Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1948 — Page 12

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Draft Deferments and Delays HE “big danger” in the current peacetime draft is the ‘possibility of complacency among draft board memhers because of the small numbers to be called, according ‘0 Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, Another factor even more likely to contribute to apathy and indifference is the general lackadaisical attitude of both Selective Service and the Army ever since. the new draft was enacted. The services asked for the draft, then didn’t appear to know what to do with it after they got it. The Army postponed induction dates because it wasn’t prepared to handle the training program. Selective Service has been talking mostly of deferments. Whether this has been a pre-election policy to soften the impact of the draft, or due to poor planning and inadequate preparation on the part of the military, the morale of the eventual inductees certainly hasn’t ‘been improved.

A Lesson in the Air

AMERICAN B-29s aid British wartime bombers came off second best in the war: over England. . Attack after attack was intercepted by RAF jet fighters. In one force of 40 bombers, 24 were theoretically shot down. ‘Three years ago those same bombers represented the ultimate in active combat air power. Their unmatched : and number threw a tremendous weight on the scales ctory. - Today they seem obsolescent, at the least. British air officers said the demonstrations satisfied m that their defenses were sound. But, important as , air defense is only one arm of a nation’s security. sson that these war games Haught will surely not be

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- In Tune With the Times

~ Barton Rees Pogue ON LAUGHING

Laughter is, perhaps, the best medicine for man. It exercises the liver, the heart, lungs, stimulates the glands and the circulation of the blood. In fact, it has been proven scientifically that during one minute of hearty laughter, all of the-organs of the body get from two to hres times more oxygen than normally, due to improved circulation. Psychologists tell us that You ean Judge a man's character bY ha and they have actually worked out a -*laugh-chart,” foo. There are, roughly speaking, four ways of laughing: You can laugh at others; you can laugh at yourself; you can jaugh as an involuntary reaction to a pleasant “stimulus (tickling); or ‘you can “just laugh.” The fourth kind is the rarest; it is an expression of sheer happiness, like singing in the bath; you see it in children and sometimes in sweethearts. “LAUGH and be healthy.” ~THE BROWN COUNTY SAGE. * © o

TO A-DANDELION

Though older folks disdain your gold I feel that somehow you have gained, For baby hands can pluck and hold You tight, unchided, unrestrained:

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When, ghostltke, dim in the dusk, you sway 8 en Tp gd ir Reg You grant a wish, so the children And who would doubt that you ve that

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~LEONA BOLT MARTIN, Kokomo. ® o ¢

BIRTHDAY WISHES

Was there ever a cake full of candles blown

out, Or a tune, “Happy to You,” That wasn’t mixed up with a lump in the throat For a glad wish to find its way through?

There's a line, oh, so fine, and sadness, That what is brushed off for a tear E May be joy overflowing and good wishes going To you on your day, from us here , . . ~~ESTHER REM THOMAS, Columbus. ® ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

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between gladness

(“San Francisco-~Zoo peanut; falls in moat.”) Industriously exub'rant, She has found it just the bunk, As striving for one goober meant A completely empty trunk.

But her accident was timely, It occurred on Labor Day, And it proved one thing sublimely: Work for peanuts doesn’t pay.

OUT-STOCK PILED? Are Red Nations In Better Shape?

By Jim G. Lucas

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—Russia and her satellites have greater reserves of the strategic to support a full-scale war

er... materials n NY han the Unt States, according to recently hs blished hearings of a congressional com-

“mittee, The hearings were held earlier this year by the Mines and Mining Subcommittee of the House Public Lands Committee, headed by Rep. Lemke (R, N. D.), to “determine what America has and what she has not.” wre W. Pehrson, chief of the Bureau of Mines Economics and Statistical Division, told committee that the United States is a thavi-nat nation in many important raw ma-

| ‘Get as Much as We Can’

“IN ANY INDUSTRIAL or more serious conflict between the Eastern and Western hemi. spheres, in the long run the Basten hemisphere is better off’ Mr, Pehrson said. is one more reason why we should be alert while we have the opportunity to get as much Eastern hemisphere stuff into the Western hemisphere AS we can. Y Eurasian land mass (Russia) has a rather high self sufficiency in minerals, and the Eastern hemisphere is considerably more self sufficient; it has a wider variety and larger reserves of minerals than we have in the Western hemisphere.” The United States uses 1.2 million tons of manganese a year, but must get 90 per cent of it abroad. Russia supplies 21 per cent. Only India supplies more, 26 per cent. Mr, Pehrson told the committee there is little chance of finding new supplies in this country “because the surface of the United States has been more thoroughly prospected than any. other area on the globe” and the outlook is “rather remote.”

