Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 27
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No Volunteers Against Windmills’ - EVERYONE I approached was sithes 4 too busy,
too tired, or declared it was impossible to kill &i the flies, so why try? A friend of mine who has borrowed my beer cooler for the last. time (he doedut know it yet) had the gall to tell me the I contemplated reminded of Don e's joust with the windmills, . A quick explanation at Vonnegut's, however,
Shoe . . . The war on flies is over, says a battle scarred veteran after the big downtown battle.
they were going A hey wire Ev fly. They soon learned this was total war, by goliywro.«or and down alieyS the attack continued.
Everything that érawled, flew or wiggled received| &
gave a well-masticated cigar butt a squirt. The truck driver who discarded the odious fragment of rolled tobacco leaf stired in azement. He'll think twice before he lets fly another stump, beHeve me.
Charges Enemy Pillboxes ~ .
BEHIND THE Hume-Mansur building a col-| ®
lection of refuse offering excellent stamping grounds for flies incurred a special wrath. Several citizens scurried into rear entrances as I charged the garbage cans with a blood-curdling “Geronimo” on my lips. The air was blue. The fact that the DDT powder had a blue cast had nothing to do with it, Ever onward. On Court St, behind Block's, the veteran “Inside Indianapolis Division” went into action again. Ammunition was runping low so the commander ordered every squirt to count. The order of the day was, “Don’t shoot until you see the fuzz on their legs.” The Statehouse was the last stop. weary feet crept into the basement, Through DDT speckled eyes the remaining targets of the battle came into view. The mounted buffalo and elk], heads on the walls were blasted: Too bad most of the menagerie is behind glass. DDT certainly wouldn't do the specimens any harm, I'm thinking. As I said, you shouldn't be bothered with flies downtown. Unless a fifth column moved in while my back was turned. — ‘Mrs. Charlotte Burns, 924 8. Franklin St, Brazil, writes that her son, T. G. Burns, way out in Tujunga, Cal, wants to make sure he gets a copy of “You, Too.” He'll have it, Mrs. Burns, and you'll have your two copies. Checked in 10 requests today for a slim 1161, Goal—30,000 votes of confidence.
Tepid Tea
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 20—It pains me a little to learn that the wishfully wicked area known as the Times Square sector has turned square, and is trying to clean up its reputation as a howling boondock of deviltry, of neon. signs
and taxi dancers, penny nightclubs. Twenty-six hotels, beginning starve a bit from the neighborhood's reputation for riotous
living, hauled off and declared themselves a community, hired a press agent, and have now labelled their neighborhood as “the City of Timesquare, U. 8. A” or “Everybody's Hometown,” One hotel has even gone so far as to
employ elderly, kind-tooking barmen, with the view
of attracting the nice old folk from Waukegan, The effort is to make a Babbitt out of Broadway, and to Rotarize a section of the city which has always lured the visitors with a beckon of veiled evil. About’ the only evil I know of in the bright light borough is contained in some of the prices. The rest of it is largely in the head. Even the pickpockets who used to lift
Husive Broadway’ Spirit Long: Gone-
ACTUALLY, while Broadway has remained
static as a synonym for the gay, sophisticated
glamour-of-the biggest of cities; the elusive spirit that made Broadway famous has long since .departed, turning the great white strip over to the popcorn ball emporiums, shooting galleries and movie houses. Some ticket speculators and bookmakers, sharpers and sundry boys with long shirt coliars and wide hats still lend an air of spurious color. .
A lot “of people live in the encompassing neighborhood, Maybe 300,000. There are enough people to patronize 25 churches and ‘601 restaurants, and about 2000 stores. There are considerably more lawyers than showgirls, more dentists than playwrights.. It is along these:
comes to the city without a faint, prickling thrill |
of contemplation : . up. with a hair-raising adventure he can
.sedate lines that the 26 hotels now wish to exploit the twinkling strip, and in a way, it's a pity. While the founding fathers of “Timesquare, U. 8. A” pledge the utmost in courtesy, low | prices, . constant vigilance over moral standards, and sundry clean living, this pasteurized hometowniness would have repelled me on my first visit to the big burg. When I hit town long years ago, I was all rodded up for adventure, I figured for sure that, I would meet some sultry temptress with foot-long! eyelashes, and probably nothing good would come of it. I had my wallet sewed to my suit, and everybody I met looked like a gangster. I guess I was fairly well steeped in Damon Runyon, but I was on the prowl for wickedness, and it was Pleas-| ant to think you might find it.
Might as Well Stay Home
BUT SURE as shucks, I wasn't looking for a Chamber of Commerce or a Lions Club. Nor do I believe, today, that the average out-of-towner|
about in the barber shop.
for 30 minutes yesterday a
ambulance physician.
Truman and Friends My battle Relax Aboard Yacht
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UP) President Truman was. relaxing today with a group of: friends aboard the yacht Willlamsburg. |§
The White House identify the friends.
Seems to me that If you start (0 ABT & Tamoustt
section of a famoug city as “Everybody’s Home- | town,” he. people may sometime take you at your
~word; and remain—in—their--own heme - hamlet. | -
It is sort of like describing London's Limehouse; as Everybody's YMCA. { I do not insist on dark doings as an adjunct! to any city, but sometimes it’s nice to have an intimation of dangerous living. I still get a bang! out of Chinatown, although it's twice as safe as church, chiefly bécause you feel as if a wild shriek might ring out in the twisty streets, or a| tong-war hatchet might whiz by your skull. "Maybe the fathers of “‘Timesquare, U. 8. A know their business, but enough of Aire —old! zing has left Broadway already, and further dilution may make it remarkably tepid tea. !
