Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1952 — Page 21

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By Ed Sovola

ANOTHER : HAT, somewhat battered and creased, is going Into the crowded ring for Governor. Fellow voters, I heard your call. ~ The present list of candidates, Republican and Democrat, is as long as your arm. There are so many bandwagons in motion a taxpayer wonders if the unemployment talk from Detroit is nothing but hogwash. ud ' Some candidates have’the lahor-yote and the farm vote. Others are stomping on grass roots. All “Honest Ed” wants is the vote whether it smell of alfalfa, chewin’ tobaccy or Havana filler. I took my platform to the people and it was accepted. On the Circle, in front of Canary Cottage, the slogan, “Throw all politicians out of office,” was received with a great vote of confidence. No other candidate can make that statement and keep a straight face. . > 0d . IF I'M elected Governor, Indiana can be assured of a representative form of government, Honest Ed stands for thritt, efficiency, homé rule, clean streets and pillowcases, lower taxes, increased services, regular mail deliveries and pure beef hamburgers. The official announcement wasn't as“ colorful as I would have liked. Two lady shoppers paused and whispered that my idea to throw all politiciansg out of office was good. A motorist honked his horn and the campaign was underway. One of the first to sign my petition was F. A.

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VOTER—"Honest Ed" throws his hat into the Governor race. If nothing Fee he should get a better hat out of the eal.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 15—Miss Jane Powell now has a very bad case of cigarets on her ceiling. “Cigarets on your ceiling” is not a disease— or is it? It’s fully as sensible as the goldfish-swal-lowing by collegians maybe 20 years ago. Anyway, the lovely Miss Powell, of the movies and the cafes, had been occupying a beautiful suite at the Hotel Plaza with her husband, Geary Steffen, 2d, former champion skater, now an insurance broker. I was there interviewing her one night recently, concerning her singing at the Copa- _ cabana, when her husband ar- x rived with another young man, § i “You know Mr. Hilton, Lothar don’t you?” Mr, Steffen said. As a matter of fact, didn’t know Mr. Hilton.

Miss Powell

was a nice, friendly young fellow with a soft Texas speech and a most engaging smile. They called him Barron and after a while I realized this had to be Nicky's brother and Conrad Hilton's son.

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Our interview was pretty dull, anyway, and I can’t blame young Mr. Hilton for beginning to look at the ceiling. The minute he looked at the ceiling, he reRlieed there was something terrible wrong with t. There were no cigarets on it. Forthwith and thereupon, young Mr. Hilton withdrew from his pocket a box of rather expensive cigarets which have a filter mouthpiece. Did he light this rather expensive cigaret and smoke it? Don’t be vulgar. I had witnessed, many months before, the operation that was to ensue, but neither Miss Powell nor her husband had seen it. And they were entranced. “First” the young hotel heir said, “you tap the tobacco out like this.” "GS HE DEMONSTRATED how you delicately loosen the tobacco and drain it from the paper. Now you put the mouthpiece in your mouth and wet it. Then you tap it against a level surface to

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 15—Mr. Robin Taft of the politicking Tafts, has just been observed hiding under a 7l3-gallon Texas sombrero as he invades the State of Texas. I trust it will not be considered unduly testy if I venture the faint hope that there will be a minimum of emphasis on local headgear this season, as the boys range the nation in search of votes,

Nobody knows what deep-laid desire to appear in outlandish haberdashery gnaws at the secret heart of the politico, but sometimes I wonder whether most of them didn’t spend their childhood rainy Sundays dressing up in Aunt Hannah's discarded millinery. Show’ a politician a hat—any old hat—and he must wear it for the cameras or bust. Mr. Taft, for instance, is: undoubtedly a fine man, but he is just not endowed with the face for Texas top-finery. It takes a special phiz to wear one, and not even the humorous Martha Taft could accuse her old man of resembling Gary Cooper.

