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PAGE 12 Monday, Feb. 9, 1948

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VWWHEN a great community loses a great citizen and | neighbor such as Josiah Kirby Lilly, we feel as if one of the most sturdy pillars in our collective life had been removed. We all mourn the loss deeply. We wonder | who will be able to do as much, to see as far and with as much understanding, as did Mr. Lilly. \ While the immediate sorrow dominates our feeling, we at the same time recognize that all men are given their spans to live, their time and thought to give, and their contributions to make. Some build universities and libraries, hospitals and churches; others may drop a dime into the hat of a cripple or help a blind man across the street. If it is done with the whole heart and to our full capacity, then we have lived well. It is only those who can give, but do not, who end their lives in the spiritual agonies of selfishness. : Mr. Lilly was a giver of high order. He gave to his fellow man wherever he found him—in the sick bed, in the laboratories of sciend®, in doctors’ offices and in hospitals and pharmacies. He also gave to those in classrooms, to his friends, his neighbors, to his family and his church. . .» . » . » WHEN wealth began to flow his way and he reaped the rewards of American business conducted at its best, he-felt a growing responsibility to his community. There wasn't any worthwhile effort in which Mr. Lilly did not invest his thought, energy and money, always with mod-

esty and humility. He gave because it was a privilege to

give and the full scope of his charities will never be known. . Like all great men of errand boy beginnings, he loved simplicity. . He gave his imagination and his business | genius free rein. He lived with his head high, his eyes on the far-beyond. | He at first worked in the laboratories, then directed them into the vast pharmaceutical industry which bears his family name, building on and on until its name became a symbol of hope for doctors and patients alike in every land. : 2 : ‘Like most industries in the finest tradition of American free enterprise, its success was built entirely upon service to humanity . . . upon making life better and happier, for more people. Thousands upon thousands of men and women, otherwise doomed to die prematurely, have lived out useful-and happy lives, because Mr. Lilly was selflessly interested in saving them. "n ® » -.. . THERE are other thousands who are grateful that Mr. Lilly lived here, that he did his work here, and that he con-

dies, we Know then that the flesh |

‘When a great man | is not much more than a garment in which his soul, character and mind live. We look about us not for towering memofials of stone and mortar but the invisible memorials | he has left behind.in the lives of humanity. = . Mr. Lilly's invisible memorials are strewn about the world, from deepest Africa to the sidewalks of the tenement | districts of our teeming cities. They will be found in the class rooms of universities and inthe cultivation of the | lowly apple seed in which he was interested. They will be

_- found in the faith of the medical profession, in the steady

aand of your druggist and, most of all, in the invincible hearts of the men who are pushing on after him. J nr . ” : : . » . : : SURELY he has joined the ranks of medicine's im- | mortals, like Lister and Pasteur. And there will be others |

_after him who will carry still farther into the dark and un- | explored recesses of human ignorance, his flaming torch

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of perseverence and kindly understanding. In the spirits | of those men who must take up where he left off, will be ‘something of the vision, the zeal and the determination— and the love of man-—which drove the heart and mind of

plored science to the high plateaus of better health and better living because he happened to be the man who cared

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Prosit” 2 | E see by a story from Richmond that the Rev. Ber- | nard C. Clausen, a prominent Baptist preacher of

___Cleveland, attending a meeting in the Virginia capital, has

accused Winston Churchill of “loading” “himself “with champagne and whisky and highballs and wine” at Ful- ~ ton, Mo., in'1946 just before he ‘spoke the words that almost set the world afire with hatred” when “the international scene was strewn with dynamite” and an “incautious word” could lead to war and catastrophe. It was hard to tell from the dispatch just what Dr. Clausen disliked most—Mr. Churchill's words or that terrible mixture of champagne, whisky, highballs and wine. As to Mr. Churchill's words, which were for closer British-American alliance, Dr. Clausen is certainly entitled to his opinion. .

