Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1950 — Page 11
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"SCENE: 1950 Indiana Food Fair. Time: After
noon (about a half hour after lunch). Character:
Most of ‘the notes and comments that follow will attempt to recreate, for those not ahle to at- ~ tend, the flavor and atmosphere of the food extravaganza put on in the Manufacturers Building, Fairgrounds, by the Indiana Retail Grocers & Meat Dealers Association. ; ; The way things worked out, I must say what happened did not happen to me. This is a report of the actions of a young gentleman who would rather go to fairs and carnivals than sit home and read a good book. I happen to know him quite well so don’t be surprised when even his thought« ereap into the report. Ah, here's ope now. ° * “All entrances are gu . Looks as if a man i have to pay 25c, tax mcluded, before he gets
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time he would rather not attend than pay) and joined the happy mob which was engaged in two main activities: Eating and signing up for free articles. In the course of the afternoon he signed for three radios, several different kinds of irons (waffle, plain iron, scrap iron and golf), baskets of food, television sets, picnic baskets and in one a small picnic was being held, coolers; cans of tuna fish and sardines, recipe folders and a free trip around the race track in a sulky. No provisions .were made to provide a horse so my friend didn’t sign for the trip.
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ah : . bulging with. chol cats and vegetables. Fat and rosy butchers patrolled the areas in front and back of the counters. Skinny
and pale butchers passed out cubes of ham and boloney. Pamphlets by the ton could be had by merely reaching, Most exhibitors stuffed them into unsuspecting pockets. There probably were more pamphlets on the floor than anywhere else. 5 After 22 trips at a meat counter my friend} ‘went over to the French dressing booth and got a slug of the flavor booster. He took it straight, just like the man showed him. Re Next door was a nervous fellow passing out hot biscuits splashed with a generous amount of bitter. Further along over the aisle of ‘Popsicle sticks and toothpicks was a pleasant woman handing out cubes of cheese to those who reached. A potato concern had three persons filling sacks with the
One of the most eye-catching displays (to my was a section feat uarts, cans and
bottles of a
the booth explained in detail the history of the ancient beverage. He also explained in minute detail the superior: qualities of his product. He did not, however, explain why he didn't have any cold: samples, :
Moving along the aisles of plenty, considerate b
grocers had shopping bags, balloons, tin can banks and cans of dog food. The only requirement for the latter was that a person have a dog. Of course, everyone had a dog. “Treat sensation,” still another booth operator was yelling. In a paper plate he held squares of fried food. Looked like meat. Tasted like meat, Sputtered in a pan like meat. Meat? No. It was a blended wheat protein flavored with pure vegetable extracts. Clever, these Americans. | Putting aside, for the moment, his popsicle, my friend sampled pickled herring. Conveniently | located was a tomato juice station. And two or| three hiccups away was a French fried onion spa. | Followed by a half dozen coconut macaroons, the, onions were a rare treat indeed. A id Shortly my friend began pushing his way to the Indiana State Board of Health booth. The gentleman in charge had booklets on prenatal care. He did know where the Red Cross exhibit was and
Then There Was a Free Shine
ON THE WAY a free shoe shine by Bert Walker, who usually can be found at his stand in the Union Station, was administered. Besides the shine all Bert could offer was a pat on the back and some fast poetry in rhythm with his h ag. . oa oer Joan Sink, Red Cross staff aid, cheerfully told how many people stopped at her booth and asked for bicarbonates and ‘aspirins. “Some people even have asked to use the bed we have fixed for the exhibit. Isn't that priceless?” asked Miss Sink. The end.
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‘Sissy’ Houston
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Mar, 28—Rugged individualism is a fine and scarce property, and I begin to fret and fidget when I consider the newly spawned Social Register of Houston, Tex., a city which formerly predicated prestige on how many cattle you had in the bank or how much oil spouted from your wells. Now they got this register—the first since just after the Civil War—and will undoubtedly start to comb the burrs out of hides that used to be awful tough to curry. I thought I detected a trace of
_... coming effeteness at the recent fandango Glenn
McCarthy tossed to congratulate his hotel on its solvency. v Like when they brought the horse into the dining room. - A certain sniffiness was apparent among folks who would have thought nothing of a horse in the dining room a year ago. Like when the movie star began to-explode the fireworks in the drinking room. This found little favor with the management.
