Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1949 — Page 19
WASSON’S
‘flascoes in and near the. city, turf the likes of
; Paced» 20k of tough luck, and after break ing
that on several golfing
which wasn’t fit to be dug up with a bulldozer let alone a No, 5 iron, was encountered. Shouldn't have brought that point up,
Knew All 892 Reasons
THERE ARE 892 reasons why even a good greenskeeper can. have trouble with his sod and the men knew all the reasons. Gireenskeepers sure their
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‘At the mention of frowning elements, two fertilizer lobbyists perked. up their ears and moved J. G. Bryant and E. E. Trees, representthe Armour Fertilizer Works, didn’t make much headway at the moment.
In order to get after what originally drew me to Highland, I admitted my -mistakes, excused
mower, “Gentlemen,” Mr. Riley said, “you ste in what pitiful shape this power mower is now. It won't run. Left In this condition it's a loss to a club. Riley Service is going to fix it and make it run like new. Go ahead, boys.” The “boys,” Thorvale Martinson and Howard
To tard Sides J tee greenskeepers what to do with their mowers.
Cure-All Jags
NEW YOPK, Feb. 17--Every so often, when the world worries me, I crouch at the knees of Bernard and ask him howcome. When My eyes go glassy, I figure I've learned enough for that year. My eyes are glassy now. Mr. Baruch is in the latter half of his annual meditative peripd, ‘which officially opens with the quail season in South Carolina. It ends only when the bobwhites are again protected by law. During that time Mr, B. shuts off his telephone, shoots quail, and thinks. He will not speak for publication, but he will inform. The only difficulty with this is you never know ‘where you start and the old gent stops. I imagine visitors to -the—old-Delphie-Oracle had the same trouble. , 1 am sure that Mr. Bernie believes that one of the things wrong with the world today is total emotional instability—or as I would put it, everybody's nuts, a little bit. The world, or heavy chunks of it, occasionally goes mad and suffers great delusions. . There was the time of the great crusades, when Peter the Hermit sold all Christendom a religious jag. There was a time when everybody thought everybody else was a witch. ~The Mississippi- Bubble, the Florida land boom, the Dutch tulip craze, the panic of 1929, the current infatuation with try as a cure-all—and all wars ~—are segments of 4 global dementia: It is the madness of crowds, as when the Lemmings dash unaccountably off to drown themselves, or a herd of cattle stampedes.
From One Exireme fo Another
ACCORDING to Mr. Baruch’s measured accents, whole nations are apt to be swept away by delusions of grandeur, guilt or despair. They recover their senses slowly, one by one. They rush from a freezing at the ice of laissez-faire to a
.”‘durning st the flery extreme of regulating every-
thing.
“RUT wlll vemtture: that half the world -is..con~
sumed today by an envy complex, with an insecurity fixation about its lack of American dollars, and a belief that the possession of same will put
everything : Conversely, there is a rampant guilt complex in America, ‘which makes it wear its riches awk-
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"warst, the greenskeeper, is on the job, summer and ' Mr. Eldridge
pair of pliers,” sald Mr, Parsons. o pyining goes wrong a mechanic is called.”
further that a grass cutter cleans his mower with {= Then af
alr when he gets through for the day. completes the cleaning and does any
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..James H. Kenney of the Kenney Machinery i
Corp. sent his mechanic, Al Bovard, to work on a
mower which wasn't in half as bad a shape 8
as the first machine.
Lawn mower parts were being tossed around, the room. Mr. Riley stated that anyone with a
| "There's only one way to put it back together and that's the right way,” announced Mr, Riley| while half of the greenskeepers groaned. “It's got to run if you have gas and spark.” Yeh, man. | ‘Pete Coval; Indianapolis Country Club, began beating - those ears which would listen, with an account of his recent trip to Los ‘Angeles where he attended meetings of the National Greenskeepers Association. Every so often he'd come out with, “Man, have those boys got the equipment out there.”
Juicy Language Greeting A LATE arrival was greeted with catcalls and .a bit of juicy language. Park, Noblesville’s city course, and president of the Indiana Golf Course Superintendents Assaciation, asked what the trouble was. : “Couldn't find Highland,” said the tardy member. “Heck fire, went 10 miles past this place on 20.” A big argument developed in one corner of the room about the merits of rollers. Some liked rollers on mowers and others wouldn't have them around “my place.” * From rollers the conversation turned to greensbrushes and back to the guy in Columbus who would lét his equipment go to ruin. Mr. Martinson and Mr. Eldridge huffed and puffed down the stretch. with the mower. They seemed to be trying to 'impFéss everyone with] the speed of their work. They did. A loud voice in the back of the room announced that “Parsons’ tool house should have slot machines and liquor.” In the speaker's mind, that would make things perfect. . A two-cycle motor crackled to life and applause filled the room. The lawn mower clinic was a success.