But we suspect the reverend doctor has been misin-

formed about the “load” Mr. Churchill carried. A. seasoned bottleman like Mr. Churchill does not insult his innards with such a horrifying sequence. Besides, our spies tell us he prefers brandy. : : : But, if he-was in the mood for atomic experimentation that day, so be it. We hope the reverend can speak sober with as much eloquence as Mr. Churchill did at Fulton.

Banning a Nazi—Nazi Style THE Polish government has banned performances of the music of the Austrian composer, Richard Strauss, because he “embraced the same ideelogy as Hitler,” When one thinks of the horrible slaughter, terror and devastation that the Poles suffered at Nazi hands, their. bitterness is understandable. But Mr. Strauss is 84, penniless, and artistically dead. His enduring music is-30 and more years behind him. It

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stubbornest thing alive!” argued Curly Grant, “Didja ever try gettin’ a baby to take the last 2 ounces uv bottle?”

| strikes. 'Tain't nuthin’ new. Teachers hev bin | strikin’ fer years an’ many a feller kin testify as to where they struck.

tion shore hit us. :

| To eternally fault-find’

might seem that the Polish government's present action tends to resemble the ideology of Hitler, who banned

The Magic Carpet Headed

for the Cleaner?

NIGHT AND DAY

Moon Forever watchful, Hangs o'er us 2 To light path of destin In deep night. Bun ; Shining through cloud Penetrates And cheers a raindrop, fresh Upon the pane. ; ~AVOLYN YOUNG BLAKE. ® & oO .

A CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

“A mule,” sed Pud Galimore, "Air the “Oh, I don't know,”

‘milk In its

The folks hev bin talkin’ "bout teachers’

The store got tn some bubble gum an’ infla-

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MENTAL PICTURES

I have always longed to see Roses blooming on a tree; ‘ Though I know this cannot be, The longing often comes to me.

When thé sun grows very warm, I don’t think there's any harm In picturing a gale or storm, That nearly freezes off one's arm.

Mere examples then are these, When you're warm, you'd love to freeze, When you cough you'd rather sneeze, {nd roses often bloom on trees. ~~BESSIE CLARK : ¢ & It looks as If the auto will get the average person before the average person gets the auto, : ¢ © o

——— THEN--AND NOW. Pale hands he loved : To hold in days gone by, He likes to. see now. deep in suds Or making him a ple. : > ~MYRA AHLER.

: > © One of the most serious mistakes to mankind is being too serious. :

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Seems as tho' we're so inclined

And to choose our friends From mongs't a certain few; But just think it over some And you'll find that everyone Is surprisingly a lot like me and you.

All of them don't have the money For perhaps the milk and honey Has escaped their grasp And fate has nét decreed That they live in so-called style Even for a little while— : But we mustn't base our judgment upon need

For the Maker of the masses Never favored certain classes Of this thing we proudly call the human race; Love your neighbor-—smile upon ’im— For perhaps you'll stumble on 'im-— He may be the doorman at the other place. —ROBERT 0. REYNOLDS, Fr S. Belmont Ave. *

‘Last summer's bathing suits have kept a lot of us from being shocked by some of this | winter's dancing frocks.. ¢ © ¢ : INVENTORS Yet to be Invented “For many who need it, A pen to write a letter . So others can read it. : ~F. P. M.

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(“SAN FRANCISCO-- Alcatraz Inmate: Wind |

Trip Home for Resentencing.”) Acting as his own attorney, He goes back to Illinois; But as he begins the journey, There is sadness with the joy.

For one item he'd forgotfen’ He made just one little slip; .

apothecary

And the ticket which he's gottén, . Bears the sad, sad words “Round Trip."

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore

Greeks Have aWord | — wr ¢ For Us—lt's ‘Thanks’ =

fr BALONIKA;-Feb:0-=By contrast with many of the people of | France and Italy, the Greeks are well aware of the aid they are receiving from the United States and miss no opportunity to |

express their gratitude.

