Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1948 — Page 11
ONE elderly jellow is pummed a cigaret, “off and supportingehimself for 30 years corner.
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orp Sometimes You can Set 4" full week's I crouched in the of thing, I learned, was frowned upon at the Ex-
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At the cost of another cigaret, a young fellow told me he'd “like” to work about four hours,
maybe five. “Then I could get good and ‘drunk '& stag- |§
for a change.” The fellow's ambitions were gering. | Time passed. There were visible and audible | disgust about the way things were go- | men to spread out along the side-
after with my cigaret supply very low, I began to have my doubts about gainful employment coming my way. oo phere. No breadlines. around, something will turn up.” To. my surprise it did. A small pickup truck drove up and the driver called that he needed five men. a seat in ‘the cab. “Get in the back, you guys,” the driver or-
dered. So, in the back of the truck it was. What's |
the deal? No one knew. It wouldn't be less than a buck an hour, though. : We were hauled into the loading dock of ‘the William. Rubly’ plumbing and heating supply house, 121 8. East St. Our driver showed us a pile of gunny sacks that could be used for aprons. There was a flatcar of iron pipes to be unloaded. I refused to work. Point blank refused. “What is the matter? Don't you want to work?" Die : We went round and round for a few minutes
until Raymond Rubly appeared on the platform/ - and I explained my presence and attitude toward!
work. Mr. Rubly and the driver, Guy Barker, understood the iron pipes. * The next time I jump on the back of a truck
- I'm going to make sure what I'm getting into. A} carload of pipes somehow didn’t fit my mood that |
morning.
STYLES milline "WHATSA MATTER?" —Guy Barker (left) ay ” hauled "Mr. Inside” to a job from a ae corSte we OI ner Labor Exchange only fo find he had a losfer combined : onhishands. == =~ = k, brown : and felts
Only Funnin’
‘ By Robert C. Ruark
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 23—There is a curi‘ous fascination, in my trade, about sitting in on the raw beginnings of dramatic people, and I include young Gov. Jim Folsom of Alabama in that category. + Gov. Folsom, momentarily, outranks the weather and the perfidy of Harry Truman as a conversational topic in these parts. Last year, when that ridiculous multiplicity of governors was eecurring in a loyal Folsome condtituent remarked to a Georgia neighbor: “Why, sub, our governor is bigger than “both yo’ governors,” which is not a bad appraisal of -- Big Jim, who, stands six foot eight with his toes uncramped by shoes. J | He is warily regarded, at the “ : young giant, immensely thewed but still still amenable to a pat on carrying the potential for going ing things. Just how Big Jim will wind up scares the thinkers, because Gov. Folsom already has the equipment to turn sinister in the worst tradiion. : Gov. Folsom is a relatively uneducated with an odd set of political morals, as well free-wheeling collection of personal ones. He . for instance, nof wrong in packing the state payrolls with his relatives. ‘He has been either unwilling or unable to deliver the majority of his » campaign - promises seemingly i ing his popularity with peckerwoods and grass rooters who put him in. They purely love Big Jim.
Listens to Aubrey Williams i HE HAS surround.d himself largely with a a slew of nonentities, whom he neither trusts nor confides in—but some of his best advice is supposed to come from Aubrey Williams, the old pink-tinged director of FDR's National Youth Administration. At the same time that he is crying down the State Department, and the “backslid”- Democratic Party, Gov. Folsom i§ preaching some hoary Henry ‘Wallace doctrines. . He has already equipped himself with’ a private newspaper, the money for which comes from no easily jdentifiable:
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source. It is called “Folsom’s Forum,” and is a
sort of Volkischer Beobachter of the Piny Woods. | |
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! i “Any breadlines in town?” I asked for atmos1 was told to “stick!
