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Inside Indianapolis ;
By Ed Sovola
PEDESTRIANS are on the alert in the down-
‘ton area. Traffic officers have hope we will be
educated to obey the signals, Yesterday the anti-jaywalking ordinance went into effect, and, in the interest of public safety, I tested it. No teeth as yet. For weeks we have been hearing about the two bucks we were going to pay for walking against the red light, crossing in the middle of blocks "and plowing ahead when the “don’t walk” signal is on. Suddenly the Police Department announced courtesy tickets would be given along with lectures for a few weeks. No courtesy tickets were Issued yefterday. In fact, downtown traffic officers didn’t have any. ; ¢ 4 o COULD IT be the coming election has somete do with the leniency? In the long run that might be a mistake. Traffic officers frankly
admit the only way to have order on our inter‘sections is to have a little sting around. ° ’ On Meridian and Washington Sts., I took off just as the “don’t walk” light flashed on. I heard a sharp, short whistle. “You know better than to cross against the light,” the tall officer said. “Don’t set a bad example for the kids.”
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HE PACKED a lot of wisdom in those few words. Sure, I knew better. What pedestrian doesn’t?
What pedestrian doesn't get teed off at
LECTURE BAIT—"Mr. Inside” tested the new jaywalking ordinance which should have cost him $2. Instead, he tan into "courtesy" and a "lecture."
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 8—The security of this nation interests me somewhat, since I live in it, and once in a while a fellow gets frightened about how easy we make it for our little Red friends to knock us off. The cost of a stamped, self-addressed .envelope, with anything from a fickle nickel to a tired two bits inside, provides a magnificent map of where it is easiest to hit us where it hurts worse. You can clobber the City of New York with about three bombs, working on Brooklyn, Midtown and the Bronx. But —= we don't actually need the bombs. A few -defermined saboteurs with a blowtorch and a half gill of soup can relieve § the boys of the necessity of FA making that long, tiresome trip.
Army Corps of Engineers will give you all you need to know on harbor charts and maps in general and you can buy the maps at nearly any map store.
The Navy on demand will supply hydrographic charts of major rivers and harbors, and if you don’t like the details the Coast Guard will supply them more fully. A routine mail request will get you a list of aerial photos of major American cities from the Air Force. Cost: Fifty cents per copy, and
they come in the handy, dandy oblique and
vertical views. Gy iid od CONCERNING NEW YORK, which figures to be a cinch target, all you have to do is pick up the phone book and it will tell you the location of police and fire stations, main governmental
offices, hospitals, marine and aviation departments, and public works. The Department of Public Works also will supply maps of bridges and pumping stations for water supply. The port authority has-all you need to know about main arterial highways, bridges, marshaling yards, and railroad underground tunnels. The
It Happened Last Ni
By Earl Wilson
You find from a little research that the
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Anti . Jaywalking Law Needs Teeth
the motorist who disregards the caution light and makes him jump? Ls By the same token, a motorist has every right to feel unkindly toward the man or woman, who obstructs the flow of traffic by wandering in the middle’ of the street defying the ‘cars. The business about setting a bad example for the kids really hurt.” I would have taken a ticket gladly rather: than to hear that. “‘Grownups do set too many bad examples. And it's natural for the youngsters to think it is smart to emulate us. So SS
when the father is a speed demon? How much
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1951
How to Win a Bet, Dishonestly—
This Golf Ball Gives Vou Chills Itself
| : " WHAT IS a hoy going to think of the advice 4 . ? he hears from his father about driving safely :
impression is the rule about not drinking while driving going to make on a teen-ager who sees his Pop roll home, loud of mouth and unsteady? Human: error is the cause of most accidents. Take them right down the line—going too fast, passing on curves, not watching the road, running red lights—stop signs, driving while intoxicated, operating an automobile while the mind is operat-
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THE JAYWALKING ordinance was put into effect because we refuse to obey the rules which are designed to give everyone a chance. Without traffic signals, you would have chaos. How many times did you get a break from someone? How many breaks did you give? Yes, yes, you're { a hurry and the next guy isn't. " The most encouraging note yesterday was the overall alertness of the pedestrians in the down-* town area. Traffic officers noted it. At Washington and Illinois Sts.,, the officer described his day .(it was still young) as “wonderful.” How long it would last he didn’t know. “>. Hb 9 THE_OFFICER at Illinois and Market Sts. caught me quickly. “All right, Sovola, none of your monkey business on my corner.” Yes, sir. I think the men are trying to do the best they can with the co-operation they're getting. It's no fun standing out there waving your arms, blowing the whistle and shagging citizens back to the curb. Protection of life begins at home, begins with you yourself. Many of-us who are vitally interested in the safety ordinances, are wondering why the city fathers changed their minds and came up with the “courtesy” and ‘“‘education” gimmick.
