Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1947 — Page 11
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v “WHEN 18 Tom gomine. wit the station wagon, Lee?" Ta Scouts of troop 88 were umpntient to get going’ on thelr paper drive: The -crushed stones in front of the Sterling Meier lodge on 38th and Wallace sts.
3 were flying through the air ‘at numerous targets.
“All right, you ' jokers—Ilet's cut out the stone throwing,’ Bcoutmaster Lee Peters told his Scouts. “Tom sald he'd be here in a little while. In the meantime keep your shirts on.” Assistant Scoutmaster Jim Millican sat quietly in the cab of his coal truck as Scouts scrambled .all over the orange vehicle. “Quite a job keeping'the boys lined up, isn't it, Lee?” T asked. “You can say that gpgain. But it’s fun.” “What's the objective in this latest paper drive?” “Enough dough to buy 10 tents. We already bought $03 worth of camping equipment. When we get the 8x10 tents the next thing we're going to try and get is a one-ton truck and a trailer to haul our stuff to state parks,” Lee answered.
Climb Into Truck
“MAYBE SOME automobile dealers will give you a break on the truck and trailer." “Too good to be true—~but it sure would help out a lot.” “Lee—here comes Tom," from the truck. “Okay—Jack, Buddy and Bob—you guys go with Tom in the station wagon, in the truck,” Lee directed. The station wagon crew, Tom Towsley, assistant scoutmaster, Buddy Messer, Bob Hicks and Jack Daugherty got their instructions. They were off in a cloud of dust. “We'll work all around Forest Manor. Jim,” Lee
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: Marc Waggener _ called
TROOP 88 LOOKS TO SUMMER—And they keep punching awe; with paper drives for those all-important tents,
The rest of you guys— °
ne un he climbed nto th bats othe ev “Everybody on?” John Heiman and Bill Pierson squeezed into the cab of the truck with Jifi Millican. Mare Waggener and Bobby Hicks were hanging on one side of the “truck. Jack Carbaugh, Walt- Bellew were in the body of the truck with and myself, Jerry Messer sat on a ledge affair over the rear fender.
“Let's -g0,"” shouted. almost everyone in the truck. |
When we hit the residential area to be worked over Jim stopped the’ truck and Lee gave the order: “Over the side aiid get Svery house. CO’'mon-let’s move." “Did you mean me, "or I asked. “No—you can stay jhere and help me with the
+ paper the boys bring in—I hope, I hope,” Leé said. Boys fanned out in every direction. Jack Carbaugh|.
checked in with a bundle of paper and, magazines. . “1s that all you got?” the scoutmaster asked. “That's all she had, Lee,” Jack said running again from whence he came. Bundles began to pour into the truck. Lee tossed the paper in the bottom of the truck and the magazines in a separate compartment in the front end. “Okay, Jim, let's roll—no wait—hold it, Jim. Here comes Marc. Where have you been?” “Aw—I had to go down into the basement for this,” Marc answered. “Hey, Plerson—what you doing in the cab of that truck?” Lee demanded. “I'm just resting,” the Scout said meekly. “Get that end house there.”
Paper Up to Knees
“NO-NO, they've got a medn dog there” “All right, to the left here, Jim,” Lee called. After working three city blocks I was stumbling atound in paper up to my knees. Some of the residents were very co-operative with the Scouts.” Many a bundle of paper was taken off of a front lawn or front steps. 5 On one street in the Forest Manor district we pulled away and left Jerry Messer behind. I was surprised Lee kept track of his “men” as well as he did. Jerry ran down the middle of the road with a bundle of paper on his shoulder and about seven dogs at his heels. After three hours of phper collecting the truck was spilling over with paper. Tom Towsley in the station wagon rendezvoused with us. The station wagon sagged heavily on its rear axle. “We're full,” Tom called to Lee. “Maybe we better sell this stuff now. Hey, some of you guys have to get off the truck now,” said the scoutmaster. I wondered about that. The paper was spilling over the sides and the Scouts were piling up on top. A bit of a grumble went up as several Scouts had to stay behind. : “I'll let you guys know show much we get toward the tent fund,” Lee called. Those of us who were left behind watched the truck roll away. It wasn't long before we were sitting on the curb and tossing pebbles around. But, that's life,
Terrible Tempered
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, May 6.-—~You may have heard about Robert R. Young, the terrible-tempered Texan, who collects railroads because he doesn’t like the way other people run ‘em. He has abolished tipping on his Pere Marquette: He shows movies on his Chesapeake & Ohio. He started a charge account system on all his railroads, tried to buy the Pullman Co., and flabbergasted his competitors a while back with his full-page advertisements saying pigs ‘qoild ride non-stop across America, but not people. "Now people can.
