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. SUNDAY, MAR. 13, 1049 __

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HOW DOES it feel to filibuster or shoot your mouth Gof Tor hows and hours and hours? . How it take to Sunday Fo y read your big, 5c Without stopping, how long can a man use “his vocal cords before it's time to throw the towel in? . Those are the questions I'm going to answer tomorrow by reading every word in the Sunday Times, non-stop. The same paper you have. in

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To get these vital and somewhat scientific questions answered, yours truly went to a lot of trouble and preparation, Tomorrow, I'm going to go through a‘lot more to get the facts. To begin with, I prevailed upon the Peoples

= Outfitting Co., Washington St. and Capitol Ave.,

to give me the use of their corner window as a base of operations. It's going to be fun to be an animated window dummy again, friends.

Picks Softest Easy Chair MARK FRANK, manager, let me pick the softest easy chair In the store. He also gave me the impression that reading the Sunday Times in a marathon fashion would be quite a mouthful. I didn’t argue the point, There's a lot of reading matter in the paper, : In order that the shoppers and passersby hear as well as see what's going on in the window, Mr, Frank is placing a public address system at my disposal. And that isn’t all. There's no doubt that I'll ‘be hungry about noon tomorrow but it would be foolish to stop reading and go out to lunch. 80, with the cooperation of Head Waiter 8mith T. Erwin, Lincoln Hotel, I'm going to get my lunch exactly at 12:15.

Big mouth . . . Spraying his throat with soothing oils, “Mr. Inside Indianapolis” prepares for his "filibuster" tomorrow.

of lime juice is an .excellent.

~~ By Ed Sovola,

for awhile In case seconds are desired. the following menu, first, because Mr. Erwin wanted me to have the best for an undertaking of this sort and, second, I happen to

like double strength consomme, Lincoln special] |

chicken sandwich, pot of coffee, strawberry sundae and a quart of orange juice frappe. The consomme, Mr. Erwin said, will relax me, give me energy and is a good salivs producsr. The sandwich will provide just eno proteins for strength. Orange juice frappe with a few dadhes ick-me-up. The strawberry sundae has enough y and sugars to make it a treat and, of course, the coffee is a stimulant. } The plan calls for me to start the verbal marathon at exactly 9 a. m. tomorrow. I shall read every printed word in the paper exclusive of ad-

vertising (Oh, I may mention maybe, as a change 3 of pace, an ad or two), which includes: editorials, | }

news stories, vital statistics, sports page records,

comies, the many fine feature stories and picture §

stories to be found in your Sunday Times. Speed will not be my concern. After a great deal of experimentation, I have found that an easy and relaxed pace is the least tiring on the throat and body. This bloke doesn’t intend to burn up his tonsils from the word go. A true champion is the ‘man who finishes strong. Members of the Indiana General Assembly filibustered six hours over the time bill. I expect to go longer than six hoyrs in the front window of Peoples Outfitting Co. = : Speaking of filibusters, I hope I don’t have to go as long as the Washington artists who don’t like the anti-filibuster resolution. That would be too much.

Confidence Fairly Bubbles -

IN ANY case, however, I'm in action as long as the vocal cords hold out. At this moment confi-

dence is fairly bubbling out of me. My throat feels Fir e-Watching Tower Here

swell, practice has given me the assurance of Bill

Ste d diction is ‘good though far f eo Tel «yy Sorin anyone he ronat oman. 10 Give Way to Television

May I suggest you test yourself today with your Times? Time yourself with some of the features and then make a guess as to how long it will take me to read it all or read until I'm hoarse, I'm not being cocky, I hope, but I'm reading the

paper in one day, getting the inside story on how| reminder of its youth is very evident in the downtown area. |

a filibuster feels and. giving you. the exact time it takes to read the Sunday Times.

row in the corner window of Peoples’ Outfitting

Co., Capitol Ave, and Washington St. If you have any sign of ‘a blaze which might ! time, drop over, I may need some moral support.| sweep a business firm or a has construction begins for that, It's time to give my throat a gentle massage In 1020 the city had become too

‘Leave Us Alone’

and have it sprayed with soothing ofls. Aaaahhh—, | large for such antiquated meth-| -| ods of discovering a fire. Besides, | {more modern equipment made]

{the tower unimportant, By Rober t C. Ruark | Worked 8-Hour Shifts

WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—A man down in Georgia has come up with what seems a mag“ nificently healthy idea: He calls it, simply, “Leave Us Alone Week.” In this entire seven days of blissful immunity from exhortation, a man is free to go his way without anybody demanding that he do anything, no matter how worthy the cause. It's a thing I'd like to see spread around the nation a little bit. The country could use some time-out from good works. and peremptory command to go forth and be noble. Also a slight vacation from thé huckisters of consumer goods, sweet charity, global nobility, social consciousness, J try, local and national governmen and admonitions that go along with all of them. Call me a heretic, but I think it would be slightly therapeutic if we occasionally shut down all the movies, newspapers, radio stations and television shops to give the people a breather from the re“sponsibility of being alive. Call it “Let's Live in a Vacuum Week,” or “Let's Turn Off the Telephone Week”—or even “Just Let's Set and Simmer Week.” It is amazing how many modern communications, including books, a man can do without for short spates of time. :

Too Many Trainers THE MODERN American roughly emulates

the nervousness of a young dog being trained by

six people, all with strongly rooted and widely diverging convictions on how to train a dog. He is hammered at from chill dawn to midnight. He is pushed, shoved, commanded, lectured, reprimanded, nagged, inspired, reproved, spanked, pleaded with and talked down to. } He hauls his weary carcass out of the sack, on any given day, and before he drops it in the feathers again, he has been admonished until he

“is black and blue.

