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A CEMETERY is a poor place to think“of past mistakes. : fr An automobile graveyard, however, is an excellent place to spend an hour to refresh the “benefits” of safe driving—especially if you're.still driving a heap. You may like company when there's some thinking to do. Personally, when I want something to take fold, make an impression that will last for months, I want to be alone. I was alone recently in a careless-horsepower graveyard. These are some of the things I saw and thought. . A 1947 Plymouth, recently someone's pride and Joy, smashed almost beyond recognition. The speedometer showed 2456 miles. The end of the road for that machine. Both sides of the black sedan were flattened. The all-steel roof was ripped loose from the windshield Safety glass littered the interior. A shiny motor was exposed to the gray sky overhead. Where was .the hood? How silly to ask. Whgre was the driver? The passengers? Whose head made the bulge on the right hand door? Was it a mother, or a sweetheart or a friend who was getting a “lift?” ’

Remembers Close Shave YOU THINK that car is bad. Step over to the 1938 Buick with the twisted, bloody steering wheel. The two awful bulges on thie windshield. There's no shiny motor. Just a blotch of steel.

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THIS WAS AN AUTOMOBILE—This was comfort, luxury, convenience and pleasure. This also was tragedy.

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SECOND SECTION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1947 PAGE 9

By Ed Sovola

1 remembered, as goose pimples raced up: and Bow my back, a close shave a couple years ago. | For no other reason except that four collegians were

in a hurry to get to a golf course. An intramural / n ) ing : golf match was in the offing. And So was tragedy as . . : ’ the driver poured out his enthusiasm for life through w = 2 ’

the accelerator. |

“Come on, farmer, get that pile of junk off the

road” someone yelled. We all lurched as the driver “poured it on." ; We should have thanked God for a lot of things. But we were too scared. The motorist who came over the hill and in a split second was on the shoulder, could have collected damages from someone if we had hit , ... if we had hit and if he had come out alive. The golfing was awful bad that day. | Move over to the . . . it's a DeSoto or what is left By EMMA RIVERS MILNER of a DeSoto. Take a guess at what happened. Any- Times Church Editor thing horrible will do. This is as good as any guess. FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 30—The The driver must have hit the back end of a parked'mother temple of Indiana Judaism semi-trailer at terrific speed. At the. motor line, ’ le everything was sheared clear to the back seat. How Will mark jts-100th anniversary here could anyone have survived? How many screams in 1948. ! mingled with the sound of disintegrating steel? How| The temple, Achduth Vesholom would you go about measuring the happiness lost, Congregation, 500 W. Wayne St, grief and pain brought about in a few ticks of ‘a Schedules an elaborate program of clock? events to which all faiths in the It's chilly, but you know the temperature has community will be invited. The little to do with the icy feeling that's creeping over centennial celebration will begin you. Tl never ‘drive over 30 miles an hour again, Jam 1 and continue through May. | you tell yourself. I'll'never take as much as a drop] The words, “Achdith Vesholom," of alcohol if I'm to drive, you say, as your eyes fall mean “unity and peace.” “The First, on an empty whiskey bottle in the front seat of a Presbyterian Church of Ft. Wayne two-door sedan. A woman's glove is on the floor Will tell you that the temple lives of the front seat. The windshield is splattered. up to its name, How can a human skull smash safety glass? 4's =n y . 2 IN 1882, members of the PresbyThere's Nothing. Funny Here terian church stood sadly befide the AN ATTEMPT at humor isn’t funny. What a smoldering ruins of their edifice. headache those people must have, you think, and .it Achduth Vesholom came immediate-

' to reSCUE , : falls flat. Dwied blood on the instrument panel and ly to the rescue and offered ‘their

the floor pads makes the air evén chillier. Christian: bretnren the (use gp! he temple. The Presbyterians eagerly

