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VWHATEVER became of the family album?
The old
picture-book over which America used to chuckle
and reminisce -has vanished. Like the stereoscope and the game of dominoes, the family album has been banished to that limbo from which
there is no return—the top shelf in the hall closet. Gone from the divingroom table is the photographic chronicle of life in the good old days—the old-fashioned, sometimes quaint, but always appealing snapshots of Grandma and Cousin Emma at the annual picnic, Mother in her girlhood and Dad proudly seated at the wheel of
his new Kissel.
Gone . . . but not entirely forgotten, Somehow, the present equivalent of the family album —a book of glossy snapshots taken on the two-week vacation last year—lacks the faded charm of a stiffly-pGsed
wedding picture.
THE TIMES today presents a few of those old pictures for the inspection and pleasure of its readers. - Many other pictures from the days of yesteryear are lying, dust-covered and unremembered, in hall closets
-.and bureau drawers throughout Indianapolis.
The Times
would like to have them submitted for reproduction on
these pages.
Photos connected with early days and civic events ,
in Indianapolis, Marion County and Indiana will be especially acceptable. All pictures will be returned. They should be accompanied by identification and date and place taken (if known) and addressed to: - The Family Album, Indianapolis Tires, 214 W. ‘Maryland St., Juetiantupolis Ind.
Horse and buggy days . . . Indianapolis was proud of the new
pustelies in 1905. It was photographed by O.
S. Davis, 6845
adison Ave., as he stood across the street in front of the old Dennison House. Mr. Davis, retired mail clerk, still has the same
Samer too.
Shortest Rodd fo Peace?—
‘There's A Better Way To Stop Stalin’
Author Believes Russian People, With U.S.
Encouragement, Would Overthrow Rulers By BORIS SHUB THE NEXT war may incinerate 50 million Amer-
jeans in the space of minutes, according to the chairman “of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. Yet, even before the Korean conflict, three out of
-years. * Is there no alternative? Is war the only way to deal
* ‘with the Russians? I think
there is a better way. "I believe we have no quarre with the Russian people. We would have no quarrel with a reasonable and civilized Russian government, the kind of ‘government most Russians want. Given adequate assistance by the democratic world—Afirst and foremost by the United States—
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“There was instinctive od aneous frie
“Americans and Russians met on
‘the Russians would find the Strength and the means to overthrow the Jresent ruling clique ‘before it is ready to unleash Hota! war, - » » OUR TASK is to restore our e alliance with thé Rus-
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t to the Russians in the ‘hour of eur common victory 'pver another aggressive totalregime has been de_igcribed by Frederick C. Barg“hoorn, who worked in Moscow Jor our government during the
: ‘five Americans expected total war to come within five
Editor's Note: The accompanying article was taken from the new book, “The Choice,” by Boris Shub, just published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
As a sergeant in the Ninth.
Army, the author met the Russians at the Elbe in 1945. Later he was political adviser to RIAS, the American radio station In Berlin. Of Russian descent, he speaks Russian fluently, and quickly became acquainted with officers and men of the Red army. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
THE VIVID knowledge that
most Russians want nothing
~-rpore-than-te-live-in.peace- with.
the world is shared by thousands of American soldiers who met the Red army In the closing days of the war. Few moments in history have equaled the meeting of the Americans and Russians on the Elbe, and none who were there can ever forget it. ! Here was an instinctive and spontaneous friendship. It derived its unique and tragic meaning from the fact that the fighting men of both peoples profoundly believed that their meeting symbolized the beginning of a better and more peaceful world. I believe that if we make the cause of Russian freedom our cause, if we so inform the Russian people and the men in the Kremlin—and, if we stand squarely behind the Russians in their fight to free themselves of their worst en-
The bruisers .
football player for the
bert Heady, address unknown.
Mr. and Mrs, Henry Rigor and descendants . posed at Dunlapsville, Union County, on Aug. 29, 1907. Included in the picture were husbands and wives of the sons and daughters of Henry and Sarah Rigor (seated, second row). On their
. « Note the nose. guard sported by Maurice Harris, 4824 Brouse St, (left). He was a 16-year-old Indianapolis Ravens in 1906 when pictured with Al-
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Deckard and family . . 45 years ago in Glasgow, Ky. Mr. Deckard died in 1946 at the age of 104. His wife, now 96, is still living in Glasgow. The young girl on her lap is Mrs. Sadie Easter, 2050 N. New Jersey St, Others in the photograph are still
alive except for the girl at left, Florida Belle Deckard.
left, to Capitol Ave.
