Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1948 — Page 11

Comma Has Done for Journalism.”

Another Five Minutes to Wind Up

FIVE MINUTES before the gaunt hour of seven, Mrs. John Kleinhenz, president, announcedthat we could take our places. Another five minpassed as small groups of chatting women

“adopted daughter” in France. As a folder among the members what the package included, Mrs. Kleinhenz asked me if I knew how far eight ounces of baking powder would go? Never use the stuff. While I stabbed the chicken “croquettes, the spiel about commas began to get jumbled in my mind. Every time someone looked towards the “speaker's” table, the speaker rued the day he consented to clank his ‘jaws. Chewing the croquettes began to be difficult. What was going to happen when the exact second for the payoff came? ¥

They Don’t Realize What Goes On MY HEAD sagged on the table. Mrs, DeForest O'Dell and her daughter, Mollie, a Theta Sigma Phi pledge at Butler, exchanged a few remarks about whether or not the speaker was going to sleep, Those people who have never given a talk don’t realize what goes on ‘in a guy's stomach. Those who have appreciate the phenomenon. Mrs. Kleinhenz nudged me and said I was to take home two slices of the chocolate cake she

Bottled Bread?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—You want to know ‘how to torture a whisky distiller? Listen: “I read an article last night entitled ‘Bread or Booze,” began Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia. “It said the whisky business consumed 67 million bushels of grain Ildst year, or the equivalent of 4,500,000,000 loaves of bread. Are those figures correct?” : " A whole roomful of whisky makers squirmed. But the Senator was asking his question of Prof. Arthur E. Burns, representing the Publicker Industries, Inc., of Philadelphia, a firm that claims it isn't getting its fair share of grain. The professor didn’t’ know about the bread. He said If the figures came from the Agriculture Department, they ought to be right. “How many slices are there in a loaf of bread?” Sen. ‘Robertson continued. n “It all depends on who slices it,” interrupted Sen. Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont. Sen. Robertson said he was serious. How many slices? Prof, Burns, who teaches at George Washing» and-works for the'distillers on the 25. .

_are an economist, and a statistician. How many slices did the distillery business use?”

1,100,000,000,000,000 Slices

THE POOR professor got out his gold-plated pentil. He put down a row of zeros and plaintively he asked, please, could he use 20 slices to a loaf? That would be easier to figure. The Senator grudgingly allowed him to deduce five slices. The professor went back to his figures. “How many slices of bread that weren't sliced because of the whisky distillers?” Sen. Robertson asked again. ; “Approximately eleven hundred billion slices of bread,” the professor said... . a

CHAPEL HILL, N, -C., -Feb,-9—Seventeen ‘years ago a fat freshman by the name of Ruark

He: was confident then. uncertain now, ¢ This is the first good look I've had at the school since théy. sprung me in 1935. I remembered it as a place of pastoral calm, with the silence broken only by the screams of. the coeds.

He is confused and

Everybody was so busted in those days everybody was reasonably happy. ‘The: only the campus belonged to professors with rich wives and to a few kids at the fraternity house. Dogs

middle of . them, dogs. enough villagers to keep us fed, clothed and supJue with nutritious corn squeezings, which relled at 50 cents the pint and-was guaranteed

» paralyze. There was about one female to every

stepping carefully around the

No-dogs sleep in the streets today. The Population of this rocky knob has swelled to “wu 15,000, re are over 7000 students here oe and thé campus crawls With coeds. All the ® students seem to have wives. And everylot Y has a car. I am afraid to cross a street. alone walk in it.

What's Become of Necking Nook

eatyAPERS FLAP around the arboretum, a replace Rooiin nook. The wail of infants has Prete ed the college yell. Students confronted by they Ssors for cutting a class, say blandly that that more UP all night with a colicky baby or ave 1.TA just produced twins. The professors no answer. if (verybody seems serious. The kids act as Practiy had come to school to learn something ra Aieal This was not the general feeling among tf rat We came to school to—I do not believe Now what we came to school for. But any

° The Qui Which is larger, Indianapolis or Denver, Colo.? 336.972

Indiang census. Denver papolis had in the 1040

* 0 oo ater at is vegetable fvory and for what is it 11 18 & product derived from the kernel of the 1o5UA palm nut. It is used in manufacturing but"S, umbrella handles, toilet articles, ete. he Aoi : 0. there any difference in the diameter of the ~ wm. 8t the equator and at the poles? of the 0/8 ® difference of 27 miles, the diameter the "arth at the equator is 7926 miles. Through

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Book Out Today Pleads for American

