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‘The Great Souled One’

HE little, almost toothless man who broke the grip of the mighty British Empire on Mother India’s 350 million souls is dead with three assassin's bullets in his frail, fast-weazened body. : "The 78-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi, “Bapu,” meaning father to his millions of devoted followers, fell on the prayer grounds of the Birla mansion, the expansive estate of a rich industrialist supporter. The assassin, as usual, | was a fanatic nobody, seized by the police. . oe, The world has known but few men of Gandhi's invinci ble faith. Without armies and alone, with nothing more than his self-sacrificing humility, his spiritual strength he brought the military-muscled British Lion to her knees. He forced the British who had for years éxploited the impoverished and uneducated millions of India to withdraw, His device was simple. It was a well-preached doctrine. of “individual civil disobedience” through which his legion of followers defied British authority every hour of the » - . . .

WHENEVER a crisis arose, Mr. Gandhi would fast.

t's milk. And as the ounces dropped from his already emaciated body the furor of his followers rose to a crescendo hardly understood. Repeatedly they backed away

ROT W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ

With the Times

and whisked away to safety | ~

drop the “dis.” ro “ 3 4 _— ip A. : TRAGEDY You came to me for help today And as I held you near, | I tried so hard to find the key

bizness ain't bin so good lately, he took in only 25 cents all week. Prob'ly due to the cold snap.

German, an’ Frannie Galimore sed, “That's the very first card to go through the post office

mint an’ ast Rev. Jim Hines fer an opinion. He told them, “Sometimes when you win an argu‘ment with a friend, you lose . , « & friend.” Smart feller.

In Tune

DID YOU EVER?

Did you ever have ambition ‘ And a sort of premonition i. " Unless you watched your step ™

That your kind of ammunition . Couldn't fill’ the proposition— That to be successful Takes a lot of pep?

Yet you knew a lot of answers “To the kind of soulful cancers ed That keep eating at us Vai , Every day and night! gt

And if you could only speak ‘em To the blind and dumb who seek 'em, You'd feel better— Everything would be 4lright? Yes—as I, you've had the feeling ~ That you'd like to do the healing Of the helpless ? Who keep getting lost at sea.

But ll venture they've a yearning To teach us a little learning, And-T'1l bet “That we could use it—you and me! ~ROBERT O. REYNOLDS, 1225 S. Belmont Ave. ® & oO

Who remember when heavyweights used to be known as prize fighters instead of price fighters? ® &¢ ¢

A CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

Tobe Deegaw, the barber, sez his bathtub

Big Hank Fritzen got a pust card writ in

couldn't read!” A couple uv the boys wuz havin’ a hot argu-

“CATFISH PETE. rt Le & 4 - SEAT The weather, these days, is one of the main things discussed—-and you can safely

~The Hoax of the ‘Masterpiece’ |=

he arrived at Dr. Smith's office, having run all’ from the Indianapolis Clearing House Association over which he presided at the time. Indeed, it took several minutes for Mr. Calvert After which he had been

If Harry Insists On & Balcony— 5 - . APENTHOUSE 5° =" ON Wy AC RNGTOR MONUMENT?

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Get 'Em Together, Henry

By Bert Wilhelm, 2108 8. Emerson Ave. Henry Wallace's latest brainstorm should be larly by us old-line Democrats. anion “For years we have been disgusted by the has been

porations that nsik plying them with millions of the peoples money to spend as they see fit without check or audit, destroying food when people were hungry, were short

Henry is no longer roll. His poiicles seem to be active when we read of plowing under dehydrated eggs to be used. for fertilizer and destroying half of the 1947 potato crops to keep the price up. However, that was before we hired the -soap peddier-and- gave a half Jllon dollars to observe the directive of egg. days. Henry will do the public a service for the

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first time in his lite if he o! a with a platform broad enough an enough to attract all the mugwumps, travelers, do-gooders-for-pay, publicity-seeking pulpit pounders and “gimmes” and let them stand up and be counted. This group has béen overestimated by the noise’ they make and the free publicity they crave.

