Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1946 — Page 14

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‘key languidly when I dropped into his place to begin the calisthenic exercise of lifting weights prescribed by my physician. . “Tift, why so lugubrious on the eve of Christmas,” says I in a feeble attempt to make the most of a situation that didn’t promise much, “The decline of Christmas poetry_worties me no end,” says Tiff ri visible but controlled emo= on. or “Tiff, don’t tell me that poetry is ailing, too,” says I. =, Ne “Precisely,” says Tiff, “the plight of Christmas poetry is pathetic and, nowhere is it more apparent than in and around Indianapolis” * . we b's probatiy because of he scientific age in which ," says I, reaching for the je that everything today. f Sie ] Sepiatns “The readiness with which you youngsters take th dine of least resistance does you no credit,” says r “And I will tell you why. Thus far science, for all { accomplishments, hasn't been able to ridicule Christmas. And if that be true, there is every reason to believe that Christmas poetry must survive” “Then for Pete's sake, what is the matter with Christmas poetry,” says I kinda testily. ’

Some Gaudy Examples “THE REASON CHRISTMAS POETRY isn't what it used to be is because Indianapolis hasn't the kind of saloon keepers it once had,” says Tiff.

“Do tell,” says I kinda excited at the sudden turn of events. “Sixty years ago,” says Tiff, “All the saloon keepers around here knew how to handle Christmas in verse and none better than Mr. Casper located at 29 S. Meridian st. You could also get into his place by way of No. 9 Pearl st. I still remember the Christmas eve I first entered his establishment. I was a junior at the time—Harvard 1886—and had come home to spend the holidays. As a matter of fact, I had just spent a semester at the feet of Charles Eliot Norton who was the first to reveal for me the extraordinary beauty of Dante, and it may just be possible that it had something to do with my appreciation of Mr. Casper’s gifts. Anyway, the first thing to greet me on entering his saloon was a huge illuminated sign, the title and lines of which remain etched on my memory.” .

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THE BILBO SHOW THOSE who listened to the avalanche of adjectives from The Man Bilbo as he likened his former secretary to Benedict Arnold, might have been impressed momentarily that they were hearing a master of invective. But when his output is compared with some of the real experts in personal abuse it nets out as pretty grubby. For example, going back to Dean Swift, taking on the Earl of Wharton—*“He was never known to refuse or keep a promise.” Or John Randolph of Roanoke, as we recall, who, speaking of Daniel Webster said, “Like a mackerel in the moon- | light, he shines and stinks.” ” Or, attributed both to Wilson Mizner and Jimmie Walker, defining a reformer as “one who rides through a sewer in a glass-Bottomed boat.” Or Senator Gore who referred to an opponent as having “all the attributes of a dog except fidelity.” Or “Alfalfa Bill” Murray's remark about an enemy, “When he’s out of jail he's away from home.” To Boss Ed Crump is credited this one about a political foe, “In the art galleries of Paris there are 27 paintings of Judas Iscariot. No one looks like an other but they all | look like Browning.” | The *“whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man”, that John L. Lewis tossed at Jack Garner wasn't so clever, | but at that it was better than the best of Bilbo's Billingsgate. 5 . No, “The Man's” show with its pastors and deacons and contractors and its Juniper Grove Baptist church wasn’t altogether a flop. But it wouldn't last on Broadway. And fa in the matter of plain and fancy denunciation it certainly