Even a Sporiswriter's in It LIKE CRITICISING George Kirksey, an old
_§ sportswriter, for including himself in the register.
George put out the book, and he’s been in Houston for three or four whole years, and shucks, man, if that ain't leng enough to make you social, how long have you got to live in a place? You can see the snobbishness sprouting on all sides. I didn’t see a pair of pick-toed boots over a whole week-end, and my hat was wider in the brim than any I spotted. The city was a sea of black ties and demure evening frocks, and mink and flowers in the buttonhole.. I don’t believe there was one woman with so much as a quart of diamdnds on her neck and arms. What's the point of being rich if nobody knows it? Nowhere in the Social Register is George Echols and Wesley West, both wealthy oftoperators, and I resent this. Their oil is just as good as H. R. Cullen's oil, or McCarthy's oil, or Ralph Johnston's oil. Considering that Mr. West used to park his Cadillac illegally on the same
corner every morning, paying a $5 fine rather than bother with a parking lot, I claim it's a shame he ain’t in the book. : There was another fellow who got included out who ought to be in. He went to the trouble of having a coat of arms drawn up for the occasion, and specified his worthiness by telling the register people that he came from a long line of ancestors. Anybody with a long line of ancestors ought to be right in there with Oveta Culp Hobby and Miss Ima Hogg. Before you know it, it will be a socisiisin to clack your. heels together, holler yippee, and an-| nounce that you're about half-ready {o fight, gam-| ble or gallop after a gal. The measure of a man| will be his abstinence from careless grammar, and whether or not he lifts his little finger when he takes tea. Tea! In Texas, yet. |
Even Abstain From Bourbon
1 OBSERVED a mass abstinence from bourbon with branch-water or Coke chaser on this trip. If bourbon was drunk it was messed up in a tall glass with soda fizzing in it—ugh!—or sneaked in a sly gulp when the more effete had their backs turned. {
bloody Mary, and the creme de menthe frappe, were. being consumed. Scotch-and-soda was. the standard tipple, and I saw one whole delegation toying daintily with a breakfast food called a| brandy flip. What“kind of sissy-pants drinking is this for a state where men used to gnaw their medicine from the neck of the bottle at full gallop? I blame McCarthy, the hotel keeper; as much as the Social Register, for this growing delicacy, | and the fat stock show, too. McCarthy's inn has proved too grand to throw chairs—in; and the social stock show is making he-Helen Hokinson| characters out of guys who used to rassle you, one| flop, for a ranch, an oil well or a million dollars. I would like to caution Houston, before it becomes the Boston of the Southwest, to remember that one guy who tried to put out a social register turned out to be a horse thief. :
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En oR ee
~~ FOREWORD There are no other sermons like Peter Marshall's. For there was no other man like Peter Marshall. The beloved chaplain of the United States Senate.
Peter Marshall passed away recently at the age of 46. He had attained a national reputation at an age when.
“Wot clergymen are still unknown. : The Indianapolis Times during the Lenten season is publishing the richest passages from Peter Marshall's most vigorous sermons. They were preached in Washington's historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. They were addressed to the man he called “Mr. Jones,” to the multitude of clerks and taxi drivers. butchers and housewives, motormen and the lonely girl tn the hospital ward. Taken from the book, “Mr.
Jones, » Master,” the sermons Mest the
preserve the emphasis of his words, by a special typographical style. [he manuSaas $ily resented exactly as Peter’ Marshall repare em. The reader may find them tive if they are read aloud. ! on ove Ate
Chapter 3—Disciples in Clay
| wonder how you would like mittee? Apparently there are some sort of thing. : Suppose you- had been on such a -committee nineteen hundred years ago, to inquire into the qualifications of those who sought to become disciples of Jesus. How would you have voted on them? Let us imagine we were there on an examining board. ” ® ~ Here comes the first candidate. Ne has just Some up from the beach. $ you can judge from his appearance, he has just entered middle age. But he is already bald, and the frineee hair that remain are already gray. His hands are rough and calloused. His fingers are strong. He smel's of fish! He is an uncouth educated Blustering blundering ; ool EGY - impulsive ‘Why, he is forty if he is a day.
Does not the ministry demand young men?
people in Washington who enjoy that
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His ideas will be very hard to change. He will be stubborn : set’in his ways.
