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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola POLITICIANS are supposed to be sensitive to blic opinion. Tune in here, gentlemen of the 7th General Assembly, Last week in this corner, wearing purple trunks and swinging from the floor, I ripped into legislative horseplay during this session. Would anyone back me up? Or would it be a solo? Senators and Representatives from 92 counties, lend me your ears. Lo, the taxpayer, the voter, the little guy who can get awfully mean, speaks: * ©

“OONGRATULATIONS on today's column on the Hoosier legislators. It is a pip—sock them again! “With times as serious as they are at present, such curious buffoonery as reported in your column is certainly out of place among those elected to represent citizens of one of the very important states of our glorious republic. : “Maintaining a common sense attitude on the difficult task of sane lawmaking and showing proper respect for the high office they hold is something every voter has a right to expect and demand of Hoosier lawmakers,”--Ross H, Johnson of Johnson Products, Inc., 127 E. Ohio St’ > > a “DEAR MR. SOVOLA: If you ever decide to run for public office you have the Boyle family vote. Your column on the playboy 87th General Assembly was super. How about a follow-up come next election. Why not put the finger on the funny boys so the voters can take over. Give ’em hell.”—Tom Boyle. ’ Here's a reaction from the rural areas. . “Dear Ed: I think that you have really hit on something in this column, something that your readers and all taxpayers ghould consider when

pethey. £010. gute olls. to. send the next bunch ‘of “ playboys to the Statehouse’ Hheoh ba WHR 4 fooni i CL... “Dear Ed: I have just read

“My-idea of the only good thing about the Indiana state legislature is that they meet for such a short time every two years that only so much of their darn foolishness.can be packed into the available time.”—Robert W. Bedwell, +R. R. 8, Greenwood. “" ad . > ; ANOTHER rural vote, gentlemen, so hold on

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“Dear Ed Sovola: My only connection with politics is that I do vote on election day. It's a privilege to comment on your column ‘Tips to Lawmakers’ and I believe you have covered the matter thoroughly. “I can apperciate just about how you felt at the possibility of being mistaken for a member of the legislature.”—H. L. Fulkrod, R. R. 1, Seymour. > & o 8 A GENTLEMAN from Elwood wants the oor. “Dear Ed: A double amen to the sober thoughts expressed in your column. ;

- __ Americana -. [7 PAY ay de we mW NEW YORK, Mar. 5—Mademoselle Josephine rier Baker, 8t. Louis, Paris and Casablanca, has come

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back to visit us again, which sort of marks the end of a cycle. It is a different immigration from the Old World—the reverse of the wholesale exodus which sent the rich and exotic, the beautiful and damned, away from corny old America in the early 20's. Miss Baker, a very comely gal, has gone a long way from St. Louis, and her return to her native land is an event. I would imagine Miss Baker to be one of our most famous female expatriates. She departed the. local wilds in the fresh 20's, when the whole trend was away from here and over to there. That was when 3 J Europe was the promised land of the disconsolates who sought a cultural grail on furrin soil. This was when we stood in awe of Europe, and Mso stood in awe of anybody who had been there. It was the era of Babbitt, when one found it fashionable to sneer at the homely virtues of America, as typified by Kansas, and to bow down before the splendors of a civilization older than our’'n.

> > 0S LET IT not be said that Miss Baker, a handsome Negro lady, knew anything about crowned heads and swift living when she left in 1923; or thereabouts. She knew more about what menial

.chores a 10-year-old girl in St. Louis must do

to eat, and she knew just a little about the show business she got into as a child. She never figured on marrying a title or acquiring a castle in France, and the service of champaigne was promiscuous in her family history. She just sort of went across the water by happy accident, more or less like Columbus, and I suspect nobody was more surprised than Jo Baker when she wound up as the ambassadress of American entertainment abroad, as Chevalier signified the French to us here. oe oe JOSEPHINE blossomed out in some bananas, in lieu of clothes, and sang some naughty songs to the French and the rich tourists, and became what used to be called the “toast” of both the locals and the visitors, When the American thought of France he thought of the Folies Ber-

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Reader-Voters Boo , Statehouse Comedy

ABOUT OVER—But still time for the legislators to feel the public pulse on Statehouse comedy,

" “It is, indeed, high time that all men responsible for laws stop making them with tongues in cheeks and realize that to command respect of the people, for the laws and for the governing bodies that there must be continual effort to earn it. Especially now, when there seems to be a widening break in a general attitude, all legislators should at all times realize that they are in a position to influence response. “Everybody néeds a little fun, but it must not be out of place nor done at the state's expense when we have a right to expect these men to give us and our problems full thought so that no mistakes will be made in planning and writing laws which are to govern our lives, our earnings and even our time.”—Ray Striker, Elwood.