Called as Expert
HE'S QUITE a guy. Doesn't care whose toes he trods. I know about this because I dropped on the senate banking committee, which was trying to dee¢ide whether to let the Reconstruction Finance Corp., die a quick death on July 1, or give tg hew lease on life. Senator Charles W. ‘Tobey (R. N. H.), the chairman, charged that the RFC had eased the Baltimore & Ohio railroad into bankruptcy a couple of years ago and then forced it to hire government men for top-flight railroad jobs. The B. & O. boys were perspiring; they insisted they'd done nothing wrong. Senator Tobey bounced ‘em back on their heels when he called Mr. Young as an expert witness. He turned out to be a little man with white hair and a voice as loud as his tie was sedate. The men who engineered the B. & O. deal either were crooked or dumb, he cried. And he didn’t think they were lacking in brains. He went on and on— and on, until Russell Snodgrass, an RFC official who became B. & O. vice president, could stand % no longer. . He tried to protest. “You sit down,” rbared Senator Tobey. keep quiet.”
“And
Sol's 1000 Record
HOLLYWOOD, May 6.—Sol Wurtzel just produced his 1000th motion picture, “Second Chances” That's a Hollywood record. At the same time Sol celebrated his 30th year in the movie capital. That's a record, too, in a town where fame is so fleeting.
And what he remembered most vividly was the’
difference in costs of moviemaking 30 years ago and the five-million-dollar budgets of today. In 1917, Sol, then head of Fox, produced a film titled “Feud,” with an unknown cowboy named Tom Mix: Fhe-picture-dost $16,000." President William Fox in New York wired Sol in Hollywood: “This is entirely too much money to be spending on a cowboy. - Stop making Mix pictures.” But Sol completed - the picture and Mix wound up getting a salary of $10,000 a week.
box In 1927, Winnie Sheehan and Frank Borzage made ! % the Academy Award winning picture,
“Bad Girl,” with ‘ Jimmy Dunn and Sally Eilers. Total cost: for script, talent, and production was $300,000, Ten years made that much difference,
Retrospect Pioneer
SOL IS credited with being the first producer to make a picture telling the story in retrospect. - “That,” he laughed, “was an accident.” Here's what really happened: In 1020, a fellow named Lynn Reynolds made a film for Sol titled, “Broadway Roundup.” When it was completed, Reynolds asked Sol to edit the picture.
We, the Women
NEW ORLEANS has announced that it 4s out to win the title. of “most courteous city in America.” And if its citizens make a try for it, the honor ought to fall right in their laps. They haven't much competition. Discourtesy seems to be the order of the day in big towns and small. This -is especially apparent to the cross-country
traveler who thinks a little courtesy ought to be included in his bill- rpaying.
Not Even ‘Thank You'
BUT TOO often when he, pays for his food and lodging. he doesn’t even get a_ smile or “thank you."
Even sing station aiaidants wih ed wo Si oni
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. in everyday courtesy, perhaps the sloppy, indifferent service that swept the nation during the war years
Mr. Snodgrass (he said later he didn’t believe the senator liked him) bit his tongue and subsided... Mr. Young continied with his charges against the RFC. The B. & O. wasn't’ the only railroad it put into bankruptcy to provide railroading jobs for its officials, he said. “I didn't know the RFC was organized to be a Shylock and force solvent corporations into bankruptcy,” he shouted. “And when the RFC puts its own men into these bankrupt railroads, punishment should be meted out.” * Senator William J. Fulbright (D. Ark.) said he couldn't understand who benefited from bankruptcy | deals such as that of the B. & O. Simple, said Mr. Young; the government big-wigs who step into lifetime railroad jobs are the beneficiaries. “But they don't get large salaries, do they?” asked Senator Fulbright. “They get a lot better pay than you senators,” Mr. Young snapped. He added that he believed the RFC had played power politics with Wall Street. Senator Homer Capehart (R. Ind.) said did he mean the RFC and Wall Street had been in competition? “No,” roared Mr. Young. “I mean that the RFC had been in bed with Wall Street.”
