Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1948 — Page 14

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peacemakers the survival of the United Na ult the United Nations, as she drow — ao cited her aggression already

has. walked

ti prevent’ a just and peaceful Nations ‘ean survive only by func. crisis.

of a. To ‘keep ‘the , we merely. repeat the here! : After Armiatios he Oh United States demobilized ‘in jope Russia would do likewise—but she did hot. Our t then. proposed joint arms reduction and atomic control. through effective international regulation. Mosdow blocked that because she is unwilling to allow interna. ‘tional investigation or control inside the Soviet Union. Our 8d Sil stands nd it 12 asked by virtually all others

and admits United ‘Nations authority ‘But

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Wallace's s Fateful Decision %

ENRY A. “WALLACE, who entered the presidential : campaign asx “Third Party” candidate, and hoping to prove himself -better than that, now seems destined to finish a poor fourth when the electoral vote is tabulated. In national poil, Mr. Wallace has dropped from 6 per cent An June to 8% per cent as of today. He has lost half of 1 pre cent since last month, so may fall even farther be. in the, Rrogession as the candidates hit the home

+ Sinee Mr. Wallace isn't: now figured to run better than -a'poor third in any state, he can expect no actual votes in the electoral college. Indeed, if he continues to slip he may find himself contesting with Norman Thomas, the Socialist ine, for position in the popular vote totals. Meanwhile, , AS hii He Sedithy oad; in the t since he has rp aa ar & Shuts Mis Wallace, Who Soasid lis hat ia the ving

ris easy. ted themselves from the considCommunists and’ Ieflow es hy pion the foreign p 8 Union as opposed to the foreign policies o States. That was alien to our tradition to nay and self-respect. not go all the way'all’of the time with But. there are few indeed among us preir and 100 per cent against the inStates, :

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" InTune With the Times

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—ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbus. ; * @

THE LONELIEST MAN

| The loneliest man in the world,

way Leave grim defeat with him To stay.

But the loneliest man in the world, : TH ay be. th or whom the ap, of Yictory 8 Resound Increasingly. Grimly Yo him there waits Responsibility, ALTA BRUNT SEMBOWER, . . Bloomington. * > ¢

HE DROOPING .ROSE

/ Beside the woodsy meadow, sweet with hay,

. | che 1st frEATAGEING rose of summer bloorns " glin ‘warts its sweet perfiime while 1t drops its

head repose among its kindred dead.

slee , To see

: 0, Spirit mine, that roams these meadow lands, y i ‘whan

there come a little folding of the ands, Soon shalt thou meet that winter bold apd long . . . : Haste thee! and breathe the fragrance of thy

song. ~—LEWIS B. RICHARDSON, Nineveh. : : * & &

OUR NEW. BABY

We got a new baby at our house, And yes, sir, it's a boy, And every one around the place Is filled clean up with joy; 'Cept me. .

r brought him 'bout a week ago And he's got big brown eyes We all think he's just the thing, Even when he cries: ‘Cept me.

1 said I didn’t like him much, And yes, sir, that's a fact; iow they've all thinkin’ just like me And want to sen@§ him back.

'Cept me. J =GORION VEY, Noblesville.

. BOOTS He was just a little pup—there wasn't much Of him, but I loved him pits as much as though there had been more of him -MI TU SENSEWORTH, tii tl

Stop, Look—And Listen

OUR TOWN

By Anton Scherrer

Go vo of the Old Carey Home Which Became Children’s Museum

TODAY I DEEM it my duty to catalog a number of cultural contributions that had their source in the John N. Carey house, 1150 N. Meridian St.—the one the ghoulish wreckers are tearing down to make room for another parking lot. ‘The John N. Caréys were the first (circa 1894) to have a bicycle rack on their front* lawn for the accommodation of their guests. By that time, N. Meridian St. was alive with bicycles, . especially at night when every handle-bar carried a lighted Chinese lantern. Nocturnal bicycling invested the wheel with romance The love-sick learned fo ride abreast with only five fingers on the handlebar, leaving the other five to "hold hands! with the com who shared similar sentiments. On oh velvecy nights when the air was charged wt ih ‘tenderout of the Pd to ses couples woo their way cle past the Carey house to Fall Creek, the end of town at the time. It was the favorite and, by all odds, the most. successful of all the courtship runs. In support of which I cite the discovery that almost every day now the newspapers golden wedding anniversaries, the start of which in every case can be traced to the trick of steering bicycles with only one hand.

‘Bicycle Is Here to Stay’ THE BICYCLE rack as conceived by Mrs.

