Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1948 — Page 11
== NAME WAS Agnes. he Was a Hig teow tnd we Sut 10. be gicd_{riends, All in one winter A long, lonely afternoon. Why? Because it’s been my contention for a long time that cpws have that sad-eyed expression because they're really sad and we're to blame. All we think about is milk, butter, cheese and cream. Never any of the little remembrances that would make life a little more pleasant. 1t wouldn't take much effort. Even a cow might fike to be asked how she feels once in a while. Maybe an exchange about the weather would be jated. We do it day among ourselves. Agnes and I began, our” friendship at the Rosedale Guernsey Dairy yesterday with a notation about the weather. Nothing much. ~All I said was, “Kinda chilly today, isn’t it, Agnes?”
your She must have felt a kindred spirit in me. Not ooks immediately though. The old gal wasn't used to. Jugn W IB kindly trivialities. And with no strings attached. a , We pear! Gets the Cold Shoulder ug THE SWEET SMELL of hay hung like a subtle
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“HELLO, AGNES"—Even a Guernsey ap--Hreciates a “visitor when ‘there's fime on her hands.
MIAMI, Jan. 7—I have alyays been en fastinated | by Miami Beach during the sucker season, when the wise salmon from up“ Nawth try to swim Jpstream lover the rising prices. . All Broadway men look alike. - All Hollywood women are sisters under their slacks. One tap dancer is like another tap dancer. ,And most of ‘the visitors to Miami Beach. might have come out of the same litter. > The way you tell a native Miamian from the winter visitor is that the resident doesn’t: get sunburned. Tan is the badge of visiting distinction, and goes with the fox cape and the dissatisfied pinched faces the women wear when they spot a diamond weighing half-a-pound more than the one they're flaunting. Weather is just weather most places, but I some--times wonder if God isn't alittle startled when he watches his subjects trying to harness it: to. their particular enterprises. Here they get sore at the heavens and wail that they're—being -erucified —if—the—¢louds rol—over—and
re == knock some of the profit—out of the sunshine. f pants. 1 % most places, rain grows crops, but down here it grows izes 1 to bankruptcies and shuttered joints and evil tempers . and ‘family fights. . i ‘Shine, Bum, but Shine’ 2 only C | THE FAT, BALD OLD MEN, with the fur-bearing * | shoulders, and the young women with the tightpulled upswepts and the careful faces, which seem to have been rolled on in layers—they- assault the ~ sun in the morning as if it were a personal property. “Come out, you bum,” they say. “Come out and : shine on my cabana. At 30 bucks a day, for the hotel S, wrap 91 and dropping five. C's a day..at the track and going , broken for $3200 at gin and laying out a yard a week tor " 2 this cabana, come out and shine. Hustle. Shine here.
The ‘hell with over there. shine,
bum, shine "
At these prices,
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Moans: Over Miami
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"The Indianapolis Times
eATTYIng ‘a sack of grain. Mr, Benson didn't even turn his head at Pearl. | Arthur Pear, another hired hand, was busy dust-
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dime. He, 100, ‘let Pearl's call go unnoticed. True, the men had a lot of work to do. Forty-three cows need a great deal of attention.
