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Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovola
| SMEAR THAT paint, rip out the alcove, stick on that wallpaper —certainly not, madam, purple ' and robin egg blue would be lovely together.
~Just- returned from an extended tour of the
season's never-never land (home - decorating shoppes). I don't mind saying I'm glad to be back.
Also a bit delirious that no one is planning to hide
my slippers for a few weeks, wipe paintbrushes on Hy favorite pocket novels, disrupt my life in order to “brighten up” the corner I use to store empties. Talked to many who serve Mr. and Mrs. Decorate. It was gratifying to learn that Mr. Decorate is ace high with interior and exterior fix-it advis- ‘ ers. It seems a man will take on the average “of —five- -when—-he's—aione) to buy a green paint if: that's what he needs.
Choice Among 5000
ONE YOUNG 9. said a customer in her department’ has an opportunity of choosing from 5000 different wallpapers. I whistled. Do you blame me? Five thousand samples. “Do you think 5000 is enough for some of our customers?” ; “Seems adequate.” “No siree—we'll have women here thumbing books for days and when they're through they Mant more sample books. Observe, please, that ady.” “She's only looking at samples,” was-my- observation.
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Spring . . the time of the year when every woman's’ fancy gets fancy.
a can of home as quickly as possible.
“Notice the lunch basket, thermos jug and I think she applied to the telephone company for a ; private line” ‘Women like to be perfect, is ‘the conclusion = reached, and they don't care how long it takes.| Or how much trouble it will cause. My friend with’
_ the color chart eves and straight edges for legs,
said a housewife brought in a full-sized living room rug one time so she could be sure her eolor scheme would be right. She aiso told of how an efficient amateur el in on a stepladder and demanded immediate at-| tention. Her hushand was double-parked outside! and she had te figure out how to decorate her
In a drapery section, I saw a lady hold a thre d, | at least a half inch long, next to several hundféd swatches. The thread was the color of the paint she was going to mix and paint-her walls with. That's what sne told the girl. When someone comes in with such an imagination, she whimpered, ex- . perience has shown it's best to stay clear until
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"there is a show of violence. Then it's best to call “the ‘cops.
In this particular department, there were more than 1000 samples of drapery materials. As was the case with the 5000 samples of wallpaper, often) 1000 patterns aren't quite enough. | What kind of a home decorator is the most difficult to handle? The consensus is that the young bride with a year or so of training either in college, art school or who has been told by friends that she is artistically inclined, is the most difficult,
Straightforward Type THE EASIEST person te-deal with is one who comes in knowing that she doesn't know beans from terrazzo and admits it. The type who takes suggestions readily and doesn't give the adviser the impression she lives in a 29-room shack. She
"just says shack right off the bat.
Had a few words with a gentleman in search of house plans. I was amazed how quickly he bought a set. Hardly looked at them. 1 thought a word of explanation might ease the curiosity. Men were not as fussy as women but this was too much. A person should spend at least two minutes when purchasing house plans, “Well, I'll. tell you,” said the future builder. “My wife claims we should build although I keep| telling her we don’t have the money. With this set of plans, I'll get her off my back for at least six months, It will take her that long to completely | change the plans. I'm lucky she is so busy with our five kids that she can't come to town.” “8ir, you indeed are a practical man,” was the way the conversation ended.
After all has been said and observed, I suppose
you have to give the gals credit for trying, at least, They don’t give up easy when they're after a particular effect, color, hole in the wall, fabric. Ah, women. bless them. and. keep. them. at this: time of he year.
NEW YORK, Apr. 6—White- lipped i: trent. bling, I sit here awaiting the census-taker’'s popcall, reduced to panic as 1 review the possibility of a noisy-parker in thug's clothing, who perchance may present forged credentials and mulct me of the Hope Diamond and the other trinkets I keep in. my bureau, but mostly I worry about what I will tell him or her. I understand you can go to jail or pay a fine for passing off any untruths to the data-collectors, and you come to a fretful choice. Everyone in the block knows that I pulled off the Brink robbery, singiehanded, so what do I tell the guy when he asks me where 1 collected my second million dollars?
