The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-28
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

bride is being nourished again in
l. Indiana by the assignment of
low license numbers to distinguished
public servants and prominent citi-
zens. The Governor gets No. l and
so on down the line.
This is harmless bit of vanity
the desire for a special number, a
low one preferred. However, when
Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsyl-
vania took Office recently he an
nounced that he was going to abol-
ish the practice so far as he and
other state officers were concerned.
So far the Legislature has not made
it mandatory to give preferences.
DY reserving it, an Indiana car
~ owner can have the same num-
Der year after year. One man likes to
have his numerals and those of his
telephone correspond. Another pre-
fers to have his street address iden-
teal With his plates. Some super
stitious people have favorite num-
bers they consider lucky. It's a
regular numbers game. 1t can be
played with the Statehouse by get
ting in early enough.
The whim, or whatever it is, has
one advantage. The owner need not
memorize a new number every year.
This is hard job for man who is
in the habit of letting a secretary
do all his memorizing.
CPEAKING of numbers, perhaps
~ the blizzard suggested to the
City Council that Indianapolis does
not have too many taxicabs. In
fact, it might have stood at least
one more.
uAVE you noticed the way the
- magazines have loosened up on
the language they permit fiction
characters to use. Even the staid old
Saturday Evening Post must have
had dispensation from Mr.. Lori
mer. So many hells and damns are
sprinkled through the fiction that
the situation is almost as bad as it
was in the old hi days. That's
the way with Americans. We seem
to alternate between extremes.
A PURDUE graduate who knows
L N about poultry husbandry told
me across the turkey that the noble
bird will one day be as plentiful
and as cheap as chicken. Two things
contribute to the increase of the
holiday special-more and more
people are raising them and science
has found how to cut down the high
death rate among the young ones.
My informant thinks we are coming
to broiled or fried baby turkey. I
suppose when that happens they
will call it Southern style.
AS go about I see signs that he
is right. Certainly there is more
turkey visible under Roosevelt than
under Hoover.
GONE day I'd like to sit in on an
~ Arabian boiled camel dinner.
They take whole camel, stuff it
with three sheep, which in turn have
been stuffed with chickens. Then
they boil the whole works. Sort of
blue plate special.
TUST when we're trying to reduce
~ motor accidents in the state along
comes ice skating, tempting middle
aged people to 60 out and pretend
to be kiddies again. Every once in
a while you run up against the type
who, after dinner, will smile at the
guests and suggest that they get the
childrens sleds off the back porch
and go out for some moonlight
coasting.
That menace to life and limb isn't
as serious as the hostess who makes
you go skating against your will.
You remember Mr.. Wrinkles skating
in "Pickwick," the time they all
went to the country?
A FTER girl cashier of one of
4 n our local industries had been
robbed of a pay roll her employers
gave her a tear gas gun of The
fountain pen type. Seated in res
taurant, she leaned against table
and touched it off. Whereupon she
walked out and from distant
corner watched the customers pour
ing into the street with streaming
eyes. i.
Next day, conscientious soul that
she is, she went back and told the
proprietor how it had happened, He
was very happy. He thought he had
been set upon by racketeers.
OTHER OPINION