I sat on the pipe above—the-concrete manger. y With my left hand I stroked Pearl's bangs. Guernsey. & cows have beautiful bangs. With my right, I tickled | I oO ra it Agnes’ ear, |
finally swiped me across the hand with her er. tongue. I didn't tell her it felt as if she| 4 ; 3 had used ‘a wood rasp. A guy has to give and take : 4 when he's trying to be kind and friendly. For som strange reason, Agries poked her nose into the ano matic drinking cup and took a long swig. My hand’ couldn't have been that bad. ¢ Priscilla, Charlotte, Evelyn and Annetta had thelr heads together a little farther down the line. Loretta ° stood aloof from the rest and ealsnly rubbed her | neck against the stanchion, Minutes passed by. into an hour. Mr. Benson and Mr. Pear kept up\ their everlasting puttering arourid. Agnes and Priscilla definitely appreciated my coming to see them. ‘They munched some hay while I ate a candy bar. I'm sure I didn’t insult them by breaking out my own goodies. ‘
Life’'sSuch a Vicious Circle
JUST A VICIOUS CIRCLE, the dairy business, I found out. At 5:30 a. m. the herd gets a ration of silage, grain and hay. Rex Beghtel, herd manager. | big, brown Guernsey eyes By six the milking ma- | chines are going full blast. After that the bedding is changed .and the barn cleaned. The men have, the help of an automatic barn cleaner. It's a lonely time after the chores are done. Especially | if it's’ a dreary day. There's no lunch hour.” From 12 noon-to 1 p. | is no different from 10 to 11 or'2 to 3. Time merely hangs heavy and eyes get sadder. Now, do you still wonder why I spent part of yesterday afternoon with Agnes, Priscilla and the rest? And so we sat and visited the time away. I'm no Ferdinand but I'm happy to say not one nose was turned up at me. When Mr. Benson appeared with the silage wagen | I knew he was beginning the chain of events that | would end with the evening milking: By 5 p. m. all they would: have to look forward to would be a| long, dark night. No music, laughter or any of the! : other good things in life. |
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 1948
RUNNERUP— Honorable mention _ Bright, 30 Rebecca Drive, for this restful water scene. - Kodak-35-camera and Super XX film. f:16. Natural lighting was used. x. 4!
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was awarded to Raymond He used a Exposure was 1,200 second at This reproduction was made from a 5 inches. By ART WRIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHER outside of Indianapolis again won top laurels in The Times Amateur Photo Contest which has been staged weekly since ‘early last August. in nearby Hancock County, who submitted |
three prints on different subjects and won the judges’ decision on one of them. Mr.
He is Ralph Duncan, of Mohawk, Ind.
Any “number of prints may “be sube | mitted by an individual in. one week. Photographers may enter any number of
As T walked out of the barn, I had a feeling that| Duncan, like each weekly winner, earned | Agnes. was--watching me go. - But I. didn't surn| __$5.for top prize, Weeks, Al prints must be In black and . around. It was better that way. — . I White. : ANOTRER NEWCOMER who earned | On the back of each photo-should- be »
You know, 1 wouldn't be a cow-for all the ‘money | at Pt. Knox,
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By Robert C. Ruark
v Then they smear on the grease and adjust the goggles and cook themselves until it's time to start] drinking lunch. They turn themselves slowly, like a fowl on a spit, and it seems to. me the really good hotels should hire young mén to stand over the sun,
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PRIZE WINNER—This * ‘portrait’ of a goot won first pits of the week in The Times Amateur Photo Contest for Ralph Duncan, of Mohawk, Ind. It was one of three pictures submitted by Mr. Duncan. The. amateur picture- snapper used Verichrome film at an outdoors exposure bathers, bastifig them with precious oils.
| of 1/25 at fH. ; . They take a jealous inventory on tan. The men j I give each other the stare. t “There's Harry. Staying over in ¢own, for ¢heap.' I been here a week longer tharthe bum, but lookit his sunburn. I am being robbed. I am being cheated. At these prices I should be three shadés blacker than Harry.”
Everybody foves fo Hate*