How Far Do You Go? AS TI UNDERSTAND it every fifth guy gets subjected to a loyalty test for some future project of the government, and I wonder, dear diary, if I should tell the man about the carload of rifles I intend to sell to Korea, at a heavy markup? I mean, how far do you go? Who can say the superspies won't have my true confessions for their files? What I mean, mostly, is who can use all this Collyer-mansion debris of information once it's collected, if it ever gets collected? Will -Leon Keyserling, the economist, employ my heart's secrets to tell me how to live richest and ripest? Or will this go to Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan for passage to Johnny Maragon? Am I sure that ‘my soul's treasured horde will not fall into Communist hands, or be transmitted to the ballet seetion of the State Department? As a matter of fact, what makes me guilty of a misdemeanor if I stay buttoned-up on all pertinent facts of my financial life, or the life of
Unloading Secrets
—_— . C. Roark
politician, ‘the fulcrum of the “Planner, «and finally. the lame excuse of the fatuous failure. We had an awful-lot of practical bums in the business of running this vast land during the last 20 years or so, and it seems to me most of their livelihood was erected on the peak of a mountain of wishful statistics. Statistics built, and helped to wreeck, the New Deal, and statistics are the basic diet of the Truman administration, and statistics are back of the fight between the ‘services and the stupidities in agriculture and the absurdities of the housing program and all I kpow about statistics is that they or it is a dangerous toy for the inept planner to play with. We have been in the statistic-manip-ulation business for a long time, and I can't see much has come of it except isolated arrogance from a few heavy thinkers who want to run everybody's existence according to their private plan. Statistics take a long time to compile and correlate and simmer down and serve up in a palatable form, and by the time they're ready for the table the chances are they ain't any good any more on account of having been replaced by some new facts and figgers. We saw the true value of the statistical survey in the late presidential election, when all hands were dead wrong . where the whole scene changed in a matter of days or weeks, at worst. Reduced to Workable Statistics MR. HERBERT HOOVER beat his brains out
reducing our governmental economy to workable statistics, so’s we could save a buck in the ad-
“ministration of national affairs, and nothing has
come of that, even though the old gentleman laid it on the line in tight figures. What good are statistics if you ignore painful truths and work only with what you like?
my relatives? How come I got to tell.all if the A harried housewife from Bronxville bas just man asks me? All vou get in the end is a sta- told me that the census-taker made a hig point of tistic, and a statistic in the end is usually as pain- how much money her 7-year-old daughter earned ful as a kick. last year, and then left his card in case she I am a statistic-fighter from away back, for a wanted any odd jobs done around the yard. That statistic is a thing that all promoters use to whet is my opinion of statistics, in a very small, tight their individual ax. The statistic is the tool of the nutshell. : . . Cut an: lash By Frederick C. Othman ——ap
WASHINGTON, Apr. 6—The heaviest law with which Congress ever has wrestled, I guess, is the Appropriations Bill for 1951. This document, with committee report attached, is 768 pages long; ahy Congressman who drops it on his foot is likely to mangle a toe and apply for workman's compensation. ’ The experts claim thig formidable document, calling for the spending of $29,045.030,164, is so vast that no. single human brain can understand all its implications. Well, ‘maybe. But while the gentlemen argue. we can look into some of the items, such as the Speaker's sedan and the Bureau of Standards’ dirty windows, and comprehend them very well. To transport the Speaker of the House to work in the morning and take him home at night, the bill calls for $10,675. This will buy him a new black limousine, keep it shiny, and hire a man to steer it. The dirty windows are more complicated.
$1000 an Acre for Lawn
THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS is where the silk stockings, and, among other things, atom bomb parts, Its handsome, buildings nestle in parklike surroun dings near ‘the local.zgo. The réport of the Appropriations Committee noted that the bureau chief wanted-to spend £1000 an acre to keep his grass neatly manicured during the year. The Congressmen, mostly old keepers of lawns themselves, suggested to him that $100 an acre would be excessive. They also told him that his windows were filthy and that he'd kindly get them washed. He said he would. So they chopped his appropriation a little from last year and told him to go easy on all his scientific investigations, except those involving atoms. - : The Congressmen didn't admit it in so many words, but I am of the opinion they are too rough
with their own furniture. Instead of sitting down] gently, they drop. So it is that they must appropriate $236,000 to repair their own busted furniture and buy new chairs in place of those that can't even be mended. . They took some hefty whacks at the State Department’s spending, but even so they left the diplomats $217.651,297 for the year. The Secretary of State did ask for money to hire 23 more editors so he could push the publication-of more volumes of; a.set of books entitled, “Foreign Relations.” ! The penny-pinching Congressmen checked with the government printing office, which reported that the most popular volume of this set last year sold exactly 290 copies. So the 23 extra bookmen got the ax and that-saved us taxpayers $289,800. The money men put up a final $31 million to patch the government's beaten-up railroad in Alaska;-long known as the Ketchikan, Flatwheel! & Northern, and said that was dll. If anybody comes down here next year begging for more money to work on the railroad, they promised to throw him out.