Security Lies in Manganese

“I AM AN ARDENT stockpiler,” Mr. Pehrson sald. “The security of the United States in manganese must rest on stockpiles and they cannot be too big. I feel we should get away from the notion that stockpiling is something that edsts us money. “We should be farsighted and recognize that sooner or later we will havé to depend on foreign sources of supply for many minerals we now produce at home. In manganese, we should get the other fellow's minerals and bring it over here. We have the dollars and they want them; they have the manganese and we want it” =

Russia supplies most of our chrome--46.3 per cent. We have enough on hand for five months’ peacetime consumption. Charles W. Merrill, chief of the Bureau of Mines Metal Economics Branch, says chrome steel is essential for armament; without it ‘someone is liable to shoot bullets through our tanks as if they were made of cheese.”

. : Views from News By Daniel M. Kidney It ‘will. be hard for the Republicans and Democrats to get together in the election de-

bates. Democrats think the issue should be high prices and the Republicans high spies.

His southern exposure should have convinced Henry Wallace that what this country needs are Good Eggs.

® & © + The way the Russians are acting in Berlin their police state must. be running short of policemen, 6 le

' Warning note for the GOP—in California an elephant fell into . pit aching for a peanut. One secret of Stalin's success is that he is always a palibearel b but Rever a corpse, > ®

Foreigners are not the only ones suffering from a “shortage of U. 8. dollar currency.”

. rison would lick Grover Cleve-

It's a Crying Shame

OUR TOWN

AGAIN MY DESK {is in an utter state of confusion, piled high with sentimental scraps of paper any one of which may turn out to be what you have been looking for all your life. ITEM ONE: In the fall of 1888, Rhody Shiel, a Afire-eating Republican, bet Frank Bird, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, that Benjamin Har-

land in the November election. The stake inv a fabulous fi When it came time to settle, Mr. Shiel received as part payment Mr. Bird's three-

wreckers tore down a couple of years ago to make room for another Firestone store. ITEM TWO: When Mrs. Flora Wulschner died in 1009, it ‘was established beyond peradventure that she was the author of “Forgotten,”

‘ the song made famous by Eugene Cowles, a

member of the opera company known as the “Bostonians” who made Reginald de Kovan's “Robin Hood” the phenomenal succéss it was. Mrs. Wulschner wrote the poem sometime around 1805 when the Bostonians appeared in Indianapolis on which occasion Mr. Cowles was her guest. The words moved him so deeply that he set them to music, with the result that thereafter the song identified the Bostonians quite as much as “Oh, Promise Me.”

The Enterprising Editor ‘

ITEM THREE: One summer evening in 1852, J. H. McNeeley (then city editor of the Journal)

witnessed the fire that destroyed the Eagle Ma--

chine Works. Instead of tumbling into bed when the show was over, as a less inspired man might have done, Mr. McNeeley returned to his office, took the forms from the press, removed some indifferent paragraphs of news, and reJacq them with a brief account of the fire. r to that night no Indianapolis editor

+ thought it possible to ‘cover the night's news in

a morning paper. ITEM FOUR: In 1835, Nicholas McCarty brought a colony of morus multicaulis to Indlanapolis in an effort to establish silk growing around here. It didn't work. Five years later

" he began the cultivation and manufacture of

hemp on his bayou farm which was somewhere

in the southwest part of town. The present

site of the stockyards is a good:guess. This time he had better luck. The fiber was cleaned, broken and rolled in mills and vats on the bluff bank of Pogue's Run below the present line of Ray St.

