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chondriacal side, ' You now, Sta. to ca . and any kind of A "1 should have tirned » deaf oar 0 the know-it-all sitting next to me in a local beverage dispensary. I didn't hear his initial mutterings until he poked me in’ the ribs and asked, “Hey can't you see me?” - Looking at him point bank I said I could see him “perfectly, “Ah—-ha, You had to turn your head to see me. How much do you smoke every day?" “Couple of packs of cigarets—why?"
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‘blyopis, No doubt about it, All the. symptoms are Sthereobgy vision, peripheral vision blocked, and ‘two packs of cigarets a day,” he said shaking his
‘Tobacco amblyopia? Peripheral vision? + “How do you know all this stuff?” I wis curious. 3 “Never mind how I know. I'm giving you free medical advice which you'd have to pay good money
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do remember him asking if the clinic. With difficulty— for this world,
It can be said the trip to the hosmind's eye (the only good left) was working overtime. I got to the in ein the nick of time. Doc—I got tobacco amblyopia and my Sik is shot to pieces.” “How come? You were in good shape last week,” he said calmly. . What's time to be bantying words. He guided me to & monstrosity of a machiné. “Sit down and I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut
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‘you're all wet,” he scoffed. Gambling on my am-
blyopia, yet. The doctor put a pirate’s patch over my right eye, iplaced my chin on a metal rest, shoved my cheek up against another and instructed me to look at an addition sign which he called the fixation point. I felt like a bombardier staring’ at a target. The
Nothing to Do
WASHINGTON, Jan, 15—~With my own ears I heard him. Rep. Ralph E. Church of Illinois stood up in meeting and said flatly that many federal {employees are immoral, ‘ Here you must imagine a row of exclamation ipoints; these will resemble the congressional ears that iperked up when Rep. Church, who %ives on Church st. {in Evanston, made his statement, : The more a federal worker sits on his (her) hand_kerchief with nothifig more to do than manicure her (his) fingernails, the mote immoral he (she) becomes. ‘I'm not saying one word; myself. { “Yes” continued Church, “many of these | employees become immoral, wasting time, day after day. You can look at em @ny place. Take the war assets ‘administration in Chicago. The workers there ‘set no example for the rést of the population.” | Pire a few hundred thousand federal workers, he --continued, and they won't-be 50 immoral. Then he ‘sat down. The congefoust ears sensed, lovking Jike : exclamation points. eras © 5
| iSays Workers 1 YES BIR, agreed Rep: John W. Taber of New York,
“holding army, the workers who are left will be happier. “They won't be sitting there at their desks without {enough activity to make them alert,” he said. “The ‘reduction will make them more active and more valuable to themselves and to the government.” { Then it ¢ame out. Rep. Church wasn't charging
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Too Much Shouting
¥ . HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15.—Eight months ago Eric {Johnston's censors objected to the lowcut gowns and cleavage displayed by Margaret Lockwood -in the British-made film “Wicked Lady.” The English protested, then refilmed most of the closeups, giving Margaret's gowns a higher neckline. ; The censors took another look at the revised film { and said it was O. K. for American moviegoers. i But after seeing the picture, we're wondering what (all the shouting was about. It is obvious to anyone ; with two eyes that there was much ado about nothing. It's all subterfuge, kiddies. { It Is obvious that, without the- assistance of a ‘ couturiere’s uplifting ingenuity, Miss Lockwood would not be noticed in a Y. M. C. A. swimming pool. England has discovered the art—nurtured and de‘veloped by Hollywood—of making mountains out of molehflls, Alice Faye will return to the screen as the femme lead in “Party Line,” for 20th Century-Fox. It's a ‘straight dramatic role, along Stella Dallas lines, with the central theme built around characters who share the same telephone line, . , John Garfield recently introduced famed pianist ! Alex Steinert to welterweight boxer Artie Dorrell, who ‘turned actor to play John's ring opponent in “Body ‘and Soul” “I want you to meet Alex Steinert, Artie,” Garfield ‘said. “He also makes his living with his hands.” { “He must be plenty hot,” replied Dorrell, “His face ‘ain't got a single mark on it.”
We, the Women
NEXT TIME a bobbysoxer—her blue jeans rolled ‘halfway to her knees, her shirt-tall flying—passes (by, don't sniff and wonder out loud why any girl ‘would get herself up to look like that. "Take a long, lingering look. The bobbysoxer is about to retire to the pages of ;history. At least, that's the prediction of a sociologist who iclaims the bobbysoxer acted as she did because she ‘craved attention and wasn't getting any, what with _
ther parents engrossed in war news, the young men away, etc.
