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; Oh-—you'd rather mind your own business and stay away, eh? Very commendable but every citizen should see how the “other half” lives every so often. It's an experience that’s good for the soul. Really it is. Every emotion in the books shows itself before the bench, Sometimes you have to stifle a chuckle as you hear some character make up a story which he knows no one in the courtroom believes. But most of the time you listen in quiet amazement. at foolishness and plain cussedness in the human animal, The courtroom is an excellent place to see how not to behave. Sitting at Judge Clark's left I had a box seat for a recent session. The judge looked at the rows of prisoners and whispered to me that there were familiar faces present, the old “standbys.” Prosecutor - John Carson called a name and a man, much in need of a shave, bath and the services of a laundry, shuffled before the judge.

No Job, No Home

THE CHARGE was vagrancy. The arresting officer stated the facts in the case. The 50-year-old man had floated in from Kentucky and was found loitering in the vicinity of a burglary. He had no relatives in the city, no job and no place to live, There was no record of previous arrests here. “How soon can you be ready to leave town?” Judge Clark asked. The man was clear as far as the court was concerned.

“Right away,” the man ‘mumbled. He had four

THEY DEAL IN HUMAN FAILINGS—Deputy Prosecutor John Carson (right) asks Judge Alex Clark of Municipal Court 4 a question during a session.

By Ed Sovola

hours to leave town, He fairly sprinted out of the"

“room. Another vagrant wasn't as ‘fortunate. The judge informed the prisoner he was now booked for second degree burglary. Detectives had dug up evidence to show he was the. man they wanted. Back to the cooler he went to await trial for burglary. The deadpan expression on his face didn't change all through the proceedings. A husband and wife were called. They had been feudin’ and fightin’. The wife filled an affidavit charging assault and battery. But something had happened to her since she called the police, She wasn't hurt very much, she said, and honeybunch didn’t mean to kick her teeth in: Hubby told the judge he was sorry, real sorry. 1 locked to my right and- caught Bailiff James Langsford's eye. He shrugged his shoulders, This sort of thing wasn't unusual. A terrific waste of the court's time. The judge administered a verbal lashing. The contrite pair listened with downcast eyes. No sir, they'd never fight again. Kind of an empty resolution since during the testimony it was brought out that wifey took a couple on the jaw about twice a month. But she stood her ground. Case dismissed. You wonder how people can live distorted lives without feeling one ounce of guilt until events catch up with them. Then: before the bar of justice the picture changes and you see the essence of piety, conscience and good behavior, The change is often so violent and contradictory you know it's play acting. The drunks, pathetic cases most of them, step up one by one. Guilty or not guilty? Often it's just a nod of the head or a grunt indicating guilt. The records of the “reliables” are long. They cover years of wasted lives, expense to society and burden to the court,

Dealt a Heavy Blow

ONE MAN who had been before the judge on an intoxication charge recently was up again for drunken driving. He pleaded guilty readily, almost defiantly. The surly, cocky smile stayed on his face all through the judge's lecture until sentence was pronounced. Then it froze as he heard that his license was being revoked for six months, he was fined $75 and had 10 days in jail. There's nothing funny about drunken driving. The pictures of accidents along the walls of the court were mute evidence of that. You listen to attorneys as they pry into private lives of estranged people. The wife charges her former husband with grand larceny. Long before the case is closed you wonder how two people could come to court with so many lies, each guilty of connivance and vengeance. And so it goes day after day. is a shock to one's complacency. good in teaching civics.

A visit to the court It's also mighty

The New Look

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 13—I suppose I am a happy man because after all I am wearing the new look, which comes from the fact that I have switched to Calvert's and dort smoke opium anymore and on the meatless days I eat Red Heart dog food, which, if it's good enough for Lassie, is certainly good enough for me. I rub Nucoa on my hair because it's so sweet and fresh, and while my living room is jealous of my rumpus room, because my rumpus room is sheathed in Gold Bond gypsum, I don’t really care much because I've got my Arrow shirts to always keep me alluring. There ain't no tattle-tale gray on this boy's tablecloths, and you won't find any catty women whispering behind their hands about me, because for one thing, my Grabow pipes are pre-smoked by a midget I have tied to the andirons for that purpose alone. For another, I keep my International Sterling silver stacked in a neat heap in front of the door, just to make those horrid Smiths jealous, and ever since I began using Colgate’s my leprosy has mysteriously vanished.

