Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 17

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., who has loaned one scales for the project, gives his perrantee, that the only way I'll be off is people don’t come through. to Mrs. Curl and Ruth the other day at - Hospital where the little pio victim is ting to regain her health. Ruth was stricken polio the 9th of September. 8he was in an lung for 10 days. At the present time Ruth is # to sit in a wheel chair. The immediate goal tches, TE ~ Mrs. Frances Ekstam, head of the physical therapy department, and Ruth Ladue, therapist is taking care of Ruth, said she is making

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N \ “Ruth is working very hard so she can run and play again,” said Miss Ladue. “Just as soon

give her gait training.” Mrs. Ekstam explained to Ruth what gait training mgeant. It means that long and tedious effort which walking. Ruth smiled and sald she would like that. The statement brought back memories for me. Ten years ago I 'was flat on my back saying the same thing. My first walk covered about two feet ‘and required five heavy steps. It wasn't much. For someone who has never experienced getting out of bed after being in it for eight months, five steps might not seem exciting. Be-

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sentry of the Royal House-

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more usible the other round; not the sentry looking er, but Wheeler looking sentry, in

too, and leaning the shadow of the ! bearskin cap to up the column of buttons at a face as rigid and careless of the weather as the face of the Iron Duke himself in front of the Royal Exchange; because that is

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“Mr. Inside Indianapolis”

Give a dime . .. the way small boys always inwants 65 ‘pounds of dimes for the Polio Fund. Fg oof He'll be on location from 9 a. m, to 4 p. m.. pect He St Wane

Wheeler was a grotesque urchin

WHEELER, or the Ha'penny Bit, as his countrymen ever after

somehow come under the protec. tion ‘of a beggarwoman of the who ever heard Ratcliffe

standing within an children the sole charge of a bachelor uncle, a Thames man; and the boy being anyhow, as it were, the issue of a union of the sea and the shore, he naturally gravitated to the river, in which he was soon wading with the swarms of mudlarks young and! old that daily salvaged the leav- fully. “A man o' lawful business, ings of the tides from Woolwich I am, And if it's climbing boys to Vauxhall Bridge. Lumps of YOu 'ave in mind, we've no more enough, merely from being at a soal, pieces of iron and rope, bones use for ‘em in the respectable loss with himgelf; but thus it had and nails were his haul, with chimney line. The law don’t "old | happened that in more respect-

lieve me it is. You see, deep down, you know the. .'ioper than a Grenadier's belt 20, 30, 40..

{his shoes.

You're thankful, you're happy and then you're buttons.

that first step. Ever visit a polio ward? It will tear your heart out. It will make you boiling mad to see wasted bodies, arms and legs. You'll ask yourseif if there isn't something that can be done (9 knock polio out once and for all. For most of us: there's only one way and that is to give those dimes. Giving dimes won't hurt as much as a dose of polio. You realize that when you or a member of your family Keep out the damp. get messed up with polio. And let me tell you it} gp YOU can't always tell a is a mess. Mr. Karr says it costs on an average of $2000 WaD bY JS Slothe BS poy to treat a polio victim. The geal tomorrow in front ,.. carved by nature thar by taiof Woolworth’s is $1176.50. Approximately half.) .. 1¢ he was undersize and thin Man, I'd like to go over the top. and had the London pallor one) The Marion County Polio Fund is gone. Last. 4 4 planie nature for those! summer's epidemic left terrible scars in its wake. things: in the circumstances one| Some of the victims will be at Riley next summer. would do better to look ob the Let's pray there won't be another. lbright side and observe that she

I'll see you tomorrow, rain or shine. must have given him an auspi-

him to appear at a aback in the luff. And he wore|

over a tawny cl

Damon vs. Pythias

[cigus start to enable him to carry lon as well as he had. i For he was vigorous, agile, and| lerect; his face, -with its thumb heel of a nose, gave no promise of

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 28—1I believe that friendship, along with respect for motherhood and other abiding institutions, has long been on the editorial free list as an unassailable commodity. So I do not propose to knock friendship as a whole, but would merely like to speculate on some rather odd aspects of it. We have seen plenty, lately. Dean Acheson’s stanch and biblical backstopping of the convicted perjurer, Alger Hiss, seemed rather brave and admirable in a man, rather silly as a diplomat, and downright shocking as a Secretary of State. Mr. Truman's sterling advocacy of his old pals, such as the Pendergast mob, and his stubborn protection of that great buffoon, Harry Vaughan, also has been a fine example of butt-

- headed loyalty.