: Carey was adopted by copy cats all over town,

leaving her no alternative but to install TWO such racks on her lawn. It was in the nature of a vindication, for very early in the Nineties Mrs. Carey went way out on a limb with’the prediction that “the bicycle is here to stay.” The backyard of 1150 N, Meridian St. was also the first in Indianapolis to stage an authenti¢ Italian garden. It was genuine because Mrs. Carey commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted of Boston to design it. The Olmsteds (father and son) were probably the most inspired landscape architects in America at the time. When completed, the Carey place was replete with pergolas, statuary, Lombardy poplars and all the other paraphernalia that goes with garden magic. Indeed, Mrs. Carey was the first in Indiane apolis to handle the word “pergola” competently. Eventually our colloquial speech absorbed the foreign word, but only because of her. And except for Mrs. Carey, chances are Indianapolis wouldn't yet have its street corners rounded. She picked up the idea in Berlin, at a time when that capital still basked in meretricious splendor. Upon her return to 1150 N. Meridian 8t., she made it her immediate business to talk the city authorities into adopting the foreign system.

It wasn't as easy as it sounds. To get her way, Mrs; Carey had the almost impossible task of softening up the hardened of unimaginative males who had been brought up to believe that a street corner couldn’t possibly be anything but a rigid mathematical’ It was by way of Asbury Park, ever, that Mrs. Carey got her biggest idea. On that occasion (in the summer of 1924), Mrs, Carey met a lady of a distinct and recognizable type who seized the opportunity of acquainting her with the wonders of the Atlantic ‘seaboard, including two museums (one in Brooklyn; the other, in Boston) especially d ed for children—the only institutions of their. America at the time.

Children's Museum Was Born

RIGHT THEN "and there, Mrs, Carey made up her mind that Indianapolis must not fail her chil her return’ to 1150

n. Imm upon : N. Meridian St. shared her enthusiasm with Mos, pre H (dir Fest or of ae Bch 2 se school System) and Mis Eliza ing (city librarian).

The Children’s: Museum opened for business on Dec. 6, 1925, In the carriage room of the stable belonging to the house built by John W. Schmidt whose wealth had its source in his father's brewery. The house is mow known as the Propylaeum. The one-time stable now con. tains the two addresses of Ruth Pratt Bobbs and Elroer Taflinger. Each had its own number of course. After three months in the stable,’ the Children’s Museum moved to the shelter house in Garfield Park. A year later (in 1927) a set of circumstances compelled the museum to seek a new location. The suddenness with which this happened left doting else to do but turn to Mrs, Carey again

Moved Into Old Carey Home THIS TIME the Children’s Museum moved into Mrs. Carey's old home—the one at 1150 N. Meridian 8t. The arrangement was to be “a temporary one until permanent quarters could be found.” The deal embracing the quoted clause was consummated by way of a series of cablegrams. This time Mrs, Carey was in Bermuda. Instead of being a temporary arrangement, the Children's Museum stayed 19 years—rent free—in Mrs. Carey's house; which is to say until two years ago when it moved into its own quarters at 3010 N. Meridian St. Since then,

except for ghosts, the Carey house has been

unoccupied. Thankful am I for the capacity of the human mind to remember—to recall, for instance, the lovely look of N. Meridian St. some 50 years ago. Housewreckers, trained to plough.a path for the inexorable march of progress, can't, with all their competence, destroy the intangible

. thing known as memories.

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1 do not agree wih + word het yo thy, but | «il defend to the dacth your tho wy i” Our Stake in Europe > gratified to read in the recent news yb for continental tion has finally from thie plane of

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We cannot afford to be indifferent spectal as’ this first seed of European Union is erat nated. d

0 Let God Do lt :

Mrs. ‘Rhea Dotson

the window—tchi, tchi. will take care of her and protect. Be When a a spy works for his or her country, they agree to die if need be, to” either save or is up strife, whatever the ‘need is. this case, we've had to handle the bear

8: America has always been gullible,. tolerant and even bends over backwards to do the right thing. Past history tells us of some of horrors of war, but here we sre foding protecting and, yes, even joining up that have done some ble

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In World Was I times a song came out, “Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds Fou, I wonder if there are hands left. We have a wonderful nation, until recently a God-fearing _ one. "Why can’t be satisfied ‘to live on our own, and let the rest do same?’ . We are in for a from our slinke

shellacking, ing Russian spies. It's time to ask God for pro“tection. He has conquered every foe, and is able to-do it now. Man has made mess of 1, WY not let God s it out? Fervent prayer, by fervent people has changed ‘events wan Y, snany times,

We'll Help By Interested My wife and 1. readin rom the 61-year-old widow who is having a difficult time getting along. She said she ie eligible for & pension and needed a place to stay. She iraplied that she would be ng to help with housework. And that would help us.” Both of us work and we would like to have a desirable person about the house to help with the routine. ' ‘I think if she would supply us with ‘ her name and address we could be of assistance,

