Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1948 — Page 10

‘Sh- h. - Ws Entirely Honest . Shh | THE ‘Somewhat breathless explanations Chief Depuy % Attorney General Coughlin giving of that Er oy oS hah So Sing xt Sob . seems to us to leave out a good many of the answers,

tain” of secrecy indicate that a state examiner, back in 1046, held that Miss Vanna Thrasher, while clerk. treasurer had “misapplied” some $11,651 of that city's cash. Inquiry revealed that it was just a misJaks, Mr. Coughlin tnsiats, snd that Miss Thrasher definitely not “misappropriated” (which means “taken”) any of emer i So Miss Thrasher paid back $1500 she had not taken, and the state dropped a claim against her for $11,851, and the attorney general's office, at her specific request, hid the ~~ whole thing so the people of Bloomington, who owned the ~ money, and the people of Indiana who employ the attorney general and his staf, would never find out out about it, ® 8 =n . .

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et, don't let the people know what's ir money. Even the Marion County licenses are tampered with to keep i ould b6 Suits Rapes! 1s anyone Whe itor instars.

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re Russians Escape Stalin

is using the melodramatic escape of three Soviet Jew ork to intensify a world confliot loaded wi th the of war, nds Tosded with the San has invented serious charges spi our government of alleged connivance in kidnaping és, and has made impossible demands for their ficantly, the official Soviet press and radio es whip up the Russian people into frenzy against ted States for “terrorizing” Soviet citizens here. Mrs. Kogenkina gave the lie to Molotov by jumping to freedom out of & fourth-floor window of the Soviet consulate in New York City, and by stating from her hospital bed that she had besn held prisoner.’ * quiest of the Soviet vice consul that she be moved or return. Mr, and Mrs. Samarin, the other two Soviet consulate teachers, earlier had disproved the Molotov lies’ by requesting American haven and protection. Though the only crime of the Samarins and Mrs. Kosenkina is that they no longer trust the Soviet government, they fear their return to Russia would mean execution or life imprisonment. Neither they nor anybody knows how many millions of - Russians have been purged for appearing: éven to question the dietatorship. . At the time Mr. Molotov made his charges and demands to the American ambassador in Moscow, and also “through the Soviet ambassador in Washington, the Samarins were free but Mrs. Kosenkina was still a captive in the. ' Soviet consulate, By her escape Mrs, Kosénkina disposed ef the dispute over whether the Soviet consul should free her to an American court on a writ of habeas corpus, which “Mr. Molotov and his agents refused. 3, Apart from that court case and the Molotov charges American detention, which the teachers themselves ‘the third issue is the Molotov demand for The State Department asserts it will not force 30 back to Russia. This of course is the traditional American policy of cal asylum, It is not the practice of our frée country | political refugees to any jurisdietion where they ( cut mt Tue bevels.

Such facts as finally leaked out through the “paper cur‘statehouse

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ANNE BOURGOYNE-RODEFER, Liberty.

FEEL A LECTURE COMING ON?

Conversation and lecturing are frequently confused. Have you ever asked a simple gquesand then received in reply a long and You stood on : then on the other; you bit your tongue as you felt that trapped feeling come

. Adults in so-called conversation with youngsters often fall prey to the lecture temptation. r i jecturer should do the tongus-biting atid of the hearer. : would be a good rule to observe: Let ure unless he gets paid for it. If people Ask on it and pay for it, then it serves t if they have to listen.

RGE D. GREER, New Castle. + *

. HESTER

Blue were the skies, though the rains came down, Wherever you walked on earth, ing hearts with your tender smile, And taught them of gladness and mirth.

No problem too big for your willing heart,

* Nothing too small to do, And ever you smiled till you walked away To eternity’s rendezvous. ‘

Sad are hearts without you here, But you're smiling for Him we know; Blue are the gkies in heaven today For your Mimile is making them so!

«SUE ALLEN, Indianapolis. > o &

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» GRANDMOTHER I now recall, tiny hands, a cheery voice, et of all, Se too, no choice with yourself, r-ending wealth pantry shelf , That you told, grew old— Joy found in pat album rare, pa were handsome pair, ai he so ar and you fair— nchanting hours we have spent

iy a evtings ‘by the fire in wintry | VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON, Greenfield,

Pledge to Poland—

The Red Record

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writer's recent compilation of some of Russia's treaty violations. In a six-and-a-half page handout, the group charges that my Hst of 35 a fle pledges and violations was “a long list of generalities,” “repetitions,” and “falsehoods” constituting a vilification of the Soviet Union For the record it can be stated that the list was compiled from official records in the U. 8. State Department and other foreign offices, The State Department itself recently listed 37 violations in four areas of Europe and Asia. To confine it"to a single full page of a standards newspaper, this writer's more comprehensive lis had to be condensed.

