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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

THE HONEYMOON is over, Florida is a bit ‘greener from the Indiana lettuce that was left there and I have to pinch myself to get down to work again, * If I was all glad instead of being half sad, the task of getting into the swing of things would be easier: You sce, Big Oakie III is dying in University Park. That makes me sad; My pumpkin vines in the lot next tronic Rectifiers, Inc., 2102 Spann Ave, mendous. That makes me happy. A groom of three weeks with pumpkins and an oak tree on his mind sure has troubles. He'd have more, too, if it weren't for the men of Fire Station 15, 2101 English Ave, The firefighters, new in the art of pumpkingrowing. promised to take care of. vines ,which we hoped would-produte a winner at the State Muck Crop Show, Oct. 28-31, in Nappanee.

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ANOTHER REASON besides having a winner goads the men and me to do everything posgible for the pumpkins. The Muck Crop Association pays $1 a pound for the winning pumpkin. If this Indianapolis entry wins, the proceeds will go to Riley Hospital children for a Halloween party. No kidding, T about fell over when I saw the largest of the three pumpkins on the two vines. It's the size of a basketball now. You jump up and down when you think of all the growing time that remains. Capt. Delbert Emhardt's men turned out en masse to“escort me to the empty lot. They were grinning like cats: Pvt. Ralph Johnson said. “Those pumpkins got more care while you were gone than my kids.” After seeing the vines I believe {hat statement.” The weeds under the vines are gone, the leaves are generously sprinkled with bug powder phe the ground is carefully covered with cedar chips.

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“no oS AFTER WE HAD quit counting and estimating how much dough the pumpkin would bring, Chauffeur Harry Kauffman and Pvt. Jim Kafader led me to Pvt. Walter Maas’ pumpkin

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Aug. 5—Mrs. William O'Dwyer, wife of our ambassador to Mexico, has been learning to bull-fight. “Yes,” I'm told by a beautiful “She is learning to fight ‘brave cows.’ “And I'm sure,” adds Méxican movie actress Katy Jurado,.‘She gets thrown into the air like I-do by the brave cows.” “You have seen her practicing?” I asked Miss Jurado the other night. For, in truth, it was a little startling to us. 8loan Simpson, beautiful ex-model, was trying to become a matadoress?. It was as though the wife of the British ambassador had gone out and fielded a few grounders with the New York Yankees. But Miss Jurado saw nothing unusual about it. “Oh, Sloan's very smart,” Katy said. “Every 8unday she's at the bullfight. Every Sunday I'm in the same seat, too, for years. It's like American football which you_ love.” oo oe he

BUT HOW DID SLOAN and Katy fight the ‘brave cows?’ I asked. “I have plenty scars,” Katy said. of course: Here,” she showed me a scar on her shin. “The other scars I can't show—too high.” ; Fingering - the scar on her shin, she said, ‘They have a very thin horn—very sharp. When you're close to the cow, you can see the cow move the ears or have one bright eye. That is when they are ready to hurt you.” Miss Jurado explained she and Sloan fight the brave cows only—not the bulls. “If the cow returns and goes against the horse four, five times, they send the cows to the bulls, to raise brave bulls.” she added. “But why does a beautiful girl like you fool around tak- sii ing chances?” I asked. Mrs. O'Dwyer “You feel when everything is over—you feel —RRRRR.” She doubled up her first to show how athletic she felt about it. I suggested she might be in love with a bullfighter. “Oh, no. Bullfighters, they need be alone. No woman. Not for weeks.” The whole thing seemed cruel, I said.

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Rainmakers’ Perils By Delos Smith

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (UP)—The good news for drought-stricken areas of the East and South 1s that many prominent authorities say man definitely can produce rain from the sky provided he has a cloud of the right kind to work with. The bad news is that any man messing around with the weather in areas criss-crossed with city and farm interests, had better watch his step or he will find himself under a steady rain of law suits, Present drought areas of the East and South are urban and rural, freely intermixed. As the result, only one rain-making project has been publicized and that one has $500,000 insurance against suits, > Db .D BUT IN the mountain and desert states of the West, where towns are far apart and anyway rain helps everyone, professional rainmakers are

numerous, The best available statistics show they

have contracted to produce rain if and when. they can over more than one-third of the area west of the Mississippi. East of the Mississippi, the professional rainmakers are very few in number and are disinclined to advertise their prowess, in contrast to their western ‘brethren. One, the Wallace E. now is preparing to produce rain in the parched Connecticut River valley. Tobacco farmers are paying the fee and also the premium on the insurance. Dr. Howell was emploved by New York City In 1950 when its reservoirs were threatening to run dry. It rained more than the normal amount that summer and he is named along with the city in 116 pending suits asking $1,250,000 in damages. The plaintiffs are farmers who didn’t, need so much rain and resort keepers whose business always is hurt by rain.