Vox Populi
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By Frederick C. Othman,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—The portly Dr. H. M. Griffith of New York, vice president of what he ‘called the National Economic Council, suffered a sudden and embarrassing frog in his voice. “Have a glass of water, sir,” suggested Sen. Millard E. Tydings of Maryland. "You've got. a case of Senate throat.” Dr. Griffith took a swig of water, relaxed, and continued with his denunciation of President Truman’s plan to send billions of dollars worth of guns to our friends in Europe. “It is just one more blunder added to a long series of disastrous blunders,” he added. Messrs. Tydings, Connally, Vandenberg, Wiley and Thomas of Utah, the Senate's leading experts on foreign affairs, gave him close and courteous - attention. But I'm not so much interested here in what Dr. Griffith said, as in the fact that he got to say it.
Heart-Warming Experience ANY AMERICAN, no matter-héw humble, or
even how wild-eyed, could have dropped in the -and-told-the. Senators...
what he thought about the business ot rearming Western Europe, A number did. I may sound corny, but I can’t help reporting that it- was a heart-warming experience to sit there and listen to garden-variety citizens tell the Senators how to vote, I got to thinking that if I'd had any'ideas on the subject, the Senators would have listened to me, too. “Of course we would,” said Sen. Tydings later. “That's the way a democracy ‘Works; JAnd.a good thing, too.” The ladies with the gleams in their eyes and the elderly gentlemen with the lengthy statements may or may not have useful ideas on how to run the world, but the Senators figure it pays to listen carefully to them all, So let's hear some of them here: One Frazer Bajley, president of the National Federation of American Shipping, Inc, wasn 't- 80
much worried about the arms plan as he was about getting the bill amended so as to make the government send at least half of those guns in| American ships.
“How about the rates?” inquired Sen. Connally [
of Texas. “They'd be somewhat higher if we are 2 maintain our American standard of living .. ."” began Mr. Bailey. | “Leave out the American standard of Hong”! suggested Sen. Connally. “Would the rates be higher?” Mr. Bailey sald they would and Sen, ‘Tydings| said: “Thank you, sir. You have made your po-| sition clear.” The Senator called” Mrs, Elizabeth Moos of the American Continental Congress for World Peace and seemed disappointed that she hadn't shown up. Neither was the fépresentative of the Con-| ference on Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact on hand. Sen. Tydings was sorry about that,| too.
Critic Wins Thanks called Bi : young “New Yorker, who sald he was executive/ director of the Ydung Progressives of Amerjca.| He delivered a bitter oration in which he chard that the government was getting ready to send soldiers to Europe to shoot the guns it hoped to deliver. “It Is reckless adventurism, which will sacrifice the future lives of young Americans,” he cried. “Thank you very much for giving us your point of view, sir,” said the gentleman from Maryland. Then came Dr. Grifith and his frog. He Tead|
a carefully reasoned statement in which he begged || .
the Senators to search their consciences before they Voted. Sen. Tydings assured him that they| would.
And, as J say, this was one time I walked | ’
out of the caucus room feeling better than when Iwentin ~ i
The Quiz Master
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How can a Tocket operate in a perfect vacuum where there is no air for it to push against? A rocket provides its own material to push against, in the form of the gases that it ejects. It Is the reaction or “kick,” as these gases are shot out, that drives thé rocket ahead, so it would “Work ‘better in a vacuum, lke that iti interplane-
tary space, than In the alr, where there is some
Where does Brazil rank in size in the world? It Is fourth largest country. Brazil is surpassed in size by the U. 3 R., China and Canada. ] ®. 9 i Who founded the Quakers? : The Soclety of Friends, a religious denomina-| tion commonly called Quakers, arose in the 17th J FEMI 4 urge 8 9ae 44 als .. J % 1 4 aS : ? «
Richard Bowman, 7, .of 1446 Montcalm St., was unconscious i Hor a softball ruck Him, above the lef eye during a practice game in the 1500 block Stadiunt Dr. He plays | with the Wildcats junior team of the Riverside Boy's Club. Richard | was ordered to bed for "a couple of days" after treatment by an
] po! of the Perry County jail, the sheriff's office A sheriff's deputy said Johnson went to the porch for a “breath of fresh alr” and a few minutes later Jailer Charles Duff heard * |a shot. He found Johnson on the © floor with a bullet wound in his}. : back. There was another bullet
Johnson was found guilty last February of slaying Ear! Clem-| ons, 22, and was sentenced to 21 years in the state penitentiary. He was in jail awaiting outcome ¢ lof an appeal. Jailer Duff said it was Johnson's habit ‘to ask permission to} £0 on the porch for a few min-| utes before returning to his cell for the ¢ night, : i
‘Madwoman of Chaillot’ || To Reopen on Broadway
| Times Special | NEW YORK, Aug. 20—“Thé| \ Madwoman of Chaillot,” Jean |Giraudoux’s fantasy about an insane beldame of Paris, will reopen tomorrow at the Royale Theater after an eight- “weeks summer recess, Martita Hunt will continue in| her Sharacterization of the SN role.
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