judges, Mr. District Atforney. “Arrest them for being accessories before; after and during the fact, His Honor is just as guilty, if this be a crime, as the dirty-collared lawyers, the pathetic shopworn blonds, and the

nasty little “private dicks ‘Who live oft conjugal -

mikery, While you're at'it: Sha the have refused to remodel divorce laws which differ for every state, and are. miracles of medieval stupidity. While you've got the cops unleashed, arrest all the real estate brokers and hotel keepers and eivic groups which live off Henry's hatred for Hattie, with its inevitable difficulty of dissolution. Get the FBI out, too, and have them put the arm on

An Anniversary

rien WASHINGTON, Dec, 3—Please, cried the anguished whisky man; please don't mention babies.

Seems every man, woman and baby in Amerfca_today is guzzling hard likker at the rate of orie dnd three-tenths gallons per year. Leave out the ladies nf the WCTU and the babies, as per plea of my unhappy distiller, and the statistics indicate the rest of us are drinking better than two gallons per annum per each. What brings up these damp reflections is the fact an anniversary is upon us. Fifteen years and 2.25 billion gallons ago, come Sunday at 4:32 p. m. (Indianapolis time), the noble experiment ended. Well do I remember that night. Jt. featured a rush, when the news. got around, on Childs’ Pennsylvania Ave. restaurant. The amateur bartender (and how could he: have been anything else?) served brandy in snifter glasses, which held a pint, and filled same to the rim,

Even Drys Admit It :

SINCE THAT HILARIOUS and headachy evening, barkeeps have learned to serve their drinks small. Many other things also have happened in the liquor traffic, according to my Tesearchers, and in full knowledge I'll hurt the feelings of all concerned; I hasten to set ‘em down: The fellow who dug up the two-and-a-quarter-

: “Blilion-gallon figure for the liquor that's gone

down the Ameérican hatch ih the last 15 years was aghast at the result of his calculations, He refused to estimate how many feet deep that billions of gallons would cover the state of Mary-

. land, which produces more rye whisky than any

other, else, The drys calculate Americans consume more alcohol in beer than they do in whisky. They

He said he'd rather talk about something

"also espimated officially in 1930, a typical prohi-

bition ‘year, each one of us, eluding the babes, drank 2.28 gallons of ‘bootleg whisk: This- is more than we're drinking legally to-

tegislators who tee

- above it you fold the cheesecloth. When it gets

By Robert C. Ruarki

Alabama and Mexico and all the places which operate divorce mills. Arrest everybody, including Dan Cupid. started the mess. We have some disgusting and stupid qualities, we Americans, and our stupidest and grimiest is the game of -blind-man's-buff we play. with di-

CA diffe all of them. A criminal compounding of the felony, from judge to plaintiff.

Law Beams on Conniving

YOU have a land which makes mutual desiré for divorce subject to criminal conniving, full of private peepers and unemployed nautch dangers. ~You-go-to Florida to get severed and you lie about residence, and the. lawyer lies, and the judge sits still for the lie. You swear to a residence in Reno, and the liar, perjurer, colluder and suborner on the bench—I mean the judge, who is all those

things in actuality—gravely raps the gavel and P

you are unwed.

~ Here in this lofty state, they have a law which,

thoughtfully provides infidelity as the only key| to divorcement. So now we jail people for oiling! the keyhole, so to speak, when every judge, lawyer and reading citizen has known for scores of years that the only way to beat it was with a paid-co-respondent, in the presence of witness, and most ~of -the-time- the guy just takes his shirt off and} the lady flops -on the bed. Evidence is presented in court and bim, bam, Joe and Susie are shut of each other. Because of our peculiar insistence on archaic legislation: -we-have made divorce the nastiest of “legal commerce. “Self-respecting private de-[Rac n't Handie- divorce cases. Lots of Taw:

yers won't. But the judges just wink, inwardly, and accept thas product of collusion and perjury without a qualm.’ Please, Mr. DA, go catch me a cro. JK or Tun down a spy, but don't-make any noble noises

about this divorce drive.

