Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1949 — Page 13

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| ITS ALMOST 100 00d to be true. Yes, clouds have silver linings again, ee Sotouds The

To the Hoosier artists who have painted: pls-

. tures for the 25th annual Hoosier Salon that don't confuse, a

eT Satan, dn “Wa oie, my and: throw coloring book in the air thrée times, ; mY Yecent Frankly, it's rather strange to shuffle thro the Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium and n no" most of the stuff jnside of fancy frames: “Sidewale Artist” by Garo Z. Antreasian, for example, a painting showing a little boy mark a city sidewalk with white chalk. “Get ng Up on is expressing himself with a piece of chalk on a sidewalk. And it's called “Sidewalk Artist.” Without. an ounce of effort, without calling on the subconscious, without imploring the gods of abstragtion, there's a kid on a sidewalk with a piece of chalk working up a good spanking.

Dillving and Dali-ing WHEN Salvador Dali's name was on the tip of everyone's tongue several years ago and mod-

ern art had exponents of same splashing paints,

my hopes for mankind went down to zero. When artists made their thoughts “vigible” on canvas and I couldn't understand them, I got scared. Things looked black” as the ace of spades when I hear “lack of unity,” “absence of authority,” “break with tradition.” True, the terms applied to symboliem in art, but even 80, you can se¢ how a guy who thinks the comics are the purest form of art would react. Then along comes the 25th Hoosier Salon. In the vernacular of an old gent who resides in Nashville, the Salon was a-pleasurin’ me. I looked at pretty pictures, didn’t spend a dime and thoroughly enjoyed myself. That's what, in my estimation,

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Art, by gosh. . . There's no mistaking what this scene represents.

Leave It Alone

NEW YORK, Feb. 2—As we refigger the house rules for the world's behavior; I-sure-hope some-: body takes time out to consider the groundhog. If ever a wee beastie stood in need of United Nations intervention, with a whole codicil all to itself, it’s the groundhog. - : : x i The groundhog (see aardvark, see woodchuck) has had his civil liberties violated ever since some imaginative Indian dreamed up that myth about spring arriving if Joe Chuck failed to spot his shadow on Feb. 2. Every year since that time a flock of newspaper people descended on the nearest chuckhole to drag the poor animal out of his sack, wrecking his rest and ravaging his nerves with flashbulbs. It is’ against all inclinations of a normal woodchuck’s nature to haul himself out of the hay to go stomping around in the snow and ice just to preserve a silly myth, but as time passed he took pride in the function of furry barometer, I know one woodchuck, personally, who hasn't been to bed all winter, just waiting for the photographers to show up. . ’ y But, like everything else: these days, there is no security, no solid assurance that a job well done'is a friend indeed. Just as the woodchucks get some wage-and-hours agreements, with portal-to-portal pay and overtime for blizzards, a bunch of scabs dive in and try to wreck the racket.

Now the Beer Lobby Pitches In YEAR before last it was duckbilled platypuses. The platypus lobby planted a story that the honest American chuck was passe, and that spring wasn’t imminent until the first platypus

- yawned and reached for a platter of mealworms.

This is obviously as sfily a platitude as the gag about one swallow not making a summer, have documents to show that in the ‘month of July, 1886, one swallow did make a summer. That was the year that all but one dissenting swallow decided to spend the whole season in Capistrano.

Hair Raising

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painting. There's 1 however, Rid a RL nt from looking at it and saying, “There's a picture Ri i of a father, mother and child.” ‘ While I was parked in front of Francis J, Han ley's “Winter Recollection,” an old gentleman, who gave me the impression that when he opens his mouth he knows what he's talking” about, com-

home. Why, sir? : “Because it would make a room feel colder and I'd have to burn more coal,” was his answer. "His observation brought us to the brink of , realism and I mentioned casually how happy I} Aimy was to see pictures that made some senge. Snow] : and bare trees and a log cabin didn’t consist of an| bis oval, couple straight lines, a cube of ice, a pair off... J tongs and a hideous blotch of pigment represent-| o ing aurora borealis, .

