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Sl InTune With the Times Barton Pogue | GREET THE MORN-

The day may bring some little, glad surprise Or tidings that I could not well surmise, of friendship, something to amuse, ter filled with love and chatty news, Events that stir the pulse, some simple joy To compensate for things that hurt, annoy.

Another day! and though it may not please, Though like Pandora's box, it frees | A host of , trouble born,

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1 —VIRGINIA FORTNEY, ‘Indianapolis

RETROSPECTION

fools had cars they thought perfection. hey 1 met one day at an intersection, their and made a connection, opted policeman eame and 4 made an - inspection. An ambulance..came and made a collection. All that's left is a recollection— Two fewer votes in the next election. ~~CARL L. STADER, Indianapolis.

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My love is like & mountain stream; And rushes madly, gaily on . It races, swirls and sings, Through water {alls and springs.

But oh! it has its silent pools, Still, peaceful and serene, And you alone can know their depths For you alone have seen. MARE HAWES, Indianapolis.

MAKE BELIEVE

Sometimes I play at Make Believe When lights are all turned low; My thoughts go back to you, dear, In the days of long ago. It's evening and the stars are bright; I'm all dressed up and it's Sunday night. I can hear your voice; I-can hardly wait! The latch clicks shut on the old .front gate. 3 steps. are these tonight. The wick is turned up on the light, . : They've a ay 2% Mak | ; sha my game o e Believe. - ~MILDRED E. KOLLER, Coal Oity. Aw br a Pili T ‘GOD'S GIFT 1 give you America, the Land 6f.the Free, And. the right to choose what you want to be,

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wy wpéted, says she wa er exposed: to American history, in high school or col : that may explain what happened. . Sayre understanding of American history jons-—and ‘all the healthy, decent things | y Americanism—sliould be among | BaD we Toot Tks compat t we fol like congratulating the

is Won “The 500,000 figure did not include the who played: on “cub” teams or where there was

organized competition.

"More than 3700 Boy Scout troops have Legion spon-

sors. “Then there are model airplane contests, Sons of

Legion gatherings and a national basketball contest for young World War II veterans. ‘That sort of thing doesn't make many headlines. It

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Open Files

“WAST 8 Parker LaMgote. se years {ING Sept. 6-—It was thr #go this month that Mai, Gen. Patrick J. Hur-, ley resigned as Smbaseator to China, and at the ihe Jame Hime charged a American policy Ee Sro-Copmuniat

a te — sta ; a om pained at Toke a Som his secret ent and hho h of Btate

et be Ro a constant embarrassment h "his work abroad. to Nims

Gen. Hurley that his ch woul result in Shotgugly Jaye tion, and possibly lead to e Far Baste ra. divi

sion paation of the ¥ But he couldn't even get From] in_a responsible position -to read the files which would have made his case, though he submitted the dates and numbers of. deuinents which would have told their own

| Bedle Told of ‘Leaks’

NOW A. A. BERLE JR. former assistant of state, has testified that, at about the same time, he lost his fight for a firm atti tude toward Russia, as a result of which he was transferred to Brazil a8 ambassador, Mr, Berle also testified to the leaks of secret information from State Department files, Most of the people against whom Gen. Hurley made complaints of nonco-operation and leftist leanings remain in positions of responsibility in the State Department. One of them is on the department's high policy board. And until recently, when Congress intervened, our policy was one of virtual neutrality between the Nationalist government and the Chinese Communists, We were still trying to force Chiang Kaishek to form a coalition with the Communists when President Truman announced his “contain Communism” policy for Greece and Turkey. Among the pressures Saorted against Chiang to force him to deal with the Communists was an

shipments to the Chinese ‘government at a time when the Russians were turning over captured Japanese supplies to the Chinese Reds.

Blames Our Foreign Policy WHEN GEN, HURLEY at his mission in disgust, Russia hadn't yet opened the doors of Manchuria to the Chinese Communists, and were pretending to be working in harmony with the Nationalists. It is Gen. Hurley's opinfon today that the Soviets wouldn't have made a scrap of paper of their treaty of friendship with the Chinese if the U.S, hadn't walked out on Chiang. He also believes that our policy at that time encouraged Russia to close the port of Dairen to foreign commerce. The Russian-Chinese treaty provided that Dairen was to be an open port, under Chinese ‘sovereignty. Instead, it has been made an exclusive Russian port, under military control. “Mr. Hurley is a candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Mexico, and, if he wins, he is certain to ask for a sweeping review of our Chinese and (Russian relations. He attended the Tehran conference and represented President Roosevelt in some of the negotiations with Stalin. : The. congressional investigations of Communist activities In the government have scarcely touched their influence on American fore: - jpalicy during and after the war. - But . Berle's testimony in the Alger Hiss case I

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OUR TOWN .

when the big department store came in. To| be sure, the department store brought something of its own with it, but whatever it was, the gontribution never made uo for the loss. of individual smells that ed to identify the many small shops around here some §0 years ago, when I was a Tite Like thé aromatic Orien smell of H. H. Lee's . tea stores, for instance, or the clean, chaste scent compounded . by the calicos and ging~hams. of Jaced Efroymson’s

tore; the sobust, 'Habelaisian Sy dry. go * Mu flrs cheese shop; or the : ay om 4h ne. highly ores a 3 Kk. p;.or YOLEQ - hand bool Joe s pastry shop—gosh, what a heavenly perfume that was. : Remember Arnica and lodine?