Objected to Repetition

THE SOVIET friendship group took specific exception to Russia's Polish record. It charged that I “repeated no less than six times” what Russia had done to Poland. Again for the record and to get away from “generalities” let's examine the Polish case. ONE: On Aug. 2, 1818, Lenin abrogated the agreements of Cparift Russia with Germany and Austro-Hungary and’ recognized “the inalienable right of the Polish nation to decide ‘its own fate.” TWO: On Jan. 28, 1920, Lenin and Trotsky committed Russia to the peaceful settlement of “any and all” questions with Poland, “territorial, economic or other THREE: On March 18 1921, Rusela made a boundary settlement with Poland in ‘which she “abandoned all rights and claims to the territories situated to the west of the frontier lald down.” (The “frontier laid down” corresponded to the prewar frontier of 1939). FOUR: On Feb. 9, 1929, Russia adhered to the Paris pact outlawing war (with Poland as with other nations). FIVE: On July 25, 1932, Russia and Poland signed a non-aggression pact. SIX: On July 3, 1033, Russia signed a conv vention defining aggression including “invasion by armed forces, with or without a declaration of war.”

A New Pact in 1934

SEVEN: ON MAY §,-1034, Russia and Poland signed a pact renewing the 1932 pact of non-aggression until Dec. 31, 1945. EIGHT: On Sept. 10, 1034, upon entering the League of Nations, Russia reaffirmed that “the relations between Poland and the USSR will, in all their extent, continue on the basis of all existing agreements .. .” NINE: On Nov. 26, 1038, Russia and Poland issued a communique again reafirming the above pledge. TEN: On May 31, 1039, Molotov confirmed previous Soviet- Polish commitments and again went on record against aggression . ELEVEN: On Jan. 1, 1942, Russia adhered to the Atlantic’ Charter, TWELVE: On Feb, 2, 1945, at Yalta, Russia pledged herself to “free and unfettered elec-. tions” in Poland. ~~ THIRTEEN: On Aug. 2, 1045, at Potsdam, Russia repeated that pledge, FOURTEEN: On Aug. 2, 1045, at Potsdam, Russia promised to await the general peace , Settlement to fix Poland's frontiers, : FIFTEEN: On June 26, 1945, Russia signed the United Nations charter pledging herself to respect-treaties and obligations. ’ Here are some of Russia's Polish commit-

. ments. Not just six, but nearly three times that

many. And all-according to official records— have been dishonored.

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OUR TOWN .

. By Anton Scherrer

Old Doc Quaintance Sold His Oil

Until ‘Smoothy Sam’ Breézed By

SIXTY YEARS AGO when I was an inquisitive little boy, the hawkers with the greatest gift of gab always picked the south side of Washington St. to ply their trade, probably because of its shade in summer—the season of the year the pitch peddlers did thir biggest business around e. Doc Quaintance, who sold a concoction known as Joyful Ofl (“good for man and beast’) occupied the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian Sts, for the better part of 30 years. At any rate, there are plenty of people living in Indianapolis today who remember him on that corner as far back as 1870, He was still going good in the late Nineties when I had to leave town for a while, None of your business why.

Looked Down on Audience

DOC'S STAND was a box-like affair about 30 inches wide, 20 inches deep and four feet high, which gave him the advantage of looking down on the audience he was addressing, It straddled the gutter and obstructed the street quite as much as it did the sidewalk. In rainy weather, or when it was uncomfortably hot, Doc's stand sprawled even more; for oh those occasions he erected an enormous umbrella. It was the same tent-like affair with which the dray .drivers of Indianapolis used to equip their wagons in summer. To my knowledge, there never was an umbrella with as big a circumference—let alone, a bigger one. Every once in a while when the confusion got to be unbearable, a group of testy citizens would write indignant letters te their favorite newspapers questioning Doc's proprietary right to that corner. “Pro Bono Publico,” I remember, was the most voéiferous of the lot. They might have spared themselves the trouble,

