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tling matches.

have the tennis people behind me.

difference of opinion over a few ideas that occurred while watching Western Tennis tourney matches at Woodstock Country Club,

Blame it on_the war. A great many things lose their luster when a pation ’is sending its young men on a battlefield. Football fields, base: ball fields, tennis courts have lost a lot of attraction. And I have lost a lot of the ol' pepper, the ol’ moxie.

But life and activity can't grind to a standstiil and we keep going: along; hoping; thinking, even ‘praying. Unlike most competitive sports, tennis is played in genteel surroundings. There's little noise, few demonstrations and the whole atmosphere makes you feel like a gentleman. A soft drink is appropriate, You talk in a whisper. . A: roaring F-80 passing overhead turned my thinking machine on. For the moment, 1 forgot tennis, Didn't even recognize what Jack Rogers, Woodstock tennis pro, was asking over the public address system.

Based on Brute Strength

QUICKLY I recollected the crowd reactions at hockey games, football classics, boxing and wresThe emphasis in foothall is on brute strength, power, annihilation. The vicious, bone-cracking brute with a reputation for flattening runners is exhorted to “smear” the fleetfooted halfback. Maybe break a leg.

In wrestling the villain must eventually scream with pain and pay for his crimes. A clean wrestling match would have to be called because of a rain of pop bottles, paper, cigar stubs, popcorn boxes. Fight fans want action, the dirtier the better, In boxing two men, usually with no malice towards one another, stand and beat themselves to a pulp, rattle their brains loose. A hockey game without at least one incident where a player conks another on the noggin with a stick, is a dull affair. Body slams, fist fights,

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Really there shouldn't be any cause for serious.

. morality a tremendous boost as we took a nd

By Ed Sovol

free-for-alls in the penalty boxes leave the crowd

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smiling. They'll be back, too. I don’t know how many will be with me on] this unusual thought. I asked myself how it!

Would be if we voluntarily gave up playing the rough sports where man .basically tries to injure man. Not in self-defense, understand, but to put, a piece of leather across a line.

Maybe an action such as that would give aur}

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step. up the ladder of constructive human rela- |

tions. Why do the finest and the best always! have to ‘stick their necks out? Why does a man | train his body for months only to have it crushed

Scouts 3 Awarded in one suddén onslaught? Seems sort of ridiculous. Fo or Their Good Deeds I checked the type of young men and women Qu it Sc hi in competition in the Western Tennis tourney. HITS, C 00i All were in fine physical shape. The brutish type

was not to be seen. . \ {

In the blazing sun you see stamina and con-| ditioning. After three sets of hard tennis which | £3 S dine requires the utmost in skill and precision at your! command, you're beat. But not. unrecognizable. ! The crisp, white, clean clothes are soaked with | perspiration. They'll be clean for the next match.|

Tennis players seldom look as if they emerged from a dirty clothes hamper.

‘Like - That Sort of Thing’

THE SPECTATORS respect the talent and night was packed with action. the efforts of the players. If there is any applause, | Commissioners approved aprecognition, it comes at the end of the point or pointment of 2300 teachers for-the set. I like that sdrt of thing. ’ 1950 - 51 ‘school Spectators don’t come by the hundreds of thou- year, named sands. Lucky if they come by the hundreds. I}. seven new eleimagine if tennis required the players to strike mentary princieach other over the head with the racquet, box pals, accepted office receipts would soar, the resignation The latter idea shouldn’t be taken too seriously. of a board mem-|§

Paul E. Jones Elected |} A To Take Place of Leon C. Thompson

The School Board meeting last | direction.

|About People—

Youth's Hearing Aid Just Anti-Draft Help

Ft. Worth Marine ‘Speaks Up’ Hep Of Instrument; Told ‘I'm Not Deaf’

By OPAL

CROCKETT

“Can TI help you?" asked 8. Sgt. E. O. Hilliard of the Ft. Worth, Tex. Mafine Recruiting office as a youth | scanned the directory on the courthouse wall. “I'm hunting draft board Readquartere The sergeant,

the youth said. .

noting the hearing aid, spoke loudly in giving

The youth interrupted him.

Neither should the thought about giving up the rough contact sports. We're not ready for that. We still get a thrill out of bumping heads and screaming until “hold that line” or “Kill that fullback.” I like the way tennis players say, when they have lost a point to their opponents and shake hands when the game is over. We may get smart one of these days, you

we're hoarse for someone to!

