Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1948 — Page 26
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Hazards of Our Highways JNDIANA’S highway system which once ranked attiong the best in. the country is rapidly losing that position. If the decline in highway maintenance amounted to little . move than a hurt to our civic pride and a mere inconvenfence to motorists it wouldn't be a serious matter. . But when a single mile of highway in Indiana is pers mitted to fall very far below the standards necessary for
f every . peasonable safety, it becomes a threat to the life of traveling over it during these days of rapidly in-
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person creasing traffic congestion. oR : « ¥ = "A REPORT by Indiana highway engineers disclosed
that thete 8 are more than 1000 bridges “too narrow” and afe for the as they are Sanrying. Many
lighter traffic phe 880. "Also the report disclosed that three-fourths of all high- - ways ape too narrow for the présent. traffic load which _meaps more collisions, more dead and more crippled in the | fy e of an’ “number. of motorists trying to » squeeze through’ the songestion; a8 8 DURING the forthcoming administration of Gov.-Elect Henry F. Schricker, a program will have to be started to ~porrect the serious hanes of Indiana's highways.
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_ By Men Who Know
: G is happesing ib in the field of toad jurispruie siisand ; the Jong: rum; raise the quality -
rs of lon 3 Which Shale. ®
The Thdianapolis Bar Assodiation has polled its mema in Municipal Court Room 2 on Dec. 81.
Tia i the fit. time the Bas Associton has stoped 0 the appointment field with a recommendation. And it ur hope that the lawyer poll becomes a permanent in-
capacity as jurists.
t. Judge Harty Champ to the bench. And 1, the lawyers point out, is made purely. s. Champ's legal capabilities.
The Right to Lobby =
~ PRESIDENT TRUMAN has indorsed a proposal by a labor union, the International Assagiatien of Machinists, that the new Democratic Congress underta 8 a thorough investigation of lobbying. ws -T It's a good idea, if the investigation is conducted airly “snd does not bécome simply an attempt to intimidate per_sons and organizations that disagree with Mr. Truman or. _ the labor unions about What kind of legislation Congress "should enact. Lobbying, it seems to us, is a , good deal like picketing, Breninte depends. on how it's done. : i of free: ion; is protected. by. “Union” mentbers Have ¥ right to-pieket:
|_her with so_mueh Stlor tha
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ustments of the tax strue-.
“chiogsing men, not for their ‘political strength, | . , riation poll recommends that Gov. Ralph |
1 © WRENS' WRINKLES
Humility can raise the chin and Pride can hang the head in shame. . . . Johnnie asks i he can draw .an imaginary line. withant us an imaginary pencil. , . . “If you wan yant 0 pose 88 a wise man never "joke; be’ ai solemn an ass’—Tom Corwin, . . . Women are the better half of our country . .« Memery is as
long as emphasis is heavy... , A man can
lower his prestige by raising the wrong tssues. + + +. No one possesses knowledge except he who knows he has little. young flame who brings his girl a Torsige sh o shan kiss
the flowers. .”, , he Eg peat. tryly great thoughts Py been thought already “thousands” of times.” ‘ ad Is > WRENS, Indlanapolie
COUNTY FAIR
Up bright and early to ‘the Fair, It was.about as we expected there, At. booths and tables, crowds. did stare. Like at a bargain counter display; Where merchants ballyhooed their wares, With scads of things to give away, On fifty coupons, one’ by one, I signed my name to be the winner; My Luck, as usual, jum the gun And picked some other lucky sinrep. <
~ATHA A. PINNICK, Bloomington. _ * ¢ ¢ ’ :
PORTRAIT NO, 3
If I were to choose one word to describg you, I think it would be “vivid. With your red-
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that makes the World long to tuck your hand under his arm, and take . care of you. Galety and friendliness win entree for you wherever you go. But you are so young! Keep. your brave smile, my dear. You will need it along the way.
~MABEL NEWMAL, @akland City. % »
FAR JOURNEY
Tomorrqw is the farthest place Underneath the sun; . I trudge the lone road wearily Till the day is done— "The way looms quite as lang “ if “Day has -just: hegun. oe Tomorrow! Ah, tomorrow 1 despair to see! Tomorrow is the distance “Between my love and me.” —MABEL Jvuak ¢ Osiiand city.
