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at least a thousand people, in town and on farms Sar, wiles around, had got the news. W the neighbors

to roll in inneighborhood washing and , and others called, to see

two butterscotch pies and Webster sent up an angle came twice to help us with the Brown cooked a roast, with dressing , and sent it up steaming hot for our Sunday dinner, : } ~ Cousin Jedediah Frist, who will be 80 his. next rthday, drove down from town in a sleet storm to ge if he could do anything. Nellie Potts brought:

ers sister. Everybody Sends Something

. MRS. BIRD MALONE brought a beautiful hyaéinth. When my mother had her first stroke a year ago, . Bird and Mrs. Malone started over lo see her. On the way, the car.door came open and Mrs. Malone fell out and broke her arm, at the shoulder. She was in a east for three months, She still can’t close her hand. I told her she was pretty brave to start the same trip

gver again this time. Oll Potter's mother sent a whole basketful of fresh sausage, and pork tenderloin, and a peck of

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

. ERNEST H. ATKINS, chairman of the state conservation commission, had lunch with Governor ker at the Press club the other day. Acting as host, he ordered cigars. Then he glanced at his watch, recalled he had an appointment for 1:30, apolojit gized to the governor and left hurriedly. Later it dawned on him that he had run away and left the governor to pay the luncheon - check—cigars and all. He phoned the governor to apologize. “That's . all right,” said Uncle Henry. “It's happened before; with other people. But this business of a business engagement is a new one. Usually “they just go to use the telephone when it's time to pay the check.” . »« A poll taken in a group of 147 GE Red Cross volunteers, members of the staff assistants corps, resulted in a consensus that the war will end with our last enemy in September, 1045. The group is a pretty good cross section of s. Thirty-two thought the war would end 111044, 70 in 1945, 18 in 1946 and 15 in 1947. A dozen ghessed 1948, and one each 1949 and 1950. None of the group claimed to have any secret information— Just guessing.

An Odd ‘Odd Job’

CITY PIREMEN find all sorts of odd jobs to fill in_ their time on their days off. One fireman, for in-

- stance; fills in part time as & bartender. “On occasion

he has dressed in formals -and served as a floorman

per dancers. Another of his off-day jobs is

prking a5 & part-time detective In & department out: “Dear Sir—You Cur.” Yes, sir. As we lgok

tore. Probably his most unique job is serving as a

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Both the administration

and congress are doing some politicking with the new

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program and it is important not to allow ourives to be deceived by any of it. | People are not going to like heavier taxes. But ; that is no reason for not standing ey to them. Soldiers have to do work that they don't

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's income. ‘The administration is also politicking when it poses to relieve from direct federal taxation 9,000,low income earners by repealing the Victory tax and to ease it on 14,000,000 others. roo

-from the army and navy. two billion from the war “of $658,000,000. But he estimates an unavoidable in-

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. Davis said that once when she was peoplé were mighty good to her, and she told them she didn’t know how she could ever repay them, but they told her she didn't need to repay them personally, just so she did good things for other folks when they needed it. And that’s what she was doing.

The Laughingest Man

MY UNCLE OAT SAXTON brought over a freshly butchered side of a hog. My Uncle Oat keeps batch, and he is the laughingest man in Vermillion county. He laughs at everything, and especially himself, and when he Jaughs it is like the clear melodious peal of a cathedral bell.. Jt helped ease the strain to have him come and sit in our kitchen, and take off the lid and spit in the stove, and tell stories and laugh at them, On Sunday there were 38 people at our house. We couldn't let them in the front room, and at cne time the kitchen and dining room were so full half of them had to stand up. Anna Kerns was one of the 38, and when she left she didn't say, “Now if there's anything at all I can do. ..." She said, “Mary, I'll be here at 7:30 in the morning to do the washing for you.” And she was 100, and stayed all day, and got down on her knees | and oiled the lincleum, and then sat all afternoon | with mother while we rested. Other people did things, and brought things, and called up, but I can't remember them all now. For 40 years my mother was the one who went to all these people when they needed help. They havent forgotten, and now they're coming to her in droves, Indiana farmers know what a “good neighbor” policy is. It's born in them,

professional pallbearer at $2 a funeral. He's called in at funerals where the deceased has few acquaintances or where relatives and friends are working in war plants. , . . Dudley Smith, the state personnel di-

rector, has just about given up hope of finding a

florist. Probably one of the reasons it's so difficult for the state to find a florist is that the job open is at the Indiana state farm, and that doesn't make a very impressive sounding address. The job pays $160 a month. . . . Two boxes fell off a truck on the east side of the circle yesterday afternoon and broke open, providing a feast for the pigeons. The boxes con-: tained candy-coated peanuts,