My big chance. I was too slow to get!
and relieved me of my contract and |’
OPEN DRIVE TODAY—Some 250 volunteer workers will recruit 1600 members for the YMCA which sponsors 128 clubs, 133 classes and 308 athletic teams. Here, George R. Medlicott, membership secretary (left), interviews Ed Bayliff, 1217 W. 31st St, while Ed Brouhard, clerk, checks membership cards.
here, two of which have
All of Gov. Folsom’'s Huey Long-esque prom-| sf
ises—blacktop roads wherever there's a mail box,
$50 pensions for the aged, more pay for teachers,
repeal of the poll tax—have fallen flat, with the exception of the teacher pay increase.
Three Years to ‘Smarten Up’ “BGT THE man who hopes to split the party away from Mr. Truman, and who has incidentally offered himself as a blushing candidate for the
President's job, has two things going for him. He hand—and he
has his people in the palm of his
has three more years as Governor to smarten up|® and solidify what could emerge as one of the most evil machines in the history of Southern political!’
chicancery. Gov. Folsom's is pearly unrecognizable as English, his book-larnin sketchy, his living habits open to quarrel, but he can stump up more votes than anybody they ever had down there, using a native, shrewd political sense and a magnificent sensitivity to his people’s moods. Love him or hate him, few people have ever denied that he is a natural spellbinder, a crude charmer, and a man of great magnetism. His personal escapades, instead of rousing indignation among his stringently moral backwoods friends, merely elicit the t remark: “Big Jim? - Ain't -no-harm in Jim. . He’s only funnin’.” 3 Until recently, he consistently kept his foot in his mouth, but he is begining to turn warily taciturn, with only occasional violations of a selfimposed gag. Such as, on the’ subject of antilynching: “If they start a lynchin’ in my state, I'll
GRUNT AND GROAN LEAGUE — Wrestling is but one of the many athletic activities conducted under the auspices of the Y. Several members hang on the ropes watching this friendly match where Casey Sterger, 1432 King Ave., momentarily has the best of T. Sgt. Clyde Byers, Stout Field. Some 20 gymnasiums in schools and churches, ik those provided by the Y, are used for activities. This winter 137 basketball teams were sponsored. For outdoor recreation, a thoroughly equipped 100-acre camp is maintained near St. Paul, Ind.
ianapolis Times c==x=zY To Seek 1600 New nnual Drive Opening
(Photos by Lioyd 8. Walton, Times Staff Photographer)
THE YOUNG FRY—The younger Y set has plenty of activities, They are planned for individual growth and group development. There are five Y branches
Members Today
buildings. The others have offices and a social- room.
Engaged in a table tennis game are rear (left to right) Bobby Griffin, 858 N. East St. and Jack Frazier, 316 Massachusetts Ave. In the foreground are (left to. right) William Livingston, 1944 Valley Ave., and Ronald Salisbury,
629 N. Gray St.
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A SPECIALIST — Leroy Pelkin works out in the Central Y where he lives. A former army corporal, he gave many juggling performances while in service over- - seas. Y facilities embrace virtually any activity in which individuals might be interested. The Y" buildings are open to organizations not actualy affiliated. Last year more than 300 such groups used the two buildings.
start another on the lynchers.” Like Long, like Gene Talmadge, like Mississippi's Bilbo, Gov. Folsom has a dangerous potency. His potency at the moment is akin to that of al child ‘with a box of matches—a child who as he] grows older and angrier, may decide to set fire to| his Mama instead of to the curtains. «As I was saying, down here they are wonder-|
ing what Big Jim will be up to next, and hoping|
it won't be too bad.
