Speedway Flyer, Volume 13, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1944 — Page 2

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THE... Speedway Flyer NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTARIAN NON-PROFIT This paper is owned and published by civic-minded Speedway business and professional men. It is distributed every Friday to every home in Speedway. It is strictly a SPEEDWAY paper. It has been distributed in Speedway for over thirteen years. It is operated in a co-operative fashion—Speedway business men, the town officials, the school, the Speedway churches, all local dubs and civic groups, in fact the entire towif of Speedway contributes to this community enterprise. Everyone concerned with the management of the paper lives in Speedway and is interested primarily in the best interest of Speedway. The Speedway Flyer is, in the best sense of the word, SPEEDWAY’S OWN PAPER. HOWARD ANDERSON, Editor Editorial Office: 14th and Winion Avenue Belmont 355$

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ToOur Customers— From now on our store will be open every Friday evening until 7:00 o’clock. We will close the store on Saturdays at 8:00 o’clock in the evening. We invite you to make our market the headquarters for your week-end food buying. * Zink's Market 1556 MAIN STREET Belmont 2260 Belmont 2261

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TAKE A RIDE WITH THE WAC-TWs official WAG street car may be'seen daily throughout the • Indianapolis transit system advertising the Women’s Auxiliary Corps of the U. S. Army as it carries him- * dreds of dfisoas to their destination. It is one of four special street cars, recently minted by Indianapolis Railways, to boost the armed forces and the Red Cram. Colored green and yeMcW, the WAC colors, it urges women to “Speed Them Back” by joining the WAC. ♦ /

STRATFORD-ON-AVON

We arrived at Stratford around 10, hot and weary. We were able to get seats on the train, but there i were a lot of standers, Stratford j being a rather popular town for the natives to visit on their holidays. For a change, the sun was well out from behind its usual cloud cloak. I believe about half of England had decided to visit Stratford, and the streets were pretty well, populated, both with and military “tourists.” Jack and I had heard how large the Memorial Theater was and had not made any attempt to reserve seats for the matinee performance, feeling that there would be plenty of room, especially since the company has a rather lengthy season and play every day, including a couple of matinees a week.

Little we knew. We inquired] at the Red Cross, soon after we arrived about getting seats, and the girl at the desk was very discouraging. No, they had no seats, and although we might get a cancellation at the theater, she rather doubted it, though sometimes there were some just before the .performance. We still foolishly hoped, and decided to have some tea and do the town until time for the matinee. Talk about "George Washington Slept Here” —every spot in that town and area that Will ever stepped foot upon is marked and tableted and hailed as sacred, regardless how remote its connection with the Great Bard was. We of course went through the “Birthplace”— a wierd old house, Elizabethan style and very dark and dreary. It is no wonder that he wrote such marvellous tragedies living in such an atmosphere. That house is now a museum, as well as the one next door, which formerly belonged to some member of the family, and is now used chiefly as headquarters for the Memorial Association, which owns the property and maintains the museum, located in the “Birthplace.” The house is heavy timbered, the upper floor overhanging and supported upon huge beams, hand hewn and black with age. Every room has an enormous fireplace. The windows are the usual small casements, with diamond shaped leaded panes, that allow little or no light to enter. They have some sticks of furniture there, some accredited to Will’s ownership, and most at least to some member of the family. One old wall cupboard or chest, with double doors in its front and drawers behind the j doors, all quite rickety, was built at Papa Shakespeare’s order, and

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ENGLAND Country Side and Town Staff Sgt. Harry Lilburn Meyer (Excerpts from letters by Sgt. Meyer to his mother, Mrs. Lula Meyer, 2339 N. Gale Street)

used by him. He must have been rather a chary soul—the doors were secured with a series of three locks on each, and huge rusty affairs, too. It is amazing that a piece of furniture could hold together that long though. There were several quite decent chests, carved oak, that I am sure would have appealed to you. Another piece, an old school desk, at which one either stood or sat upon a very high stool—almost a wreck, and with initials of all sorts carved upon it (these latter I believe belong for the most part to tourists, though the students probably started the hacking process). The rooms are all full of documents, etc., in frames on the walls, and glass cases of books, papers, letters, etc.,, relating to Will or his'faimily. Some even being simple legal documents with one of the family signatures (or marks, in the case of some few who couldn’t write).

One item fascinated me. In a room behind the main, kitchenliving room, was an upright pole pivotally set in a small indentation in the floor and set in a hole in the ceiling beam directly above, leaving the pole free to rotate. About a foot above the floor a horizontal cross-piece was attached to the upright pole, extending about three feet to form the radius of a six foot circle. Near the end of this extending arm a loop or half-loop of metal was attached horizontally, hinged at one end and with a hasp arrangement at the othfer, so that the hoop could be opened and clpsed, like a-col-lar. I visioned some animal, possibly a dog, having its neck inserted in the collar and the poor animal spending its days walking round and round, rotating that pole, endlessly, and in some unexplainable and yet imaginable way (my mechanical mind working overtime) providing, the motive power some devilish and mysterious piece of machinery or contraption. My imagination, although working overtime, was quite active enough to furnish a conceivable use for the power

thus generated, although it was most obvious that something was attached to the radial pole for the purpose of turning the central upright pole. But all my imagination was wasted. Upon inquiry, I discovered that this strange contraption was for the sole purpose of teaching little Will to walk. The strap or collar was fastened about the little chap’s waist and he learned to walk with the assistance of the device, but always in a circle! The current issue, circa 1650, of a baby walker. With his

waist secure in the belt, and possibly the-horizontal arm tight in his fists as a support, he wandered about. Can’t you just see him going round and round, perpetually, in an endless circle? How could they ever expect a child trained in such a device to ever be able to walk the straight and narrow? A wonder he wasn’t dizzy forever after, or at least his initiative stunted, after having so long and only to end in the same darn circle!

Maybe Tomorrow? Maybe tomorrow the bells will ring. The whistles blow and children sing * - That peace has come back to earth again And sanity has returned to men. Ross Of Yesterday Housewife (to garbage man): “Am I too late for the garbage?” G. M.: “No ma’am; jump right in.”

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