Anti-Climax
EVERYBODY LAUGHED, except the RFC boys
Process of Getting SIMPLE. No work at al
lever and you're done.
Yet a lot of people haven't the time and energy to vote.
on election day.
taxpayer’s pocket. Today’s primary check willl
total about $90,000. It will take some 3400 workers,
polling places, to handle the job.
By OLAND
2149 of whom will be at the various!
WATCHFUL EYES—Ballofs for today's primary must be closely guarded in line with election procedure. Tobe sure all is on the up-and-up with these unused ballots, Harry Andrews, 1828 Roosevelt ave., Democrat, and Herbert Higgs, 125 W. 2st, Republican, (left to right) keep an eye on them.
3400 Workers Involved in Complicated
Everything Ready l fs
As a voter you push a lever, turn. a few keys, pall + a
It takes a lot of money and work to run off an election. The money comes from the
THE PROBLEMS and headaches jgrowing out of it are enough to make aspirin manufacturers happy. | Planning doesn’t begin today. It |
has been going on for weeks. It took County Clerk Jack Tilson
D. RUSSELL
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 6.—The “Voice of America" was gasping for breath today as supporters of the state department's foreign broadcast
laid plans for a house floor fight Thursday to restore soothing financial
balm. Chariman John Taber (R. N.
Y.) said the_house appropriations
committee would .stand firm in its decision to allow not-one.cent of the
program.
The cultural program includes!
$31,381,220 requested for the state | department to continue a cultural}
tune,” the house committee com{mented in turning down the program. Mr. Taber summarized his
on the sidelines. They frowned. Their frowns soon | broktessts to Russia in the hope stand with this:
turned to scowls when Young added: “And I think these bankrupt railroads have been grossly, almost criminally mismanaged.” He shook hands then with Senator Tobey, jammed his hat down over his ears and strode out of the hearing. The rest was anti-climax. Nothing could match the outburst of the terrible-tempered railroader from Canadian, Tex.
By Erskine Johnson
Sol felt that this was the tip-off that the picture was bad. So he decided to put the beginning at the end and the end at the beginning and see what would happen. “It couldn't be any worse, I figured. But when the picture was released the critics raved, said it was & new development in film technique. A great many people in the industry said I should receive! a special award for my novel methods. - I'm. still blushing.
Life of a Turtle “THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE” is Ronald Reagan’s third - picture in less than a year, and when it's completed he'll take a long vacation. “I'm going| to sit my patio in the sun,” he told me. “After
about six weeks, I may start rocking—slowly." [F
Peggy Ann Garner, just turned”15, has an.automo- | bile driver's license—for daytime use only. It's a new 15-year contract at M-G-M for Walter Pidgeon. Dorothy Gish gets the role of Gregory Peck’s mother in “Gentleman's Agreement.” Warner Brothers will be paging Danny Kaye soon for a musical version of “Three Men On a Horse.” Opposite Eve Arden?. Eve, by the way, gets a howl with a line in “The Unfaithful.” She walks out into a starry California night, shivers, and says: “The Chamber of Commeérce should excuse me, but I'm cold.” Eve will now be excusing herself to Ann Sheridan, since she just about steals the picture.
“By Ruth Millett
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customers with courtesy aren't bothering much to speed the tired traveler on his way. Too ‘often rest rooms are dirty, and the motorist, who has his tank filled has to ask to have his Mh: shield wiped. ‘ .
