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WHY 18 IT that every time I mention the word ! vacation somebody has to get funny?

Irks me.

Public Housing Authority

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m : Am INY_ USES . Always the same thing: “You wouldn't know i h Yv Bl Aah + when you got a vacation.” Certainly I would know | To Attend Parley o 2 Ya Buildings when I got a vacation because during that time Indianapolis units of the Ameri- IX £ e * this kid doesn't do any work. As simple as that.

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By the way, I'm officially starting my vacation today. I'll be gone two weeks and during that time my objective will be to take a few scientific notes about a man on his vacation. tive” is what I want. : : + Just sitting here (it's Saturday), waiting for my vacation money to appear at the cashier's cage, I can distinctly remember some of the projects that required a terrific amount of work. Makes me tired to think about them.

Counting Those Bricks Was Tough

~ REMEMBER how a couple weeks ago Clarence Cagle, Speedway superintendent, and I counted the exposed bricks on the homestretch? If you

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authority here.

After hearing 13 speakers durIng the meeting in the World War Building - yesterday, delegates named a citizens committee for public housing to seek establishment of a local author

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the organization's housing conference have adopted a resolution calling - for estab-| lishment of .a public housing

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| ME IN, WRITE, OR PHONE FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION. IN YOUR OWN HOME ANYWHERE IN INDIANA:

