Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1948 — Page 13

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Jike to know how many to eat” 1 pleted. Along with the carrots, I wanted fo know the color of Eleanor Parkerks eyes. So I'm a curious guy, so what? who would know about such things? The usher I asked said “he didn’t know. Besides, he hadn't seen the picture, “Is ‘it in technicolor?” ‘he asked. Lucky for him I didn’t have a carrot or else he would have had technicolor in his eyes. He was just the right size for me if he wanted to get rough about it. sf

Long Distance; Please

WHY NOT call Reagan? It's a free country, 1 argued with myself after the flashlight toter— gad, the kid could have beaned me with his torch—backed down. What about the telephone company? The preamble to its constitution has

"RONALD?" —All the way out to Hollywoad . via phone to find out about carrots and Eleancr Parker's eyes from Ronald Reagan. ''Mr, Schms” rang the gong.

BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 18—I have to come.back to Birmingham Sept. 24, 1964, to go to a party. It is, according to the host, the biggest party he ever threw, since it will be in honor of his 100th birthday. . It may be said of Mr. Erskine Ramsay, aged 84, that since he has found no way to take it with him, he is bent and determined not to go. And in the meantime, the old gentleman, a Scot to the core, is reversing a traditional Scots trait by trying to give a lot of it away while he’s here.

Hebridean axiom that many a mickle makes a muckle, and he has a vast muckle to show for his trouble. One of the richest men in the southern industrial country, Sir Erskine figures he has given away an average of $50,000 a year for the

sslast 50 years, which comes to about two and a ‘half million clams. As he has grown older, he has

stepped up his giving to an average $150.000 a vear. His family comes from Andrew Carnegie’'s home town in Scotland, and Mr. Ramsay says he guesses he has been unconsciously trying to compete with Old Andy. — — I get a big kick out of the old boy. He is on the sucker list of about every organization short of the Ku-Klux Klan, but he never gets suckered. He dispenses his donations with as mich Scots craft and cunning as if he stood to make, rather than give away, the amount in question.

He Gets Free Envelopes, Too

I FOUND him ‘cackling evilly in his office the other day. He was chortling because, as a director in one of the town's big banks, he was able to make the bank give him free envelopes. He once revised his whole office setup for recording engagements and board meetings, since he resented -the yaste involved -in tearing up used memorandum pads. He now has a calendar of his own devising. on which he spots his engagements with little circular flags, like an admiral chasing his fleet around on a war map. His tables have no legs but are solid lockers to the floor. Mr. Ramsay regards legs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—You know about the little men with the green faces who manufacture money. They polish the printing plates with their: hands between each impression, and every morning their noses somehow begin to itch. They try to ignore this. They use will-power. They crinkle their smellers, like rabbits. They do everything short of scratching to relieve the itch. It gets worse as the morning goes by and pretty soon—it always happens around 9:30 a. m.-—they give In and rub the itchy place. This give ‘em green noses. Now the damage is done. They sigh, as they have for the last 150 years at the Bureau of EnRraving, and the psychological barriers are down. They ignore the -ink- on their paws and it isn't ong before their countenances are as green as $20 His, Eg I mention this phenomenon to indicate it is ink and hot shame over the lies they are printing onthe twenties that makes ‘em green in the face. They don’t even seem to care about the inaccurate picture of the White House on the back of each double sawbuck. : No balcony.

No Balcony on the $20 Bills

THE BALCONY's on the White House, all right, but it isn’t on the $20 bills. .The bronze rail is up, the subflooring is in, and- President Truman will be sitting on his $15,000 back porch by spring. , “Very strange it does not show on the money where it belongs,” reported Rep. Walter Norblad of Astoria, Ore., the sharpest-eyed ‘Congressman. “Those fellows down at the bureau are so meticulous about every little thing,: you'd’ think they would have caught this.” ding Rep. Norblad is the man whose reading of the. fine print a while back turned up the U. 8. Spruce Corp., still in business though it was organized by the government in 1918 to produce the wood

he Quiz Master

How much of a load can a camel.-carry? A camel is capable of carrying a lead of 500 Pounds a distance of 70 miles a day. . : ¢ & - Why is Princess Elizabéth of England known 8 heir presumptive instead of heir apparent? By English. tradition, it is never assunied that the King and Queen will not have a son.” Therefore, Princess Elizabeth is officially desigfated “heiress presumptive.” * : : pl BE Who was known as ti Snow Baby? . Adm. Peary’s daughter, Marie, who was bora '% the Arctic Circle, received this nickname. : i

carrots ‘kitchen scene in the picture was calling. Using a tone of voice that sounded as if

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1e_Indianapolis Times )ostman Wins Prizes In Wee BE ith Amateur Picture Entries

The Indianapolis Times, all Scripps-Howard newspapers and Mayor Al Feeney were behind me in the venture, I convinced him he better drag “ Ronald Reagan to the phone, or else. | By noon (Indianapolis Time) when Burbank | called back and said Mr, Reagan is being located, | the unhappy thought struck me that Californians were having breakfast. A carrot would have tasted good. By 2 o'clock I would have settled _ for the tops. Patience always wins. "At quarter.of four the, operator said she was ready with the call. The| $6.80 that poured in the box made the bells sound . off with a new arrangement of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” with an overtone of “E Pluribus Unum”; § thrown in. : “Ronald?” i “Yes.” To make a long story short, Ronnie didn't know me. What was on my mind? I began to say $6.80. ; “What are you doing now?” I asked. “I'm doing a picture called, ‘John Loves Mary,’ ” -"he answered. Didnt mean a thing to me. 1

We got into the weather.