She Got the Attention . - WELL, if it was attention she was after—she certainly got it. 1 Wearing one of her dad's old shirts and a pair, of blue Jeans, . she attracted more attention than- a
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THE PERIMETER IN ACTION—Can reveal many things, including a pseudo-amblyopia.
metallic. semicircle, the lamp above, the comfortable stool, chin rests, and the fixation point intrigued me.
Eager-Beaver Patient
' “NOW ILL move this white target against the black background of the semicircle and you tell me when you see something moving”. the doctor instructed. Okay-—fire one. I caught the target as it" was sneaking into my periphery. I was eager. My “I SEE IT” must have been heard halfway around the hospital. “Not so loud-—just grunt or something when it comes into sight,” the good doctor told me. He changed the meridian of the perimeter machine and began plotting the readings on a. chart. It didn't last long. First he threw the chart away. Then he ‘switched the eye patch and tested my left eye. ‘I heard him laugh softly at each vigorous grunt signifying that I had caught the target. “0. K. Thats enough,” he said.and put the target away, turnéd the light off and offered me a cigaret, Jumping away from tho weed I asked about my amblyopia. “You have about as much amblyopia as Influence has in the Dick Tracy cartoon. Here, take a smoke and beat it. I have work to do.”
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By Frederick C. Othman
the federal workers with gambling, opium-smoking, or drinking champagne from slippers. He meant that the business of collecting a federal paycheck without doing much to earn it, is immoral in itself. I have consulted Webster and Merriam, too, and I am forced. to agree. That word, immoral, covers a lot of ground.
Ax Hovers Over OPA Staff
THE POINT of all this is that Taber & Co. don’t seem to be fooling when they say they're going to fire a lot of federal job holders. Mr. Taber, the gray-haired, bull-voiced keeper of the federal purse, wears a suit until its threadbare. When he has to travel,’he rides the day coach. The way the government is spending money, he says, is unconscionable and intolerable. Tomorrow hé expects to announcé where some heavy firings will do the most. good, but in the meantime he has no objection to mention as samples a few thousand federal workers he.intends to snick off the payroll. There are too many jobholders at the federal communications commission, the interstate commerce commission, the national archives, the national labor relations board and (in particular) the commerce department, he said. “And I have a memorandum here that shows something else they (the administration) are doing to us (the taxpayers),” he said. “There are 15,500 people on the payroll of the OPA today and ninetenths of them have nothing to do. At the main office there are 22 publicity agents with nothing to advertise. That's just a small example of the way the administration is treating us.”
By Erskine Johnson
JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON is testing at Metro for “Cass Timberlane,” which would mark her big return to pictures. Vic Mature will wear a mink sports coat in “Nightmare Alley.” Let's hope it does not become a fad. ‘Dinah Shore is Columbia's’ gem of the ocean. She sold 15,000,000 records in.1946. Patricia Morison, who is making the swing from movies to opera, is doing English translations of arias from ““Carmen” and “La Traviata” to add to. her repertoire. . Many of the wigs you'll see on Indian character extras in DeMille's “Unconquered” were made from the coarse human hair stripped from a moth-eaten old phony gorilla Max Factor had around for many years, The days of the gorilla, dubbed “Herbert the Horrible,” are strictly numbered.
Skeleton Already Gone
THE ALUMINUM skeleton was peddled to a carnival outfit two years ago. They had a couple of real hides from an orang-utan or some such ting they wanted to stretch over it. \ So all Factor had was a phony pelt. And now it's gone, to help make redskins for DeMille. Rest in peace, Herbert the Horrible. Fr. William Maguire, credited with having said, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,” at Pearl Harbor, is showing Henry Fonda how to play a priest in John Ford's “The Fugitive.” But the film is on location in Mexico, and Fr. Maguire had to remove his. clerical garb to comply with
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‘By Ruth Millet
mink-coated matron with a flower garden atop her head. She created a new lingo—and saw it picked up eagerly by her elders and handed back to her in advertising copy, cartoons, columns, etc. She revived the art df swooning, and helped to build her’ radio and motion picture idols into topsalary entertainers.
New Magazine Created
NEW MAGAZINES were created especially for her, and new newspaper: columnists’ began offering her advice in as near -as.they could come to her own language. Every now and then somebody even took the trouble to list her latest slang and its approximate meaning. Whatever else history has to say of the bobbysoxer, it will have to admit that if her one aim in life was to get attention, she was strictly on the beam.
Barbed Wire Club to Install
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. New officers of the Barbed Wire Miller, club sponsor, will give the bert Harding, treasurer, club willbe installed at a dinner at|{charge to the new officers. New officers are Henry Bracken, posed ‘of former prisoners of war.