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“DEAR MR. SOVOLA: The show they put on, on Washington's Birthday, was a disgrace for men of their position, especially when there were exchange students from foreign countries in the galleries.”—Katherine P. Frazer, 1056 x gach ER with mutch. isterest your column about the General: Assembly. Nearly all of the school groups that visited tie legislature also paid a visit to the War Memorial. “I am certain they got a much different-im-pression during their visit here at the memorial than they did on their visits to some other divisions of state govéernment.”—F, J. (Star) Brown, secretary, Indiana World War Memorial. There were many more bravos, some unsigned, some requesting that the contents and the name not be published. I like for people to

lay it on the line, in biack on white or to your face,

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IT'S unfortunate that circus antics give a black eye to the entire Assembly. Perhaps there are many who would rather not have buffoonery. Then they. should rise and make it known.- If they don't express their feelings, they're guilty. See you in two, years, gentlemen. Pack your bags and drive carefully. So long and thank

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gere, Lelouvre, and Jo Baker, just about in that order, She married well, and learned to like champagne, and acquired the language. Then the war came and Miss Baker died. On purpose. She got sick’in"Casablanca, as a matter of fact, and should have died. The doctor in the clinique despaired of her tummyache, and. since the war was well started, they let Josephine from St. Louis die. * 4 o

WHILE she was dead, officially, she worked for the Free French, the FFI, and now holds a commission as lieutenant and a solid decoration for merit. Miss Baker worked hard and effectively for the Allies in North Africa, along with some odd conspirators.

I know a Viennese murderer, and EgyptianEnglish bartender, a French grande dame and-an Australian expatriate who labored well for the underground, too. When the war ended Miss Baker came undead, and is back among us, with roughly the same dimensions of torso and leg that wowed the tourists in France in 1925. She is wearing no bananas, these days, since her wardrobe is subsidized by a covey of top Parisian couturieres. This means she can send back the Jacques Fath number that doesn’t fit, and that for a woman is a parking space in heaven unclaimed by most. * S MISS BAKER'S latest return to the States was devious. She came by way of Cuba and Miami Beach, both foreign countries. She is doing her bold songs in a theater called Strand, now, and intends to barnstorm the country a bit. She must, by record, be in the middle or late 40s, but she seems no month older than the Baker or La Vie Parisienne of the silly 1920's. I was real pleased to get to meet Miss Baker, whom I had always regarded as a healthy symbol of American enterprise, and am no less delighted as a result of the meeting. It could be we could use symbols like Miss Baker politically, abroad, for she seems to have conquered all that she has seen. This would include the German Army and the famous Mlle. Mistinguette, of the ancient legs, who comes among us soon to prove that Europe now belongs to the U. S., as a sort of minor colony.

As an old legman I buy*Baker’'s gams over Mistinguette’'s every time.

Scouts Collect Papers for Camp Expens

PAPER FINANCE—Boy Scouts” of Troop 91 collected several tons of papers over the week-

end to help finance, their annual summer outing to a camp in Michigan. Base of operations for the drive was a lot at 10th St. and Emerson Ave. Transportation was provided by Scout Dads and other interested adults. M. A. Meise, 848 N. Wallace St. is Scoutmaster of the Wallace St. Pres-

byterian Church group.

Services Held for O. C. Minor, Ex-Judge

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Qourt, were held today in St.|Circuit, .

Michael's Catholic Church, Can- Unkindest Cut of All

Judge Minor, who was 79, died

Friday night in St. Mary's Hos- - A former Canadian WAC, Mrs.ifor-all of the nice letters and all 'pital, Evansville.

