Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1948 — Page 21
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== Young Indiana Finds It's The Works At The
Doesn't Like Buck Rogers Stuff
THE JETS WERE something I did and didn't with her exhibit of jellies. 3 the The same thing goes for the elderly lady who drove her hackney carriage in the hackney ponies division. The friskiest pony of the lot pulled her carriage. The pony had so much pep that he wouldn't line up to be judged and finally the had to go out of the arena with her entry. She was in there pitching all the way for that blue ribbon, though.
That Seat Got a Little Hard
IF THE SEATS hadn't been so hard in. the| Sa Coliseum I could have sat all night watching the] StS horses. The crowd was something to watch, too. The man, woman or child who showed exceptional ability or entry received spontaneous: applause. The spectators groaned at every bit of x misfortune such as when a horse kicked over a| & jump or a crossbar. There was sportsmanship all]: the way around. You would have thought every: person in thei: Coliseum had a stake on Spring Cheer, a fivegaited maré ridden by Joan Light Callner of Chicago, Joan was competing the other night against youngsters over 12 years and not over 19 years. Little Joan became the favorite of the crowd early in the showing. Everything was going fine until Spring Cheer
ONES TO TOWER—Kiddie Land at the Indiana State Fair is a ao s version of the closest thing to heaven on earth. Here John Eaward Jones points to a low-hanging cloud or maybe he is signalin a left turn in the air lane. He is the 7-year-old son of Mr.-and Mrs. Wal-
"WATER SPEED KING—As though in a motorboat race, Ste Lovellette spent most of his time looking over his shoulder for ~ closest chal enger. He is 5. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyson
the union. They exterminated some of them...”
threw a shoe. The announcer told the spectators a new shoe had to be put on in seven minutes or else Joan was disqualified. Jt had to be done in
the ring. The crowd cheered when the blacksmith
did the job in four minutés. Joan went on to take first place. Wonderful stuff.
Yes, sir, the State Fair ‘isn’t all dust, gyp,
nonsense and a place to get tired. There's a lot more out there than meets the eye or mind. You
have to dig and think a little to get the full story. And when you do there’s something dignified and stable about it. I guess’it all boils down to good ol’ horse sense. We can get pretty smart, awful
or Jones, 2915 Sangster Ave.
smart but man, oh, man, if we lose that little horse| §
sense we still have, there aren’t going to be any horses around to remind us of it.
By Robert C. Ruark
the TVA for the especial benefit of the farmer. The old WP and A used to underwrite the fumblous efforts of untalented poets, cunnythumbed painters and left-footed folk dancers. They compete today with the purchasing power of the people to buy up commodities, forcing exports to the starving Scowegians, and then taxbilling the citizens for the privilege of being overbid on the home front fer gratis disposal abroad. Every time the cost of living jumps the unions go out for another buck an hour, and Washington sighs and says you better give it to ’em.
Down the OI’ Dry Hele
THE oil people can make's million a year, and
then write off the profit on one cheap dry hole, |}
ducking astronomical taxes. You byy a farm, run a few head of cattle and plant a couple of acres of carrots, and Uncle Sam will let you spend thousands of deductible dollars making an old Chic Sale into a summerhouse. He will fence you off with free evergreens, nourish your soil with free, high-octane fertilizer, and guarantee you such a flexible floor on erop prices that the more you raise, the higher the fee, rather than reducing it according to supply and demand. The Hollywood hams convert earned, taxable income into individual bucketshops called independent producing outfits, and keep three-quarters of what they make. The speculators in GI housing play the capital gains dodge to the hilt, kicking in 25 per cent or less, instead of the 60, 70, 80-per cent whack normally demanded by Internal Revenue. All the people who deal in untraceable cash, from headwaiters to hackers to black-and-gray marketeers get a reasonably free ride. That leaves you and me and old Joe Tremble, who wears a necktie to work, and gets docked for social security, withholding, charity, and anything else the cashier can think of, no subsidies, few raises, no protection. Just the rising C of L and the automatic tax. If IT am a politician I would come out foursquare for relief for our own displaced person, white-collared Joe Tremble. He is just as deserving as the rest, maybe more, and he is getting sick and tired of playing forgotten man in the great gravy train.