The hucksters command him to buy this soap, that breakfast food, this girdle, that car, these pills, those clothes, this hat, those shoes, this ball team, that ice cream, this chewing gum, -that house, that radio, that underwear, those suspenders, - that nail polish, that toothbrush, those dog biscuits,

"The pundits of press and radio instruct him | chants Bank Building was com-|

on his politics, his habits, the state of the nation |

| tower. Eight windows look out over the city. Until a short 20 years Don’t forget, I'm starting in at 9 a. m. tomor- | ago, keen-eyed men peered through

. the tower and the state of the world. He is given a brisk worked an eight-hour shift. The so did the buildings.

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Paul Gutzwiller, Merchants National Bank building superinfendenf, recalls the last day the fire tower atop the Merchants Bank building was in operation. - =" .

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Landmark Atop Bank Building Due ee] To Be Razed; Lookout Last Used in '29

Sprawling Indianapolis of today is not so grownup but that a, Perched atop the Merchants Bank building is an octagonal

the glass. | These were the fire-watchers who kept a sharp lookout for)

|field of tomorrow—television by|

If the-tower goes, so goes a’ {part of Indianapolis. This was ‘the third and last lookout for| | the fire-watchers. The first was| {on a building across the street But from the time the Mer- from the Courthouse. { | When the Courthouse was completed, three men climbed into|pleted, its higher structure was) every day. Each utilized. As Indianapolis ‘grew, It was an,

blueprint for fatherhood, matrimony, health, last to so guard the city were obvious step to use the roof of | wealth, and relaxation. They expert him blind— | Henry Cook, Joseph Adole and the Merchants Bank Building,

they tell him about sex, child-hearing, investment, | Frank Graham.

and pink toothbrush of the soul. The religious toss him a steady ultimatum on heaven and hell. The prohibitionists command | him not to drink, while the booze manufacturers extoll the blood-building virtues of their particular brands.

This poor, quivering fellow is adjured to cure cancer, blot out heaft disease, buy bread, send a flower to mother, eat candy, love dogs, avoid being run over in traffic, buy life insurance, pay taxes, feel sorry for strangers, arm the Greeks, lend to the English, ‘wear cornplasters, save money, give to the community chest, observe father's day, vote for the right party, buy bonds, save fats, get married, love his neighbor and hate his enemy— all in the same breath, every day, every week: -

Mass of Complexes

AT THE END of any given year, the target of this evangelism is duty bound to be a mass of ingrown complexes, hopes, fears, doubts and desperation, for he has been driven to perfection —in a hurry. Do it now. Rush down to the drug ‘store for Mrs. Moscowitz’s nerve tonic. Read] “Shriek, the Magazine of the moment.” Send no money. Do it now. Vote for Jones. Ladies, your

“even today the tallest building: in Now the tower may be removed the city.

Book Matches Burned Up; Hot Tempered Revenge

Display Resentment

In 4 Different Ways

By JOHN L. BOWEN Times Special Writer ¢

CHICAGO, Mar. 12-1 have by - Lame” been going over statistics on ac- AN SE, Ve

cidents that happen to us when we are thinking of something. ~~ else, 7 I mean like walking off the .- stepladder while helping the wife . YO with the curtains or plugging in 7

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the radio while standing in the ° bathtub. Y Things like that sometimes cause relatives to put a wreath on the door where you live and other people to say: “I knew him

life is a vacuum without our vacuum. 8it up. Sleep on our mattresses—the only ones with the] built-in television set and the special, hapd-plucked down from the bird of paradise. Give. Save.! ‘Drop dead. Fight. Weep. Make. Do. Go. Stay. Buy. Observe... Worry. Think. Here is the latest m= CEE : : : : As T was saying, I.love the idea of “Leave Us Aloné Week.” Not everybody can afford a slow boat to China, but the man down in Georgia has| a workable, inexpensive approximation of it. Peace, once defined by somebody who might have been I,| is roughly no more than quiet, surrounded by a| high fence. -

‘Good Doorstop

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Mar, 12—~The grounds of the U. 8. Capitol, according to the 81st edition of the Congressional Directory, once were occupied by a tribe of wild Indians called Powhatans. These precincts sound sometimes as though the redskins still were in charge, but that's slightly

beside the point. What I'm trying to prove is that °

the freshly published directory (price, $1.50 in scarlet buckram) provides some of the most hairraising reading, biographical and otherwise, of the spring literary season. I never knew before that the dome of the Capitol contains 8,909,200 pounds of iron, or that Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennéssee is the greatest little expense account padder in history. Bar none. “No newspaper reporter ever did so well fooling the auditors in the business office; no traveling , salesman could compare. Writing in the now-it-can-be-told department of his official autobiography, the venerable gentleman from Memphis told how Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson called him in in 1942 when he was acting chairman of the Appropriations Committee. ; “And got him to agree,” sald McKellar, writing about himself, “to appropriate about two billions of dollars in varjous items looking to the discovery of atomic he n