The Bride Wore White

LUX KEEPS my Brooks Bros. suits as fresh as ever can be, and maybe fresher, and all the girls ogle me because they know I am never a guy to go_out

unless I have Rinsoed my skivvies, and I haven't had _

pink toothbrush since I stopped drinking Neat Pomegranate juice, a beverage I never liked much, anyhow, being an old Four Roses man except when an odd urge for Campbell's soup hits me, which I must admit is awful seldom. The bride wore white, and then saw red, and then called off the honeymoon because I forgot to have the State Farm Insurance Co. insure the car, and the silly wench ran off with another guy who just happened to be redolent of Coca-Cola, wear Adler Elevator shoes, and belong to that shaving club, whose name I disremember.

Red Tape

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— Didn't bother me much, because the next lady I married took one look at her legs in the new nylons, discovered mysteriously that “other women” who had been lurking in the darkest crannies of her mind, and ran off with the milkman. He, I might say, owned a Schick razor, and fascinated the daylights out of her with the push-pull, click-click, and apart from that he shaved his chest with a Remington electric razor.

He Sleeps Like a Kitten

I SUPPOSE this would have kept me up of nights, except I quit the Statler hotels and started sleeping like a kitten on the B. & O. I soon found out I didn’t need my morning bracer of corn flakes, liberally laced with benzedrine. Because in the first place I am a Wheatie man, and in the second I learned that the new look is best preserved with Ovaltine, because it says right here thdt drugless sleep is the best morning bracer. Lately I have traveled by train because my new wife—the one with the Cuddles bra and Flexies girdle—sleeps better when I ride the Pullman. Every

now and then I cheat on her and ride the airlines,

because nobody can tell me that all tissues aren't Kleenex. No, I mean, you get there faster by the Grace Line, except on land. Maybe I will lose this new dame, the one with the Jergens hands and new face, figure and bridgework by Dubarry, because she has taken to sniffing Tabu secretly, and very recently the installment eollector emerged, straightening his necktie and looking terribly embarrassed. But I dot care. My Philco radio goes with me everywhere, even to the psychiatrist, and I've got my Pepsi-Cola to hit the spot, my Muin to keep me sweet, and my Ronson lighter to keep me warm. So who cares if the bedclothes smoke a little? All these things I've got, and sometimes I wish I were dead.

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—I laughed when my friend Joe told me the following tale about his adventures with his Uncle Samuel into the realms of high finance. Joe’s not amused. He still hasn't got his $21.09. And I'm beginning to wonder whether 1 chuckled too soon. It could happen to me. Joe's troubles began, though he never realized it then, when he went home from.the newspaper office in Columbus, O., in March, 1945. He sat down with his conscience at the dining room. table for his annual struggle with the income tax blanks. He mailed in his return for 1944, went wearily to bed, and forgot about it. Soon thereafter he was transferred to Washington as a reward for excellent newspaper reporting in Ohio. He was deep in the writing of a piece about congressmen one afternoon in September of the same year, when a gent from the Bureau of Internal Revenue stomped in and slapped a bill for $200 on his desk. Uncle's bill collector said Joe owed that much from 1944; he was tough about it.

Joe Waits for His $21 “HEY,” cried Joe, after a prolonged study of the documents, “you got me down as a single man. I was a husband in 1944” The man said he'd see about that. A year passed. Joe received a non-apologetic letter from Columbus, saying that a review of his account showed he owed the government $30 for 1945, but the government owed him $21.00 for 1944. And please send the $30 immediately. Joe did. Then he waited and he waited some more for his $21.09. Eventually it slipped his memory; he was a busy man, covering the news from the House Appropriations Committee, The lawmakers figured that there were too many clerks in the revenue bureau and chopped the appropriation accordingly.

Anything for Fun

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13—Hollywood's fall social season has started and, after attending several buffet suppers, I am firmly convinced that practically everyone in Hollywood has worked as a waiter or waitress at time or another. Nhe skill with which Gregory Peck, for instance, can carry four cups of coffee simultaneously, and the calmness with which Anne Baxter can balance a coffee cup and cake a la mode atop a heaping plate of food eouldn’t possibly have been learned at dramatic school.

Bathing Beauties in the Pool COMEDIAN Danny Thomas is. aware of this too. As he walked by balancing three plates and two glasses, he said: “You can see what I once did—and what I miay be doing again. SoIng SEMEL ol altals amped the im produ ing King brothers as Hollywood's most lavish party-

— TH — Three months ago Joe was amazed to receive at home, 1414 Umpthumpf St., N. W., Washington, D. C., a letter saying, dear sir you have a refund coming on your income tax and if you will fill out the enclosed form, giving us your present address, we'll send it along to you. The letter also said this would take from three to six months, because of the personnel reduction in the bureau's’ staff. Joe regarded that crack as oblique propaganda, but he did as instructed.

