The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-02
Squaring
the Circle
With
THE HoosIER EDITOR

4 FRIEND from Indiana Univer-
n sity, who should know, says
that hitch-hiking still is much ia
vored by college students. If any,
thing, he says, returning prosperity
has increased the number of COL
lege boy mixers, for they now
have n1o,a money to spend when
they get where they're going. Which
seems lil:ely.
| He came to Indianapolis the other
day; made the trip from home to
the Circle in about an hour and
20 minutes, he said. But he ad-
mitted he was lucky, for he got a
ride while he was walking to the
city limit on N. Walnut-st, in
Bloomington. He went back the
next day but we haven't heard how
long that took him.
There are, he says, several dis
tinct schools of hitch mixers. There
are those who claim the best way
to- get a ride is to stand at the
city limits. with bag nearby and
an expectant thumb in the air.
He sides with this group, he SAYS.
because he thinks it shows some
| initiative in getting to the city
limit.
TINE second school, he explained
= is one that is rather lazy-the
adherents don't believe in walking
more than block or SO, and usual
ly stop just at the edge of the bust
ness district, sit on the curb and
wait. In fact, my friend says, some
OF them are so lazy they have signs
printed, prop them up in the street,
and then sit against a tree until
some one stops.
The third school includes those
who believe that the best method is
to start walking along the road until
driver picks them up. Those who
follow this plan, my friend says, find
they have better luck if they turn
around once in while and look dis
consolately at the speeding traffic.
He doesn't believe in this method
very much any more. Says he tried
it week ago and had to walk half
way to Nashville, and then didn't
get ride. Finally, he boarded a
bus. He's been disguised with him
self ever since.
HES had quite a bit of expert
ence hitch-hiking around the
country, but he doesn't appreciate
the bans against hitch-hikers which
some companies have put in force.
The biggest kick he ever got out of
ride he says, was one from st.
Louis to Indianapolis in a truck.
Reason for his enthusiasm was
that he rode the whole distance be-
hind a sign on the windshield that
read: Sorry. No Riders"
THIS was told over bridge ia
n BILE the other night, and it de-
ponds on how credulous you are
whether you believe it.
A good many years ago, Ger
man family came to the United
States and settled in Indianapolis.
Arriving here, the members were
handicapped for none of them
could speak English. But it didn't
take them long to learn. They set
tied among some Irish families and
picked up the language quickly.
There was only one trouble. They
learned to speak it with a broad
Irish brogue.
A FARMER wrote to Clarence E.
Manion, Indiana National
Emergency Council director, here,
approximately as follows:
II received loan from the Farm
Credit Association which kept me
from losing my farm, my son is in
a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
my daughter is working on a Works
Progress Administration library
project, and my mother is on direct
relief.
Nov if you could just arrange a
$1,000 government loan for me so
that I can build a filling station I
believe could pull through all