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. Bloan's arig store, And I' know oars Y “I ‘was Because 1 wandered in the dark last night and stubbed my big toe, a stupid ‘Habit of mine which always saturates our home with a penetrating odor compounded of arnica and’ lodine. George Sloan was a 13-year-old boy when, in 1848, he went to work for this uncle, David Craighead. At that time there were only three other drug stores in Indianapolis — those of William Hanneman, Dr. Samuel Ramset and Tomlinson Bros. It works out somewhere around .oné apothecary for every 2500 citizens. Today, we have more than 300 drug stores, : possibly one for every 1500 inhabitants.

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AT FIRST, George had to sweep out the flor and run errands for his uncle. After - which he was put to werk compounding essence of cinnamon. Mr. Craighead bottled a hundred gross (14,400 to you) of the stuff every year. It was the perfume most in vogue at the time and sold as fast as it was corked. Not only that, but the girls used it to color their cheeks and lips. ‘Mixed with red saunders, it produced a ravishing pink=-just the thing with which fo fool phisticated males. Apparently, there isn't ‘a of truth in the legend nursed by m oderns. that the girls of todky are smarter than their. great-grandmothers Most amazing is’ the historic fact that

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Our Stores of Old Had Smells Of Their Own—Here Are a Few.

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‘George Sloan in his apprentice days participated in ‘a pioneer ‘experiment, the pharmaceutical nature of which contributed to making the modern drug store the fabulous Institution it is. For example, Craighead’s apothecary was the second—anywhere in the country—to make and sell citrate of magnesia. The first to turn the trick was Henry Blair in Philadelphia."

It appears that David Craighead and Henry Blair went to school together in Carlisle, Pa. They remained friends even after they grew

"up, with the result that every time Mr. Craig-

head visited Philadelphia (the market for chemfcals), he made it a point to look up his old buddy. One one of his trips, Mr. Craighead caught Mr. Blair red-handed in the act of compounding a hitherto unknown specific.- Sure, citrate of magnesia. And out of the goodness of his heart, the. inventor spilled the secret of its formula; in return for which Mr. C promised to report whether it sold as well in the west as it did in Philadelphia. It did.

Introduced Coated Pill

IT TURNS OUT, too, that Mr, Sloan was the first around here to make gelatine-coated pills. This time. Dr. Theophilius Parvin had a finger in the pie. Seems that, in 1865, the Indianapolis physician went to Europe. It proved a busman’s holiday, for he returned with a formula for making gelatine-coated pills. Which reminds me of gelatine capsules. Father, I remember, used to buy them in lots of 500. He also accumulated a load of quinine in powder form. Then, once a year, as autumn approached, our little family of four gathered ‘round the dining room table at night and spent’ the better part of a week stuffing the empty capsules with the powdered quinine. It was supposed to see us through the winter and, except for one occasion, it did.

Off | Went for More Quinine .~

THAT WAS THE year the malaria was so bad: that it necessitated a refill of the prescription. To take time by the forelock, Mother appointed me, a kid of 10, to play the part of Mercury. * When I arfived uptown, it appeared that all of Indianapolis was fighting its way into 22 W. Washington St. Indeed, it was hours: before I returned home. And it was on ‘that occasion that I became so charged with the pungent acrid odor of Mr. Sloan’s drug store that I have retained it ever since.

GOOD NEWS FOR Oil Users By MARSHALL McNEIL NEW YORK, Sept. 68-—-Un-less something goes haywire, those homes heated with oil will be able to keep nicely warm this winter. This is the gist of optimistic reports on the: fuel-oil outlook for the East and Midwest heard here from experts attending the quarterly meeting of the interstate oil compact commission. We are producing more oil than ever before; we are now a net importer of oil; installations of fuel-oil space heaters probably won't hit last year's peak. Demand still will be enore mous, what with military requirements increasing. = But, *altogether, experts say, prospects are good The interstate oil compact is a “treaty” among 20 oil and gas-producing states, approved by Congress, dedicated to conserving these irreplaceable fuels. The commission administers the compact. Its actions concern all consumers of oil products and nat- + ural gas because through its recommendations supplies are conserved in the producing

areas. “Our oil-producing states are facing the greatest demahd for petroleum in our history,” Gov. Beauford Jester of Texas, chairman, told | the commission. He gave two reasons. The first is the unexpected increase in domestic demand .since VJDay. The second is the necessity of meeting current de- . fense requirements. . . . Mr. Jester believes greact

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states will continue to do their part if there is no federal interference. Among others who believe supply will be adequate Mr. this winter are the two memTexas Railroad commission, the agency that administers oil and gas regulatory laws there... They are Chairman. Ernest O. Thompson and Olin Culberson.