He is a rough man, and he has lived a rough life. . When provoked, he is liable to burst into profanity, and his vocabulary ‘is lurid. : Can you imagine this big fisherman as a disciple of Jesus? He would not be your choice would he? No, we'd better send Simon back to his nets. Er Te : : ® 8 =» The next candidates ore brothers; they come in together. They, too, like. Simon Peter, -are fishermen.
But you are not going to hold that against them, Let no social snobbishness sway your judgment. Remember the Lord Himself was a carpenter.
are you?
They, have strong hands and nimble fingers. hey make quite a team, these brothers. . They operate a boat in partnership, and they are very successful. They are not modest men. +
“The “dry martini, the dubonnet cocktal, the — 1hey-are-boastful,-and through cupped hands they fike to shout
taunts to the other fishermen hauling on their nets.
They have little patience with people who cross them, and they :
would be inclined to call down fire from heaven to burn them up. Get rid of objectors! That's their motto.
They would want to be in the chief places. They think they belong in front. If we took time to hear all-the testimony from people who know them, our verdict would be unanimous that James and John would simply not do."
So, let us pass on to the next candidate. There is a wild gleam in his eyes—and no wonder. He is a leader of the Underground. He seems to be of the fanatical type, impatient and nervous. See—he cannot keep his hands still— his fingers clench and unclench.
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Patent Pending
By Frederick C. Othman
Fes WASHINGTON = Mar. 28-=As= Paul Hi=Tong observed during the blizzards pounding Ravenna,
Neb., his home town, about the only thing that didn’t skid in the snow was a horse. Why? The horse wore horseshoes. That's why. Automobiles didn’t. Mr. Long fixed that and thereby became an inventor.-He produced dn automobile tire with a tread consisting ‘of a double row of . rubber horseshoes with nail holes included. After that he never slid his sedan into a telephone pole. It was sure-footed as a horse. ’
The tire with the built-in horseshoes he- has
"patented and we can presume that it soon will -
be available to end the terror of the icy road. That isn’t all. I've just come back from my spring pilgrimage to the U. S. patent office and I'm full of news:. 2
Local Man Solves Egg Problem
JOHN BRUCE RICHARDS of Indiamapolis, Ind., wearied of burning his fingers shucking hardboiled eggs fof picnics. So he invented (Patent No. 2,500,705) what the inspectors describe as a device for peeling eggs by fluid pressure. Drop the egg in the hopper, a pin punctures its small end, and whoosh! Hydraulics wash the shell away. Then there was Antonio Di Rubbio of Brooktyn, N, Y., who seems to have solved the unhappy problem of people burning themselves up in bed. In his laboratory he built the only cigaret holder in history that holds the entire cigaret, fire and all. No ashes can dribble from it, no sparks, and 4 smoker én crawl in for the night with this in his mouth assured that he’ll still be among the living in the morning. x Walter F. Wilsdorf of St. Louis, who seems to have the same opinion of modern automobiles
that T-do; invented what T long have considered’
the steering wheel post. .~ | . Odd thing is that all automobiles in my youth| carried hand throttles. These were handy for use while resting your foot, getting the engine start-| ed, and for fiddling while adjusting the carburetor. They disappeared about 20 years ago. and so it| was that Mr. Wilsdorf was able to patent a de-| vice that used to be standard equipment. { Carlos C. Goetz of New York invented a.flex-| ible collar button, while Aaron Rothschild of the same town thought up a efp that lights by elec-| tricity when you tip it to a lady. This is for chil-| dren, Mr. Aaron said. Should startle the ladies, too.
Takes P:ty on Poor Usher
CHARLES H. MAHER, here .in. Washington, considered the plight of the movie usher who can stumble in the dark and break his neck, while shining his flashlight on the feet of the customer behind him. Mr. Maher came.up with a. flash-| light that has bulbs at both ends, one, for the usher’s benefits, the other for the patrons | Albert G. St. Pierre and T..W, Breton of Hart-| ford, Cofin., produced the electric candle lighter. It is just that. Plugs in the wall and has a heating unit that lights candles. Why they invented this, I do not know, unless maybe they officiate at lots of birthday cake illuminations. =i I want to pay tribute finally to Saul Brodsky of Croton, N. Y., who has developed a brush for tired house painters, like me. He keeps his paint under pressure in a can, from which it flows via a_long rubber tube to the brush. No dipping; no! : stooping. No stepping in the paint bucket. |”
The Quiz Master
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The Natural Tunnel, on the Southern Railway, ‘in southwest Virginia, is believed to be the natural in the world used by a railroad.