Some Swipes at AEC THEY ALSO TOOK. a few: swipes atthe Atomic: Energy Commission, which they said was too free and. easy with the people's money. They didn’t mind spending millions for bombs and even atomic power’ plants, but they were dad-blamed if they could see the sense of the commission buying 18 million board feet of lumber, which it admitted it didn’t need, The gentlemen also suggested that the commission raise the rents at its dormitories—in Los Alamos, N. M. Seems we taxpayers have been nicked 60 per cent of the cost of running these ever since they were built. The entire bill, full of such items that a fellow can understand individually at least, now is being debated. The resultant oratory I can't recomunead.
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For what is the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy awarded? This trophy is awarded annually to the athlete who by his. (or her) performance, example and influence as an amateur, has done the most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship. The AAU polls sports leaders throughout the country in its search for the No. 1 sportsman of thé year.
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How was mail handled postage stamps were issued?
before United States Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmaste rs for dispatch were . marked “Paid” by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. Such letters’ dsually contained the town postmark and date of mailing.
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Is a pages? The messengers of the Senate, House and Supreme Court have their school in the Library of Congress. Although the school is directly supported by appropriations from Congress it is, like public high schools in the District of Columbia, under supervision of the local Board of Education. It offers virtually the same four-year course as is found in other local high schools.
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This the Biblical name Job a meaning? Yes: it is from the Hebrew Iyyobh; meaning afflie ted or persecuted. — > + % Will eating the mold on cheese hurt you? | No, although you may not find it very tasty.
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FOREWORD
There are no other sermons like Peter Marshall's. For there was no other man like Peter Marshall. Be 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 qusage when ;
most clergymen are still unknown. The Indianapolis Times during the Lenten season is publishing the richest passages from Petar Marshall's most vigorous sermons. They 1we.e preached in Washington's historic. New. York-Avenwe-Preshuterion: Church. They were addressed to the man he called “Mi. Jones,” to the multitude of clerks and tari driv ers, butchers and housewives, motormen and the lonely ard in the hospital ward.
Taken from the
book, “Mr. Jones, Meet. the Master,” the sermons preserve the emphasis of his words, by a special tupographical style. The manuscripts are presented exactly-—as Peter Marshall
prepared them.
Chapter 11—The Paradox of Salvation
“He saved others; himself He cannot Seve.” Matthew 27:42: Aye, they could admit it now. They could grant Him friumphs of yesterday for, now today, the. triumph was theirs! It was strangely dark. A thunderstorm was blowing up trom the mountains and the clouds hid the su Women took Shine by the hand.and hurried back to the city. People looked up at the sky and became frightened. It was an uncanny darkness.
They stood blinking at flashes of lightning like daggers of fire.
shifting doubting eyes. : eyes through which Hell itself was ne eyes with gloating in them SHE other. .eyes.that looked -and-never-saw: Lips were moving cruelty... open lips that vomited blasphemy like craters of hate.
Faces were looking up at Him white fokes mad faces, twisted and distorted
loughing faces . . . convulsed faces . . . faces jeering and roaring round the foot of the Cross
Fingers pointed up to Him hanging -quivering on the tree long bony fingers . . .
macking, accusing’ fingers—fingers of scorn and ridicule
There was noise . . . confused noise that beat in His eors. There was demoniac laughter that enjoyed suffering, hoarse shouting that taunted and mocked. From one side of Him there were sighs of pain and the soft
moans of a dying thief, and on the other side blasphemies and
curses terrible to hear.
There was weeping too, the crying of women ond the unashamed sobbing of men.
The wounded flower of Magdala was consoled by that lovely one who once held Him | in her arms, while the beloved John stood beside them.
Simon of Cyrene from time to time wiped away his tears with the back of his hand. Peter stood on the fringe of the crowd blinded by hot tears that filled his eyes, while his very heart broke.
They hurled His own words back at Him, but they were barbs,
dipped in venom and shot from snarling lips, like poisoned arrows. “He saved others, Himself He cannot save. Yes, He healed the cripples. Yes, He gave sight to the blind. He made withered arms whole again
He even brought back the dead, but He cannot save
Himself.”