“| do not agree with a word that you

FREE BARGAINING es Fagen amen r . . . t n . » Cn” VWHATEV ER voluntary methods can do to maintain in- Awakening of Landlords Will le mip aly ¥5L| ereuses is crime 2nd JUvesiic. acing mes rely : : perty,' point to the need for more public and private wood - dustrial peace will be all to the good. So we welcome C ome S ome D ay: Abuses S to ved" | everyone has the same privilege. | sheds. And I don’t mean places for sawing fuel. the unanimous report of the U. S. conciliation service's yi PP | Many Jeanie precipitate their, Attorney General Tom Clark and FBI Director labor-management advisory committee which advocates : By An Apartment Owner, Indianapolis tent lg SOY aj J Bdgar Hoover have beet) Salli conferences of ways and means of helping free collective bargaining 10 |orangne. whe would sive his ite. if need be, for th Justead, LA 8 GIFATES, s6tush wn wie puck 9 ie) ok whe a Much ’ ’ s ese nac ‘en. apartments, - . work better. : . Even so, patience ceases to be a virtue, in cases of this kind, as follows: Ward purchasing. property if the| serious and yaluable information has been put foThe committee’s members—four employers and four [3 ve evel apartments and no pets, for I have experienced the pet- 00¢Y thus Spect Nad been saved. | gota of, EmBhasised as ie 2h oFieEt ot playgrounds, : : . ‘ “foster-father” whose kin regarding pless angles, n or more Org sport, parental mora labor union officers—agree in opposing ‘any form of OM- | inconvenience incurred, such as ee mired In propértion op any renters are absolutely help- | letdown due to war and easy money. : pulsory arbitration or ‘super-machinery’ for disposition of (water with the dog, while hé spends the week-end with his friends, | 1058 ven With rent controls In sect.) p,..| Crime ‘Up Most labor disputes.” . Only the replacement of your rugs and the complete fumigation of the' They were helpless before. They P : i siden:ie apartment makes it habitable for the next tenant, when yo would ol be Neipjess afidrwerd Sscause NEED FOR PLAY SPACE would be more imporThey think the government should limit itself to one { rather rub their noses in it. - Moral, if you have a do lov vig or i hey 2 not exercise the principles: tant but for one fact, which stands oui in Hoover's : o XL ¥ §, love It, ; of thrift necessary to realize homes, reports: Rural crime has increased more than urban.

function—mediation designed to aid the parties in reaching if you can't do this, you just don't’ of their own, | In 1045, there was a national crime increase of 12

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—I'm wondering if the

agreement. ; | love dogs. Be fair. Why do folks raise the ery of ; . { * “tyranny” per cent over 1944 and 1944 had a sharp rise over And they propose four techniques to supplement the a Jo the babies! A baby came Views on ope but consider ace | 1643. In the first six months of 1946, all crime went regular work of federal conciliators: - (1) - Appointment |. ws year ten | {buy the’ drinks, smokes, eats, choose Up 13 per cent over the same period in 1945. For : a3 i Ww gules call the party to vacate but The News the finest cosmetics, and have the| the 12 months of this year, it will probably level off” of special conciliators from outside the government, in [the soldier father was away and we |gang in for a party. And you hear| at around 10 per cent. Hs major controversies; (2) Use of industry and labor repre- Seciged oe would arrange for its By DANIEL M. KIDNEY |Ye%Y Bile of the dealers in those| A large percentage of arrests has been of boys and ng in a different, nicer apart-| yg atest French contribution to! on the hel precipiianis of misery girls under 21. pless people. | * While the national crime wave was up 13 per

sentatives as advisers in mediation efforts; (3) Voluntary iment, a bedroom apartment. on the ! | statesmanship is the Premier-of-! Some of my renters work at the con ryral crime went up 19.6 per cent. That is

arbitration of dispu risi i . ~ases, of ini oes oi Wider Sontrans : 4 in Some Eng door: oe Pr js | the-Mouth club. But voting every same plants I do. They make ap-| 00 3 of the good oid d ) erms of new contracts; (4) : {Sunday should eventually turn up a proximately the same amount of jut 2 3 ds pe ors ® hp,

” "a . . {nicely furnished, innersprings, etc.| Where these methods fail in cases of nati 3 ' gs, durable cabinet-maker. | money, and I have more famil - ‘emergency boards” to hold heari tional importance, ne baby came “and this is the so» | sponsibilities than any - Ay and they're supposed to be kept more or less busy. genc) s” to hold hearings and publish findings, |routine. The lights are on all the | In the Balkans they postpone a NOW the rent control division is in-| Robbery, for instance, accounted for 31.8 per cent

but only if both sides consent to such boards. time, particularly over the baby. free election” unless the army is Sorming me hat J, shoud reduce’ of crime arrests nationally. It was 484 per cent in | To per cent.| rural regions. City punks invading the country is

