The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
men who know about such

things say that Indiana this
year will be visited by the 17-year
locust. It's scientific name of
''cicada septendecim" is based on its
life cycle. There is superstition
that because they have wv on
their wings the reappearance of the
locusts is portent of war. I did
not know this. I gathered it from
the January number of Outdoor
Indiana" the magazine of the Con-
servation Department.
Another interesting article in the
journal announces preparations for
the third annual crow shooting con-
test. More than 500 conservation
clubs will compete for cash prizes
awarded to the clubs accounting for
the largest number of crows Every
month the clubs send their crow
feet to the Department of Conserva-
tion, where they are counted. Then
a check goes forward to the club
sending the most.
Official crow feet counter, it seems
to inc, is one of the most unusual
of state positions.
WHEN the broadcasters set up
W in the nations Capitol FOR
the opening of Congress and the
presidential speech they have so
many microphones that many
asides go over the air, not part
of the formal program. One of the
most amusing, following President
Roosevelt's speech the other night,
was one which normally would be
ruled off the air and which can not
be printed in good family news
paper. But it revealed some UNI
identified Senator or Representative
distinctly off-guard. And it sug-
gested, also, that there will be an
election campaign this year.
II
THE annual hullabaloo over new
i license plates is dying down.
wonder why, with all the improve
ments being made in automobiles,
some genius does not invent a Ii
cense plate attachment that will
permit easy and speedy replace
ment. There is no domestic task
more maddening than trying to
loosen the rusted nuts and bolts
that hold the license plates fore
and aft. We Americans car
build Stream~lined, articulated trains
and turret-top cars but SO far we
have been unable to prevent the
misery of fellow who comes home
from the office and tackles the
plate-change with the pliers from
under the car seat.
InF ALL the automobile expe.
~ riences, 1 like to recall the de.
bates between husbands and wives
as to whether the side-curtains
should be put on against an ap.
preaching squat. One pair, in par.
ticular, who drove an open car some
years ago, would furnish their guests
with grand entertainment by then
quarrels over the curtains. The hus-
band-he was well-knoWn Indiana
judge-did not believe in any I'm.
necessary labor and always con.
tended that the rain would pass
over. The wife, believing in pre-.
paredness, always wanted him tt
stop and battle with the curtains a:
soon as the sun passed behind {
cloud.
r USED to wonder which was thu
- better system - for husband.
and wives to have their quarrels
get them over, anG forget them, OF
to suffer in silence and harbor bot.
tled-up resentment? The couple
refer to are living in peace ane
amity after Is years of wedlock, hav,
two fine sons in college and art
prospecting. But their road argu
ments used to promise divorce. So
I suppose, the technique of each
telling the other what for is tn,
better of the two methods of pro.
cedure.
A N indianapolis woman f1rml,
\ believes that animals think
That is rather disturbing, if it il
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