“Perform a miracle now, Miracle Man! Come down from the
Cross, and we will believe you. Aha, Thou who wouldest build the temple in three days. Thou hast nails in Thy hands . Thou hast wood . . . go on and build Thy temple.”
“If thou be the Christ .. . come on down from the Cross!”
They shouted until they were hoarse. The noise was so great that only a few of them standing near the Cross heard what He said when His lips moved in prayer: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
One of the thieves, drugged ond half drunk, cried out to Jesus: “Can’t You see how we suffer? If you are the Son of God, take us down from these crosses. Save us and Yourself.”
, Then a spasm of pain gripped him, and He began to curse and
to swear, blaming Jesus for the pain.
But the other turned his head, so that he could see Jesus, and he said to his companion:
“Dost thou- not fear God, seeing thou art in the same con-~
~demnation;-and-we-indeed justly -¢or we “have broken their laws . . . but this man hath done nothing amiss.” —
“Remember me .when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.” And Jesus, His face drawn with pain, but His voice still kind, answered: “This very day when this pain is over, we shall be together ...youand |... in Paradise.” And the man, comforted, set his lips to endure the end.
The Easter Story
Pilate thereupon released Barabbas and scourged Jesus ond delivered Him to be crucified. Taking water he washed his hands
His soldiers stripped J
Indianapolis
“YHURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950.
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Fllers Chase Venus Up to
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| Give Up When They Find ‘Bright Object’ Is Only a Planet
Two Bergstrom, Tex., Air Force {pilots pursued a “bright object” [today to an altitude of 40,000 feet {but gave up when they decided !their quarry. was probably the planet Venus. Bergstrom Base |authorities ordered Maj. G. W, {Alexander and Lt. Wendell Oldham up in a T-33 Thunder Jet {trainer to investigate after the “object” was sighted over’ the '{field. . The “object” didn’t regis{ter on radar search equipment at [the base and - the pursuit was {called off in half an hour. - ” = . L Dr.G. Howard Gowen of Springfield, Ill, will be among the headline - speakers at the (conference of the Indiana Public Health Association Apr. 17 and 18 in the State {| Board of Health, {1330 W. Michi |igan St. i Dr. Gowen, chief of the Di{vision of Cancer ¢ |Control, Illinois {Department of and there was darkness Public Health, will speak on “A . And when Jesus had Cancer Program” Apr. 17,
2 = 2 The Atlanta SPCA set out toe | day to learn the identity of “hols sy lering. ‘horn-honking’’; {who chased a mule five miles over [city streets until it collided with _..an_automobile. and. was. killed. Mrs. Myra Scott Eastman, society president, said the SPCA would Tile criminal cases against those |responsible. = Police denied that {two patrol cars took part in the chase, saying officers were trying |to protect he aniual,
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; - ’ Dr. Gowen "And it. was about the sixth hour, over all the earth until the ninth hour . cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands | com- | mend my spirit: -and Aaving 1 said is § He gave up the hoot." Luke 23-44, 46... 3 0 §
The sun rose higher and higher. Time Gotoh out lke the blood that dripped from the Cross .". . Jesus opened His eyes and saw His mother standing there, and John beside her. He called out the name of John, who came closer, and Jesus said: “You will take care of her, John?” and John, choked with tears, put his arm around. the shoulders of Mary. Jesus said to His mother: “He will be your son.” ] [ His lips were parched, and He spoke with difficulty. | [gee following Indianapolis stu. He moved His head uneasily against the hard wood of the Cross, le Scabbard and Blade, national as a sick. man moves his head on a hot pillow. {military honorary: Richard Cote |tom, 836 N. Butler Ave. junior; {David McNay, 1934 Koehne St. (sophomore; Richard Cunningham, 1325 N. Jefferson Ave., junior, and
The women beneath the Cross stood praying for Jesus and for the thieves. The centurion was silent, although every now and then he
: . 3 . Ralph Jones, 1407 N. Gale St. would look up at Jesus with a strange look on his face. Ba ? = The soldiers were silent, too. Their. gambling was done. s 2-3 They had won . . . and lost. Miss Gertrude McHugh, 902
{Woodlawn Ave., has retired from active duty as toll clerk with the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., after 28 years’ service. She began telephone work here in the fall of 1921 as teller and became toll clerk in 1946. More than 250 of her friends honored Miss McHugh recently at a tea.
- ” » Two Indianapolis men were elected to office in the Profese |sional Interfraternity Conference, . a natoinal advisory group, at its
Suddenly Jesus opened His eyes and gave a oud cry. The gladness in His voice startled all who heard it, for it sounded like a shout of victory “It is Finished. Father, into > Thy hands | commit My spirit.”
