Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1950 — Page 19

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" seen in this chart-conscious capital. said, showed how he enforced the Presidents loy““alty program.

usual amount of of heavy-footed. the asafetida bag (that's about all I want to do), it will give me great pleasure to to the hotel incinerator. As the flames ons the vie Reg, I will offer a few words e youngsters of today don’t have to wear an asafetida bag around their necks. And youngsters ought to join in the thanksgiving. Hung Around a Kid's Neck JUST in case there's someone in the audience who has never heard of asafetida, let me say it used to be popular (with a lot of mothers) to have a small quantity of the stuff hanging around a kid's neck so the kid would not catch some of the diseases a kid can. (We didn't have antihistamine in the days when asafetida was popular,

Junior.) About the only thing that can be said for an asafetida bag is that the wearer couldn't get within 20 feet of his Playmates and thus the ] Up a stray germ were féwer. In that respect, asafetida was a good idea.

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Sassafras tea . . . When or Fred sends the

Boooo Hoooo

‘where I'm on my back with my shoes off count-|

The plants from which it is obtained are natives of western Afghanistan and eastern Persia. A note just handed me by an asafetida publicity agent says collection of the plants will begin

Apr. 15 and continue to the end of July. Have, fun, fellows. TL Probably the biggest. single understatement In| medical history was made about asafetida. Some | of you old-timers will get a kick out of this: “The, odor is persistent and alliaceous.” Persistent? Alliaceous? - Why not subtle, too? i Getting back to sassafras roots and tea, thére| isn’t, in this man's opinion, anything finer in the | state of Indiana-iner (feel a rhyme or two rattling in my shoe) than a cup of strong sassafras tea to pep a man up and make him skip around the hayloft. : { OI' Fred recommends a touch of corn with] ‘sassyfrassy tea, for the men folks, and cream and| sugar for the ladies and youngsters. Personally, I like mine straight. : { When a pot of sassafras roots is simmering,

the aroma make me think of a stand of timber|

after a spring shower; a sparkling’ forest glade! ing fluffy clouds; a mall at Turkey Run State Park and I'm walking hand in hand with a buxom lass. Yes, a pot of sassafras will do all that. It, | 1 hastily add, you have been a friend to the little forest critters in your youth, 2 And little wonder sassafras is such a peachy wood. Wood lore (and I happen to be chewing| on a hunk now) has it that sassafras belongs to the famous laurel family. Legal name is sassafras albidum. Lore also has the sassafras albidums-as-a fragrant family living on the other! side of the tracks frorh the asafetidas. {

It Has a Variety of Uses

SASSAFRAS yields an oil you don’t use Lifebuoy soap on. This oil is frequently sprinkled into medicine for flavoring, not driving away evil spirits. Another thing, sassafras wood can be used! for fence posts, barrels, small boats. Before or after you've made tea, either way, Boiling doesn’t|

sy DULL sassafras wood. It. won't. rot.in water: That}: doesn’t mean you should leave a dime’'s worth of!

sassafras bark and roots in the pot for a week! at a time, i The weather we've been having makes me| wonder if I should plug in the hotplate. It's probably warmer in the hills around Beanblossom than here in the big city. Might as well start brewing, though. When OI’ Fred makes with the|

...5assafras, it's spring. even. if. you. have .to go.out|.

to the barn wearing overshoes.

By Robert C. Ruark

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NEW YORK, Apr. 7—This has been a busy week for science, which evidently has plenty of time on its hands these days. We come now with an announcement from the Mayo clinic that women cry more copiously than men, by test. More actual tears. Young girls and women cry the most of all, outstripping their male competitors. They run a dead heat through the middle years. Then the old girls dry up to where they cry a little less than men. This is known as depletion of natural resources, like with oil wells or the New York water - supply. About the cutest movie I have seen in years was a thing called “Adam’s. Rib,” in which Mr. Spencer Tracy demonstrated that he could cry just as easily as a woman, and with just as little justification. I have tried this experiment in the privécy of my bathroom; andweep at the drop of a thought.

