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PACE SIX MUNCIE EVENING PRESS. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1962 EVAN OWENS Cannons to the Right of Them, Cannons to the Left of Tfiem Pocket Typewriter for Reporters; Is Latest Thing on Market T- MUNCIE EVENING PRESS EUkllh4 In IMS Published Weekday Evenings in Muncie, Ind. MUNCIE NEWSPAPERS, Inc.

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S-U Fame sometimes have created something of nothing. Thomas Fuller. Some of my newspaper friends will be happy to hear about The Pocket Typewriter. This is a miniature typewriter, so small it can be carried about in one's pocket. In fact, it can be operated there, according to what I've read, which makes it mighty handy for interviews and things of that nature.

vjr. I It also would be handy for covering football games on cold days. A few years ago I spent a couple of hours in the typewriter museum that anyone would go to the trouble to invent a typewriter specifically for use by newspaper reporters. The editorial and news rooms are noted for having the oldest typewriters available at any given moment, which is understandable, as no other typewriters get banged around so much. The usual thing when new typewriters coma in is to put them in the business office for a while until they are properly aged, then get new ones for the business office and send the broken-in ones to the news room.

The more I think of the Pocket Typewriter the less I like it. Most reporters like typewriters that have a few years on them, I think, and who would break in their Pocket Typewriters for them? And there would be no more enjoying the walk back to the office, as a reporter would be expected to have his story all typed out by the time he got there. But we'll have to wait and see, I guess. All I know about them is what I read in an article called "A Tiny Typewriter." "The pocket typewriter is the very latest device to lessen the labor of newspaper men," it says. "This new invention makes it possible for one to take down conversation, speeches, or any remarks that he may choose to record, ven removing his hands from his pockets." There's a picture along with it.

The typewriter is so small there's hardly room for the name of the manufacturer, the Lambert Typewriter Company, which sounds vaguely familiar. I think they have some standard-size Lambert's in the Ball State typewriter museum. The only thing I know about the Pocket Typewriter is what I read in The Standard Book of Knowledge, published in 1904. at Ball State College. They have the most complete typewriter display I've ever seen, with relics that go back to the earliest days.

The specimens are arranged to show the development of the typewriter from the great, bulky things ithey were at the start to modern ones, including the so-called portables. They even have a Japanese typewriter in the display. Among the old ones are several Olivers. These have been out of manufacture for half a century or so, but reporters on the Indianapolis News were still using them up until World War II. I think.

The Oliver operated on a principal entirely different from modern typewriters. The letters were on looped bands and struck down from the top, instead of up from the bottom. The old Olivers have been gone from the Indianapolis News and the Muncie Press for a number of years, but they still have one on display in a glass case there, or did not long ago. That's the reason I find it hard to believe JIM BISHOP Memorials Continue for Hellinger, Great Teacher of Journalists Letters To The Editor The Editor welcomes letters from our readers. Pen names or initials may be used in contributions carrying writers' correct nanus and addresses.

All letters are subject to condensation and to deletion of matter considered libelous, or in poor taste. We prefer letters of 200 words or less. No letter attacking a private individual by name will be published unless the writer permits his own name and address to be used. Education Week On Nov. 6, Americans exercised their sovereign will on a number of matters.

It was a rare community that did not have some kind of bond issue or tax levy relating to its schools on the ballot. This week, Nov. 1 1 to 17, Americans are invited to visit their public schools and find out just what they did or did not vote for. It is expected that 30 million of us will take advantage of the opportunity. The week is American Education Week, observed annually since 1921.

Theme for this year is "Education Meets the Challenge of Change." Note that this is a statement, not a question, such as: "How Can Education Meet For education IS meeting the challenge of a world that is changing at a feverish pace in so many of its aspects. At no time in our history has a strong educational system been so vital to the nation's welfare. This modern age requires that our children receive a solid background of knowledge in science, language, government, economics all of which are feeling the effects of new discoveries, new thinking, new deeds. The manner in which tomorrow's citizens are receiving this education should be of the deepest concern, not only to parents, but to all of us. A Reason for Pride Indiana can share in a feeling of pride at the scientific achievement represented by the recent dedication of a great new solar telescope on a remote mountain peak in Arizona.

The solar telescope is one of the complex new instruments at the new Kitt Peak Observatory by which astronomers hope to obtain much more information about the sun and stars than is now available. Indiana University has played an important role in the development of the Kitt Peak establishment as it is one of 10 major universities chosen by the national Science Foundation to develop and operate the observatory. The universities have formed a corporation known as the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and its president is the head of I.U.'s astronomy department, Dr. Frank K. Edmondson.