Parsons. “A lot of golfers don’t know that.” OK, OK, OK.
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“We work all year around” concluded Mri Appraisers’ Group S Will Hear Roose |
wardly, and crave to carry thé whole world on its back as self-inflicted penance for its wealth.
ice of the people. As Mr. Eisenhower was saying Saturday, centralization of power into a very few hands merely broadens” the margin for error for the few to inflict on the many.
No back is stout enough to support the world cond ucting exwithout. bowing its own legs, and Uncle Sam has periments with siever been portrayed as bandy-legged. No eventual different types of
By Robert C. Ruark isesreh sstosiate in Mochanieat oth 8t,
Heating and Air Conditioning . . . Ja Gis
There is a great delusion about the power of Today and Togovernment to do for a man what he cannot do morrow” for himself, disregarding the fact that the present the Society of greatness of America was built on the restriction | Residential of government to mere machinery for the serv- praisers at a
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Floyd Wilson of Forest [Si
Phones of public officials are busy these days with calls of citizens complaining of road and sireet conditions. Here Larry DeRosa, R.R. 3, Box 494, "muds" his way home from school on Minnesota St., west of Rockville Road. Nearby residents com the sireich has been so bad their mail carrier often is unable to get to their boxes, and bottles are broken in milk trucks. :
ana on Prof. Robert W. Roose, special v research associate in Mechanical \ am
Suit in Contest
Mrs, Evelyn Bennett, 809 E. +10th-8t., today proudly displayed it n fur coat and suit Workers fo Sell [awarded her as first prise in the
$5 Orchestra - Shares [contest of
Names of division leaders of a the 1000 men and women volun- co teer workers in the Indianapolis ¥28 chosen by |Symphony’s financial campaign|/ud8es from lostarting Feb, 28 were announced newSpaDErS
nois, will speak on “Warm Air
Ap-
Mnchiod Monday a 4 . {and radio staCanary : Cot. ol Under the general chairman-|lON® as winner ge : ~ [ship of Col. A. W. Herrington, the 0 ‘he contest, who: Ba. Bo TA volunteer workers, with the slo-| wiich Was held as:beeh; |gan “Buy a Share in Your Or-| 8 to 12, ii {chestra’s Future,” will - make! Other prize - Mr. Roose |available to the public coupon-|\v ner", IRCIUd® ary, Bemnett
Mrs. Earl H.
~ottype.ghares at $5 each.
good may ever be achieved by down-grading the warm air heating systems in the| Fractions of shares also will be VV Chmeler, Mrs. Hubert J. Steger;
top to conform to the cravings of the bottom. Only misery may be legislated into universality.
Baruch Defines Capital WE SEE today a mass set against the bogey, capitalism, as a devil's tool, while the preachers against it live off its accrued gains. Mr. Baruch’s definition of Capitalism is less frightening. He merely terms it “work hours saved up.” . Once the savings are dissipated, there
University of Research building, purchasable at $1, $2, $3 and 34; Marjorie Hdwards and Mi. 2
will use slides to illustrate some|Col. Herrington said. |
of his points. Heading the women volunteers |**r® named,
He will discuss facts derived will be Mrs. Easley R. Blackwood, i from the studies covering cur-|with Mesdames Edmund W. He- Two Indiana Slayers rently used types of heating sys- bel, Leonard A. Solomon, Con Denied Ex tems and future types that are/Smith, John A. Alexander, Rob-| ecution Stay still in the experimental stage. jert M. Stith and William Herbert] Robert O. Brown and Frank wr ——— 'Gibbs assisting. Badgley, convicted of slaying two
is no Tecoiirse for the state—but to barrow, and Jewish Congress Backs | Teonurd A: Solomon wit tend Hammond policemen und sched:
after- credit is exhausted, -to print the money in worthless bales. Since no panhandled gift ever ennobled the
: og the .men volunteers, -assisted. by House Labor Bill Leroy A. Badollet, Joseph W.\ hair next Tuesday
Unanimous indorsement of HB Barr, Cleo W. Blackburn, C. E.| to have lost & last-ditch
recipient or increased his affection toward the |. peared 79, labo co! - | Diehm, . Fr Morris abor bill now under consider- Diehm, George E. Frank, Mo fight for a fifth stay of execution.
giver, you. cannot buy loyalty or permanent pro-iy,, py tne Indiana legislature,|Goodman, Richard T. James, Sid-|
tection with outright gifts of money to individual or nation. . You may only purchase momentary distraction from the inevitable, like a man throwing bills into the air to delay the footpads from seizing his whole. roll. There is no high road to prosperity except through hard work by the individual. All the plotters and planners are not wise enough, in the ‘pet,-to make every man a king, since economit kingship lies only in the man. Global. planning. has become. fanatic, since It presupposes that because America has everything, she is duty bound to give it all away, even at the expense of her own people. You cannot subsidize the world—for long. Now, I wonder how much of this is Ruark, and how much B. M. Baruch?