TODAY'S STORY reveals all the ghastly details of the most elaborate hoax ever perpetrated : in Indianapolis and involves Dr. Victor T. Keene, 4 . Dr. Leonidas Smith and Clifton Wheeler whose

.. By Anton Scherrer

the way

to collect himself.

I'm sick unto death of

Hindus. It was in th midst of this struggle in which he J Juoken Sota picture won top-prize in the Hoosier Art Salon asking a lot of professional questions, most of fellow-traveler ‘or } may again fasted, that his life was sacrificed, as have been the | Your tears tell on my heart, my dear | now on exhibuion at Movs RR which Jag 10 0 gE an eras Hoa. Mb] SHWE meh 3 ’ v a C! e . NR 2 lives of nearly all of the 8 truly great men, for his gael 1ove you wo, De A a or The woman patient, he was assured, had come | think as they do “Communist, fellow-travelers, cause. % Your little heart was broken outstanding examples of to Indianapolis by way of New Bedford, Mass. | or mers.” That is what did and ; RE i Youre "d Jost your story book Fugged honesty, actuslly ted hoa Ba ee has : nt po — J It seems 'd your story : ere. : who a | men on MR. GANDHI, his frail fingers hardly strong enough And only five. TA GUTS art ID friend of her mother, she said, and had pre- | enough to believe I can express my views freely, to lift a morsel of food to his thin fleshless lips, had : —BETTY ABBETT. | ,.o Ryder” an sented it as a. token of his love for her. It just | not have them : shattered the chains which had millions in servitude. ot . e000 on strike | American painter whose pic. F. abou broke. lis patients heast. to have to part Heney Wallace looks o.4he future with hope | : { Saliba Americ inte picture, reported Dr. Smith. | and confidence, not with fear and suspicion and § + His next self-chosen task was to weld chains with the | ,.q With March 15 sneaking up, you're think- | prices of hor from four to five figures each, _ The story was so convincing that Mr. Calvert thoughts of an early war. Henry Wallace will heat of love of one man for another into a great subcon- | ing just what we are! The practical joke (to give it the kindest name said he wanted to think it over and asked per- | return the New Deal to the people. At present : ; : * © y ) mission to take the picture home. Arriving there, | the cards are stacked against the majority of tinent nation. - Smee) : By possible) began with Dr. Keene’s contribution of Mr. Caivert—with the hel his ‘well the je in favor of greedy, aad 0 ll JULIANNE a picture frame old enough to have seen service r- “aiveri— elp of equipped peop! a if , moneyMr. Gandhi was one of the great men of all times who atts AWE. Verte Er Re moor (crea 1850). Dr. library—reassured himself that Albert P. Ryder | profiteers, so why shouldnt we have & New devoted his every thought and deed to the lives | He a Keene ‘brought the “rame to Mr. Wheeler, who Was born in New Bedford, Mass. Whereupon. ye : of his fellow men. He lived his life for the the ex- Bot Gays Of school +» wee dresses: and | spperently knew how to handle it. him ‘about the great discovery. Mr. Wheeler said | off to the a Taatet Be may " Uoited. ) : A starry-eyed sweet lass. At any rate, Mr. Wheeler got a board from 4 yo out right away to have & look at the | do so with my At least he will not ; ploited, the uneducated and those who were born to live .an old packing box and covered one side of it t arouse suspicion, f and ire fel their miserable days in a land fettered with ign y and | She. lived. in expectation. A ey Talay a i PS: Aad | lowmen throughout ths. a ell not snd poverty. = EP ; 2 BA TW Ahn: 1 vers along a Pb oh Ren VUaing, tha Te Agreed It Was Original it sons off to be butchered in an unnecsay, : 3 ; Si ts And always called to me. in Stead. It did. The board crackled beau- THERE WASN'T a doubt that.it was an orig- | "pos Th I wi’ tal > titully in all directions, just the way the old inal Ryder, the two agreed. Indeed, Mr, Wheeler | _ "OC "oF iv Ih take Henry Wallace . Years passed. One day we met | maste do. went even further and pronounced it an important | po is 0 oreater SF Pigs and vot wna. bing, A. I scarce believed . . . ‘twas she! | After that, Mr. Wheeler worked fast. He Ryder, the like of which couldn't be found out- | nim go Conimunist fellow tray 3 thus WH will -

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" to do about it and how to do it has become the pressing

“faces a long, hard fight.

