Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1938 — Page 11
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Gus Kasch, Who Was Inspired by a Stranger's Platitude, Today Is The No. | Cain-Raiser of Akron.
KRON, 0., July 20.—Gus Kasch is a pain in the neck to a lot of people in Akron, But that’s all right, for that’s what he wants to be. It is his mission in life to buzz irritatingly around the head of Civic Indifference.
Everybody in Akron knows him, I suppose. Hes
has lived here since he was 4, which means he has | He was once a big real-estate |
lived here 67 years. developer. It was Gus Kasch who opened the part of Akron where now the tall hedges hide all but little glimpses of winding driveways and spotless lawns and stone mansions. He lived there himself for many years. But now he lives in a rocm in a cheap hotel, and the sheriff catches up with him occasionally. Kasch has had his nose in everything civic for nearly 50 vears. He isn't the flag-waving, great-little-old-town civic type. Just tHe opposite. He makes trouble.
He watches city officials like a | He never misses |
hawk, and calls them at every turn. a public meeting. And usually he gets the floor. He is a fiend for blueprints. No matter what subject comes up, he makes a blueprint of it. School Board meetings with an armload of blueprints. It got so the School Board chairman would always open the meeting by calling for a vote on the resolution, “Shall we listen to Mr, Kasch this evening?” And when they finally decided not to listen any
more, he went out and got himself elected to the |
School Board.
Kasch is also a state legislator. time record for introducing the most bills and having the fewest passed. He has introduced more than 500 in his two terms, and hasn't got a single one through. The House did O. K. one, but the Senate killed it. Although personally soft-spoken and amiable, Kasch is always doing something spectacular. After one city election he tried to sell the Mayor and several other officials to the opposing political party for $1 each and get a “quit claim” deed to them. It went through clear up to the clerk’s office, but the clerk ruled that such a deed wasn’t legal. They say no man in Akron has as many ideas as Gus Kasch. He has an idea on everything that comes up. A lot of his ideas are lousy, they say, but he has enough good ones to make him worth while. The small things he has done for Akron—such as getting viaducts, parks, schools and so on—are almost numberless. But he has done big things too. One of his biggest accomplishments, he feels, was keeping Harvey Firestone from getting the water rights to the Tuscarawas Valley. Kasch feels he did the city a half-million-dollar turn when he saved that.
He Thinks After Breakfast
I asked him what had inspired him to take such a role in civic activities. He said that nearly 50 years ago, when he was a tinsmith, a man said to him: Much has been given you, Kasch. Much will be required of you.” Kasch hardly knew the man. It was a platitudinous remark, but it sank deeply into him. And ever since, he has felt it his great duty to keep his eyes open for the city's good. When the sheriff sold Kasch's roof a few vears ago, Mrs. Kasch moved out to live with their son, in the next county. But Kasch stayed in town where he “could be near his constituents and board meetings.” Gus Kasch is immaculate in his dress. He is as clean as a whistle, wears youngish gray suits, a readymade bow tie. He is about my size, which means hungry-looking. He says he. does most of his thinking in the first hour after breakfast. After that his mind slows up a bit.
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
They have to listen now.
Selecting Special Food for Son Is Minor Problem on Airplane Trip. YDE PARK, N. Y., Tuesday.—Our flicht back to New York was very comfortable and the weather was good all the way until just before we got into Newark, There we had gray skies and a little bumpy weather. James had so many things to do in the morning before we left that bring a bottle of milk on the plane. While you eat little at a time, under the treatment they have been giving him, you take something every hour. So I was glad to get to Chicago, where we went into the restaurant with C. R. Smith and James had a glass of milk while I sipped orange juice. We then began to consider what James could have
for lunch. They brought us the menu of what they
would have on the plane and it didn’t sound exactly | right, so we compromised on canned tomato soup, ice |
cream, a glass of milk and a piece of melba toast. This time we did take two bottles of milk with us, thanks to Mr. Smith, who made all the arrangements. He is so kind about meeting us and doing things for us! We all are so fond of him that I think we feel lost when he doesn’ appear at the airport. I was glad all we found necessary on this trip was a little special food!
The Indianapolis Times
Second Section
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938
Entered at Postoffice.