THE WHITE ROAD
The white road stretches in between The growing corn and Fipsned wheat, And curves around the To run the length of old aan Street ~--Ia-villages, then. winds. through to
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ere factories run and strong men toil, :
Or crawin through peaceful country lands - Where calm men tend the loamy soll.
The white road stretches in the vales Then climbs the highest mountain peak, And like the hearts of men it lends ' Earth's beauty to both high and meek.
—DraL MCGUIRE, Dupon.
MOM: S FEATHER _
_At the feather on Mom's new hat. : It looks Ihe, 20me fowl had lost his tall But admit it's cute at that,
It sits atop her er it " udly waving its airs, , When wars wildly hanpy | there _ Gathering up admiring stares
JOSEPHINE BUCK, Weathald. CN
+ + AUTUMN EVENINGS
Blushing Autumn evenings Tenderly they rest; Close to winter's coming Near to twilight's breast, __. Hours pass gently into time, Night wraps a cloak of darkness Around the soft and lovely tones - Of fading Autumn brightness,
“MARY JANE LUKENS, Knightstown. +
og QUESTION
ta Claus’ brother?” — TE NE N REED, =WALS B Lak Tndianapoiis:
.ASlittle bay, in childish prose, cerely asked his mother, “Since 's so good, do you suppose ‘He's
agement dispute. They . have no right, in our opinion, to use force or threats of injury to prevent People £ from cross-
“ings picket Tine. -
: LOBBYING, p a form of petition to the vSrumbAL. * also is protected by the Constitution. Every citizen has a right to tell Congress what laws he believes should be passed or not passed. Individuals can lobby by writing egrams, calling” int person: on- Senators: and Representatives, or groups of individuals cat employ agents to present their views. But no individual or group has the right to hoy the votes of Congressmen or use other ‘corrupt-methods.- : Labor Srganizations Yusinsss argyiizatinn, farm i or= ganizations all have hired lobbyists in Washington. Union leaders in particular have beenplobbying on a tremendous scale by threatening to cause the defeat of every member of Congress who supports such legislation as the - Taf. Hartley Act. The right to lobby, like the right to picket, can be abused; and often has been. Congress has made some efforts to prevent abuses by writing rules to govern the activities” of paid lobbyists. An investigation that would expose actual abuses and point the way to make such Tules mare effective would be valu Able. : , |
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Back to Nature Ci HE Air Force is going out of the rain-making business. After a nine-month experiment of sowing clouds with “dr ice, it was decided ‘that the resulting precipitation was not enough to be of “economical significance.” So the country has no choice but to fall back on such | —drought-ending ts as Indian rites of incantation, "the washing of the family automobile, and the scheduling I of week-end picnics. ; :
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ig thie existence of a laborsmans: rR TR
House Group Urges
Military Alliance
PARIS; Dec. 3— -America must act immediately ta bulwark
You have
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Tm tantalized, “teased, and tickled pink — |
BXCEPT for. the. a narly directories of Indian: apolis,. I wouldn't be in a position today to tell you where the grandfathers of some of our most distinguished citizens spent their nights sui. va years ago. In 1857, for instance, when Indianapolis already had a public debt of $20,000 and something like 15,000 citizens squeezed into 1000 houses (it's {the gospel truth), Herman Lie-. ber slept in Union Hall, a hostelry in the neighborhood of * the Courthouse. ‘A$ for the beds of other eli: gible bachelors, Herman Bamberger's was located in the home of Julius Glaser, and that of Henry Severin belonged to the family of A. Sunders. Moreoyer, County Clerk John €. New bhoard“ed at Wiliam Campbell's;
Piet’s; William J. Holliday at Z. Tousey’s; John 8. Tarkington at Mrs. “Kinder's and Charles
first gunsmith). "At that time; too, John F. Wallick (who subsequently sensed the genius of Thomas A. Edison) boarded at James McCurdy's. The family of Edmund Browning took in Simon Yandes
entleman whose name appeared in the first 0
you come to figure it
House on Woodsy Lot : g
TO RETURN 'to 1857. Believe it or not, Nicholas McCarty boarded at Mrs. McCarty's in ‘ a house situated on a high and woodsy lot
stands. Frank Ittenbach, a stonecutter working for Alex Muerson at the time, slept with his father in a house on Delaware Bt. somewhere ‘between South and Merrill Ne Clemens Vonnegut, it appears, lived on the same street somewhere between Maryland and __Geor, Architect Dietrich A, Bohlen had his hed in a house on Huron St. And as for John
across the street from the home of .his father-
* ~habit.