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WHAT IS NEEDED before professional rainmaking can progress are court precedents establishing degrees of responsibility and a national law. or uniform state laws that will permit

“drought areas fo save themselves by rain-making

if they can, even if adjacent areas get so much rain it hurts certain kinds of business. The freshest objective word on rain-making comes from Dr. Bernard Vonnegut who—with two other scientists of General Electric Co. Dr. Irving Langmuir, a Nobel Prize winner, and Dr. Vincent .J.. Shaffer — conducted pioneer experiments beginning in 1946, although the first experiments of the kind were conducted in Holland fn 1930. = % Writing in the year book of the American Technion Society, he described the series of expefiments, both in the laboratory and-in the. field, which demonstrated conclusively that man can make it rain provided he has a super-cooled cloud, and not necessarily a large one. “» ch ob | SUCH A CLOUD produces rain naturally when Its conditions are right. It is made up of many tiny droplets of ‘water, These condense into larger drops -which break: up an unstable situston.’ But to condense; there must be condensing

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patch. Pvt. Maas planted several of the seeds in the rear of the station to get into the act. Ha. Pvt. Maas doesn’t have a single pumpkin on his vines. Plenty of blossoms. Blossoms don't pay off in Nappanee. Of course, Pvt. Maas is on Capt. Joe Seyfried’'s shift, That puts him on the other side of the fence in this particular contest. Haven't figured out what to do with Big Oakie 111 or what happened to him while I was gone, He wasn't in rugged shape three weeks ago. Right now he has just a little ‘more life than a broom handle. 2 Should the fhird attempt to have an oak in University Park fail, State Forester Joe DeYoung. who has been with me from the beginning on the nak detail, is going to sell pencils on street corners, He swore that when he planted Big Oakie 111, The third attempt was to have been charmed I swore I'd help him during my off hours if we failed. How are pencils selling these days? “> Ne WITH THE PRESENT out of the way, perhaps you gentle friends might want to know about the recent past, The honeymoon-vacation to the Isle of Capri in Miami Beach was one for our memory book. A large book. Evervthing a honeymoon couple could wish for was at our fingertips at the Isle of Capri. The Rainmaker provided ideal weather for sun bathing and swimming in the beautiful hotel pool. Hunger and thirst were no problem with the Carnival room only a few steps away from our air-conditioned room on the second floor. H. 0. Wright. Indianapolis owner of the Isle, Aew down unexpectedly and surprised us by play= ing host. He knew where to go and how to get there. One day he flew Rosemary and me to Key West in his Navion. Miami Beach and Miami are like shining jewels from the air. When you finally get back, and IT don't mind saving with some reluctance, and you take a look at the bride, the good fortune that stayed with vou throughout the trip, you eagerly say a few words of thanks to the Master Planner. He certainly had a hand in everything from the heginning, and as far as two of His kids are concerned, not one detail was overlooked. Nice to be back.

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“Oh, no. In your country, when the bull is beeg, you take the bull and keel him, * Kh oO “IN MEXICO, if the bull is brave, he can fight, and save his life. When the bull is so brave, the people ask for his life. The matadd is very jealous because the bull can go home. And after that the bull can have a thousand wives. A harem.” “It still seems cruel,” 1 argued. I didn't mean about the “thousand wives.” “What about football?” fight over one football? Why not give one ball to each team so they don't fight? break arms and noses?"