The visitor is told an every hand that Greece would have collapsed had it not been for the substantial relief from America. An-old-man sitting before-a battered stove in-a- village-hotel rose-

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OUR TOWN . .

+ By Anton Scherrer :

‘Etchings From Corner Drug Store’

TODAY I'm going to spend the energy I have left shouting the praises of “Etchings From a Corner Drug Store,” the precious little pamphlet which received nothing more than a mere mention in Friday's account of Squire Luke Walpole's insatiable appetite for tobacco juice. It deserves something. better than my cavalier treatment of it at the time. The book was written by Siegmar F. Muehl in 1920 when he was 73 years old and recalls the goings on in his (and home)—anknown as. the

institution

“North End Drug Store” located at the corner of. -

what was then Illinois and First Sts. It covers a period, the roots of which extend as far far back as the Civil War.

Mr. Muehl's memoirs are packed with illus-

trious names, anecdotes and the like, all of which confirm the historical boast that the North End Drug Store enjoyed the most distinguished trade of any shop in that quarter of Indianapolis—not only on the part of grown-ups, mind you, but of the best breed of boys as well. *1 have seen many sets of children grow up” reflects Mr. Muehl, “and some have become quite

‘distinguished, notably one who as a little boy

came in frequently to spend his pennies for candy or licorice root-—sweet-wood, it was called. He is now our distinguished ‘author and playwright, Booth Tarkington, and he still recalls what a time he had to decide in what particaular piece of candy he could invest his penny to best advantage.

‘One of the Boys Has Fainted’

OF ‘THE ANECDOTES. I believe I like best

| the one about the pills, not only because it por-

trays the-mass behavior of Indianapolis boys at the time but also because of Mr. Muehl's art to Jeave something to the reader's imagination. “The first crowd of young men who made of me a meeting place to start out for their evening's

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entertainment,” recalls Mr. Muehl, “was a fine bunch of exhuberant humanity and altogether a lovable and likeable crowd. One night the bell

rang and when I looked out of the widow above | to see what was wanted, one of the young men |

called out excitedly: . -“‘Doctor, come down quick, one of the boys “Two were supporting the third one who was

. hanging limp between them. The crowd had come

up on the last streetcar (we had no owl cars in those days) and while skylarking on the back platform, one of them had pushed his hand through a glass door and had cut it severely, was bleeding profusely and had fainted. :

Round of “ils on the House

“WE REVIVED him and bandaged his hand and then one of the boys (who had watched the |

bloody operation) said he felt sort of sick in the region of his stomach and thought a dose of pills would do him good, which he took on the spot.

“ ‘Well. that is a pretty selfish deal’ spoke up |

another. ‘I thought you were more liberal than that.’

“ ‘Boys,’ spoke up the first one, ‘have a dose |

of pills on me’! And, sure enough, the entire crowd

of five lined up and took a dose of cascara com- |

pound pills.”

Sounds for the world like a page out of “Penrod and Sam.” :

Which leaves me only to reveal why Mr,

Muehl's institution was ‘called the North End Drug. Store. For one thing, it was the drug store located farthest north of any in town at the time. It's as simple as that. That was back in the days when Indianapolis had less than 50,000 inhabitants and only one streetcar line. It terminated at the corner of Illinois and First Sts: (the present Tenth), the very spot Mr. Muehl had picked to ket up a drug store. Hence, the connotation that appeared to imply that the streetéar had reached the end of the civilized world. - -

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and opened his overcoat to show a Gimbels (New York) label. | l

Thén he took a scrap of note paper out of his wallet bearing the

Wisconsin address of its donor.

The hotel clerk pointed to his own coat and produced a similar piece of paper with a Scranton, Pa., address. Neither of these men could speak English but they ‘were anxious to: show their | gratitude for these good-will expressions from Americans. No one is starving in Greece but most people are living on short rations and no one appears to be living well here would have been intolerable without outside .adsistance.

