Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1945 — Page 12
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© dally (except Sunday) by person of Ferdinand (Paps) Schaefer, an IndianIndianapolis Times Pub- ‘ered by apolis octogenarian, who apparently is still satisfied - lishing Co., 214 with this world. Enough, st any rate, to want to 5 - Postal Zone § go on living > 4 : ie Papa Schaefer is the subject of today's piece be- - Member cause of his impending birthday. Believe it or not, = Scripps-Howard the founder and first conductor of the Indianapols 5 Alliance, N Symphony orcliestrs will be 84 years tomorrow. I Audit He still has his oginal set of teeth and an sbun- pr] Circulations. dance of hair the like of which can’t be matched by u of today. And as for his gait, ; Give Light end the Posple Will Pind Thor Own Woy | S07 Youngsters of FAY: FOC OF ous lover who Z fears thit he might be late for a pre-arranged tryst. ETT ANIZATION NEEDED . This world is well-nigh perfect, says Mr. Schaefer, B ER ORG The reason it isn’t absolutely perfect is because of
(CERTAIN disturbing revelations made in the current |, ,i.rmeions, fish and juke boxes. To ask anybody 4 state department controversy need much more serious [to est watermelons econsideration than they have received. Covington Bho us ogi iy in ry Ge re 3 Cg te rm feeling for some of Mr, Toscanini’s in ivided - against i in the s a lukewa . . hi clear that a detailed history of the con- | terpretations), M7. Sihanter aus 3 Sigh of uy nd. troversy was in the state department's files. Picket Fence Linked to Music Yet Secretary Byrnes says he knew nothing about the| MR. SCHAEFER was introduced to music by way
Presi Truman indicated that he | of a picket fence, which is to say that 79 years ago-he soutzoversy, sud Pe bigent hea 13 ‘| was a very bad little boy. The fence surrounded the - LJ
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‘| vegetable garden of the Schaefer homestead in Wies~ . . £ oo" baden which, at that time, belonged to the duchy of ELL, who did know about it? Almost everyone else | Nassau (as if it matters).
i i the Little 5-year-old Ferdinand had been told repeatYV even remotely concerned, it would seem, including Wag a pognd oe pot
two Chinese factions and, in all probability, every other truders out. Mr. Schaefer doesn't recall whether he foreign office in the world having representatives in Chung- | defied the injunction or whether he forgot it. After
C13 1 ict 1 i bassy was com- | all that was.a long time ago. king. For the conflict in the American em y At this late day he only remembers that in climb-
mon knowledge in Chita among persons in touch with the ing the fence that day, he got stuck on one of the political situation there. pickets with the result that his pants were split from
Apart from the merits df the confroversy itself, how | top to bottom for which his mother gave him a can we command the prestige we should have abroad when ay AO didnt hurt a Lit. My. Schaster. re
official diplomatic outposts is in its alleg- bers. What did hurt was his mother’s threat to aioe announced olicy of our at report the incident, When Pathe Setter Juseived 3 2 commanded ore Er And what assurance have we that other American ae Perdinand expected. to a sound * embassies are free from similar division, when a spirited | thrashing this time. Instead his father said: “Bedispute of this kind can rage for months within the state SBE WS 70 , department itself and not be known to the head of our | URE IT Ture in the shape of Without reference to the Chinese situation, Randolph provi Churchill, writing from the British viewpoint, observed | oc oter In the course of the next 20 years he recently that Secretary Byrnes came to the London con- | acquired sumcient skill to play in : ference “inadequately briefed on American policy in the Far East.”
* 1 WAS fortunate to arrive in Moscow just in time for the annual reception given by Foreign Commissar Molotov to the diplomatic corps and foreign press to celebrate the anniversary of the October : +o TY which, owing to Russian abandonment of the Qrtho- ’ dox calendar, now falls in November. In consequence 2 LA % 3 Jad 418 opparinity 91 isang 5 Jaye Simiber of digni es. : | Hoosier Forum ideas st |x seem, fod wile 5 conduct its orchestra. It looked as you say, ” to the bassies. In addition I : 3 OF COURSE no one Yai on read he sop Wade a er, | - death your right fa say it” coktad partie at various foreign epions. 10 ot to the state department, or know is going ; . |“CAN'T WE SEND THESE imes- readers are invifed |“THEY ARE-TRYING TO gle meet 3. Russian. plomatie in the world at any given moment. ! net Dus sequel Ms. Schacter PEOPLE AMERICAN GRUB ro iat thei views pe VESTHOY GOVERNMENT" | corpe-—through no choice of theirs—iivp' a life of But the secretary of state is responsible for American | time he was somewhere around 26 years old. The [By rs Murhemey, 101 X. Ws these columns, religious con- [Br L Heo. fatussheti Every now and then an ambassador gives fo policy, mp id) b t it is, and how it is | Sest Adolf Brodsky was his teacher. T have been reading the many| froversies excluded. Because In to the one who signs = s din.
