Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1948 — Page 11

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: AS @ DSwiPAerian, dedicated to truth. and accuracy, 1 say stand my ground, publish {the facts about the kind of writing equipment. banking firms place at the disposal of their cusJnt’s 203 SOuSMer 3 VWs servis Was ban : I ill call a spade 8 spade and a broken ball woint & broken point. punchies pulled, Hothing covered up or colored in this pen and ink survey of our downtown banks. . The big boys and the little ones have been investigated. Names shall be mentioned. That goes for the banks as well as the pen points. When I shake a thing down, brother, it’s shaken.

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It boosts one’s morale to sign a check for a mil~lon, Even though you know it's a amount and the name of the bank: makes it look

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The American National Bank has the best writing equipment for the public. That's my opinion. The bank has six fountain pens and wells. The pens are a restful greem color and repose in clean wells. The point is a FH Regal

Cold Oatmeal

RK, Sept. 14—Ever since I traipsed around the Southland ‘in ‘the wake of Henry Wallace, I've been sitting here sort of mumbling to myself. I've been trying to figure out what he’s got that people go for, and I haven't been le to answer it. Lo You could understand Huey Long's hold on the vednecks of Louisiand. Huey offered 'em free schoolbooks and bridges and blacktop roads and such. Huey could spellbind 'em in their cwn ver-

pacular, j # bluejeaned thigh, one minute, and have them crying buckets the next. } .. To date I haven't heard Henry offer much except fuzzy bombast. He talks the stock “something should be done” patter of the old parlor reformer, but he never says how or where or when. 3 : .. He has hollered vaguely about Wall St. as fhe root of all evils not personally sponsored by arry Truman. He splutters about peace with Russia. He says he wants everybody to love one another, and that some day the share-cropper will Me down with the banker. 3 y+ His oratory is roughly as inspirational as a

§, dlsh of cold oatmeal. He has a wonderful faculty

for sounding skeptical of what ‘he himself is saying. When he talks off the cuff he stumbles and blurts and trails off. : Henry has less ‘communion with an audience—even a's thetic one-—than anybody I ever heard. Yet 48,000 turned out to hear him _ the other night. paying $78,000 fer . And Henry's bagman, a former convicted thief hamed William Gaillmor, wheedled another 50 grand out of the crowd.

Effroniery Wondrous fo Behold

THE splendid, irrational effrontery of the man is wonderous to ‘behold. He speaks of the horrid plight of the southern Negro in his segregation, before a horde of Negroes who are herded “together in as vile a Harlem-—as ever existed. He speaks of fascism in the South, and at the same time welcomes Vito Marcantonio, the Communist-fronting boss. of Harlem, to his platform. . : Harlem is the place where thousands of black Puerto Ricans are imported each year, on dazzling promises of opportunity which never mature. There

§ they are saddled onto the relief rolgs-——and being

Pitchforks

WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 14 There seems to be too many irate farmers after me, with expensive new pitchforks, for eomfort. They're all sore about my pieces in the paper

lately about the cost of’ eating being on the downgrade. - To read my mail you'd think this was my fault. , The tillers of the soil, and in particular, their wives, figure I'm a villain for Mentioning the fact that the price of groceries even now is teetering. Their general idea is that so long as the cost of pitchforks, traRtors (which went up another 9 per cent the other day), and other things farmers must buy continues to rise, city people have no right to expect lower grocery bills. I can sympathize. Or at least a little. But before my correspondents catch up with me and

# apply their sharp weapons, I hasten to give them © some of the facts of ‘economic life this bumper

harvest season. Each passing day brings a new harbinger of

And wearables, too.

Grain Supply in B&Tace

THE WHOLE THING hinges, ladies and gen: . tlemen, on a little announcement by the Agricul: ture Department that for the first time since the war the world supply of grain is in balance. This Ineans simply that at long last there is enough for everybody everywhere to eat. Wheat consequently has skidded a dollar a bushel in price, and while theoretically the govern-

ment will support it at $2 a bushel, the fellow:

who grows it must keep it dry. Ife he has no storage space, Uncle Sam wants no part of his grain, and he’s got to sell it for what it'll bring. Already he’s beginning to do exactly that.

