Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1950 — Page 14

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People Named Smith— ~~

Father Solves Age-Old Problem, Gives New

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CHAPTER SIX SINO” |" Mark that u Birr 4 - p as y good propas 813 E. 46th St, will ; ¥ ! i : collapse of t THE ONLY SMITH SMITH AND THE H. ALLEN SMITHS “Michteldis Radiginde Smith” ganda for our side. Good for us 50th wedding : CO (the na {Marine : three days. By H. ALLEN SMITH i Joong be a gag, but soting has Oo te speed with which} The celebra! ; ie 8 io : | . : Justios : a any meaning to me ni tes put force in the home of their ] c } “OF Sia 3 executive, { On the third day of March in 1950 a boy baby was born can only conclude that it must field and the brilliant generalship| Joseph E. Hartman, 5821 "racy has be in Michigan: He was the son of Glenn E. Smith, chief of the Bave heen meant for some other of Douglas MacArthur and his Jersey St. Fy city men 2 Au : i Ivigi inhi 1 A Smith and if that be true aides. Mr. and Mrs. Shafer were mar- gl : ; . x feated.” Guidance Service Division of the Michigan Department of! I strongly suspecc that son-of-a- We" score again for having ried-Oct. 12, 1900; in Indianapolis ; - ! : Mr. Tscl Public Instruction. lsmith was a wasaepy. beaten back the early North Ko- and have lived in this city all 4 4 : ; employees © The new child weighed seven pounds and three ounces

rean determination to drive our their lives. Mr. Shafer has been tory in Wier and was twenty-two inches long. 1 describe his dimensions Detroit oit Realtor Use Uses

forées into the sea. There was in the field of special investiga cessfully w ‘a good chance during the early tion for the past 27 years. He attempts to because he is important. rani Psychology Sig ns weeks that they would do just has been a Frank E.. Miller and force a : i i bleat duction as has just been accorded. DETROIT I Bruton, that. | Agency representative in the L. Mary Leonard. Assisting the ; and nights. . His first tiny eatings me It is iwritt ite rh . x ¢ en quite clearly in realtor, doesn’t put “sold signs But we are being heavily scored|Strauss & Co. for the past four host and hostess will be Miss : the Remo against the indignity o being the Bible, I Samuel XIIT 19.ion the new houses he sells, His against by a damaging propa- years. Lillian Hartman, and Mrs. Floyd, : The riotin horn were scarcely over before NOW there was no smith found read “too late.” Better psychology, [Rose of Indianapolis, and Mrs. | . off their Ils

Mr. Shafer Mrs. Shafer

the father set to work on the age-|throughout the land of, Israel’ine said.

old problem. of finding a distinc-|It must have been a happy land.” tive first name for a Smith. . =» He is the most Smith-conscious| My mother is responsible -for| of all the Smiths I know, and now|the fact that I part my fisme on! his job was to pick a first name the side. for his new son that would dis-| When I got my first job oni & | tinguish him from the multitude newspaper back in Indiana, she | of Smiths, gave me a little lecture touchAt length he got it—he | ing upon the commonness of | christened the child Smith. So | our name and the need to fancy far as I know oe State a { It up a bit in the forepart. { Michigan has the only indi- i vidual in the entire country lt great a ion He, whose name is Smith Smith. reporter for a college newspaper | a" came to interview me. Right at Among the many admirable the beginning she fixed me with 8miths produced in this country a beady eve and demanded: “Now, | was one who seryed as Post- tell me what your real name is.” master-General under McKinley ghe insisted throughout the in-| and Theodore Roosevelt. He was terview that “H. Allen Smith” | Charles Emory Smith, a native of was quite obviously a nom de Connecticut who became a news-/plume, a thing I had invented, paper publisher in Philadelphia. and she went away convinced that He was scheduled once as a'l was lying. #peaker at a dinner where Impor-| There was the case of an Alfant matters of state were to be len Smith who was eity editor discussed. He arrived at the din-| of a newspaper In Passaic, ner from a drinking bout and he! N.J., who once almost got his | was, in a word, stiff. head knocked off by a group of | When the time came Tor his ad-| naked people on account of me. dress he was given a long and! | had visited a nudist camp eioquent introduction and all vom back in the hills and had writ- | in the banquet hall turned to him.| ten an article about the pecu- | He was unable to get out of his' liar activities I had observed | chair. After an embarrassed at the establishment while, I, | pause, the meeting proceeded | myself, was mother naked, My without him, | published story aroused great | The following day Smith's own| heat in the bare breasts of the | Aewspaper carried a full account | nudists and they descended upof the dinner on its front page, | on the first Allen Smith they | reporting the other speeches In| could find—the Allen Smith in i

: ~ detall and concluding with this Passaic.

sentence: He convinced them that he |

ganda story which American atra-| tegists believe now is percolating

Among the receiving guests will

be Mrs. Shafer's mother, Mrs, Luther Coulter of

Greenfield. [hose to fix their anti-aircraft/house

' “Charles Emory Smith was

ealled upon and his remarks |

was not the snake, gnd escaped the humiliation of being knocked silly by a band of nuts.

will be found op the following - p," : { In more recent years I have en- © The next page of the news- countered all manner of Allen paper was a vast white blank, Smiths and Allan Smiths and Al-| save for a single line in small len H. Smiths. The name in as-| type at the bottom, which said: $orted combinations is met with ¥What else could he say?’ everywhere and my curiosity is| # not aroused any more except by Our chief concern "with Charles straightaway H. Allen Smiths, Bmory, however, has to do withi When someone sent me a another public dinner where he pamphlet containing the informa-| was the principal speaker. |tion that Mrs. H. Allen 8mith had “The toastmaster chose to ex- been appointed a lobbyist for the natiate on the subject of Smiths, Indiana League of Women Voters, delivering himself of all the stale/I accepted the situation with nd wheezy jokes growing out of equanimity. the commonness of the name.! When the battleship Missouri | Then Charles Emory Smith got got stuck in Chesapeake Bay and | up. , | Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith was “Sometimes,” he said, “I find given the job of dislodging the myself wishing that I had lived big ship, I was curious in only one in the times of Moses, for then 1 direction: might have escaped such an intro- I wondered what calibre of Cuss-|

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