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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola : :
Editor's Note: This moving account of Ed -Sovola’s visit to the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C., appears here today for the second time. Last summer it brought widespread response and suggestions that it be repeated annually on Lincoln's birthday.
WASHINGTON—I probably shouldn't say that I talked with Abraham Lincoln. Thé more accurate statement would be that I visited the Lincoln Memorial. . , + To anyone who hasn't climbed the stairs and stood at the base of the statue of the Great Emancipator, it's hard to conceive that it is possible to converse with the big, melancholy man from Kentucky. x Just at twilight I went to see Mr, Lincoln. Hundreds of others had the same idea. I'm told an hour doesn’t go by, day or night, that someone isn’t there with his thoughts, : At first - I was aware ‘of people and their hushed talk. That was before it became apparent that Mr. Lincoln was looking directly at me no matter where I stood, to his left, right or in front, But he also was looking at -the little boy who had his finger in his mouth; at the old woman with the funny hat and the odd purse; at the young couple who stood hand in hand. Mr. Lincoln played no favorites. No one was denied an audience. You could stay five minutes or an hour. No problem was too trite or too great. His expression would change with the emotions in your heart. He seemed to smile when I said, “I wish you were alive, Mr. Lincoln.” For some strange reason my eyes shifted to the left and to the carved words of the Gettysburg Address. I didn’t search for the line. It was as if Mr. Lincoln were pointing to, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us .. .”
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AGAIN I looked into the gaunt and sad face. The smile was gone. And then I was alone with my thoughts. The years flashed back and something my father had said came to me. It’s been a long time since I've thought of those words. My father, an immigrant, a laboring man, was telling me why he left the country of his birth and came to the United States. He was a great civics teacher in his own way.
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By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UP)—The kids in Washington and everybody at the Pan-American Union building mourn the passing of Pancho. The 65-year-old guy was older than the build-
ing and most certainly was the only parrot in -
the world who could tell yéu to go plumb to hell in two languages. . Pancho was born and shed his pinfeathers in Mexico and therefore liked his sleeping quarters warm. Some thoughtless porter left a window
ajar the other night and the poor guy got a runny
beak. A couple of days later, he curled in his claws and died of pneumonia. But those who knew him well won't forget him soon. Pancho got more publicity than most humans who came to visit us from Mexico. : > 0 @ HE WAS a sassy one around the brass. Once, Franklin D. Roosevelt was booked to give a short speech in the patio of the Pan-American Union's main building. As the President started to speak, Pancho took a sudden dislike to Mr. Roosevelt's studied delivery. First, the bird gave it to the boss in English: “Scram,” screamed Pancho. FDR looked a little shocked but continued. ' Pancho switched to Spanish. “Afuera!” 3 Translated, that means something like, “be on your way, chum-—fast.” The parrot had more love for pretty girls. When a lovely came in, he generally gave her the sailor's whistle to cafch her eye. More
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Feb. 12—We of the television audience are not unconscious of the boons of gracious living it has brought into the home, such as the hair piece for all male actors and the bared chest of the lady actors. Plus, of course, the ‘animal acts and their inferiors, most comedians who are morally responsible for the death of vaudeville. We are grateful” for Godfrey, and it is nice, too, that the old 10-day blue shirt has come again into vogue, since the TV cameras adapt badly to the snow-white shirt front. Girl singers of all shapes and quiz shows of all kinds and husbands and wives who have nothing to say to each other add immeasurably to the rich fullness of the time. The badly executed drama, the movie of hoary vintage, the cowboys and the Indians are fine. I was going to say, too, that even the celebrity shows are passable, but since smuggling myself into one, disguised as Sher-
. man Billingsley, I am not today too sure. >