‘No Strife, Please

THE GRAY-HAIRED man and I stood on common.ground. He said he was happy, too, and welcomed cheerfulness and simple scenes instead of confusion and strife, In his opinion thiére was too much strife already. His favorite wis Seamon D. Omer's “College Chapel” which depicted a pleasant] = = structure of worship in a wooded area all bathed

Probably the chapél in the painting reminded him of carefree college days, orthe kind of a place where he married a childhood sweetheart. He sure had a peaceful look in his eyes as he studied the scene. Something touched the old boy, that ‘was for sure. There are a couple of pen and ink or pencil) drawings in a corner which.don’t make much sense, but in the main, the judges this year picked stuff designed for folks who don’t read meanings into what they see with their eyes. A pretty ankle is a pretty ankle and not the history of the divorce courts in ten easy brush strokes. ‘ , It's great to be able to go to an art exhibit again without getting into an argument with some character about the “movement” of parabola No. 4. Had my nose tweaked in Chicago once for arguing. And I was called a hoor on top of that. "Boor or not, I'll take my pictures straight.

>. in the district of Dunes Park Post, Indiana

in streaks of sunshine, * Traffic, not war j + « This accident alone brought death te 12 last Ie : : ote |

By Robert C. Ruark

First it was the platypuses sniping at the .woodchuck,-and now. it's the bock beer lobby, They are circulating signed statements by 200 superintendents to the effect that groundhogs have absolutelv no effect on the duration of winter, and that the real harbinger of spring is a smelly old billy goat. : : They go all the way back to the Germanic myth! . of the prancing William goat as a signal to knock! © |

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boost the total dead to 146 ‘ Hirst Sq olice. y pened Sept. 20

the bung out of thé first cask of bock, obviously a cheap merchandising dodge. :

Snide and Un-American Design

OBVIOUS. too, a snide désign to discredit an American citizen in order to glamorize a decadent European billy goat, who, for all I know, might have been a Nazi sympathizer. I should hate fo think, fellow Amurricans, that I fought a war only to further the .career of a late enemy at the ) expense of a 100 per cent Amurrican grandhog. 9g 9) DIN”. Too few of our old faiths have withstood the ed battering of modern scientific poking and probirg. 4 > Carrots have heen shown, in some instances, o.be . 2 damaging to the eyesight, and spinach has been|- Als, proved definitely harmful to some eaters. / yy ~ . I have seen Instances when two wrongs did] make a right, and I have a stone on my desk right now which is lousy with moss, acquired from | rolling downhill. A man doesn't know whére io A turn any more. . " ' is say leave the woodchuck alone. I firmly - . ra | ’ ve that if he does not see his shadow the winter is over, and he has worked hard, in the st 4S omplefe . gz From He most zeros ord: blankefing the face of scientific meddling, to establish himselt| STete the grinnin oath leer a . Mest accidents can in his business. be prevented for the human element is the chief chute of If we destroy his livelihood now, we reduce| "murder on the highways." . him to penury and an unbaldnced diet of unwary ~ dach shunds. Until the world has been made safe|

’ . e = =» for groundhogs. everywhers, it is no worid sor “55 MPH Limit Reduces Toll;

thank you. Dunes Park Area High in Accidents | ~. By VICTOR PETERSON

i : | DUNES PARK, Indiana State Police, Feb. 2—Here is an In: By Freder ick C. Othman yun state Poiice Post with a probiem peculiar unte iaeit. It io

WASHINGTON, Feb, 2—A fellow wrote a hairraising book a while back, called “Our Plundered Planet,” which indicated the human race has just about ruined this old world. If we starve to death it’s our own fault and the author has no sympathy for us. . 2 Now comes Cap Krug, the Falstafian Secretary of the Interior who does feel sorry for his fellow man, to tell what he and his 50,000 helpers are doing to repair the damage inflicted by humanity on the U, 8. A. A Getting more trees to grow in our forests and fish to swim in our rivers is part of their scheme. Trying to force the oil men to quit wasting a fifth of all the natural gas they produce is another. The coal miners, said he, are guiltier still. For every two tons of coal they. dig, they lose a third. Lumbermeén aré just as bad. The mighty Krug-sajd. they turn.one-third of all the lumber. they chop into kindling wood, chips, and sawdust, All this was old stuff to the Senators on the Interior Committee, as they listened to thé 250pound Krug and tried to understand his oversized charts with the variously colored spots. It was important, of course, but it had been told before. Krug said that wasn't all. .

