Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1948 — Page 15

th the meal. ; “I didn’t have to cook it.” she said, “or wash ‘he dishes, which makes it a real treat.”

. There Was Plenty to Eat

VACATION ' BOUND=-Bernie Spaugh an grandson Hubert Allen, read wp on the sights they'll see before the Hoosier Harvest Special ‘ eompletes a 5000-mite western: tour,

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NEW YORK, Aug. 201 have been ransacking the papers for a small scrap of cheer, and find little. I find gloom; I find Russians, there are villains, large and small, and always politics. The spies, I suppose, you can assimilate, together with the heat. The high cost of living must be endured as inevitably as the humidity. But gad, sir, how is a man to bear up under the fact that the Count Kurt Haugwits von Reventlow turned up in Newport, R. 1, scandslously clad in a white mess, or monkey. ? ' It is not enough that they ask us to cower, like a gun shy puppy, under the awful imminence of atomie war, with the crisis in Berlin It is not ee that, George Berard Shaw fas been den i by the vegetarians a8 a phony, singe carrot- agents caught him sneakin dark corners. learn the count, a former ne Boge dinner at Mrs. 's ynrest BY Brayhg jacket. Somehow, it makes the marital between Arties Shaw and Kathleen (Amber) Winsor seem almost unimportant, as world news goes. Quotes a Sociely Columnist 1 MUST QUOTE a society colmmist. Min Randol| for the horror that came upo Jay re. shrine of the nation’s elite. She allows that Reventlow “just dealt “this resort through one of its most elegant hostesses, Mrs. Robert Goelet, a blow it may never, never forget. At Mrs. Goelet’s dinner for 40 at Champ Soleil, (with male guests in black tie and the servants in dark livery) Von Reventlow stunned the gathering by turning up in a white monkey jacket. “On such an occasion, formal as an appointment to the guillotine, Von Reventiow's choice of apparel—swell for a trombone player—was as dreadful a gaffe as though he had arrived draped in a barrel. “A few guests were sipping their martinis, daiquiris and tomato Ju . « when as the others arrived,

fn came Reventiow . . . murmurs could be heard , . , ‘where does the

Battle of Figures

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—If the government goes into the red next year, as predicted by Presjdent Truman, inflation gets worse and beefsteak maybe goes to a pound. If the federals take in more than they spend, as predicted by Congress, the cost of living automatically goes down. That much I know: but kindly do not ask me “why. Nobody around the Treasury has been able to explain this phenomenon to my satisfac~ tion. But that's the way it works and since it is important to all of us ex-eaters of beefsteak, I've been trying to make some sense out of the battle of adding machines now waging between the ‘White House and Capitol Hill You may have read some of the headlines about the mysterious $4 billion batting back and forth between these two establishments. Mr, Truman says Congress cut taxes at the wrong time and put us in the hole by a few costly billions.

Talking Through Hat, Says Congress

CONGRESS SAYS the President is talking through that new $40 fedora the hatters gave him Jast week; charges that his figures are phonies and that we'll have so much money in the till next year we'll probably have to cut taxes again. The all-important ‘question to involuntary vegetarians like myself is whose figures are cockeyed? The President’s? Or Congress? Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder said it certainly does look like the Treasury would have to do it's Sguring in red ink. Yes, but, butted one of the experts of the financial press, Mr, Truman figured on lower revenues than Congress did. “You're not going to ask me to comment on the arithmetic of Congress are you?” asked Mr. Snyder. All the experts went haw-haw-haw and that was the end of that. This was so disappointing to me that I did

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{ MR. SCHOLL stated He and his wife belonged to the Clean Plate Club. “We don't believe in added.

daughter. cooking three meals a day for 24 years,” laughed Mrs. Rose, “you'll never know how much I'm enjoying this.” Mr, Rose claimed he had plenty to eat. He was satisfied, he said. Then looking at his wife and | tapping his stomach, Mr. Rose had to admit the lady of his house was a good cook. He was a| walking advertisement of that fact. After lunch old friendships were excitedly renewed. “I remember you from last year,” was spoken quite frequently. Other vacationers watched Indiana soil whiz by until they fell asleep.

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his grandfather looked through their package of| pamphlets and information about the tour. Bernie Spaugh and grandson Hubert Allen of Westfield were having the time of their lives. You could see it in their faces. Harold Conrad of Anderson chatted with his son Charles about ‘the things to come. In front| of them sat their wives. The Mormon Tabernacle] was the topic of ‘discussion. Nine Conrad children were at home, Mr. Conrad explained, and their farm was in good hands. | The Hoosier Harvest Special rolled on. It ‘carried 200 special Hoosiers. I have been wrong| about a lot of things, but not this time. Can't exactly tell you why I'm so sure. I just feel it

count think he is, at a beach club? . . . that's almost being a nature boy, isn’t it’ rather? , .

he’s an American citizen now, isn't he? . . . so}

why does he get himself up like a cadet at some European university?’ “Among shocked members of society present were the Lord and Lady Furmoy — recently ars rived from England ‘and staying with Fermoy's sister, Mrs, Guy Fairfax Cary ...” The enormity of Reventlow’s crime stuns the imagination. One can only shudder for the delicate sensibilities of the Goelet clan , . . especially when you remember that ane branch of the family was embroiled in just about the year’s smelljest divorce

days.

tx __And I seem to recall that another Goelet party,

over the past New Year's holidays, wound tn!

a free-for-all, with people hollering and wh each other in the kisser.