The Check Bounces

HE COPIED his address from the bureau's letter, 1414 Umpthumpf St., and sent it back to the sender. This seemed odd to Joe, but the ways of government are mysterious—as he well .knew by now—and he thought nothing much of it. He was, after all, about to get his money, leaving him in the hole, if you disregard the three-cent postage stamps he'd bought, only $8.91. And sure enough last Thursday—a red letter day in this saga of taxpayer Joe—he received in an official envelope a pale green check from the U, 8. treasury for $21.09. It was a beautiful slip of paper, but Joe hardly stopped to admire it. He hurried to the bank before Uncle changed his mind again. “Unhuh,” the teller said. “This check’s no good.” Joe didn't exactly faint on the marble floor, He excused himself, got a drink of ice water, and asked how come Uncle Sam was issuing rubber checks? There it was on the back in fine print, about how this check couldn't be cashed unless presented for payment within one year aftér issue. The date on Joe's"check was Sept. 8, 1945. It turned out that the only way he could get his money was appeal to the undersecretary of treasury. When last seen by me, Joe was composing a letter to this gentleman, by name: Archibald L. M. Wiggins.

By Erskine Johnson

throwers. Before the press preview of their latest film, “The Gangster,” the three King boys tossed a “Neptune Beach party”-—-that’s what the invitations said—for 300 guests. There were bathing beauties in the pool, an-or-chestra, a 50~foot-long buffet table, two 20-foot bars, second-best silver, and balloons left over from a picnic of the Dairy Workers’ Local 83. (That's what it said on the ballons.) -

It's Only a $2500 Party, ONE OF the King brothers’ press agents let me push a black evening-gowned, but unidentified heroine into the swimming pool (anything for a laugh) and another press agent whispered that the party would set the brothers back about $2500. (They can deduct it on their income tax.) It was a whale of a party but I think the money could have been better spent on a writer who might

Indiana War Dead

who did not come back were a step/taken to their homes in northern outside. nearer home today.

metal caskets which left Oakland, Cal, army base last night and to-|

day aboard specially converted hos-| State Population

pital and baggage cars were headed for distribution points which in- Shows Big Jump

{cluded Columbus, O. |

tribution points for Indianapolis|

.have made the movie, “The Gangster,” make a little more sense,

The Indianapolis

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SECOND SECTION

Row Your Community Fund Helps Others Help Themselves |

aphs by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer,

COMFORT IN ANGUISH—From Nov. 3-19 the people of Indianapolis will be asked to open their hearts and purses to give generously to the Community Fund so that such persons as unwed mothers may receive help during their trying period and guidance in the days to come. The Family Service Association currently is striving to contact such unfortunate women and through aid place them on the path to civic betterment. The comfort Mrs. Wyona Cummings, social worker, lends to the distraught women also is channeled into many other activities of the association. Recipient of the largest sum from the fund, the association will be given about $125,000 to carry on its work. Believing that the family is the most important unit of society, the association deals in marital, family and personal problems; physical and mental health; children; readjustment to mode -of- living; old age; homemaking, budgeting and meal planning; employment consultation and guidance; providing homemakers for motherless homes, and financial aid.

WELDERS OF CHRISTIAN LIFE — The Young Men's Christian Association is well-known to Indianapolis residents," but many do not realize the wide-range program carried on by the organization. The "Y" is not just a place in which to live and to exercise. Among the many projects are an outdoor camp, industrial counseling, training and testing, development of citizenship and leadership, and guidance in adaptation to community. Through it all runs the binding thread of

religion. The importance of the work is recognized by a $50,000 budget from the Community Fund. These residents are taking a night "'Y'" course in welding while attending Indiana Central Business College during the day. They are (left to right): Ed Brouhard, Urbana, Ind.; Doran May, Bloomington, Ind., and Robert Baer, Frankfort, Ind.

[soldiers continued the work of re-|

| moving the six-by-three-foot coffins] ‘Suspect Seized

En Route to Homes izing 2 oe] sen poe messes vr Nat Thigyes $3] distribution building. |alarm at Regal Stores, Inc, 556 8.

Two carloads loaded with 98 casMortuary Cars Go to kets leave here today for the Mira |

Chicago Wednesday |

The first of Indiana's war heroes

Harding 8t.,

Angeles.

. [California by train and army amThe first consignment of brown bulance.

Columbus and Chicago are dis-|today. The census Bureau disclosed that and Indiana, |the state's population climbed more A special 15-car train made up|than 12 per cent—or about 430 entirely of steel-shuttered mortuary|thousand = peopie—since the 1940 cars will leave Wednesday for Chi-|Census. cago. This boosted Indiana from 12th Special Honor Guard

Each car, guarded by a special|th® 48 states.

residents are now recorded in the

honor escort, will go to its distribu-| school gymnasium. The motion] FLINT. Mich., Oct. 13 (UP)—Any | tion point. From there individual Fi00ler state, the bureau said. picture “Operations Crossroads,”| no.“ ciok 0 Vetter rat trap stood a caskets, each accompanied by ‘a official Navy picture of the BIKIn!| nance 10 make some money today

guard of at least the same rank as 6 Arrested in Raid the deceased, will be returned to| In a raid at 122 W, Salem St. next of kin. The guard will remain early yesterday, police in his charge’s home town and at-|Lonnie Drake, 57, on a charge of

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947

h Ho nds Kn had be loaded | fhe Senta Hove hud boon uhionted] ‘Half- Pint’ int’ Theft

Loma distribution center near Los|could find no signs of a robbery. The only room they didn’t search (end.