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to hear it was warm and sunny in Burbank: : * “Say, I was curious about how many carrots| you ate for the kitchen scene in ‘Voice of the! Turtle.” { Mr. Reagan couldn't remember. All he knew! was that he felt like a rabbit when the scene was completed. di “The color of Eleanor Parker's eyes?’ Mr. Reagan used three bars of “E Pluribus Unum” “You know, it's a funny thing. I don’t reThey were awful pretty, I know that.” ' Big joke. Give me back six silver dollars. Mr. Reagan sounded like a heckuva nice guy. A good Joe. ! ‘ “Did you like ‘Voice of the Turtle?” } said sure but that wasn’t why I called. Carrots and Eleanor Parker's eyes were my subject for the day. “Can you call me back? Maybe I can find out for you” he cut in. I began to cut in when the operator cut in. 4 “a “Call me, someiime,” I chirped on telephone ‘company time. Always makes me feel good to get a little something for nothing. ‘

By Robert C. Wark

_ Mr. Ramsay does not believe in treating money with anything but respect. His father once started a bank account for him when he was a boy, depositing $10 to young Erskine’s credit. He has the same account today, and after 60-odd years of withdrawals, it amounts to $15,687.45. Just recently, in a burst of personal generosity, he opened accounts for his 19 nieces and nephews. He figures that times have changed, and in deference to the devalued dollar, he opened their accounts with $100 each—plus the firm admonition to always put in a little more than ‘you take out. Then he went out and flung another $50,000 or so at one of his charities.

Quite a Ladies’ Man at 72 MR. RAMSAY loves things to be round. All his maps, blueprints, calendars, stationery have rounded corners. He believes newspapers will sell better if they had rounded corners. His paper weights are circles of steel. He is currently working on the plans for a new mine, in which, by a series of circular operations. he hopes to knock $3 off the cost of a toh of coal. : : ! As a gay blade of 70 or so, Mr. Ramsay still enjoyed a great reputation as a lady's man. He never got married because he said there were “80 many of them he wanted to marry and it was illegal, not to mention frivolous, to marry them all. Mr. Ramsey was never a frivolous. man, but he

BEST-OF-THE-WEEK — "Washday" furned up to be the first prize picture of the week in The Times Amateur Photo Contest. It is one of two best-of-the-week entries by John G. Hale, a city letter carrier, who is a former first prize winner. He used a Mirrorflex camera and-Super-Pan Press film. Exposure was 1/50 second at f: 16 with a yellow. filter. a 8 :

RUNNER-UP—Another former first prize winner received an honorable mention with “'Squabs' Nest Raider.” The shutter-snapper is C. Molinelli, of Martinsville. He used a roll film camera with Plus X film. Exposure was | /50"second at f: 8, ) ;

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recorded on his special calendar, Then he winks slowly. - { For many years he gave a party on his birth-, day, in his home atop the mountain, and the entire, city of Bi am was invited. The host showed | up in kilts, and there was considerable ringing of! the welkin and a-skirling of the pipes. He has discontinued this party in recent years, in order to give more emphasis to his gentennial festival. This is the one to which I, as well as all my friends, have been invited. “Be sure to come doon, laddie,” says Mr. Ram-

By Frederick C.: Othman

that went into ‘airplanes in the first’ World War.| ~~ iy = ; n i Epes That discovery got action. The corporation at TWINS Here is the second John G. Hale entry

last reports was in process of being liquidated 20 which won a judges’ decision for the week...this one

years late: | le mention.” H d this one at | /50 second The gentleman from Astoria was understand- honorab o me io Ponepbe i and f: 22 using Super Pan Press film.

ably reluctant to take formal action about the : ‘Washday,’ Latest Entry by John G. Hale, Gets | ¥

balcony-less twenties. If he introduced a reso-| lution about ’em, no telling what the Treasury No. 1 Rating; ‘Squabs,’ by C. Molinelli, Second | _ By ART WRIGHT

would do. Might even call in all the $20 bills and FORMER WINNERS in The Times’ Amateur

