Speedway Flyer, Volume 18, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1950 — Page 3

Service Gives German Women Will to Live NUREMBERG. GERMANY— Hundreds at German women, exhausted and depressed by 10 years at war, poverty and uncertainty have found strength to go on-living with the help of the Bavarian Mothers Service. This 15-year-old independent voluntary agency of the Evangelical church of Germany, headed by Dr. Antonie Nopitsch, is helping about 4,000 women a year to find themselves again. It operates seven "rest homes” where a woman can have a two-week spiritual retreat from flw struggle against poverty and trouble. (hie at the rest homes and also a Bible school and the headquarters at the service, overlooks the green farmlands of Stein, near here. There a mother can find a soft bed, quietness, spiritual help and friends. It Is a complete change of surroundings.

Unable te Sleep Some mothers who come to Stein and to the other rest homes have been sleeping on straw mattresses and chairs for so long in crowded rooms in Bavarian villages that they cannot sleep on soft beds the first few nights. “It's like heaven,” exclaimed one woman. “It’s like a fairy story here. It’s all light and bright and there is plenty of room and big windows. “Everyone is so friendly—l feel I am loved again.” The small, tired mother spoke with tears in her eyes. She gazed at the pictures on the walls of the dining room, longingly. Her face was lined, but she smiled occasionally as she told of her life in the last few years as a refugee. Her husband was the manager of a distillery in upper Silesia, now a Russian occupied territory. They had three children. He joined the German army in January, 1945, and was taken prisoner by the Russians. Hie was sent back to Her in October, 1946, ill and depressed. He died a year later. She and many other women in the village, in the same plight, fled with their children by wagon across the border into the Bavarian forest. They live in peasant houses and villages. Some day they would like to go back home “when the Russians are gone.” :

Many Can't Get Jobs i They cannot get jobs because at current unemployment. There are about 100,000 such mothers in the area served by the Bavarian Mothers' service. They are allowed about sl2 a month from the government, in an economy where a pair of shoes costs SB. “Nobody wants them," said Dr. Nopitsch. “It is worst for those women whose husbands return from Russian camps. “The man returns, exhausted, without energy, ideas or initiative. He is always thinking about his comrades who were left behind in camp. He is hardened. He does his own sewing. He has been away for so many years that the children don’t recognize him as their father. “Imagine what this does to his wife, who has grown old with the cares and worries of trying to make ends meet. Difficulties arise and the neighbors gossip. There are seven million more women than men in Germany, so that the men are encircled by women.

Ptlietmen Sell Blood T# Help Fellow Officer ST. PAUL. MINN.—St. Paul policemen are doing something unique for a unique fellow officer, Alfred E. (Big Al) Jakobson. Jakobson had one of his lungs removed recently in Rochester, Minn. His officer friends made a deal with the Rochester hospital, which billed Jakobson for SBOO. The hospital agreed to take their blood at $25 a pint and apply it to Jakobson’s bill Four officers went to Rochester, contributed a pint of blood apiece and knocked SIOO off the bill. Other officers are planning to follow suit. Big Al— he’s 8 foot.7—is a familiar figure in the St. Paul loop, where he has been a traffic officer most of the time since 1929. , Always eager to help tourists, Jakobson produced, at his own expense, pocket sized maps of the Twin Cities and handed them to confused visitors. Then Big Al developed another idea, after night motorists almost clipped him a couple of times. He sewed reflecting green material on the palm side of his right mitten, and red on the back. At night he’d halt traffic with a wave of the red, then wave them on by turning and opening his h»nd But more unique among policemen was Jakobson’s refusal of a promotion to detective. Big Al had a good reason. He was studying law nights. If he took the detective rank he’d have to quit his studies to serve a night shift ■ now and then. He kept his patrolman's rank, worked days and studied nights, right up to the time he became ill. Just before he got sick he passed an examination for the rank of detective lieutenant. He was certified to that position, but never has had a chance to work at it Honest Fisherman The fisherman had hard luck, and on his way home he entered a fish store and said to the dealer: "Just stand where you are, and throw me five of the biggest fish you have in the place.” "But why throw ’em?” asked the dealer in amazement “So 1 can tell my family 1 caught them,” replied the fisherman- T may be a poor fisherman but Tm no lair.” ygjp TOT oua CLASS ITIKDS—- , tost err RESULTS I

