Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1950 — Page 35

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in the War Memorial Plaza. good. Chances are high that they will have turned up their little

All this makes me unhappy. I live in a hot8l You don’t have trees, flowers, lawns in a hotel. The management did, however, paint my bathroom green. That's something.

No Bugs; Was Their Arteries E. B. PALMER, landscaper, had the job of removing the eight elms. Last year 18 were hauled away. No, the elms, didn't die of Dutch elm disease. Phloem necrosis killed the War Memorial elms. Phloem necrosis does to a tree what arteriolosclerosis does to a human. The arteries get hard and stiff and pretty soon—curtains. Mr. Palmer and his son, Joe, and two other rugged landscapers, Rupert Demming and Henry Evans, were pulling down an elm about the time I arrived. This upset me, too. A tree, if it must, ought to be cut down with either an ax or a saw. And it should be cut down only for fuel, lumber and progress. Pulling the elm down with a cable, chain and winch, seemed to be the final blow. To die of phloem necrosis is bad enough, The tree-cutting boss said he appreciated how I felt and suggested I take a double-edged ax and bring the elm’ down properly. It was only about 15 inches in diameter and the wood was dry. “First lick looks big,” drawled Mr. Palmer, as the initial blow dug into the trunk. I felt like

Another elm goes down . . . It seems to resist for one last proud moment.

- roots, cutting the main surface tree anchors and |

‘getting an elm is, you can figure on paying from

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fly. It was no trick at all. You see, Joe, Rupert and Henry were oF ;

) Another time it : cut in deep and I couldn't loosen it. In a short! Hoosier MHeroes— time the ax became quite heavy, my hands began to burn and my face turned the color of a cranberry.

rough. “Had enough?”

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Mr. Palmer had an old cranberry in his o pocket and we made the comparison. There re- i : : remained about 14 more inches of elm to cut ? th : :

“Uncle,” 1 gasped, trembling from the effort.

not getting greener around the edges, you'll be! interested in what Mr. Palmer had to say. Toy Don’t just cut an elm down and lezve the roots in the ground. Many people tried that in Green-| castle and it wasnt’ long before they were fighting termites. Termites can eat you out of house and! rocking chair, you know. {

Mr. Palmer's method of digging around thei

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then pulling the tree down is designed to have! the falling tree do some of the work. When the tree falls, it jerks up the rest of the roots. With the use of the winch, Mr. Palmer can pull a tree down where he wants it. Very important in a residential district. If some of you home and -elm owners are wondering what the cost of

$50 to $60 a tree. I'm glad my oak in University Park is only four inches high, .

Mr. Palmer feels bad about the elms along! Washington Blvd. in the 3400 block. He has al special reason for being sad. Thirty-four years ago, Mr. Palmer planted the elms. They're not old for Washington Blvd. Felix (Star) Brown, superintendent of the War Memorial Plaza, says he is going to replace the elms with trees recommended by the Conservation Department. The Plaza was designed to have] tall trees along with the short, round-topped Nor-!| way maples. i It's sad to watch an elm crash to the ground. The chain high around the trunk Iooks cruel. When the winch begins to turn, the elm seems to resist for a last proud moment. The branches shake and a tremor runs the length of the trunk.! Top branches grab frantically for the sky as it| keels over, slowly at first and then with a rush.!. The end. | Frank Wallace, state entomologist, wasn't encouraging. With phloem necrosis and Dutch elm disease attacking the trees, Mr. Wallace thinks the situation is pretty bleak. He has a theory on how to control the beetle, but unfortunately, he

: : Spraying? Not Recommended I ASKED him straight from the shoulder: Should a man with limited means take a chance) and try to save his elms by spraying? Mr, Wal-| lace said he wouldn't recommend it. { “If a person can afford the luxury of doing, everything possible to save his elms, that's another story,” said the entomologist. “We've disturbed | nature someplace.” i Ma Nature, you let my oak alone. I'll even say, please. {

Loving Kindness -

By Robert C. Ruark

* NEW YORK, July 27-—-We will be unable to return a ruling on modern handling of the new soldier until some future date, at which time it may be possible to say whether it is best to coddle the recruit into competence. We deal today in loving kindness, in coffee, cake and psychiatrists for the rookies. We used to kick them in the tail, early, to convince them that they are in the Army now. ; The modern approach to the apprentice warrior grew from a political necessity. After all the howls the GI's filed at the end of the last war, it was necessary to soften up military indoetrination of the neophyte to satisfy his mama, first, and his congressman, second. So we built. what the lip-service lads called a “democratic” Army, whatever that might mean.