. overlooking the possibility that none of the above will happen, but, I'm not taking y journalistic say

captain Joseph Scotto

's a lot of pens. writing table look as if they haven Maybe they're just clean.

The . Indiana Trust Co. could stand some |

new points. That's just a suggestion. write but they'll never win any prizes. The Peoples State Bank has one

They'll fountain

and Association and the Union Trust Co. have facilities. They're adequate to write with. That's . just couldn't resist to compare the pens

ones I have seen and used. Let it be said that for scratch, the Postoffice pens take first place. For dirt, they take first

That's one place the government believes||

place. in thrift, at least.

“The pens were so bad I didn't bother to write|}

a check. Just made a few X's with each one and left. : Say, have you checked your pen lately?

By Robert C. Ruark

Sitising~ate herded to Marcantonio's polis to vote en h ; Vito's realm is the glace where GOP election was beaten to death on- election day for working against the Marcantonio gang. Fascism in the South, Henry? Wallace speaks of his southern tour as if he had scored some tremendous. inspirational triumph.

"When he was egged he was egged by hoodlums and “pranksters. He was egged very seldom. . He could make them guffaw and slap -

‘In most of his meetings, he spoke to small knots of idly curious’ folk—who came to see the and went home disappointed when nothing happened. Henry spellbound no crowds in the South. Most of them weren't even interested enough in what he had to say to be annoyed with his bad taste and obvious efforts to rabble-rouse. He struck no apparent gongs in the breasts of southern Negroes—and not, as he would have you believe, because they were afraid to warm to his words. He mentions himself that he held two dozen ‘“unsegregated” meetings, and the colored folks yawned as wide as the whites.

Cuddle-Footie All of a Sudden HENRY’S efforts to play cuddie-footie with the Negro, all of a sudden, come oddly from a man who refused to intercede to end racial discrimination at the National ‘Airport in Washington, at a time when Henry was Secretary of Commerce and the airport, federal property, came under his hand. So far as I can tell, when Henry used to travel

in the South—hefore he came down with delusions]

of Father Devine—he stayed in white hotels and visited in the homes of the white quality folk. I can't. make him out. I can’t figure a man who, when Vice President, on a goodwill tour to Latin America, condemns a state parade of diplomats to a snail's pace behind him-while sport. shirted Henry ran four miles to the airport in Limg, Peru. . : And who boorishly walked out on a big native festival, in his honor, the following night, as soon as he'd gulped his dinner. ‘And who was popularly believed to carry an Indian medicine man—a bone-shaker—on the government payroll in advisory capacity when Henry was agriculture boss. And who... Maybe he’s got some hidden charm that escapes me, but no matter how hard I try to dope him out as a Messiah, to me he always comes out clown.

By “Frederick C. Othman

That's the kingpin of the situation. The last

‘few sacks of feed (guaranteed to contain 18 per

cent protein). I bought for Clarabelle, my cow, were drastically lower in cost. The price of hay was down in sympathy and you know what this means, dairymen: An eventual drop in the cost of milk. Butter's been dropping a penny or two a pound nearly every day for a week. Cheese has gone down, too. Milk can't help but get on the list and all the letters the milkmen may care to write the editor about this pessimist, Othman, can't change the facts.

Cotton Demand Falling Off

COTTON’S IN THE same spot of wheat. Demand is falling off, a near-record crop is being baled, cotton mills are working on short shifts, and New York’s Worth St.—center of the cotton goods business—is quieter almost than in memory of the oldest man. This boils down to the fact that shirt-makers are waiting for lower prices on broadcloth and percale. I wouldn't be surprised to see the cost of union suits take a nose-dive any day now. Meat’s still scarce, but by spring it'll be a good deal less so. The price of hides has begun to drop, shoe factories are going slow like the cotton mills, and the cost of medium grade oxfords can't stay much longer at $19.95 retail. © I had to buy a pair of ‘em at that price a couple of days ago; it was that, or go barefoot. The shoestore man was in the dumps. Said he has: to go to Chicago next week to buy his next spring's stock. If he pays current prices, he fears

| he'll be stuck with a serious loss. If he doesn't,

he'll probably get no shoes. Either way, he loses. I can add only in all humility that I'm glad I'm not a farmer this autumn, or a storekeeper, either. I'm afraid I'd be losing most of my sleep.

