Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1950 — Page 29

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Mr. Sovela and eternity become clearer in the darkness, An occasional glance at the officer of the deck, +Ens. Robert C. Smith, the talker, Helmsman, “quartermaster of the watch and signalmen “brought you back to earth. : In a quiet voice, John asked me why I didn’t “ask some of the other Indianapolis officers what . they thought. We have six aboard the Hyman, . Besides John there is Lt. Cmdr. Harry E. Crull, - 3461 Park Ave.; Lt. Byrte E. Hallem, 220 N, Ta“coma Ave.; Lt. Edward T. Pritchard, 4455 Marcy : Lane; James R. Gregory, 3834 Ruckle St. and John R. Kissling, 3515 N. Keystone Ave. My answer was that they weren't on the bridge. : Finally John said he had been thinking how ~ his folks were getting along, how his wife was, < how much he missed her. Different things. Also how nice it was to know that in a few days he

would be back home instead of standing on a .

= bridge not knowing If he was ever getting back. 5 A report came up from command operations ~¢enter that a skunk (unidentified ship) was off our starboard. t It reminded John of the night before he took “his ship in Leyte. He was in command of an “LST. There were 500 Army personnel aboard. - Same kind of a lonely night except that he had a - sick feeling in his stomach. It was always there

attacked the group of four LST's. Twelve

ing before the big explosion made it necessary

BLAZING gasoline covered the water. His executive officer and his pharmacist mate were

the next to go over. And they had to be pushed. | Spent, John remembers taking his helmet off beforeisubstantial state outlay also was jumping Into the water. You can break your neck involved, with a helmet. Then he slipped off his shoes and stration.

trousers and cut away his gun and knife belt. His job as far as the ship was concerned was done.| His men and the Army were off and in the water. Destroyers were picking them up. Over the side he went. ‘Twenty minutes later I was picked up,” John added. “There's nothing unusual in my|

Some time ago he paid $3.75 to have ‘a new zipper put in his jacket. He rubbed the sleeve. He didn’t know why he wore it Reserve and go every year? John feels it's his duty. Wonder what Jane is doing? I don’t know.. What time is it? |

aerved 2 149,938 persons received old age

No Turning Back

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By Robert C. Ruark™

- said,

. SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 14-It®is nearly . Rlways, a mistake to attempt to recapture an early ~ experience in thé precise terms of that experience. This has something to do with contrasts, "and © youth, and the Taility of ever attempting to turn a clock back. a The average Yank would be mildly disappoint- ~ od in Australia today, although he would find the * people largely the same, food and drink more plentiful, the same number of pretty girls, the same climate and the same potential for romantic > living. But he would also find that they—as he are a half-dozen years older, and that peace in any eity is nothing whatsoever like war in the same city.

It Ain't What It Used to Be

HE WOULD find his old girls married, perhaps, and settled down with a baby or so. He would find the Australian men back Home again, to resume their place in the community—a place that was more or less filled by the visiting Yank.” But mostly he would miss his own fellows, whose presence gave him a triumphant feeling of conquest in a strange land. When the first batch of Americans got off the first troop ship here or at Brisbane in 1942, the Yank was not at all sure about what he would find. Australia had largely been represented as a mysterious continent peopled only by kangaroos and sheep and men who chased kangaroos and - sheep. He was totally unprepared for what he found, which was, of course, big, sophisticated ~ gities filled with fun and festivity, girls and grog. food and frolic. " Behind him was the excitement of departure from home—ahead of him the uncertainties of war, with the possibility of death to heighten his enjoyment of the present. He was met with fond embrace by a people who welcomed each individual American as a saviour of their continent from Japanese invasion. E He was well dressed and rich, according to ~ Australian standards, and he was healthy and - generally handsome, and he ran smack into a * female population which was suffering sorely from