Not all the stacked up cars bring up the word accepted and worshipped there for death. Some have a fender and a wheel off. Or og months. : the rear end is smashed. Or the side is caved in Years later when the Achduth But how close was death? How close does a man yecholom Congregation was erect-| have to get to the Grim Reaper before he learns jo o now temple, the Presbyterians, | his lesson? Aren't the daily news stories of” traffic by ‘way of appreciation gave $1000 fatalities enough? Would the screams of agony, to the building fund ' | the months and sometimes. years of pain help, if] mnie maintenance of fellowship somehow they could be reproduced with the facts of ;4 ooodwill in Ft. Wayne merely a story, to bring about better, saner, moré careful widens the purpose with ‘which this driving? the oldest Jewish congregation wn Next to a fence rests a pile of junk that wouldn't Indiana, began. even make a good picfure. You try to find one part, It was founded here in 1848 by 11 that isn't damaged The destruction is-.complete. families of German Jews who had But again you think of the occupants Maybe had the courage and initiative to there.was only a driver. Acetylene torch marks flee the oppression of Europe. Ft. are only on the left hand side. Someone had to be wayne was a willage of less than cut out of the wreckage, There must have only 2000 residents when they settled been one person. : here, But is this graveyard vou're: in the only one? BR 2 nn And you think and you get, colder and you wonder THE TEMPLE'S founders were why—why there's so much needless death. /Strangers in a strange land feeling - keenly the barrier their. German language made between them and

their American-born neighbors. And By Robert C. Ruark so the Jewish folk pledged them-

Mother Organization Founded by Germans

TEMPLE PRESIDENT — Joseph Stiefel.

TREASURES—Julie Lipp and Ronnie King examine the countless antiques of silver and parchment in the Achduth Vesholom temple museum,

selves to stand by each other under

MIAMI, Dec. 30—The party is over, the wise apples say, and there may be something to it. Why else would Master Daniel Davis, the spouse of Miss Kitty Davis, have unloaded the Airliner after 10 lush years of ‘separating the Miami vacationer from his money? “Takes me two years to unload,” says Daniel, “If I. don’t sell I go broke. The party is over. The old black market money is spent. If you listen carefully you will hear the chumps clattering on the sidewalk before Hialeah closes. Every third guy that comes here falls in love with the sun, thinks he can go into business, and winds up losing his shirt. The sweet days are gone.” Miami is looking forward to crowds, this year, that will rival its wow season of three years ago. But most everybody you meet is down in the mouth, hollering poverty, and counting the number of suppers served by the opposition last night. They are looking for a 10 to 20 per cent slump in gambling,

and the possibilities for bankruptcies on the beach

are limitless. Ee What seems to have happened is that Miami Beach has overreached itself in the gallop after the easy dollar. There has been tremendous building—at least 25 per cent more hotels and restaurants have arisen over last year’s high. There is something like one whole restaurant today for each 200 hotel beds.

Hotels Hogging the Business

THE LANDLORDS are laying it into the suckers who come de¥n to trim them. You see 50, 60 people eating in places that cost $750,000 . . . $500,000 . . . a million. There are about 200 big beach-front hotels -. . . marvels of fancy construction. Those hotels supply the guests with movies, booze, bingo games, dining rooms, rhumba bands and bookmakers. The tendency is to freeze the customer into the hotel, and the nightclubs, the restaurants, the lounges are going erazy. There was even a battle, lately, between a Miami theater chain and the hotels, founded on the plaint that the hotel-shown movies were murdering their trade. During the war-lush years the big nightclubs got into an unhappy habit of competing with each other for talent. They paid as high as $15,000 a week to individual performers, and ran their weekly operating nut up to unbelievable figures. The result today is that a few of the places are forced, without gambling to carry the load, to overcharge to the point where the people just aren't coming around. They go instead to the cheaper lounges, where a man can see a smaller show for the price of his drink—or to

Dear 1948: :

all circumstances forming the “Sothe restaurants which have chopped food prices to ciety for Visiting the Sick and the no-profit margin, on the theory that their booze Burying the Dead.” When one was trade will fend off receivership. in trouble, the others gave him aid. The hotels are incipient victims -of a similar set, Being essentially a religious peoof baleful possibilities. Just as the bigger nightclubs ple, they soon began to hold regucan't cut their prices, because of the top-heaviness lar religious services. But for some of their entertainment cost, the hotels have been time, they retained the name of the sold ‘and resold so many times that they can’t slice society for the religious organizatheir room-rent and still pay off the mortgage. They tion. They were very orthodox and are stuck with Nigh prices, and while some of them strict. The men sat in the front are booked well for the next two months, they can't parlor and the.women in the rear show an annual profit on a two-month capacity. The one for the services in the home of result is that the fleabags are filled, the boarding Frederick Nirdlinger. houses are filled, the trailer-camps are filled, while’ Temple members were disciplined the others worry. for the sake of morale. They were Most everybody seems to bg’ wailing in Miami to- fined a definite sum if they failed day. Restaurant ‘and nightclth owners make daily to accept an office when elected prowls into competing joints, scanning menu prices or if their small children misbeand counting the noses on the customers. The head- haved during services. | waiters are beginning to moan. As I mentioned yes-| The congregation purchased its terday, there is a fast scrabble to pare food prices in first house of worship from a Gerthe places which are not cursed with top-weighted man Methodist Episcopal church] SPIRITUAL LEADER — entertainment budgets, in a frantic hope that suf- and remodeled it for use as a po bbi Fredetic ficient competitors will drown to allow the rest to synagog. Everybody wore hats to,” aol receric Doppelt. keep affoat.

