Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1950 — Page 13

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pursue many of the good habits a ‘married with children continues, either.

* Stops fo Listen fo Prayers

ANYWAY, the other night I was chewing the rag at a friend's house aheut the Korean imvasion and . the possibility of another big shoot and drinking a beer when his 4-year-old girl ran into the room. Almost knocked his bottle of beer off the coffee table.

“Bedtime,” my friend said. “Have to listen 1 her prayers and kiss her goodnight. I won't

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Surprised me. He's sort of a roughneck and | couldn't imagine him sitting still for ao child's prayer. If he hod raised his voice for all the neighbors. to hear and roared that it wos a woman's job to listen to prayers, I! wouldn't have - thought much about it.

What Sives? I was alone in the living room and the house

: Evening prayer . . . her world is perlest and she must be very close to God.

- Without balking, without trying to be cute orf

‘Tov —my soul to keep. If I should die befo!

s0_gujet all of a gudden-it

the blossoms of a fruit tree, the babbling of al

Hard to Place Hope in Prayer

of being. capable of —tursing his earth into and ' a colossal tribute to his folly, it’s hard to place! oy '/ your hope on a curly, sleepy head, a prayer, | ;

_ What would you suggest> —-

And then we change the image and make hi

Animal Stars

violin music just then I probably would have bawled. How nice it would be to have about! six like that, I thought, as the child pra

clever, | “Now I1'lay me down to sleep. I pray. Thee, |

I wake, 1 pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take. God bless mama, God bless daddy and God bless me.” There was a pause. I thought it was all over. Then came the wonderful postscript. “And may I grow up to be a wonderful woman." . The little one didn’t rise to her feet. She was wrestling with a problem that was known only to her. “Daddy,” she finally said, “can I say that last all over again?” Her daddy nodded. We heard the postscript again. Shortly she was under the covers. She | kissed her parents, took a final sip of water and cuddled up to a teddy bear: i

Her world was perfect. God would watch over| her and daddy and mama were near. There was| : no meanness that could touch her. oy 4 —Jn~her eyes were many things. AIl in one moment before she closed her eyes, I saw the strength of a giant oak in a forest, the Serenity and promise of a wheat field on a summer day; |

cool creek wending its way unerringly to the sea. | But her life would include association with! humans and they're very different from birds, | flowers, teddy bears. And I saw the wisdom of | the father and the mother in the postscript. | In those few words was the ultimate hope of all the good things we can hope for on this! side of the clouds. A wonderful woman is the | beginning of a wonderful home, good family,| happy life.

Congressman Jacobs, who wants to be Senator, addressed the I 1th District

__Well-wishers beat a trek to Alex Cam bel’ s room on othe eighth oor of the Caucus at the Claypool,

Claypool, hoping to ride the bandwagon.

IN THIS AGE: when man stands on the brink |&

all-consuming sun which would burn forever as |;

good deed; example. we've tried steel

But, on the other hand, and fire and disintegration, |;

A child must be very close to God. You cons see that before we humans start work on him.

unhappy, cruel, poison his mind. When are ve going to smarten up? hope she grows up to be a vonderral la wonderful woman. I don’t see how He could fail! to-hear that prayer.

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 27—1It is very possible that Mr. Davis (Tommy) Stern, publisher of the New Orleans Item, is the greatest mule trader of all time, Mr. Stern has parlayed a non-existent mule named Francis into an industry, and has touched off a vogue of talking animals that threatens to put human actors out of business, Tommy Stern was sitting around as an unassigned second looey during the late nastiness; and he was brooding about who or what might be one cut lower than an unassigned looey. He finally deeided that a talking mule was a social equal, and invented a mule named Francis. He says he chose Francis as a name because it was completely sexless.

$20—First Time 2D LT. STERN filled a hole in the Army-Navy Review with his first fantasy on Francis, and for said chore was paid .a large $20 per filling. He shipped some excerpts from the life of Francis to his literary agent and Francis became a part of the war, Francis crowded into several magazines, here and abroad, and after the war he became a book. Francis got bought by the movies, and was made into a cheap ($500,000) picture. : At last count he had grossed something in the neighborhood of five million bucks, and was continuing to stack them into the neighborhood houses. To handle the business accrued by Francis. Mr. Stern has agents in New York, Hollywood, London and Paris. As a sidebar industry, there are Francis dolls, puppets, balloons, recordings, sheet music. The life and times of Francis have been sold in book form in France, England and Australia. Mr. Stern recently signed a movie contract providing for

$50,000 per picture, plus additional money for screen-play performance, for an estimated five pictures concerning a conversational mule. As

counter-irritant to Francis, rival producers have

- scheduled no less than 14 feature films about ani-

mals that speak, so that even the shaggy dog has come into his own.