“Nice shot”:

In Row Over Russia , A mental examination was or-

his replacement, Ie on CC. Thompson, re-

| | | ber and elected|™ : 3 hae | |

member, said was said to have shouted “damn the pressure of ) {the United States.” business at his d J RE i Judge Joseph M. Howard orfirm, Thompson Brothers Pat- :

Mr. Jones

; : {dered today for a storekeeper who signing board ! |scuffied with three soldiers and|

{dered the examination for Louis

“You don’t have to talk he said, pointing to his “I'm just wearing

loud,”

Storekeeper Faces ff * Mental Inquiry

Scuffles With GI's

' Dr Kingsley Davis, American economist, says world-wide birth jcontrol is needed to prevent the {world's population from out-stripe {ping its food supply. In a United {Nations pamphlet published by {the British government, he said {the world's population will double every 92 years if the present rate of increase continues. In 450 {years the earth would have about 70 billion mouths to feed, and scientific increases in food production can’t keep up with that, he said.

The whole atmosphere makes you feel like a gentleman.”

tern Works, “makes it impossible! |at thi stime to give the time that {the important work of the School i8t. City requires and should have.” » { Paul E. Jones, secretary of the Indiana Trust Co., was elected by ithe four remaining commission- 3 ers to take over the term of Mr.| (gpompson. which would have ex-!| pir

never know, Katz, 67,

an old lady across Meridian St. It takes a good deed to deserve | I" The new commissioner. who The fun he's having at Chief Belzer Reservation, where he relaxes in |was recommended by Mr. Thomp-| a canoe paddled by instructor Leo Mahoney. son as his successor, is a West . ; {Side resident and widely known Indianapolis banker, having started as a messenger for the trust company 23 years ‘ago. Mr. Jones, who is 42, lives with his wife and two sons at 1237 King Ave, Teaching options for the new| .!school year were not picked up on {55 elementary teachers, nine high | {school teachers and three special teachers. Some resigned while others retired, either voluntarily

ed Dec. 31, 1953.

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Who's Secure

jor in accordance with School! 'Board rulings requiring retire-!

| Winton, 19, Englewood, Cal, Cpl. Max E. Sumpter, 24, of 514 E. "V7 a pd a ‘hearing to-| i The television family.is chang« |day. They had been arrested on//N8 from a fireside social sroup |disorderly conduct charges after !0 a silent audience gazing at the altercation in the store. Cpl, Sumpter, stationed at Ft.| { Knox, and his two companions, {stationed at Ft. Riley, Kas., were| {in Indianapolis on furlough.

proprietor of a hard-| {ware store at 550 E. Washington es.onomist,

By Robert C. Ruark ment of teachers over 65. | 0 : 1 | Saw Book

Principals Named FY F UE, | Elementary principals named ™ Pe 3

NEW YORK, July 12—A man we know, who hires a great many young people for a great big business, was muttering in his beard a bit the other day. He said that the people who came to him looking for jobs didn’t ask so much about the ceiling on opportunity or the chances of marrying the boss’ daughter. They asked, straight off, about the provisions for retirement—the pension plan, the knock-off age, and such like. Along the same lines, I picked up one of those newspaper questionnaires, in which the question for the day was: “Do you think you could handle your boss’ job?” Six people, four women and two men, all answered, “no

Maybe It's a Trend

I WOULDN'T know whether we've spotted a trend here, but it looks a mite unhealthy. This is not the way it happened in Horatio Alger—or even in my comparatively recent day. Possibly this is a revulsion against the uncertain times, in which security is treasured above rubies, but, if so, it is a delusion. Because today, of all days, there is mighty little security. Planning for the future has been wrested from individual hands and is now a matter of blind luck.

A certain amount of thrift is a commendable commodity, and you cannot knock the wise ant who peers reasonably at the morrow. The jitterbugging grasshopper is still a jerk. But the young adult who writes off 30 or 40 years of living, with an eye pinned to pension, is equally improvident, if only because he is squandering a lifetime of excitement for a nebulous security, when his reflexes have dulled and his glands lazed up considerably, - : Just recently some unidentified sniper shot casually into a baseball audience of over 40,000 people and killed a stranger. The bathtub and the auto car and the bolt of lightning-still beckon éver to the grave. We have ¢omplicated ordinary accidents with wars and airplanes and atom bombs. In my short life I have seen the value of the dollar split in two. Taxes crush us, S50 we cannot put aside a buck... "They tell us in one book that any “day. a comeét

Foot i in » Mouth

Bureau of Standards, thinks twice before he vol-

unteers the U. 8. Senate any more information on

how he's trying to --preserve the: Constitution:-

Listen: The gentlemen of the Appropriations Committee, led by the terrible tempered Senator from Tennessee, Kenneth McKellar, were lambasting the doctor about the way he kept his books, They

. claimed. he got $10 million a year from Congress

to run his laboratory, and then took in another $8 million for work farmed out by other government departments.