Stare at Yourself in the Mirror WHAT you do is regard yourself rigidly in the mirror. You stare at the redness of your eyes and You gaze critically at your second (or third) chin, and your eroded hairline. The hickey on your nose comes in for some morose attention, as does the sag of your tummy over the belt line. Then you start to think. You think about Harry Truman sitting in the sun at Key West, and Mayor O'Dwyer sitting in the sun at Key Largo, and Alger Hiss and the A-bomb and how you haven't got enough tax money to keep the government solvent and about the Russians and about the note at the bank and the size of the rent and ‘about how nobody understands you, and, bless Gawd, in no time at all the drops are falling like man-induced rain. This a la carte weeping is a thing the girls have been getting away with for centuries, as sympathy blackmail and an eloquent argument against male resistance to the purchase of a mink coat. Tears are the oldest female aggressive weapon, and the last thin line of ladylike defense. A good hard case of the weeps—turned on like a. tap, and with just as little basis in emotion—

Slap at Pinkos

that-¥; too; can

has been the clincher in the running battle = ever, with a stout backlog of public relations to] the effect that no man ever cries, and no man can| resist tears, to double-rivet its potency. Well, I! can cry. I can also resist tears, From now on 1 argue an even shdke in the tear industry, This has caused no end of consternation around the house. The very foundations are shaken by | sobs—my sobs. Dinner ain’t ready on time—boo! hoo, from me to you. Bills mount up too big—| sniffle,” sniffle. to hostility—I cry. If she cries hard, I cry harder. I can spot her three sobs and a gulp and still produce ‘more anguished moisture than a female murderess telling the jurors how much she loved the corpus delicti. Tears are nothing more than sinus of the eyeballs. It has taken the Ww. tired centuries. CHEN On to he Biot Bick: where all god ments are settled when the she-subject “dissolves” or “melts into tears. "We should have suspected the flea in frenzy much earlier, and saved us all 2 lot of trouble,

No Room in House for 2 Weepers FOR ONE THING, weeping is fun. For another, there is no room in any house for two weepers, especially when both weepers know how it's done. When I think how many female weepers have beaten murder raps, to go into a fresh career in vaudeville, I just want to cry. Six salt! tears from the prosecuting attorney and a proxy freshet of eye-drops from the victim could have, changed the entire course of justice. With a little help from the gents, I intend to reverse the statistics on bawling for the benefit of the Mayo clinic. 1 contend any man of any age can diffuse as much orb-juice as any woman, and maybe more. As soon as we get our own weeping into the business of proving points and protecting weaknesses, as the lasses have done for vears, we will eventually bring about a dearth of

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tears, except. when accompanied by- sneézes- and -

gnats under the eyelid. | Weep no more, my lady. Or, at least, weep no more at me. You cried at me, now it's my turn! to cry all over you. Baw! |

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—Donald L. Nicholson, the chief hawkshaw of the State Department, says there are no Communists among the diplomats, : After listening to him explain how he gives 'em

the diplomatic. third degree, the wonder to me is

that anybody's left to labor on matters of state. He turned out to be a graying ex-G-man of 44, who looked older, but then he'd had his worries, including Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. As chief of the State Department's division of security (meaning boss cop), Mr. Nicholson was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee “that Sen. McCarthy was all wrong .about pinkos sitting at diplomatic desks. He said he catches em before they ever get to sit down. To prove it he hauled out seven of the doggonedest charts, in tints of black and khaki, ever These, he

They included pictures of telephones, on which

. he gets tips; screens, as on screen doors, through

which the suspects have got to pass; fingerprints, and a Sherlock Holmes miagnifying glass he uses to scrutinize ‘em.

Full Investigation Made SAY A YOUNG. fellow in Oshkosh wants a job which, if he works hard, will allow him eventually to become ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary. Mr. Nicholson's gumshoes go over him with the well-known fine-tooth comb. They talk to his friends, his enemies, and his high-school teachers. Then they evaluate his record, according to the chart, with one of those

“screen doors. If he gets through this without any

Communistic ideas scraping off, he goes on the payroll. But that doesn’t mean anything yet.