Christian Off at H.
Vajen at Sam Beck’s (the head of which family enjoyed the historic distinction of being our
and the Palmer House put up John C. Wright,
) directory and stayed in every directory “up to, and Including, 3 1008: “IVs TI years; when
—where the Manual Training High School now
1. Ketcham, he slept in a house on Merrill St.
in-law (Samuel Merrill) which at that time oc>, cupied the site bf the present Catherine Merrill . ¢ {-"Behool (No. 85%, EEE SAI fe gs tog up after the scheduled dates of publication | =
vk Anton Scherrer g Sites of Grandlathers n Old City Directories
y J Schnuli lived above his grocery (and produce) at what was then 170 W. Washington St, and Willlam F. Piel practiced the same He lived with his groceries (and dry goods) a little farther east on the same street.
Richest Man in City
DR. PATRICK H, JAMESON'S home occu- .
pied the corner of Ohio and Alabama Sts. That
of Stoughton Fletcher held down the corner “Where the Cadle Tabernacle now stands.
His
son, Stoughton Jr., lived at the southeast corner of Virginia and South 8ts, and Daniel Yandes slept in the ‘bed of his home at the southwest ‘corner “of Pennsylvania and New York 8ts. He was probably the richest man in Indianapolis at the time. Legend has it that his pockets bulged with $5000 bullion when
_he turned up hére:
As for Ashbel P. Willard (our Governor at the time), he had to. be content to sleep in a
bed located in a house 18 foundations of which
west corner of what is a Hinols and Market Sts. The reason I can't be more specific-about locations may be traced to the fact that the 1857 directory lists very few street numbers, It reveals the cause of the dilemma, too, “In reference to our annual contributors,” says the preface, “we would here allude to the Jivantage
to please all and have their cards ghest aim
displayed, as well ag their names in the Business Mirror, which we hope will be sufficient inducement to ensure a hearty support, ers will be. confined to small type, under a general head, merely giving their name without designating their place of business.” -
Temporary Bachelo IT MAY also occur to some of the more alert descendants of the men mentioned above that T have catalogued some of their illustrious ancestors as eligible bachelors when, as a mat-
-ter-of -faet they were already married at the
time the 1857 directory appeared (Herman Lie-
. ber, for one).
“Embarrassing ‘as it 18, 1 offér tio "apology. Any such discrepancies may be traced to the historic fact that, even as far back as then, the directories of Indianapolis had a habit of turn-
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Non-support- «
{- Flynn gave for France. __Flynn investigate that possibility and then don’t
-3nd.-not on. Andrew. Jacobs...
“of people. Perhaps next time you had
—yet-to-find-a system which will'do the
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"I do not agree ons wih a word Teer ya bef will defend to the death your right te say it"
ee ————— Keep letters 200 words or
“eet with which you are familiar, Som Totters I
will be edited but content willbe pre- | , for here the People Speak in Freedom. |
Both Parties’ dddié, 811 W. 37th St., a. article quoted John T. qd author, as saylig ud pot ‘the Repub-
‘We N By Dale B. Dui Anderson, Ind. .. Seyeral days ago 4d Flynn, political lecturer that the Democratic Party ® lican Party was doomed, ~_To predict the loss of either © parties .to me is very thought-prov seems to predict a future for our peop trolled by either communism, fascism _© or other ism. The death of either major party would at up a party control that might prove hard lo eliminate, a party which could or might be brolight under the control.of a few, which might grow selfish. Quite’ often the party in control grows greedy and careless. ‘But the threat to
our major LAE: © it con. 9
"office of the other party brings a housecleaning - to the party in power even though it defeat the
opposition. This is one reason why neither of our major parties must be destroyed, - I am a laborer; also a Democrat, but for my party to be in power so long that they can only see one side of the picture and enact Jaws that _might become as damaging te the minority as “we in labor think the Ra artiey Act was la us, would be wrong. and it is my belief that the people are too smart to let this happen. If a party suppresses free enterprise, that ld will be defeated and rightly 80, :
gamer, P.came 1otthess "The gentlenran=-1
wounds. If the Democratic Party could have hired him; he probably would predict now, “The Republican Party is dead or dying.” If the party in power does wrong, we, the “woters, must be ediicated fo a better way. But it cannot be done by predictions of dire conse juences and political hot-air propaganda. Grafting, leose-living and a lowering of morais- has heen a destroyer of nations since the beginning of time. Could that be the cause of all the unrest in « Europe today? And not that flimsy excuse Mr. 1 suggest that Mr,