Gave Us Lady Mountbatten

I AM ALSO bleeding slightly for the affront to the visiting nobility. In the past couple of years,

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soene. Lady Mountbatten, after a brief career as dance instructress and testimonial-signer, bounced a sufficiency of elastic checks to warrant Her expulsion from the country. The easily shocked up-per-crust also sponsored another noble visitor who celebrated last yule by punching ladyship in her lovely little jaw, at a huge “in one of the flossier hotels. : It seems to me that the only suitable punishment for Reventlow is immediate execution without trial, after the Soviet fashion. He was grievously bruised an aristocracy which gets roaring drunk at the opera, and puts its aged feet on the boozing table. He has shocked the sartorial tastes of a society which produced John Alden Talbot, a young blood who not only wears loafers with his dinner clothes, but allows himself to be photographed drinking champagne out of the shoe. I see but one honorable way for the count to atone for his sin — unless, of course, you consider going on the wagon | as an alternative.

By Frederick C. Othman

a little looking at the record. I can report that if Truman, Snyder and Co. aren't guessing any better today than they have in the past on how much money's coming in, they're likely to get one of the big surprises of their lives. They, obviously, are pessimists. Every summer when the time comes to estimate how big tax collections are going to be, they have guessed too low. Each year they've taken in three or four billions more than they expected.

Mere Difference of Opinion

AND THAT, precisely, is where the argument between Mr. Truman and the Congressmen is off base, The President says we're going in debt because we're only garnering 40 billions this coming year, The lawgivers insist that we'll stay in the black because we're going to collect between §42,600,000,000 and $44,100,000,000. The record indicates that Congress is a better guesser than the President. 5 And that's no editorializing by Othman. ne) figures are there for anybody to see, { One - other thing about government guess-| work: You may have heard some inkling of the | fact that the Republicans think they're going to win the next election. That's not the way Secretary Snyder figures.| He flushed red when he was asked about reports that he intended to take a job with the California banking Gianninis along about next January. Mr. Snyder said he had no plans to leave the Treasury. No negotiations pending. No ideas, except that he liked it where he was. And kindly, said he, try to get this perfectly straight. That's easy. If I also could get it perfectly straight about the muiti-billion dollar deficit and, or, surplus, according as to who is doing the talking, my job would be a lead-pipe cinch.

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"YA GOTTA GET UP" —It isn't the Army, but it still is hard to climb out of the sack at a summer camp. Maybe the youngsters are ready to bound out of bed. but the early streaks of daylight merely mean another day of work for a councilor, Robert Hansen, son of Mrs. Hans P. Hansen, 5846 Forest Lane, is a councilor at Acorn Farm Camps, R. R. |, Noblesville. With a yawn, Bob looks at the alarm clock. Fresh air makes for fine sleeping and prepares councilors and

campers for a vigorous day.

By Robert C. Ruark|

HOLD THOSE REINS — Bob rode this very pony when he attended camp years ago. Mounted is David Ray, Miami, Fla., who is attending his second year at the camp operated by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Sweet. The pony, Dickey, is 31 years old but is a favorite with the youngsters. Leaming to ride is a regular part of camp procedure: During the summer the camp runs 12 weeks for day members and four weeks for overnighters.

THERE'S A BLUEBIRD—Acorn Farm Camps accept children from 6 through | 1 years of age. Here a group of the younger ones take a nature hike"with Bob. Short trips are planned for the small children while some of the older ones go for all-day trips. The youths get intensive instruction in the frees. animal life and rock found in the neighborhood of the 40-acre camp. ;

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¥ RISE, THEN SHINE-—Bob stands in line at t > washstand to freshen up for a day of aiding ar’ directing camp activities. Part of his job is to see that young ones do a good job of scrubbing and brushin: their_teath. Now in his third year as councilor, Bot attended the camp for several summers as a regule camper, - He

SERVE IT UP—That's what Bob calls to the pitcher as gives batting instruction to William Allen, 5699 N. Delaware Catching is John Hobbs, while his brother Donald acts as umpire, They are from Clayton, Mo. Bob, who is 17, is a senior at Broa! Ripple High School. On graduation, he plans to enter either Wabas Collage or DePauw University if he is not called into service at an earlier date. pa rg

- MAKING READY FOR CAMPFIRE==The results of the next day in many instances. Older boys searched for" following day they were taught how to make tinder so that a ca dled with the rock brought back to camp. Making tinder are {i Jennings, 4558 N. Delaware St.; James Loer, 49. W. 42d 5t.; Bo 15 'W. 35th St. For campers, the day ends with bedtime at 8: councilor is more ready to seek sleep ‘at the same. hime