Speedway Flyer, Volume 14, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1946 — Page 4

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Christmas Seals To Make Major Project Possible Students to Receive Chest X-Ray The chest X-raying of high school students in Marion County schools will be one of the major projects made possible by the sale of Christmas seals. This program is lauded as one of the major safe-guards in the fight against tuberculosis in this community. It is pointed out that the third year students will be X-rayed. Parents sign requests for this service. Of the 35,000 high school and college students tuberculin tested since the program was begun in 1937, those with positive reaction were X-rayed to lesson danger of infection to other children. It has all been made possible through the sale of Tuberculosis Christmas Seals.

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NOT LONG AGO I heard a story about a drunk man with a new car. It probably was not true but it was thought provoking. In an effort to back out of his home garage, so the story goes, he pushed over a neighbor’s fence and sank nails in three tires. Using an axe to disengage the debris he bashed in a fender until it pressed against his only remaining tire that held air. Unable to make the maimed car run, the inebriate got under it with a wrench and flattened the gasoline line so the engine could get almost no fuel; also emptied the brake fluid on the ground. Finally he lost his temper and assaulted the body with a pick until it was no longer a closed car. After that he discoursed loudly and eloquently on the mistakes of the engineer who designed it. Unsound HOW like this story is Economy the history of our country for the last decade. Instead of doing things to improve productive activity, men of authority viewed everything successful with suspicion and orated on its faults. Wellestablished principles of good business were disregarded. Radical ideas were used, like holding land out of production to boost farm prices. Shortening crops raised prices, to be sure, but dt/nade men idle, as well as land. The landowners got compensation from the national treasury for crops they did not raise and idle workers stood

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The students of Indianapolis and Marion County high schools will be X-rayed early in January. Civic, labor and business groups are united in support of the Christmas Seal Sale and citizens are asked to purchase at least as many as they did a year ago and to make their report as early as possible.

Sober Thought By GEORGE S. BENSON President of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas

in line for dole. To meet the resulting heavy expenses, corporation taxes grew so heavy that they discouraged investments, further retarding productive activity. Idleness WITH jobs scarce and Rewarded poorly paid, people on government relief rolls fared better than many who persisted in trying to earn an honest living by honorable work. This automatically discouraged thrift and efficiency. It retarded the accumulation of personal wealth and hindered the starting of new, individually owned enterprises. People with odds against them discourage easily. The case was more readily diagnosed than remedied. Economic tinkerers in places of authority got a taste of power and drank of it too deeply. Then they quit thinking straight. Each new raid on the nation’s economic strength called for a bigger one to hide it. Gradually thrifty people were being beggared by alms and American business bankrupt by taxes. The only honorable way out of any kind of intoxication is to sober up. Destructive strategy will buy food and clothing for nobody. Letting land lie idle is not farming. Scared money builds no factories and makes no jobs. The most helpful thing our government can do this year is work to this end: Devise the right taxes for the most jobs. This will automatically cure the “gimmies.”

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By NANCY PEPPER SUPERSTITIOUS ALOYSIUS

Are you always wishing on a star? Do you see good omens in the tea leaves? Lot of teens have told us about their pet superstitions, and we're passing them on to you. Most of them have to do with 0.A.0. problems. Well, it’s the stuff that drcams are made of! (Have you seen the “Superstitious Aloysius” lapel pin?) Sighted Boy, Sank Same—Want to know whom you’re going to marry?

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a lot of giggle gushing in the lunch room, it’s just some of the Hep Hedys playing the Corner game with their pieces of pie. You ask someone to name each of the three corners of your pie slice after different boys you know. She doesn’t tell you which is which, so the rest is up to fate. The boy whose name is on the first corner you cut into loves you—the boy on the second corner, You love —the boy on the third corner you’re going to marry. Lucky Rings—No, you don’t wear ’em on your fingers. It’s the popular superstition of letting the telephone ring four times before answering it—providing you’re hoping it will be that certain party on the other end of the line. They say it works—sometimes.

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WHAT’S THE ORIGIN? • • • Q. —Why do we refer to a saying or proverb as “an old saw”? It always reminds me of an old, wornout implement for sawing wood. A.—This particular “saw” means “a saying,” hence, “a maxim or proverb.” It is akin to the word saga, “a tale,” which is of Icelandic origin. Incidentally, saga is pronounced either SAH-guh or SAYguh. The latter, to my ears, at least, is the most pleasing. Q_—ln speaking of a diagonal why do we say “kitty-cornered”? A.—“ Kitty-cornered” and “cattycornered” are corruptions of the word cater-cornered, pronounced either KAT’er-KAWR-nerd or KAY’-ter-KAWRnerd. “Cater” is an obsolete and dialectal word meaning “diagonally.” In humorous usage, these three nonsense words also express the idea of a thing’s being cater-cornered: “antigodlin; slaunch - wise; catawampous.” BeU Syndicate.—WNU Feature*. It is not surprising that the younger generation is so impulsive and jittery—seeing that it has practically been raised on gasoline and jazz.

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Hoosier Hardward Fans To See Quintet In Action Fort Wayne’s Zollner Pistons, who won the world’s professional basketball tournament at Chicago last season after clinching the National League championship, will make their first local appearance of the year against the Indianapolis Kautsky’s at the Butler University field house next Wednesday night, January 9 at 9 o’clock.

So far this season the Kautsky’s have played their home games at the North Pennsylvania street irmory, but the Fort Wayne til' has been shifted to the field house in order to accommodate all of ‘he Hoosier hardwood fans whc want to see the world’s strongest quintet in action. Bob McDermott, one of the game’s all-time greats, who broke the previous National League scoring record by many points last year, will lead the Pistons’ attack. He is regarded as the best shot in professional circles and he has averaged 16.1 points a game so far this season. Preliminary games at 7 aijd 8 o’clock are included on the field house program.

Averages The best hitters in professional baseball have batting averages of between .300 and .400. This means that, out of every 10 times they have come up to the plate, they haye to hit safely three or four times. And that’s hitting, as any ballplayer knows. But look at it another way. These great batters fail to hit oftener than they hit. Time after time they step up to the plate and hit a grounder to an infielder, or fly out, or strike out. In the same way a great ball carrier in football is often stopped for no gain. And a great inventor has dozens of failures before he perfects a successful invention. And a great chemist tries hundreds of experiments before he makes one important discovery. All of which means one thing: success isn’t figured by averages. Nobody will remember the times you struck out in the early innings, if you hit a home run in the ninth. The crowd won’t care about the many shots you missed if you win the basketball game with one brilliant goal. Failures mean nothing at all if success comes eventually. And that’s a thought that should cheer you if the going seems hard.

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