Understanding of Soviet Double Cross . By ROBERT BLOEM

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IS THAT SO?—Before the speaker of the

evening got his meal ticket, Theta Sigma Phi | _ members had to indulge in light conversations

such as (left to right] Mrs. DeForest O'Dell and | Mrs. Paul Griggs are having. : was cutting. : | ' “I baked it this afternoon,” she said, cutting neat slices for everyone present and avoiding a huge area that was earmarked for me. She should have waited. .until after my blah-blah. The time had come: I know what Doomsday will be like. Mrs. Morec, a former cohort of mine in putting out the “World's Greatest College Daily,” began the introduction. I should have studied plumbing at Purdue. Looking at 28 women who expect to hear you say something isn't conducive to go into the technical aspects of the comma. At that moment I didn’t have much use for the thing. 1 |

. {the war, agreed at Tehran in De- Red Army.” A happy, thought Str Rg hans Every. cember, 1943, to the dismember-

Questions. one asks a question and I

over procedure, Mrs. Stanley Myers asked what the public's reaction. was to my efforts.. I didn’t want to overdo it but for 15 minutes the ladies listened. Might as well blow your own horn; ‘ Mrs. Bertha Scott wanted to know how I get some of my ideas. For not knowing exactly how my brain works I did all right for the next 30 minutes. In one way or another, fact or fiction, all questions were disposed. As the applause from the lady out of hearing distance died down, I remembered that I hadn't addressed the officers and That I did promptly and with dispatch. Mrs, Kleinhenz said I was free to go. I could even take the cake. One significant thing, there was no talk of a return engagement. They must know all about the comma.

11 try to answer them. » A bit backwards but there was no time to quibble '®nd." Mr. Lane wrote.

{ “THE UNITED STATES and Great Britain cannot escape a {share in the tragic betrayal of Poland,” former Ambassador Arthur {Bliss Lane charged today in his book “I Saw Poland Betrayed.” The book is the result of Mr. Lane's conviction that the American people must be told of the deteriorating picture in Europe. It was released today by Bobbs-Merrill Company, a little more than 3 year after Mr. Lane gave up! Se career in the fore service to tell the story. em jer oy Rogaevili's Jourth inauguPrincipal responsibility for the ration, was the nown. fate of Pang Ries with the Nazi Agreement to the partitioning of and the Soviet governments, he Poland, Mr, Lane wrote, fell upon said. That fate is to be ho {six million Polish Americans with

iy under the thumb of a puppet Stupifying effect. government dominated by Mos- n_.8._8 cow and its armed forces operat-| THAT PART of the Yaita ing under the guise of security agreement pertaining to Poland police. |started off with this interesting “Both Prime Minister Churchill comment: * and President Roosevelt, undoubt- “A new situation has been edly to maintain close relations created in Poland as a result of with Stalin in a critical period of her complete liberation by the

were announced a few weeks aft-

| On this Mr. Lane makes the stinging charge that Russia deliberately delayed the liberation . 88 lof Warsaw until the Germans “AN OFFICIAL of the State could complete the messy job of Department who was at Tehran liquidating the insurrectionist told me some months after that army. of Gen. Bor-Komorowsky he ghad tried to prevail on the and with it 250,000 Polish paPresident to take a firmer policy triots. The purpose, Mr. Lane with Stalin on Poland. Accord-charges, was to wipe out the last ing to my informant, Mr. Roose-|vestiges of organized nationalvelt had replied, ‘You may <now|ism. . 1 a lot about international affairs, To support that charge, he

but you do not understand Amer-! go. te the background of the Bor ican politics.’ ” * insurrection in Warsaw. Despite agreement at Tehran, When the Polish patriots -took to lop off 70,000 square miles of up arms to liberate Warsaw, it Polish territory, Mr. Lane said, was done at the insistence of the President Roosevelt assured rcp- Moscow radio. The authority iresentatives of the Polish-Amer-/for the plea for Poles to take up ican Congress that Poland would arms was Molotov. be “treated justly.” On the ,

iment of the eastern part of Po-

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The Corn Is Gone

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as the boys chased them through the arboretum. slept in _the-streets-and- people--walked down the...

