Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1949 — Page 15

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Inside Indianapolis

OUT OF 365 days, you would think a man could

find one day, ene Sunday, at least ‘of a Sunday to loat away as it was o J e. i . Today, in my pdssession is yo-yo. That might not mean anything to you but temperment, If early attempts at of The beginning of the end of this restful day took place behind the Haag Drugstore, Belmont Ave. and Morris St. the other day. Approximately 75 howling youngsters were raising the dust in the parking lot. What gives? Where there are youngsters,” there is news. Broken windows. Punch in

the nose. Stinky Resting up Fatso, to céfiter of the storm was

Making my a dificult underta . Small objects, not quite as Jud as stones, kept striking me on the legs, back, ea A throaty youngster directly in my ‘path tilted his head backwards and yelled, “Skyrocket.” The next instant sparks from this skyrocket crossed my line of vision. Closer inspection revealed the missile to be a yo-yo. h

Young Artist Snarls

“YOU SPOILED my trick, you rummy, My yoyo better not be hurt,” snarled an aspifing yo-yo artist. v ; 2 arden me, 1 34. *1hat ting hit me in tne ead.” . at what I say, my yo-yo better not be Two young men flinging yo-yoes at one another were the attraction. For those able to see. Without looking at the interrogator, one of the men answered that they were performing a double loop-the-loop. From my first childhood I remembered a similar trick. Never could master it. Would it be different in the second? Some of the routines that were shown the kids were absolutely imcredible. Demonstrators Jack Russell and Mason Skenes shrugged off my verbal bouquets. They hinted that it takes practice. Anyone with enough practice could duplicate what was shown. : " ie , maybe more, wanted to duplicate immediately, Jack called for order. He hinted at the top of his voice ‘that the contest was going to be held shortly and would they please line up along the tar mark. ~~ } : : We had from 10 to 15 minutes of uninterrupted sonversation while the neighborhood spinners lined up. Jack informed me he was representing Duncan yo-yo people. He wasn't selling the toys. He wasn't giving them away either, Hmmmm. His. main purpose was to instruct youngsters in the proper handling of the yo-yo so they wouldn't conk -each other on the head, break windows or walk in front of automobiles. Also that the proper place for a yo-yo in the classroom was in the x .

et. 5 sons eA TS.E0INE. 10..Dick 8. champion. LY... also picked a champion yesterday,” added Jack. The previous day’s champion stepped up. Norman Burgett, 702 8. Holines St., had his wool. shield on the front of his sweater. A yo-yo, too. In order to be a champion, a neighborhood champion, it was necessary to complete successfully eight tricks. The first on the list was the #spinner,” That's when the yo-yo is thrown sharply

today. . We : me. I. have. to. give my full-attention tomy work: now. - : on :

Watch closely . . . Jack Russell (left) Mason Skenes show neighborhood children how | a yo-yo works by working four at once. °

at the ground and with a movement of the han it remains at the end of the string, spinning. “The world’s record for the spin is 48 seconds,” sald Jack. “It was established by Tex Schultz in Hot Springs Junction, Ariz.” Hard to believe.

Out of the Running

LITTLE Roy Bolton, 1103 Richland St., gave| it stay down. Up it came. He was out of the contest. Roy stepped back and told me he could do the simple,” basic trick. On the first try the yo-yo stayed down and spun. There was a boy after my own heart. He has the kind of duck I have, At home I would never miss a line of poetry or dec-

Jamation. Get me in front of classmates and “Let me do it—you go ahead neighbors on the school stage and nothing comes and get supper.” I gave up—I| |went to the kitchen — and. I

out. Tough.

Kenny Middleton, 1000 Sheffield Ave, was the cooked real

final victor. He did tricks I knew darn well I could do. Not all eight to begin with but enough to be the life of a party. With the basic contest tricks a man could go on to real popularity. After all, the yo-yo is an ancient instrument of| play. Ancient Greeks played with the yo-yo. Jack wouldn't say whether they used the Duncan yo-yo. There is a picture dated 1791 in the British Mu-/ seum which shows King George IV, then Prince of Wales, playing with a yo-yo. - Now I have a yo-yo. If it takes all day, I'm going to learn how to do some of the things that

thing gives, Yi Let’s see .. . the yo-yo is attached to the middle finger just behind the first joint. Got it. ~ Excuse. * ¢ : : y “Since I'm too late to be first and don’t want to be last—here’s my request for ‘You, Too'-—let's get going with that book.” Howard Harrington, 4950 Michigan Road, I'm ready to go just as soon as I hit 30,000 requests. Today 15 rolled in for a total of 1852.