. 3a courageous battle through the Parent-Teacher groups.

A Long, Hard

has not been easy in the last 10 or 15 years to bring

began right in the families where children were reared. The penalties of social disease are well known. What

problem of organized society. \ : There has been an awakening in the last few years in | decided to remove the veil of secrecy under which it had been flourishing and expose it to the purifying sunlight of . common understanding. There are still many who shy at

The Indianapolis Social Hygiene Association is waging

Ways are being studied to get sex education before children old enough to be fascinated by the mystery of it. 3 "The Social Hygiene Association is striving to get its "educatigiial ‘program before Parent-Teacher groups, religious organizations and civic bodies. While there isn't much need: for it in these groups, they may open the way _to the sub-standard levels where it is urgently needed. Last vear‘the association -reached-9410. persons in-121 meetings. Not many, too be sure in a population which spills over the half-million mark, but it is a commendable start, a driving of the wedge into one of the most serious problems anyway you consider it—health, social or spiritual—man has faced since the beginning of time.

Calling All Cats HE American Feline (pussy-foot word for cat) Society is looking for 50,000 cats to send to Europe to catch the rats that are fattening on grain we send to Europe. Reminds us of the predicament of a hotel we once heard about in Japan.. The hotel was overrun with rats. Hundreds of cats were collected and put to work. The cats

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soon had all the rats cleared out but became a bigger nuisance than the rats. So with typical Japanese thinking, a larger breed of rats was installed to clean out the cats. Then bigger and more cats to clear out the rats. And so on, to a point where at last the hotel was cleared of all guests. Clearly a vicious spiral, and for all we know, that might have been where the term Operation Rathole originated. od 2 :

Antidote for Crime SHERIFF AL MAGENHEIMER is asking the County Council for $20,000 in an additional appropriation to hire 14 more deputies, He says he wants them to establish a 24-hour patrol serVice to combat increasing crime in the Ll would get our vote, and probably the vote of the neil, if he pledged the additional men to nailing the lid tighter on gambling in the county and mopping up

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* the subject of venereal disease control into the open. It | Nature, Shot as Buck 2)

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . , . By Marquis Childs Gen. Eisenhower Le Democrats Troubles

“new life and mew hope into Democratic headq here. “——Jirét and foremost, of course, is the fact that most of Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower's ardent promoters have" ty

that used to be!

little girl . . . , —ANNA E. YOUNG.

(“SAN SABA, Tex.—Horned Doe, Freak of

Down in Old San Saba, Texas, They have found a well horned doe, © Which in deer of female sex is Not a normal thing, yoy know.

But to one for years bedevilled } : ~~ By’ a husband's bed of thous; ~~~ “Phere 18 nothing new of thril-Alled — ~ In a “dear” equipped with ns. ’

wer Left

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Events of recent days have infused

accepted his statement of withdrawal as final and irrevocable. | The polls havé shown that Gen. Eisenhower was far an away the most formidable opponent the Republicans could pit against Mr. Truman. Now that he is eliminated, his strength may go to other candidates, but the polls have shown. that the President could defeat Sen. Robert A. Taft by a wide margin. While the outcome of a contest with Gov, Thomas E. Dewey would be close,

Side Glance

Mr. Truman seems at the present writing to have a slight edge. Furthermore, these samples were taken after Henry Wallace had announced his third-party candidacy. : ~The tendency among the Democrats, for the moment, is to forget past troubles in a surge of confidence, The Jefferson Day dinner on Feb. 19 will give their champion a chance to make a rousing speech, and party workers will use the same opportunity to get money for the '48 war chest.