Mother's Darling Free THE SERGEANTS, in this democratic Army. were supposed to say “please” when giving an order. They were never, never supposed to ruffle the civil liberties of mother’s darling because mother’s darling was like as not to raise a howl in his next letter home, and mama would be on the Western Union to her favorite Senator. Sweeping reforms were supposed to be made in favor of the enlisted man, in order to allow him to serve out his peacetime stint without damaging his dignity as an individual. In times past I have circulated on both sides of the GI fence. I Have condemned, out loud, some trespasses on the rights of the enlisted man, and have also laughed raucously at some of the complaints that emerged from the postwar hearings on the sins of the brass, the “caste-system” foolishness that occupied a lot of time in Washington. It would seem to me today that an enlisted man should eat as well as any officer, and that he should be adequately cjothed and housed. When he is not fighting he shold have facilities for entertainment and relaxwtion commensurate with his station. He should not be subject to personal indignities stemming from officers, merely because they outrank him. There are foul-up officers, of course, chickenhappy idiots, just as there are over-the-hill artists and chronic cunnythumbs among the enlisted men.

This has to be recognized together with the fact that officers are minority and men are majority,

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and that there is a reason for this fact. |

An officer, on training and responsibility, is entitled to a freer personal life and more privilege than the mass-produced GI. You cannot have champagne for everybody, and work for none, in anything so large as an army. Some command and some must be commanded. Since a military

organization, to function, is necessarily based on

the inequality of man, a democratic force is therefore impossible. |

For this reason I think it may be wrong, as °

we enter into another war, for too much emphasis to be placed on “equality” in the services, when| battle experience will soon destroy the delusion. | In the speedy training of troops I think it is wrong to go too gently with them at first. You perform a disservice to the trainee, because actual war is neither gentle, reasonable nor considerate of the personal rights of the men involved. Any veteran will tell you that the toughly trained soldier will live a great deal longer in combat than the rugged individualist. There is

his tail down does not get shot in it.

Not Dignified Business

I DO NOT THINK you can “love” a youngster into becoming a competent fighting man. I think you have to make him pretty sore at life in gen-eral-—at the service, at his superiors, at the war in general, at civilians, and at his opponenfs. I do not think you can allow him too much individual! dignity, because he is not in a dignified business. | In the last war we had an axiom that advised] you to keep your mouth shut, your digestion in!

gqod shape, and never, never to volunteer for any-

thing. The French Foreign Legion embroidered it by exhorting its enlisted men to respect all sergeants, and, when things were bad, to refrain from making them worse, because the chances were they were bad enough already. A steady practice of these simple rules for living in a war, it seems to me, will still hold up as more valuable than a kiss from the kind sergeant as he tucks you in bed, with a motherly psychiatrist hovering just around the corner. : f

Spuds Au Gratin

. By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, July 27—Crouched behind a breastwork of boiled potatoes in cans with Technicolored labels and dried mashed potatoes in wax paper boxes was Rep. Eugene D. O'Sullivan (D. Neb.), who finally was goaded into roaring: “If the people want their potatoes au gratin, they should get 'em au gratin.” He’d bided his time for two days while his fellow gentlemen tried to figure out for the benefit of the Secretary of Agriculture methods for disposal of his umpteerr millions of pounds of butter, eggs, milk, cheese and potatoes. The statesmen got into a loud and cheesy argument about cheese.

Suggests 2-for-1 Sale

THEN THEY took up butter. Rep. Clifford R. Hope (R. Kas.) suggestéd that one way Secretary Charlie Brannan could get rid of his butter hoard was to advertise to the housewives of America a two-for-one sale. For every large, economy onepound size of butter they purchased at the regular price. they'd get one free. Brannan said he didn't think that would work. A gentleman at the press table suggested that he “organize a nation-wide pancake picnic, on the theory that this would sop up his buttery surplus. Another urged that when winter comes he give away with each bottle of rum a stick of butter. The latter suggestions the secretary did not hear; the members of the House Agriculture Committee were making too much noise. At intervals Rep. O'Sullivan inquired plaintively when he'd be -allowed to have his say. The chairman finally recognized him, From a large paper sack he produced his