I STILL shudder when I remember the pained expression of Mr. Silent Cal Coolidge, when somebody forced -him. into -a ten-galloner—or once, heaven help us, into an Indian war bonnet. Nonody but Indians look chic: in Eagle topknots, and I have seen some Indians who would have appeared more at home in a silk topper than a rooster’s tail feathers. Somehow the dignity of man vanishes when he slaps a low-comedy lid on his skull, even as though you'd suddenly stripped him of his pants. Funny hats have ever been the mark of the burleycue clown, and this ain't the year for comics to go vote-hunting. Mr. Taft would not dream of appearing publicly in one of Martha's old hats, put he wouldn't look any funnier than with a WwWild-Wester squashing his ears. T would as soon see ex-President Hoover flaunting a beret,

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WHICH REMINDS me that one hopes Mr. Kefauver, full-flushed from his triumphs in New Hampshice, will gradually allow®™ his coonskin beanie to lie fallow for the moths to graze upon. The Dan’l Boone tiara was a real. cute idea when Kefe «was running against the machine down to Tennessee, afid Old Boss Crump hung that “pet coon” label on him. But Mr, Kefauver is-moving into the majors and needs no dead varmints on’ his noble brow to sell him to the sticks. It has long been a favorite suspicion that there is no real need for politicians to dress themselves outdaciously to attract attention as one of the home folks. : # Yep, I know the constituents like 'em folksy and close to the earth-earthy, but costumery is

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Another Chapean . In Governor’s Race

Schaefer, assistant ‘manager of Canary Cottage. He's going to vote for me and when I'm. elected, Mr. Schae sticking signs on the front of the Cottage.’ Mrs. A. R. Mueller, 3430 Ransdell St., and her neighbor, Mrs. J. B., Conway, 3437 Ransdell St, wanted to know if they can have sewers and pavements~-when Honest Ed gets in office. They have my promise. I hope I have their vote. “ . 0 oO MRS. JOYCE KELLY, 1208 W. 18th St., signed the petition and asked that the bomb craters in front of her home be filled. “You'll have the craters fille you so desire,” I said. ‘Nothin

the people.” >

A MOTHER with two chubby future voters walked by and I puckered up. The youngest began to screaif., The older boy, about 3 years of age, doubled up his fists and aimed his right foot. Well, you can’t get all the votes. Rulief G. Harmon, 1207 Spruce St., will trade a wote for new state roads. Not a bad trade, The beauty of this type of trading ‘is -that it doesn’t cost anyone a dime and I'm all for that. Fred Smith, 7217 E. 10th St., wants Indiana to be a dry state. I assumed Mr. Smith meant’ he didn’t want too much. rain. He signed the petition and I promised. Almost before the ink was dry, Joe Feltz, R. R. 15, Box 406 B, wanted to be sure that my platform was wet and would continue to be wet in 1953. It just so happened that the.platform, an apple crate, was wet and if I kept it outside in 1953, I'm sure it would remain wet. “Sign right here, friend, we can do business.” Mary Jean Hurt, 84 8. 8th Ave, Beech Grove, would be satisfied with a sidewalk in front of her home. A sidewalk? Simple item for a Governor to give a constituent. “Send the dimensions to me at the Statehouse. and get yourself a new pair of roller skates, a sidewalk’s a-comin’.” Mrs. John Carter, 101 8. Elder Ave, had a request that is close to every citizen's heart. “Clean up all the things that are wrong in our government,” asked Mrs, Carter. With eyes turned upward at the murky Hoosier sky, and arm raised in a salute to Miss Indiana on top of the Monument, I pledged a housecleaning, from top to bottom, side to side. This new broom is bristling. Republican candidates Leland Smith, W. O. Hughes, Samuel Harrell, George Craig, John Van Ness, William Fortune, Harold Handley, Russell Bontrager, Francis McCarty and Richard James; Democratic candidates John A. Watkins, Roger Branigin, Leo Stemle, Jap Jones, Howard Caughran, Hugh Dillin and Robert Heller, there isn't room for all of us in the Statehouse. Somebody's gotta go. The ground swell is strong in my ears and I heard the call. The man at the market who gave me the apple crate said he has an inexhaustible supply of platforms. I went on record to accept his crates. That leaves me no choice but to accept the nomination for Govérnor. The people have given me a mandate. You gentlemen know what that means.