Wide Gulf in Democratic Ranks

BUT WHILE Democratic divisions and differences may be swept out of sight for the time being, they are at least as sharp as those In Republican ranks. The gulf between the New Deal wing of the party and the stand-patters is wide and seemingly unbridgeable. Nor is this in any sense a regional division, since many of the most articulate hberals in the party are from the south, once considered the stronghold of ultra-conservatism. It is in California, where everything is at least twice lifesize, that the conflict is seen In its gaudiest colors, Two Californians who face each other across the divide symbolize the leftright split in the party. On the one hand is spokesman for the big ofl companies in.the tidelands oll fight and a successful speculator who admits to: making nearly $1 million dealing in commodities ‘in a three-year period. In the opposite corner is James Roosevelt, son of the late President and a New Deal apostle. To reconcile these unreconcilables, Chairman Howard Me: Grath of the Democratic National Committees and his chief lieutenant, Gael! Sullivan, recently visited California.

Pauley to Step Out as Comimitteeman

AS ONE result of their visit, Mr. Pauley is stepping out as national committeeman for that state. The intention is to leave this office unfilled until the Democratic convention in Philadelphia in July, when members of the California delegation will elect a new committeeman, ! "The net result of Mr. McGrath's visit was a personal victory

Edwin W. Pauley, |

painted a stretch of water, a sailboat, a group of moody clouds and a slanting moon with such "consummate skill that when it was done, it looked exactly like a deadringer for a mystical paint by Albert P. Ryder who is now known as “

THE FAKED picture was slipped into the old frame provided by Dr. Keene and delivered to the office of Dy. Smith. When Dr. Smith unpackage, he had to wash his hands repeatedly to get rid of the spider webs with which ‘Mr. Wheeler had sprinkled the picture. _ Dr. Smith immediately called: : and told him about a woman patient who had left an ajd painting with him in payment of a dental ‘debt—a partial payment, of course. Moreover, Mr. Calvert was told that the signature on the painting looked like Ryber, Ryden or Ryder. “Not Albert P, Ryder!” exclaimed Mr. Calvert trying “his level ‘best -to- mask his excitement -the way bankers do. - ond ordinate Well, Mr. Calvert

N Ee @ I¥'s\much better to be known by your deeds than by your mer last of the Romanticists.” : : * ¢ ¢ : : Uncle has published a booklet explain Sprinkled With Spider Webs ing how to drive nails. Most of us still thumb our way! XS o2 : wrapped the FOSTER'S FOLLIES

ing the

Mr. Calvert

was all out of breath when f

made his big mistake.

conflicts rage.

The ‘source of Mr. Calvert's emotional conflict came to light when he found words to express himIf this be an important: Ryder, he said,’ the woman should receive $3000 for her picture and, maybe, even $30,000. Certainly more than the measely $30 Dr. Smith was” asking for it. His conscience, he declared, would not permit him to see a woman tricked out of her inheritance. And, 80 far as he was concerned, the deal was Anyway he didn’t have $3000 at the time, let alone $30,000. Mr. Calvert got so concerned about his conscience that Mr. Wheeler broke

self.

off.

down and confessed.

"Stockings in the bathroom again! The trouble is since we're mer ried you've started to act like you were at home!"

s—By Galbraith

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California. The slate. will ba made up from lists submitted by county and district chairmen, who for the most part are believed

to be Roosevelt men, :

The opposition in California comes from the extreme left as

well as from the right. It is centered in the person of ambitious,

unpredictable Robert W. who was defeated. when he

“Kenny, former state attorney general ran for governor. In that race, Gov: =~

Earl Warren won both the Democratic and the Republican hom-

inations.