shoot pelitical blanks at either party. Both have their faults but we need both parties for 3 free and better America. orn WW
‘Not Tor Persanal Gain" By Mrs. C. H,, City
I would like to answer the person who rates himself a loyal Marion County Democrat by ariticizing Andrew Jacobs for failure to name more local Democrats. to jobs, Your letter jn The Times reflects upon you Ta be sure, it. is ‘rue that good men are known by their enemies. I thought we fought to elect men for what good. they could do for eur country as a whole and for the masses of our people and not for what personal gain we as individuals would get out of it. It is reward enough for the most of us to see
good honest men put into office, and if we had -
more men like Rep. Ludlow and Mr. Jacobs in -office, we would he able to abolish entirely the ugly deeds of politicians. No doubt, Mr. Jacobs, being sincere and conscientious himself, thought he was being voted into office by the same t
campaign for a politician instead of a statesman,
What Others Say—~ - National health insurance has heen attacked as a Socialist experiment. If I have hecome & stanch advocate of (it), it is because I have. examined carefully all the alternatives and have
red
effectively. —Oscar R. Ewing, federal security administrator. 2 LE
Lawyers have a positive obligation to explain to the peoples who control the national governments the crucia} necessity for building up a system of -law between the nations as a substitute for war.—Judge Florence E: Allen, United States Court of Appeals. * ¢ » The choice boils down ‘to this: We (Amerls cans) will either organize the world or it will be organized without us and against us,—Erie Johnston, president, Motion Picture Association of America.
“+ ond have lived for 20 years in Ireland and for 72 Ti" England; but the 20 came first:>and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall dle one. Shwe cee :
Drama in Shanghai Shows U.S. Retreat
BHANGHATL, Dec. 3A sharp-eyed hawker of wood carve
“rrakihg 1 must have pulled the straight Republican lever. %ast Nov. 2 and now is trying to put salve on his.
ter R
job mere
with Russia at the moment.
Europe's military defenses against Russia, seven members of the ‘House. Armed’ Services Tommittes have agreed: after a Swo-Week-. tour of Europe's trouble spots. They said they were “much disturbed” aver the world situs: tion but they did not think there was grave danger of a war
“The Con smen- had rivate.talks. fcan and yr Sua nn and military, during the tour. They visited Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Spain and France. In an exclusive interview just before boarding the plane for the United States, the Republicans snd Democrats alike expressed
these views: ! ’
‘Urge Military. Alliance ONE: America must participate in the military alliance with Western European countries. “We are damn fools if we don't,” said Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (8, C.), ranking Democratic member of the group. American participation, the Co Fesman felt, shguid be largely that of war materiel and supplies ‘Hunger,
despeir-and fear” must he eliminated in the interests of Buropess |
—and American—security. TWO: War is not imminent. the Communist crusade on all fronts but force, said Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.), He sald this was the unanimous conviction of the x hest American officials, including Secretary of State Geo Marshall and senfor military commanders. The reason— 2 tin does not have sufficient oil and steel production now to support a major offensive. THREE: The United States should remain in Berlin “at all
Russia will continue to press she will not try military chairman of the group.
costs.” “It .is either that.or get out of Europe entirely, We firmly believe ‘Berlin will-not- become-another Munich,” Rep. Melvin Price (D. Ill). “If we withdraw and leave the open’
to the Communists in Europe, it will be a go-ahead signal for Communists all over the world.”
‘Must Help People We Can Trust’
FOUR: The Western democracies must recognize the strategic importance of Spain, and Spain should be given economic, “and possibly military, help by the United States. “We cannot ignore the strategic importance of the Iberian peninsula. We must help people e know we can trust,” said Mr. Rivers. ‘FIVE: The European Recovery Program, despite some misokey, | ,, qefinitely working.” “It saved France,” said Mr. Short. Soviet Union is Sgtually at war right now,” said Ce J % s (KR. pressure is oh all the way BR Indonesia to within a few kilometers of the French border. 1s in a state of fear, We are tremeddously interested in rehabilitation, but if economies help does not prove | mah peace.