‘THE DAY IN THE SUN is over at noon, and-a| : mysterious pull takes most of them to the track.! The beaches are swept clean. There are two kinds of prestige to be gained at the track. -You either win, five grand, or up. Or you lose five grand, or up.| Anything’ under is shamefully guarded as a secret.| i It is the same with gin rummy, in case you deci to rusticate in the hotel, and do your betting w with the| tame bookie at the cigar counter. You gotta win el -or lose big or you don't talk about it. For my money the most depressing sight in the U. 8 today is man | facing his wife in a gin game, with nothing but su-| premacy at stake, The minks and the sables d the heavy rocks come out at night, which turns nto an orgy of com- | parison shopping for the women. While the old man bucks the dice dame or looks at the showgirls’ legs, the women circle glowly, eyeing each other balefully. o They all wind up hating each other for looking. exactly like each other, except in the varying number | g of bracelets, the quality of the fur, and the poundage of the ice on their ciaws. ’ "I can see how the people who pronounce it “Mins mah” feel small compuhction about clipping the visiting sheep. They are an uneasy breed of holiday-. makers, and Lhetr fleece: 1s itchy for the shears,
The contest,
NE ——————— WASHINGTON, Jan. 7--That compendium of humor, drama, adventure and Horatio Alger stories, the Congressional Directory, is out on time this year for“a change. = The-authors-dawdted = and> chomped the ends of their pencils, worry ing about how modest can a Con- - gressman get, but the Joint Committee on Printing prodded ‘em repeatedly and they barely made the - deadline with the most awesome collection of autobiographies ever to flabbergast a book reviewer. _ That's me This day ‘I have spent reading their book (bound in_scarlet, 915 exciting pages, price $1:50): The -problem of the literary lawmakers was touchy. If they went too easy on their own virtues their constitu: ents might think they voted for the wrong fellow, If they told all and admitted they were extra smart ~ (as ‘well as home- -loving), - would \make mean cracks in the literary supplements. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of Los Angeles and Rep. Jdimes Heffernan of Brooklyn, N. Y., solved this by talking about their ancestors. Mrs. Douglas, Who said she was a stage star and grand opry singer, Wrote about her great-great-grandfather. Grandpa Gahagan and 18 other pioneers founded Dayton, O. “His forefathers,” wrote Rep. Heffernan about himself “were among the Irish pioneers who settled In lower Manhattan and south Brooklyn. before the War of 1812,” Rep. Heffernan added that he was a member of the Emerald Society
Started as Farm Hand SEN. WILLIAM LANGER, the only North Dakotan ‘Who chews cigars without unpeeling the: cellophane, began his career at the age of 15 as a hired hand of a neighboring farmer. But he was so “good at handling large crews of men that he soon was appointed
on paper and mentioned in [passing that he was the
Rosebuds’
HOLLYWOOD; ‘Jan. 7-1 give you today John
Ford's ‘Rosebuds”— "Hedy" Vogel and “Greta” Crowley—the two most colorful personalities among Hollywood's 6345 extras.
d to 9 : The Rosebuds, discovered #nd so christened by I he director—are listed in Central ,Casting'’s files as jium Heels anore Vogel and Jane Crowley. ; >-D-E-EEE Teamed for ‘War Party’
. BUT, at every studio in Hollywood, when their rnatile. acting services are needed for a picture, ! "Get me John Ford's Rosebuds,” or, even more
her-priced shoes! |
Succinctly, “the Rosebuds.” , gypsy style, ory Because they're both fifty-ish, dark-haired. and B-C-D-E-EEE. i build, and because they sorkThard and
do anything a director asks of them, the girls ways hired together, ~~ Parley Were just teamed again by Poid for “War
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only person in Sp — English-speaking country ever to be arrested for filing an affidavit of prejudice against a judge. 1 also enjoyed the literary style of Rep. Karl Stefan of-Norfolk;- Neb: -who-began-life-as a. messen= ger ‘ (non-singing) for the Western Union, became a telégrapher, newspaper .reporter, and radio spleler, and—in his words—was: “Adopted by four. Indian tribes, Omaha, Winne-| bago, Ponca and Santee. Sioux, and given name of _ Pah-Hug-Mon-Thee, meaning ‘leader man’,” Longest-winded autobiographer was Sen. Kénneth McKellar ~of Memphis, “Tenm., who needed - 69 -lines to tell about his accomplishments: even so he said not one word about the 100 Memphis or this own estimate) to whom he vainly proposed niarriage dur-
REPEATER—John G. Hale, a city mail carrier of - 63% N Riley Ave: cars through with-arothertop pics
“mention entry by William T. Speed Graphic.
ture to win honorable mention. He formerly had won | first place honors: - This "Farmer Girl" was snapped with a Zeiss Mirrorflex on Super Pan Press film.