Indiana University's selection as one of the 10 universities involved in this important project and the choosing of Dr. Edmondson as AURA's president are a distinct recognition of the high caliber of academic work being done at the Bloomington campus. Not only in astronomy, but in many other fields, Indiana University is being ranked in the forefront of the nation's educational institutions. Police in Illinois arrested a man for tearing up dollar bills. Maybe he thought he was getting them down to their real value.

When a man buys a pair of pants he has the right size cuff put on the pants and sometimes the pants put on the cuff. By Leon Parkinson Editor's CORNER DO YOU REMEMBER? 50 and 25 Years Ago A check for $.50 arrived from Walter Winchell. It was made out to "The Mark Hellinger Award." It was mailed at once to Dr. Russell Jandoli at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, N.Y.

It sounds, in the telling, like a complicated business transaction. It isn't. It's a short love Ipflpr. two grounds. They have a first class school of journalism.

The Franciscan priests were receptive to the idea. Thus Hellinger, a Jew, came to be an honored figure in a Catholic school. Every year usually in May the committee meets at "21" Club in New York for luncheon. The rule says that the boy or girl to be honored must be in the top five of the graduating class, and must be the neediest of the group. This eliminates youngsters with rich parents.

So far, the committee has been in operation three years. In the second year. Father Brian Lhota, then president of the university, and Father Malachy Wall, vice president, sur- I t. .1. Cln TW.

01, Until. I win oe aeaa is years. l. i. i JUL VI fJCUpiC I CJ IltTI 1 jinn aa a gicai uiuaunajf if columnist and, later, a Hollywood motion picture! Vi, 1 LkZJ a producer.

A lot ot young people never heard him. He lies in a granite mausoleum in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, North Tarrytown, N.Y. Each day, a small firiger of light comes through a stained glass window and traces itself across the floor. several years ago and I said I will teach them if they vote me in as their teacher. They then voted on a preacher, a layman and me.

I received the most votes. They said "We want Mrs. because she knows her Bible." They are watching our lives. May God bless all our boys and girls. You people with thousands in aanks could each give enough toMp this delinquency problem.

I suggest your thousands of dollars given together could build a Community House with every' clean recreation installed that would help some of our fine boys and girls use this excess energy that God gave them. This Community House could be supervised by real Christians that love boys and girls. Get some of these cious boys and girls out of the courts that your dollars and ungodly homes have thrust upon them; Some of your thousands of dollars could be used to help these struggling little churches who are overflowing with crowds, trying to find peace of soul. Crowds overflowing their buildings and no money to enlarge their Sunday School rooms and auditoriums. Are your dollars standing in the way of souls finding God? You can't take that money with you.

What then? I'll just sign myself The Indian Princess Answers Questions and What is considered the cheapest car of all time? A The Ford Model T. which in 1923 could be bought for $295. Which was the first Union victory in the War Between the States? A The battle of Philippi, June 3, 1861. Which country has the longest national anthem? A Greece 158 verses. Much Could Be Done for Youths To The Editor: As we approach Thanksgiving I am thankful first that there is a Cod in Heaven that answers prayer.

I have beeri a Christian for over 60 years. I have been a widow for 34 years and raised a family of four wonderful girls. I probably can't leave them riches, but I am leaving them with a faith in God. Mother and father, you have failed if you haven't lived a godly life before that boy and girl and those grandchildren. I am thankful I live in America.

I am thankful for freedom to vote for the men and women of our choice, the freedom of the press, the freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Other countries near us have had these freedoms taken away. Only prayer can save America. I remember when my son in law came back from Germany after that awful war and he said "Mother, thank you for your prayers. I would be leading my men and we would come to crossroads where every direction was blown away, but I always led them in the right direction.

Your prayers followed me all over Europe." I am also thankful for home, food, health, friends and loved ones, little children, pets. etc. etc. All these blessings I am thankful for, but there are some things that cause this old heart to ache. I have nursed in your city for 25 years and have seen people go out of this life with thousands of dollars in the banks, but without God.

The main cause of delinquency are homes where the love of God is not taught. But some fine, boys and girls come through regardless. I know a lot of wonderful young people in our city who put you smoking, gambling, drinking parents to shame. I was asked to teach a class of high school boys and girls SIDE GLANCES icu uie tuimruucc uy annuuniing inai iney had found no one worthy of the award. This year, a dark boy with glasses.

Sat De Vivo, was the winner. Gladys Glad gave him the check, and he got a job on the Niagara Falls Gazette. There he will get the finest practical training. Whether he makes the grade is now up to him. He has a lot of powerful friends who are watching his moves.