: WE oe : think counting 564,582 bricks is a hop. skip ahd noon Tuesday in the Central ~~ Cleaner with . N oN : : a jump you have another hop, skip and a jump YMCA, with invitations” extended “ 101 Uses by od ut for coming. { ‘ to Mayor Feeney and the City ” J Lr : thing youn And how about the time I met the Powers Council. 4 WY ue, reining models at the Union Station and had to escort 3 Resolution provisions specify ~~ R. J. Thomas = ud ight spots, * jal them around the town? That wasn't easy, Mac. 5 oy establishment of a local authority ity with real estate representa- { of delight. In line of duty, of course, 1 had to take three Read With his trusty horse beside [by the Council and Mayor With tives” if the authority is formed. i trip in @ lin of them to lunch, a movie, show them the points ) Ready... With his ty power his |Proportjonate community | Re omEalled av i ; d him, "Mr. Inside" is ready fo take off for his Y group, Quoting statistics compiled oy aster, first-closs of interest downtown and chat for hours on end him, ! , representation ; ) Uciveraity: School of rans over refreshments. Tough, but a man has to earn vacation. Look who needs a vacation, on. the Indiana University r travel. agent, Ww ug , ming back?) The new group would apply for Social Service, Martin Larner | a aving. onder when they're coming back? . exciting that way, especially if I draw the route|s 4.0) ,ocistance for public AVC regional chairman, said COMPLETE E. Market St My work isn't all just fooling around, clown h Montreal { Pp x Audi : F row Polack Bros, that calls for going through Montreal. {housing and slum clearance, and 10.2 per cent of Indianapolis WITH 7 ATTACHMENTS on Ar Tips a was ro PER ag with Otto _ There's one thing I'd like to ask the friends i, J local housing program homes are without water; about SULLY : FOR ONLY hig rll) Griebling, one of the best of 2 tornes SE a to supplement or operate in the 25 percent are sub-standard, and GUARANTEED . i Information , —— » and when yo ' 8 ' Ee Sure, It was fun, I'm not saying It wasn't. Sor FOC 300 S00 hd like to ses my mailbasket SPSNCe Of a federal program. [eight per cent have ho Seren xr LIBERAL ; Thats aot he ot Im tryieg 10 9y was just chuck ful of ideas for surveys, things to do! CIO For Project Debate Flares Up alien rc . work, too. eve me, boss. . Ro J.-Thomas, tional a A demand for about 5400 units ; and see. : national housing i SIR I IMES Well, the checks Will. be ready preity Som The reason I'm. throwing this out at you" is/director for the CIO, charged yes. per year has been created, he FOR YOUR Lemps VR LINES Hu} vanes io pet ging Sop8 Plas iis of that {you know this as well as I do) it's always terday that failure to solve hous- said, but only 13.000 have been OLD CLEANER a was saying, n re 8 t into the swing of things when you get ing problems makes oy ee iy - —> hard work . . . better not-everdo this hard-work in gi rom plo xs dor nothing. os for obi Drees Subpiied ™ the Jour years since isles FULL CASH PRICE i p+ plans call for spending a week at Daytona 10 appreciate it if you'd keep me in mind. | The CIO is for public housing 4 Treated debate flared during n ; ¥ you can’t come In WRITE or PHONE ? sis 3 : {authority, ! uring i Beach. Then a few days at Ft. Lauderdale and Almost Forgot the Tire Pump : lolter iy gs it doe hot the meeting when A. E. Wrent- for FREE home demonsivation Toe 5 Fr . finally on to Miami Beach. About one day at HOLD everything. I knew there was some-| 0 the more, of the American Home 1 : I Miami Beach, just long enough to see Stormy thing I still needed for the trip. A tire pump. Problem, he added. “Farm and Owners Union, urged lifting of ¥ A C 3 VA C LV uv 1] ho) 1} 0 R 3 i) at the Circus Bar. That is if she's still there. And I thought T Had everything: — Fv ymiddle income 8TOups must be rent -controls—as the answer to! A Stormy, you know, is the fal 1 met there last Where does. a.Euy get a pioot re a (| Phsideres in any measure.” he Jousing Dison. hile wold ; : year. B8he's also the gal that didn’t answer any tting a tire pump is as tough as getting a v-~ Mr, omas sai Mi 9000 . | ‘ . s . of my letters, darn nf no ng Pai and duster, I think I'll take a enterprise yn or Whi come back to the rental market, Letters Must Be Postmarked Before Midnight Apr. b-74 Ever since I mentioned to some of my friends train. ; He predicted a “heavy lobby, f SoLISLS were Suse ok mn : that I intended to drive to Florida, I've been This convertible Buick of mine doesn't have by real estate interests” when | mploye FE WASHING . ; getting advice on which is the best route down . Dynaflow or portholes but it. does have wheels the proposed measures reach hs, Wrenimony 38d, id 4 . “an there. At the present time I have 16 routes to and a motor. The mechanics who worked on the City Council, and warned Aga: oh recent survey conducted by them INDIA} /APOLIS. Ind. hy choose from. motor say it's in pretty good shape. You can “packing of the Rong £2 Nation their rounds had revealed only i AN ; The best thing to do, however, is to draw check the shape with the picture. | Sing author-[1200 vacancies. | RAI EE ——_—_—_ the route out of a hat. It should make it more Oh, oh, the dough is ready. Vacation starts. z . * . , : Sprig Is Cub By Robert C. Ruark © NEW YORK, Apr. 23 — That green and silly with remarks such as drop dead, shut up, go home, . season known as spring comes to the individual pipe down. 5 = a re gs mr A Te in v ng fashion. For.one it will be heralded by Then the first cop, his blue breast shining in ; a tefl tie : a a arying : a fresh and violent attack of love, For another it the lamplight, glides round the corner. He has|: is a fresh and violent cold in the head. been expecting the lady all winter, and now he . i : ® “ Spring comes to my street when the first bum, takes her firmly by the wrist and leads her away. ¥ fat Trom his winter hibernation, burgeons on the But not to the station house, or even to Bellevue : pi sidewalk. He is generally followed, as the crocus —fOr you see, this is spring, and the cop's heart . 8 trails the last snowfall, by the drunken lady who I8 soft and mellow under his winter coat. He ahd screams and curses until she is followed, auto- lectures her on the impropriety of her declama- i matically by a late-blooming cop. tion, and then cuts her loose. : : : v Spring came. officially to Greenwich Villagea About one hour and six drinks later, the lady ; : : ING & . few nights back. The bum appeared precisely at i8 back, still in robust voice, but with some new MAKES THIS SENSATI - 6:15. He is an early perennial kind of Bum, who and Interesting embroideries on her general theme] 4 . risks frostbite to appear before his more timorous Ohman 8 worthlessness. These new pimples on her #8 conferees. He looked fit and fine, and his manner, love's Sharastay are pleresd. 2nd she Jicens her . after a winter's sojourn in Florida, was hearty Woes into the sympathetic night. Again, heads pop and assured. We have a very select class of bum from windows, but no cop comes. : on our street, such as the class-conscious bum I've Tae . er hut Pate > spe. here mentioned before. He's the one, who ‘will only lady, or the husband-beating lady, but the water-

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sleep in other people's convertibles.