The Quiz Master

How did Mary Queen of the Scots compare

with Queen Elizabeth?

Personally, Mary possessed charms which Elizabeth lacked. Her courage was equal, her inJtelligence was probably superior, indecision she was the stronger of the two. But Elizabeth had a perfect egmmand of her passions, while Mary. had none," and that was the winning quality by which the former triumphed in the duel between the two. a > ® &

How much salt does the average American use annually? : The average American uses about six pounds of salt a year to season food. y

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The police write a biographic sketch of him. They take his fingerprints. Then the FBI checks its records with the State Department's records. If there's any question raised of his loyalty, or even-of-his-ability to keep-a secret; the FBI gives him the. works. This is known as a full field! investigation. - } ! | If the suspicion stands up, the State Department’s loyalty board gives him the business. If it decides he’s OK, he stays on the payroll, subject | to a reinvestigation whenever anybody hears any| dirt about him. : All this, of course, is theoretical. Mr. Nicholson| said with justifiable pride that after he gets| through investigating a prospective employee, | there isn’t much left for the FBI to do. At least, |

the. FBI never yet has discovered a Commie

among those cleared by Mr. Nicholson.

Studies Records of 5000

"HE"LOOKS INTO the records of about 5000,

people a year who want to be diplomats. He figures about half of these actually get on the payroll. The rest either get the go-by as poor security| risks or as dopes, or they grow tired of waiting and take a job somewhere else. _ All told, said Mr. Nicholson, he's used the phone, the screens, and the magnifying glass on 17,600 people, including applicants and old-timers on the job. Of the latter, 202 have quit or been fired since 1947 because they couldn't prove they were loyal, intelligent Americans. If there's a Communist’ remaining .at the department’s sandstone pile in foggy bottoms by the gas works, Mr. Nicholson doesn’t know about him. Sen. McCarthy, unfortunately, was not in good voice. . He was recovering from a sinus operation and he didn’t even hear the head sleuth’s testimony.

22? Test Your Skill 2???

What is the current apportionment for representation in Congress? The current appointment is one : Representative to about 300,000 persons, and every state is guaranteed at least one. J = eo * 4 | Why is the shamrock used in St. Patrick Day celebrations?

: | St. Patrick, it is sald, used the three leaves of

the plant as a symbol of the Trinity. According -

to tradition and history, St. Patrick declared the

leaves also stood for prosperity, happiness and a BE As

long life.

Stay out too late and come home! .

FOREWORD - : There are no other sermons like Peter Marshall's. For there was no other man like Peter Marshall. The béloved 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 most clergymen are still unknown. The Indianapolis Times during the Lenten season is publishing the richest passages from Peter Ma rshall’s most vigorous sermons. They wese 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 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 manu-

scripts are presented exactly as Peter Marshall prepared them. :

Chapter 12—The Grave in the Garden

The facts concerning Jesus.of Nazareth i Church, that He lived rein gre. Seorling the

He died and He arose from the dead.

Can the Church justify such a contention?

He lived, as no intelligent student can deny. He died. That fact nobody need deny. He died quivering on a cross, after about six hours of agony and suffering. Fa To make: sure of ‘His death; one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and the last remaining drops of His blood were poured out to prove that His love was stronger than death.

- Then came Sunday morning. The first rays of the early morning sun cast a great light that coused the dew drops on the flowers to sparkle like diamonds. ~The atmosphere of the garden was changed =~. It was the same garden . . . yet strangely different. The heaviness of despair was gone, = ° and there was a new note in the singing of the birds.

Suddenly, at q certain hour between sunset and dawn, in that new tomb which had belonged to Joseph of Arimathea, there was a strange stirring, a fluttering of unseen forces . . . a whirring of angel wings ; the rustle as of the breath of God ‘moving through the garden.

