Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1932 — Page 2

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HEART THROBS IN RELICS SOLD TO BUY FOOD Sentiment Sacrificed When Gifts of Romance Go in Time of Need. <Tht* in lh .ccnnd and final atnry rcrcalint Otld Hnntlnt In IndianapolU.) BV ARCH KTEINEL He displayed n cheap tin pan. It was full of trinkets, backs *of watches, gold spectacles, rings, platinum pendants "There's SSOO worth in that pan. I’ve gotten them since Monday,” he added. The pan the size for making sauce—weighed heavy in the hand. It weighed heavy of hearts, too. The back of the watch, an old hunting case, that stuck out from a side, was an unemployed ones first meal in months outside the soup line. The ring leaning against it was some broken love-life that lost its owner because of hunger and need. Benjamin Hershon. owner and manager of the Standard Gold Smelting and Refining Company, 423 Lemcke building, put the tin pan back into the safe. Sells His Gold Crown •• 'What'll you give for this?’ is their question as I weigh it up to And out its gold value. 11l no.l forget one fellow who came in.” and Hershon settled a gold weight on its scales as he gathered the story together. "He asked rhe same question, but he pointed to a gold crown In his mouth. I asked him why he wanted to sell it. He said he needed the money. A pair of pliers lay on the counter. He grabbed the pliers, saying. ‘How much if I pull it out?’ ” Hershon told him he couldn't pull the crown off in his office; that it wasn't a dental chair. The man went away. He came back in a few hotirs. "He laid the crown down. 1 even hated to toss it on the scales. I gave him $2,” he averred. Old Families Market Relies Hershon says that some of the city's best families--families that pioneered Indianapolis—come to his wicketed office window to sell their old relics and antiques for ready cash. He has refined and smelted down many heirlooms that were bought by him through his wicketed office window while tears played soft chords throughout the sale. "There's one story I hate to tell you. I shouldn't say anything about it," he hesitated. Then he told this story: A woman, white with age. and courteous with the courteousness of southern gentility, approached the iron window that guards the safe with its ingots of wealth. Romance Sold lo Exist “I want to sell this watch, this cameo pin," she said. A kerchief brushed at her eyes as she talked. Hershon bought the trinkets. They were of the best of gold. A few days later she returned to his office. Staring out his office window, blinking, she laid a wedding ring down, "I—l—don't, like to do this. It was husband's. He was in the Civil war. "We were married while magnolias bloomed. He died. A son was left to me. The World war took him. He never came back. “You won’t, won’t melt this before Wednesday. Please hold it that long. I've sold all my clothes already to try and keep it. But it may help me to buy some little things I can sell and I'll be back Wednesday, sure, and take it back.” Locked Deep in Safe “That was last Wednesday,” Hershon said. "Did she come back?" he was questioned. "No!” and the refiner of gold as well as hearts softened the "No." ‘ And now she couldn't have that wedding ring if she wanted it?” he was asked. He picked an ingot of gold from the safe and with it a package. He dumped the package on the desk. "It's all there. The watch, the cameo pin, and the wedding ring. There's some things you can't melt easily—and gold sometimes is one of them." 4 A brush of his hand and the trinkets were back in the package and locked deep in the safe.

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Automobile* reported to police stolen belons to: John H Bell, 1338 W#st Thirtieth street Foret roadster, 378-015, from 1338 West Thirtieth street Leonard Piadza 2103 North Alabama of r "aA, r v'^,fc P * r , la J- r °" p '' from ,n frPnt of 2403 North Alabama street R. R Evans, 101 n East Maryland street Ford sedan. M-1177, from 1315 East Washington street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police Bfiong to Eva McOuav 118 Shelbv street. Chevrostreeu*"' at ° ripnt *l and St. Clair P 1 " Cheney, 2137 Barth avenue Oldsmobile coupe found on Prosnert street, near Fountain Square p King North 2922 Shriver avenue Ford coupe found at Fifteenth street and Northwestern avenue. ana Clifford Lombard. 533 North Dennv street, Buie* sedan found at Elm and Grove street. J J Morgan, 1157 West Thirteenth street Plymouth coach, found at Twentv-ftrst street and Sugar Grove avenue V t

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DRYS PICK CANDIDATES Congressional, County Nominees Named at Convention. Fessenden W. Lough. Twelfth district, and John W. Phelps, Anderson, Eleventh district, today were congressional nominees of the Prohibition party, as result of action at the party convention Friday night in Cadle tabernacle. County candidates nominated were: Wesley T. Wilson, circuit court judge: Charles B. De Moss, prosecutor; John W. Huddleston, sheriff: Dr. M. C. Lyons coroner, Hubert Shuck, ’treasurer; T. 0. Fitzgerald, surveyor: Frank. Henderson, county commissioner. Second district, and Rudolph S. Dieninger, Third district. WARN ON BOND DEBTS Auditors Told Obligations Must Be Met Despite Tax Law. Governmental units must meet payments on bonds, despite any legislation adversely afiecting ability to pay the coming year. This warning was given county auditors Friday in a letter from bondholders, the Fletcher American Company, the Union Trust Company and the Fletcher Trust Company. ' - Tax levies must be sufficient to liquidate bonds falling due in 1933. notwithstanding the $1.50 tax limitation law, the warning said.