Glass Houses

By Robert C. Ruark

ATLANTA, Sept. 17—There is a very popular song down here these days, which may afford some indication to the temper of the South. The song is ‘called, with charming directness: “Save Your Confederate Money, Boys, the South Will Rise Again” ~This song is delivered with remarkable confidence, in much the same tone that we used to be told that prosperity was just around the corner, or that Americans would never fight on foreign soil again. . But the South is beginning to feel pretty cocky about the North. ost patronizing, since the recent union riots and the great big bloody battles that occurred on two successive Sundays when Paul Robeson attempted to take his culture tothe people, and.a-fat donnybrook resulted, with cracked skulls and upset cars all around, all around. The South remembers all the terrific fuss that was stirred by some of the northern press when a few hoodlums flung a couple of eggs at the rumpled head of Henry Wallace, down in enlightened North Carolina, and is beginning to speculate a bit on just which sector of the nation is gaudiest In its public manifestations of disapproval.

Saw Evils of Fascism MR. WALLACE, recalls Hodding Carter, the liberal editor of the Delta-Democrat Times, of Greenvillé, Miss.,, reported in anguished tones that he “had seen the evil face of fascism” when a couple of embryo omelettes whizzed past his head. Mr. Carter also reflects in print that Mr. Robeson, the ideological-type singer, had remarked after the first Peekskill outbreak that he had believed New York was “immune” from rioting and race violence. ’ “Apparently,” writes Mr. Carter, “New York isn't immune. From the .presence of more than a thousand special deputies and state policemen failed to prevent far more serious disturbances

the following Sunday . . . But the angry veterans and other protesting Westchester County citizens managed to make the egging of Henry look remarkably weak.” Mr. Carter chides the New. York Times for running without amplification a story that forthcoming Republican and Democratic primary cam‘paigns in Buffalo have been centered on racial issues and personalities, and “that feeling is running high and a heavy vote expected.” “The metropolitan papers of.the East might at least tell their readers as much about racial antagonism and high feelings in New York state politics as they do about Mississippi,” Mr. Carter

says, recalling ‘that the South as a whole was|

denounced for the spectacle presented by the late Theo Bilbo when he made his. own intolerarice the issue of his race for re-election to the Senate.

Grim Satisfaction in South MR. CARTER mentions that there may be a certain grim satisfaction in the South, as it contemplates the idea of a burning cross in Yankeeland, but disavows any attempt to make disparag-| ing comparisons in an effort to distract attention from southern misdoings. But a certain satis faction is there, after all the abuse the Chitlin’| Belt has taken in recent years. | As ever, I am real neutral "These things, as|

an unfrocked southerner gone to live among the! £

Yankees must be, but a word of warning might: be issued here. | If you folks up there in the ideology sector, don’t behave yourselves more graciously in pub-| lic, especially when it involves freedom of speech,| religion, race and politics, the kulture konklave of | the Klan might just pay you a visit and impress] a little etiquette on the northern barbarians. This branch is 'way apart from the barn-burning and lynching department, and functions only to advise| .the North that it is unwise to heave dornicks| below the Mason-Dixon when there are so many glass houses on the frosty side of the line.

Humpty-Dumpty

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—The lamentable fact is this country’s got more bad eggs than good. They're all right when they come from the hen, you understand, but mere man is a fumblebum compared to a chicken. When he gets her eggs, he always manages to crack a few. Some he drops in the dirt.' A few more he overlooks until they've stood in the sun for a couple of days. .

The deplorable result is. that only three or foun eggs out of every dozen produted by America’s hard-working hens are Grade A's suitable for serving sunny-side-up tomorrow morning.- No wonder grocers handle them like emeralds and dole them out at 95 cents per dozen.