*» 2 BUT IT is about time, now, that the television people accept themselves as no longer a novelty, subject to frequent flaw, foolish flub and a sort of dull desperation at being mixed up in the thing at all. It cannot last forever on roller derby and puppet, on dog act and quasi comedian with the Joe Miller approach to humor. Even Hopalong Cassidy may pall. It seems just about time that the camera ceases to be subject to gags in the script. We: went through the vice president gag, endlessly, in radio,“and not one single listener ever got much of a bang out of a sponsor or a network executive as a piece of comic structure. Everybody's got personal troubles, and you don’t have to buy other people’s as an adjunct to an evening’s entertainment. > & THE TV camera, now, has replaced the vice president and the sponsor as an involuntary villain.. It is a stock gag for the comedians, who have written it actively into the act. They de-
Just Ask Us
About My Talk | Wich D Mr. Lincoln
“Son, in America I'm not afraid,” he sald. Why those words should come to me at that
- moment can’t be explained. Neither can I éx-
plain why the expression on Mr. Lincoln’s face
«changed again, and instead of the sadness that ' + ‘had been there, there was a pleasant, peaceful
yet determined countenance. I remember my father as a big, strong, fearless man, He wasn't afraid of anything. And when he put his arms around me, I was never afraid. I told that to Mr. Lincoln. He had the same kind of hands as my father. Mr. Lincoln was smiling. oH Or: WHY wasn't he afraid in America? . Why should a man: like my father, hard-working; honest, who could tell me all about God and Jesus and loved peace, why should he be afraid in his country, Poland? i A boy of 9 or 10 couldn't quite understand the stories of mounted Cossacks with whips. Did they ever hit him with those whips? No, he had never felt the lash. He had known plenty of men who had. Could he strike back? No, it was foolish to resist. Men had cracked and were never heard of again. Your Uncle Stanley was in Siberia, son. Mr. Lincoln was sad. . Why wasn't my father afraid in America, Mr, Lincoln? We were alone in the great marble temple. Thoughts flowed easily from the man who had saved the Union. “He wasn't afraid becguse he was a free man. He wasn't afraid because he had faith in what free men could do. He also believed that free men wouldn't allow that freedom to be taken from them.” I didn’t know my father felt that way about the freedom he had acquired. I do know he took great pride in repeating the Pledge of Allegiance he learned when he became a citizen. LS &
HE USED to say that his greatest thrill was when he asked for his first job in a Pennsylvania coal mine. He could ask for.a job. He could quit the job if he didn’t like the work. And he didn’t like it in the gloom of the earth. He quit. He migrated westward to the great steel center along the shores of Lake Michigan. He asked for another job. He was paid money for shoveling coal. He married and became the father of three boys, Americans who were taught at an early age that labor can be dignified. : On his front porch in the cool of the evening, after the lawn was watered, he would sit. I think he was proudest of the numbers he had on the front of his home. He had an address in America. The mailman brought letters there. No one had a right to enter his home. He wasn’t afraid. «Sb
I DON'T KNOW how long I talked with Abraham Lincoln. But when I left, there was a lightness in my step that wasn’t there before. It was as if Mr. Lincoln had put his arms around me, lifted me to his lap, where I felt the paternal protection a child feels. Turning at the bottom step of the Lincoln Memorial, I ‘looked once more at Mr. Lincoln. He seemed to say, “Go, boy, don't be afraid. Your daddy says not to be afraid.” It was hard to fall asleep. When you've made a great discovery there's too much excitement and it drives sleep away. “Good night, Mr. Lincoln,
Sassy Parrot Dies, Mourned in Capitol
often than not he would follow the lovely around and peck her sweetly on the cheek when she left. His parting shot generally was a fond adieu in a couple of languages. : Howard Jackley, a building guide, probably misses Pancho more than anybody. He used to feed the bird, and claims to be the one wh taught the critter to talk. y “We #tarted out with the ‘Polly want a cracker’ stuff,” he said. “But that Pancho was smart. He learned and repeated almost everything he heard. And believe me, sir, we had to teach him to hold his tongue on some of the things he picked up from strangers.”