WAA-WAA Blues By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—For months I'd heard nothing about that wondrous foot-in-mouth ortion, the War Assets Administration. I ‘figured it had been buried, as decently as possi-
‘ ble, as per the Instriictions of Congress last year.
But, no. Here was the House of Representatives worrying about a bill to extend the life of this mighty
* ynerchandising organization at least until next
June. And as the gentlemen argued about the merits of this idea, I got to thinking about WAC pajama tops, opium peddling, explosive nuts and bolts, horse-drawn hearses, Civil War ramrods,
_ And other ‘subjects not so dear to.the dear old,
bumbling WAA. y This was the bureau organized soon after V-J Day to peddle about $25 billion’ worth of surplus war goods. Soon it had 40,000 employees, who spent a good part of their time countermanding pach other's orders, trapping thémselves in their own red tape, and testifying bitterly before an assortment of congressional investigators. On the first of every month, seemed like, a new administration took over to reorganize the reorganization his predecessor had started. And there (I remember) was the Senate War Investigating Committee, worrying about a large consignment of summer-weight pajamas for WACs, They were unsalable. ‘The Senators demanded, why?
The Case of the Missing Nighties ! THEY WEREN'T COMPLETE, the WAA man
sald. And what did he mean by that? The poor devil blushed. Said all he had for sale was a
* Warehouse full of pajama tops. He couldn't find the pants. So far as I know, he never did find
“And 86 it went. The Boston office was selling
. for a few cents each kits for shipwrecked sailors
to make drinking water from the sea. Turned out that each one contained a large and valuable
C : Thin thece way the unexpected tems tor aur-
plus life rafts. The boys were amazed at the rushing business they did in these, until the federal narcotic bureau stopped it. The WAA said— honestly—that it had no idea each raft contained a cache of heroin. A Philadelphia junkman bought a case of WAA nuts and bolts. He dropped 'em and nearly blew up the west end of town. The label was wrong. The box held blasting powder. In Philadelphia also there was a three-story building jammed to the roof with khaki-colored girdles for lady soldiers; they'd been there four years and had lost their snap. WAA'’'s girdle expert said at the time he as seeking some way to put them to use. ere was testimony about officials taking joy rides ih surplus flying machines. One fortunate junkman bought a whole airport of B19s, only to discover to his delight that each tank was full of aviation gasoline. - He drained it out and sold it for $500,000.
Which War Did They Liquidate? IN DELVING INTO its warehouses, which numbered into the thousands, the WAA discovered a load of musket-stuffers left over from the Civil War and a garage full of horse-drawn hearses (with polished brass hubs on the wheels) from the Spanish-American fracas. An electric fan seemed to have chewed up the records in the Chicago office, where a number of surplus-purchasers never got bills because the « WAA couldn't discover what théy’d bought. Even 80, the WAA got rid of most of its stock; all it has left today is $2 billion worth, and most of that is real estate. And also, I must report] in all justice that the latest administrator, Jess Larson, has chopped his staff. down to size, pro‘ceeded in a businesslike mannér to sell his materials, anid has been in no trouble with A The lawgivers still grumbled about his outfit, Like me, they couldn't help remémbering. They passed the bill with , generally forlorn, that by summer the War Assets 4
would |the. clinic. She isassistad by Mrs.
ation by | The U. 8. Supreme Court denied y was given by the Indianap-|ney Mahalowitz, Norman Merri-iy on the execution stay late yes-
olis Chaper of the American Jew- field, Raymond M. Néff and Paul! ish Congress. |G. Pitz. [*“ABsootate” Justies Frank Mur.