) was a small one locked from the A dozen of the war dead were The bars on the window Edward T. Ochwhe, of Worthing:

were still intact. As a last resort, ton, O., and Dr. Leland J. Mar | ——— police had the door unlocked and |‘enson, Ft. inside amid a pile of canned food was a midget-sized man who had

ueezed himself through the hars|Saturday night. " the window. § Two. guests at the Washington | (em bri}) NOUN 1

The suspect gave his name as bert Greenwald, 6106. Kingsley Dr,

Indiana’s population was climbing Joe Margotta, 23, of New YOrk.leoiq ne Jost $150 and James MeHe was 4 feet I1 inches tall and

weighed 114 pounds. He sald he entered the place to| Ay get something to eat.

Howe Club to Meet

Howe High B8chool's Men's 400 ’ place to 10th in population among club will hold its first meeting of $100 Offered for F First |

Nearly 3,860,000|¢1,¢ year at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the JOO Rats Caught in U.S.

atom bomb tests, will be shown.

arresied| HOME BURNS, LOSS $10,000 The Frankiin Township residence|tional food conservation program,

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SOLEMN PLEDGE TO SOCIETY—When one member of a community prospers, all prosper. When one suffers, all suffer. This is a fact well: understood by the Boy Scouts of America. To this end the scouting program is dedicated that the individual scout shall build a better world by leading a better life. The Community Fund recognizes the part the 10,000 members of the Central Indiana Council play in community service and so will make available to the group $62,000 from * the campaign. Scout training is so designed as to touch upon virtually every facet of life that the youth will encounter in the years which lie before him. Symbolically, Joseph Hartley Jr., 4419 Washington Blvd., dedicates himself in reverent salute to a better world in the shadowfilled shrine room atop the World War Memorial building.. The inscription facing Scout Hartley reads: "Within this shrine there lives the spirit of brotherhood binding the people of the United States with the nations of the world." Broad is the world in which the youth of Marion County must mature.

WHIPPING HIGH FOOD COSTS — Not charity but chance is

all that leaders of Flanner House, Inc. ask for the thousands of Negroes

in Indianapolis. One of the top agencies of its kind in the nation, it will be allotted nearly $60,000 from the Community Fund. Aims basically are to bring to their people emotional stability, economic stability, decent housing and health. One of the largest current proj ects is the operation of a cannery, shown here, where families may put up all kinds of edibles, It is estimated that more than 25,000 cans of food will be preserved this year. Most of the produce comes from co-operative gardens some 300 families have tended. Shown are (left to right): Miss Lugenia Young, Mrs. Virginia McCroskey and Mrs, Ella B. Turner, vocational training supervisor. SPONSORS CARD PARTY Hotel Burglaries | Irvington ‘OES Auxiliary will ponsor a public card party in the ca Craft Shop, tomorrow at 1:30

p. m. Mrs, Ada Young is chairman. early yesterday they| mye photel burglaries were re- EE ported to police during the week- WORD A DAY = -

Tw. the Seve Hotel, 0 guests at the Severin Ho By BACH

Wayne, sald burglars took $78 and $72 respectively from | their rooms while they were asleep;

UMBRAGE

{Hotel reported similar thefts, Al- A SENSE OF URED PRIDE INJ »

AS IF FROM BEING: PUT INTO THE Clure, Glenmiiton, ‘Va. reported | BACKGROUND; RESENTMENT; the theft of $40. qLTEN: the Craig Hotel, 328% E. Washington 8t., room clerks re ported a burglar took $36 from the| cash drawer last night. |

| PROMISE THAT YOU'LL GET A bp PART IN

|even if the world won't beat a pawn to his door, For purposes of aiding the na-|

tend funeral services as the gov-|keeping a gaming house. Three|occupled by Earl Stockston, R. R. 9|the Army and Navy Union offered 2

ernment’s representative. others there were

caskets and 16 urns of ashes aboard with visiting a gaming house,

charged withion Davis Rd, was destroyed by fire| a $100 prize to the first person in More than a third of the 3028 gaming and two more were charged Saturday night. estimated at more than $10,000,

The

loss was the United States to capture 100,

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