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JACKLEY IS anxious to get a bird to replace Pancho and has appealed to William Mann, director of the Washington Zoo. That’s where the Pan-American people got the Mexican bird in the first place. Dr. Mann is doing his level best and claims to have a new young bird lined up, but it will. have to wait six months at the border in quarantine. Jackley meantime is doing what he can with what birds he has. One is Valentino, aged 28. He's lovely to look at, but tongue-tied and can’t even say “boo!” There's also David. In his old age, he is a little on the mean side. He'll shake hands, but if you aren't on your toes, he'll bite you a good one. : David, who bit me a good one, doesn’t have much to say, either.
Time TV Shows Ousted the Bugs
rive delicious humor from wrangling with the man who points the thing, and when there is a technical fluff it is ripe for a two-minute tirade from the comedian. Not very funny. : The movies, you know, deal in cameras, too, and rarely interrupt the sequence of a comedy to allow the comedian to work off his animosity at the cameraman. You just accept the camera, in movies. It is here. It is a medium that brings you entertainment. It is not a substitute. There is the thing of timing, too. It is possible to make the time of a show come out even with the last commercial and the station break, because once or twice I have seen this happen. But the. other night on some silly quiz show the whole point was lost. They are just about to tell me if the lady won, or did not win the big jackpot of several thousand bucks, when they ran out of time and all we got was a commercial for herring, or ice cream, or something, and a swift change to a station announcement, and another spot commercial. Then a new program, which also was cut short. Happens all the Tne, and is exactly like sawing the last page off a piece of detective fiction or the last reel off a movie."
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THE BOYS have been around this business |
long enough, now, to have kicked the creases out of their media. It is their problem; not yours, not mine. A camera is not a novelty. A slight computation with a slide rule will tell you how much time you have for program, commercial and station identification. Some of the camera work I have seen in New York lately would shame the director of an early silent flicker. It isn’t necessary. Some has been superb. But there is no longer the excuse for ineptness because of its newness, any more than we can Justify poor performance in today’s automobile on the basis of its early ancestor. Now is the time for all good TV shows to banish the bugs.
Questions from readers on ANY subject will be answered here. Mai! questions to The Times.
(The Indianapolis Public Library, at the request of The Indianapolis Times, offers this fea-
ture as a public service.)
When. was the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors’
Monument dedicated? May 15, 1902. : ' Could a President of the United States veto Congress’ declaration of war? A bill or joint resolution of Congress declaring war is the same as any -other bill. It could be vetoed by the President and then passed over
his veto. However, no President has eger vetoed .
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a congressional declaration of war principally, it may. be inferred, because no Congress has ever, declared war until- such a step was recommended by the President.
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Blast Plan to Revive Lustron
‘Costly Experiment’ Hit in Telegram to Senate Committee
Times State Service . LAFAYETTE, Feb, 19 — Prefabricated home manufacturers today struck a protest blow at proposed resurrection of the {llfated Lustron metal housing enterprise. In a telegram to the Senate] Banking Committee, they challenged.. government financing of the Lustron project as a “costly experiment in steel.-, . .” ] .James R. Price, president of Prefabiicated Home Manufacturers’ Institute and National Homes Corp. here, issued the telegram. “The statement has been made that Lustron could provide hous-| ing for overseas shipment at al cost of $25 per square foot,” he! said. “Our houses are sold com-| pletely erected for as low as $8 per square foot. | Mr. Price said the industry in| 90 days could be geared to ship | 450,000 units a year, “ + . a Fallure’
MONDAY, FEBUARY 12, 1951
Oh, spring is coming, tra la—tra la . , . and chuckholes appear in the streets. An Indianapolis streets thaw more and more, and more and more chuckholes plague motorists. This one is at the
‘grancy and having no draft card.