Care Sets Records, Prevents Wrecks, Says Speed King

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INDIANAPOLIS. IND.— Johnny Parsons of Van Nuys, Cal., who shattered a half-dozen track records in setting a new world's speed mark at the Indianapolis Speedway, says, “It isn't speed alone that causes so many tragedies ea the nation’s highways. It's carelessness. “Care is my motto. Good care for your car, inside and out. Plus driving care.” Parsons, who is now racing at tracks throughout the country, was never a “hot rod" driver. He knows a car is even more dangerous than a gun when mishandled. He also believes a car should be given the same attention as a thoroughbred horse, “if you want a thoroughbred performance from it.” Whether it’s a $35,000 racing car, every part hand-made, or a stock model, such as the official

SAHARA GROTTO CAST TO SPONSOR FISH FRY JULY 19, 20 AND 21

The Cast of the Sahara Grotto is* planning a Fish Fry to be held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 19, 20 and 21 to be held in the rear of the Sahara Grotto Clubhouse, 4107 East Washington street. Robert Huffman is president of the Cast and Foster Trobaugh is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The serving will start each day at 5 p.m. and there’s plenty of parking space. Tasteful fried fish and delicious home cooked food will be served “Mother’s Day” is past, but you can make it “Mother’s Night” out if you bring her to the Fish Fry.

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pace car which was one of Johnny’s prizes, Parsons “treats it right." He uses but never abuses his car. “Real sportsmanship means consideration for the other fellow and your own car," he says. Science Helps That’s why he keeps abreast of the latest developments of science for automotive use. Johnny uses a war-time discovery to protect the finish of his cars. He gives them an Autobrite 4% silicons treatment, using the same silicones which protected vital military equipment against oxidation rust, corrosion and salt sea air. Time being vital in his life. Parsons finds this new scientific development a big help for speed. It enables him to dean ana polish his car in about 20 minutes and know it is protected for six months or longer with a weatherresistant surface.

MAY I May I use my gift of sight to see The beauteous things of life, May I never waste it wantonly On sordid scenes of strife. May I use my gift of hearing And attune to pleasant sounds And linger only briefly . . . where Unpleasantness abounds. May 1 do a kindly deed Before the setting of each sun So in my heart I feel secure Of one small task I’ve done. Anna E. Young “Great souls have wius; feeble ones have only wishes.”/ 1 * —Chinese Proverb.

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1 WOULDN'T MHVD I do not seek or crave groat lama Nor wealth of various kind. I would not cars to <Jo great’ link And yet... I wouldn’t mind— If I could ted I hdped... somehow Some tangle to unwind, Which someway helped soma’ soul to gain Contentedness ... of mind! Anna E. Young Champion Lias “The mosquitoes in Maryland got so much of my blood that when I moved here they sent me a card on Father’s Day." “I do a lot of fishing. Well, one day I hooked a fish and it worked so hard to get away, it perspired and lost two pounds."

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The WOMAN’S REPORTER Did you know that shoes have been used as medicine? As money? As food? It's true . . . and those art but a tew of tha many interring things concerning footwear. Here are a tew teds from the strange history of your shoes that 1 think you will find amusing, in. teresting and educational The making of shoes is one of the oldest arts of which there is human knowledge. Long before primitive man had discovered how to write, he invented shoes to protect his feet from hot desert sands, artic ice and stony paths.

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For centuries, shoes have played a part in man’s religious and nodal customs. There are references to footwear in poems and stories. The seventh Chapter of the Song of Solomon begins, “How beautiful are tny feet with shoes, O Prince’s daughter." You've heerd the spiritual. “All God’s Chilhrn Got Shoes." You know, too, about Cinderella's dainty glass slipper, end tha much larger boot that housed The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. In some places, taking off one’s shoes is still a mark of respect, and in our own country as a sign of good luck we tie old shoes to the “just married” sign on the newlywed’s car. Shoes have come a long way from the first foot covering to the

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present day. A simple sandal was probably the first shoe ever made by man. e rough sole of hide or wood, held to the foot by mfans of thongs. The ITth century saw the beginning of the shoemaking industry In America when in 1629 Thomas Baird arrived on the second voyage of the Mayflower to make shoes for the colonists. In those early days shoemakers were itinerant cobblers who traveled from town to town staying with each family long enough to make shoes for the entire family. Many of the cobblers were skilled in other trades as well. They could sharpen knives, saws and axes, could cut hair, pull teeth and perform other odd jobs. As they wen-

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ctarod About th+y ptetctfl yy |qqe| MWf End gossip End thm FMFI Eh*ways welcome visitors. the 16th century, many natives boiled leather shoes ter bourn then ate them. History records that in ancient Egypt a cure 4dr headache was to inhale the ■nobs from e burning aaadaL te parts of Abysinia, donkeys wear amfe discarded shoe* as a protection ter their feet. In Sonora, Mhxteo, when the native men wear led' shoes it indicates that they are seeking a wife. “A cruel story runs an whs els, and every hand oils the wheels as they run."’—George Eliot ,