There is" no explanation of the success of Francis at the box office, unless you might say | that a jackass makes more sense than most peoplé | today. In the picture Francis practically wins a war all by himself, aided by a second looey who| follows his orders, and it could be that Mr. stern is being pleasantly nasty at the expense of a few id generals and admirals. There were some isolated | campaigns that, in retrospect, might have been! more com etent] administer - voc) Sam y ®4 tven by an on Notre Dame dhamishy professor Charles C. Price wd Mrs. But there is a fine and easy explanation of why Price held d open house i in. their suite during the caucusing. : Reanie, the ideal mule, has achieved great popu- Fr d Ri arity in the movie capital. Francis is a star, but/ — he costs no more per day than any other mu Let ree orh ing and he may be any mule. He is not subject be. tantrums. His voice is dubbed into the sound! ‘track, and his lips can be made to move serely| by putting a wire bit into his mouth. He does not get into unsavory, headline scandals, make unwise marriages or contract spectacu- | lar divorces. : i By a quirk of popular choice, Francis and Clifton Webb have become the hottest properties in Hollywood, largely because they play themselves. There is positively no truth to the rumor; that Paul Dquglas has been tested for the next Francis starrer:

Awed by Magnitude MR. STERN, who has his own troubles as a newspaper publisher, is a little awed by the magni-| — tude of his imaginary mule. Mr. Stern has never! seen a mule at close quarters, but has been recently awarded a plaque by the Louisiana SPCA for his outstanding work in the prevention of cruelty to mules. Francis’ ascendacy to stardom should give some logical pause to his competitors in the film industry. There was a time when Rin Tin Tin, the dog, was bigger than Barrymore, and Mister Michael Mouse practically reformed the business

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Frank E. MeKinney, high Demourelic political power, attended

the Marion County caucus,

jinks. by Miss Coviry.

18 Kinds of Bread Instead of One; Even Perfumes Are Alike in Russia

The Times gives its readers some sound reasons for celebrating Independence Day. The reasons come from an American correspondent who rediscovered his own country after spending’ five years in 14 European lands and in the Near East. This is the third of six articles by Mr. Herald, He was bureau chief in Berlin and Vienna for an American press association.

CHAPTER THREE “It is the right of the people to institute . . . government, laying. its foundation on-such principles and organizing its Fowars in such a form gs to .effect their safety and happiness , , , THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. By GEORGE HERALD

“HOW DO YOU want it, Madam? On toast,

or roll?” This standard Juhcheone tte query made my French wife slightly

rye, whole whea t

A New Gadget

dizzy during her first days in America. She looked even more all by himself. There is a hint here that people flabbergasted when she came home from her first “stroll through prefer human actors only in the absence of dumb a supermarket. ” beasts, and now that mules have been endowed “Imagine! I counted 18 dif- available articles were uniform. with speech, we don’t need Sonny Tufts. ferent types of bread on the For instance, there was .no impia— : shelves,” she exclaimed. “Eight- choice of. perfumes except for ~° leen kinds! I know some people three different bottles labeled A,

By Frederick C. Othman

“WASHINGTON, June 27-—There's music again at my house from an old-fashioned phonograph with—I'm almost ashamed to admit {t—only one needle in the greove. This maehine,~with a record changer on one side and a radio on the other, I bought long before the war. It served mie well with music to fit my mood (and make the pup howl) until about two weeks ago when it. gave a final squeak and died. I figured maybe the time had come to buy a new one. I went shopping for phonographs and I still get nightmares, involving gear wheels, from the experience. There are phonographs,.which really are two in one, with one machine for playing big records at one'clip and another for spinning small ones at another speed. There are others that play records at three different speeds on the same spindle’ with different needles and adjustments, like an automobile gear shift. There are still others that play all kinds of records with the same needle, automatically, nonautomatically, in sequence, and out of sequence,

Machine Is a Beauty AND THERE is one super job, about the size of a tinsmith’s tool kit, which holds a whole closet full of records and plays same for 23 solid hours without stopping. . The man said if I didn’t believe it, T could sit down and he'd prove it. I had to teil him that I couldn’t spare 23 hours that particular afternoon. His machine, | must admit, was a beauty. It took oll kinds of records, mixed any old way, and played ‘em on both sides, before shoving them gently into a box. The trouble was that it was cantly and complicated and I am not a machinist.