. 3 4d » Timely Cuff Notes By Daniel M, Kidney Visiting Jack Garner at Uvalde will give ‘President Truman a chance to’ compare’ n on how If feels to be a retired Vice Presi I * e.@ $ Henny A. Wallace ‘spoke from second base at Yankee Stadium. But he'll never reach first with those left-field speeches. - . ® ¢ @ Judging from United Nations reports ot Paris, we are about to enter a new phase the fighting peace. ' = a Sa * At present prices, the average voler likely will. be more interested in income than oute come on. election day. - ®

dro A classless world is one where all negts at a Wallace rally sell for the Same price. *

Most popular dish on all Republican cams paign. trains is “Truman ‘red berrifig.”

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Big Monopolies Pave | Way to State Control

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey has out-

lined in broad sentences the pledges he presumably will develop in specific terms in coming days. We must, he said, protect our enterprise system from moto fuller production for the benefit of all our citizens. If Candidate Dewey spells that out in terms of actually curb: ing monopoly, he is likely to find himself, if elected President, faced with one of the toughest challenges ever encountered by an occupant of the White House. werful forces are determined to nullify restrictions recently raised against monopoly. They are looking to the 81st Congress and a Republican administration for the kind of laws they want. The Supreme Court last April upheld the Federal Trade Commission and outlawed the uniform pricing sygtem. used by the cement industry, which the Court found was designed to suppress competition.

Capehart Set to OK Practices

. THE BIG steel companies promptly announced they would no longer absorb freight charges for their customers under the basing-point system. At about the same time steel prices were raised, and the two things were somehow related as cause and

A Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Homer Capehart of Indiana seems definitely set to recommend that price systems such as are used in key industries be declared legal. This would enable the big producers to continue their domination. « In the ‘wartime excess-profits law, definitions of excess profits were loosely drawn. The right of appeal was granted to corporations that could show that their profits were not excess ~in comparison to a base period from 1836 to 1939. Thus far

"named an excess-profits tax council, made up of five tax specialists from the Bureau and ‘10 from outside. @ The thx oon coun ncil is drawing up general regulations. One of ‘those to the effect that profits made through violations of ant laws will not be allowed in computing the

1936-39, profit level, Jy

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ly, while encouraging free and’

Bird, but | don't see yours coming flown very fast!"

It one er two corporations dominate or dontral in each industry, it will be altogether too easy to transfer control to the state itself and clamor for such control will be louder and louder.

is a real danger.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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CHEAPER TO EAT . . . By Douglas Larsen Big Harvest to Drop Certain Food Prices

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—In spite of the millions of dollars

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that the government is: pumping out in an effort to keep farm prices up, there are two groups of foods that can come down, and might come down within the next several months in the face of record crops. The first includes fresh fruits and vegetables. Potatoes are excepted. The prices of these foods can come down. because there is just no government program supporting them. The second group includes milk, butter, cheese, chickens and turkeys. The prices of these foods are so far above the parity

step in to halt the fall. Fresh fruits and vegetables have never been part of the price support program for several reasons, A support program means storing large quantities of the food involved. It’s dunt too costly to store fruits and vegetables for the purposes of price support, And there are so many smal growers of thess products it makes a support unworkable.

Big Citrus Fruit Crop on Way

AS A RESULT, citrus fruits have generally been D Kent dv Seat he prewat level in price by the law of Supply and wd e Departmen Agriculture predicts year fo oranges, grapefruit, lemons, etc. ve » hig, : apples;

The non-citrus fruits such as Et They ered ete, are well above prewar prices. vey havent ne up much since the wa And apples are even @ reco: crop expected in aoa “except - means that prices on them certainly can't go up, by: supply and demand. : * The last national average rétail price given for butter byline

“appeals for refunds of $5500,000,000 have been filed with the x \ iy Bureau of Labor Sta was cents a pound. The price Bureau of Juternal Reyeuus. and yefare fhe 1950 deadline it is ex- COPE. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE. SNC, T. M. AGS. U, 8. ATOPY. on oy his A en: drop per cent before the pec at least ion in re s will be ht. " : : ‘ : . To Randle thos appeals th Burere of Inbar al events has Our teacher says less instaliment buying will cut prices: Mr. government would stop it. The authorized support price is 90

per cent of parity. - Milk sold by. the Ser now 127 per cent o

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retail price average is 21.5 cents a quart. The farmer's price oould, go down 37 per cent arom in the ro t would halt it, , of course, a the retail price. saying that it will. But if a sudden increase pply, at Teast the Price ould go ? down ge the consum it.

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