Out to Battle Do-Gooders

HE'S also got to battle the improvements sought by other bigwigs, because every time they go to work with their steamshovels, seems like, they mess up the landscape and/or the balance of nature, Take the power shortage. Hardly anywhere is. there enough electricity. Particularly Is this critical ip the Pacific Northwest, where juice got 80 scarce earlier this month that 60-cycle current slowed down to 59 and made thousands of electric clocks go haywire. Then some of the power companies ruled that ladies owning electric stoves could not cook their

' What Ahout the Salmon

(also is the district’ where the greatest toll is reaped in human

husbands’ dinners until 6:30 p. m. This made din-| life. . ner late and husbands sore and, taking the long|’ The two go hand-in-hand. This northwestern area of the staté view of Cap Krug, it wasn't much hel ¢ ) i wor way oP ’ uc p. (is a funnel thro which a antic flow of cars its ware a. People here and in the Northwest i, and out of TE oe xv 0. ge ng at once on more dams in the q Columbia River to generate more electricity to 8% Nowhere eile 1 Hoosler- |, on . , { patrol becausé the velume keep those clocks (and meals) on time. This is a and le th air Sih * continuous, laudable idea and Krug is all for-it. olume 0 rauic.

|is concentrated along the south-

BUT, he said, if the Army's Engineer Corps | ¢T0 shore of Lake Michigan and there. goes ahead with its eager-beaver idea of building those dams in a “hurry, where are the salmon | gram, he sald, and the multimillion-dollar salmon | Michigan and Ohio. | mest any given peint of its business is a dead fish, f record What Krug's trying to do, he said, is talk the West beneath the mammoth lake main roads will aimeft 1 experts-into holding up the dams until his fisheries With its sandy shoreline. These equal flow.

boys can find new spawning grounds fer those are the main routes for Detroit-| Last year only 21 dead were

sajmon, |Chicago trafic and for vacation counted along the undivided Tour Then there's the national shortage of tender lovers heading for the lake re- lanes of U. 8. 20. It was a good |,

beefsteaks. One reason is thst the cattle have sorts. The western border is cut year and troopers believe thé de-

eaten all the grass in-too many places. Krug said by U. 8. 41 which not only carries crease is due to the establishment

he wants to plant grass seed on 22 million acres |Florida-bound vacationists but a'of a 55 mph speed Mmit It o grazing land before those cows turn ‘em into |great amount of trucks. was in effect the last nine months aharas. : { U. 8. 12 and 20 run paralle)|of the year when only six were One of his finest pastures, feeding thousands of [to form a right angle with U. 8./killed. The other 15 died in ule every summer, is in Glacier National Park.|41 in the Gary-Hammond dis- three short months. a Sioa [rom the melting snows runs through trict. This right angle of roads, This vital artery is hazardous tu 4 paradise for tourists as well as|pretty well defines the area of because of unreasonable speed, And here are those Army Engineers, K i 8. automo said, who want to dam up that I and — dents # ww 7 [oi and the voiyme of his elegant pasture into a lake. It is stuff Itke] ONLY eight counties comprise ’ « wv » this that gives the Interior Department pause and|the post and theré are. 27 troop-| WITH the exception of U. 8. 41 causes it 10 wonder whether the damage of thelers. However, the dally average the roads in the Dunes Park dis-do-gooders sometimes doesn't offset the advan- Will be about 15 to 16 men with trict are good, However, 41 is A tages of their multimillion-dollar improvements, the figure often dropping to 10.'narrow, curved highwiy featur. This is something that the plundered. planet =~. a a

map didn't mention; perhaps he should write an- Laborites Make Egener Services

“The Quiz Master

A Royal Error Set for Friday © P?7? Test Your Skill 222!In Baby Picture Services for W. M. (Bill)

Is the eucalyptus tree native to California? Although this tree is grown extensively. in

«r. Oslifornia, all the eucalyptus family are native to

Australia, Jt is a very rapld-growing tree and is used extensively for windbreaks. : ® © For how long has the double-ring wedding ceremoriy been in use? : Its origin 1s obscure and mo_exact date can be

en. However, it is a very old custom, having used in Central European countries for

3 [ol How did cinnél coal get Its name? Cannel coal contains much volatile mattsr bans with a bright candle-like flame, and it is probable that tho name is a corruption of candlo-coal. Some scigntists believe it is a product- of an accumulation of animal as well

"centuries.