Then Came the Screaming Lady

WELL, as I say, when the first bum put the first bite of the season -on me, I knew that the screaming lady was due to appear any minute. And sure enough, about midnight, I heard the first gentle trilling, like pollywogs, coming from a good two blocks away. Her cries, as with an approaching flock of geese, increased in amperage. The vernal watchers shortly observed her gentleman friend removing himself from the presence of his love,—and her words became more and more pungently clear. She described his ancestry in glowing -terms, touched briefly on his profession, which she claimed was somewhat lower than that of a murderer by arson. She dwelt long and loudly on their past relationships, which I gather had been exceptional, and forecast his future in ringing blank verse. She then treated with various members of his family, his friends, and his former lady-loves. , This phillipic is remarkable, since it is comPletely and graphically distinct to every ear withind square Half-mile. This constitutes a neat trick of diction, since the words spring round and plump from an-eorchestral accompanimant-of sobs and hiccups, sniffles ‘and bleats of outraged womanhood. It is never very long before heads pop from windows, ‘and the lady's soliloquy is applauded

“moan. All is still. Now the night is unmarred ex-

»will be jammed. with squad cars. IT will start to

throwing lady—cuts loose with her first basin of hot liquid. Her aim is not yet sharp, and she misses, but what can you expect so early in the year? She is a hot-weather, hot-water pitcher, and it takes summer sun to unkink her throwing arm. By mid-July she will be able to drown a passerby as far as she can see him.

It Fades Into a Rhythmic Moan BUT her deluge serves to frighten the screaming lady, and you can hear the inprecations dwindling, until finally they fade to a low and-rhythmic

cept for the quarreling of the couple of tom cats and the occasional crash of a drunk falling into an ashcan. But we all know that spring is here, and summer coming. Soon the early-blooming bum will be surrounded by the cat-feeding bum and the polite bum and the honest bum and the whisky-drinking bum who admits it and all the other good fellows who thrive on the street. The crap-shooting and street-fighting season will open, and the tiny alley

play the typewriter with the window open, and

the cop-calling lady-will do her duty. More squad

cars. It has been said that one swallow. does -not constitute a summer, but in the vibrant Green-

wich Village, it takes only one bum to make a spring.

Close to Home

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr..23 — You've probably been seeing in the papers lately pictures of horrified Senators inspecting some of America's worst back-alley slums. Soon you'll be seeing the same

. gentlemen in the newsreels picking their way

through the trash heaps.

And always in the background of every photo and movie is a glimpse of the capitol dome, sparkling in the sunlight, not two blocks away. Sen. Homer Ferguson of Mich. and I hate to sound cynical about this admitted blot on the nation’s capital, but we're neginning to wonder whether somebody's keeping these filthy shanties in use on purpose. They coms to public attention every year or two, when there's a low-rent housing bill before Congress. The lawgivers take a look, shudder at the sight, and pass the bill. And the alleys get a little dirtier, a. little smellier and a little more overcrowded until the next dme a housing bill is up. Local authorities blame Congress itself for .ot giving them the money and the authority to rebuild these ancient crannies where there is no running water except at an alley spigot, and even electric lights are nonexistent.

Some Condemned 20 Years Ago

SOME of the buildings were condemned more than 20 years ago, but they still contain people, in some cases a dozen to a room. Throughout the area are no-dumping signs; some of these are obscured by heaps of rubbish. Why the laws are. not enforced, at least, the Senator does not understand, but you can’t blame him for wondering. And here we are again with a new national housing bill on top, one which is expected to call for the spending of $15 billion in the next 40 years and to provide clean, decent housing for 810,000" families.. srg” 7, Some legislators think that is too much money.

7 But most agree that it really isn’t-enough. As Sen. Willis Robertson of Va. put it, there are 7 million families in need of homes; to finish the Job would cost $200 billion. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who became interested in the housing problem of his native Cincinnati and who had a large part in the drafting of the bill, feels the solution over the years won't be quite that costly. If building costs. ever come down, a good many millions will he willing and able to buy their own homes, ne expects. And this bill in. his opinion is about the only thing the government can do to get started belatedly on a scheme to give everybody a proper. place to live, So there were the gentlemen debating the bill, with fréquent = references to the horrid slums almost under their noses, and I must report that they go into some weird arguments. There was, for instance, the amendment of Sen. John Bricker of Ohio to keep government employees out of lowrent projects. An excellent idea, cricd Sen. Homer E. Capehart of Ind. They've got steady jobs, he said, and certainly they can afford to pay for their own homes. He said he defied anybody to argue otherwise. A dozen Senators jumped up.

What If a Depression Comes? “WHAT if the country fails on evil days and the WPA, “God bless its soul, has to be resurrected, Won't. its workers be government employess®” asked Sen. Ralph Flanders of Vt. “And wouldn't it bar the charwomen Who clean our offices?” : roared Sen. Charles W. Tobey of N. H. y Sen. Capehart said if their wages were that low, Congress ought to raise ‘em. Sen. William Langer of N. D. said he'd tried. And sb on all afternoon. What happens to the alleys twisting almost in the shadow of the dome is a small part of the national picture, but Sen. Ferguson and I are interested, anyhow. We've still got our doubts.

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