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boom. These have taken troops to Hukow. Now the Nipponese have halted at Kiukiang, a few miles upriver. Efforts to move troops across Poyang Lake from Hukow have been balked. From Kiukiang troops are to be moved by the short railroad to Nanchang. Here they will join forces and begin the westward drive across Kiangsi and green and beautiful Hunan province to the Canton-Hankow Railroad. From the railroad they will be able to move northward on Hankow by two means—by the railroad itself and by the Siang River, which runs into Hung Ting Lake, which runs into the Yangtze. This is the prelude to the bitterest battle of the war— the attack on Hankow. It will be bloodier, say experts, than either the attack on Shanghai or the attack on Suchow. For the Chinese have had time to fortify the hills and consolidate their armies. Meanwhile the hulk of the Japanese Navy has begun an
attack on the principal cities of the southern coast— Swatow, Amoy, Foochow. It has threatened also to seize
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
You'll Have to Admit That Kids In Indianapolis Helped Dr. Bell Establish a National Reputation.
R. GUIDO BELL, I remember, was our family physician. He lived at the other end of town, at Ohio and East Sts., and I always thought it queer that Father should go so far out of his way to call for help when
he might just as well have had the pick of
all the good doctors on the South Side, some of which lived right in our neighborhood. Father was like that, however. Once he made up his mind to trade with somebody, he stuck with him. g It wasn't the easiest thing to get Dr. Bel] to come to our house. First of all, somebody had to hotfoot it to Emil Martin's drug store and put in a hurry-up call over the only telephone in our neighborhood. If everything went well, Dr. Bell showed up in the course of the day. Once, I remember, he arrived in 60 minutes flat. It was his record, and the only reason he was so fast that day was because the streets were more or less passable. Back in those days, the only way for a doctor to get to the South Side was to travel through the mud which, often as not. was deep enough to sink a buggy to the hub of its wheels, No matter, though, how long it took Dr. Bell to travel through the mud, he was always worth waiting, for. Everybody calmed down as soon as he stepped into the house. Even when he diagnosed the case as diphtheria, it didn't seem as horrible as it sounded. I believe the quality of his voice had something to do with it. It was an extremely pleasant voice, and just the kind with which to wrap bad news. On the other hand, maybe Dr. Bell's voice didn't have as much to do with it as I think it did. Maybe it was because diphtheria didn’t frighten him the way it did other doctors. Anyway, he was among the first around here to use the intubation apparatus and frequently was called to insert the tube in the larynx of strangling children in the days before the control of diphtheria by the use of antitoxin. He got to be so good at it finally that he achieved a national reputation, and now that I look back I like to think that we kids contributed to his success. At any rate, I can't imagine that Dr, Bell would have gotten as far as he did had not the kids of Indianapolis accommo= dated him with their cases of diphtheria.
No Whistling While He Worked
I believe Dr. Bell appreciated it, because he ale ways took a lively interest in us kids, even when we were in the best of health. He gave us good books to read, or told us what to read, and he knew as much about literature as he did about medicine, which was plenty. As a matter of fact, there was only one breed of boy he didn't like, and that was the kid who whistled. Said he was good-for-nothing and wouldn't amount to anything. Dr. Bell slipped up there, because the way things turned out some of the most respectable men in Indianapolis today are the very boys who annoyed Dr. Bell most with their whistling. The only other time I remember Dr. Bell diagnosing a case wrong was toward the last when he was 70 years old. At that time he spent his evenings sitting on his front porch, talking with his two old neighbors, Adolph Schellschmidt Sr. and the Rev. Peter Seuel. They used to discuss everything under the sun, as old men will, and once they got around to the subject of life and death. It was on that occasion that Dr. Bell, speaking ex-cathedra, said he was sure he would survive them all; that the way he had it fig ured out Mr. Schellschmidt was the first to go, and after him, the Rev. Mr. Seuel, leaving Dr. Bell all alone, Well, the way things turned out, Dr. Bell was the first to go (1912). Three years later, it came the Rev. Seuel’s turn, and then last of all, completely upsetting Dr. Bell's diagnosis, Mr. Schellschmidt joined his two old neighbors.
Mr. Scherrer
Jane Jordan—
New Problems Will Replace Old if Marriage Is Given Up, Wife Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I have been married four years and have a 3-year-old daughter. My hus band and I were married when I was 16 against my parents’ wishes. I was very foolish then and realize now what a great mistake I made. My husband still loves me a great deal but sometimes I feel as though I cannot stand him because there is another man whom I love and have been seeing for more than a year. I hesitate to leave my husband because of little Joy. Joy loves her father even more than she loves me. As I am a nervous wreck from worrying over this situation I do not treat her as I should. I resent every display of affection on my husband's part. What should I do? DISILLUSIONED.