TORONTO, Ont, Mar. 5 (UP)

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MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1951 :

Gentlemen, Yoy're in the Army . . . By George W. Herald i

Honest Effort Now The

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Being n Right 1 War ll Classification Boners ’ Rr

Taught Uncle Sam a Lesson =

CHAPTER TWO THE SEARCH FOR EXPERTS \

ITS much easier for a man to find his right place in the I" Army today than it was last time,” declared Capt. A. R. * Kaltenberger, Chief of the Classification and Assignment Division at Ft. Dix. “Our new system gives every draftee a fair break.” Sr As veterans remember, the Army didn’t pay too much hyd attention to special skills in Go" gona tment store clerk, is Po WE ies Et an Vachs six (SIAC wrote advertising copy for an

ency, actually is a ‘writer, into’ a truck repair company whilef pote aay IA Office.”

former gas station attendants In some cases, of course, the °

{ were often sent to school to learn|. tine goes a bit wrong. The... STRPANEEE om reir 5 5 }

TENS enpience of.gPvt. “Cass Mortey, The author is a World War II (Who came into the Army last : 3 3 ften. veteran who entered the Army September, doesn't happen. orien

The young man had built dental at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, 8 years hridges in civilian life. He was ago. He's been revisiting the old

{so eager to stay in this line of '. 1 {work that he had brought a set pg tots Thi ihe lof false teeth with him to show “second of a series of articles [18 srarlamanshie. on his impressions of the life as ' of the rookie, 1951 Model, com- |

the interviewer asked. pared with his own recruit days I'm . building bridges, said of World War II.

{Morley and began to fumble ner{vously in his pocket. But before Today, every new GI must first he could put his dental bridge fill out an Army Activity Prefer-|on the table he was already asence Blank which asks a hundred Signed to the Engipeers!

questions such as this: “Would| pypRE ARE good reasons

| you rather drive a car or keep a uy a : 4 : ‘ on garden?” Then he is put through TS A hag been greasy ye STRESSES TEAMWORK~—One man becomes a stepping-stone for his buddy during the ase

nalf a dozen aptitude tests lasting tn, Army becomes more and sault' on a house in the Mock Village Course at Ft. Dix.

six hours 25 minutes. more dependent on specialists, it ’ S18, 1b a figure of the past. Today's non-Current basic training seeks, The Army checks his basic in- can no longer afford to let any RE, LoD to say on above all, to develop a team

soldier?”

Nick answered. “Am I violating any rules?”

may: know about engines, radio pest ‘if ETRY TEI irae Jin dob) Sy 5a feangres a ere "a A oT Sy or RTE at ia - THIS DOESN'T mean that the|tOOKIEs Hust learn how new GI can take it easy. If hig tion together in the field as well rifle is dirty or he is late for for-|a8 in their dally lives. mations, he still gets his punish-| LE : ent same as in all the armies] PVT. TAYLOR told me of an the U. 8. incident that happened on his But the sergeant simply says second day in Ft. Dix. A ‘fellow y : “Two named Nick had brought a radio

po TAT oy “ > , to’ func-|when Nick woke tp, he Tole wv the foot of his bed a huge cardboard reading: © : “The degree of success and contentment you attain as a soldier. will depend to a great extent on the consideration you' show to others and they to you.” Omar N. Bradley, Chief of Staff. Nick hasn't tuned in on a program since without asking his roommates for permission!

a A TE Ah ai amp high enough n*¥he ol uh : RE - given an officers candidate test.| Much of today’s philosophy in #. x x : troop handling is based on a rec-| NEXT DAY, each recruit is in- ognition of the dignity of the interyiewed by a personnel officer | dividual,” Maj. Gen. Jacob L. twho tries to find a suitable spot Devers wrote in an official report |® for him. How well he succeeds/in Sept. 1950. ‘The military pis] geant Sur may be shown by a few random tory of this nation is replete with in a matter-of-fact tone: f IS from a file of C & Alevidence that a man is a better gigs, Pvt. Miller.” |set with Bim ana {nsisial oa Play. |qualification cards: [fighter when he retains his in-| A “gig” equals one hour extra ing it when oy er m . = e Pvt. Robert 8. Velde who used dividuality.” {fatigue duty. Five “gigs” mean barracks wanted some quiet. to be a motion picture camera) That's why the services now the loss of a week-end pass. “Would you mind shutting that man, is now a ‘photographer,/go out of their way to build up| The idea is to show the offend- radio off, please,” the corporal maps and posters.” {the ' rookie’s self-respect. The er, without needless irritation. in charge asked politely. ara Pvt. Hugh M. Templeton who barking top-sergeant has become that he has “let down the team.”| “It's a free country, ain't it?