I'm stupid, but I ain't that stupid. ’ :

By | Frederick C. Othman

day, but how. the. prohibitionists ever arrived. at. that estimate I don't know, Al Capone was the leading distiller at the time and as far as I can learn he never published his production figures. He also charged 75 cents per .bottle for beer ih ether in it, but this is no place to go into a Whisky is so costly these days, largely because of taxes, bootlegging, is booming again. There is plenty of sugar for making illicit mash and no shortage of copper tubing. Only the other day in my neighborhood in Virginia the federals knocked off a 2500-gallon still, An expert on this subject informed me, in fact, anybody with a coffee pot and a plece of rubber hose can produce himself a dollop of moonshine. An even simpler method involves a crock and a piece of cheesecloth.

You boil the fermented peaches in the crock;

wet from the steam you let it cool and then wring it out, The squeezings are potent stuff, indeed. This probably is illegal and I urge against it. }

« «. And Less Neutral Spirits

WHEN PROHIBITION was repealed, whisky came in quart bottles, much of: it at 100 proof. Now .it comes in fifth-gallon jugs, which cost as

much or more than the quarts used to, and mostly it's. got more water in it than before. Many & blended whisky today is sold at 88 proof, which makes it 14 points paler than. the bonded stuff.

‘Mongelli “and Nancy Johns will

Students Prepare’ For Showshop

By DAVID WATSON "PREPARE" was the order of

[the day at Manual High Scheol as pupils made ready for the firsttannual Indianapolis- Drama Con--

ference held at the school today.

Seamsfresses . . . Anna Erorey by (left), “Mrs. William R. Humphreys |

[It win continue through tomer So

row. Twenty-one city and county schools are scheduled to participate. Five of them will’ present short dramas on the Manual stage. . Although none of the schools

will ‘be in “compétition with an=""

other, the best actor and actress

|will receive recognition during the

conference wind-up tomorrow Original idea for the drama conference was conceived by E. {Edward Green, Manual speech and dramatics teacher and spon-sor-of the school’s dramatics club,

” ” » UNDER future plans for the

rent law for every state. A loophole! co, ference, each school eventually

will servesin the role of host. ‘Southport High School's contribution to the program today was the one-act Thornton Wilder comedy, “A Happy Journey,” to be given at 2 p. m. Cast members include Robert Voss, William Dudley, Easton, Paul Lindstrom, Rosé Ebert, Rosalyn Webb, and Mrs. Kathleen Ritchie as director. Tech's “Strange Road,” a mystic drama, was also to be given today. The cast includes Barbara erry, Doris Horton, Virginia Smith, Jack Wilson and C. Gay{lord Allen as director. Cast members Marjorie Kingsbury, Joe Messing, Rosemary

present a mountain story, “Pink and Patches” at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow for Howe. Darrell Gooch is director.” Fe » ” o “THE VALIANT,” for Crispus fAttucks, will be presented at 1:30 p. m. tomorrdw by Richard Covington. John Wilson, William,

WES Taff Pierce as director. The Attucks production takes; {place in a prison setting. Student dramatists of Short-| ridge will offer “Juliet and Romeo,” at 3:15 .p. m. tomorrow, with cast members Patty Bates, Larry Shoppert, Charles Epstein;] Nancy ° Rickley and Marilyn | Marting. Miss Eleanor D, Theek| is director. “The jedlousy of professional! actors is:the theme of the Short- | ridge drama. !

of “The,

Included in the cast are William E. Watters, Ruth Thistlethwaite, .J. Thomas Adkins,| Alfred Morley, James Alverson, | Bill E. Schmalfeldt, Cleve Bot-| toms, - Joseph . Cusanelli and, Justus Webber. Marguerite Carl-| son will direct. : Besides drama critics from Indianapolis newspapers, special guests invited to the drama festival include Jack Hatfield, director of Civic Theater; Ernest Bavely, executive officer of thé National Thespian Society, Cincinnati; Dr. Lee Norvell, Indiana University Speech Department head, and David Itkin, DePaul University taculty, Chicago. Mr. Itkin will head the judging | committee for the one act plays,! and Pr. Norvell will serve as ‘moderator for a panel dis¢ussion tomorrow on “How Shall I Judge the Performance,” Delegates ‘to the conference were -to be welcomed this after noon by Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendént of public schools; W. 8. Barnhart, acting principal of Manual, and Mr. Green.

