Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1950 — Page 18

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‘Best Years Ahead. Korea Amputee

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only 17. Then she picked it up and went on,

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DAYS ON THE MOON

Day and night on the mooniin China, he said, had made it leach is about 15 earth days long. fashionable to assume English | [names. He mentioned Wellington In New York, the Smiths also [Koo and Victor Hu and Holling- have been nosed out by the John- | sons in Chicago. And in Minne-| the Smiths “that he decided to follow Dave been overwhelmed by Johnand other |large cities, however, the Smiths

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. . ~Three loggers were miss Writes His Folks una beieved drmen osny wit : a 235-foot coastal passenger vesBOSTON, Mass., Oct, 4 (UP)— sel knifed through a .provincial| "Dea; Ma and Dad’ the letter forestry launch, No one an survive in that I'm bfingin some bad news with Water more than five minutes,” a 8 Royal Canadian Mounted Police- | Thus started the Jetter from Man sald after the 19-year-old Pfc. Bob Mullen to A-'L. Byrant was sliced in two {last night by the Unibn Steam- “ I hope you dont take this so ship Passenger vessel Lady.Cyn-

launch

The launch sank in rain-swept {Howe Sound 15 miles from here. Four other men, all from the

} “I don’t remember exactly how Bryant, were i into the icy

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than there are named Smith. And there is at least one, Chinese Smith, H. R. (Bud) Ekins, the former war corre-| spondent who served many] years in the Far East, reports,

{spent a record $4,506,909,000 last/to me that he met a Chinese throw away. govern: Smith on the Pa Pao Shan golf

The Census Bureau said the {caddy to identify himself, cities, each with “The only thing I'm worried more than 25,000, about is you folks. I don't want! | billion dollars more than in 1048,

Pecpie Nomed Smith—

They're in I 100— From Who's Who List To Archives of FBI

VA Rolls Contain 13,000 Without Middle

Initial; 1 .5 Million Total in Nation CHAPTER IV THE SMITHS ARE ONE IN A HUNDRED By H. ALLEN SMITH

near Peking. When Mr. Ekins asked his

the

populations of ipoy replied that he was Smith Hu. | spent a half-/Mr Wkins was curious and the

caddy, a bright boy, explained his

| Ekins, (sult and to adopt the most dis-|50DS, tihguished of all foreign names! Petersons, for himself.”

name,

Some of the important people]

ton Tong among others,

“Smith Hu told me,” says Mr.

» “ » The Bureau of the Census does

not count Smiths as Smiths, and doesn’t bother with a breakdown; of the population according tog family name,

Extensive samplings, however,

tell us approximately how many Smiths there are in the United fourte States. One out of every hundred! another persons in this country is a Smith. Actually it is slightly over this— the percentage is usually a trifle 4 above one per cent.

This figure obtains In almost

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In 1786 a local carried this item: Ham Smith, Dutchess

“Col.

County,

as a middle initial.”

Running second to the Cohens

apolis and St. Paul,

Andersons, Nelsons In almost all

occupy first Ha

re colleges professors; three are lawyers;

them. Almost from the ho New York has had Smiths to!

newspaper | willate of Red Mill, informs his | friends and the public that having moved into New York, and finding so many of his name, | to distinguish himself from them, has added the letter M. |

Who's Who in America recog- | zes 363 Smiths, Ninety of these thirty-| twenty-eight!

are clergymen; fifteen are army

officers;

men, and thirteen are authors.

octors, architects,

sevenfeen are bankers: en are manufacturers; fourteen are newspaper-

Scattered among the others are! economists, |

engineers, politicians, railroad of-

every list available for examination — military rolls, Social Security files, telephone director-

| les, the frightening archives of

the Federal Bureau of Investigation, social registers, federations of chinchilla breeders and compendiums of Important Peo- | ple. One out of every hundred.

" That adds up to at least 1.5

million Smiths in the United States alone,

[surance men,

{ficials, judges, musicians,

ranchers,

|librarians, a critic, a cartoonist,

|shipbuilder, a livestock specialist. a geograher, a director of ciematography,

a temperance leader,

inelifes,

ja farmer, and a Christian Science

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me repeat, straightaway Smiths. ! The figure does not take into ac-| count the numerous female Smiths | who by marriage have become Johnsons and Terwilligers and Adamses and Sullivans and Bid-

‘dups. - Add to them the thousands of Almost Smiths—the sons

Smiths in New, York City, but that doesn’t mean there are not many Smiths. There are hordes of

These million and a half are, let|

daughters of mothers who were named Smith. Then add to that! the names of Sugar Ray Robinson | and Mary Pickford.

Before you know it you've got

| yourself a mess of Smiths,

The Johnsons rank second in

a United States with a mere

{million The first twenty most ‘numerous surnames in the counFY are: 1. Smith 11. Thomas ! | 2, Johnson 12. Moore ; 3, Brown 13. White | 4, Williams 14, Martin 5. Miller 15. Thompson 6. Jones 168. Jackson . 7. Davis 17. Harris 8. Anderson 18. Lewis 9. Wilson 19. Allen 10. Taylor 20. Nelson

» n » ! There are more Cohens than

{the Bar” wrote: {vocabulary of language are there two words! which, con-jointly, suggest a finer! guarantee of simple faith than the name of John Smith? a are the embodiment of honesty of |

[practitioner There is one Smith on the honor roll of those who have been in Who's Whe for half a century or longer:

Professor |

Charles Lee Smith, an educator |

of Raleigh, N. C.

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a multitude of Negro Smiths, though the name is not in the scued by crew first place among them.

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