Chance for Everyone
IF THE citizens of New Orleans can get other
towns and cities interested in trying to outshine them
|
will be on its way out of the picture,
Here's a good race for every town and city in the country to enter. Why not make the competition wigs for New Orleans?
| that it { America. But arrayed against the economy~ minded New Yorker is Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Assistant Secretary William Benton, the U. 8. ambassador to Moscow, “W. Bedell Smith, and other high-rank-ing state department aids. They conferred for three hours yesterday with senate and house leaders and executives of the radio industry ‘in an effort to save their air-wave baby. » ” ” THERE WERE indications that if the house floor fight failed, they would concentrate on the senate in the hope of continuing to serenade the Soviet Union with “Old Black Joe” and similar numbers reflecting the homespun simplicity of Uncle Sam. All of which is
would “understand”
“slightly out of
“If we are going to have a government broadcasting service, I demand (1) that .it be loyal beyond question; (2) that the whole state department pull in one direction, and (3) that the service be put on a business basis.” » ” ” AS AN alternative, the commit-
tee suggested fuller use of the
United States’ educational, scientific and cultural organizations. And encouragement of greater international activity “by. private enterprise” eliminating red tape in travel and trade. Mr. Taber said if the state department wanted money for the broadcasts, it must, among other things, engage employees in broadcast activities who “give wholehearted support to oust disloyal workers from the government.” He said a denunciation of Mr. Truman's policy on disloyalty was
Carnival—By Dick Turner
Zeon. sper ov wea sect 6.7.
] almost feel as though, | know
you ‘rad Miss Rickwine=Mr. Bascom. mentions you so olen] in hia sleep!” :
16 hours just to prepare ‘the ballot alone. Then there are the daily requests for absentee ballots. has fallen to a low of about 25. During the war, however, Hoosier servicemen and women requested as many as 22,000. This year a new headache was added. Delivery of the voting machines was schediiled the same day the truckers’ strike got under way. In conference, the union agreed to | permit the hauling of the machines. = » ”
THEN THERE aren't enough to go around. Paper ballots are being used in 83 precincts. Paper was a problem. “We contacted half the: paper
This |
mills in the country before we could
posted on the bulletin board of the New York broadeasting office on April 28. Mr.. Benton, in answer, said the notices were posted by the United Public "Workers™«(C. 1.0.)
= » 8 ATTACKING the program from the angle of “wasteful spending,” Mr. Taber cited as an example: “They came up here with a $6,500,000 request. for salaries in the stafe department: itself—not counting the New York office or the cost. of broadcasting—for the foreign broadcasting. business. It sounds more like a $50,000 proposition to me.” Rep. Karl Stefan (R. Neb.) chairman of the subcommittee which conducted hearings on the subject, commented that hungry people throughout the world were
MOVING DAY — Mrs. Myrtle Keough, 1519 nN
Ewing st., watches workmen prepare to place a voting machine in her home. Today it is a polling; place n
the 2d precinct of the 9th
get stock prifit the necessary 90,000 ballots,” Mr. Tilson said. Meanwhile Tomlinson hall had to be prepared for the central count where 800 persons tally results day and night. Long rows of tables had to be hauled in, chairs set up, lights installed, water cgolers, ice, cups and a thousand and one items. Nothing can be forgotten. And, to be on the safe side, there are guards for everything. Fraud is the bugaboo of election officials. » » » THERE are guards on the machines, guards when the ballots are being printed, guards for returned absentee ballots, guards for unused
ballots. And to watch each otter,
State Department Plans To Fight For Its ‘Voice Of America’ Broadca
High Ranking Aids Back Marshall's Quest For Funds to Combat Russ Propaganda
“1 for one,” he said, “do not want, my country to repeat the mistake!
of Marie Antoinette and reply. ‘Let them eat words.’ I want to stop
as much as the state department but my Solos of weapons is food.”
SECRETARY MARSHALL at yesterday's conference, urged continuation of the broadcasts as a means
He said Russian newsmen during the
ganda. distorted his views
to Russia. Ambassador Smith called the pro-
7,500,000 short-wave sets in operation in Russia. Many Russians had
crying for bread, not “fanfare.”
pressed by. the “Voice of America.”