-And maybe I've got a tin ear.

I listened to

» these newfangled records on these newfangled ma-

chines and they sounded about the same .as the ones I bought a good many years ago. So I decided to get my old box patched.

'which I overlooked

in Europe who would be glad to Have the choice of one!” Our - most precious freedom, for! a good many years, is freedom of choice. Whether you earn. $25 or $500 a week, you can always choose between an infinite” variety of

our

B and C. 3 « Apparently the Kremlin had felt it might lead to disturbances if all Soviet ladies wore the same scent. - So the Commissary for Beauty. Products had cnosen three party-approved fragrances for them. And only the wives of high-ranking officers and civilians

2 A “Dardanella,”’ and * "Japanese Sandman” on rec- M ad | an, Seized I land drunkenness. The prosecu-| accident in which police say he |offense.. He was Mined: $25 and : ords which sound fine, in an_old- fashioned way, 3 Times, Given Small Fine, 'tor's office, represented by dep- struck am, impropefly parked car costs, and sentenced to serve ‘60 a on the machine | already o own. Loses Operator’ s License for 90 Days |uty Edwin Ryan, recommended a/in front’ of 1910 W. Minnesota! (days on the farm. or ql

The Tocsin of Liberty. On ly 4, 1776, the rent bell is rung procaiming ibery hravgrort all the land and to all its people.

goods in all price ranges—good, were privileged to make a choice

" Ihave read about the Better Business Bureaus’

p lothes, shoes, hats, gets, cars, of the fhree bottles. . Any com- ‘ : campaigns about phony radio fixers, but I never hg Be a % fake as on soldier's Frida obey have So were the railroads and air- rations, the captain in command finally sat down and ate the bird thought I'd tangle with ’em. I don’t believe the newspapers magazines, Jectures.| faced diseiplinary action if she lines. Yet people could at least tolerates no backtalk, isn’t that without them. They never showed first two fellows who ripped open my machine ya games, ‘concerts. movies or had smelled like A.B or C. use them freely. But as I traveled right?” up. They never even called.

were crooks exactly; they weré ignorant.

farther East, the choices grew They looked at all those widgets in the chassis,

narrower and the use of them be-

I don’t know how valid that comparison might have been, but!

comic strips.

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ou n ¥ MY YEARS 'n Europe have

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unhooked some, replaced others, and soldered the convinced me that government- Came more limited. I know one thing: through the grapevine what hag rest, but 1 don’t think they knew what they were 20 accident,” an envious German planning will never create a The Czechs could not travell Anyone who really believes this happened. At the mere men on doing. once told me. You just happened genuine variety of goods for all from one town to another in their Operation Shipwreck is a better Our Tnryita tian te IW Foor fen 1 had to pay 'em, but the results were what to have plenty of elbow room and the people. Such diversity can own country without a special and more desirable way of run- laws had deen Pu sae he you'd call sporadic, Sometimes I'd have music and great resources in your country.” grow only from the enterprise SOvernment pass. The _Hup-{Bing a souniry {han our system rid : f er tem tation’ ? sometimes buzzing. So I called in i neighbor, who A good answer is another ques- and pioneer #pirit of individuals Barians were forbidden t6 change must either be balmy or he is act- om fu p :

yd? : his 3 ever, if don't let diagnosed my case as a biirned-out condenser. ton: "How about Russia, China competing with each other in a their apartments, their employers|ing in bad faith. However, if the Reds don

or some South American nations? free society. Your freedom of OF their minds without getting! How wel the Reds’ top bracket their people come over and see for This Shet 20 sents. He instaling it for a small fee They all cover immense spaces, choice of cigaréts or soft drinks Permission.” is. aware’ of this was brought themselves, no one here stops our 1 no irouble since. they're full of undeveloped riches. in the corner drug ‘store is in-, Their one freedom of choice home to us one day in Berlin. We Commies and assorted pinks from i: Record Sales Slump yet none of them has so far been separable from vour freedom to Wa& between keeping quiet and‘had just completed a tour through going and living in Russia {f they