Three Times in Court

. AND ON THREE occasions, Doc was hauled into court for obstructing a public highway— the Crossroads of America, as a matter of fact, although nobody realized it at the time. Invariably, the jury acquitted him. All of which had the effect ,of course, of lifting the Joyful Oil Man into the category of sacred landmarks. Indeed, the Joyful Oil Man had everything his own way until the summer of 1804. I happen to remember the season and the year because it was the period Indianapolis males discarded their hats in favor of caps—a phenomenon brought about by the fact that a bicyclists uniform called for a headgear of” that sort, On that occasion, a flashy dressed young individual, wearing a derby set slanting on his head, blew into town and established his pitch on the southwest corner of. Washington and

Who Told A Me Pm

My Barber

LETTER TO ‘EDITOR: From a friend who knows how ‘to apply the needle comes the following hot weather verse: I wonder how you came to be “@ recogniged authority On Atomic Power, Nuclear Fission, World Peace, Palestine Par. tition, Phychology, Laber Relations, Causes of Wars, the United Nations, World Trade, tegy, Religion, Art, Anatomy, y Market Changes, Prices, Inflation, Everything: about Taxation, Tariffs, Cartels. Mythology, Politics, Banking, Astrology, Uneertain factors in the Certain, ; 8 behind the Iren Curn

Physics, Wireless Communica~ tions, Mystic Powers, Creation, The Cause and Cure for all | our Ills, ; ! The Laws of Torts, Contracts and Wills, . Calories, Vitamins, Diatetics, Birth Control and Genetics, | The Bible. Talmud. the Koran. The Origin and End of Man. EDITOR'S REPLY: { The answer is simple as can

be, HY yer explained it all to

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Meridian Sts. {opposite that of the Joyful Oil Man). His slick plausible tongue was so impressive that inside of three days he earned for himself the title of Smoothy Sam; with the result, of course, that the Joyful Oil Man suffered most pathetically.

‘Smoothy Som’ Had a Line

SAM PEDDLED a medical specific guaranteed to grow hair on bald heads. And, to promote sales, he employed a line of talk so rich in overtones and implications that it made me feel sorry for the Joyful Oil Man who, by this time, was getting to be a little too old to cope with a youngster Drgugtt up in the

school of super salesmanshi 8am called his product “Tors Water,” How-

ever, he didn’t reveal its name or nature until

he was well into his oration. Until he reached that point, he sort of improvised, using literary and historical allusions which appeared to be designed net on » to collect a crowd, but to hold it spellbound until he was ready to spill his great secret. It was Sam’s allusion to the Battle of Jena, I remember, that moved me to look into the life of Napoleon. Sam said it was immediately after that famous fight that a French military surgeon observed the appalling number of baldheaded German soldiers littering the battlefield. He investigated and learned somewhat to his surprise that the plight of the bald-headed Germans could be traced to the tight-fitting caps they wore. The vitality of the hair was destroyed because the air had no way of getting in, gaid Sam, mmediately, the stage was set for Sam to sell his stuff. Believe it or not, every one of his customers wore a bicycle cap.

Hair Grew In, Not Out

I REMEMBER, too, that with every sale went Sam’s promige of $100 cash to the buyer who couldn’t show signs of new hair after using one bottle of Lot's Water. And, one day, I was lucky enough to be present when somebody called Sam’s bluff. ‘Sure, he wore a bicycle cap. “Let me see your scalp,” said Sam. Then with a microscope he examined the kicker's head and declared that the hair was growing all right, but in the wrong direction. It was growing in, said Sam. With that, he packed his satchel, pulled up stakes, and left the corner in a hurry. He never again showed up in Indianapolis. Doc Quaintance was a changed man after Sam’s_depdrture. Soon as Doc had the corner to himself again, he announced that Joyful Ofl was not only a cure for all the ails enumerated on the bottle’s label, but also: Jor growing hair on bald heads. Indeed, ropriated Sam's line of talk except in one Re 1 cular. He brought it up to date, and substituted the Battle of Waterloo for the Battle of Jena,

"Yoh, Goorge hes just about got the cottage all fixed up we're moving back to the city tomorrow,”

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ourstate officials have to offer, then citizens... have reason fo believe incompetency in statev administration also exists? £18 The administering of welfare needs to be jake out of jolitics entirely and ; ro on basis of human welfare en Families broken up by misfortune should be assisted to regain some human dignity and a chance to work for their future welfare -why