Tomorrow's the 200th

TOMORROW'S Profile of the Week will mark a milestone for Inside Indianapolis. It will be the 200th profile this column has presented. When we started out, we had vague notions of doing something like 25 or 50. Now it looks like 500, or maybe 1000. Looking backward, George L. Denny, the lawyer, was the first victim. That one was. on Dec, 2, 1939. Next came Guy Wainwright, Louis. C. Brandt, Eli Lilly and Frank N. Wallace. Wilbur Gruber, Rotary club executive secretary, was the 50th, Bishop Titus Lowe was the 100th, and Irving Lemaux the 150th. In each instance, the material for the profile was obtained without the help or knowledge of the subject. It must be pretty startling for the subject to pick up The Times Saturday and discover prominently displayed therein such personal information as that he likes pickled pigs feet, or wears long red flannel underwear, or that His hats look disreputable. But thus far we've been

prejty Jacky. We -haven't-veceived ary black-oyes, wel

‘haven't been sued; in fact, not even a letter starting ‘back on the last four years, we've been pretty lucky,

By Raymond Clapper

comes from one of the big cigaret manufacturing states says to the treasury tax counsel, “Don’t you

know that we have to live with- the folks back home?"{-

Rep. Doughton says it is° too much to ask the people to carry the héavy tax burden proposed by the treasury. He says the tax program goes beyond the individual capacity of the taxpayer to pay. That of course is pure bunk contradicted by the crowds of buyers in every store, the sellout of all hotel rooms in New York and the 68,000 fans at the first world series game. 25a There is always room for more squeeze. 1 wonder if anybody would like to go over to visit the men in the 5th army or out in Gen. MacArthur's command and explain to them how taxes at home were unbearable. This still is a nation revelling in luxury, compared with any other nation at war. Our only trouble is t our people have so much more money than goods on to spend it that we are most serious danger of inflation. - not help for Republican members of the ttee solemnly to issue a joint statement that the proposed taxes go far beyond what the average person is able to pay.

Can’t Have Economical War

ONE THING Republicans do need encouragement with, and that is their demand for economies. Economies will not be sufficient to serve as an adequate substitute for higher taxes. You can't have an economical war. Savings are likely to be small in comparison to the total war expenditures. Rep. John Taber, minority leader of the ways and means committee, is talking about saving three billion each

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shipping administration, and miscellaneous savings

crease in army expenditures of four billion. On the best showing, he can make a list of possible savings of $4,658,000,000 out of a prospective budget of $106,000,000,000. : If such economies can be made, fine. But they do not eliminate the need for heavier taxes, which are rent both 10 provide revenue and 1a hold back

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later, the legislature met to

pronounceable word. It could however. for instance, proposed “Tecumseh” as a name and one member held out for “Suwarrow” until the bitter

end. The same act also provided that

the house and senate should elect by joint ballot three commissioners with power to employ surveyors to lay out Indianapolis. They were directed to meet on the selected site-—a place in the wilderness—on the first Monday in April, 1821, rain or shine. Pursuant to this clause, the legislature picked James W. Jones, Samuel P.. Booker and Christopher Harrison. On the appointed day only Mr. Harrison, a woman hater, showed up. ww

Knew Language of Love

IF EVER a man had reason to hate women it was Christopher Harrison, He was born in 1775 in Cambridge, Dorchester county, Mafyland, and came of a family rich enough to give him a fancy education, He was a graduate of St. John's college Annapolis, and later went to Europe to take a classical course, including a more than superficial training in music and painting. When he met William Patterson, Mr, Harrison could talk and write Latin, French and Spanish, including, of course, the kind of English spoken in Maryland. He also had command of the language of love, an accomplishment Mr. Patterson wasn’t aware of when he employed Christopher Harrison as his confidential clerk,