ITEM FIVE: The morning bracer served at the old Denison House bar when it was going good, consisted of a teaspoonful of BromoSeltzer, one jigger of Holland gin and enough syphon seltzer to fill a tall glass, It ‘wasn't exactly a drink to write home about, says an old bartender, but it sure did the trick. ITEM SIX: One day back in 1903 while working on the 210-foot-high octagonal stack of the Mill St. power station, a crew consisting of John Brooks (foreman), Mat Brady, Bob Meclntire

By Anton Scherrer

Here Are Eight Little Stories You May Have Been Looking For

_ $10,000 a year French chef. It was his business

and Jack Karstedt laid 16,000 bricks in eight hours, a speed record which has never been equaled around here—let alone, excelled. Up until then, 2000 bricks a day (per man) was considered a respectable performance. Indeed, it was expected of a bricklayer who rated his services at 50 cents an hour.

Vacation for the Chef

ITEM SEVEN: When Adelina Patti came to America in 1882, her entourage iricluded a

to go into the kitchen of every hotel on the diva’s itinerary and, with his own hands, prepare her meals. In Indianapolis she stayed at the Grand Hotel, the kitchen of which at that time was presided over by Charlie Lanne. On the very first evening while waiting for her specially prepared supper to arrive, Miss Patti casually picked up the menu card and observed that the Grand Hotel featured turtle soup that day. It was her favorite dish and, right away, she made up her mind to sample it. Said she was game enough to try anything once. And so delighted was she with it that she ordered an entire meal from the card. As a matter of fact, Miss Patti liked Charlie's cooking so well that she stayed two days after her concert, with the result that the $10,000 French chef enjoyed a™ vacation all the time he was in Indianapolis.

And He Ate It All

TODAY'S LAST ITEM (8) is tucked away in the archives of the Claypool Hotel. One day

back in the days when Henry Laurence ran the place on the American plan ($5 for bed and board), a guest showed up and was assigned to Room 605. When it came time to have dinner, he said he wanted it served in his room. The waiter brought him the bountiful bill of fare, and the guest checked off 23 items, to wit: Canape royal, little neck clams, Sliced tomatoes, potage a.la Windsor, salted nuts, boiled red. snapper with saucé admiral, ham glace au; Madere, prime ribs of beef au jus, planked tenderloin steak garni, supreme of chicken aux Perigueux, orange fritters with port wine sauce, mashed potatoes, fried sweet potatoes, lima beans, corn on the cob, roast stuffed turkey with cranberry sauce,

punch Romaine, nut salad, vanilla souffle pudding, Holland cream, watermelon,” Herkimer cheese and coffee. He licked the platiers clean. When he learned that Mr, Laurence had charged him $1 extra for serving the meal in his room, the enraged guest threatened never to patronize the Claypool again. Boy, them were the days when you weren't scared to talk back.

NOTABLE QUOTES

Peace comes through understanding and this comes only through joint co-operation. It cannot be had in absentia. }

—Basil O'Connor, president, American Red Cross, on Russia's absence from Inter- * national Red Cross Congress.

WHAT THEY'RE

Side Glances—By Galbraith

He (the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes) is the kind’ of person who does rot die, but who lives, not only in | the yonder world but in this | world, too , | |

«The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Justice Hughes' funeral.

Saying—

Inflation is an insidious thing. Until the bubble bursts, there is a certain stimulation and excitement about it which oftentimes deceives us as to its ultimate consequences.

—Comptroller of the OCurrency Preston Delano:

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I should be working on percentage. —Satchel Paige, ancient Cleveland pitcher, noting that 78,000 fans had come out to see him pitch. ; Ee God made the (movie) stars. A good producer finds them.

~—Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer. | * » .

It is only because we, a nation of high moral standards, have the atomic bomb that it is not being used today.

«Dr, C. Leslie Glenn, pastor, St. John's Church, Washington.