Strong, immeasurable forces poured life back into the dead body they had laid upon the cold stone slab; and the dead man- rose up came out of the ‘grave clothes walked to the threshold of the tomb, stood swaying for a moment on His wounded feet, and walked out into the moonlit garden.

Then came a group of women as soon as they could, bringing spices and materials with which to complete the hasty anointing __of their Lord. iam rsa

They came with all the materials with which to anoint a dead

«That was .no.wishful thinking, was it...

“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there ap-

“peared unto them Moses and Elias falking with Him... while. He yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved

Son, in whom | am well pleased; hear ye Him." Matthew 17:1.3, 5.

put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, | will not believe.”

Eight days passed by. The disciples were gathered together. This time Thomas was there. Suddenly Jesus wes with them in the room, and He said to Thomas: “Reach hither thy finger; and behold My hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and be not faithless, but believing.” SRE

And Thomas answered and said unto Him, “My Lord and My God.” Now, if one man says he has seen a dead person alive, you may believe him or not, according to your opinion of his trustworthiness. : : If ten men tell you that they have, at the same time, seen this dead person alive, talking walking in newness of life, you begin to be impressed.

If five hundred men tell you that they have seen Someone who was dead. . . . : well, you must admit that you are in a startling minority.

something which is as indisputabl President. Wilson.

__The Resurrection of Christ was. oqisied bythe dincivlas Io ne Cor cele

body, and when they came to the grave in the garden, they found that the stone had been rolled away from the door of it, and the grave was empty.

Here is John's account of what followed: “But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain." And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and | know not where they have laid him: “And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and | will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; whichis to say; Master." sce

Christ had spoken her name, and: all of heaven was in it. She uttered only one word, and all of earth was in it.

If we believe this, it is one of the loveliest stories in literature.

Celtis @ story over which, without shame, men might weep.

It is a story which we cannot read without feeling a lump in our throats.

If we do not believe it, it is a clever and shameful fie!” Does it sound like a lie to you? Does it have a hollow ring of uncertainty or falsehood? Do you not: rather get the feel of truth in it?

Is it all a trick? Are we all deluded fools? No, we are not deluded— . No fact in history is better established, more scientifically established, than this one.

The disciples did not expect this to happen’ Their belief in the Resurrection was not some fantastic ideo that had been wafted in from the swamps of their fevered imaginations. ) It was not some romantic wish out of their dream-house, not the result of wishful thinking. for it came as a complete shock unexpected seer C7 “bewildering.” oe When ‘Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary, the mother of James, and other women came breathlessly from the empty tomb, shaking With an extraordinary excitement and blurting out the news to the disciples, we are told: . "and their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.” . : Read Luke, or the story of Thomas, the dogged unbeliever, as John tells it, . : “except | shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and

The Easter Story i a

loud

Is it true? Is Christ really risen from the dead?

As that question begins to knock—gently—on your heart's door, you realize that you have gone back through the centuries to when the world was nineteen hundred years younger, back to the country of the camel, : and sandaled footprints in the sands of Palestine . . . back to the time of the Roman eagle fluttering over bronze breastplates . shinning in the Syrian sun back to the days of the Caesars.

And you feel quite funny—almost ridiculous—for you have your microscope in your hand your measuring tape your litmus paper your biology textbook your test tube ; and your college diploma.

In the half-shadow in the womb of time your microscope glitters like a diamond. . Your tape measure gleams like a line of gold. Your litmus paper is a purple ribbon from a royal standard. Your test tube, silver bugle to sound a note of triumph,

And the noise and confusion of unbelief has died away.

And in the quiet Easter morning you are standing in front of a grave in a garden, and you see a stone in the doorway, but the stone is moving . . . is moving!

And before you are aware of it, you will realize suddenly that Someone is standing beside you, and your eyes are fixed on His hand, and you see a mark in the palm of it, like the print of a nail. i

And as a great realization dawns over you, you hear His voice: “Lo, | am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” “Whosoever believeth-in Me, though we were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die . . ."” “Because | live, ye shall livé also.”