canned potatoes, which he said could be sliced, or

fried, or turned into potato salad. He also hauled out his potato powder, which he mashed potatoes instantly when hot milk. “I notice that most grocery stores sell canned boiled potatoes and potato flour,” he said. “Now it goes against the grain with me to see potatoes bought by the government, dyed blue, and dumped at the farm. It just ain't right.” What he wanted to know, he said, was why couldn't the government take mobile canning factories to the farms where they buy potatoes and put ‘em up in tins? And why couldn't it make powder out of a few hundred thousand other tons of spuds? : * “That is not the answer,” insisted the secretary of agriculture. “Well, this can contains boiled potatoes,” said the gentleman from Omaha. “And this package makes mashed potatoes. It cost me 19 cents.” “Too expensive,” retorted Brannan.

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Times Photos by Staft Photographer Bill Oates. | ging men take the oath of enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps ’ the |6th Marine Battalion, Indianapolis, administers the oath to Soesat have the money to see if his theory is (loft to right) Pvt. Harry Courtney, Sgt. Ernest Sims and Recruits Jerry O'Brien, Jim Moore and the Fifth Ma-

Operation of a 60-millimeter mortar, favorite Marine weapon in jungle combat of the last war, is explained by Sgt. T. L. Finch Jr. at the Marine Armory. Looking on (left to right) are Pfc. Robe an axiom in the infantry that the man who keeps Turner, Cpl. Jack Orebaugh, Cpl. Ray Mink, Pvt. Edwin Elliott and Cpl. Ray Sturn,

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Off Kor Colum Aboard Valley Forge

With Pacific Fleet

Harold B. Shultz Jr. Writes His Ship In Action But It's All Right

Airman Harold B. Shultz Jr, Columbus, was among the first American Naval personnel to see action in the Korean fighting. He is serving aboard the U. 8. 8. Valley Forge, a large aircraft carrier which was in the Western Pacific when the war began. His parents, Mr, and Mrs. Har-|

jold B. Shultz, received a letter]

# - - Cpl. William A. Eslick, son

{Tune 29 saying {thas the ship {had been in acition but was all iright, ¢ The 20-year-J¢ {old airman has {been in the Navy § | nearly four years ¥¢ iand aboard the {Valley Forge for {a year. He took his boot training {at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Sailor Shultz advised

were coming into service.

= = {lin, is a member {of the First Ma i a

parents, {Mr. and Mrs. (James E. Gratham, live at 551 Center St in Franklin, Pfc. Graham. who 18 20-years-old, was graduated from

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eran of six years’ World War 11, is

Harold Shultz

{ his i friends to join the Navy if they,

Franklin High School with the

r . Sgt. Charles IL. Waples, a vetservice in!

again serving his country, : Sgt. Waples re - enlisted two years ago, and was stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington before leaving that station about three | Weeks ago. Formerly of { Elwood, Ind., he ; {is the brother of Sgt. Wapies {Mrs. Carl Shinolt of Scipio, Ind. His outfit is the 23d Infantry.

» = ” Pfc, Melvin R. Heath is in SapVie Japan, with the 31st Di-

vision. Known to his buddies as i “Dutch,” the 19- | year-old serv-

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{from their son which was dated of Mrs. Esther Eslick, 312 E. |North St. has been stationed im _

{Hawaii with the : {501st Air Force hE Band for seven months, ; A graduate of Technical High (School, where {he played trum{pet in band, {symphony orjchestra and {dance band, Cpl. |Eslick en listed™™ {in June, 19409. |He was trainea CPl Eslick at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Tex., and at bandsman's | school, Washington, D.C.

» | Pic. Robert B. Graham. Frank- His address is 501st Air Force

| AP.O. 953, C/O Posts master, San Francisco, Cal,

” » » {| Sgt. James W. Oliver, serving {with the U, 8. Alr Force, is the ison of Mr. and {Mrs. James Oliver, 1959 Hillside | Ave. Sgt. Oliver, {who is 20, was? {last heard from [two weeks ago. {according to his parents. A graduate of Technical High School, Sgt. Oli- , ver enlisted in the Air Force Sgt. Oliver nearly two years ago. He is now stationed in Texas.

s » = ; Pvt. Keith E. Parker, 18 years

old, is serving in Japan with the 7th Medical Bat-

talion, U. 8 Army, Pvt. Parker was last heard from July 7, according to his mother, Mr Ella Parker, 10 8. Bradley Ave.} At last re-28 ports, his outfit had not Dest listed as en ; the Korean Wt. Parker! fighting, but was alerted for possible transfer.