William Palterson was a Baltimore merchant and a legitimate descendant of “Old Mortality,” the eécentric tombstone mason immortalized by Sir Walter Scott. Besides that, he was the richest man in Maryland with the possible exception of the Carroll family. He owned everything in and around Baltimore in the shape of ships, stores, plantations. These were tangible assets. {o.be measured in terms of “money. What couldn’t be measured that way was an intangible in the shape of a beautiful girl, -a daughter named Elizabeth. President Jefferson must have had Elizabeth in mind when, on one occasion, he referred to Mr, Patterson as the richest man, not only in Maryland, but in the whole United States. GE " & =

Boy Meets Girl OF COURSE the clerk met the boss’ daughter. The affair started ihnocently enough with all the symptoms of calf-love. One day, however, the precociously proficient Miss Patterson persuaded her father's clerk to call her “Betsy,” whereupon the boss’ daughter called him “Chris”; thus proving again, if further proof is necessary, that Cupid has preciously few patterns with which to work. Sure, they got engaged. Everybody said it was a match made in heaven and nobody ‘was more certain of it than Betsy's father. This departure from the rule governing such cases .is accounted for by the fact that Mr, Patterson had it all fixed to make Chris a partner in the business. To prepare him for the Job, Chris was sent to Europe on an important mission. The marriage was to take place on his

‘800K TRIAL’ MEN ARE 1-A IN DRAFT

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—~Two principals in the famed

shaves, banks and

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THIS IS A love story attempted by one who. knows pathetically little of the ways of women and not much more

By this time certain circles around here knew that Indiana started doing business in 1816 with Corydon as its capital. Less well known is the fact that, five years

ratify an act approving the

selection of a site for a brand new capital to be known as “Indianapolis,” a synthetic sound compounded by Judge ' Jeremiah * Sullivan (Reginald’s great-grandfather) who exercised his classical learning to produce an almost un

have been a whole lot worse,

Gen. Marston G. Clark of Washington county,

Back from his business (trip, Christopher Harrison walked into a drama the like of which America had never -seen. Jerome Bonaparte, the 18-year-old kid brother of Napoleon, had turned up in Baltimore. It's the gospel truth. He came with his whole €utourage or what was left of it after his disastrous expedition to the West Indies. In case you've forgotten, an English frigate spotted him and chased him off the horizon. In his search for a hiding place, Mr. Bonaparte Jr. discovered Chesapeake Bay, -

A Bonaparte in Baltimore

IMMEDIATELY all doors were open to Jerome. The adoration inspired by the first consul was at its height and the presence of a Bonaparte in Baltimore meant much not only to its citizens but to one who, all his life, had been regarded as something of a pathetic figure; at any rate, by his Big Brother. Indeed, on one occasion Napoleon put his feel ings into words: “Lé petit mauvais sujet” is what he called his kid brother. Honest, Because of her exalted place in society, Betsy Patterson was one of the first girls—certainly the first - 16-year-old—to meet Lt, Bonaparte, The two met at the September races, on the very afternoon Mr, Harrison's horse “Hamlet” came in first in the four-mile—a trivial detail, perhaps, but dragged into today's piece to show with what cruelty Cupid sometimes works. Betsy that day wore a buffcolored silk dress and a hat decorated with long pink ostrich plumes, a combination sufficient to slay any man, including even a Bonaparte. To make absolutely sure, however, Betsy contrived to get her long gold chain caught in the buttons of Bonaparte’s uniform. Outsiders and

myopic historians describe - the _

technique as “love at first sight.”

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Christmas Eve Wedding

IN A COURTSHIP so tempest uous that it rocked the foundations of a wobbly world, Betsy handed down- a nifty which has

since become a classic. Said Betsy: “I would rather be the " wife of a Bonaparte for one hour than the wife of .any other man for a lifetime.”