Impossible to Keep Up

THE SENATORS said this made it impossible for them to keep up with the way the Doc was spending money, and added that it probably was breaking the Constitution. The genial Dr. Condon said it was not, either. He said he had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. And then he smiled—and blurted out a statement about his work in preserving the Constitution. This, as it developed, was a mistake. “I am delighted to hear it,” snapped Sen. MeKellar. Dr. Condon hastened to explain that he was working on a hermetically sealed glass case, with helium within and temperature controls without, to keep this document safe for all times. This, he said, was on the basis of the deal hc'd made with the Library of Congress to pay for the job. Ooons? And there he was, trying to defend himself

"from charges that his attempt to save the Consti-

tution literally was actually breaking it. He

- couldn't ‘win. He said he did his dead-levelest to ,. obey the Canstitution,

Condan.

may slip its leash and run spang into the earth, for the coming educational year Earthquakes still occur. Volcanoes still erupt. include Miss Mary Connor, former! Strangers shoot strangers for fun. Established Broad Ripple High teacher who! businesses suddenly become obsolete. Nobody |Will head School 13. Others are alive is competent to plot a future course, eco-/Mrs. Vera Hopping, School 81; nomic or otherwise, for anybody else, Miss Martha Scott, School 30; That isn't defeatism. But it is a personal re-|Kenneth Decker, flection on the fact that any young person who/nold Nelson, School 22; George, fixes his sights exclusively on the horizon of old|Sprague, School 32, and Paul age cheats himself as thoroughly as the religious! Nicely, School 80. i fanatic who regards earthly living as nothing! The following teachers were more than a way-stop on the road to Heaven or named assistant principals: Owen | hell. { Keene, School 10; Mrs, Lucile! If there was one thing we had in these parts,|Jones, School 18; Miss Thelma, it was lusty optimism and supreme self-confidence. | Thompson, School 34; Mrs. Edith We had a creed that one man was as good as {Cambridge, School 41; Paul- Ben-| another, that any boy could become President, nett, School 49; Charles Scudder, and that every day was a challenge. The boss School 60; Nelson Castle, School represented a momentary obstacle to success. You|62, and Mrs, Delores Goshorn,| fixed your eye on his job and reckoned the hours School 91. % 3 i ; c 4 hai | Six elementary teachers were! Smit you cova ogeupy-his-chair. -You gambled "named I 2 They oe Hundreds of Boy Scouts at Camp Belzer learn to tie knots, | There is very little zest to living without the|/Miss Mary Albrecht, School 30;| just like Allen Marmalad, 3313 Ruckle 5. is doing. Scouts at the ‘Unidentified risk-quotient. I believe Ike Eisenhower was the Miss Margaret Marley, School 28; beautiful reservation northeast of the city learn woodlore, handi- | man who said the only perfect security was a Miss Kathryn McCollum, School craft, other sell techniques, life sentence to jail. A young person, just start- 52; Miss June Woodworth, School | : ing out in the rassle with economics, ought to/41 and Miss Ida Conner and Miss | ig SN have a head full of wrong ideas, but a preoccupa-| Rubie Stapp from the kinder-' J . PO i 4 | :

them:

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tion with old-age security doesn’t seem to fit, garten staff. . | Staff Changes { Suddenly Wary, Hesitant | High school staff shifts includ-| MAYBE I AM still-infected by the Fourth of ed promotion of Manley Lewis July, but it seems to me we built the ndtion on/from commercial education slightly hare-brained ideals and infatuation with teacher to vice principal at Man- | the present, with the idea that the future could ual, thus providing two vice-prin-| look after itself. If we are becoming suddenly|cipals. Noble H. Poole was reap-| wary and hesitant and full of forboding we are pointed vice principal .at the betting’ with scared money and any horseplayer! school. | will tell you that scared money wins not. Oliver King was named head |g It happens I am not in a position to hire any-|of Technical's eighth grade de-| one, but;-if I were, I can tell you whom I wouldn’t| partment. | hire. I wouldn't hire the young man who asked me| Paul Nicely, professor of edu-|} about pension plans or the fellow who admitted cation at Butler University, was } that ‘he couldn’t fill his boss’ shoes. Gimme the assigned the principalship of] ee young guy who would look speculatively at my| School 80. He will replace Mrs. |

have bombed it.