30 p. m. tomorrow at the Canary Cottage. Austin Rinne, president, will be in charge. Donald D. Hoover, assistant to e editor of The Times, will k| Harry = “It's Our Business.” J. irk i ery alae LL ol pred
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James retiring | president:
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The Barbed Wire club is com-
Middleton, vice{'Anyone eligible for membership.
William Lloyd, treasurer may make reservations with Mr. and Dennis Raymer, secretary. Retiring officers are Mr. Rinne; mothers of club members may also Sullivan, vice president; Les-|at ter Mota Jr, sertiery and Al- |
Rinne or Mr. Miller. Wives and d the dinner to be sponsored the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A.
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prestige, John Lewis could have defled that tribunal with as great impunity as he defied public opinion in the coal strikes. Scott was born in Virginia, the property of Capt. Peter Blow. He probably was in his early 50s when he began making front-page headlines, and grist for editorial writers all over the country. When he was about 20, Capt. Blow sold him to a Dr. Emerson of St. Louis. He was a sort of body servant, apparently a favorite with his master and fond of the doctor. When Dr. Emerson went to Illinois, he took Dred along. On another occasion he took Dred to that portion of the Louisiana Territory that later became Minnesota. They returned to Missourl, and later Dr. Emerson died. ” » ” DRED WAS at Corpus Christ! as ARATE AR when the Mexican war broke out in 1846. After his return from Mexico he tried to buy his freedom from Mrs. Emerson. He offered part cash and a St. Louis army officer was willing to guarantee the remainder, Mrs. Emerson refused. So Dred sued in the Missouri circuit court. He claimed that when Dr. Emerson took him onto the free soil of Illinois, and later into a portion of the Louisiana Territory from which slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise, he had automatically become a free man. He argued that when he returned to Missouri he did so voluntarily,
own whenever he got ready.
= t J ” THE CIRCUIT court agreed with Scott, but the state supreme dourt did not. OI’ Dred spent some $500 on legal cdsts and wound .up just where he had started=a slave. Meanwhile Mrs, Emerson had been married to Dr. Calvin C.
gressman from ro was a bit embarrassing for her to own a slave. Of course, she might have freed Scott out of hand. But she and her husband and some |anti-slavery citizens of St, Lquis cooked up an idea to use Scott to establish the point: that a slave taken into free territory acquired liberty.
bad housekeepers. They point to dusty, disorganized files of long-forgotten committee hearings, tottering piles of outdated Congressional Records, and an oocasional rusty electric fan. They uncovered an empty whisky bottle in one attic storage cage. Other G. O. P. members, however, reported they found their assigned cubbyholes in apple-pie order. Byrnes, who doesn't remember what is in his particular storeroom, said his retirement should give him a chance to rummage through the place and find out. « Each senator and congressman $ allotted his own attic storage spac in lofts of the congressional office buildings. In addition, each committee. gets a room-sized storage area.
By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer In his day Dred Scott was either the most famous or the most
notorious Negro in the world. It was all according to one’s point of view. Scott didn’t care; he got a kick out of “de fuss dey made dar in Wash- 5
Quite without malice, Scott almost wrecked the supreme court of the United States. II intervening years had not restored its shattered
with the right to step out on his|
Chaffe, an ardent abolitignist consis
Mrs. Chaffee rigged a phony sale.
of Scott to her brother, Johh F, A. Sandford. In Scott's name, the St. Louis abolitionistseued for his freedom. Since Scott was a resident of Missouri and Sandford of New York, they were able to get into the federal courts. The U. 8, circuit court gecided against Dred on technical grounds 50 his lawyers appealed to the supreme court. The suit was docketed in 1854 and argued until 1856. i ” . oy ‘THE DRED SCOTT case provided abolitionists and states righters with ammunition for their verbal war, But it did not cause the Civil war, It was more like the smoke
that betrays a half-hidden fire than it was like the spark that causes a blaze.
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cisions that made history for this nation, the Dred Scott decision
was the only one which neither up-|
set some old political, economic or social idea nor established a new one. Probably it was the most mishandled important case in supreme court history. It wasn't necessary to give Scott his freedom, nor did it accomplish the sole purpose for which it was sought and rendered— to clear the atmosphere and avert the Civil war. : By the time the court got around to consider Scott's appeal, the question of his fate had been buried under other issues: » 2 2 ; COULD A Negro, even if free, be a citizen of the United States? Did a slave acquire freedom by being taken onto free soil? If so, did- he lose that freedom Wy retuying voluntarily to slave §0 Was ‘the Missouri Compromise act a when it forbade
IT it were constitutional, it already had been repealed by the KansasNebraska ‘Act. But the question whether congress could legislate non-slavery in’ territories was considered ‘of primé importance. Scott lost interest in the whole matter. It was giving him “a heap
Congress Cleaning Attic As Democrats Move Out
Members’ and Committee Storerooms Get a Thorough Going Over
By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 ~Congress is cleaning its attic. And retiring Secretary of State James F. Byrnes is one of the former members who soon will be rummaging through the congressional storeroom he had when he was a senator.