And with that cry He died.
Yes, “He saved others: Himself He cannot save”! But they were wrong, as well as right. Could He not have saved Himself? He might have compromised with the priests—made a bargain |14ih national meeting in Chicago. with Caiaphas, talked things over with Pilate. o John D. Sparks was eelcted presie He might have made His kingdom political instead of spiritual. |dent and John R. Kuebler was reHe might have chosen the expedient rather than the right. elected secretary-treasurer. - As He Himself reminded Peter, He might have called upon Patron oven. Barry of twelve legions of angels to rescue him and to show His great * |columbus, O. yesterday learned power. [al-Rand about police efficiency. He might have withstood the plottings and devides of wicked |He left home, telling his wife he'd The phone was busy and when Mr, Berry finally got through he [talked to a fellow officer. Two |patrolmen had answered a hurry|call to his house. Mrs. Berry gave birth to a son before Mr. Berry or tthe- phyhician ariived; . ‘
Stanley Kromor, 38, producer, who made the pictures “Chamspion” and “Home of the Brave,” announced today he will be mare ried next month to Anne Pearce, 24, starlet, .
” ” " Gordon 8. Haight, associate proe fessor of English, Yale University New Haven,
|call her in half an hour. Yes. He might have saved Himself. He had the power; but then He would never have been our Saviour!
For no man cave save himself who saves another.
The com cannot save itself, if it is to bud a tree. The soldier cannot-save- himself, if -he-is to save--his-country. Nor can the Shepherd save Himself, if He would save His sheep.
Christ is the Good Shepherd, and hence, when He would consummate the great salvation, there was no other way to save us than to lay down His life for our salvation.
For to love is never to think of one’s self, but to give one’s self for the one loved “ And He loved us and gave Himself for us.
} Conn.), will TOMORROW: The Grave in the Garden. speak at 6:30 __(Copyright, 1950, by Pleming | H. Revell Co ——— !@’clock tonight
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We have responsibilities In re- 20a. Fale hh |lation to our families, our friends, University Club. | lour community, our nation, our He is widely: ‘world, even our enemies. {recognized as “Therefore, on this day of Holy|an authority on Week, which was a day of fellow- the writings of ship in the life of Our Lord, the George Eliot. message of the church must be A dance hona social message whereby we learn oring Prof. an d
‘Stresses Need Of Fellowship
Lenten Speaker Offers ‘Key ’'to Peace
Peace follows the pathway of fellowship.
Mr. Haight from Christ how-to live with our Mrs. Haight will follow the dine’
friends and our enerhies at home ner and program. Joseph N, Dr Charles T. Leber of New and abroad. Myers, secretary’ of the Indiana York made this point the core of. pe yore is waiting for some. Yale Club's n chalge PE SEN WES Ae “Not oneto-teach OW R-dive iN RR ES euro in the First Baptist Peace and happiness. This is the or, Earl Garver has Been 2b Church. He is the Holy Week task and. opportunity of the POTILSC Coat BN peaker sponsored. by or Crnreey church. in our day--to teach the l¢Be succeeding Dr. Carl’ W. Holl. a pons head of the Pres- Christian way in all human re- Dr. 3, Sean for 23 Years Joved byterian Board of Foreign Mis- lations.’ PB for - oy DTIOnNe Jpepart ! - en | years. He'll return to sions. WAVE OF FLU PASSING {full time teaching in the chemis“Isolationism is impossible,” was = WASHINGTON, Apr. § (UP) try department. Dr. Garver, ecoe his pronouncement. "We are not The Public Health Service said to- nomics professor at the college, alone. To try to live alone as an day that the “moderate influenze| formerly taught at Wale, Northindividual, a church, a nation is epidemic” experienced in many eastern University in Boston, and
{to deny reality. areas apparently has “passed its the Board School in Youngstown, “Religious experience must be peak.” | 0.
“Jesus Is Mocked
Drawn by John J. Sunley
Then they garbed Jesus in His own clothes ond forced Him
lesus and put a scarlet clock on Him. Yhey crovncd ow wr Sobran, Ssiviing His come But i weight vas tou much, , horas 2d for opie sto ood in he perl Ana Sowing the kwe belo im, they . out, they found a man of C) Pyrat, Samed i mocked him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews. (Matt. 27:29) take up his cross. (Matt, 27: » - = 5
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