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Wayne; Roger Gibbons, Winchester, and Evansville.

civilian life.

Putnam County Board

Times Siate Service fices of local GREENCASTLE, Sept. 14 —

The Putnam, County tax adjust- 4500 ad ‘ment board will meet next week At Notre Dame Times Stale Service . SOUTH BEND, Sept. 14 held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the " The council cut 12 cents from Twelve hundred freshman stu-J- C. Wilson Funeral

levy. Theidents, representing each of the Chapel of the Chimes. Biggest cut was $14,100 from the 48 states, Washington, D. C.,

to consider a 99-cent county tax rate set by county council.

the proposed $1.11

ana-Illinois * trainees . the course, Me Walls oblong Services Tomorrow

To Study New Tax Rdte Rose will be

ved in the of- For Mrs. Louisa Cory : Services for ‘Mrs, Louisa Cory, whe died Sunday in her home,

also got through the war without a scratch

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. OAKLANDON FISH BEWARE — Even though on

e Indianapolis Chapter of the American Red Cross takes six men on a. fishing trip tothe Oaklandon Reservoir. Loading poles into the station wagon are {left to right} Gene Byers, Ft.

THE ONLY CATCH—Mrs. R. M. Foot of the Motor Corps helps Mr. Byers string the one and only prize of the day's expedition. Not much for now used for bait, the fishermen joked T should be pan fried for lunch. A paratrooper, Mr. Byers is back in the hospital for the fifth time since discharge. He is being treated for gunfire and shrapnel wounds in the back and throat. He is a carpenter in

TWO OF A KIND—Mr. Turner and Frenchie Boy-

ken, Evansville (left), are similarly afflicted.

up the victim of a motorcycle accident. They buddy-up to lend each other moral support but still can laugh at their awkwardness in learning. fo get along on one leg:

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STRIKES GUARANTEED—Before the first hook dropped into the water, some of . the fishermen consulted an infallible quide which foretold fishing conditions. The little card printed months before the ‘season opened, promised a bountiful catch. Later this trio were convinced they must have had last year's card—only one poor fish sues cumbed fo the lures. . Checking conditions ate (left to ri HR Barnes, Indianapolis: -Miss Naomi Hullett; Red Crons secretaty.at Billings, and Miller iller, Elkton, Md. Members of the Red Cross Motor Corps and the Gray Ladies are in charge of the ou: ings. A recruiting drive will be held this month for volunteers. © ~~ aia amt i

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PLENTY TO EAT—The ‘intrepid fishermen couldn't provide fare for the table through their efforts, but the Red Cross saw to it that no one went away hungry. The fresh outdoor air is a welcome change from hospital confinement and the men had hearty appetites. The four-hour: junket to Oaklandon ends only too quickly for them. Then they return to the routine of hospital life, the résult of their having given part of themselves in the service of their country. For the most part; however, they are extremely cheerful and are ready tc help others. : oa

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en a - cents| Hawaii, Puerto Rico and six for-|tor of the Edgewood Methodist

higher than current levy of|¢ign countries, will be among ap-{Church, will conduct the services. 78 cents. ns ; of Ae Students at the Burial will be in the Odd Fellows Dg en tt seuniversity Of Cemetery, Oaklandon, Ind. 2 Local Women End day. ™ A native of Cornwell County, ———————n.

Miss Joan Rose and Mrs, Katn-|Lions fo View Movies leen Waltz, both of Indianapolis,| Pictures of a Canadian fishing train-itrip will be shown by Bert A.

ing in the Clinical Laboratories|Gwinn, a member of the Lions sons, Harmon Frank , in the Indiana University Medi- Club of Indianapolis, when the Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. Eliza

club meets at noon tomo in DeMasters, the Claypool Hotel,

,|crowd of reporters seeking expla-

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8 } HN father had written to newspapers!iy » Wiss Martin explained. “He and plays 11 instruments, four] Miss Martin denied, however, (Satta Unit to to worrying about what of them professionally — th e{that she had anythihg to do with; ;

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in view when he-did it.”

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“He thought he was doing the right thing,” the University of Detroit second year law student said. “He had only my own good

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