How Far Should It Go?

I AM NOW beginning to wonder just how far you can carry this friendship operation if you hold

public office and the respect and welfare of your

country weighs upon your back. I am prone to challenge the nobility quotient of friendship if it leads an Alger Hiss, a high and trusted public servant, to snitch vital state papers for delivery to his Communist bosom buddy, Whit Chambers. I even knock love a little bit, too, if it moves a Judith Coplon to swipe the FBI's private files for her Russian boy friend. . Somewhere along the way, it seems to me, Damon is morally bound to unload Pythias, if Pythias gets completely out of hand, and Cupid may even be shot#as-—a spy if he starts pegging his -arrows at the wrong people. In some cases this friendship assumes the proportions of the distraught dame who is standing over her lover with as smoking gat and proclaiming that she boffed him because she loved him. This is a short comfort to the chilled gent on the deck. The late FDR's appointment list was filled with some rather odd testaments to the President's humorpus list of acquaintances, and the subse-

beauty, but it guaranteed intelligence; and his eyes were extraordinary. It wasn't their size, which was large, nor their color, which | was deep brown; it was the light

quent Truman regime has been one happy, caroling throng of boonest buddies of the bourbon and poker persuasion. Lord only knows what works in the State Department as a result of this impeccable commodity, friendship. Certainly a heavy sprinkling of limp wrists and bright pink per- i them, an arresting, amusing sonalities has resulted. } light, as of some enormous sur-| I believe that friendship should endure until Prise, which constantly leaped up death, that friendship is a perfect blend- In them, and which somehow linship if indulged in privately. But when some. Sered when other emotions were body else’s friendship is inflicted on the public visible in them as well, so that time then it is strictly friendship, schmendship, in ¢Ven his saddest looks held an elemy book. Nobody is ever criticized for continuing Ment of wonder. And that light | ‘an amicable relationship with some old, sodden 8ives us a clue to his character. | bum you played ball with as a kid, but you don’t] It helps to explain. to begin have to put him in charge of foreign relations With, why he was easily the best or appoint him to run the FBI or sit in the Su- audience to be found on his reach preme Court. You can overstress anything. of the river, which extended prop-

‘ou erly from the East Indian Docks Basically Treason

[to the Pool. Seamen were charmed by it, and were encouraged to WHILE Mr. Hiss’ conviction is technically on pour fourth so freely of their wisperjury, it is perjury based on a technical treason, dom that they must be counted as’ performed when Hiss stood tall in the confidence having supplied, up until this eveof his country, and hence doubly loathsome. Mr. ning the major part of his educa-| Acheson's Bible quotations and jut-jawed loyalty tion, to his old pal therefore leave me a touch cold,! It was thanks to them that he like the dead dude on the deck, and I begin to knew of Drake, Nelson, and Farty wonder about Mr. Acheson's own stidndards. and pathoms and 'Ammersmith, Foo-| qualifications to steer us safely through the emer- chow and Sydney and Java Head, | gencies of the moment, |which is to say some history and| After what happened to China, under State geography, and even a bit about Pepartment hands, the unpleasant thought strikes the Bible, though in biblical mat-, me that maybe the joint is leaping with Hiss ad-lters he was by way of being al mirers, and for all I know a big business in hot heretic, having been ably perdocuments to the Russians is flourishing there./g;aded that no fish could swallow, I seem to remember an old saw about being 3 ploke. ~ | known by the company he keeps. | . » ® | I lack Mr. Acheson's nobility of mind. Even if] THE AUTHORITIES never Hiss had been my best chum, fraternity brother quite understood how he hapand steady bankroller, I would be inclined today|pened on this fateful evening to to regard him as a lavatory rat. And dump him, be in Windsor Town in the first ‘fast. . |place, so far upriver from his {native habitat; but then the au-

[thorities never quite understand

Nobody Alarmed gy Frederick c. Othman iii iis

maid at the Waterman's Arms, |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—There was Henry A. Wallacg in his rumpled blue suit calmly. reading from his diary about the members of President Cabinet contemplating the sudden end of the world. Poof! And also, gulp. Tt“was a weird and sweaty-handed moment in the ptifling-hot room of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Seems that Mr. Trumen held ‘g meeting of his Cabinet on Sept. 22, 1945, at whieh the boys got to worrying about atom bombs. The question was: Should we make 'em bigger and bigger and maybe start making hydrogen bombs, too? Mr. Wallace sald perhaps he'd better look in his diary to see exactly what Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had to say.