Our Seed Grain Came Too Late

NORTHERN Greece had a crop failure last year because of floods and damage by rust, and the banks did not or could not extend additional credit on this year's crop. The American Mis- , slon furnished seed grain but most of it arrived too late to

be planted in this area, officials said.

In the mountain sections, farmers did no planting. this year Tobacco, wine and olive oil are ‘the principal products of eastern Macedonia and western Thrace, the areas for which Salonika is the trading center and seaport. But prewar customers for these products have been lost because So warehouses are glutted.

“because of bandit depredations.

of conditions elsewhere in Europe.

Inflation Prices Tell Their Story

MEANWHILE, high prices must be paid for foods purchased Rice is $1.30 per pound; macaroni, 70 cents a pound; Meat and fish are plentiful at the moment but prices have risqn 100 per cent in the last three weeks. These prices tell their own story when it is considered that the average worker here is fortunate to earn $1 a day. The shops are jammed with American canned goods, largely Army surplus, at prices comparable to those charged in the United States. the Greeks are not familiar with many of these commodities and contend they abe beyond the means of an average man with a

| elsewhere, | bread, 50 cents.

large ‘family.

American engineers are repairing roads and rebuilding harbor facilities destroyed by the wear and tear of seven years of war and German demolitions, and these activities help to relieve unemployment, The local government has little money: of its

own. .

writer. :

The députy to the Governor General of Northern Greece who .Servés as a contact man with visiting foreigners is the Hollywood version of a Balkan diplomat including the monocle, . But his only | transportation 18 a battered American jeep and hé must write his | official communications in longhand because he has no type- |

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"Your father's going back to work today—says he feels wonderful! Don't you dare tell him fhe medicine he took was what the doctor left here when you had the mumps!"

SO THEY SAY . . . In the News

We put in and the Russians take out.—Secretary of State Marshall, speaking about the plan for Germany. =

next national emergency, if the people understand the present world situation. Gen. Dwight ‘D. Eisenhower.

It seems the President wants us to liquidate-economic freedom in America in favor of saving it in Europe.—Sen. Joseph H. Ball

...n a . vo» ; I don't mind criticism. I always learn something about | myself,—Mrs, Harry 8. Truman, | ; “1 + {i - wi

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Dollars Won't Buy Peace

BUT MR. LANDON thinks there is also a ‘l tor. It has to do with national solvency. with dollars—even with billions—he warns, but we can go broke. | Like Mr, Chiirchill and others Mr. Landon fears the West— especially the United States—has adorted a too fatalistic atthe | tude that war is inevitable. ' He doesn’t believe Russia will at: tack us if we really do a job on the points he outlined. sn Mr. Landon strongly backs r " portant part of war prevention, but he warns that it alone ish’ _enodgh. He charges that for' the past 15 years “settling” one stupendous problem after another .sentiment and to passions rather than to the mind. | Mr. Landon insists there must be co-ordination between OUF preparedness program and our foreign policy

and all speak. A. Few Important Questions: By ran k Gallowsy, 4808 E. Washington 8, Some bie about things I have read 1.

Is it possible to be practically broke leave your throne by apetial train with only Lincoln and two cks, one station one Jeep, 42 bags of baggage and a secretary as one young king did recently? What is formula on how to be broke like this? Some Re tatives in W 7 Union people too, (I belong to a rationing and price control. Won't the take-home pay do this without some

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One party wants to give us a

$40 will Ib. fo rt ts at one packing per 1b. for. cuts at one -pas last week. This was wholesale price. Another wants to raise our tax exemption $500 more a year providing we work 44 hours per week straight time instead of time and ong half over 40 hours. five dependents doesn't pay federal taxes. No guarantee of 44 hour week. Wolt Joes of reve

Why are we supposed to keep cool to save fuel and amusement places stay open? Did we ship coal to England during miners strike there? Is there any connection with 5 fuel shortage and a possible miner's strike this April?

