Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1949 — Page 15

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youngsters wi! Ibe for the school bell come Sept. 6, but at least the school system is primed. ally up to their ears in books and materials and making every effort that Junior finds himself in

Vital Information

AT THAT particular moment all the attention

was focused on Jim Tanner's truck. It had to be

" loaded and on its way according to schedule. He

makes two runs a day and it takes six delivery days, the year around, to supply the city's 81 elementary schools and seven high schools. In his spare time he might hdve to add something for 22 public libraries and 22 kindergartens which the board looks’ after,

were order bins, Each school has a bin.

stocking the school system he can't take time to read.

Summer's End

« NEW YORK, Aug. 26—They hand you all this guff about good old summertime and what is so rare as a day in June and all the rest, but I claim it's a miserable season at best and the one we could lose easiest. I have come to where I look forward to Labor Day like a convict facing parole. What is so great about this summer season, anyhow, except for the kids who get pardoned out of school for three months? Mosquitoes. Poison tvy. Polluted waters. Polio epidemics. Sunstroke. Fish-hooks in the fingers. Fooey. What do you get good out of it? Bo you get a vacation. And what, pray, is a vacation? Two weeks at some resort with sand in the bed and murderous prices for a bad table d’hote and the golf courses overrun and people capering on the beaches as if they were temporarily nuts, burning themselves to a crackling and kicking the sand into other people's eyes.

Bitter Bottling on the Beach. - DID YOU ever notice all the bad manners you can see on a beach. Big guys with crew haircuts throwing the litle dolls back and forth and the dolls squealing and giggling and people splashing

old Nady a out joud about the and, he

made at the bleach-blond or how many martinis he had last night apd he quarreling right back

You crawl back from one of these safaris on a road crammed with other suckers: in cars and when you get home there is nothing but the stacks of newspapers and the piled up milk that you forgot to cancel out and all the mail is nothing but bills, bills, bills and then you check the bank and the balance is $4.83 with three checks still out and so wham, there goes another war bond and what have you got? Poison ivy. Sunburn and no inclination to work. Good old summer time, hey? You take one like this last one with temperature nailed in the

‘heavily with that distinctive schoolhouse aroma.

called, making with a big, cheerful smile.

Heap of leamin’ + + : Guy Pounds is-so busy

“oud oft the nappy stummers to the jas y he or mertime is when the mammas who can ao Gardens fire companies,

innards | the outside walls of the four-room _with the wrong kind of restaurant food and get|house standing. All furniture and ott into trouble with odd red heads picks up In re —

Flames roaring from the rear|it himself. A

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Jim announced he was ready to make his dellveries which was as good a time as any to blow the joint. So, with an evil glance at a stack of social Studies books, “Marketing the Things We Use. 1402 'W. Market St.,|

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“YOU HAVE to be with children a long time to| ==

understand them,” Mr. Chorling added. The odor of floor wax, polish and soap blended

From force of Kabit my eyes searched out a clock to see how much longer it was before school was out. : . On the way to No. 30, No. 50 and No. 52 we saw many children of school age who didn't give the truck a second glance, Vacation for them was still in full bloom. : Two boys were bouncing a rubber ball off the side of School 67. With the appearance of the | orange truck the ball-bouncing stopped. 1 “Are you boys ready to go back to school?” 1

“No we ain't,” the larger of the two snapped. A member of the other 50 per cent, no doubt. “They'll be ready,” sighed Jim. Yes, sir, good thing we have parents who have been through the mill. ; e . ¢ & : r Combs of the Antlers Hotel, Bea Ta members of the staff in subscribing for “You, Too.” Wouldn't I be happy if all managers twisted & few arms in town? .You bet! Sixty-eight and 1412 add up to 1480. Keep the votes coming.