100 to 175 feet wide, and 1557
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Do the members of the House of Lords vote! in British-elections? « 3 Members of the House of Lords, a group of about 840 persons, forming a governing body of the state, have been deprived of the right te vote in parliamentary elections since 1609. :
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His eyes dance at the thought of the Messiah, at the head of a liberating army, driving’ the hated Romans into the sea. t-this-young-man-might-be-too-dangerous. — He is highly inflammable material. N He is a great: risk—a very great risk. We could not take a chance on Judas.
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h "= = = . Well, what about this fellow? He, too, is a fisherman. Let's not hold that against him.
This man might have it in him to be a disciple. He is not impulsive by any means. He will not be swept off his feet. - He is very cautious, slow to convince. He must have been born in some little Palestinean “Missouri.” You have to show him. He demands proof for everything. He'll take nothing on faith.
He will be like the. rusty little tramp steamer in the convoy,
e’ll slow down the others to his own wheezy seven or eight
kmofs. | In fact, he has only two speeds, dead slow and stop.
“This is not the time” will be his theme song.
: PRste waft and see,” will be his advice. c
How could Thomas possible fit into that picture? Nov, if we were Jews living at the time the disciples were originally chosen, we would boo or hiss as this next candidate enters, for he is a Quisling. ; He has sold out to the army of occupation and is collecting taxes for the Roman government.
Tax collectors are seldom the most popular men in any com- :
munity, and this fellow is a racketeer to boot.
He: has devised his own racket and it is making him many
enemies and moking him rich os well.
He has a mind like an adding machine. He has been counting money all his life.
Con you imagine o isling in os 4 fiend: f) i. ies Ta statiicion i with the IT ruin Nazareth, « ‘amon who hod made a god of money? 2 No, Levi, or Matthew if you like, must be rejected. ~~
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TOMORROW:
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Miracle of the Fish—" , . . He said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep; and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering, said unto Him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing: nevertheless, at Thy word | will let down |
tude of fishes..." Luke 5:46. .
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What about this fellow Andrew?
| have heard it said that he has no personality—whatever that means. | know that he is Peters brother, but | know of no good reason why he should be chosen. 2 .
There are others still waiting—Bartholemew Thaddeus Philip and another James and a man called Simon from Canaan. : They are all interested in becoming disciples, but | know of no - particular reason why they should : We would not vote for any of them.
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Yet these are the very men whom Jesus chose to be His disciples. | feel sure you would not argue with me if | suggested that these men had more influence on the course of human history than any other dozen men who ever lived. ~~ ; Had you and J been members of any investigating committee we would have rejected "everyone of them. %, Yet Jesus chose them. Why? : .
Mark tells us in his Gospel that Jesus chose them "in order that they might be with Him" and that He might send them forth to Prateh and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out evils. ; '
lowship.
They walked with Him, they lived with Him. They heard His incomparable parables. They listened to every sermon He ever preached.
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They. saw with their own eyes, each one of His wonderful miracles. They saw the blind receive their sight, the lame throw away their crutches. <a They saw withered limbs become straight and strong. They even saw the dead raised to newness of life.
Yet these things did not change these men. For during the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry, they were quarreling among themselves. James and John wanted the chief places in the cabinet of the
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They were jealous of each other.
They were not very brave. When -Jesus-wos- arrested they all ran-away. After He died, they scattered and went underground. - They met behind closed doors. - No, they were not very brave.
They did not have much faith. Thomas refused to believe that the.Master had risen from the dead until he had. proof. ’
Of course these three years did something to them and in them. The fuel had been laid on the fire, but it was not lit. The seed had been sown, but it had not germinated. What did change them? : Not the crucifixion not the resurrection % but the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Not until these men were filled with the Holy Ghost were they changed. ; Not until The Spirit had come upon them in power were they changed, so that cowardice gave place to courage unbelief became a flaming faith and conviction that nothing on earth could shake : jealolisy was swallowed up in brotherly love self-interest was killed and became a ministry to others fear was banished, and they were afraid of ‘no man «+. no threat, nd danger.