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“You have known bullfighters who were killed?” “Oh, many. Many are afraid. They fight the

‘bull because they are afraid. Ees really awful, though, to be a bullfighter's wife. Every time they say goodby they know they may not come back. “The greatest bullfighter was ‘The Maestro,’ ” she said. “He fight 25 years and was never hurt. “He retired. Nobody want to see a man that always win.” Katy, a niece of ex-President Gil of Mexico. is also related, somewhat, to Linda Christian. She's a big hit in the new picture, “High Noon.” “My grandmawther says we were very reech once,” she said. ‘‘Grandmawther says ‘We used to own Texas.'” oD ALL THIS TALK about Sloan and Katy fighting the “brave cows” had greatly disturbed my beautiful wife, who wanted to know whether they wore any protection under their clothes, their “Spanish dresses.” “Not a bit,” said Katy. “If those bullfighters had my girdle on. those bulls couldn't get anywhere.” the BW said. < oo oe TODAY'S. BEST LAUGH: A showgirl told Joe Warner that so many guys asked her out the other night it took her four ballots to make up her mind.

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Pretty sooff politicians will be proving they're vegetarians—nothing but straw votes and grass roots. . .,. That's Earl, brother.

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particles which in nature are ice crystals. But many super-cooled clouds contain no particles and the scientific problem of rain-making was to provide them by ‘‘seeding” the cloud. First, it was solid carbon dioxide, or dry ice. Later silver jodide was proven even more ‘practical because it could be sent into the atmosphere from the ground in clouds of its own to deal with whatever super-cooled clouds it encountered. Dr, Vonnegut wrote that ‘one gram of silver iodide properly dispersed is enough to seed about 100 to 1000 cubie miles of super-cooled cloud.” The apparatus needed is simple and the costs small. oe oe <&

“THE ANALYSIS of the problem of whether these rain-making operations (in the West) are increasing rain over the target areas is a difficult statistical problem,” he wrote. “Despite these difficulties of analysis, the data that are accumulating indicate more and more that substantial incredses in precipitation have been achieved in many areas. With a few exceptions, the clients of the rainmakers in the West are encouraged with the’ results of their rain-making experiments.” But much scientific work remains to he done before man thoroughly understands nature's processes, till progress has heen made. Dr. Vonnegut remarked: “In spite of the apparent hopelessness of man’s ‘doing anything about the weather,’ it is beginning to appear that by more subtle methods he may sdme day exercise a considerable measure of control over its course.”

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I bought some gloxinia bulbs in February and planted them as per instructions. They have not bloomed yet although it said “they would bloom in six wéeks. They are very slim and limp

ristown. 2 A—The slow growth and limpness suggests first that they're starving and second that they're getting too much water. Gloxinias, like African

Read Marquetite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

violets, are gluttonous feeders. They need rich, porous soil. If you set them out in tight soil then give them as much water as they would ordinarily need it stays around the roots too long instead of draining through and letting air follow down into what should be porous soil. In general, gloxinias will respond to the same care you'd give African violets. Except that gloxinias go jnto a rest period in late summer usually. You might try repotting your plants.in a richer more suitable soil. If you don’t have suitable soil in your garden, try one of the packaged mixtures you find in garden stores or ask a florist to prepare some for you. ; ‘

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TUESDAY,

MARION COUNTY FAIR— by

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SEEING THE SIGHTS—Left to right: Kaye Cox, Sandra Becker, Judy Adams and LuAnne Mc.

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LAZY AFTERNOON—Teddy | Hunter, brother, Kenneth, 12, wait for the judges to'get around to their Chester White hogs. If you're curious, Kenneth is on the inside looking out.

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GOVERNMENT ECONOMY —

Tax Rates Are At An All Time High

This is the second of a series from Sen. Douglas’ book, ECONOMY IN THE

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

CHAPTER TWO By PAUL H. DOUGLAS

United States Senator from Illinois SINCE the«putbreak of war in Korea, we have twice raised individual income taxes, corporate taxes, and excise taxes. We have also passed an ex-cesg-profits tax. Tax rates are already at record levels for a period when we are not in an all-out war. The first place to start balancing the budget is with the amounts of government spending - on the appropriations bills as they

come before Congress. Huge sums can be saved by economies,

1 want to make it clear we shall not be able to balance the budget through economy alone. We cannot decrease spending by $14.4 billion—the probable deficit for 1952-53-—-if we continue our preparedness programs. so we can protect ourselves against the threat of Communist aggression. After having made all the economies we can, the next step is to close a lot of loop-

holes in. the tax laws which have grown up through the years. :

think I have placed myself in a difficult position. I feel very strongly about the threat of Communist aggression and believe in having the country strongly prepared for defense. This makes huge expenditures nNneces|tary, I,also believe in welfare programs designed to raise the standards and opportunities of the underprivileged. The costs of welfare, as 1 have pointed out, are minute in comparison with defense costs. But they do take money. How do I reconcile a belief in welfare programs and a high level of armed preparedness while urging economy at the same time? : To my mind, this involves no