« = =» $ Cpl. Kenneth R, Allen is leave ing for England according to a

fceman joined re TH in | the ‘Army Mrs. Ahgeline | July, 1947 with Fouts, 135 8. Mebuddy, Pvt. x .

Kim St. A three - year enlistee, Cpl. Allen has another year to go. The 19-year - old corsta-

tore they joined Heath Prize List Boosted {the service, the boys were to-| To 190 Items

{gether a year in service before being separated. Pvt. Sheets is Benrus wrist watches for men now in Korea. | and women have been added to| Pfc. Heath took his basic the growing list of prizes in the training at Ft. Knox, Ky. and] Times Treasure Hunt. The prize then was shipped to Japan. There, list has been increased to 190 he completed his requirements items. 5 for: a high school diploma. Pfc. The Treasure Hunt will be held Heath attended Tech High next week in conjunction with| School.

the new Walt Disney techni-| He is the son of Mrs. Helen

i «In these businéss places:

color movie, “Treasure Island.” Grubbs, 1324 Ringgold Ave. |

{The picture opens’ next Wednes-| ys. 9 |day at the Indiana theater. | CPI. Waiter Macy is serving] 1" Cardboard keys will be dis- with the 20th Air Force which is

tributed with The Times on Sun- >3sed on Oki- |

‘day and Monday. Each key will Dawa. 'be numbered. The keys are to be CPl. Macy entaken to 10 downtown business listed in the Air places where Times Treasure fr orce for a {Chests will be located. The num- three-year hitch bers of the keys that “fit” each|in August of Treasure Chest will be posted. last year. He | Those holding the right keys will| Was employed by | obtain a master key from an at- the Railway Extendant, open the Treasure Chest Press Agency beand pull out a certificate for one fore he enlisted. of the gifts. The hunt is free, and He was sent to there are no obligations for any- Randolph Field, one to buy anything. Texas, where he Treasure Chest Locations was a driver for Col. Otis O. Ben-|

Treasure Chests will be placed Son Jr. Macy received his pro-| Dee motion to corporal while at Ran-

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Jewelry Co., 18 N. Illinois St.; dolph Field. In February he was

The famous “square needle” produces an apprehensive look kay Jewelry, 137 W. Washington shipped to Okinawa.

Celebrities Add Glamour

| on Pvt. Meredith Smith as he goes through the physical phase of 'st.; Lord Jewelers, 47 Monument | indoctrination. Pharmacist Mate 2-¢ John Kidder administers shot.

“Well, it saves the potatoes,” said Rep. osu 10 Drive for Recruits

livan. “And it saves the housewives a lot of work."

Cheese and Potatoes CHAIRMAN HAROLD D. Cooley (D. N.C.) banged his gavel. He said the Secretary owned a lot of cheese. Eighty million pounds to be exact.! “Why couldn't he just put that on the potatoes’ and sell 'em au gratin?” demanded Rep. Cooley. | That was when Rep. O'Sullivan made his his-|

Already the “best in the 13-ificials announced the order in and O state area of the Fifth Army,” which Indianapolis and Marion g¢

Indiana recruiters .will add “glamour” to drive tomorrow,

After topping the July target of

toric remark about people and au gratin potatoes. 571 by more than 100 early this The gentlemen then changed the subject. Rep. morning, recruiting officers said O'Sullivan sadly put his canned potatoes and his enlistments were continuing in a powdered potatoes back in their sack. He hadn't | i.a4qy stream. managed to persuade anybody, maybe me. Wilbur Shaw, president of the

Pm afraid 1 don’t count, : {Indianapolis Motor Speedway, will

The Quiz Master

appear at the joint Army-Air

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County “potential GI's” will be

sical examination.