Fgener, who died last night-in . his home, 879 N. Grant Ave, : . | ZONDON, Feb. 2 (UP)—The will be held at 2 p. m. Friday What is magnetic road sweeping? {British Labor party was highly in Jordan Funeral Home. Burial

Certain states have adopted the use of road tMbarrassed today when the pic- will be in Memorial Park. He

sweepers consisting of electromagnets on wheels ture of an “unknown - child" was 87.

to clear nails and other pieces of scrap from the puncturing of automobile tires.

: the Socialist government and as-[CO. Ee was & native of Brasil, Wie Spot announced that the world is round? serting that British babies are/i0d include” hia Wife e discovery that the earth is round healthier under Socialist cars, rivers ; y doubtedly made by Pythagoras. Aristotle nen . un Mubati a son, Rudolph -Egener, cepted and taught this theory; the arguments In| FURTHER distribution of gooo(*"® *¥® Srandchiidres. . favor of which are essentially those in use today.|of the leaflets was suddenly can-| . * 00 celed when it was found that the Tank Crushes Worker

. ‘Was Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated on ajlinfant Duke of Kent taken nine George Valentine, 27

March 4, 1877, fell on a Sunday, so Ruther-|ment came to power in 1945. railroad, was killed t

ford B. Hayes was sworn in secretly on March 8| The Duke, now 13 years old, is he was crushed beneath & 15000- the oil can and and went through the usual Jercianios Mares 5.[a ‘student ‘at Eton. Hg is agailon water tank that collapsed

For one _day the country had “ |nephew of King George Vk . ‘at the railroad

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Liquor Store Bandit

A suspect ‘was held today in ction with the $55 holdup e 0. & L. Liquor Store, 2145 t| Madison Ave. last night. I. Police said the liquor store man-

ager, William Ritter; 127 B; Rayevery {mond St; identified a picture of trict in which it runs, it is labeled the suspect "as the bandit who [robbed him and forced him to d in the window while the

"hg of death” on the

{ narrow bridges and truck | op th

the most northern poin in the state to the southern bor-| 41 1s a "ROAD

rticularly hasardo Not counting the cities within stand the pest area, the number of bandit got a head start on police. murders” on the highway last

The holdup man went in the the gruesome total store last night and told the man-

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1" littered the/ordered Mr. Ritter to go to a all the fatali- Jou, then changed his mind

Fears Police Oall

“You better come with me. If I leave you you'll call the police.” He then anreed to a compromise, saying -%e would allow the manager to stay, If he would stand {in the window “so I can watch " until he got a start, road | A truck driver told police he tracks of the Was robbed of $45 by a man who

humped Pennsylvania Raflroad. On this/hailed him at 21st St. and Boule{vard PL and asked a ride to 16th

ties were recorded on them. te be a jinx hangdistrict as every 1 be oné or two

hand of death will count in wholesale number. was true last year in two

ces. One happened in a deserted YO

day, Ot. 17, the flying passenger wis eight minutes late.

Henry ¥. Linbe, R. R.'20,“Box [728, said the passémger pulled a (gun, told him to drive ii land robbed him.

Reports wher Confesses Theft

A 21-year-old employee of the By-Products Co., Stockyards, was & tractor-| i or held on a grand larceny charge today after he confessed the driver of the sémi theft of $547 from a ASIP. The police re-

g on to the wreng side of

The two crashed. Both drivers ere killed. Ten of the passenspewed from the truck. youth was decapitated. His

eight minutes made a

| Many counties have dut a death for the five

f traffic is so intense in the

Most of this beehive of activity northern region that 80 per cent

b other brought the last day, | lof the troopers must be detalled ’

‘the western border of Indiana. U. 8. 20 alone, the. most aecl Most of the drivers are from dent marred in the district, will going to spawn? Go 100 fast with the power pro-| Out Of state, principally Illinois, count 5000 cars an hour past al