Cain and Adam
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The question is not whether Adam and Eve plucked too many apples from: the: OF... ade .. 100. . much is around the Garden of Eden. The fact remains that the landlord considered ‘em undesirable tenants and served ‘em with an eviction notice. bo The further fact remains, according to Sen. Harry P. Cain of Washington, that our government used the rental problems of Adam and his lady as an argument for keeping rent controls. The Senator was incensed: Ordinarily he is a genial westerner with hair parted right of center, who twiddies with a pair of smoked eyeglasses and seldom hooks them across his lean nose. But this time he'd stayed up all night laboring on a three-hour speech about his new rent control bill. He did no twiddling. Seldom have I heard a bitterer Senator. He charged that the housing expediter madé a mess of rental problems, asked for more money and more men to enforce his ukases, and indicated that he'd like to keep rents under control for the next 1000 years.What made Sen. Cain angriest of all was a booklet published by one Ward Cox, the West Coast Rent Czar, quoting History and the Bible in favor of rent laws. That wasn’t all. He charged Sen. Cox with asking the local rent boards to make known their desires for continued landlord control .for the express of influencing Congress. A fine thing, said the Senator with’ the pink-rimmed eyes. v
Might as Well Adopt His
How often does the Constitution require the
to Congress? ME °T rant 11, Section 3. says: “He shail from mmm— 8 the state-of vue” is Por
President to send his State of the Union message Order of the Garter?
about &nything, it spells out in detail what he
can do and, in particular, can’t. Sen. Cain men-| noise. tioned horrible examples.
Last year Congress passed a.law exempting hotels, offering the usual hotel services, from rent ceilings. And what happened? Well, sir, he said, if a guest of a hotel refused to accept such services (such as having his bed made by the chambermaid) the expediter’s lame-brained assistants ruled that the rent of his room had to be reduced.
U--ble fo Repair Boilers
THEN, SAID he, one landlord found himself |
unable to repair the boilers of his apartment house. So he decided that if his tenants wanted to stay ‘on in the cold, he'd charge them no rent. The federal expediters sald he couldn't do that. He had to fix those boilers and collect his money.
He refused. They filed charges and he went to.
Jail And: another thing, Sen. Cain said, the way the expediter worked it, he's made the average citizen believe that landlords are cruel, heartless, -penny-pinchers. Still worse, the Senator continued, is the general ideas now that the average tenant is an utter dope. Not smart enough to sign a lease
without the government looking over his shoulder. |
Then, the Senator added, the expediter had the gall to ask Congress for more money to hire more cops s0 he could slap more builders of movie theaters and bowling alleys into the clink. Sen. Cain and fellow members of the Banking Committee decided nuts to that. Under their law anybody can build anything he wants in the line of amusement establishments without any permit
. from the expediter. .
~ This gentleman, unnamed by Sen. Cain, used Frank Creedon, who quit a while back. Currently he’s one Tighe Woods, who hasn't been
How many women have been given the British When Princess Elizabeth was given the Order of the Garter, she became the fourth woman tp were Queen : ¥ and Queen’ s of Holland.
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Maybe It's Poetry You Need TB Group Pays With Your Bacon and Egas Tribute to Lilly
a Psychologist Suggests Wifely Recitation | To Cure That Early Morning ‘Grouch’
BY KEN FORD, United Press Staff Correspondent.
{men started off each day in the right frame of mind-—by reciting' Association. {a poem at breakfast, for example, 2
Routine, plus lack of imagination, causes much unhappiness and one of the greatest threats Y to marriage, she said. ; There's lots of ways to" beat boredom, according to the lady with the hyphenated handle. Take
Ditto. the man. who, called a, rec. resolution declares, tangle a “charging lion.” Mr. Lilly gave
of Dr. Twichell-Allen who played| _; . , Tschaikowsky while washing the| "he didn’t say.
living room rug.
(president, pointed out.