. un & ; The radio goes all the time, only | ready for it. Sasa | the 10:15 p. m. after news time, | 8 {No consideration is given to income only part of the answer. “THE report does not end the necessity for corrective labor rule stops it. Midnight comes, the| The .Republicans seem to thinkitaser, or rocommation to ance local { taxes, aos,

bargain in good faith, with heavy penalties if they fail

ment members of th i risely icki i : en e committee wisely are sticking to their er again turns on the light and klan in most states where the mem- Se Je xan that. Compare what pos] jon that congress must balance fairly the one-sided '®¥2Y to sleep mother again goes. sership is too small to swing an sa. CARACAS, Dec. 23.—And .so we say goodby to Wagner act. | ov I'm = complaining but | election. “PROPERTY OWNERS MUST | Venezuela, home of the short-order revolution, and Other legislation i : {there are thousands of landlords | 2 = = UNITE AGAINST THE OPA” as the sun sets on the Russian trade delegates, it is chief vieti Bt 8 needed to protect the public—the who are experiencing such as this| The war assets administration By Niek Owens, City comforting to reflect that down here they have Huet viel 0! TRany struggles between labor and manage- every day yet they do not complain, [Sold a “navy-sponsored war plant”| One of the worst examples of | idiosyncrasies, too. I quote a few happenings from ment—against irresponsible abuses of the great power the | What would be the use? They are |to the Allis Chalmers Manufactur- disregard for the rights of land- recent weeks: government has helped unions to achieve hog-tied, but what an awakening! ing Co. It is located at West Allis, [lords under the present OPA setup | A lady resident of a third-floor flat tried to heave And . a . ; {there is coming, some day. As for | Wis, where the company has more | is an experience that I have had | her grand piano out of the window. A local gentlend some way must be found to prevent strikes that {me I too, have learned and again War than the navy right now. |with the recent tenants’ in my| man made a recording of himself eating a Ritz

deprive communities, and even the w it could have been worse. This bab « & = furnish ! 8, e whole country, of sup- r Yi curnished house on W. Morris sf.| cracker. A cook threatened to place rat poison in f plies and services essential to public health, saf hg P- (could have been triplets. . | Well, we proved one thing, you Recently -these renters left during | tortillas if her mistress didn't stop nagging. A gro- $ fire 1 is in thi Lop neaitn, sale y and wel- | "= * =n couldn't have OPA and Bourbon the night taking with them all the | ceryman, southern relative of Caspar Milquetoast, had } re. It is in this area that the most persuasive argument “LANDLORDS ARE at the same time. dishes and cooking utensils which |to drink an entire bottle of wine: before he’ found \ for compulsory arbitration can be made. JUST PEOPLE" : i a TL ? ¥e Jurnistied them. During the year ‘sufficient courage to dismiss & salesman. : Y ; bax, : ; : ay of operating independent of their t they occupied the pro | ’ . It is worth noting, however, that the Consolidated Edi- 3y E. F.'D. Anderson assistance. they have’ hii nM Ty per Recipe Against Repeaters ned . ; in Vene-