There were about 2000 students, and just

men, which made for lively competition.’ -

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strength of these assurances he was indorsed: by Charles Rozmarek, president of the congress, for return to the White House. Not until the results of Yaita

By Frederick C. Othman

“When I was a boy in the mountains of Virginia,” said Sen. Robertson, changing the subject, “there were only two kinds of liquor: Blended whisky and moonshine.” “Does that still hold true?” asked the solemn Senator from Kentucky, John Sherman Cooper. “I am sure they are just as law-abiding in the mountains of Virginia as they are ifn the mountains of Kentucky,” Sen. Robertson replied. “But what I'm driving at is that some people—unless 3 they are raised in the mountains of Kentucky— } don't know what fusel oil is. A majority of this so-called blended whisky is composed of unaged neutral spirits. With fusel oil in it.”

I's All Poison, Says Senator

THREE DOZEN whisky makers, all worried about their corn supplies; shudderéd. One of them the youthful-looking A. P. Fenderson of Publicker, exploded. He said he doubted if the Senator got as much fusel oil in his whisky today as he “used to in the mountains of’ eee “I think it is all poison” the Senator said.’ ’ Toy some-is-more poisonous than others. I don't JESSE : ia think this distillation takes the fusel oil out.” 13 Mr. Fenderson said it does so. He said there! EYE-WITNESS—Former was less fusel ofl in blended whisky than in| U. S. Ambassador to straight: whisky and that he could prove it, | “Bhi “Well, I think blended whisky is more poison- Poland, Arthur. Bliss Late ous,” snapped Sen. Robertson. gave up a career oO 30

So along came Armand Hammer, of New York, Years in foreign service to who owns America’s biggest independent distil-| tell the American people lery. He said the grain shortage would be solved in part if he could make potato whisky, without | the real story of Poland mentioning potatoes on the label. It was good In his book, | Saw Poland Betrayed."

whisky, he said, but the public was suspicious. Sen. Robertson said so was he. He went on

. Warsaw,

lack of suplies while the Russian

ALTHOUGH the Soviet government later chose to describe the {Bor uprising as a terrorist. “adventure,” Mr. Lane pointed out that only the Soviet government could have authorized the inciting of the rebels over the Moscow radio. Only the Soviet government, as a matter of well known fact, could authorize any broadcast over the Red radio. And so, with the Russian | armies almost at the banks of the! Vistula across the river from| the Bor insurrection fought on without Rusisan assistance until it was crushed in only seven weeks, Oct. 4, 1044, Even Russian planes, which until the insurrection got under way, had bombed German installa=

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SYMBOL OF BETRAYAL — Poland, former Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wro in his new book, "I Saw Poland Betrayed," has had more than its share of suffering. "We saw lines of people forming before the faucets on .the main boulevard filling their pails with water ...a grim and weary procession. But the most terrible sight of all was that of the one-legged children.” :

Lublin Reds, Secretary of State tions finally came off they were] Appeasement, - Mr, Lane conStettinius immediately countered but a mockery, failing to recog-| cluded, has been tried, disastrouswith a public statement that this nize the popular Peasant Party ,, tor Poland and other central government continued to retain which Mr. Lane says was clear) sountri Sven. Baw formal diplomatic relations with/ly” the majority party in Poland. | European eq. ' the exile government in London.) Mr. Lane's’ disgust with She (he warned Italy and France are > But Russia, almost on the eve Yalta agreement is undisguised marked nations, marked by the of the Yalta conference, ignored in the book. Communists. a plea by President Roosevelt for| Through it -all, Mr. Lané said, If a policy of appeasement i» delay and officially recognized the he was urging a firmer policy ona fatal course for-an -individual oa tions in Warsaw regularl Lublin regime. Poland thus had|the part of the State Department. | nation, Mr. Lane sald, “then it ‘H i gularly,! a Communist government in fact| Yet, he said, aid to Soviet satei-| would inevitably entail even more : stopped coming over. even as the Big Three met to plan|lites was not -discontifiued until|disastrous consequences were it Gen. Bor captured virtually its government under the terms of | May, 1946. adopted as a pollcy of the United all of Warsaw, only to lose it for|the Atlantic Charter. His repeated warnings not to Nations." And Jan. 17, 1045, Mr. Lane grant $00 million in credits to, Unity and a firm stand by the hordes sat: across “the: river on|wrote from: the record, Marshal Soviet-dominated . Polish govern-| democracies, he sald, is the only what Gen. Eisenhower himself Stalin announced his troops had ment were ignored. answer. later exclaimed was “a perfect|finally stepped across the river, A “continued naive hellef in| “Even though the Soviet Union bridgehead.” where they had been placidly Soviet good intentions” {and -its-satellites, angered by the A On_Dec. 31, 1944, the only na- awaiting the order, and had taken|in the State Department up to/refusal of the United Nations to | tionalist Polish authority still un- over devastated .Warsaw. May, 1948, virtually encouraging compromise ine crushed—was-the- government in| That was the Russian -‘libera- Rusia to continue her deprada-|would mean sacrifice.of its carexile in London. On that date the! tion” of which the Yalta agree-|tions while flouting international dinal principle, should take the ~~

from there and when those whisky boys finally escaped, what they needed was a drink.