Se ES elas wenn Carnival—By Dick Turner
| [* A resotution -in- tribute to the {achievements of the late Josiah HC Litly tr the fight against! | CLEVELAND, Feb. 23 (UP)—A woman psychologist said | tuberculosis has been adopted by today the world could be a lof happier if women would get their the Marion County Tuberculosis
3 “Mr. Lilly's sense of civie re-| But, said Dr. Doris Twichell-Allen, don’t let the toast buin| sponsibility, as well as his in. Rabb's Criminal Court, Division 2, yielded these startling facts.
while doing it. That would louse up things generally. els ul | erent kindliness toward individ|looked like & “shy but desirable Vals, was evident in his continued oung maiden.” They put him in interest in local efforts to stem a padded cell pronto, she sajd.|the ravages of tuberculosis,” the
vin the battle against boredom, | and served ds chairman of” the she said, one must appreciate life Christmas Seal Committee.
dance, not just tiring rubbing,” | she said. Up to the Lady For the most part, the job of| getting the day started off on the, right foot rests upon the lady of | {the -house, she said. a “The woman must set the mood| and atmosphere. Instead of fretting over the prospect of doing the breakfast dishes, learn some poems and start the morning by| reciting them,” said Dr. TwichellAllen, i More important yet’ said the] female mind-prober now doing) research on personality, if you |feel irritable in the morning just {keep quiet. Above all, don’t nag. |That can wreck the day faster {than bills in the morning mall, she said, | Best thing, she added, is to be {simply “orderly and friendly.” | Research Worker When free from straightening out people’s mental meanderings, Dr. Twichell-Allen does research
goes on in the human mind. = ° "In this one you look at “am[biguous® figures. One’ man said| a figure resembling a broken egg wisn:
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Names Beginning With 'B’
Lead Criminal Court Cases I's’ and ‘X's’ Behaving Themselves, Survey of
By JACK. THOMPSON . Unless your last name begins with “I" or “X" watch your step ~you may have criminal tendencies. If your last name begins with “B”, brother, that's bid. : An intensive and exclusive study of the records in judge Saul IL
In the city directory are listed names begin with “IL” Of course the “X-s" are rather rare, there being only two, changed. He asked that the numBut, of the 764 defendants who|/ber of law violators whose names
y 6 0 ¥ ee last
substantialry have wound up: in Judge. Rabb's begin with « “B".- be kept cone:
court since he mounted the bench!fidential., There are more names
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. in the alphabet. All this led Judge Rabb to just one conclusion. The “I's” and the Marion County's Criminal Court “X's” _are behaving themselves. judge; el it Apparently none of them are| If your last name begins with husband or wife beaters, nor are “B” and you have the slightest |they stealing their friends’ cars, urge to do something wrong, stop {he observed as he turned to the and reconsider—count to 10 or Ja __ [something. | nS +1.<Charles Brown, baliff in the Butler Lists. Changes ; court, is the only person in Judge : Rabb’s' employment whose name | y In Student Pastors Deging With ~B" He save ba is | Changes in assignment of But- going to watch himself closely. ler University student pastors in EE —————————— Midwest churches were announced gy today by Dr. O. L. Shelton; dean) WORD-A-DAY ; of the school of religion, | Earl Davis has been changed . By BACH
—————————— from Mjlton to Plum Creek; Bar- 4 u D
ton Dowdy from Cowan to Ambia and Tab; Albert Mitchell from Milroy to Berea; Ralph Drake from a pastorate in Illinois to Cayuga; Ruben Ratzlaff from a pastorate in Iowa to Hall, and | MILONESS; MEEKNESS; Charles C. Mills 1s engaged in DOCILITY | TAMENESS® youth and music work at Olive 3 Branch Christian Church, Indianapolis., ;
Get Michigan Degrees Six Indianapolis students were | among those who recently re-
They are Mary Eloise Culbert. son, 6060 Park Ave. B.S. public | \ health nursing; Bruce L. Hilkene, 4315 Park Ave, A.B; E. Kirk McKinney Jr., 5707 W. Bivd., A. B.;. Sister Mary Meyer, Ph.D.; James G, 537 ‘8. Central LLB. and Charles J. 2816 Ruckle St, LL.B.
"Records in Judge Rabb's Tribunal Shows
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last March 1 not one has had abeginning with that letter on his for example the housewife-friend |, be excited—but about what, George E. Middleton, association | 128t name beginning with “I” or docket than with any other letter
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