Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1941 — Page 14

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By MARY DRAKE

LITTLE MR. LOWITZ carried a white shaving mug, with a bright blue band about its middle, in the

pocket of his shabby suit coat. He| == carried it with him wherever hej | went, though the awkward bulge it] !

made at his side sometimes em-

barrassed: him. Sometimes it em-| :

Be barrassed him so that he would not 4 ride on a streetcar, but walked.

He treasured the inexpensive mug|

because his wife had bought it for him in Cracow, before the war. Now she was dead, and he was alone in a strange place. In Cra-

cow he had been a government|'

worker, respected by everyone, and now he was a mender of umbrellas in America — a nobody who ‘owned nothing, who could not even speak the language of those about him

.Whenever he remembered that he owed money. for room rent he felt ashamed. His landlady was Swedish and muscular, and every 20 night when he climbed the musty » -. staircase to his room she would be i waiting for her money in front of a the door. : “7 ty... He would give a little howl and i ' dodge past her, locking the door beFai hind him. Some day, he knew, she was not going to let him dodge past her, and that was the reason he carried the white mug with him wherever he went. If he left it in his room he would be unable to

BD retrieve it when he was evicted. 1 .

He cherished the. mug more dearly than anything else in the room— but then there was really nothing else in the room warth cherishing dearly, a cqt, six rusty umbrellas and a trunk, £8 The worst thing about the room ov was the electric sign that flashed Lh on and off into his eyes from across the street when he was trying to “+ sleep on the cot. |The landlady - wouldn’t buy him a shade because he hadn’t paid the rent, and the ‘newspapers he pinyed up always - fell down. bs ! - He usually slept with his coat an, placing tHe mug beside the cot be7 fore he lay down, and replacing it a the first thing in the morning. 2 9%

POVERTY HAD divested him of pride. His loss of caste had made him extremely self-conscious. The casual glance of a passer-by was enough to make him burn with

child he passed at play he felt to be aimed at himself. Sometimes he thought his shirttails were hanging out, and then no amount of furtive exploration _beneath his coat could convince him that they were not. 3 At night, behind his door, he would recall the time when he was a- government worker, and would strut up and down in exaggerated self-importance, He had never been even remotely important, but he liked to pretend that once he had been so.

One day a terrible, an incredible thing happened—he forgot the mug! ~ He had no sooner gone downstairs than he remembered it, and scurried swiftly up again. On the top of the staircase the landlady blocked his way. Since it was irregular for him to be going up the stairs at this hour instead of going down she thought— as who would not—that he was going after the trumk. Little Mr. Lowitz knew but one means to meet such & situation—he gave g little % howl, and tried to dodge past her. ~~ But this was the time that she seized him by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers, and . rushed him down the stairs and out of the door. f Little Mr. Lowitz went about his umbrella business that day just as always, hoping to get back into the room for the last time when night - came. He had to have that mug. © Had not Katherine given it to him + to keep forever? . or a 2» BUT HE COULD think of no way "to trick her, and so when he climbed

the stairs to the room that night he

25 cents he had earned, he thought to himself, if she were waiting in * front of the door. At the top of ~ the stairs his heart gave a little ; was not there! This was great luck. He turned the knob ~ to enter. It was locked. - Ti He kicked, pounded and beat "at the wood. He shouted inarticu“lately. He made faces at the door “and shook his fist at it. Then the r thundered up and he be-

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it for me in Cracow.” He stared at it in her hand. : : : The landlady’s cold features broke into a slow, unwilling smile. “How much do you want for it?” she asked. “How much do Tm? Mr. Lowitz could hardly believe his ears. “I'll consider everything square with us if you give: it to me then,”| she said. “All the back rent you owe me.” . .Mr. Lowitz stuttered.- “All—all right.” Treasuring a mug for sentiment’s sake is one thing, but buying food and lodging was another. The landlady Smiled triumphantly. “I.thought I would never get it,” she said. “A friend of mine who is an art dealer will pay me a pretty price for this.” : . “But how do you know it is 80 valuable?” asked Mr. Lowitz. “That was simple. Why would you carry it around with you day by day if it wasn’t worth hundreds of dollars?”

(All events, names and characters in this story are fletitious.)

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FT. RILEY, Kas,, Sept. 6 (U. P.).

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, Sept. 6.—Possibility that Lord Halifax will return to Washington for a few months only and that he will then be replaced by Oliver Lyttelton, who is now special Cabinet minister in the Middle East, is being widely discussed in London, ; Reports reached London. from American sources before Lord Halifax’s return.to Britain, towards the

Lord Halifax would net return to his Washington post from his London visit. It was said in some quarters that he had not been a conspicuous success in Washington

sent. - : . - Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal Party Minister for Air, was said to have been asked if he would accept —Pvt. George Thomson of Cleve-|the Washington Embassy but he land, O, is credited with originat-| was believed to have turned it ing the idea whereby soldiers at|d ES

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