By Frederick C. Othman
by outside help had to stop and any’ independent manufacturer who persisted in it, found himself fined up to $10,000, on a pay-up, or else basis. Chairman Max Schwabe (R. Mo.) couldn't quité understand that. Mr. Bernstein said the manufacturer either forked the money over to the inion or his ‘workers went on strike and he was out of business. “Where the money goes, I don’t know,” he continued. “But a dictator sits up in his office on 26th St. in New York and tells the manufacturers what they can do. Now they've got what they call supersleuths looking for liners taking out work, and the lining contractdrs are practically starvigg. “One hundred and twenty-five firms have been forced out of bysiness. They're living from hand to mouth. The manufacturers are scared to give any work t6 em.”
Whoa, Watch the Language
ALONG came Sol Rosenburg, president of the Associated Fur Manufacturers of New York, who make 80 per cent of the coats worn by American women. He agreed that Gold and Potash were Reds of the most indelible hue and pointed out that Potash now was -awaiting deportation hearings gn charges of being one of the 12 most prominent Communists in the coun “They've got control of an industry, ” he said. “They liquidated some of the old-line leaders in Whoa, said Rep. Wingate H. Lucas (D. Tex.), that's not the kind of language to be using in the U. 8, A, and just what did Rosenburg mean? “I mean there's no opposition left in the union,” Mr. Rosenburg said. “The Communists have taken over our industry.” If that's the way it is, I guess I'll not buy me a coonskin benny this winter, But maybe I'd better waif to hear the other side. That is, if the committee can spring union chief Potash from the
PERFECT APLOMB—With that satisfied look, 6-year-old Gerold Buchfink holds his rearing mount under perfect control on the merry-go-round. Now in the process of losing his baby teeth, he shows the wide open spaces when he grins. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, . Edgar Buchfink, R.R. 4, Greenfield.
Thug on Crutches Aids Taxi Robbery
Find Semi-Conscious
Driver in Street A- taxi cab driver was found in a semi-conscious condition, lying ‘n the street at Kentucky Ave. and Eagle Creek last night and his cab was more than a mile away on High School road. The driver, Chester Schmecker, 43, of 1334 Commerce Ave., after he was revived at General Hospital, said two passengers, one of them using crutches, slugged and robbed him at Kentucky Ave, and Eagle Creek.
Slugged on Head
“Some one slugged me on the head and that is all I can remember,” Mr. Schmecker said. An hour later police patroling High School Road found a man walking on crutches. He an-|: swered the description of one of the bandits and police held him on a vagrancy charge pending further investigation. Joseph Kurker, 44, of 5618 Haverford Place., owner of a tavern at 136 E. 22d St., sald one of his customers held him up after he closed the place last night and robbed him of $360. Known as ‘Bob’ Mr. Kurker said the customer he knew only as “Bob” asked him to drive him to Broad Ripple. “When we got to 63d St. and College Ave. he pulled out a gun and demanded my money,” he said. The victim said he showed him| $110 in his purse but the othe forced him to go back to th tavern and get the rest, totaling
Slate Boy Scout
Training Parley
The annual fall training con-
Polio Cases Reach ference of Ha Central Xe on 2 For W Week
pt. 17, 18 and 19 at the Youth WASHINGTON, Sept,
Building, State Fairgrounds. Intantfle paralysis. Stress will be placed on Pro-i4jon 1atest reports the U. 8
the na- A Giuting Portuguese brandy it is stuck wtih down the drain for a
the midget Midway for the tiny tots.
THIS IS FUN—Everything that goes with a Fair is here. William Cannon, 8, clutches ¢ as the miniature whip gives him a thrill ride. Sister Martha, 7, is a composed little lady demurely frqm flying. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. William Cannon, 136 N. Arsenal Ave.
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Customs Retains Spirits— For Sale, Not Down Hatch
Offers 484 Cases of Portuguese Brandy (Again)
To Bidder Who'll Foot $10,000 Tax Bill The customs bureau here has decided not to pour 484 cases
6302 Homestead Drive, Stephan had a big day taking in all the rides o
of (blamed 2 ‘the.crash ining: speed
gram planning, games, activities, Public Health Service here show. The brandy was routed Into the Federal building warehouse by south of on fun and adventure out-doors.| Total cases for the week end-ia Chicago importer in April, 1944. There it has remained—all 1161.6 The Three movies dealing with the! ing Sept. 4 were 1512 as com- gallons, Ae th me Fh rt pi son 5 working of the Scout patrol will|PAred With 1412 for the previous Customs officials said it is now| Now the bureau has changedi.’: "ay the yeti 8 patrol willl week. This is lower than thelconsidered unclaimed because the!its ne It has set a public auc- who was. a be shown today. [1780 cases reported for the cor- {warehousing period has expired. ition at 2 p.m. Sept. 28, in the!which Juoqueline . More than 100 exhibits will be responding week in 1046, the In order to avoid losing $10.-| Federal Building. Bulletins citing 454.40 in Federal internal revenusé the conditions of the sale ure|race last
on display. - Lioya Byrne will di-|jast epidemic year. rect 4 variety show Saturday) Three hardest hit states are tax due on. the 484 cases, the being posted in all federal butid ing it is Adin offering the ings and and notices are are being: sent
clutches of the immigration agents.