with. the, highest Amer: |
. "It 18 not a military war Re I
{ apellenithire, - SOP. 1098 BY MEA DERVICE. WC. 7. W R50. U. . PAT, OFF. ; "I¥'s surely changed——this can't be the romantic spot where you * propesed to me that gorgeous summer night!”
sufficient, the job must be done by other means. This does not mean by armed force but it does. mean to build up a Western alliance to prevent ‘any individual despot from seeking world domination.” The group unanimously discounted Sen. Tom Connolly's
. statement in Washington that the Berlin problem is one of curs’
rency which can and will be readily settled. This is contrary to: the opinion of officials on the scene, "théy pointed out, A few hours. before departing for the United 'States, the up had a private meetirig with Paul Ramadier, French defense
ssed the fear that the East-West battle
still a'threat,” and express X German Ruhr, might “spill over” into
over iy oh of t
mit
Toseph Brion ij9on (0. 5.2):
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inister, Mr: Ramadier; they said; told them that ‘Germany is-
C. W. Bishop (R, Tit), Paul |
“the dett Three years,ago it rumbled under the six-by-six trucks of
ings stood beside his overloaded counter on the W. Whangpoo Rd. He sized me up as I walked by. Sidewalk. 9 TRA part of “the Whangpoo Ra. ior most American-frequented spot in China. Chinese beggars, pickpockets, ricksha boys and souvenir hawkers are drawn to it ‘by the passing stream of Americans; ‘AmeficAhs have won-~derful-green money in their pockets and sometimes a careless way of spending it. cw Just-after I -had. passed: him, the: wood: warvings-] hawker called out: “Go home, cheapstuff. Cheapstuff, go home,” You couldn't be sure who he was talking ta. tering and laughing with another hawker,
Americans Learning China
WHANGPOO RD. stems out of an intersection with Broadway, Garden Bridge, and Soochow Rd. and wanders off into a jumbled squalor of warehouses and tenements of Shanghai's lower waterfront where most of the evacuation ships are taking in their American and other foreign passengers leaving China these, days. That intersection once again has become a cons
He was chat
fluence of highly fluid currents of world histary. Garden Bridge; a Span. of steel and: toncrete. 10-years ago —
was the passage Of safety 11 the International Settlement from the first terror of Japanese aggression. Seven- years ago its beams fuive ed as Japanese troops marched across to take over ment from the Western powers.
the victorious American-Chinese alliance, Today this famous bridge and its connecting thoroughfares have become the exit from China,’ toward which Americans have been given the uneasy choice of running or walking.
“Answer Is Complex
THE United States has failed in China and} is Pulling ot * How does it happen three: yedps and three months after the United States snuffed out the Japanese conquest of Asia that the U. 8. should be retreating in the i - of another conquest of “Asfa, anda hawker on “Whangpoo Rd : should be bidding Americans an insulting goodby? The answer is complex and in many respects is deliberately
obscured by official peevishness or politeness in Washington and -
Nanking—and like most history not to be Hieclosed fully until
.It 1g too late to do anything about it,
But one aspegt stands out: The United longer officially considers China or Continental Asia as vital tothe str interests of America. Desirable yes, but within ertain Minit
And
ye called in nlarsaions, moraiiy moray ihe Tainand i the the a lands Othe Facite i
years has been the
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ns; but necessary, 20, ae the Window
NEW YO Met Opera op “+. Oh, how “Mrs. Bet well, like. cha: against her sp with John Li marr’s ex, blo accountably i red curls attacl Tr. = hressed in a an omlgn breat ... Which cauged bit ter remar’ Or a ‘couple of ciety writers, sat around | Sherry’s bar a the Met wit Mrs. Henpderso while she or dered milk, coul not get it, the water, then or - juice — al
ash man to get on!” But Mrs, H gams on the stayed on the - ‘Maybe a coup their fuses, too. Because Mrs. boys asked her, ing down a ban She thought —dignified, ' It was after "had told me, “I till I was 65, th lost time,” that young escort, ‘who. was. hidiy rimmed dark gl red socks with was Introducing
Blowing Bi
THIS WAS A —before Mrs. H - the opera—no-u —and Mr. Lod photogs, seeme bubbles through “Oh, this is t quite - accurate on: “I can see the
At this secon Auguste, social best dramatic _the bar, anywa. «-“T have lost : ring,” she decid She’d been w glove—where el $22,000 ring, yo! it 100 diamonds