— man power shortage. He brought romance and riches and even sodial equality .to the girls. be caus¢ in Australia woman's plac® is still in the, home and father wears the pants. . The early Yank in Australia never had.it so fancy. He had Hollywood and Uncle Sam and the United States Army and the mint all going for him. He bought flowers and hailed cabs, and, brother, did the Sheilas swoon. He gorged himself on steak and eggs and Svdney oysfers and the wonderful beer. ; The wonders of Australia spread throughout the Pacific, to Europe, to America. Men on desolate rocks no longer dreamed of home and mother —they dreamed of leave in Sydney or Melbourne or Perth. Men on ships prayed for the day when their vessels would touch an Australian port. Australia became® a synonym for the soldiers’ heaven, Those who came here late in the war found-it doubly enchanting, if only by contrast. After a long and dull and tedious diet of ships and islands and dirt and mud and lousy chow and no booze and no dames, the men found Australia enchant ing. The women wore shoes, there was plenty of

fresh milk and enough beer, and, oh, baby, those

Sheilas. This was a view that several million American men had of this country—an oasis of comfort surrounded by a waste of water and war. That is the answer to why many GI's who returned io live the séemihumdrum of peace are chafing now: many anxious to return to America.

Peace Is Wonderful—But Dull

PEACE is fine, but peace is also dullish, and

filled with responsibilities and the irks of coping .

with commerce, matrimony and taxation. Peace is a serge suit and a bowler hat and a shortage of pepper and strikes and bills and babies and office hours and temperamental plumbing. Peace is a man grown older, a woman grown stouter, and a world settled down to every-day routine, What you find here today is a nation at peace, but still thinking nostalgically of war. |

Careful, Ladies

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—8Some of the finest ladies in this land are the members of the WCTU., What if I do disagree with them about the fluids that trickle down my gullet? I still admire them for their sincerity. Only I do wish they'd be a little more careful the way they orandish advertisements for distilled London dry gin. These get - in a fellow’s hair. “. There I was in the Senate caucus room, looking like a man of distinction. I mean my hair - was combed. And there were the ladies, 500 strong, jamming every seat, standing uncomfortably against the walls in their high-heeled shoes, and filling all the aisles for the Senate's annual performance on liquor ads. The drys, including a number of men, too, had up their regular bill making it a crime to advertise for sale that stuff with alcohol in it 80 the witnesses were saying the usual things about the demon rum. One of them mentioned blue noses in comparison with red noses and when the Rev. Dr. Albert D. Betts, pastor of the Method1st Church of Travelers Rest, in South Carolina, took the stand I felt in no imminent danger.

Liquor Ads by the Foot

I SHOULD have realized something was up "when Mrs. Betts, a pretty lady with flowers on . her hat, and an unidentified young woman in a tan suit took up a stance behind him. While Dr. Betts talked, the two ladies started unwrapping a large bundle. “There is no dodging the fact that alcohol is a slow-atting poison,” began Dr. Betts. “Now the liquor traffic is capitalizing on the Thanks- _ giving and Christmas season and our Christian “. people deplore it.’ By now the ladies had their vaticags spread open. Dr. Betts said he wanted to show the Senators what he meant. “His wife and her assistant,

he said, had clipped out the pages of liquor advertising in Newsweek magazine for the week of Nov. 21, and pasted them together. That added up to five and a half feet of ads. Mrs. Betts and friend held up the five and a half feet of ads. The doctor mentioned numerous other magazines of the same date. Each time the ladies held up the pasted ads and these banners kept getting longer. By the time they got to Life magazine— 14 feet of ads they were having their troubles keeping same aloft. They tore a page concerning one salubrious brand of bonded stuff square in two. Dr. Betts did not see this. He kept on reading. “And now,” said he, “we come to Esquire magazine for November. Twenty-two feet of Hquor advertising.”

Willing Hands Help Cause

HERE WAS a crisis. Mrs, Betts and her helper tried valiantly to flaunt this string of pages. but there simply wasn't room. Well, sir, the head women of the WCTU, including Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, the president (whom I parficularly admire for the way she has waged the fight she considers good), were sitting behind me. I do not know which one got into the act. But willing hands grabbed the 22-foot pennant by its Scotch whisky end, while somebody else on the other side of the room took its opposite or French liqueur, end. Mrs. Betts and her helper held up the middle. Then everybody waved. The gin ad, with one of Esquire’s celebrated ladies on the other side, drooped in the confusion and went through my coiffure lke a hay rake I looked as if I'd spent the night with a bottle. This was the fault—] hate to say it—of my friends of the WCTU. The wets still are to be heard from; watch these precincts for the play-by-play.