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Bad Case of Cigarets On Her Ceiling

make sure the end of the mouthpiece is quite level and even. “Now we're in business,” young Mr. Hilton said. “Now you do this...” Holding the tobaccoless cigaret with the mouthpiece up, he threw it straight up at the ceiling. = 2 And it glanced off and came down. With a groan of sadness, Mr. Hilton repeated the operation with another cigaret—and it stuck on the ceiling. And seeing him feeling so good about the performance, I undertook to do the same and— having always been very athletic in high school —succeeded on the third try. “oo So ss POWELL just sat there with a tolerant smile. Her husband joined in the merriment and very soon he had scored also. By now we had six or seven cigarets on the ceiling. “How long will they stay there?” asked Miss Powell with a worried frown. “Probably till a maid takes them down,” said her husband. “Oh, no, they'll be there for 50 years,” thought Mr. Hiltom. “I put some on the ceiling at the Presidential suite at the Waldorf,” he added. “They had experts in there trying to figure out. what had happened. They thought maybe some unusual bird had got in there and laid eggs on the ceiling.” I don’t mean to imply that Mr. Hilton is frivolous. He's a hard-working young man, the father of three, and devoted to business. Over at the Embers Cafe there are scores of cigarets on the ceiling, many thrown there by Gloria Swanson. And if Mr, Hilton wants to put cigarets on Plaza ceiling . . . ‘after all it's his ceiling, oo oe oo TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: According to Fthel Smith, Broadway, Hollywood and TV producers don’t make mistakes—they buy ‘em. < oo oe TODAY'S WORST CORN: Ben Blue wonders if Lassie’'s movies are made in technicollie, , , , That's Earl, brother.

Doif the Fancy Hats, Boys, and Go to Work

not the answer. There are many farmers who do not chew straw or wear over-halls on Sunday, as there are hired men who are not named Hiram and cowboys who occasionally attempt flat heels. This kind pt type casting is old hat—especially en ranchers fly airplanes and farmers spor: convertibles, ” Is pont We have seen recently a phenome . ently non of politics in this land—the birth of a politician oo sprang, full grown, from the screen of a tel- ) Kefauver who just rubbed Harry's nose in the test runs in N. Hamp. is a presidential aspirant largely because . he performed so smoothly in the modern miracle of televised crime hearings. At na time did he say I swan to goodness” and slap his thigh for emphasis. Another promising boy, Ike 7isenhower, has been dressed in a natty soldier-suit for seyoral Jeasons. and on no account. can be called ‘orn-ball even if he hails fr To oy om the Kansas It may be just possible to ru : £ > n this campaign without turning it into a costume barn iy hp I sincerely hope this may be so. ’

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith pe

: Oly tried to have a lawn, sowed seed. fertilized, but grass is dead in patches. " What can I do to have a good lawn? New home-owner, A—Most lawn troubles need a steady soil improvement program. Unless you want to have quantities of good top soil hauled in and start your lawn over again. For most new homes are

surrounded by the cement-like subsoil from base- _

ment excavations. Make up your mind to re-seed Some every spring and fall. Then face the fact your soil needs loosening and conditioning. One way to get after it—cover your lawn with a thin layer of compost this spring. Where you have bare patches, loosen and enrich the soil up to 8 inches depth (or as deep as your back will allow), Seed it. Not too thick. Cover seed and established grass with around a fourth-inch of rich compost. If you haven't any you've made, buy as much as your lawn budget permits. For you can “top-dress” existing grass frequently with it to good advantage. Do not use chemical fertilizer alone. In summer you can help your soil improvement along by mowing grass frequently so clippings are short. Then let them stay on the lawn to decompose. There are me-

chanical soil looseners to be bought or rented - that will help you get soil conditioners down to . gram. When the show accepted,

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By JOHN V. WILSON HOME SWEET HOME is about ready for the junk pile—to hear the city’s taxpayers tell it.

No, we're not on the brink of a mass rush to the poorhouse. It's just spring assessment time. Travel with The Times in the door-knocking rounds of an assessor and you'll get the full tale of woe. It seems taxpayers believe confession is harder for the pocketbook than the soul. On the fashionable North Side, attractive homes belie the shape of furnishing® within. Refrigerators and other major appliances are gasping their last breath. Home freezers are few and far between. And in neighborhoods where television antennas abound rooftops, only about half the homes actually have TV sets. > x os ” s AT LEAST that's what one woman assessor and this re-

. porter learned from housewives.

