Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1950 — Page 27

came to

with an 83-year-old gentle--man) recently completed 65 years of employment

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1y plots of soil. of 65 with bottle, I won't kick . . . complain. it’s why when Mr. Wechsler's achievement

my attention, I hurried to the fourth floor

: SUtEtve vears is a long time. Af 65 men quit : work Back their summer clothes and head for

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of Wasson's. Would his coat lapel be covered

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with service pins? What words of wisdom could

“he impart so my ways might be corrected? Mr. Wechsler believes the reason he has seen 83 summers, he has been married for 60 years, still enjoys his work and expects the future to be ‘rosy, is his association with H. P. Wasson’s. Inside work, keeping out of the elements, is Mr. ‘Wechsler's fountain of youth.

Career Starts at $1.50 a Week

SIXTY-FIVE years of selling yard goods seem like three or four years to him. His friendly, easy laugh, flashing eyes and quick movements dispel any notion a person might have that Mr. Wechsler could be stretching a fact here and there. At 83, however, a man is entitled to a few courtesies. His career began with the old New York Store, on W, Washington St.” At the time he was 12 years old and earned $1.50 a week. Two years as cash boy sufficed. He had his eye on H. P, Wasson & Co. He was hired as a salesman. That was in 1885. (Shall we whistle in unison?) “I had no idea of becomir 7 a salesman,” said Mr. Wechsler. He's pretty well convinced now. He advises young people of today to get all the education possible before starting 6ut in the world to earn a living. : “Success comes with hustling,” continued Mr. Wechsler. “Kids today have too much money. It’s a bad situation when the attitude is to make a lot of money for very little work. I say, give the employer a good eight hours work.” The 5°fgot 3-inch Mr. Wechsler, who is just chubby enough to play the part of Santa Claus (his nose might need a smudge of rouge), says a man is lost if he doesn’t enjoy his work. “I have enjoyed every day of my life, I have a wonderful wife, a wonderful son, four wonderful grandchildren, ‘wonderful friends and three wonderful pinochle friends. Ollie - Bach, Neal Crawley and Henry Schott.” What else was there for me to say but, “Wonderful.” ; N Mr. Wechsler and his wife live at 1465 Union 8t. They still occupy the house they were married in. Sept. 21, 1951, they will observe their 60th wedding anniversary. . X Every Saturday night, Ollie, Neal a come to 1465 Union St. for an evening of pinochle. “I let them win a game once in awhile so'they won't get mad,” laughed Mr. Wechsler, \

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“I CAN HEAR IT NOW”—Vol. § III, covering the era from 1919 to] 1932, with Edward: R. Murrow as * narrator. (12-in. LP No. ML-4340). | What was considered a most dubious venture by Mr, Murrow and! the Columbia people back in 1948, namely, providing something new in recording of modern history and its famous figures, has turned voice, the pub into a smashing success, with sheets say, but voice :houldn't Vols. 1 and 2 of the “I Can Hear happen to a child. Second side is It Now” -series reaching a sales “Orange Colored Sky” with Jan ‘one woman and the rest were men. Now all em- peak of nearly 500,000, August paired with Roberta on ployees are women and I'm the only man.” There, For an album of the non-musi- both sides. is no question about the “good ol’ days.” They're cal variety, this is a spectacular Tony Fontaine sings “The now, sales achievement; but the many Meaning of A Lonely Heart” and people who have heard them and “Beneath the Chinaberry Tree” been gripped by the interest of with Lew Douglas’ orchestra. listening to famous events and An oldle, “I'll Never Smile voices of other years seemingly Again,” still sounds good as recome to life again, can well un- vived by Ralph Martiere and his » derstand why. orchestra. Second side is another and buggy, not at all. : If you are old enough to re- standard “I Only Have Eyes For Ten years ago, Mr. Wechsler began to ride a member things that happened to You.” bus to work. He thinks his feet are beginning to|,q during the frenzied period, For the corn ball addicts, Tiny get stubborn and quite often after a full day on 1919.32, when we believed that Hill's “Back In Your Own Back the selling floor, he has to soak them. victory in the first World War Yard” and “I'll Sail My Ship “Occasionally on a pretty day I still start out had achieved a world that would Alone.” on foot. I live across the street from the Sacred be all sunshine and rose-water Richard Hayes sings another Heart Church,” explained Mr. Wechsler. thereafter, or young enough to bell-effect song “Jing A Ling” and For 40 years he held himself to three cigars think that no such era ever ex- “Can't Seem To Laugh Any a day. He never smoked cigarets or a pipe. Sat- isted, listen to this new record, More.” urday nights there may be a nip or two. Vol. IIL ha a ols Damenes newest i when “ i It is we escribed as a “scrap- e Lights Are Low,” and “It's a » 71 imYe the best bosses in the world and after book of sounds” chronicling the Marshmallow World.” 3 satisfied with my job and have er- Jan A t te tw Idi no intention of retiring. What would I do? I post-World War I era of glitter » An ugus ams wo oldies, like it here.” |ing boom and tremendous bust. It “Down By The Old Mill Stream” y deals with an era when radio and and “Meet Me Tonight in Dream-