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Q—What 1s the name given to the Indianjnight. The religious phase of California which increased to bureau pipe of peace? the program will be stressed|{264 from 226; North Carolina to| brandy for sal A—It is called a calumet. When the cal- (Sunday morning. : met is passed around, to accept it is to agree re are expected to attend. were. employed In to the proposal terms; iia i is chairman
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HORSE SENSE—A man goes to the Horse Show at the State Fair a few times and decides our best bet is to-go back to the horse and buggy days. What about all the used cars? The G Trai NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—When they soaked me a buck-20 the other day for a pat of hamburg, I got to thinking it would be a fine, neighborly thing if the government would subsidize the white collar man a little bit, Make a good campaign program for a smart politician—government support for old Joe Tremble, clerk, married, two kids, take-home pay, $69.60 a week. This is entirely legal, for they support the farmers already, with the government buying in competition to the customer, in order to drive prices for food higher, Farm support was originally conceived to 30 ken hayshakers out of bankruptey; to keep the letting the crops wither, unharvested, and rg vent them from plowing under little Ea as as not worth the effort of raising, Well, a farmer is a man, and a white-collar guy is a man, and the white-collar guy pays more taxes than the farmer, because ‘Uncle grabs Joe Tremble’s check and amputates it at the source. There are all sorts of tax-dodging gimmicks connected with farming and ranching, which is one of the reasons it is an insult to ask a cowgrower how many head he is running on his land. He doesn’t want to be pinned down. The tax collector might get nosy. 80 if: Joe Tremble qualifies as a man and a citizen and a taxpayer, then I do not see why the government cannot underwrite him some. Say the hamburg costs $1.20, due to the fact that the government, has subsidized the farmer. Kicking Into the Kitty WELL, then, seems to me the government ought to get up at least a dollar per pound, leaving Joe to pay 20 cents. This would apply to potatoes, milk, spinach, pork chops, bread and all the other precious gems we are supposed to buy from. the local cartier with the heavy thumb. For a long time, the government has been giving handouts to all kinds of people, in the forms of subsidy, tax.loopholes, and federal projects. They kick into the kitty of the shipping people, who are sure enough private business. They build great big expensive projects like D t Dye WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—I doubt if Congress will, consider any lady a Communist this winter just because she wears a coat of Persian lamb. This Persain lamb business, itself, is one of those phonies; it's really Soviet sheep and the lawgivers are looking into it. The evidence indicates that 35 per cent of the fur coats being made in America today originated on the backs of animals in Stalinland. This includes most of the so-called Persian lamb, all the sable, and some of the (sh-h-h-h) rabbit that goes into the coats with the fancy aliases. That isn’t all. American fur manufacturers have 61 different names for rabbit. I'do not know whether they include themselves in the list. But it is fair to say, at least, that they have been exceedingly rabbit-like in dedling with the Communists in charge of making the coats that orig{nally came from Russia. The whole deal seemed a little fuzzy-—like a bargain lapin jacket—as jt emerged in hearings before the House Labor Subcommittee’s iaquiry into communism within the fur coat industry. But this much-was clear on’ the basis of sworn testimony: Reds of the Reddest Dye COMMUNISTS boss the International Fur and Leather Workers’ Union and when they say frog, the fur.factories jump. p Bernstein, a sunburned little man with curly hair and a sharp bow tie, began the somewhat Incredible story. He represented the fur finishers, who have been functioning as sub-con-tractors in the sewing of linings since the days when fur coat designers had to make provision for bustles. Well, gir, said he, Ben Gold and Irving Potash got control of the union a few years back. He identified them both as Communists of the reddest dye. So they decided this sewing of linings The Quiz Maste Q-—How long did it take to build the Colosseum at Rome? A—It was commenced about the year: AD 72, and completed at the end of the fourth year . after the laying of the cornerstone. It is said that 12,000 captive Jews building the structure,
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