By Robert C. Ruarky

90's for solid weeks and your brains if any melted | into a soggy mess and you try to think and earn the daily bread and you can’t think and all you do is fight. ! You fight with the boss and you fight with the customers and then you go home and fight some with the old lady and your food tastes lousy and when you go to bed you sweat up the pillows and itch all night. Prickly heat and jagged nerves and | hydrophobia. Summertime. : I suppose it's all right if you are a savage | wearing’ a G-string and living by the water, but mankind in his civilized magnificence has never devised a garb that made any sense whatsoever. He sweats up his suits until they are just a gluey bunch of rags and his tie fades and dyes his

: : i Photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr., Times Staff Photographer. Mr. and Mri’ Clarence Ball and their daughter Frona, 6, lost their home to a fire while they visited Mrs. Ball's mother Wednes-

day night.

Volunteer Firemen Run Out of

Water; Absence Saves Family

By DAVID WATSON H Six-year-old Frona Ball and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clar-|,; 3041 Mars Hill St melted collar purple and the sweat runs down his|ence Ball, are alive today because they chanced to visit Frona's|, 4 clothing were 16st then too,

legs in rivulets and all he can think of to say is|grandmother Wednesday night.

“is it hot enough for you?” thereby earning a, clout on the snout. :

What Does It Get You?

in the sea and. all the bugs known to man free-

take the kids and go off to the mountains, the wage-slave on his own to insult~his

air-conditioned bars and lose too much money | shooting dice with other summer widowers ane |

before you know it everybody's in Reno and fight-| w ing over the custody of the dog. i I say summertime is a vastly overrated season

in all respects and might be abolished for the| betterment of mankind, It offers nothing to beat| a roaring fire and the prfickle of frost in the air| and for my dough I buy blizzards every time over| sunstroke. Summertime, and the livin" is easy—|

Misery Loves—

yah, |

By Frederick C. Othman,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26—Hopefylly the weary House of Representatives passed a bill prqviding for three week's vacation with pay . while the Senate caught up with its’ work. Then the House sent this measure over to the Senate for concurrence. Oops! I was in the back of the Senate chamber, squirming on am under-sized stool, when this bill arrived. Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) turned around to the press box to observe that anything could happen. “And probably will,” he added. This, ds it turned out; was an understatement. Sen. Homer Capehart, the Republican from Indiana, offered an amendment, whereby the Senate would quit, too, along with the House on Sept. 30. The gentlemen voted that idea down, 47 to.35. Came then the vote on whether the House alone should have a rest. “If we can't go home, nobody else can,” said Sen. Ferguson, voting, no. There was no doubt about it; . misery loved company. The vote against the House going fishing was 58 to 25. Vice President Alben W, Barkley anfiounced it. This brought on what the official reporters call laughter. It sounded to me like the laughter of the villain on the radio, just after he'd tied the girl tothe buzz-saw.’

No Chance to Go On

SEN. SCOTT LUCAS of Illinois, the Demoeratic: leader, said fine, Now let's go on with the Interior Department appropriation bill. He never got the chance. . Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, his Republican counterpart, said the House ‘had no right to adjourn until it had agreed to some of the bills the Senate already had passed. And, come to think of it, when did Sen. Lucas figure on quitting? By New Years’ Day? Sen. L. said he had no idea, the way his conferees kept yammering about everything’ except the Interior Department. “I tried to speed things up,” he lamented. “I

tried to hold night sessions. But was I success-| ful? Did I get co-operation? No. He paused) and rubbed his tired eyes.) I learned you've just got to let nature take its course in the U. 8.

on™ " He said now let's get on with the Interior bill.

“Just one moment,” cried Sen. Capehart, the,

Hoosier phonograph man. “You've got 54 votes| on the Democratic side of this Senate. If you want to pass some bills, use em. That's. a

majority. Go ahead. Quit trying to fool the |

people. . . ." Sen. Lucas tried to sputter a reply. Sen. Capehart ignored him and continued: “Quit blaming the Republicans. Quit playing politics,” “Just what is the question of the gentleman from Indiana?” inquired Sen. Lucas. “I don't have any question,” exploded Ben.