y successful man, | » {talkies were in their infancy, and land. William (Billy) Wechsler, salesman, husband, therefore includes, unlike its pre-

t » » grandiather. fiend, Pinochie player and a man decessors, re-enactments.of some M-G-M-—Two new discs by one Bhp ie. events which were never recorded. °f mY favorite male vocalists that - But you would never know it if Should make them a couple of you weren't told, as the voices [Other people's favorite. Mr. B chosen for each episode are amaz- Eckstine sings “Only A Moment ingly similar to the originals in Ago,” and “I'm In Love.” Still an-

William (Billy) Wechsler . . . Fifteen years ago he received a 50-year service button from Wasson's, Only a few minutes are required to notice that Mr. Wechsler still possesses a zest for life that should be envied by much younger men. He has a ‘word for everyone and he welcomes the change that has come over the yard goods personnel. “When I started work 65 years ago, there was

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Cars Can Be a Nuisance

HE HAS ONE regret. “On Union St. we used to bé able to walk, children could play. Don't think that I'm advocating the return of the horse

-- By Robert C. Ruar

NEW YORK, Oct. 21—In recent years you have noted an increasing use of “luxury” as a political

- and economic sneer, or even cuss word, as if lux-

ury were something shameful and evil instead of the one thing that every individual used to shoot for as a mark of success and personal competence. Luxury is a bathtub and a bar of soap. Luxury is a roof and a fireside and a car and a radio and eight bucks in the bank, against a long cold winter. Luxury is decent clothes and an education for the kids and a home for the old folks and two weeks at the seashore when the weather steams, Luxury is as much of the American dream as anything, and today they always knock it.

Inferiority Complex About Luxury

YOU SEE in the credit-tightening announcements from Washington, especially concerning the strictures on home building, that the housing agencies are going to raise down payments on all homes—for nonvets, 15 to 30 per cent on moderate-cost homes, perhaps as much as 50 per cent on “luxury” homes, whatever they are. These restrictions, which represent the devious halfmeasures of the administration, would be designed, I suppose, to dampen interest in providing good homes for good people who want good homes. The people who want “luxurious” homes, of course, would be penalized most, though how anybody can say that a well-built, comfortable dwelling is the. moral inferior of the shoddy hen houses mass builders have palmed off for big dough in recent years just plain escapes me. 1 am a hero if I build a leaky-roof shanty with bulging, ill-cured timber. I am a bum if I erect ‘a residence with sound stone and a furnace that works, 5 What is this inferiority complex about luxury that has bounced along -in recent times? What _makes it wrong for a man to try to live as well as he can on his own money? An auto is a Juxury, and the economy of this huge hunk of land is based at least partially on the auto indus‘try, with it components of steel and coal and unions. A radio set; a television set, a fur coat, a bottle of gin, electric lights and steam heat

are all luxuries. A house is a luxury, if.you want

Classified Data “WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—My problem today is to strip away the gobbledegook of the embarrassed “bureaucrats and tell you about the million gallons of engine oil we shipped to Communist China a couple of months ago--at the height of the battle in Korea. ’ Whether this lubricated the motors of the Red tanks bombarding our troops I suppose is a ques-