He charged that Lustron “has already dissipate more than $30 million ‘in jublic funds. The costly experiment in steel housing of this type was a failure.” Mr. Price contended private manufacturers would use less critical material and less manpower than RFC financed prod.iction of metal homes. He also de: clared the industry has. machines and buildings available for immediate production. Through the institute, Mr. Price recommended the Lustron plant in Columbus, O., be turned over to direct defense production, with the task of house building golag to “existing organizations which have proven theif ability , , .”
J Houses Closed In Vice Raids
Sheriff Cracks Down
In Anderson Drive Times State Service : ANDERSON, Feb. 12 — Three alleged houses were closed today on orders of Sheriff Joe Brogdon, who raided
operators of “running wide open within the city.”
ment,” “had i Sheriff's Brogdon’s concerning wide-open operations. “I hate to step in over the police,” Sheriff Brogdon said, “but I'm sick and tired of all these complaints from mothers of juveniles. I just decided it had to be
{stopped.
al The Sheriff said taxicabs from 38th May Rise
‘Gave Them a Break’
Indianapolis were “bringing men by carloads to the Anderson houses.” He added that 14 and 15-year-old boys from Anderson and surrounding towns were visiting the. places. “I gave them a break and made no arrests,” the Sheriff said, “but everybody concerned will be locked up if they open again.” Capt. Wilder said he had “no comment” when asked if the police department knew of the houses. “This department is open 24 hours a day to co-operate with any law enforcement agency,” Capt. Wilder declared. He would not comment on whether Sheriff Brogdon had asked police help in conducting the raids and ordering the establishments {closed. b
39 Are Arrested In Hotel Raid
Police arrested 39 persons jp a vice raid at the Delbert Hotel, 842 N. Capitol Ave., yesterday. Charged with operating a house of ill fame was the owner Mrs. Servella Dowd, 51, of 1209 N. Capitol Ave. She also was charged with keeping false hotel registrations. y One man was charged with vagrancy and carrying obscene literature, and another with va-
Eighteen couples were taken] charged with false hotel registra-| tion. At 150 W. 16th St., Sol Sentir, 50, of 2258 N. Meridian St., was
erage act. selling liquor from a rear door.
$50 Taken From Safe
afternoon.
of prostitution Worth St. the houses yesterday and accused old daughter were bitten by their
Capt. John Wilder, acting chief servation. of the Anderson police departno comment” on ing the, many létters sent to him statement 359 will present them to the
cornor of Senate Ave. and W. New York St.
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Prefab Makers Spring Going to Hole Us Up? Need $300,000
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Before Rabies Test
Deputies Kill Four; Pet Owners Warned
Two dogs, which had been taken from the Mars Hill area for rabies tests, died in the city dog pound today. The heads were being sent to the State Board of Health for a finding. Yesterday Sheriff Dan Smith's office told residents of the area they must keep dogs penned up or risk having them shot. Deputies shot four dogs to death] | and wounded a fifth yesterday when their owners could not be! Hocated. : a Pack Halts Deputy’s Car Sheriff Smith said complaints; § had come into his office by the hundreds. Yesterday a pack of 17 dogs stopped a deputy sheriff's car in the 3800 block of Farns-
William Robinson, 38, of 2937 8. Denniston St, and his 3-year-
5-month-old puppy. The dog was taken to the city pound for ob-
Sheriff Smith said he was holds S
County Council at its next meeting. He also will request two dog
1 Seized Dogs Die Scouts Honor Lincoln
wagons and four fulltime deputies to police the county of stray dogs.