The marriage took place on Christmas Eve, 1803, in a Roman Catholic ceremony celebrated by the Rt. Rev, John Carroll, bishop of Baltimore, primate of the church in America, who also happened to be a cousin of Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The civil contract was drawn with meticulous care. Anticipating trouble with Napoleon, Alexander J. Dallas, subsequently secretary of the treasury and a whale for composing legal prose, was brought over from Washington to do the job. Napoleon hit the ceiling when news of the marriage reached him. He ordered Jerome to return to France at once or be arrested as a common deserter, What's more, he ordered his kid brother to forget his American wife and leave her where he found her. To all of which Jerome with Betsy's backing, you bet, paid absolutely no attention. As a matter of fact, Jerome and Betsy didn't start for

‘A Woman Hater'

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When William H. English died, this picture of Christopher

Harrison was found among his effects.

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France until the spring of 18035, more than a year after their marriage. The year was taken up with traveling in America to let everyboby see a Bonaparte hitched to an American girl. . Every Port Closed JEROME AND BETSY got as far as Lisbon where they learned that Napoleon didn't like the marriage a little bit, partly because Jerome had dared to marry without his consent and partly because Napoleon had everything fixed to marry all his brothers to European princesses. Moreover, they were told that every port under French authority was closed to them, Leaving his wife in Lishon, Jerome hurried to Paris in an attempt to soften his big brother, No luck. Napoleon was still mad; so all-fired mad, indeed, that he «tried to get the pope to dissolve the marriage. ‘The pope, however, bac up. the Bishop of. Baltfs more, leaving Napoleon nothing else- to do but take matters into

“declared the American marriage null and void. With a stroke of the pen and a snap of the fingers, he thus disposed of Mr, Dallas, the man brought over from Washington to write an iron-clad contract. While all this was going on, Betsy went to England, to Camberwell near London, where on July 7, 1805, she gave birth to a son. With a woman's intuition that flattery can conquer most situations, Betsy named him Jerome Napoleon, It didn't work worth a cent in this case. Napoleon was still sore. Baby Jerome Napoleon was the start of the Bonapartes of Baltimore, a powerful dynasty and still going strong. The last to make the front page (above the crease) was Charles Joseph, secretary of the navy in Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, » »

” The Knobs of Indiana

WHEN Christopher Harrison heard that Betsy had produced a son, he sold his plantation, including all his slaves and headed for the west. It took him three years to reach our wilderness and to this day nobody knows why he didn't make better time, One «day while floating down the Ohio in a houseboat, he spied the knobs on the Indiana side. They

His own ands, Which he afd" He

It is now under lock and Memorial (State Library).

looked good to him and at a place called Fair Prospect commands ing a magnificent view of the river, he got off to inspect the country, The place he picked was the present site of Hanover college or not far from it, He liked the place so well that he stayed there, establishing himself as a hermit. A shelf of books, a gun, a fiddle and a ken nel of dogs were his only companfons, Except for an occasional Indian buck, he refused to receive visitors, least of all women. He lived in a one-room cabin near which stood a great big tree, He carved his name on the tree and engraved “July 8, 1808" underneath it, a date that is generally accepted as the beginning of his life in the Territory of Indiana. In 1815, after spending seven years of his life as a hermit, Christopher Harrison, then almost 40 years old, decided that he had served full time for his Rachel and re-entered the world, When - he-- abendoned his - eabin; "it was discovered that all of the

had painted himself. Nobody, not even Wilbur Peat of the Herron Art Institute, knows what has become of them. }

~ . . Betsy an Abandoned Wife UPON RE - ENTERING this wicked world, Mr. Harrison learned In a round-about way

that Jerome Bonaparte had been made to marry Catherine Sophie, Princess of Wurtemberg. What's more, that he was now King of Westphalia where the real pumpernikel comes from and, incidentally, Louis Brandt, too. As for Betsy, she was now an abanGoned wife in Baltimore, Cristopher Harrison re-entered the world. by ‘way of Salem, one of the most important towns in the Territory of Indiana at the time. Almost immediately he erected the first brick building in the town and opened up, of all things, a dry goods store. Which doesn't mean that he was on speaking terms with women again. Not at all. He made it his business to deal almost exclusively with men; with the result that in no time at all he became one of the best mixers, not only in his immediate neighborhood, but all along the Ohio river, In support of which