tion that never will be answered. -And I guess

we can hope is that it doesn’t happen again. al The detatls still are a little vague becausé the "brass hats called up by Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor (D. Md.) to & plain, continually resorted to such phrases as “ hat's classified information or this is confidential and cannot be made public.” They admitted no stupidity, or even any mistakes, But “here's what ha ge fe B In March of this year an unnamed American oil company shipped 1,019,164 gallons of lubricating oil to the Communists in Tsingtao, China. This traveled in 24,742 steel drums aboard half a

dozen freighters,

Blame Japanese Bureaucrat

SOON THEREAFTER the Commerce Department here banned the shipment of such oil to the Chinese Reds, but nobody tried to stop this particular load. When the ofl had gone as far as Japan, our petroleum dealers were trying to collect from their Commie customers. No money was - forthcoming; so the oil was unloaded into warehouses at Kobe, Japan. There it stayed all summer, while the Americans and the Chinese argued about who was geing to pay how much. 2 Came’ the Korean War. The Chinese Commu‘nists suddenly decided to pay for the oil after all; it was put aboard ships of American and foreigh

registry for the final leg of the trip. Nobody 0

Japan tried to stop the shipment, or enforce the Commerce Department’s order.

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are the exact ones recorded in Know” and “Ive Never Been In| live in a tent if you wish to do it the history. Love Before,” both Frank Loesser|

i : tunes, are also chalking up sales. now avery rich woman, daughter of a £e : Blue Barron offers “That's The very rich man\_The man in his oy given ONE SUCH episode is the mid-|y,y jt Goes With Love” and employment to Ucounted thousands, and main-|Di8ht swearing in of Calvin Cool- wy, Are The Ideal of My tains.a personal pehgion list more staggering than 1d8¢ as President of the United yp qq.» a cabinet salary cheékoff. His daughter keeps two States by his father, a Vermont ,pother “Molasses, Molasses,” a private airplanes, onhe\ tiny, for fun, and one Justice of the peace. Another is i,ne 1 nope its makers get stuck medium large. |political boss Harry Daugherty's with This one’s by Tommy TuckShe pays a pilot to main \prediction of Harding's nomina- ¢; packed by “Looks Like A Cold,

own to it. It is possible to sleep on the ground o rugged wa

in and fly her planes. fh ' Before we stone her in the\gtreets and set fire t10n “in a smoke-filled room aticg1q inter.” to her house, let us consider about 2:11 a. m.” And another is. 13 aimost forgotten how good She gives work to the pilot, a reading of Vanzetti’s last words Johnny Desmond can sound until

to buy such things as a house and x piano and an|\D # letter written just before his y nearq “So Long Sally,” and “A Bushel and A Peck.”

5 | execution, | The record begins with Wood- Trudy Richards has an appeal{row Wilson's fight for the League ;, ve. on “Somewhere, De of Nations, ends with Roosevelt's ;,. Someday,” and “I'll Never first inaugural, and includes such y ce you” historical gems as Will Rogers’ ‘comments on the U. S. Senate, the first election broadcast on KDKA, chanteuse ithe opening of the Teapot Dome nounced investigation, the Scopes trial at!

meat, ervice, | into

government. He is a consumer of bre potatoes, beer, clothes, autos, telephone and the other things that feed money bac the economy.

Contribute to General Welfare

BECAUSE OF this woman people in steel mills and assembly lines are hired to build het Dayton, Tenn., the famous “long planes and cars. They in turh buy houses and| nt” in the Dempsey-Tunney food and contribute taxes to the general welfare f ; ; : of the country. What is so wrong about this gals Also included are Lindbergh's | shoving luxury money into circulation instead of | ake-off in ‘the “Spirit of St. | hiding it in a sock? Is she evil because she oP Louts” and Ammy Walker's wel} spires to furnish employment for {housan Ss 0 {come to him on his return, Cool-| men and women she does not know? lidge declines renomination, Hoo-| We continue to make a whipping boy of this|yer on prosperity, FDR nominates ® “luxury” business, while slapping a luxury tax ona] Smith, the stock market crash, sueh nonluxurious items as baggage. I travel a/and many others. It is more than | lot. A suitcase to me is about as luxurious as a|, record; it is a big contribution typewriter in the way I make a living. WhY to the understanding of recent penalize me? : American history by young and Luxury ‘has. been indispensible in the growth of old alike. this country, to the point where we are able to oo. n. feed the poor, nonluxury-loving relations, who SAMSON AND DELILAH, the do not love.luxury because they never tasted it. complete opera by Saint-Saens, on America’s peace-and-war prowess was due to an three 12-inch LP records in a open commercial opportunity to provide luxury for new-style thin album .(SL-107). its people. 1 wish the paltry sharecroppers in Helene = Bouvier, mezzo-soprano, Washington would quit knocking it, for one of Jose Luccioni, tenor, Paul Caba-’ these days I would like to have a whole lot of it.nel, baritone, and Charles Cam- ; : ; aa bon, bass, do the singing, and fine