Capehart. “I'm all caught up with you fellows|

playing drop the handkerchief.”

Invaluable Contribution SEN. LUCAS bowed from the waist and with

elaborate sarcasm, replied: “I thank the Sena-|

get on with the Interior bill."

Haw. Sen. Wherry sald he ought to set a|

date to quit. - “But. this is practically a year-round job,” cried Sen. Lucas and cried, I think, is the exact word, “All these world-shaking measures are on

4..The blaze, fought by volunteer +/units of the Mars Hill atid Drexel

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Senate and that's what I intend to do from aw!

parents’ eyes.

For the second time in three) years the Ball home was gutted [Section of the house spread across

by fire early yesterday. Exit Blocked

eady To Give U 2d Home In 3 Yea

Photo by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer, This scorched and charred room in the Ball home at 3157 Foltz St. was used as the family bedpossessed. It was their second fire in threhrough the house at 2 a. m., destroying all the room. The blaze of undetermined origin roared te years. : : ters had inspected the house, Mr.|St. have come to their aid and| No action on a new line has been {Ball never completed a sale. | Three years ago this month,| {another fire destroyed the

{supplied them with clothing. A subsistence check amount-| Water company officials said ing to only $35 and payable to|there were not enough signatures Mrs. Ball is not due until Sept. 1.|submitted to meet the minimum | The 500 gallons of water in| requirements of the company and Furniture tank-trucks manned by the Mars unl, Slot 2 loa, She jE fire department are not ut relatives and friends came arge ™ Frona knows she will not return to her home at 3157 Foltz Bt. [to their aid and helped rg Chdugh jo Sent 4 Sires; men {in Mars Hill, but she doesn’t understand the defeated look in her ihe house.

SUMMERTIME is when all the snakes come) out of their noles and the stinging nettles swim)

terior of the first home he built]

There are no water mains “I am ready to give up, I1'hydrants in the area.

Area have In Folte of 49 for two years owners req ; negotiations with {of 21 owners |the Indianapolis Water Co. and|petitions. al c Service Commis- in Collier St. would approximate Not Enough Signatures Petitions asking for water and|be ‘required in Kentucky Ave. us age for sale, but he found it/St., where they were visiting signed with several hundred a lead from the nearest outlet, with He-had-bulli,when--the-fire—burned “them- submitted. to. Ithough several buy-iNeighbors in the 500 block

Sore Oh a

{the kitchen, blocking the single jot me.

. The house cannot be re-|

exit from the bedroom where thet ~ family would have been whe fire started at 2am

Until some emergency measi Wires can be taken, the Ball Tamleft only| For several months Mr. Balllily plans to reside with Mr. and had been offering the small white Mrs, William Richey, 523 Bell;

Bell 'water company since last spring. gr

| taken,

justify installation of the six to seven miles of pipe line requiréd for the area. : :

department said.| Petitioners in south Mars Hill or fire are widely scattered, officials de-

clared.

: St. Cost of laying a

the nl: About 1000 feet of pipe would

ading in some cases.

Miss Cora E. Gillis

The cycle of the organization that once humbered 400,000 mem-

our calendar and everybody's crying to go home? hers will then be completed, for

‘Why? Sen. Irving M. Ives (R. N. Y.), said if the Sengters got down to work they could quit by the end of September. Sen. Lucas said let's get going on the Interior bill. Somebody else said the Democrats were giving out with hocus-pocus. Sen. Lucas said, no, it was the Republicans. I got out of there while the getting was good.

Later on, maybe, the gentlemen will get around

to the Interior Department's bill.