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Answer—What does the other man ‘have to suge gest? Does he want you to get a divorce and marry him and could you depend on him to take the full responsibility for you and your child if you did so? I bring this up because it so often happens that a woman reads more meaning into a love affair than
Kweiteh and Kaifeng, slaughtering thousands of Chinese, wrecking hundreds of homes, but never quite catching up with Chiang Kai-shek's main army.. When finally they did reach the gates of Chengchow, however, they were beaten back by the heavy floods of the Yellow River.
a man ever intended it to have. Men often complain that they are obliged to pretend to more than they feel in order to awaken the desired response in the woman they want, and they are so accustomed to acting a part in love that they fool even themselves for a time.
HE Yangtze drive, which will be conducted by the Navy, was halted temporarily by a heavy boom thrown across the bilious river at Matowchen.
This has blocked the advance of most of the vessels. From the hills the Chinese have poured shells at the Navy
the Chinese island of Hainan, shown in the small map. Hainan, if fortified by the Japanese, would be a threat to French Indo-China and British Hongkong. In retaliation the French have taken the coral Paracel Islands, where they intend to establish a naval seaplane base.
he restaurant at the airport was crowded and by | the time the newspaper photographers had come in and spectators in the airport had each had a shot of | us with kodaks of their own, Jimmy remarked: “It's a bit like eating in a zoo, isn't it?”
I have grown enureiy hard-hearted about refusing autographs in a crowd, but one small boy looked so appealing that though I refused to sign for him, I told him to write to me in Washington. That seemed to strike him as such an extraordinary thing to do, I am afraid he will never get around to it.
We reached New York on time and I found it less | tiring to do this trip by day than by night. But James | 1 After dinner with a friend, and a |
was rather weary. quiet evening, we proceeded this morning to Hyde
Park. Reads Farley Article
Sad to say, today is a gray day, which threatens rain at any minute, although I am expecting to have a party out-of-doors this afternoon. Luckily I think we can move indoors, if necessary, at short notice. I found considerable mail to catch up on, but nothing like what one usually has in Washington after one has been away for three days. Word from my husband says that he is delighted to be at last on the restful part of his trip. . On the way home I read the first article in the American Magazine written by Postmaster General James A. Farley, I suppose that because I am familjar with the subject it may be more interesting to me than to others. have seemed dull and repetitious. Instead, I felt I was hearing Jim talk and I think he has achieved an easy style which is most engaging.
He has also written the article with such fairness and | objectivity, where the people with whom he came in | contact are concerned, that I think everyone will find |
it interesting reading.
Bob Burps Says—
OLLYWOOD, July
20.—-Women may
they remain cool and mentally calm while a man will go all to pieces and lose his self-control. Not long ago, I took Uncle Unie and Aunt Boo to
a big society function and some of the guests were
gathered around playing the wheel of fortune.
In a loud voice Aunt Boo said, “I'm gonna play the | So she put a quarter on 32. |
number of my age.” when the wheel stopped on number 47, Aunt Boo didn’t bat an eyelash, but Uncle Unie blurted out and sald “See there, Boo—if you'd tgid the truth,
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Whereupon they revised their tactics and began their southern drive east of Chengchow. Now, this essential drive against Hankow is from three directions, as indicated by
and caused it no end of distress.
A few transports succeeded, however, in passing the
Japan's enemies, within and without China, grow the farther she extends herself,
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It is when they are confronted with the actual consequences of their declarations of devotion that the awakening comes and they realize that they do not really want the woman permanently, I advise you to regard your affairs with a little healthy skepticism before you break up your marriage. You may become so disillusioned with your lover that your feeling will evaporate, leaving you much more reconciled to living with a loving husband who likes to take care of you and your daughter. You see you married in revolt against the restric tions put on you by your parents and made yourself believe that you were in love by way of self-justifica« tion. Now how can you tell that you are not in revolt against the restrictions of marriage and have fallen in love to explain your revolt? You fooled yourself once, you know. You cannot continue to flee from everything you do not like. Sooner or later you will have to settle down to things as they are whether you like them or not. The worst of it is that you do not improve your situation when you run. JANE JORDAN.
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