Some new Republican members complain that the Democrats were
New G. O. P. committee chairmen will have the job of weeding out the files their Democratic pre-
{decessors accumulated - during 15
years of control of Capitol Hill, Out Goes the Junk Many committee chairmen will act like any housekeeper. They'll throw out the junk. “You can imagine what our com-
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15 years under our outgoing chairman,” chairman remarked.
orderly filihg cabinets, foot lockers and stacks of paper. Some are empty, awaiting newcomers. Others are cluttered.with old pictures, battered trunks, copies of hearings on such subjects as “reclamation of oyster beds.” A galvanized washtub, apparently once a receptacle for papers, bore the tag of a defeated Michigan congressman. On the house side of the capitol, the shift to Republican control left one important cupboard bare—the
} china closet in the speaker's dining
room. By tradition, speakers supply their own dishes, usually given them by their states, When former speaker Sam Rayburn (D:. Tex) moved out to make room for his
successor, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass), ‘he lett only some
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two-handled Martin has received from his
constituents, all right, including a bronze- plaque inscribed with the Declaration of Independence. But no dishes.
BISHOP LOWE TO SPEAK Times State Service. .GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 15 Bishop Titus Lowe, resident Methodist bishop of the Indianapolis area and president of the board of bishops of the Methodist church, will speak next Wednesday at DePauw university at a special worship chapel program.
WEDNESDAY, ThuARY
| 12 Decisions That Shaped the Nation—
‘Without Malice, Almost Wrecket
‘Often Termud the Most Mishandled Case in Its History; 9 Jurists Read 9-Different Opinions
Third of a Series
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0’ trouble,” and if he had imagined it was “gwine to last so long” he wouldn't have started it. Sandford didn’t want to oppose Scott's appeal | to the supreme court. Taylor Blow, son of Scott's original owner, financed his court costs. = "2 8 BUT IT NO longer mattered whether Scott wanted freedom, o» whether anybody wanted him to remain a slavé. The experiment had gone so far that the supreme court had to decide the fateful issues at stake. 08 «~The case was argued Feb. 11, 1856, The pourt. adjourned during March. During the first week in April it conferred twice on the case. James 8S. Pike, the New York Tribune's Washington correspondent, reported that five Southern justices wanted to duck the explosion by throwing out the case on technical grounds. Three — from Pennsylvania, Ohlo
Drill Team Sets Benefit Rink Party The Drill Team Indianapolis
will sponsor a benefit skating party at 8 p. m. tonight at the Riverside Roller rink. Miss Edith Bishop, 5665 E. St. Clair st., is co- § chaifman for the party. Othe XY committee - mem: bers include, Mrs. Homer Dugger, chairman; Mrs. Helena Mueller and Mrs. Mildred © Corzetto. Mrs. wil Theodore . Flem+ Miss Bistop ing is councilor:
State Legion Group To Hold Conference
The annyal mid-winter conference of the Indiana department, American Legion, will be held Feb. 15 and 16 in the Antlers hotel. A valentine dinner-dance will be held at 7 p.. m. the opening day in the hotel ballroom. A joint session will be held with the department
auxiliary at 1 p. m., Feb. 16.
SILLY NOTIONS
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FREE MAN OR SLAVE?—An interview with Dred Scott was front page news in Leslie's Weeklyin New York in 1857. Scott and his wife, Harriet, are pictured below; above them are their two
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and Massachusetts—were for Scott. One—from New York—was uncertain. The summer of 1856 drew near, when a President was to be elected. The ' Democrats nominated James Buchanan,
held timidly to the states rights doctrine he had absorbed from Andrew Jackson. The new party offered Gen. Freemont. There was grave danger that whatever the judges decided would become a po- | litical football in the campaign. ”._ =» . IT WAS. Feb. 15, less thana, month before President Buchanan would be inaugurated, when the Justices finally got together to talk about Scott. The President-elect thought it would - be - appropriate to tie his inaugural address in with the forthcoming decision. It was his
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By PAUL R. LEACH Times Special Writer
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ident reside + over the ean. Mr. Leach The other two would be assigned assistant - president jobs by the President, These jobs would prepare them to step in if their time came, 4 13 Amendments Offered: Thus far 13 different amendments have been offered in the house, : A; constitutional amendment must be adopted by two-thirds of both houses of congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures of special conventions. : Here .are the
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