The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-10
Squaring
the Circle
With
THE HOOSIER EDITOR

THE father of six went to pay
l. his. Federal income tax yester-
day and made out a list of his chill
dren. He handed the return blank
to clerk.
How many children did you say
you had?" the clerk asked.
six"
well, you've only got the names
of five down"
The father took the paper, count
ed them over and over and could
make only five. But try as he could
not think of the sixth name.
He was just about to cali his wife
when he remembered little Jimmy.
THIS column today received from
Il the World Calendar Associa-
ton, New York City, message that
started with this line:
In view of the impending arrival
of Feb. % on its once-in-f our-year
visit :"
What kind of timing is that for
world calendar association?
The article goes on to advocate
change in the world calendar that
would eliminate leap year, add a
day after Dec 80 and call it Deem
Der Y, and add day after July 81
every four years and call it July L.
That's as far as Id gotten at
press time.
r LEGISLATIVE note:
IL The proposed welfare bill
would leave intact the state ana
tomical board, which is pretty irnpor-
tant even if you haven't heard of it.
1t regulates the distribution of
unclaimed bodies in the state to the
incorporated medical and dental
schools proportionately to their STU
dent enrolment. The bodies are
used for scientific study.
Any one who dies and whose body
is not claimed by relative goes to
the board. That is, all but one, spe-
officially selected of all the unknown
and unclaimed for burial at the ex-
pense of the state.
That person is the traveller
who, according to the law, does not
belong to the class commonly
known as tramps."
MOST legislators claim they can
4vA not live in Indianapolis dur
ing sessions on the $40 a day the
state pays them. They point to
hotel, taxi, phone, entertainment,
and personal service expenses.
One younger member, however,
said he and his wife both attend
and that they manage to save 81
to SIS a day.
Rep. Herbert H Evans, Newcastle,
says most of it goes for personal
bills and what's left to buy dinners
for visiting Henry County constit-
uents.
r DON'T know what to make of
Il it, but on Feb. Is, 1873, the In
dianapolis common council elected
wood measurer.
A few days later it passed this
resolution:
THAT the city janitor hang cot
ton cloth, so placed as to close the
opening between the council cham
bers and the public gallery for the
purpose of ascertaining whether it
will improve the acoustics of said
chamber"
TINE deadly hemlock weed which
l. Socrates drank by request to
end his life, is becoming very COM
mon in some sections of Indiana.
the Conservation Department re-
ports.
All parts of the plant are poison
Gus to man or beast if taken inter-
nally. 1t is believed that several
COWS have had Socratic deaths, and
farmers are warned.
y Il y
A DID trivia:
"a The wood of the persimmon
tree is used, among other things.
TO make loom shuttles and golf club
heads. There's versatility!
So that this item will measure
favorably with others, it might as
well be recorded that Indiana's Of
fetal coolest was 33 below zero at
Lafayette in 1897;