There are 146 distilleries now turning out more than 1000 different brands of whisky. By next June, their aged stocks will be -coming*to the Americin gullet at pre-war rates and soon thereafter there'll be more genuine whisky and od nétitral spirits in most bottles, And a happy Dec. 5 to all, including the drys. They lost Xansas this year, a blow which could have worse, but.I understand théy have not yet abandoned hope.

Plan Christmas Dance

The Moose American Legion Auxiliary Unit No, 334 will hold a Christmas benefit danee at 8:30 p. m, tomorrow in the Slovenian! National Home, 2717 W, 10th St. Mrs. Albert Seiler is in charge of

Earnest

ck, Lillian Brown and Charles; Rc, de

1of the Central Indiana chapter of

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. Barbara Smith (left), Joan Radliff

New hry Called

‘In Pit Saying

Schedule Retrial After. Split Verdict

A. special panel of 225 Piospec. tive jurors has --been called. for the retrial Monday of Robert ¢ Linn, one.of two men charged! with the gravel-pit slaying last| July of Theodore Wolfe. “Charged with, firsts ;

Division 2, before Special Judge Herbert 8S. Spencer. In the same court, Special! {Judge Dewey E. Myers still has under advisement a new-trial mo[tion for Herbert Brunner, 26, of| {820 Division St., who was conviet-| | {ed of first-degree murder. A year ago, Linn and Bruner were tried together for the W killing, but a jury failed to ig [After being granted separate trials, Brunner was found guilty.| Police charged the pair -with{ taking Wolfe for a ride after a| Istreet fight July 13 and dumping!

will....be....production., spines Hasty Heart” by the Jordon reemeprr en t Ly Players AL &.p: m. 1OMOITOW. pop . ed

To Address Chapter

jeorge Anselman, foundry superintendent of Woodruff & Ed-|

wards, Inc, Elgin, Ill, will address the monthly dinner meeting

American. Foundrymen'’s Association at 6:30 p. m. Monday in the Athenaeum. Mr. Anselman’s subjéct will be “Casting Defects in Foundry.” He will be introduced by 8. F. Swain, secretary-treasurer of thé* Golden Foundry Corp., Columbus, Ind. technical chairman for the meeting.

U.S. Land Bank fo Pay $320,000 Dividend

~The Federal ‘Land - Bank of Louisville has declared a dividend of $320,000, H. 8. Kennedy Jr., president, announced yesterday. The dividend will bé paid to the bank’s stockholders comprised of the 114 national farm loan asso: ciations in Indiana,. Ohio, Ken-

itucky and Tennessee on stock on

record Nov. 10.

‘Granted Internship Miss Emma Lou Sailors. of|’ 1820 E. 10th’ St;;"a senior medical ‘student ' at Indigna University,

ternship.

arrangements. ¥

starting University of Illinois Hospitals.

i+ /dianapolis, Lt. Col. Herbert Pug-

Salvation Army

Sets $5000 Goal

The Salvation Army has set Treatment $5000 as its goal for Christmas] =

collections in the familiar kettles and tripods on the streets of Inmire, State commander, aninounced today. Last year; citizens of-Indian-apolis ‘contributed $4640 in - the Salvation, Army’ “k&tle” “cam[paign. Gov. Gates, in a letter to the {heads of various state offices, has urged ‘co-operation with the aa

he * be co-sponsor. Other Christmas activities of, the Salvation Army include visits to the various county hospitals anll other institutions with gifts] of candy and fruit.

Dinner Arranged | By Fraternity |

Five state undergraduate chap-| ters of Phi Gamma Delta Fra-| |ternity will be represented at the

@ity Health Department;

Plan to Show New

Sodium Fluoride Use Set at School 2 Jan. 3 |

A U, 8. Public Health service team will demonstrate the newly-| instituted ‘sodium -fluoride -treat-| ment for partial control of tooth ‘decay-at School 2 on Jan. 3.