The Quiz Master

72? Test Your Skill ???

If a train is going 60 miles an hour, and a man _ inside one of the cars jumps several feet vertically, will he land at the place he was standing, or . farther back? Providing the train really is going at a uniform speed, and not accelerating or decelerating, he Will land at the place from which he jumped. His body Is moving, like the train, at 60 miles an hour relative to the ground outside; but, before jumping, he was.not moving at all relative to the * + 4 Where is O)d Ironsides moored? \ The U. 8. Frigate Constitution Is moored in the Navy Yard at'Chariestown, Mase. *

How long is the Appalachian Trail?

a The Atbuisehion Trail, a public hiking and . riding tends 20000 miles from Maine to

What is the ruling concerning Christians In| Mecea, Saudi-Arabia? No Christians are permitted to stidy in Mecca | and foreign diplomats credited to Saudi-Arabia/ live in the port city of Jedda. | * eG, Where were the first highways in the world? The first highways of which anything is known were the trade routes of Asia Minor which connected the East with the West about 2000 B. C, eH P What state leads in big game population? According to the latest figures, the leader In big game population was the state of Michigan

_==mostly deer. Kansas was the only state re-,

ported with no big game.at all. «> > & Has the United States issued any postage stamps honoring a labor leader?

A special 3-cent stamp in honor of the 100th Samuel noted

birthday anniversary of

tes res, and athee Indiana | n institutions.

» 30, : * Fellowships and awards wf " $385,749, amounting to 1 | {per cent of the cost of operating | Shicads, {ha entire program in Indiana. Assistance to state and local of vocational education, | Other FSA outlays In the state $664.484, in addition to $109,121 {for land-grant colleges. . { Compensation to injured federal | employees in the state $132,000. Also included in the aid figures, | Mr, Shuts said, was federal back{ing of 163 federal credit unions in Mon Venereal isease control, $264.- the state with a membership of [78,568 members. The unions are Ne Aosation of $82,000 to survey co-operative associations to pro-

Slowly, between interruptions from the bridge, 155.265 Hoosiers during the fiscal hospital and health center needs mote systematic

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3 - ‘direct services to the edocs, Ithcluded: nt ? system, and certain serv- Tud . old jacket he was wearing had come § less operated entirely by the fed-| y ; : eral government. Most of the ad- $286,000 to help build and mainthe jacket was the only real nice Pisce oe clothing | inistration of the spending was tain local health departments. |

of he had when be d over the side of his ship h during the Bo 3 one by the state,

Federal funds under the FSA gave direct benefits to

for the entire fecal year amount- | The United States of America, acting throught’ the

‘ed to $11,463,000.

health grant of |

Tuberculosis control, $123,000.

d plan construction under the make small consumer loans to

said. year, he | Hospital Survey and Construction members.

The direct beneficiaries includ . 8 od children receiving health serv-| H Blakley's LST. Mr. Blakely now lives in 6950 on and women served by the peaith activities. Central Ave. His ship took a kamikaze also, rehabilitation progarm, » recipl-| .For 30 minutes, Lt. Barnett directed fire fight-/, +c or old age assistance. Also! included were recipients of social] to abandon. : security payments, retired and the beneficiaries of! Over the Side to Safety fetired_atiq. the tes =} In addition to the federal fundsi Mr. Sharp pointed out, aj

Grants of $61,000 for cancer were taken from the re rt for lcontrol and $30,000 for mental the 1948-49 iin

fiscal year being pre|pared by national FSA director A total of $84,000 to universi- "| Oscar Ewing.

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Indiana's Share Indiana's share of FSA for health and welfare services| ito mothers and $351, 100. Grants for aid to ge-| children amounted ! age assistance) |funds applied in Indiana by the| $13,035,000, and

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By Juve 30, Mr, Sharp's report Hoosiers were receiving monthly payments under the federal system of old age and

ments were running to $1, 445,004 a, month. ‘Payments in the hate

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