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By Rob

Jearning that rubbed off on us was largely acci-| dental. . ) There was a great preoccupation with drinking, in my day. We made gin in the dormitories, and home-brew in the fraternity house shower rooms. A magnificent gentleman whose name I won't mention used to supply a vicious beverage called Orange County corn. He was a trusting man, and he would sell on credit. The IOU's we!

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stay home.”

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#erawled on his kitchen wall: One -day-his-kitchen- since the -spinsters’ merchant fa- roug’ or] : $i burned down, and then occurred the. greatest {her ay decade ago leaving|®OraB®: 16-hounds-iri-bis-arms.-—— | Through-the lower end -a hole dn Sthke ale a bored, sud pars moratorium since we forgave Great Britain for an estimated $100,000 fortune. When -authotities suggested the! Mr. Benny said the bottom of pored, and below it is a pocket banal. Water can “be ared 1] ‘World War 1. But our man 10 greatly! > watahbors Sala the two Women SOUDLY. would assist her if she the shaft was filled with water or recess In which the seed can|.Shanne. A . our La! that he abandoned the trade, although the coun ee ‘needed money, the surviving &nd“that the other hounds prob oi... i gown the hole or along the than- 4

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Four Straight Years of Parties

temporarily interrupted by sufficient classwork, The doors weré nailed shut. to avoid being shipped home to the farm. Cared for.Sister. ’ Much of this frivolity has disappeared. The’

jackets, GI suntans and sailors dungarees. YMCA at coke time, looks like an Army. The |ire to caring for her. crap game, nearly non-existent in my time, is an

is serious crap, and seems to be about the only vice I can locate. "There are housing units on the tennis. courts, and trailer villages in the woods. The campus has erupted in a rash of new construction. Some students live so.far out of town they commute to class. In certain instances a prospective tar heel must certify that he has lodgings before he - is allowed to register. There Is a big Henry Wallace boom on among the students, ° None of my old professor friends look any older. That, I suppose, is the small. tragedy of coming back to schoel. Professors never get older—it is only the students who age.

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or — Shabby, old-rashioned dresses. : Police

birth, death, or either parent?

Of Melchizedek, King of Salem, the Bible of goods. states, he was “without father, without mother,

Neighbors

400-Pound Recluse Found Dead in Boarded-Up House

‘Mother Told Us to Stay Home,’ Surviving Sister Explains; Inherited $100,000. ,

she and her sister had lived as hermits for 10 years in a junk-| crammed, boarded-up house because, “mother always told us 10 ,¢ the shaft.

Her 400-pound sister, Elsie, died of a heart attack yesterday on a rag-covered cot in the kitchen. gate had the first look: inside the)

tY hadn't left the frame house in Is_stil) dry. He lives in a big house today and is, /q)) that time. They hired chil-| TTT dren to buy their “groceries: A neighborhood boy carried water in buckets from a nearby garage THERE WAS also a great fondness for the and passed it through the one dance. I recall four years of straight party, window that was not boarded up.

The 43-year-old sister who died] student body is predominantly ex-GI, still-faced |, 4 To. fat after being in-| young men who wear officers’ pinks with combat valided by a spinal infection. Her The |gyrviving sister had. devoted her

e house were institution now, a hold-over from the service. .It cu he when the! sisters refused to. permit repair-| Their only con-| venience was a kerosene cook

. Dr. Stanley M. Kahn was summoned to the house yesterday Ly a small boy who said the sisters | wanted him. He was taken into the house through the kitchen| window and found Elsie dead of

He sald Edith refused to bedead |and pleaded with him not to in-

However, he called police who| |pried open the back door of the

six {men to remove the dead woman.