CO! the sys ? .? * oo o. Those Give-Aways =

By Herbert L, Koch, 1210 N. Winfield Ave. i I have been reading in the papers about . the Federal Communications Commission elaiming the radio shows that give away prizes are considered an illegal lottery. It's a shame that someone would think that, - when programs such as Hearts Desire; Strike It Rich, Stop the Music, Break the Bank and others that are really helping poor people and people that are in distress far more than some of our big shots that are on these BEB I suppose that the men or women on the’ FCC consider marriage an illegal lottery. dey all the program “Bride and Goom” gives prizes and gifts to the couple who are married, It seems to me that some of the people in our country, who have some money, really begrudge the little who might be lucky’ enough to “Strike It Rich’? on one of those programs. Good luck to these broadcasting companies: that are trying to prove it’s not illegal to give, something away. ® & o Return Lost Items £ By a Loyal Citizen 8 There are many articles lost here in our large city, some of which are found by people.” who are dishonest. | “I have a friend who is very honest. She has’ found many things watches, rings, ete. and: has always returned them, b This friend of mine goes to high school andi works on Saturday for money to ear her way along. One day this week when she got heft” pay, she lost her billfold, This has never beer’ returned. She had identification and also papers ' in it. This was never returned and now she to borraw the money to eaf.en at school’ pay is a small sum but it was hard earned” money. Isn't there a clipping of some kind you ‘may’ fill in a space with, explaining to the many“ people in our city that when they find anything’ and it can be returned to its owner even if it looks small it may be highly valued of that thé small amount of money, even if change, it may be needed for food.

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Tobin Appointment— %

Bid for Boston By Fred W. Perkins se

3 WASHINGTON, A 16 — President Trus, . man's appointment of Maurice J. Tobin, fors mer mayor of Boston and governor of Massas chusetts, as Secretary.of Labor bears out fore: casts that the post would go to somebody, who could help Mr. Truman in November. ,. Sen. J. ie McGrath (D. R. 1), chair- . man of the Demiogratic National Committee, had a large hand in it. | The two-month delay in getting around to) Mr. Tobin occurred because some Democratic leaders tried for weeks to get the post for 3 “Jack” Shelly, president of the California : State Federation of Labor and a party leader” there. He was willing, Appointing him would have helped counters: act Gov. Earl Warren's pulling power in Cal=ifornia for the Republican national ticket, Buta as Mr. Shelley is an AFL man, Philip Murray; president of the CIO, was cold to the idea, od his wish prevatled.

May Swing 16 Votes

DEMOCRATS expect that Mr. Tobin's coms. ing into the Cabinet will help to swing his. state's 16 electoral votes to Mr, Truman, Mr, Tobin will be the only Cabinet mem. . bér of Irish ancestry and Catholic faith, and, also the only Néw Englander in a group Ul, balanced toward the Middle West. In addition, Mr, Tobin stands high with all branches of organized labor. He is an an-' nounced foe on all counts, and with arguments more profound than most union leaders use, - of the Taft-Hartley Law. And he is regarded. as a campaigner of such ability that his plats; form talents will probably be used far beyond :' his own state. i In Washington this week, the new secretary impressed a lady reporter as “tall, dark and handsome.” Similar adjectives are poemt out for Mrs. Tobin and their three children, boy and two girls. Mr. Tobin, 47, was born in the Noxbury, section of Boston, the son of an immigrant car penter. He never went beyond high schoel in formal education, although he took accounting and law courses in extension and night classes.

Started as Delivery Boy y HIS FIRST jobs were deliv suits fi a tailor and news, labo

in a leather factory and then worked up

the ladder ‘with the New Telephone &'’ Telegraph Co. until he wglang d Tetphons £ Lf

in politics through the Knights of Columbus. He served on iy To) go! corpmitiee as a member and as chairman, : elected to the state legislature, and in ar N he was chosen mayor of Boston. The six can=didates that year included the veteran politisia games Michas i Curley, _- 1941 he again MAYOT s 1 governor of ae i. ar sorigd. Two years ago he lost the governorship: to Robert Bradford, Republican and Mayflower descendant, and this year he was figuring on going back to the state house after Slling in, the interim Sith the practice of JAW,

Mrs. James ' 16th St., annou i marriage

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Elder, Wil Patterson, Ler Eider, Elza El Ken Kenney ai

son, Misses Joa McLeod and Al

James Hiner, Clarence Hine Elso Greene,

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