As UN Problem
Depends Upon
Invasion in Force
TOKYO, Feb. 12 (UP)—South Korean patrols pulled back today after crossing the 38th Parailel. But if Gen. Douglas MacArthur decides he can cross it in force it would seem to spur the need of new United Nations directives. Diplomatic quarters in Tokyo believe the delegates will have to consider these questions:
ONE: Shall all United Nations forces—not just the South Koreans—cross the 38th Parallel? TWO: What is going to be done to increase the numbers of United Nations troops in Korea 80 that the United States will not have to carry by far the biggest load? THREE: Should the reservoirs in North Korea serving Communist China be bombed? FOUR: Should United Nations planes be permitted to bomb Communist China? FIVE: Should Chinese Nationalist troops be given tne United Nation's blessing to open a second front in South China? SIX: What economic and military measures should be taken
Boy Scout of Troo
merly on the old Bates House
two trucks.
of vehicles was concerned. The accident took place on a raffroad overpass on U. 8. 40. To the right of the accident scene was a 250-foot drop. None of the cars smashed through the guard rail. Thick fog swirled up from the railroad tracks and caused the driver of a large tractor-trailer rig to suddenly apply his air brakes. Then a car, a bus and four more cars crashed into the trailer. Five of One Family
Of the 10 victims admitted to
immediately to punish Com-| munist China as an aggressor?
Girl Scout Troop Is Presented U. S. Flag
|School 81 in honor of Lincoln's] [birthday. { Emil V. Schaad, of the school
land daughters of Mr. and Mrs. [Charles Meredith of Lapel. {were unconscious when broughtl!other truck. He was not hurt.
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in, but recovered and spent a good night.
22, of Muncie. He said the air
{brakes of the truck took hold
before he could stop his car.
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To Repair City,
Dangerous Holes Left by ‘Worst
Winter in Years’
More than $500,000 will be required to surface and repair streets and roads damaged by freezing weather, city and county officials said today. Leo White, County Superintendent of Highways, said it would
take between $200,000 and $300,-
000 to repair the streets in the county. Tony Mali, City Street Commissioner, estimated $250,000
Indianapolis steets in full repair, Alternating freezes. and thaws have left chuckholes throughout the county. In some places, the holes are dangerous. Such stretches as the one along 8. Emerson Ave, and on 1. 16th St. from Central to College are the results of the bad weather. + No Patching Now Both Mr, White and Mr, Maio said there was no patching being done now, because of wet and freezing weather. “If we would patch the roads now,” Mr. White said, “in another week the road would be
leave the patch like an island.” He pointed out that use of tar for sealing patches was impossible until the streets dry. Mr. Maio said his city crews were working -in areas west of the mile square, but were confin« ing their work to unimproved roads, : “There is no use to start patching until we get a little more time to work,” he said. : ‘Worst in Many Years’ Both men said this was the “worst winter for roads Indiana has had in many years.” Mr, Maio said his department had used nine carloads of road salt, while the average winter requires only 131% loads. Mr. White said his department has used two loads ‘and generally only uses one-half load, rhe BY
Cancels Speeches
Attack of ‘Flv’ J. C. Penney, 76-year-old head
Times photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr.
Nicky Bender, Cub Scout of Pack 96, and his brother, David, 96, look over the balcany where Abraham Lincoln stood to deliver a speech a century ago. The portico, for-
in downtown Indianapolis, is now
part of the house of Mr. and Mrs. Urban C. Brenner, 1306 N. Park Ave. The wreath was dedicated there today by the Hoy Scouts. Nicky and David live at 5490 Manker St.
10 Hurt in 8-Vehicle Crash Reported in ‘Good Shape’
Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Feb. 12—Ten persons were reported in good condition at the Putnam County Hospital today after they suffered injuries yesterday in a crash involving five cars, a bus and
Heavy fog was blamed for the wreck which state police listed as among the worst in the history of the state as far as the number
ana their five children were injured when their car hit the bus. The following car contained Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Isbel, who were {both thrown out and injured. Mrs, {Isbel had. their 8-week-old daugh{ter in her arms at the time of the crash, but held her as she was (thrown. The baby, Janet Kay, |was uninjured. | The driver of the next car, {John C. Murtaugh, 24, Terre |Haute, crashed into the other jcars, but was not injured. | Behind him came Smith C.