A World on Fire THE ONE-TIME Vice President rummaged through his brief case ‘with the brass padlock, scanned a sheaf of papers and came up with one

on which he“quoted Mr, Stimson as saying he

was fearful the scientists would make more powerful super-bombs. “These might ignite the atmosphere and bring about the end of the world,” was the way Mr. Stimson put it five years ago. Well, sir, nobody winced at this, except maybe me. Nobody else seemed worried about the chances of the world going up in flame. The sun shone in the windows. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln gazed serenely from the walls, Chairman John 8. Wood of Georgia relit the cigar. The world obviously was spinning as usual. Mr. Wallace might as well have been talking about the price of pigs, Not one of the lawgivers asked fim anything more about Mr. Stimson and the end of the world, Nobody mentioned hydrogen bombs and their poséible effect on the air which we breathe. I turned to a fellow reporter. “Old stuff,”he said. “A lot of people have worried about that.”

: The Quiz Master

Me, I'm still worrying. Mr. Stimson said, in|had died of typhus while he was

any event, thas he thought the people around the Still in arms, and if he had af

world ought to get together and do something father, he was unaware of the about atoms while there still were any atoms, fact, as probably was the father or people, either. A second bigwig said we ought (himself. And Wheeler's two to keep our atom works secret. {brothers had vanished as utterly “And I told the Cabinet that they couldnt 88 their fathers before them. place any confidence in atomic secrecy,” Mr. Wale,, In those days, when ‘half the lace said. “I said that if the world likely was to children of the East End ran come to an end, then we ought to see that this foOt-loose in the streets and comdidn't happen.” |pulsory education had not yet

ht up with them, cases like Aha. So, said one of the Congressmen, then ||; 8 , "m1 Mr. Wallace did suggest, as printed in one of the thelrs were common. * eldest. papers at-the time, that we should share our +@% Rote. SOM Lhe age O

6, had gone on his own at 8: He atomic infor mation with the Russians. (had beén variously reported from

“Not at all,” ‘he replied. “But science is uni- time to time——once as a crossing versal and you can’t bottle it up.” . sweeper cadging tips from passers80, he continued. some dastard walked out of by, again as a mendicant shoe-| that Cabinet meeting and told a reporter that he black, then as having been seen in wanted our government to hand over our atomic |the company of a buzzer in Hampsecrets to the Soviets. - {stead Heath, and finally as hav“I told the President that there was a lying |ing shipped off to sea. leaker in his Cabinet,” Mr. Wallace said. “T used —— that phrase then and I use it now. The President | said this man no longer would sit in his Cabinet meetings.” : .

Luckily, We're Still Here SOMEBODY wondered if Mr. Wallace knew | “the name of the lying leaker. He said he could only guess. He went on to say that he never ‘had used any influence, as charged on the radio, to get uranium shipped to Russia. The gentlemen bombarded him with questions about that. I didn’t | take any more notes; I was busy thinking about what exploding hydrogen atoms might do to all the hydrogen in all our drinking water. There's .only one good thing abeut this dispatch. Mr. Stimson did his worrying about the end of the world half a decade ago. And here you are—I hope at this writing—reading about it. That's a cheerful sign,

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The home of Elizabeth Tady Stanton, Sencea

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a faded greén cap pulled down| “GETTING ON for ten, 'e is” p that crested said he, exaggerating two full

found him useful in her business, Guards dropping his eyes to(till on an evil day they happened . thoroughly inconse-|{to be passing a brewery at the ob, ? Really, the exact instant the vats burst and, being swept Into a cellar, were drowned in an :