Fatal Lure for Northerners 4%

RELIGIOUS SCHOOL—Children of the temple school listen to their rabbi.

services and the rabbi was robed age of 12. He and Mrs. Doppelt has the leisure. he intends to re- Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation tion on “Religion at the Crossroads ji& black silk. |have one child, Carolyn, age 7. produce them in a picture-history was graduated with’ Rabbi Doppelt of the World Today.” Sometime in J | The rabbl wi ; Jor of the Jews. from the hy MIAMI HAS. HAD, for many years, a peculiar ASHE CHILDREN er Sig 1 De Ty td He is particularly. fiiterested in The Ft. Figgins Colles. ee J Fray daily in and Boe i in clive’ 3.2 Boy fufalsied Him with the psychology of religidnt and mys- degree from the University of Cin- versary religious service. something. Established operators of northern: bus- proached Claas aro ii d ; Pil 1 4 Helsm and ‘has written a book on cinnati, Among his warmest friends; A civic program will be given inesses come South with their savings, get greedy and gave put English was substituted men ne erial for later writing prayer entitled,” “Dialogue Withiare Dr. Paul Krauss, pastor of with representatives of the entire careless, and wind up busted in no time, flat. One ;; “1a91 Pe Spea ing. 5 |God.” The Most Rev. John F. Noll, Trinity Lutheran Church, and the city participating in a local audiof the shrewdest nightclub operators in New York. pe late Rabbi Edward Rubin. y c ef pol by yet may win a Roman Catholic bishop of Ft. Rev. Elmer Voekel of the Plymouth torium and a dinner-dance in a Ft. who made himself rich pinching pennies and cutting! who became. the Ara Cade in gre e? ih for himsels and his) Wayre, read the manuscript, Congregational Church. | Wayne hotel. Finally, a book recorners, opened a Florida production not s0.10n8 1ge1 introduced reform pi Jey e. ; or 0 years, the rabbi] Rabbi Doppelt delivers lectures : ® 8 \cording the history of the temple ago and went for his roll in one season. lout that time, Tis p= has found great Pleasure in collect- all over the United States, writess IN THE MASSIVE, roomy temple, land Pt. Wayne, including notes on Old hands like Mr. Davis, who has pulled out!adopted its present a E ing pictures of any and everything many articles, is active in the Ro- the sisterhood, brotlierhood and the centennial lectures, will be comand is stroking his dollars ‘against the deluge be- year pres e the same connected with the Jewish people tary Club and president of the religious school nteet regularly. The piled and bound for distribution, lieve sincerely that by the end of the season they'll y Rabbi Frederic Doppilt tow di- Irom the days. of antiquity until Fortnightly Club. He is a bridge building is equipped with a library,” Rabbi Doppelt, with the traditionbe able’ to pick and choose bargains.among theirects the Hc. et se Mish now, yal ian 390 ary Tests of Sones Ase, balcony lounge and al aim of the temple in mind exoptimistic hotel owners and eating places which by the congregation over ‘10 decades. SUCH AN ARRAY of pictures of own recipe, He invites national One of the chief features of th pressed this Rope : have flopped. The others walk wildly around, with He claims a backgrotind similar to all kinds from every part of the conventions to his temple and is five-fold anniversary program tori : if Pane Ria ha use R Slaay look in their eyes, growing ulcers by the dy 81 foe Jounding fathers of world as the rabbi has stuffed Into active . in inter-faith and inter-loutlined by Rabbi Doppelt ‘will be a shall pe Ey ‘ : he - temple. a Doppelt came many, pasteboard cartons, you never racial affairs. a series of lectures given "by Jews and spiritual contribution to the ie LappREz ta i eh I to the United States in. 1919 at the saw. By and by, i and when he Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt of the and Christians of national reputa- entire city of Ft. Wayne.”