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Do Your Duty

By Mrs. Willard, G. Gray, 302 N. State Ave,

We have a national election Nov. 2 We must assist every loyal American fo exercise his and her privilege and duty on that day and. help to retire the “New Deal” which has now become an ‘old deal.” E:

Cleveland's administration. And Woodrow Wilson's slogan in his campaign for re-election was that he had kept us out of war? He was re-elected in November, 1016, and took ‘office Mar. 4, 1917, and World War I was declared Apr. 6, 1917. FDR was elected President Nov. 3, 1932, and took the oath of office Mar. 4, 1035, after his promise to the people of this nation that he would never bring back the old saloon. In June, 1033, the 21st Amendment was passéd by a Democrat controlled Congress giving each state the right to legalize liquor EE a a ndty School compared to the inns and taverns with their scayfaced barmaids of today and are attracting parents Reglacting 1 their children,

SEEING THE WORLD— Congress Roams On Prepaid Trips

By Charles T. Lucey WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—You can join the Navy and. see the world or get elected to Congress and do it at a better salary. The election campaign notwithstanding, Senate and House members in goodly number will roam all over the map, at home and abroad; between now and January. . In the old days these off-season trips were called junkets. But they've taken on a certain dignity since Uncle Sam began propping up most of the world and now they're considered necessary to give our statesmen the perspective needed for that world role. One of the studies being made currently is so important that not one but two committees of the Senate will bore into it. It involves, for both, trips to Mexico City, a pleasant city of crisp, light-topcoat weather in November and December. The U. 8. is supplying many millions to help control Mexico's hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle and this study is to form judgments on how this money can be spent most wisely.

Off to Study Cattle Disease

PLANS CALL for a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee consisting of Sens. Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb.), Milton Young (R. N: DJ), Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) and Richard Russell (D. Ga.) to conduct an on-the-scene inquiry in November. In December, a Senaté Agricul ture Subcommittee of which Sen. Edward Thy€ (R. Minn.) is chairman, is scheduled to study, the same subject. Congress has been investigating statehood for Hawaii for a. long time, but it seems un likely that it will be settled without at least one more trip to Hawaii, with nine members of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insulag Affairs spending about two weeks there -im¢ November. » All may X ot’ make the trip, but as planned tentatively the trip list includes Sens. Hugh Butler (R. Neb.), Eugene Millikin (R. Colo.), Edward Robertson (R. Wyo.), Henry Dworshak (R. Ida.), Zales Ecton (R. Mont.), George Ma~ lone (R. Nev.), Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.)s James E. Murray (D. Mont.) and Ernest Mc} Farland (D. Ariz). *

12 to Pacific Territories A FOUR-COMMITTEE co-operative study

will send 12 Congressmen forth to study Pacifie

island possessions and trust territories. The committees to be represented include the Sen: ate Foreign Relations and Interior and Insular Possessions Committees and the House Committees on Public Lands and Foreign Affairs. : Among those tentatively assigned for this are Sens. Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.), Alexandef Smith (R. N, J.), Guy Cordon (R. Ore.). Housé members who may go are Reps. Fred Crawford (R. Mich.), James G. Fulton (D. Pa.), J L. Pfeifer (D. N. Y.), Donald L. Jackson (D. Cal.) and William Lemke (D. N. D.), Sg Going it alone in pe is Chairman Gurney of the Senate Armed Services Commit: tee—alone, anyway, save for military men helps ing him get to the right places.

Wives Can Go to Rome

AN OLD STANDBY is the Interparliamens tary Conférence, held this year in Rome. For some this is made more pleasant by the fact that wives and members of the family accoms pany them. The rules call for remuneration; however, only to cover the expenses of the Con. gressman himself. Among presently abroad in this en: deavor are kley, Ben. Owen Brewster (R. Me.) and M . Brewster; Rep. W. R. Poage (D. Tex.) and“Mrs. Poage; Sen. Tom Connally (D. Tex) and Mrs. Connally, and Rep. Hal¢ Boggs (D. La.) and Mrs. Boggs. ~ There may be other overseas studies. A good crop of domestic. inquiries, in addition to that of the House Un-American Activities Committee, will be conducted. One to center about a single day's hearing on farm policies, by th House A Heuiure Committee, will be Se Fresno, Nov. 19. It's supposed fo be 8 unlikely ali members will show up. :

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Bids on Project

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Bids for the ing of Morris by the Works next few days today, after n lation cleared projects M. G. (Ole) neer, said the improved in would be from Ave. Bids wi construction o© In the mea begin the acq way between son Avenues, | provement of street. Await | The sectiqgn tween West Ave. will als work on that until after tl pleted constr pass at Kent Belt Railrdad + The latter s will be used a around the 1 tion.

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