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Sketches by J. We O'Donnell, Times Staff Artist
"Despite Soviet jamming, the Voice of America continues to be heard in Russia." tain such overwhelming atom-
ic superiority, supported by other weapons, that the Krem-
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duel with the United States Air Force. Our allies everywhere, including those inside Russia, would lose all hope ‘of liberation and we of restoring peace if we did anything less. But since the invasion of South Korea, even the most incurable optimists have finally recognized that our weapons, however powerful, give us only a respite. They know that real peace will never return until the Kremlin tyranny has been destroyed. It is for us to decide whether it is to be destroyed by a Russian revolution or by
rd ‘. Ld » - HOW SHALL we launch our offer to the Russian people of an immediate fighting alliance against our common enemy, the enemy of peace and freedom? The first step should be a
people and to all the peoples of the world. It should announce that the
“United States will throw its full
We should demand indictment before an international tribunal of Joseph Stalin."
THE AMERICAN proclamation should express the determined will of the United
States to wes established in"
Russia a government restoring the basic freedoms for which the Russian people fought the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We should extend our full support to all men and groups in Russia. who pledge themsélves to abolish the powers of the MVD and the privileged status of the Communist Party and its affiliages. We would restore freedom of speech; worship, press and assembly, the right of labor to organize in free trade unions, and the right of the peéasantry to choose their own forms
“of land tenure.
We would pledge the Russian people they could hold general elections, on the basis of uni-
versal sufferage, for a constituent asaembly. : . r .
HOW DO we get our message to the men we wish to reach and to the entire Russian people? Despite Soviet jamming, the Voice of America continues to be heard in Russia. Once we launch our all-out freedom offensive, it will also become feasible to employ secret mobilé broadcasting units dt many points on the edges of the Boviet sphere, and even in-
_ side that sphere.
Our message will not reach all sections of the population at the start. But word of mouth assuredly will do the rest. 0» ”
“ WHAT ARE some of the
‘other A a steps to implement
‘our offer -of an alliance for. peace and freedom?
* Our delegation to the United
Nations should invoke the hu‘mah rights
laps were the youngest grandsons, Russell Jackson (left) and James Harvey. The picture was submitted by Mrs. Rachel Stull (second from row), now Mrs, Oscar Coulon, 3240 N.
ful and friendly relations among nations depend on “universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all.” Through the forum of the United Nations, we will enlist. the support of all free peoples in the struggle to restore peace. Invoking the precedent of Nuremberg, we should demand the indictment before an appropriate international tribunal of Joseph Stalin, and with him of Lavrenti P. Beria, superintendent of police and concentration camp systems, and Georgi M. Malenkoy, de facto director of the Cominform, for crimes against humanity and for conspiracy to wage aggressive war. 3 ® 85 =» WE SHOULD simultaneously appeal to the Russian military forces most capable of immediate action. The Soviet Army in Eastern Germany, some 200,000 strong, which would be the spearhead of Stalin's advance into Western Europe in the event of a shooting war, is
al permeated with the
spirit or “evolt. - In-cogjunction with the presidential proclamation and the United Nations indictment, we should address these troops and their command over the Voice of America, BBC, Radio Free Europe, the Northwest German Radio, RIAS, and other radio outlets. . When we do, these Soviet troops will swiftly become our ally. fighting cause of Russian freedoom, backed by whatever ald they may require from us, will deliver a shattering blow to the Kremlin, Their actien will have repercussions in the
"garrisons of Moscow and Lenin-
grad and among the officers
and men of the Soviet army, .
air force, navy and marines.
” . - WOULD our action provoke Stalin to start war against the United States? If the impact of the American action forces Stalin to stake all on the armed forces of Russia, he will find it most difficult to wage effective war-
fare against the United States.
If Stalin reacts with his customary caution, if he hesi-
tates or vainly seeks some .
crafty compromise, the gathering momentum of revolution will sweep him from power. Whatever risk we take by our
‘action, it is smaller than the
danger we invite at present, as we mobilize, arm and wait, while Beria's nuclear plants and hydrogen research projects bring us ever closer to geno-
cidal war It doesn’t take an annual war budget of $25 billion, interminable commitments all over the globe, the dislocation of civilian
life for a generation; and a
a downtown hotel.
