Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1950 — Page 11
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step. Today, Meridian and Washington Sts. is place to cross and observe the trafic lights, mused the veteran police officer, glancing at Ayres’ clock. Did he have an appointment? No.
Tells What's Different
WHAT IS DIFFERENT about the corner? In the voice that is so characteristic of the
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“Crossroads of America" . . . Jesse Mec-
Murtry, retired police chief, ambles across and remembers the best days.
Tax Muddle
‘seven inches of snow covered the streets. A call
greeting. \
engineer. “Louis was so good you coud almost call h a trick rider.” : Mr, McMurtry thinks he has seen the best “Everybody liked policemen then,” he sald. “It was
a pleasure to work 12 hours for $15 a week. The!
city wasn't so preoccupied, so busy and the people] lived slow enough to enjoy life more and make it more enjoyable for others. Sunday afternoons used to be a time for a streetcar ride to Fairview! Park (present site of Butler University) and see all the people you knew.”
Remembers First Day
ONE OF THE MOST VIVID memories the chief has is of his first day as a member of the bicycle corps. It was early in February, Six or
came in and the rookie was dispatched to the stieetcar barns on W, Washington. When he got there his legs gave way. He walked part of the way back\to headquarters. Mr, McMurtry also remembers the drug store on Washington and Illinois Sts. which was open all night), Strauss occupies the location now. “It seems to me Indianapolis was a bigger city in those days,” said Mr. McMurtry. “It was an all-night city. Yes, sir, I saw the best days.” The chief iad to be on his way. I watched him cross Meridian\ St. He glanced at the clock again. Shortly he was gone, lost among the people on the sidewalk. Not opce did he wave his hand in
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 25—It being fashionable to grouse about the weight of taxes at this time of the year, I will keep myself chic and beef about the same, just like Mr. Truman. My platform is a personal depletion clause for the salaried man, and a capital gains structure for every individual. You can still get rich in the oil business because they have a tax theory that since you are depleting your larder of oil by taking it out of the earth, a certain override on income should be allowed. y 80 you are forgiven 27 per cent taxes on the gross, and every time you drill a dry hole you can deduct so much that you are practically home free for the year. The capital gains thing is merely a matter of ‘buying or building a property and hanging onto it for a spell, and then when you sell it you can keep up to 75 per cent. In one instance Ike Eisenhower was granted a special capital gains dispensation on his memoirs, arguing that they represented his life's work and hence should not be subject to the heavy income levies which afflict us other warriors turned scribbler,
Urges an Equal Break
I WON'T SCREAM about paying my share of the government's upkeep so long as everybody gets the same break on the same principles, and so I declare myself subject to the same laws that govern the oil industry and the capital gains business, For instance every time I sit down at this rickety mill and compose prose I am depleting my own stockpile a little bit. But I am robbing my own resources of words and phrases, of humor and anger, of ideas and structures. I am also cutting into my nervous system, draining my energy, and chipping away at my physical reserves. Moustache hair, for instance, yanked out in literary desperation, is never thereafter regained. When they drill a dry hole in the oil business
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If Mr. Eisenhower—a one-book ‘wuthor—can get away with a capital gains claim ‘on his effort, why cannot all other book authors and magazine writers and newspaper hac claim that their efforts, too, represent a sum bf their life's work, but on the instalment plan Instead of in a lump? \
they write off all the exhenses entailed in drilling same, generally adding tab for a few non-
hotel suites, \ But who gives me money\when an idea turns sour? Who pays me a rebate when the office knocks back a piece or a magazine turns down an article, or the movies won't ‘buy a script I've slaved on? There seems to be n§ real difference between dry holes, whether in oil ok newspapering, because energy expended is energy expended, and time is money in either case. \
\ Cites Personal Example \ _LET us say that I am a house. I have been building me, brick by brick for the last 15 years. Now I am finished, but I cannot sell me in one
sale, but must get back my investment in dribs|\
and dabs and bits and pieces. But I am as truly a venture in capital gains as the house bought on speculative credit and sold at a later profit, with little invested in the transaction but a down-payment and a lot of luck. My point holds for every individual who works for a living, whether it is for a salary, a commission, or in a business of his own, The money that he makes is a piecemeal return, like interest, on’ his original investment in himself and should not be taxed punitively when | the gamblers go relatively free. I cannot see how a general who writes a book | about war is any, less exempt from income taxes | than a GI who writes a book about the same war. | I cannot see where the depletion of oil is any | more deserving of government forgiveness than| the depletion of the brain and body. The ultimate | dry hole is death, and in the meantime, let us| have capital gains and depletion for all—or none. !