Each year, at the luncheon, the committee receives reports on the status of its former winners. The first one was John Checkert. He wanted to be a newspaper reporter. As soon as Edward Mahar, city editor of the New York Journal-American heard it, he said: "The kid has a job." AH winners begin at the bottom. Checkett started as a copy boy, getting copy paper and coffee for busy reporters.

Later, he was transferred to the nightside. Now he is an editorial clerk, which is a step better than a copy boy, and one removed from cub reporter. He has a long uphill road ahead and the committee will be rooting for him. Similar committees, and similar could be established in every metropolitan area in the country. More must be done to select the gwduates with A.

and T. (ambition and talent). It is not enough to educate, them. Getting a. start in life is equally important.

Winchell's check is now in the hands of Dr. Russell professor of journalism at St. Bonaventure. Jandoli is trying to recruit more people who admired Hellinger to serve on the committee. He got me.

Getting my $50 is his second assignment. "Kid," said Hellinger one time. "Be pood to the copy boys. Who knows? someday they may own the paper and you may be looking for a job." That's his company. In life, Mr.

Hellinger was not a great journalist. He was a great teacher. His greatest talent was that he was the Abou Ben Adhem of reporters: he loved everybody. He spent a lot of time teaching me the A-B-C's of good reporting. He did as much for others.

He died at the age of 44 years and 9 months, a black-haired handsome man with pale blue eyes. His last words were: "I hope you doctors know what the hell you're doing." They did. But they couldn't read God's mind. The heart stopped and he left for what he called "the great perhaps." Some years later, a young writer who owed Hellinger a lot asked his widow, the beautiful Gladys Glad, if it wouldn't be fitting to start a journalism award in Mark's name. "Good," she said.

"Mark would like that." A committee was formed. On it were Mrs. Hellinger, Toots Shor, Charles Berns, Douglas Edwards, John Daly, Bradley Kelly, Mike Romanoff, Walter Winchell, William Randolph Hearst Gene Tunney, Burris Jenkins. Louis Sobol and a lot more. They had a good idea.

Most awards In journalism consist of a plaque, or a scroll. The Hellinger committee wanted to give $500 and a job. The second item is the more important. Scores of thousands of journalism graduates glut the market every year and cannot get a foothold in newspapers or magazines, television or radio. St.

Bonaventure University was selected on HOOSIER FARM WIFE NOVEMBER 12, 1912 The first and second primary grades of the Daleville schools, which were dismissed a few days ago on account of the breaking out of scarlet fever and diptheria in the school, will resume classes Wednesday if no other cases make their appearance. All of the churches decided not hold services Sunday on account of the existing cases of contagious disease, not wishing to have the childrerrrongregate and allow a possible spread. The action upon the part of the churches was voluntary and not under the orders of the" health officials. At the present time among the school children are three cases of contagious diseases existing, two of scarlet fever and one of diptheria. The cases are said to be the most severe that ever visited Daleville.

However, all the patients are improving. The hunting season is now on and in every section of Delaware County the sportsmen are in full chance after the elusive cottontail and the festive quail. Game is said not to be as plentiful this year but all the hunters are expecting good luck. Last Saturday County Clerk Mansfield issued 66 hunting licenses. NOVEMBER 12.

1937 Predicting Congress would modify the surplus profits tax, U.S. Sen. Frederick VanNuys declared in Washington "The tax on surplus earnings rainy day surplus is completely destructive." The senator, in an interview last night, said he would suggest amendments to exempt money used by corporations for preferred stock dividends, debt retirement, expansion, improvements and similiar expenditures. Restrictions on business hurt both business and labor, he contended. "I know of big corporations that would establish branch factories in Indiana, using surplus funds," he said.

"But they can't afford to hold a surplus when that lund is taxable." BREAD OF LIFE By REV. A. PURNELL BAILEY It has often struck me that some of our religious life is akin to something I experienced in the Armed Forces. The soldiers in their drill would often be given the order: "Mark time!" At the command they would lift one foot and then put it down in the same place. The foot would follow the same process; the foot would be lifted and then put down in the same place.

Ever see that going on in a church? They are marching, but they are not moving. They are but "going through the motions" of a march. They are but marking time! They are "saying their prayers" but they are not praying; they are getting only enough of the spiritual virus to become immune to the real thing; they are talking in meetings but bearing no testimony to the Lord! The day of march has come; we have "marked time" long enough! Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. (Col. iii Not Ailing, But Suffering From An Overdose of Election By Galbraith Jl JS.