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SCHOOL HEADS PRAISE SYSTEM OF JUNIOR HIGH Revised Course of Study Works to Student's Advantage. (Thl. i. the last nf three xtorie. on the new hininr hith .rhonl .r.tem.l School officials in cities where junior high schools have been inaugurated are unanimous in their support of the system. The revised course of study, they say, works to the advantage of the pupil in almost every case. In Junior high schools, they declare, the aim is to teach the pupil, not the subject. One of the features of all junior high schools is that the pupil is al lowed more individuality than is given either in the grade schools or in high schools. This policy will be followed closely by junior high school teachers in Indianapolis. Cite Individuality Need School administrators, in recommending freer -rein to the pupils, reason that greater individuality is necessary, ,if pupils are to find their likes and dislikes. "A pupil, if subjected to a rigid course of study, would have no chance to discover his aptitudes,” said Milo H. Stuart, assistant superintendent of schools, who is in charge of the inauguration of the junior highs here. ”He never could learn what sort of work he wanted to follow later in life.” Another argument advanced by school officials for the less rigid course of study is the fact that junior high finds most pupils at the "growing stage” when they are restless and resentful of strict confinement to a program. Indianapolis school officials, seeking to profit from the experience that has been gained since the first junior high schools were established twenty-two years ago, have set up a system which is not entirely similar to any other junior high establishment. The local junior highs will seek to take the best from the systems of other cities. ‘Great for rride’ Most unique feature of the Indianapolis system is the absence of special junior high buildings. "Junior high buildings are great for civic pride,” Stuart said, “but they aren't necessary for better education." Another difference in the local system is that the junior high school grades will be in full operation one year after they are started, Stuart pointed out. Other cities have Jaken as long as ten years to place the system fully in operation. Stuart said. Still a' third point of departure of the Indianapolis schools lies in the fact that all pupils in the same grade will receive the new form of instruction at the same time—Sept, 6. for the 7B and 8B grades; Jan. 23, 1933, for the 7A and BA, and Sept, 5, 1933, for the ninth grade.

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PLAN SAFETY RALLY County Schools in Program at Garfield Park. Picnic supper, a band concert and addresses by officials of the city, county and state will form the program fori the safety rally of Marion county schools Tuesday afternoon in Garfield park. Principal speakers will be Frank J. Ma.vr Jr., secretary of state; Gus Mueller of the state accident prevention bureau; Fred T. Gladden, county school superintendent; Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club, and Miss Julia E. Landers. Marion county safety director. Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner will preside at installation of school patrols. Marion county bus drivers will hear an address by Captain Howard Smith of the state police department. •WALES SHIRT’ COCKTAIL HONORS LOUD APPAREL Brilliant Blue Beverage Is Served at Bar in Riviera. B>J I nitrti Pres* BIARRITZ, France. Aug. 27.—The "prince's shirt cocktail" appeared atone of the Basque coast bars today as a tribute to the print# of Wales’ new practice of wearing a different colored shirt each day. The "prince’s shirt” consists of three-fourths gin. one-eighth white mint and one-eighth cream of yvette. When served it is a brilliant blue. Wales continued to go in for colorful haberdashery and appeared Friday in a primrose polo shirt, which he' wore while helping to move into a rustic farmhouse near Biarritz, where he intends to stay until the middle of September.

FARMER'S VOTE COUNTS MOST ON PROHIBITION Geography, Not Population, Still Decides State Representation. BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—1 fa prohibition repeal resolution is put before state legislature, or before state conventions elected, on the same uneven representation that lower houses of most state legislatures now are. a farmer's vote will be worth 20 per cent more than a city mans. This fact, disclosed in a special survey of representation in legislatures, discloses the reasons for the convention system of ratification advocated by anti-prohibitionists. It further shows that if legislatures are given power to denote ,the basis of representation In the ratifying conventions, they are likely to continue the present uneven setup. This is the reason that for the first time the advocates of a constitutional change have sought convention rather than legislative ratification. Their success as to obtaining the convention system is illustrated by the fact that both parties are pledged to submission cf repeal in one cdse. revision in rhe other, to "truly representative” conventions.

Cling to Power Overi-representation of rural counties in legislatures goes back to early days, when most representation was geographic. Population representation has increased somewhat in recent decades, but the process is slowed down by reluctance of the rural communities to surrender their power. The survey which showed a disparity of 20 per cent covered eighteen states, fifteen of them states where cities make up 50 per cent or more of the population, and three from other states. The survey covered only the lower house, usually considered the most representative—of the legislature. Connecticut, which has 255 rural representatives and twelve urban, has ihe largest disproportion- On the basis of population instead of “towns,” the state would have 153 urban, 114 rural. The senate, which is more representative in this state, has a. large urban majority, but it would be three or more votes larger on a straight population basis. Rural Vote in Majority Ohio, birthplace of the Anti-Sa-loon League, is next. This lower house has seventy-seven rural votes and fifty-one urban, whereas the figures would be exactly reversed on a straight population basis. On the other hand, New Jersey alone of all eighteen states has a

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