Tomorrow—How the Army picks its future leaders.

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Without Fear—

Two Begin A New Life DPs’ Wedding EEL £ Symbolizes Hope wa ne ivy —

| Ukraine, uprooting his home 'and family, Ksenofont Popow |

In A New World

Here, at Last,

Is Freedom

they communicate their views through Wasyl, who was interpre~ ter at their wedding. One of the greatest marvels of their new land is the freedom — freedom of worship, freedom of

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telligence, his clerical speed, me-|i4jant go to waste. The staff | - : o wn ca ha oo “Thank you” when they ad-|spirit among the men. As most No, you aren't,” the corporal chanical Sie and whatever Je chiets also find they can operate, SCS Lait ne ols fof OUR DW Weapons cannot be said and walked away without anRN PO Ses a Git FPL a Me ey in sll IN art Sin de ie ae gi EY

[thought his life was over.

When volley after volley of J

{shots by a Gestapo-squad snuffed {out the lives of her husband and [125 other “resisters” in Kiev in 11942, Polina Krepak decided, too,

speech, freedom to work and earn. - » » WHEN THEY were asked if freedom exists in Russia, Wasyl pointed toward a corridor resounding with the sound of a

Thing,”

carpenter's. hammer.

“That nail has freedom?” he asked. “In Russia it is like that, the people are the nail, always with the hammer, hammer, hammer at them.”

“Here I am six months. I buy a car, I drive, I take Ksenofont and

[that life had ended for her. Today those two victims, of | World War II are building a new life in a new world. The 57-year-old Popow and his 53-year-old bride launched ' that new life Feb, 10 as they were

the country’s. Here we work hard all day but at night it is ours to talk, to rest. There, all that is ours at night is fear.” ; The three have severed all ties with their former friends. There ,are many they would like to write to—but they know that letters from the United States are often the death warrants for i people behind the Iron Curtain. Yi 3 2 Go Ksenofont is afraid to even try to locate his grown daughter, whom he last saw in 1943 before

wed in St. John's Catholic Polina riding,” he continued. | Church here. “There I would never have, be-. Son. cause nothing is yours, it is all |

KSENOFONT and Polina are {living and working now "at the Sisters of the Good Shepherd convent, 111 W. Raymond St., under the auspices of the resettlement {for DPs program of. the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. At their !side is Wasyl Guszpeta, their war[time friend who helped make {their new life possible. | + Wasyl and Ksenofont became friends in ‘an American DP camp (in Austria, where iney Jee sen} {after Allied liberation. a fled from their native Ukraine they fled the Ukraine. to escape Russian “rule by fear’ fully awaiting passage to the to work at the Good Shepherd's sent to Kansas City, Mo. A cor-| # x

NEW LAND, NEW HOPE—Displaced persons Polina Krepak and Ksenofont Popow start a

new life as man and wife in a land without fear.

{in the early days of the war. United States that Ksenofont met Convent. Immediately he began|respondence followed and lastt ASKED if she preferred In- | During the war they lived a Polina. Widowed by the Nazis, trying to help Ksenofont ‘come month Polina joined Popow indianapolis to Kansas City, Polina |hand-to-mouth_existence in Ger- she was also ‘on the list,” hoping over.” The following May, Kseno- Indianapolis to start the new life managed to mold her few English imany, sometimes at forced labor, for admission to the land of her font artived here, and he, too, she and Ksenofont had planned words into a telling reply: sometimes as refugees, always dreams, was given employment in the for so long. There is good, here is good, {under a cloud of fear. | Bw» Good Shepherd home, The two speak little English what matters?” she shrugged. It was while Wasyl and Kseno-| WASYL left first, coming to!" Three weeks later Polina came they're learning as fast as they, “Everywhere in America is [font were in the DP camp hope-'Indianapolis in. November, 1950, to the United States, but she was can in Manual night school. But good.”