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—What we've got now (us taxpayers, I mean) is 2,728,000,000 middling to bad eggs, which are getting no fresher in a hurry. They've been dried and powdered, packed in barrels, and laid by in handy caves around the na-
tion. The, government’s egg buyers, who bought «same. This looked like a good business to him and
‘em to hold up the price of eggs that people eat, have been waiting vainly for the customers that never came. They've even tried to give these eggs away, but somehow nobody much was interested in their omelette possibilities. / So the danged hens across the land have kept on laying eggs at a speed which has amazed the government. They're still at it. The Agriculture Department decided the only thing to do was lower the price at which it would buy powdered eggs. It also concluded logically enough that the powder should be fit to eat.
Prices Sliding Down
AT THE MOMENT it is arguing with the egg driers, who claim that they can’t turn’ out p better quality product at a lower price. It's not buying any eggs. And the price of eggs that go sunny side up in a frying pan, consequently, are sliding down to near-record lows. This brings us to the good old Senate of the U. 8. A, which is investigating the whole messy situation. The hard-working hens are giving their all, their masters are going broke, the government has got to buy a lot of eggs it doesn't want, and nobody’s winning. - Roy W. Lennartson, the government egg expert, said he thought this would work itself out. People are eafing more eggs because they're about 30 cents a dozen cheaper than they were three months ago. Prices should go up a little, he said, and maybe this year he won't have to powder as
many eggs as he did last. - Eugene Friedman said he hoped so for a fact. He was one of the GI's during the war who ate powdered eggs, because lie had to, and read about the folks back home paying a dollar a dozen for
when he got back he opened an egg ranch at Lakewood, N. J. Business hasn't been so good. Mr. Friedman put on his best checked suit and his hand-painted necktie and came down to Washington to tell Sen. Guy M. Cillette of Iowa and company about eggs.
Treats Hens Like Queens
HE USES only big white chickens which lay only big white eggs. He fellows the scientific directions in all the books, treats his hens like queens, feeds them only the food that they like
best, and if it weren't for the fact that he likes!
fresh eggs himself, he'd be going hungry. His pampered chickens which, when in the] mood, lay the finest eggs on the market today, | now number 2000. Mr. Friedman ships his eggs| to the New York market, where they bring pre-| mium prices. He gets 35 cents a dozen for the big-| gest and the best and his net profits per week are $32. With nothing extra for worrying overtime. He said he didn’t want any more money for! his eggs, but the funny thing was that the price of feed still was about as high as when a dozen eggs brought almost a dollar, retail. If this would come down, he could make a decent living. If it doesn’t, then he and numerous other GI's in the egg business are going fo turn their farms back to Uncle
Sam. After all, said he, the Veterans Administra-| /
tion holds their mortgages.
The Senators: were sympathetic, so was I. I i
even had a couple of eggs fried for lunch. With toast they cost me 60 cents.
The Quiz Master
?2?2? Test Your Skill 2???
Which U. 8. Vice President changed his name? At the age of 21, Jeremiah Jones Colbaith changed his name to Henry Wilson. Elected Viee President in company with Ulysses 8S. Grant, he died in office. * oo 1 About how old is true porcelain? The acknowledged pioneer masters in, pottery . were the Chinese. The art was developed during the T'ang period, and true porcelain was probably Intfoduced y in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
* & ¢ Where is Buffalo Bill buried?” | William ¥. Cody was in a tomb blasted out of solid rock on the of Lookout Mountax near Denver, Colo, 4
Where were cranberries first served with turkey? ’ American cranberries were found growing wild by the early Pligrims. It is thought that on Thanksgiving Days they served them with wild turkeys, and for this reasop, cranberries have
become associated with turkey and Thanksgiving Day. J
or de Who is the author of the lines “Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone”? These lines are taken from the poem “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Authorship is alse claimed
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¥ "WEDNESDAY, TANGARY 75,1850 hi ge Eh Et Farm Bureau Leader Becomes *A_Real ‘Dirt Farmer’ At His Home
Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer
Hassil Schenck of Lebanon, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau since 1936, is busy most of the time with the duties of his office, but still directs operations on his 210-acre "home farm six miles southeast of Lebanon. After a week of office grind, it's nice to sit on a fence and admire
his herd of beef on the hoof.