Both women were dressed in

' said the house was Of what king is it said there is no record of his crammed with crates and boxes filled with all imaginable types! sald that! [when their father died, the sisters

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Lublin Committee for National ment spoke. law. . unfortunaté step of withdrawing, Liberation (Communist con «=» ow. : CH the moral structure of the United trolled) announced itself as the] HOW RUSSIA then stalled the, WHEN MR. LANE urged that Nations would not be diminished. Provisional government of Po- “democratic” elections in Poland |the public be told the facts in the| “Such a step would be but a land. {until its puppet government could [deterioration of Soviet-American public recognition of a condition : WI. . * [liquidate all resistance with its relations he was told “American which actually exists: the cleavTO LEAVE no doubt as to the secret police is history. So too people are not yet sufficlently|age of the globe into two worlds United States’ attitude toward the is the fact that when the elec-iprepared for the news.” —one slave, one free. g : » ® Fox Leads 15 Dogs New Device Designed To Death in Mine To Make Gardening Easy ~~ | "LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPJ—A fox| 0 ' ; 4 y = [pursued by 16 hounds led 15 of] p : Fn : ! {them to their death in an aban-| All Necessary Work Consists of (Rone sine shat year Beigion. Pushing Stake in Ground, Inventor Says (UP)—Edith Wolff, 51; said today retary Mrs. R. Sturgess. “WASHINGTON, Feb, 9— Planting garden in the spring will The fox cleverly circled the top hecome much easier, if a device on which a U. B. patent has just : A The entire pack; hot peen issued to William L. Gould of Albany, N. Y,, comes into gen: on the trail, plunged into the ory) yge * All you will need to do is stick stakes into the freshly Authorities who came to investi- Shatt. spaded soil. * ; i % » = i uat ow gronny us Mr. Gould's invention is a specially had all the stock from his general lowered down shaft p Jt can be made of wood, plastic or; ~~ ; [store brought to the house for up semi-conscious with ome of the any suitable low-cost material. | De Placed. Down the middle of the

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with deposits of $12,000.

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Suspect Hunted

| “I've got plenty of money,” she| ‘OSCAR BROADCAST DUE --|ground. at. an. angle... ws } [snapped. “I don’t need charity.”| “HOLLYWOOD, Feb. § (UP) : —- 4. The seed below, encouraged by pA Police tried to convince her she The Motion Picture Academy's ’ y - the water, germinates and sends “FI should leave the house, at least|20th annual “Oscar” ceremonies 1 Street Shootin | its root down through one side Li long enough to have it cleaned. will be broadcast over a nation-| of the transverse opening, its iN “I'll just stay here,” she said.| wide network March 20, the, * | stem upward through the other, : “Mother always told us to stay| American Broadcasting Co. an- A 21-year-old Zionsville man’ oo "0 oie the channel on Tr home,” eee oun ced eee who-was shot Saturday night BY. thy fiat side of ‘the stake catches + 4 Carnival : B ; Di k T {a0 vnldéiisaes ann as the| water and carries it to where it 4 — Ted & {victim - ‘an s brother left a will do the most good. ” y . urner downtown theater, was in serious, . It .ig even possible to provide i : “a i condition today in Billings Hos- 55 individual sunshade for tender i ’ | pital. | young plants, by inserting a plug fr p—— | Physicians, however, said the into the top of the lengthwise PR {victim, Vurlis Miller, has shown hole, and attaching to this a wire . ISON F {some improvement. He was shot or other support to carry the VISITING NOUR {in his right lung. | weather-proof, parasol-like shel- f | Meanwhile, police were without ter. 4 a trace of the well-dressed BUN. oi vd wielding stranger who fired a — on ! close-range shot at Mr. Miller and | WORD- A-D AY ) h

escaped in the crowds. Accosted by Stranger Mr, Miller and his brother, Earl, | |26, were leaving the Rodeo The-| |ater, 152 N. Illinois Bt., when al | man about 36 Jeary old, accosted | - cd them and demanded to know what ~ ff by | name Vurlis had called him, po-' (nep o-tiz m) NOUN {lice were told. l.. FAVORITISM SHOWN TO “I didn’t call you anything” NEPHEWS AND OTHER RELATIVES; Earl Miller quoted his brother as * BESTOWAL OF PATRONAGE BY saying. . REASON OF RELATIONSHIP | The argument progressed as \ g the Miller brothers walked north a RYE RELATES {on Illinois St. the other man SAYS TO PUT ‘EM | totlowing. | IN THE PICTURES, Pulled Gun, Police Told | (L At Ohio Bt, the argumentative’ ed a gun and called | Vurlis’ attention to it, police were, | told. :

By BACH

NEPOTISM

without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.” +e

‘might as well be in Timbuktu?” .

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Martha Bears Roebuck & Co.

“I see it and I'm not afraid § of it,” replied the vietim. A mo- { ment later, as a crowd watched, § the assailant fired ofie shot and SEA fled. 3 v ” | Bar! Miller chased his brother's attacker as far as Vermont and g 8

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