Speedway Flyer, Volume 13, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1944 — Page 2

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THE... Speedway Flyer NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTARIAN NON-PROFIT This paper is owned and published by civic-nJnded 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 town 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, SPEEDWAYS OWN PAPER. ■ - ■■ ■■ - - ——~“ r ■' i HOWARD ANDERSON, Editor Editorial Office: 14th and Winton Avenue Belmont 3555

STAN’S Beauty and Barber Shop SEASON’S GREETINGS 4905 W. 14th Street BElmont 3411

U. S. ROYAL NEW AND TIRES RENTAL BATTERIES BVSARD 1330 Main Street SPEEDWAY. Belmont 0303 SEAT COVERS SPARK PLUGS

Skidmore’s Barber Shop MERRY CHRISTMAS 1542 MAIN STREET

We are.happy to extend the greetings of the Christmas season to all our friends and customers. We hope that old St. Nick is very good to all of you! A Zink’s Market 1556 MAIN STREET Belmont 2260 Belmont 2261

FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS COLONIAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION has paid semi-annual dividends ★★ Investment Accounts Insured up to SSOOO. Current Dividend Rate 3 Per Cent 28 South Illinois Street «

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Trolleys Face Christinas Sc eze Between jiow and the inal Christmas shopping day, - 23, the Indianapolis Railways > tem will face its, greatest pas iger burdens of the year. Already overcrowded, es daily during the morning an evening rush hours by war w kers and essential employeqs g ting to and from their jobs, tb approach of Christmas will gravate this situation becat 2 of trips by shoppers. Shoppers can help grea to promote their own comfoi and convenience on the trans vehicles, and at the same tir aid the war effort, if they will b sure to make their shopping trips fter 10 o’clock in the morning a~ return home by 4 o’clock r the afternoon. By so 1 doing, shoppers void riding during the mornin and evening rush hours. This the time of day when vehicle, are most congested with war wc kers and vital employees for 3 horn adequate transit service is sc ery essential. Also, shoppers with bt Iles will find it less tiring and tr ilesome to carry their packag on the transit vehicles when they ride between 10 a. m. and 4 :. m. Other acts of cooperatior that will aid Christmas shoppe: are the following: Have the :act fare ready in advance, al ays move to the rear of the ve Aicle to make more room for c hers and, when possible, alight s the center exit door.

Speedway Aero Club The Speedway Aero Club :eld its regular weekly meeting at 8 p. m., Tuesday, Dec. 19, ii the Speedway Town Hall. Stewart Gandolf, the pres ling chairman, opened the me< ting with a brief talk in regard to future speakers and instructors and this was followed with brief talks by Mr. Ray Beeler and Mr. Ed A. Haudgen, representing the Brownsburg Aero Club. Al Butterfield, one of our Members, is a “Short-Snorter.” T become a “Short-Snorter,” one aas to travel an ocean by air. Mr. Butterfield also informed the Speedway Aero Club men aers that the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post originated this unique “Short-Snorter Club.” Mr. Butterfield, being a y. arid has visited most o the war areas, representing the ®rvice department of Allison’s Division G. M. C. Al has pro: sed to discuss his world travels and aviation experience at the Sr >edway Aero Club in the near future. It is surprising that so n any members of the Speedway ?ro Club have had years of aeron utical experience.

| W#< JitMih r W J Qbeccmtet,fatty of Co! ie Handsome replica of antique Waterford glass. Either, Plr cation Garden or Woodland S ice bouquet. Presented by Old So th. 4 ounces at SI.OO. Larger size S .75; ssißl OLD SOUTH Sentimental as old love letters, is dainty gift box contains Gt st Decanter of Cologne, Sachet pil w, Talc and Guest Soap. Choice of ei er Woodland Spice or Plantation < rden Bouquet. SI.OO. Rosner Drug Star 16th at MAIN Belmont 1515

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Seizure By GEORGE S BENSON President of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas

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DICTATORS rise to power by dominating other men. At first the process is peaceful. Always there is a preliminary period of building up influence without the use of strong-arm tactics. Those are the days when, with reasonable foresight, violence can be forestalled. World peace, when it comes, could be preserved by keeping too much power out of the hands of too few men; simple but hard to do. Thirst for power is not confined to the eastern hemisphere; people in America have it. All* of us know such men personalty. The United States’ tower of centralized government built in. late years is following a well known but dangerous pattern. I do not charge that the structure was begun with a fixed aim to create a dictatorship but we are erecting what dictators use for climbing to absolute monarchy. Power NOT to care who else Thirst gets hurt, so long as “Big I” gets more and more power, is the hall-mark of. the House of Tyranny. Somebody wants to boss the public schools and hatches a plan to put all teachers on one pay-roll for all or a part of their incomes, thus to grab their allegience. It would ruin the schools. Parents would have no* voice in their children’s education . . . one-man rule. Somebody else covets a private domain of doctors and hospitals, and promptly paints a pretty picture of so-called socialized medicine. 'lt would restrict the surgeon’s knife to the precision of a drill-press. Picture a medical

SEASON’S GREETINGS . . . TO QNE AND ALL R. L. STAFFORD “House of Service?’ 3448 West 16th Street

\u 1 Is jXkll - 1 - ■r I There Will Always be a Christmas—. _ Christmas we continue to fight and work. Our factories roar with a challenge the world can hear. Our sons are advancing against the will and force of despotism—that those things we hold sacred may survive ... that the spirit of Christmas shall live—to guide the hopes and destinies of men. With the cause of freedom on the march—the true spirit of Christmas grows stronger and brighter. And so, to you, your family, and your distant loved ones, the men and women of this company send Greetings, with the sincere wish that, despite war and its separations, this Christmas will hold much for you . . . and that before another yuletide comes there’ll be a lasting Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men. t & C Jrfetmatf anb a Sappy Sear

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association affiliated with the international union of barbers and bartenders: daily pay-scale, 40hour week, time-and-a-half on Sundays and Debte’ birthday. Tragic DOCTORS are men and Quest those with ambition would surely quit the profession. Theorists, paper-work doctors, and nurses with hookworm would remain for the short hours and sure pay. The medical profession would be a joke; a grim joke. Without ambition, without zeal for service to humanity, there could be no clinics like Mayo and Johns Hopkins, of which we will need so many, and soon ; V . Imagine a ruptured appendix in your house with your trusted surgeon deer hunting, off duty until tomorrow. Imagine a union nurse walking out on a pneumonia crisis while you wait for Miss No. 72 of the graveyard shift to saunter in and take over. Think of 200,000 new doctors, likely required by the shortened hours, educated at $1,500 a year from taxes, 300 million dollars the first year. , Politicians maybe can console themselves that everybody has to die sooner or later anyhow. Socialized medicine, like military aggression, is a tragic quest for dominion. Only Congress has power to protect American institutions from pillage. It is my prayer that America may never rankle from resentment enough to' foment a Black Shirt sally or a Beer Hall putsch. Wars result from thirst for power.

* In A Happy Christmas || | To AU! AL WILLOUGHBY Hornaday Milk Co. 5440 Crawfordsville Road Belmont 1822-J Market 5335

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! Lyons Department Store 1534-1538 Main Street Belmont 2360

Kepler's Speedway Garage AUTO REPAIRS 1430 Main Street (rear) Belmont 3076

Backemeyers Grocery 5236 Crawfordsville Road Belmont 1863 MERRY CHRISTMAS! WE WILL BE OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY UNTIL SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING. Always Open Seven Days A Week!

The owners and employees of the Sharon Lee wish everyone A Merry Christmas! Sharon Lee Sandwich Shop 1504 MAIN ST. SPEEDWAY, IND.

Order Needed Coal Early Please give us plenty of time to fill your order. Because of the scarcity of coal and the shortage of labor we need plenty of time to insure you delivery. BILL GARLAND Champa-Garland Coal Co., Inc. 1422 W. 30th Street Wabash 4543