/was struck from the rear by an-
Two other trucks which were following were forced to swerve
arrested for violation of the bev-| An American flag was presented] The first car to hit the truck across the dividing strip of ‘the Police said he was today to Girl Scout Troop 192 at/was driven by Homer D. Meyer, four-lane highway to avoid the
|erash, | Two of the cars were de-| imolished and the others badly|
lboard, accepted the flag in behalf] Following him was an Ameri- damaged.
Approximately $50 was reported ‘of the school, which is headquar-|can Bus Line bus, bound for Indi-| stolen from the safe at the Lamb ters for Troop 192. Machine & Tool Co., 1128 8. West| Making the presentation were) St., sometime Saturday night. John Cole, commander of Fair- cago, Harold C. Smith, 305 N. Addison banks Memorial Post, Veterans of None of his 21 passengers was Ave. president of the firm, dis-|Foreign Wars, and Mrs. Clara injured. covered the safe looted yesterday Beck, Ladies Auxiliary community ! {service officer.
anapolis from Chicago. driver, Chester Crabtree, 55, Chisuffered minor . injuries.
The Meredith car came next. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith, both 36,
State police said the area was,
{and they had to put out warning | (flares all along the road. ! | The injured were taken to the [Putnam County Hospital in three] lambulances and four state police cars. .
faces dork and perilous days. enemies that confront us are
us from within. The future is ‘with danger. But the words Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg still lift, inspire and give coura
Lincoln and Getty
Today, os when Abraham Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg, the Republic
gant, and traitors conspire to betray
Americans and to. free men every-
By Ralph Lane
The
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dark |i that can {4 ge to
*, . . that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that couse for which they gave the last full measure of devotion . . . that peoshall
of the store chain, was confined with a mild influenza attack today, 3, te He had canceled all speeches and was staying in his room at the Columbia Club, under the orders of Dr. John Cunningham, It was reported that he had a slight temperature but was not In danger, associates said. y said he needed a rest. pe Speeches Canceled
His speaking schedule had
called for a message from the
pulpit of the Emerson Ave. Bap~ (tist Church yesterday morning, |and the First Baptist Church last night. Today he was to have spoken. at a luncheon given by Irving Fauvre, attorney, and Fitzhugh Traylor, local representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, builder of the new Penney store on the Circle. This morning he was .also to have spoken at convocation in the chapei of Indiana Central College.
Beat Blind Man; Gets 90 Days and Two Fines of $50
A man who beat up a blind man was sentenced to 90 days in the Indiana State Farm and asse two fines of $50 and costs in Municipal Court 4 today. ¥
get out of Indiana,” Judge Alex IM. Clark told Frank Grider, 20, {of 531 N. East St. after passing ‘the sentence. i { The blind man was C. W. Stam|per, 39, of 241 W. Morris St. He {was selling key chains and eating at the B&M Grill, 830 8. Meridian 8t., Saturday night when
the hospital, five were the sons Jones, 51, Muncie, who was able De was beaten by Grider. ito stop short of the pile-up, but |
Grider was fined $50 and costs and sentenced to 90 days for being drunk. The other $50 and
| costs fine was for resisting arrest.
Capehart Assails
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Handling of Korea
LINCOLN CITY, Ind. Feb. 12 (UP)—8en. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.), charged President Tru-
The covered with a blanket of fog, man’s handling of the Korean
situation as a violation of “the spirit and the purpose of the Constitution” in a Lincoln Day address here yesterday. The Hoosier lawmaker said Abraham Lincoln clearly interpreted this spirit and purpose in a letter written Feb, 15, 1848. Sen. Capehart quoted Lincoln's letter as saying, “Allow. the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure,” : : “Today, 103 years after Mr. Lincoln wrote those words we find
America facing .the very con-
sequences outlined ¥y Mr. Lincoln in that letter” Ben. Capehart said.
"AERO OLUB INSTALLATION
New officers. will be. installed
“by the Indianapolis Aero Club,
Inc, at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Masonic Temple, N. Illinois
and North Sts. ¥
to $300,000 would be needed to put .
broken away from the patch and
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