Nurses Attend Special Classes Students from seven Indiana

nursing nursing schogl amliated nots the Indiana University Training School for Nurses are attending classes at We Medical Center here. The classes, extending over s period: of three ‘months, will afford students an opportunity to study pediatric and orthopedic nursing in the Riley Hospital for

Request that the demonstra brought -

it Ve nd : fupeevision of the “division of

dental Health ‘of the Indiana State Board of Health, Sponsors of the demonstration include the Indiana Dental Sojclety, Indianapolis Parent-Teach-lers Association, City schools and

Through the ‘efforts of Dr. L. E. Burney, state: health commis: |sioner, the demonstrations have {been given In other cities ot the state,

Children. Other courses will be

Hospital School of Nursing pare ticipating in the program include Norma Glazier, Janice Harsh lis Peterson, Etta Jane Price,

er. and Kathleen Weest,

Meridian Heights

The Meridian Heights Presbye

groups 83d annual state dinner at Held as Purse Snatcher térian Church will open its doors

HIGHLIGHT of the conference lhis body in a West Side gravel, $ 30 p. m, today in the Columbia

Club, ballroom... . Dr. Merrill B. McFali, pastor of | [the First _ Methodist Church, | Bloomington, will speak, Frederick F. Marston, vice president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. will serve as toastmaster. A trophy will be awarded to |the chapter having the best record] during “the past year and a

After Chase on Circle

Police said a purse Snatcher

ito thé community for a day of re-Christmag festivity including luncheon, tea, dinner, various

lost ar foot race on Monument

forms of entertainment and a

Circle late Jast night and Willi bazaar next Friday.

answer charges of vagrancy in] {Municipal Court. 4 this afternoon. Alice M. Kenworthy of = 1427 {Park Ave, told officers the man| {grabbed her purse containing]

chapter song-contest will be held. 12) as she walked along Me-|

Undergraduate members from! waan st. Purdue and circle. | Wabash as well as alumni Willichased ‘around attend the dinner. Joseph J. .Cof-|

DePauw, Indiana,

fin is. dinner arrangements com-| mittee chairman.

Six Local Students 'Pledged to Fraternity

Six Indianapolis youths were

{among 64 Purdue Umiversity stu

dents recently fledged to Eta Kappa Nu, national electrical en-|

Indianapolis seniors chosen for the honor include Robert Newhill,

7077 N. Meridian St.; John Aull, |

938 N. Ritter Ave; ‘and Robert {Phillips, 17 E. 37th st.

Junior ‘class pledges ‘were Del-|

{mer Jacoby, 2968 N. Chester St.;

just south - of the, ‘The purse snatcher was the southwest {segment of the Circle by John Troutman, 234 of 1625 N. Livingston Ave’. who caught the Bo fugitive in front of Circle’ Motor! Inn. Mr. Troutman and two soldiers

{held the man until police arrived.

Indict Hoosier Youth In Bogus Bill Case.

An 18-year-old Lafayette youth who suéceeded in ‘making $20 with a bit-of pasté and sit was under indictment by a '| grand ‘jury today following his {apprehension - by ‘local treasury |

agents.

i] Francis C. Brewer,

Mt was|paign.

The bazaar will open at 11 {a. m. and luncheon will be served from noon until 1:30 p.. |will- be served from 3 to 5 p. m, land dinner from 5:30 to 7p. ms. . L. M. Henderson is president & of the Women's Association, bazaar - sponsors. Mrs. C. G. iCutbertson is chairman and Mrs, . D. French ig co-chairman, .

Boys’ School Quartet o Sing at Meeting The quartet of the Indiana Boys’ '|School, Plainfield, will sing and the school superintendent, A. H, Jessup, will speak at the meeting {of the Christian Men Builders’ Class at ¥:30 a.m. Sunday in the Third Christian Church, Presentation of school represen»

{

federa) taives each year on the class pro-

gram, the first Sunday in Decems= \ber, is traditional with CMB. On. that Sunday the class annually starts its Christmas gift camAmong the recipients of

Robert McKean, 2208 Prospect \charged, split the face of a $10 the gifts are the Plainfield boys, |St., and Williama McWhorter, 1236 bill from its back and pasted the {newspaper Christmas funds, vari-

IN, Oakland Ave. ADAH CLUB TO MEET

The Adah Club will meet at|p passed one of the bills in Jar the CMB Speaiing Stadt has been granted a one-year in-{7:30 p. m. Monday in the ote mace Sh coon he et July 1, at the St. branch of Indiana National attempted to pass the

Bank. ’

parts to a $1 bill he had treated ous organizations -

in the same manner, . : -Agents sald - he -. successfull

the second, He will face trial in

and

needy

families.

1 William Shepard, i

man, Barbara Lee Klumpp, Phyl

Mary Ann Btark, Frances Stucke

“Students from the Methodist = =}

Tea, Bazaar Set