there is the election of 1816, the

Weiter Asserts Future Soviet Victories Depend Upon Anglo-U. S. Contributions

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—A new

We can say to the Russian delegates: “Sure you saved us last year— and thanks. But we're saving you this year! Sure, your offensive’s wonderful, but without ow help where would it be?” This summer's Russian came paign started with a German

means that the Italian Corps that fought Russia will never "be replaced. It means that some satelite divisions that might have fought her are going into the Balkans, and that they will join about 25 German divisions sent there to replace that number of Italian divisions. To Italy itself have gone or will go another 25 German divisions, The Germans themselves have admitted that their big retreat is due in large measure to our successes in Italy and to the consequent danger of invasion of the Balkans. But the Russians have ignored this factor, yet they. say the political commission will “dis-

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first ever held in this state. When the votes were counted, it turned out that © Christopher Harrison was the lieutenant governor of Indiana with Johnathan Jennings over him, Two years later Governor Jennings was appointed a commis sioner to treat with the Indians for the tract of country compris ing the central part of Indiana. (Sure, the party Harry Reid wants to serve with helicopters) This left. Harrison as acting governor. When Jennings returned, Harrison refused to surrender the office. He based his argument on a elause bf the constitution—something to the effect that a man can't be in two places at the same timeand maintained that Jennings had forfeited his office by accepting the appointment. The legislature didn’t share his point of view, indignantly, Harrison resigned, ~ - »

Licked in Bitter Fight

AT THE NEXT election, in 1819, Harrison ran for governor against Jennings. He was. licked—not without putting up a bitter fight, however. Christopher Harrison's belligerency, .comparéd with the utter lack of it back in Baltimore, presents a complicated problem in human behavior and invites in vestigation. One guess is that Indiana politics does something to men, In 1821, Christopher Harrison was elected one of the three commissioners to lay out Indianapolis. Which brings us right back to where we started. Not much is known of his stay in Indianapolis except that quite frequenuy he dropped into gloomy moods, paying no attention to visitors and declining to enter into conversa tion with anyone. People learned to leave him severely alone on such occasions. a It is quite possible—indeed, quite probable—that Mr. Harrison was =n one of his gloomy moods when he approved the four diagonal avenues of Indianapolis—the four traps which for trickery and treachery can't-be matched anyWhere this side of hell. Except for this one lapse, he did a swell Job, NH Harrison left Indianapolis jin< mediately after completing his work and ‘returned to Salem, where he interested himself in a number of civic enterprises, In his spare time he raised big luscious watermelons on his little farm. He would bring these to town as gifts to the children after having earved their names on the rinds. ‘Strangely enough, he gave the Juictest melons to little girls; The smaller the girls, the better he

interior walls were. covergd With... kod, them, ov sw. ww pictures, every one of which he

Returned to Maryland:

WHEN HE WAS 60 years old, Christopher Harrison left Indiana and returned to Maryland. He lived to be 88 years old. So far As anybody knows he never saw Betsy again. On the other hand, Betsy saw Jerome again, Legend. has it that after the downfall of Napoleon, Madame Patterson (as

,. She was styled for a long period)

visited Europe and encountered Jerome Bonaparte with his prin cess-wife in a gallery of the Pitti Palace in Florence. On meeting, the startled Jerome was overheard to whisper: “That lady is my former wife” He instantly left the gallery and next moring caught the first stage coach out of Florence, Only once during his long stay ‘In Indiana did Christopher Harrison say anything that might be construed as having something to do with his courtship of Elizabeth Patterson and the jilt she handed him. In Salem a Quaker came to him seeking salvation. On that occasion Harrison said: “God is love, and love never loses anything; it is infinitely forgiving.” Some historians, Maurice Thomp= son among them, suggest that “maybe the man was thinking of his own love, by the light of which his whole life was spent.” Well . . | maybe.

many alone perhaps two millions— of anti-air raid personnel. The Russians don’t understand how sea power works. They seem not to realize that if the German prisoners they take are hungry and depressed by news of privation at home it is due to the same sort of