It is so tremendous a thing that we can’t describe it.

..Jtis s0 delicate o thing that we can’t even bring.it into view for. | Q

anybody else to look at. We can never explain it to anybody else. We only know that it is true.

The Voice has said: “Because | live, ye shall live also.”

“If a man die, shall he live again?” Yes, because the Resurrection is a fact.

Aye, and |, too, shall live, because | know it's true. (Copyright. 1950, by Fleming H. Revell Co.)

"THE END

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Jesus Is Crucified

ice, yielded up the ghost. (Matt. 27:50)

To Keep Twins

In Incubator

Detroit: Father Pays $31 aDay For Hospital Service

Harold Coppens, Detroit, hoped

today it wouldn't take ‘too long

five pounds each. He's working 75 hours a week on three jobs so

the can pay -$31-a-day-to-keep the

infants in an incubator. The babies were bofn two and a half months prematurely to Mrs. June Coppens, 29. They now weigh one pound 13!'; ounces and one pound 14 ounces. ” = = Dr. Harold Hillenbrand, Chica80, secretary of the Am Dental Association, will speak at the Indiana State Dental Association’s 93d annual meeting May 15-17 in the Claypool Hotel. Dr, Walter Crum, Richmond, is planning the program.. w ” . William Schmedeke, 9, St. Louis, said he wasn’t crying about piereing his left foot with a pitchfork. “Now I can’t buy mom her Easter present,” he sobbed at the hose |pital. He'd been digging worms to {sell so he could buy the gift.

» s = . | Pat Clift, New Castle High School senior, has won the Elks 110dge. state, scholarship: of : $300. She's now competing for one of the 15 prizes to be awarded to oufstanding pupils over the U. 8S,

® 5 = * Three Indianapolis students at Purdue have been elected officers of Triton, women's s

honorary. Shirley Schaffner, 5945 Guilford Ave., was elected presi«dent; Barbara Fadely, 530 E. 58th - St., vice president, and Dorothy Cass, 4326 Washington Blvd., sec retary-treasurer.

been appointed commanding officer of Detachf= ment A, 2224 Air ' Service Group, Stout Field. Maj. Keene, a combat pilot with the 8th Air Force during World + War II, in civilian life is vice Maj. Keene .cident of {Spencer Curtiss, Inc., advertisin, "lagency. -

s “w ” * : Mrs. Mabel Allen, 746 Prospect St., operator for the Indiana Bell

today.

i Richard K. Bowers, 2441 N, Delaware St., has been - pledged to the Purdue Order of Military (Merit, ROTC honorary.

~ » o Gene M. LeFave, Butler grade uate, will speak at the annual convention of t h e American Chemical Society to be held Sunday through Thursday in P hiladelphia. Holder of a J. I. Holcomb graduate fellowship in chemistry at Butler, he is em[ployed at the Holcomb Re{search ~Labora- = Mr LeFave - tories and currently is working {toward a master of science de« [gree at ‘the university.

| » = = i | Gertrude C. Nauman, 19, sociale

{ly prominent student at B: Mawr College (Philadelphia), missing 13 days, was under the

care of a physician today in her

home next door to the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa. She was found living alone in a Miam{ {Beach hotel.

a career on the legitimate stage when her days of playing bareskin peek-a-boo are over. ‘I've {got brains. I'm a good dramatic actress now and [I'll be a great one,” she said while appearing in a New Orleans

Miss Rand

. |already been a successful motion picture actress and ballerina.

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| ® x = | Dale Snoke, rural mailman of Charlotte, Mich., doesn’t give up leasily. When floods prevented him from delivering mail to 25 families for 10 days he rented a plane and (dropped accumlated mail at the igeneral store in the stricken area.

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Drawn by John J. Sunley

After three hours, the end wos othand. And Jesus, ogoin crying tothe doo of the monument, ond went his vr.

for his newborn twins to reach -

t La a irom | Sally Rand, fan dancer, plans

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