State C. of C. Aids New Controls Are Urged | To Attend Parley For Western Germany
ing his lifetime. FRANKFURT, Germany. Jan, 7 governors but owned by state banks. |. Clarence A Jackson, executive
(UP) — The Anglo - American mili- It would be empowered to issue Good Door Stop vice president of the Indiana State
. tary governors of Germany pro- am and- issue REP. ADOLPH SABATH of Chicago told about how Chambef of Commerce, will heard a posed today to set up a cabinet, he was elected 21 times to Congress, where he served delegation of four staff members at RE ' SIX: Permit the councli - to dip under ‘eight Presidents and nine speakers. Rep, F. meetings .of the National Associa- two-house. legislature ugh nto dtate-collected income tax Edward - Hebert of New Orleans, urged his readers tion .of .State’ Chambers of Tom- court in their economically merged funds as it sees fit to balance its to remember that his name .was pronounced A-Bear. merce in Washington, D. C., this occupation zone budget. That would widen its presSen. Joseph H. Ball of Stillwater, Minn., reported that week. Carefully avoiding the tise of the ent powers. The council adso would once. between newspaper jobs, he spent a year writ- Howard
word “government,” - the. military control the levying of excise taxes ing fiction. ‘He didn't say what kind.'I asked him. Commerce
a nd
Friend, - Chamber research director,
of
and governors proposed an eight-point and customs
Blood-and-thunder, it was, and not too profitable. Maurice Gronendyke, special assist- program aimed at strengthening the! SEVEN: The council would take And: I. must not forget Rep. C. W. Bishop of ant, have been assigned by the na- economy of the Anglo-American over all economic functions now Carterville, Il. who said his nickname was Runt. tional association to work Hn a zone delegated to the state or zonal He used to be a tailor and then m professional ball nation-wide public relations pro- Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Gen. levels of government. The most player. He still designs an occasional dress for Mrs. gram. Sir Brian Robertson put. forth/important of them wouid be. the
their program on the first day of problem of food collection, a two-day conference of ranking ' EIGHT: The economic council American, British and German offi- "would expand by setting up branch cials to map the future course of oMces where and when it pleased. western Germany. Plan Not an “Ukase” Scope of Regime | Gen. Robertson told -the Ger-
Gen. Clay and Gen. Robertson \ proposed-the following program for: mans _gathéred around a huge oval western Germany, and told German lable in the flag-draped convention officials that it should be put into room that the proposals were aimed test gets a a rm at building . an econoniic, “shed” . uble ie size oO e +" Joint Economic Council, the psuedo« for the Germans to occupy “While parliament of the Anglo-American Duilding their house.” zone, to 104 members. “Our object rethains a united TWO: Form a 16-member second Germany, governed by a German legislative honse_ which would have government capable of governing no powers of taxation or appro- properly,” he “said. “We do not priation, recognize a division of Germany. THREE: Revise the present ex- We must ‘not write off tRat-—part ecutive: committee, transforming fit of Germany which cannot. now be into a cabinet. The chairmin, to be included in oyr proposals.” chosen by-the council, would ap-' Gen. Clay and Gen. Robertson [point his" colleagues to head. the put forth-their proposals with an various * departments of the eco- assurance that they were no more nomic eouncil. Le |
‘Union’ Bank Set Up
B.. and if he's not too busy passing laws, whips it up This program is designed to profor her on the sewing mache. Why he left this pote - rediiction in federal governlatter information out of his autobiography, I don't ment expenditures and taxes. know. Wilfred Bradshaw, the state It is quite a book, otherwise and packed with solid chamber’s manager of the personnel information; solid enough to make an excellent door- relations department, is ~ acting stop. of schairman of the national assoctition’s.o¢ ittee-on labor relations.
> » By Erskine Johnson YMCA Business. Aids Plan Convention Here Indianapolis has been selected for Whenever a diréctor Uké€ Ford, who has used {},. YMCA Business Secretaries Nathem in every picture he's filmed in Hollywood for (ina) Association convention to be the past 24 Years, has a bit for .one Rosebud’ but eid in December, 1048. not both, he apologizes for the omission. |- More than 400 business secreGreta, who sang in Chicago night clubs many taries of YMCA units throughout’ years ago, has a deep, husky Voice, which still gets yp. U. S., Canada, Alaska and Haher an occasional singing bit. wall are expected to attend. Hedy's voice suggests the pungent favor of her The Indianapolis convention com= native Atlanta's corn pone and: black-eyed peas. mittee has alfeady begun to lay
idleness Drives Them Crazy plans su hohe: snd “enteniain. the
‘ 1948 delegates. THE ROSEBUDS never play cards, or knit, or aii —— read on the set, They just watch and, listen. ADM. COOKE TO RETIRE “We're alert,” says Hedy, “and if anybody falls SHANGHAI Jan. 7 (UP) —An an-downi-on. their lines we're right there to take over. nouncement . from Tsingtao said we've filled in. oodies of times.” : *. But the Rosebuds don’t get picture jobs often commander of U. 8. Naval fortes in high court to have ultimate Juris, the enough to satisfy their dramatic ambitions. Lo" ysiisved ion. in, Sib toolomie matters wad, “ana 1s avin, end Sad oe as Sioa vie Sway |_ FIVE, Batis a “union” bank comment Walled, "and its driving ws crazy! retirement. age. diy "10: be be controlled by. the, military ov tomorrow. . ; Sable pd) RE A ae pe
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laurels was Raymond Bright, 30 Rebecca !
