Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1949 — Page 29

. librarians dug up odd hobbies and occupa- . tions by the score. Great piles of reference books were moved, some for the first time in years. My less frequen

What's so interesting? One pin head. Clar. became le ence. F. Roembke (seated) does the engraving since the women began to shudder when I crossed = while Leo Alerding (left) and Carl Herzig look on. ; * the threshold. It became useless to ask: “Find - : - anything yet?” in a cheery and gay voice. Use- He tried a scratching ‘tool first. We all looked through a powerful One at a time,

less in any kind of a voice. A black gloom settled over me. My own at- One at a time. The head of the pin looked the tempts, feeble to be sure because of lack of equip- Size of a dime. We were on the right track even ment, ended only in failure, strained eyes, pricked though a few seconds of looking through the fingers and ink-splattered ones. I did manage to Slass made me cockeyed. get a portion of the Gettysburg Address on a Everyone began to have ideas how it could or match folder; -a feat, however, you'll have to should be done. Mr. Roembke had the best idea, “agree is nothing to shout about. : since he was doing the worl: On his first attempt

Surprising thing, too, under the glass he had room to Without the glass, the head of the pin looked like'a plain head of a pin.

Suggests ‘Lord's Prayer’ “HOW ABOUT trying the Lord's Prayer?” 1 after the engraver had announced that there was “g lot of room on the pin.” One more pin was put into the block. This time C. F. Roembke was engraved straight across) said he had.seen the Lord's Prayer on a penny. the middle. Nice job. But that was it. The men Leo J. Alerding, who has been engraving since were not too sure the Lord's Prayer. could be put 1895, said he heard about such things but never on something such as a pin head. They wouldn't saw any of it. Carl Herzig, the youngest engraver, discuss rice. : just shook his. head. Fifteen minutes later, Mr. Roembke took back We. kicked my problem around verbally for & his engraving tool and handed me a couple, good quarter of an hour. Mr, Roembke became ‘pandaids rT : very interested which was & good sign for Mr. : . -Alerding and Mr. Herzig to get interested, too. fo = When Mr. Alerding commented that he thought Re he could engrave the prayer on a coupling pin _trailroad pin about the size of a flashlight), Mr. g Roembkée found a straight pin and tightened it the Lord's Prayer on a pin head. I'm through in the engraving block. ‘ with pin heads. .

ough "Well, they heard of pin writing. too. Not much help. Finally, the trail ended (I give up) in Room 414 in the State Life Building. The three gentlemen in that room were most helpful and I'm most grateful. At least they didn’t laugh and brush me off. They became interested in my search which makes them fine people, my kind of people. Clarence F. Roembke, who is head man of the gold and silver scratchers and diamond setters,

+ “I believe a man could put his ‘name on the head of a pin,” was my closing comment. Mr. Roembke agreed emphatically. But even with names there were limitations. That was our

Tax Puzzle

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 — There is a niggling Amos ‘n program could be successful ‘injustice, it seems to me, in the way the Bureau of without Gosdgn and Correll. To Benny it must Internal Revenue has been interpreting the big tax be a tragic technicality, for a life’s work has been cases lately. Understand, I bleed not for Jack invested in his program. . Benny, who was dirty rich in the days when you A similar thing happened, recently, in the d keep it all. . ; : literary meadows. Gen. Ike Eisenhower hawked I have tried for years to plumb tHe delicate his memoirs for an estimated $750,000. On the

: of a life's reasoning behind the various tax bites, but nobody that it represented the fruits e ever was able to tell me why you penalize a man Work, Ike's effort was clipped on a capital gains

for time, talent and effort—that's earned income cOuUnt only—25 per cent, leaving him better tham

Th. Li “—vwhile playing dead. for the boy who. calls: Clear half-a-million.” = ir % ; himself a corporation and turns his money out I congratulaté Ike on his luck; but figure him/ --- : to graze. : no more entitled to spacial dishensation than any : . ther writer who distil experience d The first fellow can get slugged up to 77 per rates Ee —s hard covers.

cent of his income, and it used to be worse. The

is second guy can masquerade as real ‘property— Pros and Non-Pros lik: house—and they only clip him . of the net. Y omy ap vet THEY ARGUE that Ike isn't a professional

writer, and hence shouldn't be subject to the tax liabilities of the man who eats off a typewriter. It’s hind-end-to logic. a Seems to me the penalties should be imposed on the non-pros, who merely cash on careers that

You recently had the two cases of Benny an of Amos ‘'n Andy. Charley Correll and Freeman Gosden, the two vintage black-facers, peddled themselves to CBS for two million bucks, and clung to a clear profit of $1,500,000.