al ko and his flagrant spending, the old Third Session lce-O-Rama Pythian Sisters Meet "Rent Control Rally’ Called

days of the $1500 necktie and the $4000 champagne ° ° For, New ¥ear's Pro ram tab are as dead as Benny Meyers’ latent stredk of Tr outs at Coliseum Frida | The M y : " : yer: $ Y y 1e Marion County Association To Air Tenants Woes sday_at 2:30 p. m. in the, A “rent control rally” intended belief that landlords are. deserving

chivalry. nh of Pythian Sisters will meet gs | The third session of tryouts for part by telephoning the show direc- Wedne: @ . the STAN Tas Jia 0 Rana Siow bor, Ss bows Rone the CItY Arion Lodge, K of P. hall for busi- '0 present the side of the tenant 10 of jnereases in many instances | > skaters w e he ark an ecreation r t 1 p : : he By Frederick C. Othman A partment,’ .. to be followed by a dinner at rent, officials here will be held at 8 Fred A. Sondermatin. chiirmal

effect on its business people. They go sun-crazy, or

{Priday morning in the Fairgrounds WA-4576 . . , or by telephoning the ; o'clock - tonight in the World War | 6:30 and a New. Year's Eve program premorial. of the Butler University chapter,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—If.1948 turns into a year with a heart and soul, itll hand President Truman prosperity without inflation; give Mrs. T. a’ better accent in her Spanish class, and turn up for daughter Margaret an approving music critic. To Hank Wallace it will bring success with the hybrid chicken; to the State Department, fewer flip cracks about striped pants. It'll end the starling scourge on Pennsylvania Ave No snow will fall in New York City. Nobody will ask (haw-haw-haw) Secretary of Treasury John 8nyder to slash income taxes and Othman won't (he hasn't promised—Ed.) embarrass the administration by weighing the federal budget on fhe bathroom scales.

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IF IT'S REALLY a kind and generous year, itn give to Tom Dewey a propitious moment for announcing whether he wants the top job. And Ike Eisenhower, too. It'll keep the politicos comfortable with an unprecedented cool wave next June in Philadel phia. It will give me & bath tub. The senatorial bean soup will return to its pre-war thickness: Howard Hughes will find some use for the biggest flying machine in history, and press agent Johnny Meyer won't see his name once in the headlines. John L. Lewis will decide his coal miners, are happy as is. That sedan you ordered and then forgot will be delivered. No congressman will be punched in the nose by a fellow statesman. The wife of Justice Fred Vinson will buy him him a new cravat without speckles. w v G-Man J. Edgar Hoover will catch all the noanes ——— ¥ po -

Meyer to Be Master | athew F.. Of Evergreen Lodge

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: |Alghza L. 'Wisby, treasurer; William, Shapiro, 1328 Union Bt, is RENTS ROOM, HUBBY SUES Arthur J. Meyer will be installed |g Ervin, secretary; Charles 5. Gar- serving with the 1st Cavalry Divi-| MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 30 (UP) — worshipful master of Evergreeniriott, senior deacon; Roy R. Arnold, sion in Japan. Pvt. Shapiro entered | Alfred -Neisen today asked a di-| iF DTN Lodge in public ceremonies junior deacon; Harold J. Hartpence, the Army in October, 1946, and re-| vorce, claiming hi¥ wife preferred | LIE 12-30 | Renters believe they deserve t ednesday at 8 p. m. The annual|senior steward; Fred H. Wahmeier, ceived his training at Ft. Knox, Ky. charges of disorderly conduct ( : | i New Year's Eve party and dance junior steward; Marion R. Glaze, will follow the installation. _ |chaplain, and, Geo

Coliseum. Ice-O-Rama, Indianapolis Times, ater Adults and skaters of all ages RI-5551. | Mrs. J. Earl Brown will preside Sponsored by the American Vet-| AVC, told the rent committee at its —— - ————— erans Committee, which has com- recent hearing that lifting rent {mitted itself to a fight against the|controls “would cause’ a great {removal of rent controls, the meet- hardship on veteran-students.” | ng is intended to bring out the, Taking part in the meeting toproblems of persons renting home night will be James Robb, district space in Indianapolis which in turn president of United Steelworkers will be presented to the Indianap-| Union (CIO): J. C. Herod. state olis Rent Committee. adjutant of Veterans of Foreign The rent committee is collecting Wars; Willlam Piercell, state legisevidence on the supply and demand lative chairman of Disabled Ameriof rental space in the city from can Veterans, and C. Sheldon Book which it will draft a report to rent! 11th District Democratic chairman. officials in Washington.

