The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-11
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON

ID ULE No. 1856 Of Indiana politics
N sets forth that members of the
Legislature must publicly deplore
a special session as calamity. In
fact, a candidate must qualify as a
Grade A deplorer before he can be
nominated. Any member, after his
first term, is expected to be able to
deplore for hours.
The truth is, Of course, that spa-
cial session gives a Representative
or Senator an acceptable excuse to
get away from home for a while. If
he lives in indianapolis the excuse
holds for staying downtown all the
time. The local member doesn't
have to explain his absence from
the family dinner table. He can al
ways be in a committee meeting.
The technicality that the meeting is
in cocktail lounge. as bars are
called in these strange days, is not
ruled a foul.
A special session is something
every member Graves but will not
confess. The provision that the
Governor can not limit the discus
sion probably was written into the
basic law by some member from Tip
pecanoe County who was tired of
carrying the ashes out to the alley.
In another state special session
is called an extraordinary" session.
I like that. 1t should be used every
where. Because it would be ex-
traordinary if none were held.
NNE likes the informal conversa-
~ ton of athletes. They churn
up genuine pieces of hurnor as the
hours wear on. I ran into a former
football player the other day and he
was telling me about one who shall
be nameless, but who was appointed
head coach at university and
wished to show up looking his best.
My informant remarked that the
gentleman bought and showed up in
a baseball umpire's suit. Which I
think is description of high order.
r SEE by the papers some dry says
L. the old-tine saloon must not
come back. I seem to recall reading
this before. 1t must have been in
the days when people said, "Give us
light wines and beers and we won't
ask for hard liquor"
It is easy to reassure the gentle
man. The old-time saloon would not
be economically sound. 1t could not
compete with the new-time saloon.
The new is to the old as 1886 car
is to a T-model.
AS the old-tilne saloon has been
pictured to me by persons who knew
persons who had been in one, it did
not have pretty girl customers sit
ting on tall stools before modernistic
bars. 1t did not have richly uphol-
stored furniture nor softly shaded
lamps. 1t did not furnish napkins.
1 am told on good authority it had
whisky, but that is about all it had
in common with the new-time
saloon.
To say that the old-time saloon
could come back is as uniformed as
to say that repeal did away with the
speakeasy.
CPEAKING. as I seem to be. of
~ saloons, Pat Manion, the state
National Emergency head, was tell
ing me the other day about Vim
cent Pagan, the South Bend archi-
tect, who was retained to design a
tap room when outside signs, in
viting the customers, were re-
stricted.
Pagan decided to get around the
difficulty by calling the place the
Brandywine Tavern, which would
say all in Moons. But when he
looked up the battle of the Brandy
wine, in order to make his nurals
accurate, he discovered that the
rugged Continentals took a beating
there. So that was out.