the growth of communism every bit
of counteracting Russian propa- |
Moscow conference and America the direction of a public corpora. needed ways to get the truth across tion to | government. grams extremely valuable and esti- | vate citizens appointed by the presmated that by 1950 there would be'ident would run the corporation. °
told him privately they were im-|
ward. oo
the guards are split between “the two major parties. So while it. 1s easy for ‘the Vater to'walk in and cast a ballot, there's plenty of hard work for those yume {ning the show. Clerk Tilson figures that “on crawling out of bed at 5 a. m. today, he will be able to crawl back in about Thursday night if all. Koen well. “There's no sleeping, no snail, plenty of work. But it is exciting,” | he said. Yates,
THIS will be the fifth election ve has supervised. He has five more to go before his term isup, ~~ - “Then on Dec. 31; 1350, Tm goin fishing,” he said. ;
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Mr. Taber, who was conference, concedid may be something {way of a program for the way it has been a mess that has to cleaned {And there is certainly no need
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jany such thing as has been planned.” Ty . ” | THE STATE * department has
pending in congress proposal to take the “veice” out of the hands {of the department and put it under
financed partly by the A board composed of the secretary of state and 14 pri=
{ Operating expenses would come from congress appropriations, cons tributions and possibly through the ° {sale of some program time. ;
The Heart of America—
Mail Carrier, Preacher Hope Ia Build 3, One of Greatest Shrines in World
Plan Huge White Cross on Bald Knob
Mountain Where All
Religions Can Meet
By ELDON ROARK Soripps-Howard Staff Writer
MAKANDA, 111,
May 6.—A- 50-year-old rural mail carrier and a
38-year-old Methodist preacher have fired southern Illinois with the inspiration and ambition to build. one of the world's greatest shrines.
They are well on the way to their goal.
If they reach it, Little
Egypt, as this end of the state is known, will become well marked if not
well known to future generations.
{ white cross atop nearby Bald Knob |
in Union county, the, second high= est point in Illinois. And there every, Easter at sunrise—and also at other times through the year-— Christians of all denominations will meet. Rivalries, theological differences, and jealousies will be forgotten at the foot of the cross. ” » »
IT'S THE idea of Wayman Pres-
{ley, the mail carrier, and William
H. Lirely, the preacher. In 1936 they were working together to build up the Sunday school of Oak Grove Methodist. During a walk one Sunday afternoon, the mail carrier said to the preacher: “Bill, I wish we had some place to meet that would attract people of all denominations. There's too much denominationalism.” Bill looked at old Bald Knob oyer in the distance—and the idea nit him. He pointed to.the mountain. “That might be the place. Why not have an Easter. sunrise service there?" @ THEY started talking it up. And in the early morning darkness of Easter of 1937, about 250 worshippers drove up. the narrow, winding trail to the yard of farmer Henry Rendle~
‘man on-top of the Knob. They
parked, got out. gathered ardund, sang, prayed, and listened to a short sermon. From their elevation of 1000 feet, as dawn broke, they
looked down on a forest five miles]
The proposal is to build a great
the largest in Illinois. Beyond that was a good view of the Mississippi river. In 1938 the sponsors erected a little wooden cross. ‘And the attendance was so much larger than was
expected, 2500, that traffic was a.
problem. The following year radio station "WLS of Chicago broadcast the service, and the crowd swelled to 6500. And you can imagine the jam, with only one narfow road ledding up the mountain, » » » . IN 1941, 15,000 turned out. There were hundreds on Bald Knob before midnight, Electric lights in the form of & cross were strung on the 50-foot fire lookout tower of the U. 8. forest service. miles around were thrilled by the “cross in the sky,” and the idea for a great, permanent cross was born, “But we overstepped ourselves that year,” says Mr. Presley. “We got too much publicity, and that crowd of 15,000 created such a traf-
fle-snarl that it taught us a lesson.
We had to let up. Since then we have held" down the publicity.”
This year, by shushing everybody
and keeping the matter quiet, they held the crowd to 6000.
There is no commercialism of any | kind. - Nothing is sold. No collees |"
ton is taken: sit »
Knob Foundation, has been. 0
wide and 20 miles long, to the west,
Its Wa ‘have borrowed: $100
People for’
AN ORGANIZATION. the Bald | |
from a bank with whieh to buy the mountain top. The land is owned by 17 persons, so the process is slow. After that is completed the foundation will be ready to accept contributions. A lot of people and firms have already offered liberal sums, but Mr. Presley has told them to wait. : The immediate goal is to build a cross 150 feet high, with the east and west faces lighted from inside through glass and with a chapel in its basta an elevator to the observation platform on top. It will be. visible over an area of 25,000 square miles. The estimated cost is $250,000, The more distant plans call for an amphitheater seating- 30,000, and a stage 300 feet wide. -
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