WHAT McKellar meant was that he sneaked petter than $2 billion into the budget that year without anybody realizing where the money. was going, or even where it had been spent. And when next I take a trip and have trouble ‘ with the bookkeeping department, I know where to go for ad v

vice. Other law-givers, . writing with all modesty about themselves, indicate that they, too, are ladies and gentlemen of distinction. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California,

The Quiz Master

What 1s the normal temperature of a coldanimal? ; pp : ee temperature of the blood of cold-blooded animals, such as fish and reptiles, remains practically the same as that of the surrounding environment. For this reason, they do not require as much food as we do, and can often go long periods with nothing to eat whatever. ais SL ae To "Why are common building bricks usually red?

the presence of red iron oxide in the clgy. i

says that by profession she is a stage star and|

opera singer. Rep, John C. Davies of Utica, N. Yr esuvit: finally does

raises St. Bernard dogs. Rep. Carroll D, Kearns of Pennsylvania says he is a nationally known concert artist and conductor of instrumental and choral groups. . : | And talking about Indians, as we were at the beginning of this book.review, there's Rep. Karl Stefan of Nebraska, an adopted Indian, four times over. The Omahas, Winnebagos, Poncas and Santee Sioux all took him in and named him Pah-Hug-Mon-Thee. The gentleman translated this as meaning “leader man.”

“Wherry Skips Funeral Parlor SEN. WILLIAM LANGER of North Dakota tells how he is the only person ever to be ar-

rested in any English-speaking country for filing |in time. . an affidavit of prejudice against a judge. Sen.|

{dealt with: (1) ) {(2) the Sss-t; (3) the Jet-X-1 and speed and distance.

well—he was En But did you know that there —— are plenty of taxpayers in the ors hospitals today because they

or cigaret. the smoke has snuffed seeurk 4 Duk Zlib ad The out the fire. The user now pulls tional Safety Council Sava so the book of matches close to his Co y Squncl SAYS 80.. Icheek and strikes another Pff-tt! A WOMAN stopped on the With a masterly, but uncontrolled, street “to light a ‘cigaret. The movement. — ™ match “blew up” and burned offi The smoker's angle isto bring all her hair. Think of that. {the Pff-tt and his stogie into In the book match field four contact before the flame. and principal malefactors are to be smoke plume into infinity. Too| the Vesuvius: often, the smoker miscalculates!

(4) the Pff-tt. . He’ finds himself doing one of The Vesuvius, best described two things, namely, breathing the, as sullen, requires two to four, Pre-tt's sulphurous smoke through | scratchings across the emery his nostrils or parboiling his upper strip before “igniting. When the|lip. : : t ignite, It| yrowever, a lot of trouble can Ws a molten rocket directly pg avoided by following the diat ne or the other of your eye- rection on every book of matches. balla, ! |It says to close the -book before f you are slow to duck, you gtriking the match. It's one of the ae Ld a trip to the eye doc-east.read directions ever printed. T, you are. quick to .duck, Copyright, 1949, by The Indianapolis Times the rocket will sail harmlessly and. Chicago Dally News, Inc. | past your. shoulder, burn out in

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) ROCHESTER, N. Y., Mar, 12 Instantly, the flame welds the (UP) — Average belt sizes pro-

Kenneth Wherry of Pawnee City, Neb. has cen- head of the Sss-t to the emery vide a barometer of business

sored his autobiography; this year he doesn’t men-|strip and your tion his Ford agency, his furniture store, or his| welded to the same—automat-

funeral parlor. Rep. George H. Christopher of Missouri reports that his hobby is soil conservation and adds that he is a great believer in lime, sweet clover and alfalfa. And then there is the Co sman from Philadelphia, Hugh D. Scott, who practiced what he preached. He is the author of “How To Go Into Politics.” And look at him now, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. .

nights wher# he was 16 as an apprentice barber; when he was 18, he bought the barber shop. And, ,.1 must not forget Rep. C. W. Bishop of Carterville, Ill, who reports that his friends may call him Runt. Well, sir, Runt used to be a tailor, coal miner, telephone linesman and professional football player. He ignores the fact that he still likes to surprise his wife by whipping up on his sewing machine an occasional “new frock. You get the idea. A superb book. Also good for a doorstop.

27? Test Your Skill 77?

Which major baseball league drew the greater number of fans in 190487 Last year the American League attracted approximately 11,150,000: spectators and the National League about 9,822,000. ° ; ® oo o How many bills were vetoed by President Truman in the second session of the 80th Congress? “Of the 505 bills enacted into law, 43 were ve-

of President Truman. Five of the vetoes were a deat Trams "UL a |MePH-tt to the end of hik cigar

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