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THE PUBLIC was informed the ordinance was to go iffto effect yesterday. There was plenty of notice. Traffic officers observed the public responded. We were afraid of the» $2 sting. No sting developed, only the cry, “Wolf.” Someday when the wolf actually bites, there will be those who won't like the surprise. The wolf is here or he isn’t. There is no other way. Meantime, let's all observe the rules. It's much better that way. -
Calls U. S. Security An ‘Open Book
railroads themselves are delighted to dish out ‘maps of their systems, including all key spots. The RRs also have complete timetables for all schedules, and even tables of freight handle.
The simplicity of sabotage is so beautiful that a hostile Chris-Craft could wreck the waterfront, and a slight bomb left in the dime locker at Grand Central would sure mess up the commuters. 1 can walk a block from my house and poison the reservoir myself, if I am so inclined, and assure
you that I am not. > < >
IN THE PUBLICATION department, we con-
tinually strive to tell everybody everything about the newest wrinkles in scientific developments. We now are in process of bragging our pretty little heads off about the new atom-powered sub-
marine, which has been the dream of the sub .
experts since they first created a submersible. The argument, maybe, is that the Russians already have everything we have on the freshest products of war, out I am inclined to doubt the validity of the premise. I know they drove themselves crazy in production of the snorkel subs they copped off the Germans, while we played it cozy with what we knew about the bugs in the German development. It was pleasing to know at the time that the Russians were all the way up the creek on subs, and were mass-producing a product guaranteed to drive its master mad.
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IT SEEMS TO ME that every time I pick up a magazine or paper or switch on the radio some military or scientific genius is bragging about the new death-dealing ¢andruff we have just whipped up, or is screaming about how many planes we have hid out in North Dakota or someplace. We are a nation of advertisers and I think we advertise too much and too loud. Everything I nave mentioned in this piece is easily available to the dumbest spy that ever took up with a local accomplice, and I see no reason to fret about the Russian A-bomb if a weary tenderfoot scout could rub two sticks together and cause classic consternation in the greatest town in the greatest nation on the greatest earth.
ght Mae Murray Blends
Yesterday, Tomorrow ‘9 . »
NEW YORK, Sept. 9—I had a cocktail date faith, you will attract that which is right for with Mae Murray—and while we talked about you.
yesterday, we also discussed tomorrow.
“Not always what you set your mind on is
"Twas close to 40 years ago when Mae danced good for you. Something that seems to diswith Vernon Castle on the Amsterdam Roof. appoint you—a great shock or a betrayal—after
His wife, Irene Castle, the buzz-buzz was that they'd quarrelled.
Anyway, Mae, tistics, became a aspiring to duplicate. that triump show, or on television—dancing, of course. «pancing may ‘tire others, but it gives me a J bubbled under her black picture hat as we sat in the Oak Room bar at the
Plaza. & Sb
“WHAT'LL you have?” I asked the lady With gop, that, he had .a spiritu
the halo of blond hair under the black hat.
“I think I'll be real dangereuse—queeneen
water with lemon,” she thpught.
But I persuaded her to have Dubonnet with
soda. And off we went. ’ “I was at the St. Regis roof t with two -men friends,” she sald.
that I was there went round the room, and actu-
ally, the people there rose up.”
