Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1950 — Page 19

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heart is bubbling over with anticipa This is going to be the best vacation yet because ‘Il be running around “Where Nature Smiles and Opportunity Beckons.” Know where that is? Branson, Mo., 52 miles south of Springfield, the resort capital of the Ozarks.

He's Learned His Lesson ,

I DON'T KNOW what you are planning to do with your two weeks. Maybe you're driving to Los Angeles, some -of ‘the national parks, into Canada or Mexico. Driving four days one way is out. I've learned my lesson for a couple of vears, I'm going to be smart for a change. Get a load of the schedule. The first stop is Peoria. There I j'in my cousin, Wally Garstka. He's the cousin with the beer cooler, We pile all our stuff into his car and point the radiator south. After 10 hours of comfortable driving, if there is such a thing, we should be on the shores of Lake Taneycomo. One day of easy

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than driving like ‘madmen until late Monday evening and then calling a doctor to treat us for exhaustion. While we're unloading the car and traipsing into the cabin on the lake, we open the cooler and take a look inside. My, my, what treasure. Here's cheers, cousin, the vacation is on. Another thing, this year I'm going to rough it. The last two vacations were spent in hotels in Ft. Lauderdale and Miami Beach. Nice, but you get tired of chrome and polish. Our cotage on the lake is so rustic it would make a pioneer jump up and down with joy. It has indoor plumbing, hot and cold running water, electric refrigerator, showey, electric stove, two bedrooms and I'm sure a screen door that squeaks, As long as the refrigerator has plenty of space, I'li be happy. The vacationist can fish, ride rowhoats, paddle boats, canoes, motor boats, horses, bowl, play golf,

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tennis, hike, aquaplane, go to she movies, sleep and drink an occasional beer if he is so inclined. Tulsa,|

get back to civilization. i trict of the Ozarks, informs me that the days are hot, the nights are cool and the loeal citizens nave| banded together and killed off the mosquitoes and! flies. Rugged. _ : | For, 12 days of the 14 my cousin and I plan to do only those things the spirit moves us to do. This trip is to recondition our bodies and spirits.

‘Rough days lie ahead. Wally may find himself

back in the Navy. Where they'll find me by the time this mess is cleared up, I don't know.

know that I have a little oak tree in University

that tree. It would ease

Oakie will need water,

all I care.

And One More Thing

home to a full desk. Well, it’s time to pull the strings on the laundry bag. I'm packing sneakers, T-shirts, wash pants and a toothbrush. Nothing fancy, just the sun, wind and . .. no rain... in my face,

So long, see you in two weeks.

Goon-Squad Job

NEW YORK, July 29-If we are going to hustle up a volunteer police force to do the United Nations’ bidding in future scrambles of the Korean nature, it mightn't be a bad idea if the formulaters of such a force dipped back into decades to re-read a book called “Beau Geste,” It Is a pretty accurate presentation of a standby muscle gang called the French Foreign Legion. 7 The Legion, today and yesterday, is a mighty realistic approximation of a workable goon-squad, which is what an international police force hoils down to, It is a mercenary gang, full of fugitives from the law, fugitives from wives, fugitives from boredom, Today it's made up largely of Germans, holdover warriors from two losing conflicts. La Legion Etrangere has been predominantly German since World War I.

He Knows His Trade -

A MERCENARY soldier is apt to be a tough plece of furniture. He is hard-bitten, of course, cynical, of course, His morals are possibly shady, and his off-scene habits rough. He gets drunk and fights in low bars and may possibly neglect to shave. But he is a soldier, working for a soldier's pay, and he knows his trade.’ You don’t have to draft him, or teach him very much about war. Our Flying Tigers, who went out east with Chennault in the beginning of WW Twice, were Legion-type lads, who risked their lives to fight for fun and money. A man who fights for fun is apt to be a fair hand at his trade, and with money as an incentive he ought to be doubly competent. The Tigers trafficked with the black market later—or some did, anyhow—and they accepted pay for flying their shark-nosed peashooters, but they killed Japs, which was the purpose of their presence, The world today is loaded with footloose young men who have not heen able to adjust themselves to peace. They have found the humdrum of daily laboring boring. Their fingers itch for the controls of a plane, for the trigger of a gun. They have a vast store of savvy on how to kill while

staying alive, I know many personally, in this and other countries, If you are seeking to muster a force of Boy Scouts, the cold mercentry is out, because he is fighting for no lofty aim, no right to boo the Dodgers, no right to come home to Towser and Mummy, He is fighting because he is a bit of a global bum, will little regard for his ewn or anybody else's life. But he is effective, like a tough cop who roughs up a suspect to expedite a quick confession,