By Robert C. Ruark

Then one day & friend put me on the trail of With the scratching tool he was able to put in| : ml > engravers, those men who carve pretty things on Roemb of his name. On the second attempt he : nN watches and rings. There was a real lead, I was able to get C. F. Roembke around the head. San] thought. \

conclusion. So, don’t tell me yom can engrave does automatically and exactly, yet if

have already been paid for.

I see no reason why Gen. Eisenhower's memoirs should escape a full-sized, earned-income) tax grab, while other battle books, written by lowercase warriors, fegl the deepest potential bite} of the Washington tax ax. If Ike is exempt, so is] the GI-author of “Naked and the Dead,” for that| book also is a sum of the writer's life work. A) book is a book. i

They were allowed capital gains . . . technically, the bureau said, because the show conceivably could continue without them: They were alleesam: real estate. : .

. Sounds Like Technicality

BENNY, ALSO made up as a corporation, attempted the same deal, and was curtly informed that his personal services were involved, and that without him, the Benny show would perish. Hence, no capital gains, and instead of a $300,000 tax, they amputated the. old miser loose from $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. 1 see nothing but a technicality involved in the differentiation, and an unfair technicality at that... Benny is. forthe skill that makes “him vital to the show—and the revenue people are présumptuous to assume that the

day when they write the best seller or sign the Hollywood contract, to compensate for all the lean and bitter years. They finally hit the Jackpot, and then the taxman comes with a truck to lug it! all away, oi The very Teast they rate Is an even shake in the government enforcement of a basic injustice.

| Orchids to Rick By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Having had a good thing. Cigarets are 10 cents a pack, rum is night's sleep at long last and imbibed no pine- 75 cents a jug, and $100 worth of silver knives apple juice with rum in it since I left Puerto Rico and forks will cost you $56. = a couple of days ago, I now am in position to New hotels are going up on the mountaintops, make a report on travel in the Spanish main. while the U. 8. government is trying to get a conMostly it's good. 4 ; ....tractor to take over its celebrated inn, the BlueAnd I've got to how low to Capt. Eddie Ricken- beard Castle Hotel, and spend $500,000 to make backers airline, which has figured out a simple it bigger. This activity partly is to attract tour- ~ little scheme to quit scaring the daylights out of ists, but also to take care of the divorce seekers. “the customers. BT ne ARE PAN REE ! { Capt. Eddie has installed loudspeakers in his are all over the place, looking lonesome in sunflying machines so his pilots can speak soothingly back dresses. Live six weeks in the Virgin Isto the passengers. This is a great comfort. lands, it turns out, and you get a first-class diThe pilot tells ‘em when he's about to hit a vorce from a genuine federal judge. The unbump, or run through a hailstorm. . He also keeps happy females are taking full advantage.

the clients informed on how high theyre fying yondayarfers of Rum Business

1 and since this service was intro- , rs a of people taken sick on the THE VIRGIN ISLANDS also are the head-

“ captain's airplanes because of fright has dropped quarters of Uncle S8am'’s only venture into the rum ou 3 - 9 ~ business. This was President Roosevelt's idea.

FROM PUERTO RICO to Charlotte Amalie it in the United States under the label, Governin the Virgin Islands I took a Toonerville trolley ment House. airplane, which drones from island to island in Good rum, too, the drinkers thereof informed what seems to be the most casual way, but never me, but you know how it is with the government. has lost a passenger, It got in an argument with its distributor and

when I was a young man and I can report the trade-mark. : t Joan Crawford's knees under a skirt which The government said he &jd not, either. The t quite reach ‘em are a startling and beau- courts will have to decide and, in the meantime, sight, ? ’ the government's rum Is up in the wareThese islands, you know, we bought from houses because it isn't sure it can sell the stuff, Denmark in 1917 and they still contain numerous Governrhent House. Danes, who sell Danish silverware at bargain Everywhere you go, problems. Fellows getting prices to American tourists. This is because red in the face, arguing, when they ought to be Charlotte Amalie is a free port. No tax on any- sitting in the sand, sunning themselves.

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