“Were you ever anywhere you weren't recog-
nized?” I asked her. : * “No, never. Isn't’ that sweet?
then 13, according to her sta-
star. Now at past 50, she is h in a B'way
was said to be sick. But You've.overcome the.shock, you see that the
person or thing wasn't for you, anyway.” And that "eeps Mae dancing happily all the time. ¢ > o
SHE'S BEEN on tour recently, she played
Mocambo in Hollywood and starfed in San Francisco. She made a short fo Columbia, narrating about the great lovers. \ “l met Valentino when I 'was 13,” she remembered. “He was so in love with his career. But aside gquality—I don't mean sanctimonious. It was mystical.” —
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PERHAPS nobody in our lifetime has loved dancing more than Mae. She never took a lesson,
Generally, when dancing, she winds up doing “The Merry Widow,” which she did in a picture. ~ “No, I never tire. Sleep—that’'s my doctor. At a rehearsal, if I'm not needed, I'm on the floor in a blanket taking a nap.” i} ; It is pleasant to her to know that when she
“I think my face is recognized—and Tve , ..' 4, ‘Merry Widow waltz, it's appreciated % ine not to ch , Even here py, 1 a Kom. T could. seo. the beliboys pecking daiahey lHbst lots theif BEE when 1.40 * “around the corner, and the hotel personmel ft Le > a”. $s ~ 5 TAanly ? ; RE ! 3 sisi z : - Jeoming to fhe’ desk 0 ou ot DAY'S BEST LAUGH: In Frisco's 365 Eouans US. fosiing 1s pretty well Club: Jack Marshall said his wite took & driving voted ©. test and fame Uyelen it fe tsar 70 Zed 4
he other night - the says. “When I'm not out working dancing, “The murmur I'm dancing for fun.” ;
THE SHORT AND LONG— Tom Vaughn, Hillcrest Country Club pro, tees off in test.
By BILL FOLGER ITS NEW, It's different. It’s a dud.
It’s the micky finn of the
golf world, guaranteed to knock out your opponents’ golf scores. And it's so simple. ‘All you do is freeze a standard golf hall 100 degrees below zero (Farenheit) and keep it down there for 12 hours. Even Dagmar and” Pepsicola would hav less bounce to the ounce after that kind of treatment. Golf balls do, too. 2 Just ask Bob Webber. 2 o s ~ HE'S NOT given Dagmar or Pepsi the frigid treatment, but he has tried it on golf balls. At his Webber Applance Co., 2740 Madison Ave. he makes specialized quick-freezing equipment—and he's always experimenting.’ He popped a package of highgrade golf balls into one of his super-freezers and discovered that 12 hours at 100 below zero made them dead as a dubbed divot. So he made a bet with some golfing friends of his. He bet them he could easily beat their scores. . ” s n GRACIOUSLY he gave them a package of a top brand of golf balls. They'd been frozen in the original package. The cellophane wrapping was unbroken. There was nothing to warn the unsuspecting golf gamblers that the golf balls had the life frozen out of them.
“Must be my off day,” muttered one of them as his drive down the fairway fell yards short of normal. Another missed the green and said: ‘(ten words. censored here).” ’
” ” o BOB WEBBER collected his bets after the ninth hole. Then, as the advertisements of
How Good Is Your School?
A Lab For True Living, Learning
Is Today’s Well-Run Grade School
By WILBUR A. YAUCH Chapter Six LEARNING CAN BE FUN
How often have you said, “I want my child to get-a good foundation in school. It makes such a big difference?” And you would be perfectly right. The start in life a good school can give is invaluable. Parents cannot always supply the best environment for growth. They may be too poor, or too rich. They may have a home in which the child has no companionship of others his age. They may live in a neighborhood that isn't the best for the child. ’ So they look to the schools, Here, children should live in an environment that will bring out the best in everyone. All the ommissions and deficiencies of the home environment should be corrected, if possible. cn s ao IF YOU LOOK at the typical elementary school of today, you will. see why some of. us despair of getting this done. Barracks - like buildings cramped play space, dirty classrooms with no equipment are poor materials for a good teacher to work with. But a good teacher in a good physical plant needs more than this. Unless the program of the
. school is also rich and stimu-
lating, the pretty building won't do much good. . What the child can learn within the four walls of the classroom {s limited. He needs to be taken out into the big, ‘wide wor introduce him to.