A glance about a living room or a peek over the shoulder at the door failed to alter the declarations. “Yes, I have a refrigerator,” one middle-aged woman told the assessor. “But it's ready for the junk heap.” At another large residence, the assessor was invited into a spacious, wood-paneled hall. The occupant, an elderly widow, ruefully admitted she had bought her appliances in “the Twenties.” “This is an awful thing,” she replied, wringing her hands, to the customary questions. Of the personal property schedule handed her, she said, “I never know what to do with it.” Nearby, an attractive matron readily admitted her family owned a station wagon. But she apparently forgot the new sedan parked in the open garage. Nor did she mention the jalopy a teen-age boy had. just driven away. 2 2 .® WHEN IT came to being a dog owner, the housewife proudly announced she had a new

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plained the dog would be spayed before May 15 (the assessment deadline) —thus saving $2 tax. A large estate—complete with a sprawling home, rolling hills and a greenhouse—was next on the assessor's list. The gardener met us outside the greenhouse. He said he owned a small car, no TV and his furniture belonged to his employer. At the residence, the assessor was ushered into a hallway by a butler wearing a white coat. The room contained antique, museum-piece chairs. Oil paintings graced the walls, The assessor and the reporter sat down gingerly. Presently, an elderly, distinguished-look-ing man came in and paced back and forth as he was questioned.

” ” ” “I CAN'T tell you all these things off hand. It's rawther difficult,” he confided in a Boston accent. Yes, he had a TV. But it took a glance into the next room to recall whether it was

TV Bride Finds Her Man

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Charlmagne Cline and Cpl. Raymond Van Camp.

Cpl. Raymond Van Camp of known. The bride-to-be started Whyte Youse on Man, 2% He and 289 Ol .. who was “lost” in/things going by contacting the his family have not reside ere 2389 Oey St. Who Was Red Cross which located him in since the fal lof 1948.

Alaska with the Air Force, will make his date for a TV wedding in New York Thursday. Thanks to the efforts of his fiancee, Charlimange Cline, 2845. Station St, who located him ‘at his Alaska post, the couple will be marfied on the Bride and Groom TV show telecast here daily over WFBM-TV at 9.30 a.m. The 18-year-old Charlmagne

wrote to the program manage- “All Star Revue” television pro-'California toda

ment and asked if she could be married to her airman on the pro-

Alaska. The couple will leave by train this afternoon for New York.

It Is to Laugh HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 15 (1I/Ps

Margaret Truman sald today her

delight in “making people laugh”

a table or floor model. He said he also had four cars. ‘Have you a washing machine?” the asseasor asked. “Yes, but it's giving us a lot of trouble,” came the reply. After the assessor had completed her forms, we got up to leave. “Is there anything else I can tell you?” she was asked. Then came thanks for the visit. Almost every taxpayer treated the assessor with the same courtesy. They were friendly, generally, and made frequent references to their families and personal lives. - » . LIKE ONE plump, whitehaired widow who ‘/as asked when she bought her refrigerator and range. : “Well, I got them when we remodeled the upstairs,” she explained. And she hastened to add, “the ice box is about ready to go out any time.” : “If it does,” she continued, “well, I just won’t have any.” Another middle-aged woman fixed the date of purchase of her appliances by recalling: “TI got them when my hus-

Passenger Hurt

‘When Bus and Truck Collide

MRS. KATHERINE HALL, 18, of 742 N. Belmont Ave. was| treated at General Hospital late yesterday for minor injuries received in a collision of an In-' dianapolis Railways bus she was riding and a truck. Operator of the bus {in the) Kentucky Ave. and West St. accident was Tloyd Willis, 38, of 2247 Langley Ave. The truck driver was Levi Jude, 31, of 1001 Colton St, : | Zenda HuckleBerry, 13, of 1319) 8. St. Paul 8t, was in fair con-| dition in St. Francis hospital fol-| lowing another. accident late yes-| terday. She was a passenger iff the car of Charles Phillips, same address, when it- hit an auto driven by Willie Knott, 33, of 523 E. Perry 8t., at Troy. and State Aves. |

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Hopkins, 47, of 928 Division St., | was also in fair condition in St! Francis Hospital. He fell out of, the rear seat of his father’s mov-| ing car in the 2800 block of 8. Meridian St.

Truman Back to Keys. |

To Resume Vacation KEY WEST, Fla., Mar. 15 (UP) —President Truman resumed his vacation tonight after a flight of! nearly five hours from New York! where he addressed a group of school paper editors. | The President told reporters as he alighted from his plane that he hoped to move back into the]

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The President also that his ailing mother-in-law, Mrs. {David W. Wallace, had improved to such a point that she war looking forward to moving back into the White House. Gov, Warren Skids

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band got out of the Navy, That was in 1935.” A young mother, who had to quiet her two children so she could talk, sald her washing machine was a gift “from the lady across the street.”