three—and I'll nave that um out of there. n | Reassignment of elementary Rn : = othr tepals Soot bk Ee |Mae Allison of School 19 to | School 63 and Mrs. Kathryn Er-| By Frederick C. Othman vin-from School 55 to School 19. ge Other board actions: i 3 : ey Contract for heating, ventilat- d RZ 7 i 4 | |

Sen. McKellar said it t looked to him like he kept| -H-in-a glass case: “In a vacuum,’ son (R. Mich.). . “In a helium atmosphere, sir,”

ling. plumbing and séwer work in: J DEAR BOSS: connection with construction of] {8chool 82 was awarded the firm lof A. R. Shelton” Plumbing & replied Dr. Heating on a low bid of $28,106. | a ; B. -& G. Electric _Co., Inc., won A y % SE electrical’ contracting for | : [School 90, Centennial St. Tibbs Ave. on a bid of $10,671.

' suggested Sen. Homer Fergu- | { Who does that,

"Yes, Th a helium atmosphere, ‘where you are playing uncharted hades with the Constitution,” said the gentleman from Tennessee, ’ ! So the statesmen talked some more about what | pin 5 mn Rn TEE sometimes not they considered the Doc's hocus-pocus bookkeep-| : . W “" . te aah A then.) I ran ing, whereby he spent nearly twice as much money | ‘Motorists Battle The "reward" of cooking a camp stew is eating it. Maxwell |

x . into Mario beas he reported. And then they got back to the Con-| : Meise, 648 N. Wallace St., tastes his luck from two pots on a After Charge of

stitution as pickled in helium. stone-circled fireplace. Maxwell's insignia tell he's an Explorer |, = = Sen. Ferguson demanded to know exactly how WwW, n. much that had cost, and then he wanted to know| ‘Running’ Light { Sout: and Wosdima nae Pipes ea under which law Dr. Condon felt he had the con-| stitutional right to do the job. The Doc went, ulp. He said he'd get up that information as quickly as|ap he could.

A RUNNING fight which cov-|

ed two blocks had one man| g. One, city ducks

tween fashion

Subs

Reported Off Panama PANAMA CITY, July 12 (UP) & X MOR,» —The U. 8. Navy is investigating t reports that unidentified submarines have appeared in waters off the Panama Canal,

4 Rear Admiral Edward W, Hanson, commandant of the 15th Naval District in the Panama Canal Zone, said that so far the Navy had not been able to find any submarines. in the area. 4 . One unofficial report said Stressing Indian influence on i” 3 ¥ ] he - NE American planes had sighted a r | submarine yesterday and “could

EF ¥ Lovise Fletcher in New : desk and mutter-to-himself: “Two years-maybe Bath Forrest "Who resigned.” hij ; ; i 4 gy ; ot ra-Corlfon Sets 10 P. m = i he 7 @As Duck's Curfew Time

Hotel's Fuzzy Covey Tucked in By Waiter; Must Be Protected From City Cats

Two days later the Senators still were questioning Dr. Condon and they still hadn't learned how much he'd spent on embalming the Constitution in| helium. Sen. Ferguson said that if he had to save! money it might be wise for him to quit trying to preserve the Constitution chemically, and proceed to’preserve it institutionally. And by the way, he! said, when was he going to get the figures on the cost of that helium bottle?

Gets the Details

DR. CONDON finally got the details. To date! he has spent $2035 on the case which will hold the | Constitution in an atmosphere of air-conditioned | helium. The money came from the Library of Congress, but he cited chapter and verse of the law to prove this was constitutional. He did not succeed. My guess is that he’s wishing now he never had told those Senators about his Constitution-preserving project, -

The Quiz Master

22? Test Your Skill 222 The

“What new types of railroad locomotives are developed?

What Repean arch from tang? a The keystone, the middle stone at the erown of the arch, holds the other pieces in place, * *

nursing injuries and the police | searching for his adversary to-| |day. Max Troutman, 33, of 3420 E. {26th St., told police he was driv-| ing on N. Illinois St. at 22d last night when another motorist accused him of running through a stop light. Both men got out of their cars {and began a fist fight, according | to information received by the police. After a few blows Mr. Troutman’s opponent returned to his car, seized a stick, and struck Mr. Troutman on the head. » » » THE FIGHT worked its way to. the parking Jot of the Standard Grocery on the northeast corner

are more delijcate, It seems, ¥ than their coun»/try cousins and E | can’t stand chitly Miss Fletcher 4 night air. (Their cottage strad-

Second reason for the curfew, is that the Ritz management ‘wants to protect its fuzzy yellow | charges from any city cats on Charles Silvani, the headwaiter, also tells me that | tifere are other problems in riding herd on a covey of ducks.