We have the same Gppoktunity to bé changed, because the same Holy Spirit is available to us today. : He has been sent into the world to lead us into al! truth,
to convict us of sin, to be our Helper, our Guide.
God hasn't given up on you. : He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. ~God is ready and waiting and gble.
Do not despair. You, too, can be changed for the better. Therein lies our hope— and the hope of the 1 UR : :
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Lilienthal ~~ Decries Wave (0f Emotion
Blames Red Spy Jitters on Present
Spree of Nerves
| ‘The wave of Communist spy jitters in the United States is the product of “bomb-happy boys,” “emotional flying saucerism” and a “school of non-thought,” David S. Lilienthal said in Atlanta last night. In his 3 first speech since giving up the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission, he deplored ‘the “emotional spree” that has “managed ‘to infect many people with a kind of fear that is not wholesome” ‘and hampers de- Mr. Lilienthal | fense efforts. : | Mr. Lilienthal said the linking ‘lof Philip C. Jessup, ambassador-|at-large, with Communists was a { "disgraceful smearing of so dis ° {tinguished a citizen.” » n - Attorney Kurt F. Pantzer, of Indianapolis, Judge David A. Myers, Greensburg attorney, and Prof. Franklin M. Schultz of IU will be initiated tomorrow as honorary members of Phi Delta Phi international legal fraternity {in Bloomington. Judge Myers is ia former Indiana Supreme Court {judge. : ' Willett H. Parr, Lebanon attorney and president of the IU {Alumni Association, will speak at the initiation banquet. E . 8 8 Mrs. Marie 8S, Wilcox, mathematics teacher at George Washington High School. will preside. one. meeting of the secondary school section at the convention of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Chicago, Apr. i. She is a member of the board of directors of the Council. k » . » Dr. Miles S. Barton, 5133 N. New, Jersey St, was among 25 dentists recently completing postgraduate courses of instruction conducted by the Ohio State Uni_|versity College of Dentistry (Columbus). In the group was Dr. Walter E. Volle of Bloomington. » » » Marjorie Dawson, Crawfords|ville, today was elected president of the Indiana Sunshine Society, succeeding Marjory Hall, New Castle, at the 28th: convention in Crawfordsville. Ilene Gephart, New Haven, was named vice president, and Beverly Cheneys, New Haven, and Diane Seright, Milroy, were elected secretaries. . . » Col, J. E. Graham, who has com= manded the I. U. Military Training Department sincg 1946, has been assigned to duty in Germany with the U. 8. Occupation Forces. 1 Col. Graham, accompanied by ___ ° Mrs. Graham and their daughter Eve, will report for his new assignment in July. His successor ‘has not been named. -f aN 8 | The “typical” ‘alcoholic is a married man about 40 who works las a salesman, a two-year study |at a Boston psychiatric clinic i showed today. Dr. Robert Flem'ing, who participated in the study, {said that a high percentage of {married alcoholics were either separated or divorced from their wives,
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" . » 7 Joseph Smith, 30, of Phila /delphia, really put his foot into trouble. He was captured by Ernest Hall, 32, in the latter's apartment and charged with burrglary. Patrolmen searched Smith
are you wearing?” Mr. Hall demanded., . : L | “They must be yours,” Smith
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HESS will present its golden anniveérsary award. to former President - Herbert Hoover at ceremonies in New York Thursday. ’ The-award will be made in recog nition of Mr. Hoover's "achievements as a scholar, statesman and humanitarian dur- : ing the past hall century, magazine officials said, v = - » | David Brian, actor, is the hus{band of two women, a Hollywood appellate court ruled. The District Court of Appeals upheld an interlocutory divorce decree Mr. Brian got last July from Bonita Fielder. After the divorce he married - Adrian Booth, actress. Miss Fielder, however. had the decree set . aside on grounds she was preg- = nant by Mr. Brian, who denied tha charge.
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» » » Charles Moody of Newbury, Mass., who defied his wife's wish es and ran for the Board of Publie Welfare in the town elections, took defeat gracefully. He ran - |this notice in a newspaper: “To the 94 -who voted for me, my thanks. To the 865 who did not, my wife's thanks.” - - . Patrolman Walter Saybolt, {known to thousands in Philadelphia as the “whistling cop,” yesterday was charged with “cons