U. 8. 12 and 20 cut east and miles in the post area. Other as they huddled on the

Erwin O'Neal Mixon, -540 -W. public executives and. President Morris St, was arrested at work in connection with the theft of a! meeting. - 'bleycle from In front of: the Hol{lywood Theater on Jan. 19, On {questioning he also admitted tak-

for the tragic on U.S. 35

Car Owner Knifed, Assailant Flees

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Mr. Martin told police the man had removed the. tire and had taken it up a fifi of in the 600 block N. Senate When the man saw Mr. Rs

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Junket to Washington A. E. Wrentmore, president of

the Indianapolis Home Owners’ Union, was elected “o lead a dele h *3 ,

tion of Indianspolis landlords to Washinglon to protest exten sion of “ent controls in a fours |hour meeting -of the union last night in the Hotel, The delegation includue Mr, Wrentmore, 237 8. | Ritter Ave; Joseph Horger, 445 Shelby Bt.; A. W. Ford, 3440 'W. 30th St. and * J. F. McCauley, 2245 N. New Jerey Bt. Contributions in last night's meeting from 300 home and apartment owners suffi cient. to finance the tion's first week's stay in Washington. A resoluti to send written protests of plans to extend cone trols and to démand the mimes controls

diate repeal -of existing - to all United States Senators, state legislators, . Indianapolis

Truman, was also passed in the

“Tulsa Plan’ Delayed:

Mr, Wrentmore ~ opposed the’ plan to send lobbyists to Wash.

ing a wallet from a fellow employee’'s locker, police said.

The wallet contained $47 in U. 8. cash and $500 In Canadian |money, police said. officers he thought the Canadian pass money valueless and flushed ft] sort, was ed ‘later in the | the eviction of tenants and with. Police said Mixon was released 4.swal of rental units from the {from the Indiana State Farm Jan. ental market. - |6 after serving time on a forgery

rolled along the roadside. us these tragedies and record would improve,” said Sgt. J. BE. Stack. “But we seem doomed to havé them every year. This toll in human life must stop. There must be a solution,”

TOMORROW: The Life of a

IP's Oil Right Now; Wife Has: Leg to Stand On

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, (UP)~MNeavily clothed against the cold, a man entered police|Church dining room. . Dr. Baum. headquarters last night, care-/gartel is executive secretary fully placed a long narrow pack- the Indianapolis Church Federa age on the desk and asked O™ Patrolman Thomas H. Leary: ~ “Would you please ofl The

| McCauley won the issue when the

|serious -and most numerous accl- trafic violations, sheer careless: [resolution was put to vote.

Mixon told,

ing 100 petitions among Indianapr. Baumgartel to Talk ols landlords protesting rent cons

"| Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel will ashingspeak on “We Intend to Stay vilipany the delegation to W, ng

|gether” at the Quarterly Meeting Friends tomorrow following 6 p, m.,

First - rriends Chief Urges Check On Extinguishers.

turned.5ut to be the Duke of Kent] Mr. Egener was president of roads. Its main purpose Is to eliminate the ®t the age of eight months, (the Elliott Equipment Co., 720 The photograph was published |S. Meridian Bt., and was founder ¢ 0 @ iin a Labor party leaflet extolling|®f the M & M Manufacturing

Inmate Escapes

Central. State Hospital author. of . have ities reported today the escape of : a BP-year-old inmate . Patrolman Leary . obligingly missing at 6 a. m, He was deheadquarters ofl can. scribed as wen

. = » “THANKS a lot” the man Bundt : “Portiand, SAid. “Thanks y? years before the Labor govern-gection hand for the Nickel Pate|too. She's outside in

ing was based on reports from {ite Protection Tastitute

illustration was a picture of the| PORTLAND, Feb. 2 (UP)—

: OES UNIT PLANS PARTY Cumberland Chapter. OES will put away have an initiation and Valentine

ington: but a group led by Mr, Another resolution, to use the Tulsa Plan” only as a last re-

meeting. The Tulsa Plan calls for

Meanwhile, members of the Home Owners’ Union, are circulate

trols. The petitions will accome

Fire. Chiof McKinney. today urged all local residents to their.fire extinguishers to be cerapproval.” LTR

this entry party at 8 p. m. Wednes

fighting an tops in the fire

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