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The national government in 1951-52 will spend an estimated 25 per cent of the total national income. This is the highest non-total-war proportion in our history. The chart is based an figures for five-year averages, except for the single year 1952,

for difficult -. decisions which must be made. In the first place, a period of intensive prepared-

contradiction at all. Huge defense expenditures do not justify waste in the military estabh-

lishment. .Unjust subzidies to ) ; the well-to-do should be- ness is invariably accompanied dropped.: -And 1 have urged by comparatively full employmany reductions in ‘welfare pro- ment. Economic distress ty and

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GRAND CHAMP—Jerry Jarrett, 12, RR I, proudly poses with his Poland China hog after it was named grand champion among the Poland Chinas at the fair.

tress which does occur results from inflation which can be held down by reductions-=in government spending. That is why 1 have refused to play favorites in my for economy. I have not exempted welfare programs from my proposals for reductions The extent to which we go forward with welfare programs now should largely be determined by the extent to which they will aid in the defense effort. And I do not consider this effort a short-range proposition.

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THE COLD WAR may not break out into.a world war immediately; it may not come for 10 or 20 years If we devoted all our efforts to- short-range goals, we would have pre-com-mitted all our reserve strength. We would find ourselves weak

in 10 years and possibly fall prey to the forces of aggression when we. could not ade-

quately defend ourselves, We should not stop all basic research, nor should we apply all our energies to developing

discoveries ‘already made. We must not allow our schools to deteriorate, We cannot shut off all housing construction. We cannot permit the level of

We need; in sum, to face the possibility of a long pull

On the other-hand, we cannot permit inflation to run rampant. So what types of wel-

fare programs should we pursue and how should we pursue them. 1 shall not attempt forth any comprehensive program, but 1 should like to list some examples of welfare programs which not only are. good in themselves but also relate to our long-range. defense effort: ONE HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION. be built where they: can best fill civilian defense needs. Thus we can provide better hospital facilities and protect ourselves

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TWO FOR DINNIMR—Vivian (left) and Kathryn Schmidt of ory Township take time out from seeing the fair to feed the Nubian dairy goats they have on exhibition, Just fourists at heart, the goats don't mind crowded restaurant facilities.

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in case of bombings at the same time, TWO -—- AID TO MEDICAL EDUCATION. We now have a shortage of doctors. Encouring and helping young men and women to train for this profes&f6n~ and helping the hardpressed institutions which train them will help the general popu“Tatjon; it will d1so be immensely valuable in case of all-out war when many more doctors wil’

be needed. THREE REHABILITA TION-OF THE HAND]

CAPPED. This is a socially desirable program, and ‘it will increase the supply of manpower. FOUR DEALING WITH PROBLEMS OF THE AGED. Many people over 65 are ready, willing, able and eager to work. But they find their employment opportunities limited. They are a great reserve of manpower, FIVE — HOUSING, Governmental aid should largely be restricted to those industrial defense areas where housing shoptages exist. But all slum clearance should not be stopped, for that is a long-range invest=

ment in family life and in human beings. SIX AID TO GENERAL

EDUCATION. We cannot afford

to neglect ouf¥ children. -Such neglect would be socially unde-sirable-.and disastrous in. thee co. long run. SEVEN — (C1VIL RIGHTS.

This involves only negligible exe penditures, but a good fair employment practices commission would be a fine contribution. It would stop a lot of unfair discrimination because of race or religion, and it would help the country get a fuller utilization of its manpower. Trying to protect the country from external aggression, ine ternal inflation, and social in equities. .is a-sound, integral ap= proach to public pélicy. It can be done, and it should be done.

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