Mr. Egg Tells His Story

THESE OVOID observations are not my own. ‘J am quoting W. Dewey Termohlen, who is Mr. Egg, himself. As chief of the Agriculture Department’s poultry section, he buys eggs, mostly the ones under par, by the hundreds of million dozens to hold up the price of same to the farmers. The eggs he powders by the hundreds of thousands of barrels, then he stores them all over the place, including a cave In Kansas, while he waits for somebody to buy this fine, nutritious product. Nobody much is interested. At this writing, he has on hand 64 million /pounds of dried eggs, which cost him (meaning the rest of us) $1.26 per pound. There are three dozen eggs to a pound of dried- eggs. Mr. Egg. therefore, has in stock 192 million dozen eggs, or 1,304,000,000 non-Grade A eggs. A lot of yolk. Good eating, too, though he has been unable to persuade any appreciable portion of the populace. * Some of his egg powder he has sold abroad; some he has shipped to Puerto Rico where the natives have come up with some fine. disguising recipes, and e he has contributed. to thesschool-

The Quiz Master

lunch program. But he’s still the proprietor of] more than a billion eggs. All this Mr. Termohlen reported when he was| called up to Capitol Hill to explain. why the gov-| ernment was paying farmers 35-cents a dozer to| support the'price of eggs, while they were selling] at almost a dollar in most American cities. Sen.| Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, chairman of the Agricuture Committee, thought this was a shame. | So he wrote a bill which would remove eggs and also “potatoes from mandatory price support for the rest of the year. CT Mr. Termohlén, who'd almost as soon eat aj powdered egg as a fresh one, said it wasn't his fault that eating eggs cost so much. The trouble 18 they're scarce. He doesn’t powder them, neither does he buy 'em. All he does is hold up the price| of the low-grade ones. He has no apologies tor that. He still hopes he can sell his powdered eggs (with luck they'll keep another couple of years) | and thereby cut the taxpayers’ loss on eggs by. an| unspecified number of millions. ’

. . Problem in Salesmanship 80 I GOT to talking to him and his assistants on how can you get prospective customers to eat - powdered eggs? This is a problem. You can’t ‘ slosh a bucket of water on a pile of powder, they| sald, and expect to scramble the result, Or, at least, you can't get anybody to eat it. | You've got to follow directions carefully when (their phrase) reconstituting eggs. Plenty of salt and pepper helps. So, they said, does bacon grease. | I'd like to get rid of those eggs, but they| haven't sold me. More later on this fascinating and expensive subject. I also hope in the next couple of days to get the inside dope on our magnificent, multimillion-dollar potato souffle, Perhaps “the potato boss can do as good a job of explaining ' as did Mr. Egg. :

??? Test Your Skill ?7?

Which country has the longest stretch of straight railway? bs It belongs to the Transcontinental Railway, . Australia, which is dead straight for 328 miles across the Neulfatbor Plain. The longest stretch of line without a curve im the United States is the 79 miles on the Seaboard Airline Railway between Wilmington and Hamish, N, CGC. :

, What does the expression “Dead as a Dodo” mean? :

- The Dodo is an extinct bird, Hence the means “finished,” “ended.” ; :

phrase alone, total $127,000,000,000, the amount in history. »

What state is referred to as the “Mother of “Presidents”? ; Virginia, In allusion to the number of chief magistrates furnished by that gommonwealth! They are as follows: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson. a - ; How: much money are the peoplé of the U. 8. saving these days? LL The Sa: In bank accounts and U. 8. bo largest

do anything do my housework, but doing the work not in a woman's line won't hurt the men one bit. stroke of 5, our children

wouldn't open and doors wouldn't cliose. The screens weren't up i late summer— " land the ladder wasn't safe. I ’ tried opening the windows wi de (POX several times and stall sup|and filling the house with insects." My Duspand coined some strong| But mow my husband is the new J |slept, fighting off the flies. The 20d that's the way it should be. /doors still banged and the doors EXPERIENCED. | still stuck—and I got madder and /madder.

and and coaxing. - But there must be a way, I decided. Now I'm not {much of a hand with a saw, but |I brought out the saw, hammer, 4 and box after box of nails—| Why should she be above it in (where everyone would stumble] ‘over them. About supper time I started in. When my husband) [came home I was sweet as could be, but nothing was cooking on the stove. |

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A man surely expects a little “hammering and chiseling.” If he doesn’t, he should. He had plenty of both while single, from the girl who set out to get him-—and won. She wasn't above conniving then.

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