IS pms- I em recall that I was in Navy uniform in New York on that day. I don't recall too well what happened. It was quite a day. Until 1954 this American holiday was known as Armistice Day, and it was specifically in honor and in memory of World War I veterans. By an act of Congress in 1 9 5 4 it was changed to Veterans' Day, in honor of all veterans, living and deceased.

At Northview School this morning a new flag pole was dedicated with appropriate ceremony. I trust that air teachers impressed their students with the meaning of this day. I have never been quite sure our boys and girls are being told as much about Americanism as they should be told in our schools. The Indiana State Tuberculosis Association simply will not give up. It's up to its usual trick again.

The county has been flooded with TB Christmas seals, purportedly sent by the Delaware County Christmas Seal Committee. There is no such committee in Delaware County, let it be remembered. The Delaware County Tuberculosis Association was forced out of the state association because it insisted on being a United Fund agency, which the state association would not permit. The local association has functioned extremely well in its independent status, doing even better work than in years past. You will receive Christmas seals from the local association, sent as a "thank you" for your contribution to the United Fund, Of course, you can send a donation if you so desire, but you are not being asked to do so.

Good Evening. -In the death of Burl Madill, Delaware County lost one of its outstanding farmers and stockmen and so many of us lost a friend of long standing. Burl Madill was so active in so many fields, so active that it must have been difficult for him to find any time for his own. In the Farm Bureau, as a former director of the Delaware County Fair, as a member of so many farm and allied Croups he was constantly on the go. 1 know that he preferred it that way; that he wanted to be active and to be busy, He could have relaxed in retirement for he was a man of means but doing nothing would not have fitted into his way of life.

He served his community so well, in so many ways, in government and in so many community activities. Those who knew him well and these number into the thousands-will miss him but they will have fond memories. Today Is Veterans' Day, a day of the greatest importance in. our country, a day that honors the men and women who have defended their country in wars, I'm particularily happy there fs no school vacation. It's better the boys and girls be in their classrooms where they can be told the meaning of the day.

Veterans' Day, actually, was Sunday, since that was Nov. 11. But the official observance Is today. At all Muncie schools, from the elementary schools through the high schools, appropriate ceremonies were held at 11 a.m., the hour that marked the end of World War I. To me the end of that war seems a long, long time.

It has been a long time, 44 years. I "No, I "haven't got the flu," croaked the local Man of Affairs over the phone morning. "I was up too late last night at the newspaper office, listening to election returns. I can't lose that much sleep anymore but what really got me was the cigaret smoke, thick as the pressroom walls. When I used to smoke, myself, it never bothefed me, but now since I've quit smoking, it's just terrible." This morning's quick farm quiz: Why is farming said to be the second most hazardous occupation in the United States? (check two).

(a) Because it's true. (b) Because by careless operation of his labor-saving machinery, particularly the corn picker this morning, a farmer can so quickly become a has-been. Irony overtakes the department of washing and ironing: All summer a farm wife had intended to send the sheets to a commercial laundry for a professional whitening and flattening. So last week she sent 17 of them, just in time to get them there for a fire which according to next day's local paper "gutted the laundry." It's all right though, she says, the farmer doesn't have time to sleep anyway what with corn-picking and worrying about Cuba, and wondering where his wife stored his insulated underwear last spring. The core of breakfast table conversation here this week lis who's going with the Boss to the International Livestock show in Chicago, the week after Thanksgiving.

"I wish I could remember who that was that told you last year he wished he could have gone with us," mused the farmer, cutting into his bacon and eggs. The International is of strong interest to all the local farmers and every year soma go, but not the same ones. Sometimes farmers charter a bus and a large group goes for a long day, but in general, especially if a farmer wants to buy something and therefore needs time to look the stock over and see it judged first, it is more satisfactory for two, three or four congenial neighbors to go together, by regular bus or in one of their cars, and stay a couple of days and a night. They can pool their knowledge of livestock and pedigrees and Chicago subways and places to stay, and they get along well. A real livestock farmer never really gets tired of seeing good cattle, but a couple of days and a night in Chicago is to do him until the next year.

And evea then, he likes to have a farm neighbor along. Now even the late-turning maples are golden, especially at the top when the early morning sun strikes them. Many leaves have fallen, and now the blue jay's nest, in the next-to-highest 'branch of the lofty maple npar the house, is a little' dark pocket in a revealed place. It has lost its summer hidden-ness, and seems mountain-high, free of earthly clamor a fine airy place for a young blue jay to be launched from, into the world, into freedom. The edge of this nest Is a fine dark line between the edge of freedom and the brink of danger.

The blue jays have to. understand brinkmanship. I "r- I I mi mi if m. "Please tell your Lovelorn Editor that 'Missing-the-Boat' has something to show her!".