Ld o a AND A WOMAN who interrupted her house-painting to answer the door said she had no dog this year. “You remember I had one last time,” she said. “But fit got loose and like to scared some lady to death. S80 we had to get rid of him.” At another home, the television set was easily seen. In fact, its parts were spread out on the dining room table, apparently being fixed or cleaned. After the trip, the assessor said she had run into little trouble in three years on the job. “People co-operate well,” she said. “One woman was ‘snooty’ once, but she thawed out when I asked about her daughter. “One thing I've found,” she continued, “when people get to

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TOMMY PIPER, 10-year-old, student at the Campus School, laboratory school of the Lock Haven, Pa., State Teachers College, was one of the 3000 school children who heard President Truman’s speech today. Tommy, a grandson of William Piper Sr., president of the Piper Aircraft Jorp.,, Is a reporter on “The Campus” his school paper. He wrote the following account of Mr. Truman's appearance for the United Press. The spelling is Tommy's not Webster's,

By TOMMY PIPER (Written for the United Press)

NEW YORK, Mar. 15—Hall To the Chief"! A song called “Hail to The Chief” was played as the President came into the grand ballroom. As he came into the room

Dewey Hopkins, 4, son of John the people stood up and clapped |

for two or three minutes.

After that the President came in with some Secret Service men with him and at least one policeman at every door. Then a man that was with the President went down the

table in frount of the stage, that was his aide. 2 After the President had been seated and everybody else had been seated a man from the back of the room on the balconey called everbodys attention to a

green light that was blinking off |

and on and said that he wanted to take everybodys picture and to look that way. Start Eating

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know you they're less afraid and it's easier.” » ” .

WHY ALL the questions to taxpayers? It's because asses“sors are using a new system this year to get more property on the books. Taxpayers are being queried specifically about cars, television sets and appliances which are noted on work sheets. Later the sheets will be checked against the schedules filed. Pointing out the number of items often disregarded, Center Township Chief Deputy Assessor Elmer P. Warren Jr. said usually only one wristwatch is declared in his whole area. ’ Then he turned the tables. on this reporter. “How long have you had your watch?” he inquired, with a gleam in his eye. “Since three days before I went into the Air Force.” “Ever turned it in to us?” “Well, uh, nooo.” Mr. Warren received a prom ise of a more complete schedule this year.

‘Tommy Piper, 10, Thinks Truman's Speech a Dandy

the President made a speech about the press and being a newspaper man. Then he talked about a cone vention they had when he was a little boy at the age of sixteen, Then he told about what he had done when he was young. Voted for Wilson He told about how he had voted for Wilson and thought that Wil. son was one of the greatest presidents of all time. Then he told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple, He had come to talk to us so we would grow lup to be good men like him. Then he talked about being on a newspaper when he was a little boy. Then he told us that we {might end up in the White House | just like him. Then he said that being in the government. was tiresome but |very nice and also that every nation needs a government. He also talked about the increase in rich people. He also said if Wilson if had {been able to have his own (wishes there wouldn't have been

{stairs and sat down at a Foundla World War II. told I thought the whole thing was

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Legion Chaplains ‘Meet Wednesday

{ Maj. Gen. C. I. Carpenter, chief lof chaplains of the U. 8. Air |Force, will be main speaker at a banquet of American Legion state chaplains in Hotel . Antlers

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to get their picture taken.

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After he had done that We|lains in the U. 8. Office of the

Next some men came in with a

ibig cake. After everybody had [finished eating they had a man 15 stand up and tell the awards for prompted her to accept a return (UP)—A black cat crossed the poetry, articals, and fiction stories./dance,

engagement on Jimmy Durante’s path of Gov. Earl Warren of Then a woman came out to an-

y. A few minutes nounce the awards for the junior

gram here with Durante and Ed- later the governor slipped on the high school.

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|dy Jackson. She will introduce a ice. He is campaigning in Wisconnew song, “Truman, Jack

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] Then they introduced the mayor|gion’s national son, and sin for the Republican presi-'of New York Citey and a mania Sunday School © ifrom Clombia University. Then home in

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|started eating. On the back of|Secretary of Defense. [the stage there was a lot of flags

The dinner “will be a highlight

of all colors and in the front ofiof a conference at Legion ‘'mna[the stagé there was a long table with chairs in back of it.

tional headquarters here to put the Legion's current “Back to God” movement on a permanent [basis The movement, started last fall by 3 million Legionnaires, promotes regular church attendaily family prayers and religious training of youth. Speaking Wednesday n will be Donald R. Wilson, the

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