print balconies on ‘em. Is Money Good Without Balcony? “AND anyway 1 didn’t want to waste paperi pag a “field day’ in the judging last week. printing up such a resolution,” Rep. Norblad said. Four of the five entries selected by the judges were submitted -“There’s been too much material wasted already." | py former winners and one was by a newcomer. ST A On the balcony, he meant. So he addressed; “Which substantiated the rule that winners—have a chance to #58 § .a letter to the Treasury asking the money experts) aie honors any number of times if they were dead certain their inaccurate money| (né of these former winners—was legal. He didn’t want to be pulling any bogus | john G. Hale, 634 N. Riley Ave, submitted by “$20 on his grocer, he being a Congressman with a, city letter carrier —won the dis-| Ong week. | reputation to uphold. Nor did he want to burnitinction of being the. first entrant, AH pictures become the propwhat few. twenties he had, if he could be assured|yst to win two awards in one erty of The Indianapolis Times they were good. : eek. He won first_prize and an and the decision of the judges is The general counsel -of the Treasury finally honorable mention, ‘final got this question through channels. “You're kid- ! ding,” said he. Maybe Mr. Norblad was, but the Treasury wasn't. The Legal Department came up with a profound opinion on bills without balconjes. I won't quote the language, because it sounded like a document intended for the Supreme Court. ’ It said that no matter what the White House : ” looks like mow, it looks like it used to look to Mr. Hile will receive a §5 check the Treasury Department. And furthermore, for. first prize. A simtiar award, Mr. and Mrs. John Keitholz will | added the lawyers, Secretary of Treasury John|is given to the first-place winner . lebrate thelr: 55th. wedal = ach week. . celebrate their 55th wi ng an: Snyder has a right to put any kind of pictures|of ea yg | SF oad HAIR ma on money he pleases. As of now a White House| The contest, Which started last NIVersary an’ “open

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NEWCOMER—The only newcomer among the -week's honored photographers was Francischuster, R. R. 6, Box 638-Z. His snow scene won honorable mention. He used a 2!/4x3!/4 Speed Graphic camera. The shutter speed was 1/50 second and diaphragm opening was f: 16. ‘lllumination was provided by the daylight. .

Offered by Navy

Student Ald position “applica. tions are being accepted by the Executive Secretary of the Board of Civil Service Examiners for Scientific and Technical Person. nel of the Potomac River Naval Command, it was announced today. Application for Patent Kxaminer posts also are being accepted by the Civil Service Commission, the announcement said. #1 | Details of the announcements § and application forms may he ob: | tained from C, P. Bernhart, Civil Service secretary in the Fedéral | Bullding here; from “most first | | and second-class post offices, or { from regional and Washington ] offices of the Civil Service Coms

Photo Contest

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men- : tions went to C. Molinelli, of Couple fo Mark Martinsville and John M. Vawter, * 1434 N. Delaware’ St. both for. 35th Nuptial Year mer winners,

d to Francis J. . ; Bchuster, a . ne With ‘Open House’

without a balcony pleases him.” On the currency | August, will continue as long as Sunday from 2to5 p.m in their | mission. . .. | that is. {suitable entries are received. home, 2215 8. Arlington Ave, D . i That noise you hear? Rep. Norblad chuckling, | There. are no charges or entry| yr,rried here in 1893, they went | Degrees to Be Given is all : . [teas for taking part. The only to Fortville to start housekeep-| | Degrees will be coriieirea by

restriction is that the entrant] . / | must be an amateur whose -ehief| ing. . They returned to Inglage

{Pocahontas Council 350 at T30 ih. m. Friday in Red Men's Hall, {The Marion County. Association will be entertained by Alfarata | Council 5, D, of P. :

Schedule Card Party

A card, party will be held at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Food | Craft, K. of P. building, by the Marion County Rabbit Breeders | Association; Ine, . wil

OES Group to Meet - |. A noon luncheon will be given Fs th, a State, Ave. hall. A business meetling ist tor Spm, Fi y wl : “ ¥ « I 4 : A i *¥ %

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: THE DEADLINE for eachiyrgs Nettie Trefz, Indianapolis;| Who was the little girl who wrote to the New| weekly contest is Friday mid- pred Keilholz, Philadelphia, ta. York Sun newspaper to ask if there really was night, by which time picturesiage Marguerite Noite, Louisville, | a Santa Claus? {must be im The Times office origy : George O.'Kellholz, LafaIn 1807, Virginia O'Hanlon, then 8 years old, postmarked. The winners areivette, and John Keilholz,” Spowrote to the New York Sun: “Please tell me the published each Wednesday. 3 | truth, is there a Santa Claus? The reply of the, editor has become a Christmas classic. _ > oh : name, address, telephone number, . | Who owns the ancestral home of George Wash- type camera and film used, shut- Radio Group to Meet 4 ington's family in England? ter speed, diaphragm opening. The monthly meeting of the . Sulgrave Manor, mear Oxford, the ancestral type lighting. Radio and Electronics Associa-|

kane, Wash.; eight grandchildren | On the back of each “photo and two great-grandchildren, {should be written the entrant's ‘ - 4 .

'WHEN DO- WE EAT? Honorable mention also went to. John M. Vawter, 1434 N. Delaware St., a former: she, Soars} A rin the Apex Grille at 8 p, m. today. Winner. He used a Kodak Viligant camera with Super

of the Colonial Dames shd is : : ARNE : | Aly number of entries may be William Hensler will speak. | XX film. Exposure was |/50 second at fi 16,

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