Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1950 — Page 24
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THERE ARE 'NdIvituAls Who Nave no feds 0 revulsion toward committee meetings said Mr. Gable, “and when we realize a growth, duys who cringes at the mere make sure it doesn’t wither and die.”
extreme I'm oné of those mention of committee. ;
. 80 you can imagine how. I sweat when an tensify the pr of having high schoo! . 18 Hvitation to attend a meeting of the Indianapolis So tg ri to adult igh 5 961 3pessh vic Pride Committee hit me. I'd rather dig a civic pride and plugging Clean-Up Week. grainage ditch, if it would help the town, than sit through hours of talk in a stuffy room with un- culprits-in greater Indianapolis who contribute in| comfortable chairs and no ashtrays and you get varying a and at ae times to the pli
the idea about meetings, don’t you? But, I led with my chir¥ on this “Boost In-
dianapolis” campaign and there was no way to Girls, said her groups had several ideas for.pro-
back out. Of course. I didn’t know what would sctually take place. The imagination was the only thing working. Made up my mind and had a good
. story ready to excuse myself at the two-hour
mark.
Two Second Man .
-A STICKLER for punctuality, I hit the west room of the War Memorial two seconds before ified hour The door closed behind me
and Mrs. Brandt Downey, chairman of the educa-
tional-committee, -an offspring -of -the-parent-com-mittee, announced she was ready to proceed. Introductions were dispensed with quickly. George Gable, chairman of the Paint-Up, Fix-Up, Clean-Up Committee, arose and told us the big week to brighten the city would begin Apr. 22 and last through May 6. > As in the past, he said, Paint-Up and the-rest. Week would start off with a parade, a program of block beautification and again plans were being made to paint some needy person's home. He said the city. administration pledged 100 per cent co-operation to the committee. Business houses, factories, drive-ins would be contacted and urged to make .a special effort during the two-week period.
Action . . . members of the Civic Pride Committee, (left to right) Mrs. Brandt Downey, Mrs A. E. Vehling, George Gable apd Mrs. George
Smith, get down to brass tacks and paint.
1 NEW YORK, Mar, 18—It is real nice to see that Mr. Jerome Herman (or Jay Hanna) Dean is back in our cultural midst again, because the language has been getting too fancy lately, and we need somebody to bust us down to basic Elizabethan. Mr. Dean, as a New York Yankee staffer for television, radio and other chores beyond the call of duty as a scout, will soon be in a position to improve the language down to coherence again. Mr. Dean is a former pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, At one time he was the best pitcher in
the world. At this period the second-best pitcher Be-
tween them they were an elo dent afgument’
against monopolies.
A Free-Style Linguis? FOR SEVERAL years since his retirement Mr. Dean has raised his voice loudly in behalf of baseball, over the radio of his adopted home town, to such point that at least one narrow-minded educator complained that Mr. Dean was undoing all the work of grammatists since the invention of the parsed sentence. ‘ Dizzy's usage of the English language is of the functional, or hunt-and-peck vocal school, It is practical rather than effete, and architectural pather than artistic. When Mr, Dean announces that Musial swang and missed, he does not mean that Mr. Musial swung and missed. = ophe game “applies to-a-~Dean description of a.
“hasty return to third base.
“He slud into third,” Mr. Dean would say, with righteousness in his chest tones. Pizzy did not mean “slid,” and more than he meant “swung.” “The players returned to their respectable positions,” Dean once said. I choose to believe that he meant that the men were earning a decent livand hence their positions were respectable. , . Mr. Dean, to my mind, is as much of a cultural contribution to our time as William Lyon Phelps
v Ld All Muddled Up WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—Down in Brazil the natives plant coffee trees. They pluck the cherries, save the seeds, dry 'em, sack ‘em, and ship ‘em to the U. 8. A. When a Brazilian coffee man” wants some coffee, himself, where do you think he buys it? In New York, of course. It's cheaper there by about 15 cents a pound than it is in Rio. And I don’t suppose a bride could make a cup of coffee any muddier than the economics of the coffee trade. . “Just doesn’t make sense:’.-moaned Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D. Towa), chairman of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee that has been investigating the high price of this bargain coffee these
The Senator Sticks to Milk THE LONGER the Senator delves into this wackiest of international businesses and the more he learns about Santos hard coffees and strictly soft _dittos the more ~orfised he gets. Sometimes I wonder why he bothers. He doesn't drink the stuff with cafféine in it, himself; his favorite tipple ts milk. From Iowa cows. } * 80 there was the Senator announcing that his beverage detectives had learned the Brazilians have been doing a land-office business lately buying up their own coffee on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Why? Leon Israel Jr, who owns one corporation which grows coffee in Brazil and another which sells it in New York, smiled. That's easy, he said. Brazilian coffee is cheaper In America than it is in Brazil. ; The white-haired Senator ‘was so dumfounded that he almost stuttered. “B-but that is absurd,” he said. -
The bald-headed coffee magnate, dappet in a
wyell-cut suit of gray flannel and a cravat about
the shade of a ripe coffee cherry, said all he knew
The Quiz Master
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“We must plant the seeds of civic pride well,”
- He urged the educational .committee to fo n
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“Let's try to remember that there are 500,000]
dition we are trying to combat,” added Mr. Gable. Mrs. A. E. Vehling, representing the Campfire. §
moting Clean-Up Week and were ready to’ go ahead. v : | Mrs. Charles Worley, representing the Parent-| Teachers Association, reported high school speech ’ students were being well received by adult groups and asked if the program could be intensified. - . William A. Evans, administrative assistant to: the superintendent of schools, said the supply of speakers was in no danger of not being able to _meet the demand. sie in] CEERI Be glad to THEVE “more Invitations for students to speak.” said Mr. Evans. = 5 ~+ - Shortly it was decided to have the students, give five-minute talks to luncheon clubs during, Clean-Up Week. Very little fuss, minimum of useless hot air was expended. i Mrs. Jasper Scott, Federated Clubs representa-| tive: Mrs. Charles E. Mason, Girl Scouts; James Hess, Boy Scouts, and Mrs; George Smith, Tepre-| senting parochial schools, said they would report to their organizations and see to it that each! would do its part. Richard Lennox, chairman of the Civic Pride Committee, spoke a few words. He sald certain people will clean and refurnish their homes and property this spring without any. urging. The! success of the campaign hinges on how many! citizens can be persuaded to action who would not otherwise. He stressed the fight for a beautiful! city must be a continuous one.