Their enlistment in the
The Family Album: Out Of Sight, But Not Forgotten
Barber's paradise ; ‘
beards nd sustaches were all the rage when Hoosier somber of the
Grand Army of the Republic met in Brazil. The grandfather of Ross L. Easter, 2050 N. New Jersey St., took this picture. He was a veteran of the Civil War and related to many of the men shown above. Mr. Easter, whose wife sent in the picture, is a mechanic at Marmon- iyvingien Co., Inc.
As Indianapolis readers will recall, the final national GAR convention was held in
Several of the six members at the convention have since died.
ears together , . Thomas T
Thatcher are shown (left as they ap. peared a few days after their wedding Och 19, 1865, and ‘again (right) in October, prior to their Golden Wedding anniversary, Mr,
Mr. and Mrs.
died two days 1915, just
. Thatcher, an Indianapolis contractor “and builder, before the anniversary date, His wife, oh lived until 1935. Two sons, Louis and Edward, are suryiving of seven children, Louis is a composing room employee of The Times.
his city last year,
Question: Should Bald-Headed
Men Pay $1.25 for Haircuts?
Opinion Is Just What You'd Expect .
By CLIFF THURMAN BALD -HEADED men are sensitive. They resent being questioned about their naked, shiny pates. They just don’t want to talk about it. - And what's more, they all get hopping mad about paying a buck and a quarter for a haircut. “It ain't fair,” is the almost unanimous opinion revealed by a Times survey. “Barbers should not charge $1.25 for arching the rim above the ears and scraping the neck.” “It is like charging a naked: man $1.25 to press the pants he doesn’t have,” declared E. O. Shaunecy of Ft. Wayne. Mr. Shaunecy, a salesman, was leaving the barber shop in The greying rim of hair around his head sparkled with tonic. He smelled like a barber shop, too. “I get a haircut once a weEeR he smilted need it, but it feels good. I think a fair price would be about a garter. Of course, the tonic is my own idea. I know it won't grew hair but it tingles the scalp.”
” » o ELMO CHRISTIAN of the Meadowbrook Apartments, 38th St.; said the price of a haircut was prohibitive but he wasn’t worrying about it. : “My wife cyts mine,” he asserted, “been "doing it: for 30 years.- She cuts all four of ‘em even,” * “Shouldn't cost - 15 cents, doesn’t take two minutes,” was the protest of John 8. Hyatt, 5154 N. Pennsylvania St. He said he “just kept getting haircuts once a week because it's the accepted thing to do.” “I don’t mind paying $1.25 for a couple of hot towels on the head,” said William L. Baker of Franklin, an engineer. “It feels good and pleases my vanity, Of course, it would be better if a good lookin’ girl was ‘doing the work instead of some sourfaced barber.”
. 8 » - ROGER BEAN, who said “the address doesn’t matter,” is a technician. He's technical about his baldness, too “My bald head is inherited,” he declared. “My father had a
tals yesterday urged on oti in the use of inflammable decorations which could turn Christmas joy into tragedy. Chiefs Roscoe McKinney and Ralph Fender made six recommendations for defeating the included:
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"They want each hair treated
beauty, one of the slickest heads you'd ever want to see. It took me 50 yéars to get mine in his class. I'm proud of it, but I do resent having to pay $1.25 to get it trimmed a bit.”
“I'd cut my own, but I'm a good union man,” another bald pated gentlemen who refused to give his name declared. A New York Central Railroad engineer, Davis Fletcher, has one of the baldest heads. in Indianapolis, “I haven't got enough to speak of anyway,” he laughed, “so when I shave I just let the razor slide on back 'ti]l in hits the collar. No use paying for a haircut when you can scrape it off with a razor, " ” . THEN THERE was the man who proclaimed he “never got a haircut because nobody ever sees my head anyway."
TWO: Use metal tinsel, mica. or flake ashestos for Sh ale: Keep open lights away from curtains, wreaths and other decorations.
individually," say the barbers.
“I buy two good hats a year,” he explained. “I put 'em on and wear 'em. It's the first thing on and the last thing off each day. 1 hang it on the bedpost. I never need a haircut.” . ‘Another man said he : “an occasional barber bill” but he wasn’t happy about the price. “Why risk somebody else's dandruff,” he sald, “and pay $1.25 for it at the same time, After this, I'll cut my own.”
Barbers in general weren't in