City's Robert Smiths Rally to Help Amputee Namesake Politician Shot

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with it. And give Mom the best ride she ever had. Maybe I will

I i $300 Collected Mere $200,000 in Nation: dandy now, with a driver to go! I'll be up and around’ in no Dead in Quarrel t r ’ ’

I'll probably never do much JERSEY CITY, N. J. Mar. § more fighting. But while I can 4 yp,_

Korea Frostbite Victim Tells His Story A Democratic Party city

: - A ~ : some day. still talk, I'll shout owt real wa.q jeader was shot. to THE ROBERT SMITHS of Indianapolis joined with Robert In less than a month, they say, loud that it's great stuff to early today during a enh [Smiths and just plain 8miths all over the country to collect. a fund yt can go home on a two-day pass. be an American. argument under a barroom sign for Pfc. Robert Smith, 20, of Middleburg, Pa., both of whose arms I am told the people of Middle I mean it. reading “no political talk.”

burg, where I went to school, are planning a little party for me. That's nice of them.

and legs were amputated because of frost bite suffered in Korea. Robert ¥. Smith, of 3337 N, Pensylvania St. said today that so far he*has been sent nearly $300 from the<local Robert Smith

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Two WAVES Go AWOL, Boyle, 23, of Jersey City, a deputy

] . icity tax collector and deputy contingent. The phone book lists, More about the money. Caught in Las Vegas | Democratic leader of the Second

57 here. |one letter, or “story” as the fel- " " . | MEMPHIS, Tenn. Mar. 5 (UP) Ward—home of Mayor John Much of the nearly $200,000 lows around the newspapers say. [ WOULD like to go into bus: Two WAVES who went “over | Kenny. collected nationally came after) With only hooks for hands it iness, although I probably won't{the hill” from the naval air sta- The slayer, who argued against an appeal by Kate Smith on her| would take me a lifetime to get out of pajamas and the Army|tion at nearby Millington. ‘Tenn. hie x aye 0 arfhed a inst television program. | answer even a part of the thou- until about November, when they|were being flown back from Cali- identified as Eugene V. Kenny, 36, Pfc. Smith, now in Walter-Reed| sands I have received. I'm not get me my new legs, fornia today for possible discipli-|no relation to the mayor. Hospital, dictated this story to| lazy understand. But my brother is coming down |nary action. | Kenny, a night porter at Jersey {the United Press. oa iy |t0 see me in a few days and we! The Navy said WAVES Bar-| city Junior College, shot Mr. ABOUT THE MONEY. I don't may work up a deal. He is Howard bara Renfroe, 24, Pascagoula, Boyle ' after the ward leader By PFC. ROBERT L. SMITH | know how much I've got, but they smith two years older than I|Miss., and Gladys Silver, 22; De-|ripped an anti-Kenny campaign (As Told te United Press) {tell me it's already up around

am. |troit. were taken in custody in| ) i | WASHINGTON, Mar. 5— Folks $200,000. Radio station WDTV in button off Kenny's coat, police

| Pittsb told had " Before I went into the service Las Vegas, Nev., and confined to!said. Pittsburgh told me it. had col- 3nd got hurt I worked in a radio| f San Diego, Cal, 5 TAT EVO: a say that I have been through aN). ted $71,000 and that thetAmer- 8 barracks at the San Dieg By lawful lot, but it wasn’t much.

: repair shop, making radio cabi-/Naval Base. i i ican Legion was ‘handling it for pets. Howard's pretty handy, too,, Navy officials refused to com- Few Sniffles in Dallas 1 -am grateful for. a-lot-ofiwe, : and maybe, with me supplying ment on the case until the women ~NEW YORK, Mar. 5 (UP)— things. My mother Dallas, Tex., has the lowest com-

the dough, we can set up shop: In have been questioned. I am not able to writé each and &erything. a that business or something else. — ;mon cold rate of any large city You know we had it a little

feels fine about

every one of you and thank you Howard knows how rough it ro. . lin the United States, & survey by tough for a long time. Matter is over there. He:was- in Korea, Italian Actress Dies {an antihistamine manufacturer, stabbed her|of the money you have sent in.| of fact the only reason I vol- too, although he didn't get hurt ROME, Mar. 5 (UP) Dina Inhiston, showed today. Dallas Believe it or not, I appreciate. unteered for the Army was to. much. Galli, 75, Italian actress. who never had a rate of more than

save up enough money to buy He feels good. /started her career at the age of|14.5 cases per 1000 persons, the and I am grateful to the United | a car. | As a matter of fact, I'm feeling four with her actress-mother, survey indicated. Los Angeles Press for letting me say so in| I guess I could afford a Jim-a lot better no wmyselt. (died last night. showed the next lowest

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