r » ” COLUMBIA--Big news along row. Columbia an-| it will soon issue its] first recording ;by Jo Stafford. It also announced that at! the request of} ® RCA-Victor it is! releasing Dinah Shore prior her contract expiration. Jazz fans and Vaughan fans both will go for

Sarah's version!

Poris Duy ot “Perdido” first lyrical version of the tune. He ‘Likes’ Fires, So He Starts Nine of Them CASPER, Wyo., Oct. 21 (UP)— A teenager said today he started nine fires in seven building during a 2-hour period “because {. {just like fires.” Don Bennett, 18, admitted starting the epidemic of fires at this east-central Wyoming community yesterday and taking small amounts of money and checks from the buildings. ; Insurance adjusters estimated the damage caused by Bennett would be more than $100,000. Police, who said the youth carried a 38-caliber automatic pis-

tol when he was arrested, charged Bennett with arson and burglary.

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singing it is, in French, of course, : : with the Chorus and Orchestre By Frederick C. Othman National de 1'Opera conducted by : re tii Louis Fourestier. One of the State Department men said, and I) This is another and most wel-| quote, that perhaps it was the fault of a Japanese come addition to the list: of combureaucrat; the Japanese are notorious for abiding plete grand operas which Columby the rules and maybe the rule in his book hadn’t/bia has now put on LPs. Its a ‘been changed. ‘newer opera, and sounds pretty! So this American oil reached China along about, “modern” at the beginning, but it August, except for 6464 drums aboard the S. 8./builds up to some beautiful melo-| Flying Cloud. You have read how a seaman on dies and exciting orchestral and her figured this was no way to fight a war against vocal climaxes as it develops, . communism. He complained and our authorities . 2 = : : in Japan impounded this particular shipload in| SCHONBERG: GURRELIEDER Yokehama Nobody mentioned the other oil-laden toile De Nalaatbe ( Song of . d their precious cargoes) tie ve), play y 0Sigs 1d°30 they qelivere D Boe pold Stokowski and the PhilharQuincy Adams, a youngish-looking white-haired monic - Symphony Orchestra of man representing the Army, wouldn't tell what New York with Martha Lipton, steps were being talien to avoid this happening mezzo-soprano, also, “Three Exagain. Classified. he said. Nathan Ostrow, the cerpts from ‘Wozzeck’ ” by Alban Commerce Department lawyer, refused to name Berg, played by Eugene Ormandy the American oil companies involved. Said this and Philadelphia Orchestra with was confidential, Gertrude Ribla, soprano; both on

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Quite “modern” in every sense, WND EDWARD GUINANE. of the’ Office of Yt International Trade could identify the ships that : carried the oil from Japan to China, but wouldn't.

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excerpts from two of the most Classified, he said. { important and most discussed

a musical works of our time—the All this hocus-pocus on the part of officialdom

massive ‘cantata *'Gurrelieder” by was a sore blow to the usually urbane Sen. sornold Schonberg, founder and O'Connor, Finally he blew up, ¢

; {brilliant exponent of the 12-tone “It sounds very lax to this committee,” he said. system, and the opera “Wozzeck” “Five months after action was taken In Wash-,,y Alban Berg, Schonberg’s foreington, this oil went from Japan to Communist mast pupil, China, Why?" | Adams Jooked him in the eye and replied: “The —.._ answer to that is classified information.” i

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