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Are we shipping vast quantities of oil ang gasoline overseas? What kind of market ig it going into over there and why? If forty million dollars has been spent since last May to keep the price of potatoes up why do we have Cop. munity d, Clothe-A-Child, Forget Me Not and Poppy Day drives? Some office holders say their salary is insufficient yet they invari. ably ask to be re-elected. They go out and tam. paign on the taxpayers time and their goes on and on. Would my employer let me do Is there any difference between & Commu. nist and a elected or appointed public official who uses the office for selfish interest, thereby weakening the structure of our government? = If hogs go up 2¢ today why should bacon go up 4c same day but 4c bacon did not come from 2¢ hogs. Why don’t farmer and labor organise co-operatives together to bring consumer prices down and producer prices up? This must not be tax. free. 3 Truth is stranger than fiction. What fools we mortals be, ® 2 * & 0

A Law With Teeth in It

By J. D. Ferrn : . . The warning by Dr. Raymond C. Fagan of the Indiana Board of Health of the numerous cases of rabies has not been taken into consideration by the public or the law enforcement officials. ¢ ! ; net It seems our lawmakers could do something about the situation before it takes the lives of human beings or the dreaded suf caused by treatments given for rabies.

the cap gun than the urgent need: for the control of dogs which come under the title of live

stock. -I love dogs but not the owners of dogs | that permit them to destroy property, livestock, I would like

lawns, flower beds, and gardens. to call attention to the fact that dogs do so | much damage it is. time someone steps in and | does something to halt the destruction they cause. . ay L - One township according to the official annual report of the Township Trustee as pub-

lished in the Lawrence Journal, dated Jan. 29,

| 1948, paid in claims for damages and death the , following: Poultry $748.30; rabbits $44.50; hogs $162; lambs $87.50; geese $8; cow $75; sheep $1798.30; a total of $2923.60. One man had $784.40 sheep claims, another for chickens of $470 and another for stock of | $300. Just consider the amount of food de stroyed. Animals killed and the loss of the | owners. Under the amount of dog tax collected | ($2878.85) there was a deficit of $44.75 arte | the claims were paid. ; This is taken from just one township in our | county, and it would be very interesting to -’kmow "the ‘entire claims and damages paid out, say nothing of the evaded dog tax.

If Mr. Citizen is bitten by a rabid dog, he °

foots his own bills. and. I would like to know

| why human beings are not placed above geese *

; and poultry, if a rabid dog inflicts his rabid | teeth in your flesh,

| against owners of all dogs whether they live | in the city or town or rural districts who allow their dogs to roam. -

[17TIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Top Statesmen Want Red Showdown Now

$4 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Sentiment favoring a high-level peace parley between the West and the East more and more is

top-ranking statesmen in both the United States

and Great Britain. -

On Jan. 23 Winston Churchill'urged the Western Democracies to make a last determined effort to come to an understanding ~4-with--the Soviet .Unfon,. ....... er — pea

— Last week Alf M. Landon, Republican candidate for the pres-

expressed himself in much the same sense before

an audience at Ottawa University in Kansas. : Neither was a voice crying in the wilderness. many followers and the number of those who feel the same way appears to be growing. The reasoning is that, as matters stand,

War seems inevitable. An attempt to prevent it

couldn't do any harm and it might do some good. If Russia declined the invitation to attend a peace conference it would hurt | her and nobody else.

A Three-Point Peace Policy

MR. LANDON’S alarm over the lack of any well-defined, coordinated American peace policy has been mounting for some time. At Offawa University he attacked the administration anew for the omission. He laid down a three-point program: “We must (1) proceed at once to make ourselves as nearly

possible. in this atomic age; (2) go right ahead

with a sound and coherent foreign-aid program, and (3) make it perfectly plain, at the same time, that we stand ready to come to an understanding with Russia.” » Mr. Landon admitted that agreement with Russia would not be easy. In fact, he said, it would be an “almost superhuman” job. But it should be tried. If Russia and her puppets refused to par: ticipate, the situation at least would be no worse than it is now. On the other hand the West would know

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* Delta Gamma .

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