son system and the C. I. O. union representing that com- There E seemingly a great Landlords, if you insist on calling of $1000 to the furnifure and house.| AT THE RECENT ELECTION—first pany’s 23,000 employees have just reached an agreement amount of - maliciousness directed us that, ordinarily are just people How much did the plague of the | zuela’s history—the prospective Ber, aa for voluntary arbitrati £ I : : : foward a certain class of people, like yourself, only they have worked property owners, OPA, allow me to | asked to dip his finger into a green solution before th 3 } on of all wage issues, under which ess days, known as “landlords.” and saved sufficient to supply the charge for the rental of this neat | he made his mark. It was & specifio. against double ey stare the eight million residents of New York City |, o> oly So 1 resent hs name, but hase Jou live in. Most of us would lit{le home? $7 per week. Now tell Voling, because nothing could wash it off. oh dining Wes : : é J ‘not ¢ his pro se~ation of much prefer being referred to as me how you can e against gasalir he, alkaog ) Gawd Sichesie Sounty a“ = uninterrupted sup- Sally ; is accord” with American “your sneighbor” instead * of a ove in oo of te Soin, pi ! eid odd pro sapolin, nt the invention Wide ext a gus Maroughou 17, tions that A ey . be i knavish gang who “will precipitate used the gas range for heating pur- of & Dr. Roberto Final of Maracaibo, and the label e extension of such agreements would be a fine way SToun, Bud that AD ji 3 eartless misery on & helpless people” as poses making this bill alone $12 on the bottle said: “Finalidad: Guarantizar sufragio to prove compulsory arbitration unnecessary abo . considers stated in thie Forum by a contribu-|to $15 a month. Damage included | universal” Roughly translated: “Finality: To guarssary. us ut the only people incapable tor recently. Most of us were ren- a hole as big as my head torn! antee universal suffrage.” 4 through the back of the living room Since a great number of Venezuela's’ vob are chair; an ottoman, end table, occa-

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FTER months of bickering and logrolling, the war and —~ Ta pred

navy department are now planning to restore the i at 8,70. a Same ification of command in the field which obtained uring the war, but which fell apart when th i Jurlns p en the fighting That it has taken so long to get together on even this common-sense arrangement argues loudly for a single debi: partment ot national defense. The present division of authority is extravagant and inefficient, as well as a threat

room, causing the plaster to fall : : off the larger portioh of the ceiling. WASHINGTON, Dec, 23~On May 21, 1040, in the Wallyapes throughout the house, Luxembourg palace, I heard Premier Paul Reynaud year ago is a complete wreck.| =... his final speech before the French senate and | It is high time the property aaa 4 , watched that bédy adjourn sine die. Hitler's bullies

owners of this city get together and hasten the day when OPA#wi)1 | Were pounding at the gates of Paris. That was literally one of the dying gasps of the

be no more. a ' Third Republic. Tomorrow a “council of the republic

to national security The new orde: id ; NO uy er announced by the joint chiefs of staff “MUST ALL MONEY —France’s Fourth Republic—will meet in that same and the war and navy departments, with the p ide BE SPENT ON NORTH SIDE?” Luxembourg chamber where the old senate died, ’ resident's By F. W. V., Indianapolis Thus, on Christmas eve] France's new constitution, Well, the county finally got around | fully implemented, can start functioning at last.

approval, insures only a unified operational comm top level in each threater. It is designed to aad a He tion such as existed at Pearl Harbor, where the army and "navy had co-equal commanders, with little co-ordination beSet them. It is a step, but only a step, in the right direction. The new congress should place this problem high on

to laying. a few dabs of asphalt in : a couple of bumps on N. Arlington | Inherited Function ave. and 1 suppose We ought 10 be| qyy COUNCIL'S first malor. task will come fh : mid-January. With the national assembly, it will

th ma a ig iiissioners forsake 4 m first, president——about the only function inherited from ck route ang north and south| the “upper house,” but 1 . e old senate. No longer is it the “uppe use, artery for so ? And then do a ’ veraments t tehed-up job ‘that will last onl the lower. It cannot “overthrow” governments, canno pe P Y| initiate 1 It can only review measures passed, until Groundhég’s day? Does all ate laws. ca y 'the money have to be spent on the after a first reading, by the assembly, and give its opinion. By second vote the assembly then can pass

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: UMAN North side? ee oi : i i retains smote the bill regardless of the council. : Er Do SROs. Advisers, DAILY THOUGHT "The old senate could—and sometimes did—sit as a high court of justice and try offenders against the