“a ; i . |himselft a Communist in the|"* PAY and & few commissars may come. Somebeing carried out. He should have his department so or-| Lived Off Fat of Land accounts in your paper of the short- 3 1 hh value vied, mish, the er
ganized that he can get promptly any information he needs. | < AFTER TWO and a half years, Mr. Schaefer dis- age of £pod and the Impending Star-| ogc ot ers must be [I really believe just his kind are And it should be a routine “must” that serious situa- | covered that he had used up all his savings. He went [vation of thousands of people in signed. Opinions hort [ine ors who ars the main couse are elaging {i
: A io | to Brodsky and told him of his plight. Brodsky re- [Europe this winter. An idea came those of the wri of all strikes. I am thinking and ats f : Yo tions, such as the one in Chungking, are brought bo Ns called that he had a grandson (the son. of Count |f0 me and as I Sons know Just \ port foe be igi {have been-for a long time a firm a direct oll ee aT amok attention immediately when they begin to develop. Somebody) living in Russia who, by this time, ought who to contact I put up im plies with believer in the party who signs Communist unless he happens to be your exact We make full allowance for the fact that Mr. Byrnes [to be old enough for music lessons, he thought. [Yor The Times. hate himself The Watchman. “opposite number." : ;
" io Isn't there some organization| opinions is still comparatively new to his job. But we wish he ap- | Baulpped with & rucksack, Mr. Schaefer set oft Bt a pull tat] Times’ aisumes mo sespomsi we, we some Stairs Joa 1
: ious of another fact which seems obvious + |would make a strenuous drive for for the return of manu- ; POLITICS — o posted & 17, that faulty organization of his department has | enough » Russian rubles io complete ete is seudies te I er seroh and cannot ener cor- gm boon Lon | LR "been and, unless it is corrected, will be responsible for many | Lelpsig Conservatory. Before he got around 10 that |” rns 'se would be, Even if respondence regarding them.) the dirty rats (Communists). G 0 P Trend | costly mistakes. ht : . ) fanilly over|tainly won't volunteer. I don’t|pu: destroy our good American a. «00 cities of Russia, Hungary and Sweden, In Upsala Mr. [S700 WL, one ON DIVIDING OUR STRENGTH y a Prob- gladly give one or more quarts of | commanders tell us, and most peo-| me ONE of the issues between Gen. Hurley and the State |ably becuse of this afiiation or, maybe, because it [77% of Department's career men in the controversy over Chi- | ostul teacher of Count Somebody's little ‘could | than before. {ings we will
nese policy was the proposal that we furnish arms and | Schaefer, one day, received a royal command to cents, to buy | There are just three methods by
few : a 5 : : b i . (flour, shortening, ete. that should which that n army can be ‘ammunition to the Chinese Communists. - gs She-Ciguis Prines (ih: presens Eg of Swede. | tl 5. : ocRSSATy i Commits}
We should like to hear why that proposal was consi AITIVIng ai the royal palace, Mr. Schaefer learned We have sent. elotiiing. toys, te, L Volunteers. A little inquiry ered sound from any standpoint, unless it was actuated by that the Crown Prince had expressed a desire to ha Shey hued wil Snviie Mr. Woums of the a desire to strengthen the Communist movement in China. | Musi lessons When Fhey got together 108 18 USL | areas of starva-| 2 Retain men indefinitely against The Chinese Communists were fighting the Japanese. | (4 man three years older than himself) had alarm [tion Would thrive on our Saaned|their will who have already given But they were also in arthed revolt against the recognized | ingly long finger nails which made fom oko 1 8% yews of We so government of China. Any arms we furnished them were Mr. . Y oaceolds Tor" une Vo . as likely to be used against the Chinese government—our Ja two years of peacetime service. ~ ally—as against the Japs. - “IS DRAFTING 18-YEAR-OLDS I leave ft to Mr. Evans. Which To have divided between the government and the Com- 't [UNFAIR? I THINK NOT.” of the two workable methods do munist forces such equipment as we were able to transport
By Es-§. Sgt. Indianapolis you feel to. be a), joyrd Remitipe “HANNEGAN'S Abbess Although I have been a reader of (bering, of course, that we all have | AMUSING, COMICAL” Lean : : over the Hump and the Ledo road would have weakened Pi, plain to any observer of the natijnal Chiang and strengthened the Communists. But how would Hitioe
the Hoosier Forum for several years, (an equal debt to our country. Is|my Marvin Wallen, it have helped the war against Japan? ~~
_| drafting - 18-year-olds still so un-| Robert Hannegan's address. at she right, as in studies | However, the article by Marshall{fair? I think not.. French Lick was very amusing, in| in you PRESERVE IKE FROM HIS FRIENDS! bad % SENATOR CAPPER of Kansas says the Republicans in
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Evans seems to me to require an ; s = =» ‘ fact, comical. platform composed by Re blican ix congre it| KEEP THE SECRET HERE” He accused the G. O. P. of try-| 10F the congressional eléctions next year. | | ; 1948 should nominate Gen. Eisenhower for the presidency. Regardless of the senator's good intentions, this
ing to smear P. D. R.'s name in the| But it is evident . effort to draw the general's name into party politics now is unpardonable. : : We share the senator's opinion that Eisenhower “is, in ~~ the highest sense, 4 world statesman.” - Apparently most . Americans think the same. So do our allies abroad, who wanted him to head the United Nations Organisations. But there is another fact the senator ignores. Gen. a Eisenhower has just undertaken a crucial job as chief of | vi engendered so much smoke that |want back in. And, it is very evi-|second destruction of the staff of the U, S. army. He cannot succeed in that task, | their legitimate purpose has been almost hopelessly gent from his letter that he cer- ibe despite his great abilities and present public’ support, if OE arpiee atv tlamine whather ™
either friends or enemies tar him with political partisanship. | Hurley's efforts as ambassador to China were frus- de -— . nu» 5 so a : id tn Pa Bt an | Glances y Gal I 20, :
TF Eisenhower were seeking the presidency he could not ; HT pase in good faith have accepted the post of chief of staff, | A ciarication is tmperative because Gen. Marshall | | || of
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f WORLD AFFAIRS— By the same token, about. 11 million (bomb, for if there ever was a race ChATEe:
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