\| Mr. Schenck (right) and Jess Hardesty, his hired hand for 10
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Mr. Schenck and his 19-month-old grandson, Daryl Kern, Daryl's father, Caryl, and a hired man do most of the work on the home farm. A second Schenck farm of 132 acres near Whitestown is tenant-operated.
After driving home from Indianapolis, the long-time bureau leader, one of the best known ars. The F B hief feed for his Duroc and Hoosier farmers, likes to chan innnshire. Berkshire ey Hereford cattle, and flocks of sheep. Mrs. Schenck knits. Their residence is less than a mile from Mr. Schenck's birthplace.
Optimist Club Members to Hear Columnist Sovola on ‘Hardest Job’
a yield of 9.58 tons of tomatoes
e into overalls and relax in the living room of his modern home, while
i . smmmag—— Two Start Terms In_Ft. Wayne Slaying i FT. WAYNE, Jan. 25 (UP)— Floyd M. Butcher, 37, and Mrs. Mary Frances Partridge, 48, began prison sentences today for the death of her former husband. They weré sentenced in Allen Circuit Court yesterday after
Amendment Perils Protective Laws
Hits Wives, Widows, Working Mothers
per acre. John received $150 in . i ; . pleading guilty to manslaughter To Be Honored at Luncheon Here Feb. 3 Prizes in 1045 4H competition By DAN KIDNE) cha:ges in the death of Dewey Ed Sovola, Tifpes columnist, will address the Indianapolis Op- livestock judging. He was gradu- WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 Indi- Partridge last Dec. 11, timist Club at luncheon meeting Friday noon in Séverin Hotel. Mr. ;vaq4 from Mt. Summit High ana laws designed to protect Judge William H. Schannen Sovola, who writes “Inside Indianapolis,” will speak on “The Hardest gave Butcher from two-to-21
Job in the World.” *\ Optimists will make plans to honof their International president, Franklin A. Steinko of Washington, D. C., at luncheon meeting Feb. 3 in the Columbia Club - = ’ ballroom. Optimists of the entire ta oe ern She and her got together in the latter's home in Port Lavaca, Tex. after being separated since orphanage days in Ruston, La., in 1908.
ber of life members of any: club in the international organization which is comprised of 725 clubs.
In charge Feb. 3 will be George'O.| a = = Browne, 326 E. 37th St., interni-| tional vice president, and Victor aware St., was one of 15 emC. Seiter, 49 8. Pennsylvania. St, \ployees
is local president.
Harold M. Emlejn, 6120 N. Del-| to receive the RCA Company's Award of Merit {for 1949. He is manager of the {Home Instru-
[rR CA Division | (here. Mr. Emlein
achievement in
prodiicing a rec-
Mr. Emlein ord volume of , /television receivers and 45-rpm Mr. Browne .. Mr, Seiter record players. ow" Mr. Emlein statted with RCA George Schick,” 41, Czechoslo- jn Camden, N. J. in 1930 after
vakian-born musical director of graduation from the University of the Montreal minnesota. He was promoted to Little Symphony. | foreman, superintendent and to will succeediyant manager in the Indianapolis] Tauno Hannl- n,n He fs president of the Inkainen as assist-|g4i0na001is Country Club. ant conductor of| x 8 the Chicago| pgjjce conducted a five-hour Symphony Orch-|gearch last night before Philip estra at the end|poCracken, 6, was found hiding of this season. |i, 5 coal bin in his home in Phil-| Rafael Kubel-|,400hia. Philip's mother, who re-| ik, new musical norteq that he failed to return director and on from school, found him crying
alpen JUCtor Of thei, pig nigeout. He sobbed that Chicago group,
selected Mr. Schick. The, DEW | ment for coming home late from assistant conductor was guest... conductor of orchestras in Eng: land, Italy, Germany and Czecho-| slovakia before coming to the!
Mr. Hannik
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Morrow of Clearwater, Fla., will/saild he had not seen rain for go to her Boston bulldog, Dusty. over three years, the time he A trustee will pay the money to|spent in South America. Mrs. Morrow's maid until dog dies. » . 0» ey A 25-year search for, members
n tomato grower of Indiana.