i « 1 Emanuel Deitz, chairman, said! ur ore igned his group “felt that a state Fair HOW.TO SEE FRANCE PHYamgutd the order. that yg Lr Employment Practices Commis-| PARIS, Feb. 17 (UP)—Foreign- new hearing. The Ne had sion bill embodied in HB 79 was a|ers may bring 10,000 francs of [neen fre idm th Ya necessary counterpart to a fed-| French currency (about $34) in-isn 1 pan TT Ya eral FEPC bill now pending be-| to France, the ministry of finance! BR wtmiprepeaern fore Congress and indorsed by all| announced today. Only 4000 0 leading national Jewish organiza-|/ francs had been allowed. ‘re- Kunkel Appoints HORE)? «roa aI RR A Po eR Ge Ea : :
Loud Complaints Grow Lou But Rough Roads Get Rougher
rn narrow over 3 dh of Rocke Road. Num row Saling one was a thrown # because of the bers of the Garden City Civic League raport \
Wins Fur Coat, {House Group Studies
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To Help Mental Ho
Superintendent Admits Unfit Help
Sometimes Beat, Mistreat Patients
of the multimillion dollar state budget
institutions.
in the hiring of many employeun nied for the bos Sotto tions. ‘ Ww consis! These ‘unsuitable have been known to beat and mis{treat patients “in: sadistic fash-|q ” he ion.” one hospital superintendent told the representatives. - Rep. Joseph Klein (D. Gary), a member of the ways and means committee, said he would ask Gov. Schricker to instruct all hospital superintendents to file affidavits against employees found mistreating patients, He announced he would take today. Supetutstdonts said em-
catch them in the act, the super- next two years intendents said. =
ennium of -approximately $280 mittee: million. ’
Last night at the House ways
officials of the state mental in-| stitutions pleaded for more funds
i 3 eof gave a BOITY pléture of “Insate: After: the inspection Set: Dorothy oo clent personnel, facilities and Sutdnes (R Ft. Wayne) declared: undermanned, ramshackle ; tal is sufficient to make one’s
Arth State|blood run cold We can tlean Mental Health Council sald the the Whose mess with s Httle mors
supplies. Insufficient Food ur Loftin of the
present budget meant “no more nurses or attendants and the
stitutions during the next. twolate . years. Dr. M. D. Kemp, superintendent |in of Madison State Hospital, said
Fi " i , | Conservation Director Kenneth ive Young Gang Members x xx wi smo wo : * pointment of Harold Fornshell of state game farm in Wells County. Mr. Fornshell will take over Mother of One Youth Also Bound Over mAuagem fhe farm_fron . . e acting s ent, To From Municipal to Criminal Court Steffen, It was indicated that larceny were bound over to Criminal Court today after th {farm in some other post. arraignment in Municipal Court 4, ey waived | “Mv. Fornshell was farm superthe youths, was charged with receiving stolen good prior to 1942 he served three held to Criminal Court a 20" M04 WI iyears as assistant superintendent. last Thursday after they had broken into the Rivoli Theater, | (vestigation at Mrs. Harrold's! home, police found loot obtained ket, 3205 Central Ave. ! The youths are Joseph Russell, |
Will Face Burglary Trial | se fri ory. [management of the farm from Five youths charged with second degree burglary and grand Mr Steffen will remain at the Mrs. Edith Harrold, 51, of 18 N. State Ave. mother of one of | Miendent from 1042 to 1945 and The five were arested by police! 3155 E. 10th St. In subsequent in-| in the robbery of Sherman's Mar-| 18, of 428 N. Hamilton Ave.;
Richard Bryant, 17, of 237 N.| Hamilton Ave.; John Hankins, 16, of 1118 8. Illinois St.; Neal Miggenburg, 18, of 18 N, State Ave, and Leonard Harrold, 19, of 18 N. State Ave.
101 Enroll in Tech
Personality , Clinic
Enrollment in Technical High School's Personality Clinic reached 101 at the weekly class held Wednesday night in the Arsenal Building. . The clinic re-opened last semester for its seventh year, with 38 students enrolled. It was dis-| banded during the war, with 65 the highest enrollment figure. Any man or woman over 16| and not attending high shook may still enroll in the clinic to! continue through April. Mias| Gertrude Thuemler, dean of girls at Technical High School, directs
torney Norman Brennan . ++ ond of an East Side gangs
Frances, Crafl, Mrs. Edith Harrold, Lonard Harrold; Neal Miggenbirg, John Hankin and AY i
the institution at present was not gave ng
Police Want
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today struggled with bins of OW 1b Treaty Bi A gziad ih he
"Superintendents of the institutions told committee mem last night Ahat lack of sufficient money to pay competent help FH oo
ita patients with
AP-|treating patients were fired butithe hospi) SE _— affidavits were seldom, If ever,ont and no psychiatrist. He asked filed against them. It is hard toi/for an additional $80,000 for the
barest of medical treatment” for ommended the institutions receive patients in the state's mental in-|more money than it cost )
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