At the PCA Third-Party rally in

nounced that he would try

joi, Fo

Chicago, Mr. Kenny an to capture the Democratic presidén-

tial nomination for Wallace. This would be possible under although . Sabie Rt “-

does not, however, appear le, Mr. Wallace in the June pion California is one of four -or

side of New York's Metropolitan Museum. To hear Mr. Wheeler tell it, that's where he Immediately after having pronounced the picture an “important Ryder,” he noticed an emotional conflict raging in Mr. Calvert's breast—or wherever it is that emotional

Mr. Calvert's collection is minus a Ryder to this day; As for Mr. Wheeler; he's done with practical‘ jokes.” ~ They're mot worth “the trouble t takes to think them up, he says.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . ... By Parker La Moore | Greek Rule Cemented By Flow of U.S. Cash

1! a member of the Liberal Party, which has only 88 of the 354 mem | bers of Parliament. His rival as head of the government coalition

get my vote. ® oo

Odr ‘Cream Puff Politicians By Ray R. Miller, Greencastle, Ind.

have refrained from taking a part until now. 1 noticed in the Times Friday the fat “corn fed” political parasites wrangling over that im:portan: item of stemming the price of “cream ¢ p 8.” i If they really want to do their folks such a wordly good they could agree on another 3-cent in cigarets and they would make every oné “ pPPYy.” Now this is a good example of our nation’s “angels of mercy” hovering over welfare when all they aim to do is to look for sundown and payday and the sooner such microbes are gone “worn faces and a general gaunt look of ow cream. puff politicians. "y da 2

ATHENS, Jan. 30—America’s attempt to reorganize the Greek - government to conform to our own ideas and ideals has had rough The changes we have brought about may have resulted in improvements in fiscal policy and in distribution and supply of food and goods. That will become more apparent later. But our intervention in this country's internal affairs has brought additional responsibilities without corresponding: author ity, and it has caused continuing irritation between Greek govern: ment officials and the American Mission. : ; ‘Such mistakes as we have made here have been of the tesd rather than the heart. The obvious efficiency of American methods and procedures appears to have won recruits among the Greeks. Those of our officials who have not become disillusioned are learning the value of patience. But representatives of both gov ernments, who are trying to achieve co-operation, are working against an unfortunate backlog of friction and misunderstanding.

A Compromise of Viewpoints

| THE PRESENT Athens government represents a compromise between the Greek and American viewpdints and in consequencé is a divided household. Premier Themistoclés Bophoulis, who came into office some months ago as & result of American pressure, iS

is Constantin Tsaldaris, deputy premier and foreign minister, who is a leader of the Populist, or Royalist Party, which has A pari mentary representation of 141. This incongruous rship is held together only by the a hesive force of American dollars and the ever-present possibi’s that the flow of cash will cease if the Greek government does

perform to. our liking. : :

Ultimate Dictatorship Seems Likely

PREMIER SOPHOULIS is 87 years old, tires after at his desk and cannot be expected long to duties. When he retires, it is anyholys But an ultimate dictatorship seems likely.

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BN — AND HENRY This move will give the FBI free | FOL ANAC OD | name ands han en out who i enning [5 3 more id LIKE A SQUIRREL the move a ness resulted TPUA § CAGE ON THE Meanwhile, the old-line Democrats who have any reported, ~ Be stayed at home on election day or voted Re- me: available Ng i -cAPITOL publican will go-to; the polls and the final tally J: ‘frior to that t | 48 J I= DOME, will show a i sther than a loss. limited. a Fame Henry Will Get My Vote In addition nn ¥ BREH ried the fight § IRE Hl Wallace is the guy airlines for | — : ——— and certificati dent’s Air Polic the Congress

Committee. “the fight “has “Prior to Worl freight busine: seriously by mn airlines. One reason lack of trans clently large ar ry freight at profit.

Two Off Voice Ci

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will become member of ti Jordan Youth Mrs. Campbell, 9 a. m. Saturd: Classes will students so th: may receive tp Information co may be obtain conservatory.

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