‘dling the little green stream run{ning through the Ritz-Garden, is)

(Thomas Malthus, English said the same thing

150 years ago.)

He also ordered Katz held under rw» {$1000 bond until the examination! The {could be made. Hearing on a dis- York, manufacturers of fire ex jorderly ¢onduct charge was con- tinguishers, went up in smoke toe Boy Scout Frederick Merida, 814 Union St., must have helped [tinued until tomorrow. Katz was arrested yesterday at come while controlling the threes | his store after a scuffle with three glarm fire. | soldiers, who sald he praised Rus-| =» = {sia and made derogatory remarks, jabout the Unjted States. Soldiers Released : : ing out Judge Howard discharged the Unanimously comp! ves with | soln Pvt. Eugene Canada, 19, television sets, according to a lof 111 Concordia St.; Pvt. Donie Survey by Dr. Edward C. Mes: and | Ponagh of the University of Cali-

Fyr-Fyter Co. of New

day. Seven firemen were overs

Pop flops down in his big chair {near the television set and won't {budge for an evening out, almost

|formian, Los Angeles.

{ | commercially sponsored entertainé | ment,” he said. ; » » » Attorney Lewis K. Murchie, a {deputy Marion County ino Sy {ill at his home in New Augusta {since June 24, is reported ime

The soidiers said their anger | proved. {was aroused Monday when they] . = . g entered the store and saw a book| Mrs. Jenne Ralston of Duluth, {about Russia lying on a counter. When they asked about the book, the GI's said, Katz told|national debt, The amount repre-

| Minn, left $1443.92 to the U. 8, government to help reduce the

sented two-thirds of her estate,

, ‘ . | "They are the finest army in|The remaining one-third was bes School 8: Ar.iE via ithe world and can lick anybody.’ '|queathed to a church, N g sis a The soldiers left the store, they! a no.» said, but yesterday they decided | to return and “make sure of|promised today that he won't sell his attitude toward the United|any more over-weight bread. The

Baker Charles Elson of Detroit

City Bureau of Weights and M.a-~

In the store, they said, there sures charged he sold 20-ounce VAS An argument .and.a.scuffie in loaves as one-pound which a showcase wag.broken. i 8everal complaints that Katz Elson that “It doesn’t make was preaching subversive doc-/to have a city ordinance trines have been received in the|giving people too much for their past year and a half, Police Sgt. money” and dismissed the case {Harold Morton said, although no {formal charges have been filed.

Referee John Wise agreed s

Said Mr. Elson: “You can’t ps4 They took me to court seven years ago, telling me then my bread didn’t weigh enough.” = = = 4 ign “Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lamb of Oelwein, Iowa, were near the end of their honeymoon today when they discovered their weds ding certificate was dated July 10. They delayed the honeymoon to have the certificate corrected to show the actual date of their pg A 2 Dr. E. E. Dale, University of Oklahoma, says intermarriage of Indians with whites would solve the Indian “problem” and might produce & more vigorous stock.

American history and culture, he said, “Indians are a great people and Indian | blood blood is good blood.”

York—

“New York, July 12.

How'd you like a job putting ducks to bed? There's a man here At 10 o'clock each night, duck curfew time, he sees to it that a dozen ducklings Are brought ashore and tucked 5 | safely inside their -warm little cottage. ~~ Fenty The man is Mario, one of the walters in the Ritz-Carlton outs {door garden. (New York waiters {don’t-have last names until they! get to be headwaiters , , . and

[that little ducks mustn't eat big meals. ! i. Sometimes a duckling gets off {his feed or gets too wet. (I swear that’s what Mr, Silvani SAID!) Then the Ritz goes into action and’ fishes him out of the stream with a long-handled net care. fully stashed away for that pure

pose. On top of all that, the ducks grow too fast. So fast

Ritzy life. 12 new LITTLE fresh crop went in Monday." What happens to the old ones? Not what you think. ; . ‘Old’ Ducks’ Home Mr, Silvani

‘have had the same fear.. So now,

when the ducks are ready: “for