The first

Indianapolis’ Draft

Monday. . Others to Follow

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72 from Southwest ;;,, esa] electric home appliances

His mother, Mrs. Elmer Chance

Circle; 29 Sr., lives at 5659 Hardegan Bt.

i Monument Circle; National Furn-|'

{iture Co., 335-343 W. washington Officers Find 1-

iSt.; Pearson's, 130 N, Pennsy

vania St.; Rogers Jewelers, 5 N i {Illinois St.; Rose Tire Co., 930 % Prisoner Just

{Meridian St.; Rost's Jewelers, 25 J 7 : N. Illinois 8t.; TaVel's clers. 5 Like a Lion

Miller Jewelry Co.

Lt |in Indianapolis

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Pometzists, 119 N. Hiinots| MUSKEGON, Mich, July 27 Among the many prizes will be

co refrigerator, Eversharp pen

” and pencil sets, women's dresses, “Or. of-3 Hon,

| (UP)—8heriff’s officers said to-|

{day that having 20-year-old Lee! their recruiting called up for pre-induction phy- an Admiral Television set, a Phil-(g8Y > in jail 8 ya: taking! 3

Alr Force Base, 3 El Paso, Tex. He is with the CPL Allen 97th Supply Squadron. ”

® » Pfc. J. L. Kashman, son of Mrs, John Kashman, 1314 Lee 8t, is watching world affairs from his Air Force field in San Antonio, Tex. Pfc. Kashman, who is 21, is in the U. 8. Air Corps there. Letters are received by his relatives

periodically. Pfc. Kashman 5 Ld . Cpl. Robert E. Crail, 20, son of Mrs. Mildred Scott, 2519 HR. Washington St. }

Marine Division which left California for the = Far East last week. Cpl. Crail ® who enlisted when he was 17, had spent a leave here from May 23 to June 15. He attended Warren Central High School. He spent the first

Cpl. Crall

two years of service policing.

Guam.

Luncheon Honors | Blood Donor Chief

Lawrence C. Duckworth, re

Committee, was guest of at a luncheon Tuesday. He is

Board 52 start through the mill at 8 a m.

| Following, although not neces- re ——————k sarily in succession, will be men Emergency Shelter

from Board 49 (Northeast), Board Plans Discussed ‘Here {Force; Recruiting main station at 50 (Northwest) and Board 51,

including a coffee-maker, waffle iron and food mixers, boys’ and girls’ bicycles, sports equipment land many other prizes.

Plans to shelter 100,000 Indianapolis residents in case of dis-

He is the first of several celeb- rompers of Draft Board 52 aster or enemy attack were con-

rities who will stimulate interest

are stm ho i

Who coined the phrase “cold war"? This phrase was first used by Herbert Bayard Swope in 1946. Bernard Baruch picked it up and brought 1t to public attention in a 1947 speech.

a do the Hebrew and Yiddish languages er? : . ; Yiddish is a German dialect,

What is the leading freight commodity han- in recruiting here, said Capt. dled by the railroads . fra States? William R. McMullen, officer in

Bituminous coal ranks first in carloadings and charge. ; : Expects Many Girls

tonn Ximately one-seventh of the revenues A rian railroads is ed WAC and WAF recruiters stacoal traffic. tioned in the Federal Building

: Cae Toll Have states legalized “mercy deaths” in time Speed Bae IF aie BRT ; : _ |bring “the girls in droves” to the

/said the appearance ‘of the three- |

have been asked to furnish two sidered yesterday at a meeting in the regular prisoners’ block,

of the subcommittee on shelter

additional men to replace a for- oo yo 1hgianapolis Chamber ] of ‘mer GI and a draft-exempt regis-' commerce. Po 7

_trant who received orders to re-. The group hopes to enlarge ers.

port for physical examination existing facilities by securing the

yesterday.

{failed to keep their

Mrs. Helen Mitchum, clerk of

185e.0f JuUbKG. ulldings aud. large {structures for emergency use. These buildings would

weighs 225 pounds, was ordered taking a new position with

in Municipal Court to be held on Cross New a charge of assault and battery. Red in York City.

{He tried to escape from the court {poom, but was captured after a |short chase, It took three police {men to bring him back. | When he was sentenced to two days for contempt, it took four officérs to lead him away.

.» = - | AT THE JAIL he was placed but only seconds later it took six

{deputies to break up a fight {Smith started with fellow prison-

| A few minutes after he {transferred to a private cel tunrkey found him hi

ring chairman of the Indian{apolis Red Cross Blood Th

Smith, who is six feet tall and!

busNavy Airman 3

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