Side Glances—-By, Galbraith

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Mr, Culberson said the oil storage sftuystion * is much , better now than a year ago. Thompson said the industry, having won government sanction for a pooling plan that can operate free of the threat of anti-trust prosecution, will be better able to transport from source to consumer,

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One of the things that has been overlooked by our columnists relative to the recent Democratic National Convention that indicate Trunan’s popularity is the matter of ths much dis‘cussed ‘two-thirds rule for nominations.. {. Our good Southern Democrats after haying ‘tried every je devise to “Stop Truman” Tesorted {o the last card in the deck, the restora-

283%. Two thirds would be only ‘822, so Truman got 125 more than the two-thirds, on the first ballot. Dewey was not nominated on the first ballot t, is it not? Looks like Truman win on the first ballot this fall, I'm

_sufe glad that 1 am & Democrat, re Pretty Nice Md “By BOO »» £ "Ewas sors to se'one of your readers take “such an unfair wallop at the beautiful Windsor Village development. - ‘T have a feeling timat the

writer had an ax to grind, that he didn’t geta contract or piece of the business, or some other real or imagined slight which hit his pride. or pocketbook. 1 would like all of “Indianapolis to go out and see the beautiful homes in Windsor Village. _ After seeing therin they'll feel proud to live in the same commatity with buch ; modern. living; such thorough! ughtful These in with their modern fdens and their shopping * centers ‘dre the Pr -to metropolitan living. And we are a little -backward in not having bad more of them before

this, Let's not Knock these developments which we need so badly. ' Boost them, let thém Know they are appreciated wire maybe we'll Lid more.

What's Behind It?

By Young Oitizen : sm I don’t always un cndersiand what goes on In City Hall. Nor is it explained. One thing just

now is the sudden tying of Robert Wolf, city smoke

‘engineer, to; the: pm for a few lashes (and a Pay. cut) by our Mayor Al Feeney.’

him to be a sincere and scientific man, not schooled in subtle politics ‘or smoke-room strategy but simply a mafi who belleves he has a job .to do and wants toido dt. .¢ I'd like to see something in your paper, or e other paper, explaining just what is behind 3 coolness which apparently exists between the smoke engineer and the Mayor. Like many others, I don't Hueh about politics, I just want to get rid of smoke.

EDUARD BENES— 25 A Prisoner

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Americans who knew President Eduard Benes have wondsred why he did ‘not leave Czechoslovakia when Russia, in a Kremlin-directed revolution, took over his country last Febrtiary. » The answer is: he couldn't. He ‘was made prisoner, sick in body and soul. His home just outside Prague was transformed: into & ail, heavily guarded day and night to prevent either escape Or rescue. This, can now be said on the authority of an eyewitness, a western diplomat given, if any< Hang, to understatement. interviewed President Benes in 1937, in ra some 18 months before Hitler marched into the Sudetenland. Just before that I had talked with Col. Emanuel Moravec, & professor at the Czech West Point. And the colonel had said:

“Czechoslov. is the crossroads of Europe. She is the an of the Danubian routles from all sides. Also the line of march fromEast to West and West to East, Like Horatio at the Bridge, therefore, she must hold the fort for democracy.” Wanted Real Democracy .

S80 I ASKED Dr. Benes how he expected io do it. He replied it could only be done by making Czechoslovakia herself a real democracy. He pointed out that the country had approximately 15 million inhabitants. Of these, 9,700,000 were Czechs and Slovaks; 3,230,000 Germans; 600,000 Hungarians; 550,000 Ruthenians; 100,000 Jews; ‘82,000: Poles, and some ‘scattered nationalities. “And all of them,” he said, “have their own representatives in the national legislature. The same applies to all the political parties of which there are no less than 14. All enjoy proportional representation. The Communists, for example, have 30 members in the chamber and 16 in the senate. The Germans have slightly more.” Upon his election to the presidency after “The Liberator,” Masaryk died, he held a series of conferences with the various party leaders. He told each in turn: “I want to thank you for voting for me. But if you expect me to be president only of your party, tell me now so I can resign. For I intend to be president of all or none.”

Democracy’s Future at Stake IN JULY, 1937, I cabled in a dispatch from :.“Americans should keep their eyes on Czechoslovakia. Here, far more than in Spain (then in revolution), the future of democracy in Europe is at stake.” Some were already calls ing it “the advance post of Bolshevism in Central Efirope,” and Hitler was building his famous military highways toward-her frontiers. Dr. Benes believed in democracy so ardently he was convinced that neither Fascists nor Communists could make headway there. Yet in less than two years the Nazis destroyed all freedom in his beloved land and drove him into exile, and now the Communists have seized the power and made him their prisoner. Too late Presdent Benes learned that democratic ideals must be mixed with realism; that in a world which heavily armed, outlaw nations still roam, democracies must be to fight, if need be, to defend their freedoms.

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