When a man is fighting for a living, his ||

personal habits and past background count for: very little if he obgys orders and shoots straight | and keeps his head down. The Legion, over a period of many years, has functioned effectively for La Belle France, by employing ruffians and hotspurs and fugitives to do the dirty work. I remember that in Africa the Arabs were paid off on a basis of how many German ears they brought in. Dirty, nasty, horrid, you say, but 80 is war itself. :

They've Already Had Basic

I KNOW THAT a great many restless warriors from this country, from England, from] Australia, and especially from Germany would leap eagerly into service with an international police force. They are already experienced killers ~—men who know the value of discipline and wariness in action. The cost of basic training would be nil, because they've already had it. Most of them would work for small pay and a chance to profit off the countries they fought in. This is a harsh view of the future, but little | more harsh than the pitiful actuality of the present, where unfledged American youngsters are getting themselves banged up in the name of a United Nations policing force, at great expense to this country alone, ’ A global approximation of the Foreign Legion, officered by professional military men and paid | from a global kitty, seems to me to make sense. At least these people would be fighting on their own time, of their own inclination, with all the skills of the scarred old tomeat. ”

Oscar’s Butlers

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, July 29--Oscar R. Ewing, our pink-faced and distinguished Federal Security Administrator, is having luncheon trouble again. It's not his cook this time, but his staff of butlers (if butlers they be) under official investigation. This is enough to ruin a bureaucrat's appetite, but I've got to hand .t to Oscar. He never gives up. A couple of years ago, you may remember, Congress discovered that he had borrowed from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the federal institution here for the insane, its chief cook to prepare lunch in his private dining room at Social Security headquarters.

Oscar Called It a System.

OSCAR PAID for the food; the taxpayers paid for the cook. Oscar insisted that there was nothing wrong about this. He said it was a gystem whereby he could invite bigwags in to eat with him, and make decisions while they were chomping their filets. This resulted in so much efficiency, he added, that the taxpayer was the winner, A good many taxpayers chose to disagree; there was a large whoopdedoo which Comptroller Lindsay Warren finally settled. Warren told Oscar to give the hospital back its cook. So all was quiet on Oscar's luncheon front until the House Lobbying Committee called him in to see whether he was spending any public money in his efforts to get Congress to approve compulsory health insurance. It turhed out that Oscar invited a number of veterans’ leaders in for lunch a few weeks back. X “Who paid for the lunch?” demanded Rep, Clarence Brown (R, 0.). “I did,” snapped Oscar.

Mother Allowed To Visit Cardinal

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dinal Mindszenty has recovered his health according to well-au-thenticated reports reaching Papal headquarters.

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Mindszenty Well, Reports Indicate

police hearing Mrs. Kovacs was|started two days affer Minds-| whisked back to her home in the zenty saw his mother. | Hungarian village of Cschimindrzent in a seven-hour drive in VATICAN CITY, July 29—Cars| a government car.

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“And was it served by a staff of butlers in uniform? asked Rep. Brown. “They wore white coats,” Oscar replied. “Who paid their wages?” the Congressman insisted. : “They were messengers in the department,” Oscar said. “They were just sitting around and 1 got them to serve and...” “You mean,” demanded the gentleman from Ohio, “that when your workers are just sitting around, you ask them to step in and buttle?” Oscar said, certainly.’ When his official chauffeur wasn't busy driving his official limousine, he said he did not®hesitate ‘to ask him to pass the meat. That, he said, was efficient. Rep. Brown said he hesitated to comment on that. Uncle Samuel in his wisdom did not provide Congressmen with eight-cylinder limousines, and chauffeurs in uniforms to match, and his experience along this line was limited, he explained.

Butlers Still the Subject

SO PITEOUSLY did Oscar seem to be suffering that Rep. Clyde Doyle (D. Cal.) sought to rescue him by asking whether he'd ever spent any public money trying to influence Congress, “Not one penny,” Oscar replied. : “Does that include butlers?” Rep. Brown demanded, “Yes, it does,” said Oscar. “Well,” said Congressman Brown, “do you have any thought in mind of asking this committee down to lunch so we can see how those combination messenger-butiers work? And what kind of uniforms they wear? And how your Suiicur keeps busy Yhien he’s not chauffeuring? | nd whether the service is up to usua standards?” Pp your I isn Ewing sald he'd be delighted, but he did not

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but my guess is he really wasn't hungry.

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