‘Again the judges faced a difficult job in . selecting the best photos.of the week. The
are being “received from! “throughout the state.
-ment Division of: the Indianapolis
than proposals, “and do not repre- William i" A Brennan Jr., vice chair- tion of Real iman, and today that Adm. Charles .M: Cooke, FOUR: ‘ Establish a' nine-man Py suggestions were handed to Tefary treasurer. was, wi, were, dsked tol; The board will Shen «ud come up ‘with noon in ‘the of the
written the photographer's name; address, telephone number, type camera and film used, shutter pepe. diaphragm opening, type lighting. " - THE DEADLINE each week is Friday midnight. Photos received by next Friday | midnight will be judged for the group to
continues to improve and t
which will continue as
long as suitable entries are received, is | be published exclusively in The Times next open to every amateur picture-snapper. i An amateur is one whose chief source of | income is not derived from photographic work. Theré are no feés for entry.
Wednesday. =Malil or bring “entries to: Amateur Phote | | Contest, Indianapolis Times, 314 W, ! Maryland St, Indianapolis 9.
BEST OUT-OF-DOORS—The best scenic photo of the ‘week .was this honorable
Long. 2345 N, Tafbot St Mr, tong used a 21/4 x 34
Exposure was 1/100 second at f: 5.6 with a yellow filter It was taken in a late afternoon sunlight,
Brakeman -Wins $65,000 in Suit
Muncie Man Held On Check Charge. For Injuries’
State police today held a Muncie Two years of struggling to make man on a charge of* issuing fraudu- financial ends meet ended today for
lent’ checks here. Authorities said Howard B. Brooks, .a railroad I 1s0 Ww Janted fo d rob brakeman, and his ‘family. ie also was wanted for Armed rob yn October, 1945, Mr. Brooks, who
bery in Ban Diego, Cal, serting a Navy ship.
_He was identified as James Horton, 21.
Slated ‘for hearing in Criminal
and for de- lives at 906-E: St. Clair 8f, was hurled from a freight car in the A Indianapolis yards when it was rammed. by another car. His hip was splintered and he has
t Court 2 on the fraudulent check Spon 0a of Wg tims i pospitala charge, Horton was placed in Mar- PE , lon County jail aftér he was arrest-| yzSTERDAY, as. Mr. Brooks
ed by State Police Detective Jack entered a Chicago courtroom to Hester. testify in his $200,000 suit against Aythorities sald Horton robbefl a the New York Central system, the liquor store proprietor of $40 last company agreed to settle the case August while--on shore leave and for $65,000, was arrested a few minutes later, The 39-year-old brakeman tele Turned over to riaval authorities, | Phoned the news immediately to {Hotton immediately “jumped ship” | | his wife and their two sons, Les-, and. hedded here, state police said. ! Lie, 3, and Jeoroy, 10. California authorities have been POL A rut marta, chance to talk detdils yet’ with her checks ranging in value from #6 to husband, who is scheduled to enter
$18 have been recovered. _/a hospital here for more bone sure ———— {gery as soon ‘as he returns ta Ine
dianapolis tomorrow, but she wants to spend the money to assure Mr, Brooks' recovery } “Other than. that” she said, “I don't even want to falk about iw"
MRS. BROOKS nasn't had »
Sims Chairman of Property Managers
Firman C. Sims has been elected:
chairman of the Property Manage- Driscoll to Attend Parley T. Lorin Driscoll, vice president Real Estate Board for 1048. ot the - Indianapolis Real Estate - Other officers of the division Board, will attend a president's 'elected for the coining year are conference of ‘the National -Associa« Estate Boards in Gaylord D. Disher, sec- Washington, ‘D.C, on Jan. 19
[ahd 20. ; st Thursda Mi, Driscoll is & member of the i i, mt a or of “of the Brokers"
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