The Quiz Master

27? Test Your Skill ???

the 83d-—and last—encampment will be held in the city where the GAR was organized in* 1866,

” LJ » FROM CALIFORNIA, Minnesota,- New York, Kentucky and Michigan the century-old veterans will come. Ten other com-rades-in-arms are living but are unable to attend the final muster, Although he will be unable to attend the encampment, John 8. Dumser, former commander in chief, says he will follow the meeting closely from his bed at Oakland, Cal,

‘What is the status of Wisconsin as a milk-pro-ducing state? The state is first in the production of dairy cattle; milk and manufactured milk products, ¢® ¢

How long has the poppy been known? Some 5000 or 6000 years before the birth of Christ the poppy was known, and by 100 B. C. man had knowledge of the narcotic qualities of drugs made from the plant. * *

Has the hedge apple ever been tested as a basic source of rubber?

as a posible source of rubber. Tests, however, have failed to show even 1 per cent rubber avallable fromreither the fruit or the plant. * © ¢ Is the skunk of any help to the farmer? The striped skunk is a big help to farmers. It destroys mice and digs out beetles and their larvae. Skunks also eat many grasshoppers and crickets, ' 7 ® ¢ 9, why What is the difference between the harvest and the hunter's moon? - . The harvest moon is the moon fulling nearest Sept. 23. The hunter's moon is the October full

One of the six who wil! arrive tomorrow is the GAR's National Commander, Theodore A. Penland. A native of Indiana, the 100-year-old man now lives in La Jolla, Cal. Recently Commander Penland said: “I'll make it to Indianapolis if ‘only the national secretary and myself are present: We will march in a great parade to the reunion hall where I will declare the Grand Army of the Republic has® completed its mission.” Others. expected to

eady For Final Camp

Theodore A. Penland

White-Haired Union Veterans of Civil War To Begin Arriving Here Tomorrow

By JOHN V. WILSON NATIONAL attention will be focused on Indianapolis, beginning tor for his invaluable contribution. Now let's| this week-end, when six of the surviving Boys in Blue gather for the | final encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The white-hdired Union veterans of the Civil War will begin arriving here tomorrow for the opening session Sunday. day, following their last march, they will disband forever.

Charles L, Chappel of Long Beach; Cal, the national senior vice commander. Albert Woolson Minn., the 102-year-old national

James A. Hard of Rochester, At 108, Mr, Hard is the oldest of the six. Robert Barrett of Princeton, Ky., who is 102, Joseph Clovese of Mich. The 105-year-old man is the last Negro among the GAR memMrs. Lena Barrett

Indianapolis) will speak at thejthe Union.Veterans. GAR memorial stamp ceremony resenting these on Monument Circle. Rep x Monday night ‘Gov. and Mra|GAR secretary; Perle i for|Schricker will be hosts to the SAR atigaal se in chief of the fallen comrades in the Indiana|six veterans and their allied GAR|Sons of Union Veterans Roof Ballroom. Then they will go/organizations at a reception in/lena Barrett, national president to the Soldiers and Sallors’ Monu-/the ‘Governor's chambers in the of the Son's Auxiliary, and Mrs. ment ‘where the Auxiliary of the|State House. : national Sons of Union Veterans of the The five allied ho of the nion VetHe is the newly elected com- Civil War will present a memor- old ara ap. . to erans. Paughists hy u = throughout the week, plan to eontinue their annual meetings al THE MARINE band will hold{though the GAR will have dis- ang ne ¥ its first concert of the week at/banded. They are the Women's ; 8 p. m. Bunday at the World War Relief Corps, Ladies of the GAR, Memorial Plaza. And at 1:30 p. m./ Daughters and Sons of Union the Monday Rep Andrey Jacobs (D. Veterans and the Auxiliary

men will attend a round of ban-

THE ENCAMPMENT itself will quets, campfires and’ memorial

include the “great” parade which Commander Penland requested. The #iX veterans will ride in separate open cars to. head the parade -at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday.

{tribute to the Union veterans will be Clyde A. Lewis of Plattsburg; N. Y. a World War II veteran,

Sunday afternoon the six will attend memorial

the Veterans of|ial plaque to Gov. Schricker, Throughout the last encampment, the U, 8. Marine Corps band by special act of Congress will appropriate music. five-day meeting,

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anizas tions will be Miss Cora E. Gillis,