As sorrowful, yet always re- . maki nation. Former Premier Joseph Caillaux, for example, Joie . NR ye oy oy was haled before it in 1920 on a charge of “plotting possessing all things.—IT Corin- | against the security of the state abroad.”. The new * _thians 6:10, . body has no such authority. : However, the council can, and actually may, influential than it might seem. It

prospects of full employment in 1947. ' epor of 26 pages. The, sense of that report : it is tog—can be boiled down to one

‘Wro ‘thi : ; a ia OE roug with this country that wing A Lao Pre at, Shouet jot ut a Tn cil itself. Already it has been ct tb igi " ; i 4 rt g lands; avi Ly d n the council itself. : ia ke It must be exceptionally fine music=—it certainly sounds awful,” |all.—8ir Henry Wotton. yet Oe ~The. Chamgber of Reflection” because, like the

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OUR TOWN : spy Scherrer : wm i on i % : ny iy (sw, | Theophilius Ponders Over Poetry

WP dl. | THROPRILIUS, THE BARTENDER who permits And forthwith TU blew himself up tosis full

_ using the eat o' nine tails. That's for wife |

But ut now how In tarnation canine gt in joint session to elect the Fourth Republics

‘4. “CHRISTMAS ‘AT CASPER'S" | “Come my hearts—old and young! ‘°° Come where doors stand open wide. : Toasts go round and songs are sung To keep the merry Christmas tide, Tom and Jerry, punch and Good old bourbon, eh. Turkey, eggnog andl champagne, _ Game and oysters—come again;' . Come — the doors stand ‘open “Tiff, do you'menr 1 say thst Mr, OF

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VAT AR Raf gr FT “Precisely,” says Tiff, “and 1d’ be proud’ dianapolis to see some modernan A tharat Wn, as well, Indeed, I'd like to see him kee pe hed Max

Herlich who had his étudio at 20 N. Delaware st: “Come where the lager foameth, ! Sparkling fresh and free . Where Christmas ‘eggnog walteth : Waiteth for you and me, Max—the Max of a million— Will ready be on hand To greet his friends by the trillion ry With the best that’s in the land = o“Tiff,” says I, “do you really expect me to believe that such a thing was a common practice in Ine dianapolis.” " “Precisely,” says Tiff. “Charles ‘Lauer, Sim Coy, Joe Emminger of the Circle House Bar and Mr. Wentz of the Circle House Sample Room never Jet a Christmas go by without bursfing into rhyme. Indeed, I remember the Christina Mr. Wentz infected a moral in an effort to steer the eustomer straight for fear he might land in Joe Emminger’s ‘place by- mistake.’ He called it: arti oo AR i “Pilgram, Be Not Misled ont Christmas’ Eve” “For a tod, or a meal, the right place to go Is the Circle House Sample Room—no mistake here you know No. 15: and 10 N. Meridian st.—Hi-lo! Hi-lol

Another of the Same “IT'S RIGHT PRETTY,” says I for want of ade quate words to express my admiration, “Your taste does you credit,” says Tiff. “Perhaps another of the same?” “The same,” says IL. \

fis IN WASHINGTON . . . By Paul R. Leach didn’t rival the old. maestros. : ”,, 3ra8 with & word thet ve : i : ; Hs A oo = Hoosier Forum "ol iiiir as U.S. Juvenile Crime Keeps. Growing

So what? Jail senfences.’snd’ fines have mot | stopped crime increases. Police and judges are re-

luctant to send boys and girls te reform schools. Half

_of the first offenders become second offenders, and 60 °

per cent of second offenders go back to jail or training schools. ; Priend of mine who has been visiting Quebec has

a chilling thought. He ‘says ‘that. generally speaking |

criminals don't even spit on the sidewalk after a

sentence to that Canadian province's ‘Whipping post. E It is used rarely and then only for the more vicious |

offenders. But the very existence of the thing is a real crime deterrent. Ry Compared to our 123 pér cent naffanal crime increase in 1945 over 1944, the dominion had a decrease

of 13 per cent. And that's not all due to British

regard for law and order.