Positive Approach | ALL OF a sudden, Mrs. Downey announced that if there was no further business the meeting would come to a close and would I -say a few|
words? There wasn't much left for me to say. Action
is what this town needed. We ought to have more Commicgioner L. V. Phillips came across with one of the precious ducats to the finals. -
pride in what we have and we should strive to improve what needed improving. I suggested we try the truly a “gem of the Midwest,” The negative approach might be shelved for awhile, I suggested. | The meeting was over. We all went our sepa- —~M rate ways. I couldn't help feeling that a grea ‘deal had been accomplished and more would be. She Those people had their dander up and feathers TOU ruffled. Wouldn't it be something jf everyone quit-, talking about what ought to be
. done here and instead went ahead and did-their- bit? Boy, would yr this be a town, Good meetings oh
his nickname of Dizzy, Dizzy has ever been as canny as a. veteran he-coon. If they called him Dizzy it was out of jealousy. Nobody understood bo him, including: Branch Rickey, who was the guru of the Cardinals at that time. Mr. Dean wished fiscal recognition for being the best pitcher in the world, which made him unnatural in the eyes of = Mr. Rickey, who likes to keep the root of all evil in his own truck garden. : ro I recall Mr. Dean as quite a boy. For a long time he was as good as he thought he was, and even if he wasn't, he could argue his way out of it. “Rene season I J. 40ld An .ODROSINE, team exactly what pitches he proposed to throw at each batter, ¢ He not only kept his promises, but limited the opposition to three or four hits. The year Diz won 30 he could have spotted the A-bomb secrets to the Russians and still have murdered them in their =)
own back yard. ; Mr. Dean was always colorful. As I remem-
ber it, he stubbed his toe and ruined his pitching arm in an all-star game in '37 or '38. He said favoring his sore toe caused him to strain his arm. He was never at top form after he stumped his toe, he said, and I would like to ask what statesman ever produced so eloquent an alibi?
1r'!l Be Education, Unlimited . «
1 THINK that having Mr. Dean on the air may
to it. The press agents and bureaucrats have nice-nellied up the tongue to a thin shadow of its former robust self, and before long all our Kids will be using “contact” as a verb unjess we begin. to rub a little salt into the language. : In a way I regard Dizzy as the James Joyce of the sporting broadcast. What he says may not exactly translate into impeccable prose when reproduced, but it sounds awful round and ‘ripe and .pretty when he says it.
By Frederick C. Othman
was that the Brazilians felt New York was the cheapest place in the world to buy coffee. Far cheaper, certainly, than Brazil. vo “Who -is -the poor. sucker in. Brazil who ships coffee to New York and sells it for less than he paid for it?” the Senator insisted. I thought there for a minute that Mr. Israel would identify himself as such a one, but__he didn't. He said merely that the low prices in New York had been holding down the size of the shipments lately. That flabbergasted the Senator still further. He hasn't been investigating low prices in New York. He's been looking into high prices. “The figures are very complicated,” interjected
his counsel, Paul Hadlick. Yes” the Senator
more in Brazil than here?” . Mr. Israel said the answer to that was simple, too. The Brazilians feel that coffee prices will stay high longer than the American trade believes. So, all right. If everybody is properly confused, like the Senator and me, we'll consider Leon Israel Agricola y Exportadora; 8: A: the Brazilfan-cor poraiog:avhich runs his coffee plantation.
He's Losin’ and It's Confoozin'
FOR THE LAST three years now Mr. Israel has been planting more coffée trees, and the more he plants the more money he seems to lose. He now has 425,000 trees producing coffee and what ¥ he lost last year in Brazilian cruzeros was no laughing matter. - : He's planting oii more trees. He hopes soon to have half a million giving coffee cherries. “So “you can lose more money?” inquired the. Senator from Iowa. Mr. Israel said no, he hoped to get in the black this vear. I hope so..too. Maybe he can sell his ‘beans- in Brazil instead of in New York, where his Leon Israel Jr. Inc. can buy coffee cheaper than Leon Israel Agricola can grow it.
27? Test Your Skill. ???
Q—Who founded the Society of the Cristophers..
and what is the group's objective? A-—Father James Keller of New York City is -director of the Christophers, meaning
! rs. There are at least 200,000 members, , . , ghiefly in the United States. There are no dues, no
Meetings, no denominational requirements, The . Jdea is to get people to do something beJust grumble about things they don't like education, goveramens, labor-management and > for telephone ex-
Q—How many Labor prime ministers have there been in Great Britain? : A—Two—Clement Attlee and Ramsay MaecDonald. WER Te } ¢ *
: e 4 : Q--Is the raccoon found anywhere in the world. besides the United States? A—The raccoon -is found only in North and Central America, from Alaska in the north to Costa -Rica in the south. It is conmimon to the whole of the United States. -
® © ~~ Q—Which was the last state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution? ey
was the
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