Iq we are trying. to
must come from the real world outside. : # 8 2 THE MODERN TEACHER knows that there is much outside the school that is good material for learning. It seems senseless to have children sit in the classroom on a beautiful spring day reading about how trees bud, when they could all go out in the sunshine and “warm air and see for themselves. So the teacher takes her children out into the real world and encourages them to study it. Depending upon what is being studied in school, the
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SURE IS COLD—Inventor Bob Webber inspects some golf balls chilled to 150 degrees below.
money-back guarantees always say, he cheerfully refunded the money. He'd had his fun. He'd proved his point. That was all he wanted. Mr. Webber has found that golf balls frozen 100 degrees below zero for 12 hours are permanently affected. Even after thawing out, they bounce half
children and teacher leave the classroom and do their studying at the scene of action. The kind of trips and their extent depends on the age. of the children. * Young children will probably take short trips, not far away from the building. They will go out into the play yard, or a nearby woods: to. study the signs of spring. = tJ o SECOND GRADERS might take a trip around the block to study the different kinds of materials homes are built from. Third graders may go uptown
to visit the main stores. Fourth
a foot less than regular balls dropped four feet. . Tom : Vaughn, the friendly pro at Hillcrest Country Club, confirmed these ‘findings. ” ” ” WE GAVE HIM several balls of the. same brand and grade
and Int, identical in appearance except for: color-pencil mark-
graders could take a 4 to a nearby coal mine, farm, etc. Fifth graders might well take
a trip to the capital city to study state government: T have known of sixth graders to take a trip to New York City to attend a session of the United Nations. ’ Children ought to be encouraged to make collections in their rooms. They have a natural tendency to collect anyway, as any mother will testify who has emptied her son's pockets. In collections they get a chance to classify, to examine .
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With this series, HOW GOOD IS YOUR listed for you to check on your visit. Here are the last 18:
THE SCHOOL AS A HOME ONE—Teachers stay with their children
TWO—Children are given a complete set of examinations on entrance to school to determine what they are capable of doing. THREE — Children + are promoted fromg grade to grade on the basis of what is best “for them, not on the basis of subject matter
FOUR—The testing program ‘consists of ‘2 tests in the physical, mental and social de-
Here Are the Points to Check
WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN YOU VISIT YOUR SCHOOL When you visit your school, you won't be able to learn whether the teacher is teaching in the best way. But there are many factors
munity. ’
grade.
“sixth grades.
enthusiasm.
SIX-—Teachers report to parents through personal conferences. The children's edueation is enriched through SEVEN-—Field trips. EIGHT Room ¢ollections. NINE-—Resource people
TEN-Movles, slides, pictures. ELEVEN-—Assemblies. TWELVE—School paper. THIRTEEN—School store and exchange. FOURTEEN-—Pupil government in every
FIFTEEN--Special music activities. SIXTEEN-—Hobby clubs. i SEVENTEEN-—There is a real difference in the way children act between the first and
. EIGHTEEN—The atmosphere of the school 24s one of wholesome activity, friendliness, and
Don't‘try to use this list as a rating scale. You should not expect to find your school 100
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the frozen and regular product,
ings. The pro was told only” that some had been deep-frozen,-He had no way of knowingwhich ones._until he tried them He gave them the bounce test; ¢ putted them, drove them down! the fairway. : The balls frozen 100 below: zero were slow, he said, especially on putting. “They felt mushy—like a cheap ball” On
long shots they fell 15 to 25°
yards short of the unfrozen ones,
Mr. Vaughn found no differs’ ence between the regular balls and those which had been frozen 150 degrees below zero. u ” o
PREVIOUSLY, Mr. Webber fay found that other lots of olf balls frozen to this temperature had more bounce, : He's still working on this idea. ! In the future, he says, it may be possible to golf with just one | club. You'd vary your shots by! using differently treated balls instead of different clubs. A If that day ever arrives, the | caddies are going to call good- ! natured Bob Webber the meanest man in town.
understanding of the thing collected.
A n = GOOD SCHOOLS make a survey of the interesting people who live in their community, Some have been to Europe. Some have come from foreign lands. Some have had unusual
experiences in this country, Children ought to have a chance to hear about all the
wonders of life that adults can bring to them.
The value of the motion. picture can hardly be overemphasized. Right now, when the world is hanging in the balance between peace and war, it would help ts to know something about our possible enemies. We can't take a group of children to a foreign country to live. But, we can bring these countries right into the classroom for them to see, are literally thousands of movies made for this purpose, and most of them are free for the asking. All the schools needs is a propector to show them. n » o THE FIELD ‘TRIP, room collections, resource people, motion and still pictures, fre ail
part of a relatively new change
"in teaching, They are not just
toys to play with, for the best
: foundation a school can lay for
children is a love of learning, and this love is devel by
in the things they enjoy. . School then becomes a true laboratory for living and learning. Under the control of sym-
pathetic teachers, Know. | children
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