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ean of beer. This left the third of Nan's

y ’ E which he turned a few pennies at With no more chummies, not these next day you're going to take 10 steps. Then, je and he was swaddled injthe shops; and he aspired somea grown. man's eastolt cont that/day to be as 'Ooker Morgan, the ’ {hung clear down to the tops of |dredger, of whom it was told-on It's Worth Every Cent of It Round the hems the Blackwall Stairs that he had THEN comes that wonderful day when you coat was all caked with mud, a/grown rich from the pockets of ean take off the heavy metal braces for the last mark not of his character, how- drowned people alone, And if as time. It's worth the fight. It's worth the money. ever, but of his calling; and it/time went on his uncle did not * ‘had long since parted from its send him to school under the Act, When he had no rope which would have taken a bit of sad. Sad because there are less fortunate kids yarn for a jury rig, it would belly tin, neither did he put him out to who have been so hard hit that they'll never take out in any wind, considerably im- work his passage, though he often {péding his progress and causing talked of doing so and lately had distance approached a master sweep about rather like a little catboat taken it,

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over his ears and, round his neck, vears to the best of his recollec- producing his nephew for the ina grimy rag of storm canvas to tion; “time a boy learned a tride., spection, and perhaps he never {Wot would yer say he'd bring! would. He was a careless man, now?"

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Theodore of The Times' new best-seller novel, “The Mudlark."

The other eyed him distrust- him a muffin,

days it don't.” | “The law! And did anyone ‘ear homes, me say you'd 'ave the lad for a cheerfully chummy--1 arsk you. Not likely they did! 'Ow would I know wot you'd b> ’aving ’'lm for? say is, you'd fine 'l'm 'andy and willing for wotever you'd put "im to, see?” He nudged the man of was business playfully. “An’' small for is aige.” So it finally was agreed that the sweep should see the candidate (himself; but the bargeman, being given to procrastination in most things, hadn't yet got round to

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erations of his exploratory ex{stence: but from observation of| Rotten J the world around him, he knew Square, visited Clerkenwell and that there was something miss-| Camberwell, Hackney and Hatching. On nights when his uncle) was away on his barge, or detained by his mates at the local, Seen more of the an intense loneliness would creep over Wheeler, possibly heightened erg ever see. by the fact that he was hungrier World, he had been all the way than usual, and he would go forth| to the back door of the Water-

able quarters of London he had icome upon the outsides of real

lighted windows, through which, pleasant laughter floated, or the A-coming at us muffled music of a piano. And he would hang about the steps, listening, or, when no one Bill coming along the climb up to a window where the

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HOME IT was, In the sense foraging for his food in ,'or filching it when street stalls and sleeping in doorways, freezing cold. » . . » HE HAD penetrated Belgravia Row and . Grosvenor

am Chelsa, Clapham and Natting Hill, and in sum, no doubt had

outside of Lon-

don already ‘than most LondonFor the'rest of the

to Gravesend on his uncle’s barge, had called at Grays Thurrock and man’s Arms, where for his dead! looked in at the caves, and indeed

Ave had seen Windsor Castle before, {but only from the river on a haul

- mother's sake they might give

The first of these nocturnal ex-|to Oxford. peditions had begun, aimlessly

occasionally them stars and

Grams,

people had forgotten to draw the there's an ’and o keeps a sife course, that's why.

blind, and peer in. Sometimes there would be a the in person and judge for man enthroned in an armchair, and a woman in a smaller one foreign stars up at the other side of the fire, sew- close for ing, or seated at the polished instrument from which the music 'ouse and ’ollers, came, and sometimes children no off” older than himself, but scrubbed but amiable, even in his cups, and clean and finely dressed, looking COyTight 19048,

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STORE THERE!

“There she stands,” Bill Grams had said, throwing out both arms to frame the rogy pile between them in the sunset—‘“the pilot‘ouse o' the ruddy world! you, matey, 'ere's the old world with clean curtains {in 8-rolling through spice at thousands o' knots, and up there's all

Mark

‘Alley comets faster yet; and

why don’t they ram us, why don't they up and stove us in?” it was believed, street. Usually had a drop of gin stowed somewhere aboard.

“Cause up n the wheel wot

'Er Majesty the Queen! And when one o' them big

there comes too , wot ‘'appens?

Why, she leans outer that pilot-

‘'Ere, you, sheer

And you yjer, it sheers!” (To Be Continued) 1 by Theodore Bonnet. By permission of Doubleday & Co. Inc.

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