Victims Have Hard Time, Too : MARYLAND AND DELAWARE are our &

Objection by meralists is that the whipping 1X cruel and unusual punishment. ’

But, it is crugl and unsual for an hotest citizen's daughter to be raped, his house to be ransacked, for

him to be held up at the point of a loaded gun. It's cruel and unusual to bé sfugged. unconscious by a thug. 1 hi 4 It's cruel and unusual to the families of policemen

who are killed by kids. A 14-year-old boy shot a :

policeman here last week. In Indiang, two teen-ager §

boys, accompanied by a pair of teen-age girls, mur-

dered a state trooper who had stopped their car.

lights are dashed. Mother must have that the election of a Democratic| If you paid your rent by the day REFLECTIONS By Robert C Ruark

a EC t Sak he does Know hal it = gated. | mente are Teriting for less than you . i: . ; or refus : . . n all day. e daby or a pound of steak or T ( e, but puts no such obligation on unions. Manage- | ries continues to cry, until moth-| They are win the ku-klux °f butter. The Rouseowner realizes Must We Be Stupid 00, hico? / a

illiterate, nobody wanted ta take any chances on mistakes at the polls. Hence, the Corhmunist ticket was red, the rightist white. For the blind, the ballots were chopped into varying : shapes. On election day, the only arrestin Venezuela happengd to an American citizen, who was hauled in for being ‘drunk. The only things that aren't outrageously expensive in Venezuela are gold jewelry and gasoline. Gasoline is 11 cents a gallon, and a gaudy hunk of 22-karat jewelry costs less than & pair of shoes,

Housing shortage note: In the stateof Zulia, some |

of the peasants are so poor they can®% afford windows in their huts. S80 they acquired ‘a little paint ‘and painted windows on thelr houses. Si, hombre, no sunlight comes In, buf, neither does’the rain. Man does ‘the best he can. »ARY

So Much Like Home .. { LIKE VERY MUCH ® recent conversation be‘tween 8 streetcleaner ‘and his’ mule... “Look, Chico,” the streetcleaneriwas saying earnestly. “We are the lowest of ‘the low. You and I, we clean the streets. What wotk could be lower? All right, we're low, wq're. humble, we're poor, we're good

for nothing, But nombré.ge Dios, Chico, do we have

to be stupid, $002"

I think I am going to miss Venezuela. It's so f§

, much like home.

REAL UNIFICATION NEEDED Side Glances — By Galbraith j |sional table which were broken ui he : "'WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

mers | vembourg Palace Sees 4th Republic

U. 8. senate, it will have more leisure for cdntemplation. And as it has no power to make and unmake cabinets, it should be more removed from the political pressures and passions of the day. Certainly all the political parties seemed anxious to elect to the council their best brains. The Luxembourg always has been closely associated with the griefs and glories of the French nation. It was named for Francois, the Duke of Luxembourg, In 1570, it was purchased by Marie de Medicis,

Until 1795, however, it was called the Palais D'Orleans, | During the revolution it became the House of Security,

a sort of glorified national prison. Danton, Desmoulins and other famous revolutionaries were detained there, Successively it was the Palace of the Directorate, Palace of ‘the Cotisulate (under Napoleon” Bonaparte), and the Chamber of Peers. During the historic “100 days” following Napoleon's return from Elba, the imperial eagles again flew from ‘its flagstafls.

A New Chapter Begins UNDER THE succeeding monarchies, the Luxempourg remained the Chamber of Peers, and functioned much like Britain's House of Lords. Under Napoleon ITI ft again became: the imperial upper house and, finally, under the Third Republic, the senate. : ; 3 « Great figures have gone from the LuXembourg to their execution. Its corridors Nave echoed to the

tramp of troops come to eject or install law-givers, |

During world war II, the German air force made its Paris headquarters there. 7 . Tomorrow begins a new chapter. The Ww will watch 4 development, Cee

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