The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-01
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON

w the nice, clean new life GO?
Or, to paraphrase Kipling, did "the
poor fools bandaged finger go wob-
bling back to the fire?" For it's one
thing to make resolutions and quite
another to keep them. My New
Years hope for all who made reso-
lutions is that they can keep, say,
third of them.
TT is going to be pretty hard for
= this column to get anything like
the attention it deserves, with read
er5 listening to the Rose Bowl
game which, because of the differ
ence in time comes just when eve
ming newspapers are usually read. I
am listening myself at this very
minute.
A broadcast of a game is usually
more exciting than the game itself.
Some athletic councils do not per-
NIT broadcasting, saying it invites
people to stay away. Sometimes it
does the opposite. For after per-
son has listened to Ted Husing Or
some other champion broadcaster in
one or two games he gets SO excit-
ed he decides he will attend the
next one in person.
4 FUNNY thing happened at the
4 n recent Kirk Mckinney tes-
timonial dinner. One of the guests
sat down at a table with a num-
Der of then vacant places. He dis
covered the appetizer had already
been placed and it was something
he liked-crabmeat cocktail. So he
proceeded to eat his and two or
three from neighboring places. And
finished up by asking the waiter
to bring him another. I suppose
when fellow buys a ticket for a
testimonial dinner and elects to
sit through it, he imagines he is
entitled to fortify himself. Testi-
monials are usually rather deadly.
This one wasn't. 1t was about as
lively as I have ever attended.
THERE'S motion picture man
II here making some reels of
New Deal projects in the state for
educational purposes and he COM
plains of the murky atmosphere
slowing up his work. Something
ought to be done about that. Why
not a government grant to unem-
ployed scientists to study air -condi-
tioning for the so-called great
outdoors I don't know that In
dianapolis is worse than some other
places. Philadelphia is bathed in
pea-Soup fog much of the time and
frequently one can't see more than
a block ahead in Pittsburgh.
CPEAKING of Philadelphia, they
~ have localism there that has
much charm. When friends are
parting they are likely to say
Goodbye now" 1t sounds strange
at first but one grows to like it.
Of course it means, Goodbye fo%
the present; we shall be meeting
again soon." They tell me it has
always been used in that locality.
have never heard it here. But I
have heard the greeting which
everybody is overworking. That is
Till"
ID FADING the state papers I no
~ tice that in all the predictions
for 1886 the outlook is cheerful. We
get the papers from most of the
cities and towns and they've all
been giving facts and figures to
show that things are on the mend.
And they are almost unanimous in
stressing that the greatest need is
housing. That is a favorable sign.
If we get a housing movement GO
ing many industries will pick up in
hurry.
People will not build Normandy
chatteauX, Italian castles or Span
ish places with patios again for
some years to come. They got fed
UP with that when the crash came.
But they will build what the coun-
try needs most-the eight-room
house for the average family with
modest income.
IF wished every one such a place
= in the Happy New Year I prob
ably would be aiming at the desires
of the majority.
OTHER OPINION