A rm of ree har Remo of in| WORD-A-DAY { | |

goods, an $8000 house will sell for $8000, Secretary | of Agriculture Clinton Anderson will unscramble his capable of specialty numbers as i frozen eggs, the New Look will relent and an occa- solos or teams and small groups will (* . | B . k T sional pretty knee‘ will be bared in the breeze. A law take to the ice at 10 a. m. to bid| arnival=— Y Dic \ urner will be passed so I don't have to mix the yellow goo/for parts in the benefit extrava-| 3 into the oleo. And who knows? I may even make ganza. the manufacturers thereof happy by calling it mar-| High school and college students garine |were registered and given tryouts Please, 1948, give me a subject for these pieces today. Yesterday pre-school and six days a week ‘every week, holidays included. Give grade school pupils registered in no gentlewoman in Congress hysterics Give the record numbers Navajos some meat and Hollywood some plots, ex-| Every indication pointed to an cept red ones. even more spectacular show than , I bow low, oh coming year, and ask for somebody the one which thrilled a capacity | to explain (so I can understand it) why all that gold's crowd at the Coliseum last Feb-| got to be buried in Kentucky. Bring to the White ruary. That show presented a cast! House photographers some new head-gear in which of 400 youngsters and adults. | to photograph the boss, Give those United Nations xed something on which to uriite. Pass Sen. Homer Fer- Current registrations indicate that)

on {even a greater number will be availguson of Michigan some skullduggery to investigate. , for the two-hour show next

A New Hat for La Perkins Febuary.

_ SETTLE ONCE and for all, for the benefit of Sen,| -Many of last year's participants Elbert Thomas of Utah,”whether the calendar ought | Pave been signed up as well as newto be remodeled. Give the commissioners of the COMers. 1CC. a day off from listening to the plaints of the] There are places for skaters of all railroads and their customers, {ages in the many numbers to be Be good to my favorite people, the inventors, and presented. The cast will include allow: them each to earn a million (before taxes), all ages from tiny tots to grandKeep those atoms bottled up. Pind a cure for colds. parents, Give Madame Civil Service Commissioner Frances, There are no entry fees of. any Perkins a new hat. kind. Skaters need not be members You see how it is, 1948. A little co-operation, and of clubs that skate regularly at the you'll be a year to be remembered. It's up to you, coliseum, although’ club members year. are expected to participate.

nior warden; | Pfc Persons who miss the tryouts still

junior warden; | Shapiro in Japan can make arrangements to take

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dianapolis area from rent control; continue rent contrdl in Indianap- By BACH olis, or ask for an adjustment in present rent levels which would give] more money to landlords. {

Await Meeting Results | K. V. Ammerman, head of the rent committee, has told AVC mem- ~ A LY bers the recommendation would (im-par ti-nent)aou not be formed until after the meet- | INAPPROPRIATE ; RUDE; ing tonight, OUT OF PLACE ; MEDDLESOME; The rent committee held its own |’ PRESUMPTIVE public hearing on rents some weeks ago and it sent invitations to more | BE SURE TO GET IT |than 15 organizations. A number | PLENTY LARGE ENOUGH Jj lof those who would have carried FOR THAT 8.0 ba 4 the interests of tenants did not attend the meeting. NEW YEARS oa. Representatives of landlords at Bp the meeting indicated they desired |}: {an over-all 25 per cent increase in | rents. Indications are apparent] | Here, also, that if rent controls were | lifted rents probably would jump |25 per cent overnight. S

| Some Increases Deserved > _ his &D

Pfc. Julius Shapiro, son of Wil-| —

|increase to meet increases in taxes 7 and maintenance costs. Some members of the rent com-|

mittee have already expressed) the ls Ay

|He went overseas in December, 1946, against him and then rented out,

and was assigned to Troop E of his room while he was serving a | “Just think! After we're married | won't be your secretary any the 5th Cavalry Regiment, 30-day jail sentence. .more—I'll be treasurer)” '

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