able to offer its citizens as many

pick a job, a male or a political being sent to the nearest congcen- the Boviet zone and, to make n like it better there. Strangely NOW THE MUSIC dealers are moaning about choices as the United States. candidate tration camp. nice gesture, we invited our two enough, most of them have so far a sudden slump in record sales. Mysterious. They I am convinced by my obser- One night in Paris, I was tired Pe Russian conducting officers to a preferred the fleshpots of Amer can't orderctand 1 2 "vations abroad that what makes of listening to a certain radio’ COMMUNIST LEADER Endre turkey dinner at the U. §. Press la to a cosy little cottage on the aE a country’s life abundant is not! show Hevesi. tried to explain to me why Club. They thanked us and prom- Volga. They haven't interviewed me. 1 am a typical its natural wealth but what its. “Let's switch to another pro-it had to be repos in Czecho- ised to be there at 8 o'clock. 1 suppose they are exercising ex-customer. ' And I am no graduate engineer. people do with it. On one of my gram,” I suggested. slovakia. i When they hadn't arrived at a their freedom of choice! When they invent a phonograph that plays one trips through Eastern Germany, But there was no other pro- “Ever heen. adrift in a life- quarter to nine, we phoned but’ Tomorrow: The Best Man Still A: Jing oo Ey ne t are y they: bor 1 yisiteq Ihe (Soviet Post Ex- gram. All “broadcasters were boat?” he asked. “The ship- couldn't reach thein, 9:30: no Rus- Wins. Pied pane 3 33 $ L : ! one e in one X change n ewu-Strelitz. All working for t x 3 2 0 m.: no Russias. We, (Copyright. 1950. by nite eature with one button to push, then I'll be in the market 8 he government. wrecked passengers ate. put on sans. 10 p. no Tus v4 Sinica The

again,

Until then I'll listen to the “St. Louis Blues,”

‘What's The Price Of Tipsy Driving? It's Cheap On Market Heres

= : : | The price of drunken driving: can pe cheap. {fin® of $25 on the drunken driv-|8t,

The Quiz Master

ken driv. last Jan. 15. * His next afrest for operating A man who h {ing charge, ‘and $1 and costs on! His record of drunken: soerats came Nov. 4, 1948, after he was motor vehicle SE The mit pase og for operating n{each of the other charges. Then ing goes back to February, 1934, involved in an accident at Ken= {a small fine and 90 days suspension of hia driver = license 1 Crim Mr. Ryan recommended that the acording to police files. He was/tucky Ave. and Minnesota St. He inal Court 1. © Hn CTIm- costs be suspended on the twe| discharged the. first time. |was sentenced to sik” months’

‘ 222, Test Your \ skill 29?

What is the difference between miles of rallroad and miles of track? : A mile of railroad may consist of a single track or it may eons tof | two, three or more par. allel tracks, and’ ay also include passing sidings, way switching tracks, spur tracks and

yard tracks. Thus a mile of railroad may embrace Greece?’ i

several miles of tracks. -

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! drivin count, With , what religious denomination was Thomas

Jeeraon gfsirated? did not elaim membership in any

denomination. He expressed a preference for the Unitarian Faith.

After the first conviction on the drunk | minor charges. Gets 60 Days {probation fined $30 and costs, and offense becomes a felony punish-|—— =n Abe He also asked suspension of. t \on Dec. 30, 1938, he was ar- his license was suspended. fof six able by $500 fine and 180 days in| Gastino’s license for 90 days. He" rested for operating under the in-| months, eal on the Indiana State Farm. Criminal €ourt 1. He had pre- could have asked that it be per- o 0 0" 0 enced to 60-days In addition to the f Fred Gastino, 52, of 5002 W.. viously made a plea of not manently suspended. on the Indiana State Farm and and four convictions RB | Minnesota St. has a total record Sullty and changed his plea to Judge Pro. Tem. J. Raymond fined $25 and costs, His license drivifig, ‘are six arrests fo a i lof 15 arrests—five of them charg- guilty, Tindall- carried out the recom- was suspended for one year. |enness and one for re Olympic Games held in |ing driving under the influence. He was charged in Grand Jury mendation of thé prosecution. | One week later, Jan. 6, 1939, he Ing. He has béent convicted four times. indictments on three counts —| The Grand Jury action came was arrested on an old warrant in! Mr. Ryan The firs Orympla was held in 776 B. C. | Changes to Guilty Plea. drunken driving, reckless driving, after Gastino was involved in an’ Sreenchmiss arging the peter comment. herrat : ; { . : > ; > mt oo : 3

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