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man tronomy Ed‘mondson has been named sec(retary of the as{tronomy lof the | Association the AdvanceScience for four years last {Edmondson has been a commit|tee. member of the organization. the allowance of family support
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wives, widows and working moth- years and sentenced Mrs. Parte
ers will be jeopardized if the » post ets ridge to from one-to-10 years. Equal Rights: Amendment is ““gpirr oo giitted striking MF, adopted, according to a list of
such laws appearing in the Con- Partridge “with a whisky bottle,
gressional Record today They were inserted during de-
Plan Fire Safety At Home for Aged
$2500 Requested For Special Apparatus
Marion County Commissioners took steps today to erase fire hazards at Julietta, Marion County's home for the aged. County Commissioners Fred Nordsiek and William M. Allison requested an appropriation of $2500 for special fire apparatus “to make the county home free from fires.” Mr. Nordsiek said the commis sioners were asking for the fire equipment improvements at the Others Affected request of the state fire marshal, Industrial home work laws, Julietta has been ‘tefmed ‘come laws providing seats for women paratively safe” for an institu. employed at long-standing jobs tion. However, the center pore and the prohibition of women tion of Julietta is an old strucfrom working in coal mines would ture which county officials say {be affected under the working needs additional fire protection. women category the listing shows. . County Council, which controls | Both Indiana Senators have expenditures in the county, will {heen listed as probable supporters rule on the request along with {of the Equal Rights Amendment. several other miscellaneous items William E. Jenner (R.),/Feb. 7 and 8,
bate on the proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D. Ill.), who said they were compiled for him by
the National Consumers League {which is fighting the Equal Rights Amendment. Those affecting wives and mothers include right of support from husband and relief through divorce for husband's failure to make reasonable provision for his Widows would be affected in during settlement of the estate, right to occupy the family home and have the use of adjacent lands up to 40 acres for one year free of rent, and the right tn personal property from the estate up to $500 value
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at the University of Chicago. He gerved a short Senate term. Sen. Women of the Moose
was a Guggenheim Fellow and a, Homer E. Capehart (R.) is fly|research fellow at the Cufie Lab-| ing back from Indiana to be oratory in Paris. An M. D. graduate of the Unl- {aken in the Senate.
|versity of Turin, Italy, he came to the U, 8. in 1940. Prior to that half
Arrange Initiation |present when the final vote 18 women of the Moose will hold formal initiation tomorrow night in Moose Temple. { ~ Mrs, Joan Mendenhall will be in
Speaking in the House on beof his “Runaway Pappy
he studied in. Rome under the Bill,” Rep. Andrew Jacobs, In-| arge of child care committee
Nobel prize
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Dies of Injuries
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in physics, dianapolis Democrat, Fermi, and in the famous|lenged on the grounds that it
Jan,
25 the, Waters. son of Mr. and|(UP)—Allen McAllister, 63, Lal WotR Waters of near Mt.| Porte, died today in Clinic Hos | frequent offender, 1 coined the and said the Un it, Ind. is 4-H Club cham-|pital of injuries received when phrase, “Runaway Pappy Bill" | "wholly sympathetic” with he was struck by a car Jan. 13. Mr. Jacobs splained. when chalfic fatality |lenged on the House floor
was chal-| ter night. Mrs. Beulah Bote
r Kins will speak on child care. Mrs.
leveryone in St. Clair, Mich., but/Institute of Pasteur in Paris. -In doesn’t provide equal rights for Bee Brown will sing and lotte U, 8. in 1939. {Harold Proctor of Lima, Peru.[1947 he was called to Europe as/men when “mama runs away. Char A "$50,000 trust fund set up by |For Mr. Proctor, visiting there, guest-lecturer in genetics in Eng- He countered that the way his the will of- the late Mrs. Mary $./it was a novel experience. Helland, Sweden, Denmark and Italy. bill is drawn it does.
Glover will dance, .
It is a measure to apply rea- Allen Praises Tito eral jurisdiction to fathers—or BELGRADE, ¥ lavia, Jan, |mothers-.-who desert and fail to 25 (UP) - George support their families. © sented his credentials as U. 8. “Because the father is the most Ambassador to via today >
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{shal Tito in his ba by “threats of ag) Kenneth B. Keating (R. N. ¥W). (sia. = =
. Allen pre. .