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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
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THE DEBT to society was paid in ‘full. One year behind the bars and walls of the Indiana Reformatory was over. Easter would be spent at home and the young man was anxious to get
going. . But he had ing his family and walking out the front door a free man. The paroled prisoner promised Supt. Ward Lane he would talk to me about how it feels, what a man thinks as he leaves the reformatory. Fhere was a parallel in the new life he was about to gain and the resurrection of Christ. For oné year, lacking one day, wasn't he dead as far as society was concerned? He had forfeited his right to mingle freely among his fellow men. ‘He was disfranchised, entirely dependent upon the state for security, food, lodging. And shortly, in a sense, he would be resurrected. We met in Supt. Lane's office. He knew that 50 feet away stood his mother, sister, brother-in-law and the girl he was going to marry, the girl who waited for him when the going was rough. The 25-year-old man sat on the edge of his seat, rubbed his hands unthinkingly and looked about the room with a nervous curiosity. He wanted to get going. >
* HE REFUSED a cigaret. On the street he could have passed for a graduate student in- his yellow sport jacket, gray wool slacks, white shirt and black knit tie. Over his arm he had a raglanshouldered raincoat. “How do you feel?” That was the question he wanted to hear. It was the opening, the beginning which would lead him to the end of his final task. He adjusted his horn-rimmed glasses and said
“Great. Never felt better in my life.” His face,
broke into a big smile and there was none of that grimness you see so often when a man has an ax to grind, thinks he was handed a raw deal. “Did you sleep last night?” The silence of the room was broken by sudden laughter. He had trouble, a ‘lot of ' trouble, sleeping. In fact, he didn’t sleep at all. : “It was the longest night of the year,” the free man said. “Last night, come to think of it, was longer than the whole year I spent here.”
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Apr. 11—We hear from our underground that Borrowers Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous will merge under the slogan, “Neither a borrower nor a bender be.” The password will be: “Taste not, touch not.” But many Americans will continue living by “the touch system.” Borrowing is highly regarded around Broadway—unless you borrow piddling sums. The strange Broadway attitude is, “If you're gonna borrow, borrow. Be big.” One good friend of mine won't lend to anybody. He says borrowers are “badly adjusted.” He's never borrowed. He's single, of course. How else? Yet many borrow their way to success. Singer Frankie Laine practically had a Touch Parade to Triumph. Frankie cried in public long- before Johnny Ray, maybe because he once owed $7000 here, there and yonder. “I was in hock up to my hips,” he says, and I paraphrase. “I ate on credit in an Italian restaurant for a month, Spaghetti every meal. It was a quarter then, in 1939. You know, I still like spaghetti.” He got $5 a week, and 5 cents a week was taken out for social security. He tired of N. Y.— and spaghetti, returned to Chicago, and met'Perry Como. They had something in common: Spaghetti. “How'd you like to go to Cleveland?” Como asked him—and phoned from Chicago and got him a job," paying for the call.
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ON BORROWED BUCKS, Frankie took the Job, at $20 a week. The second nigh,t a friend asked him to get a job for a girl: “I just started here myself,” squawked Frankie. But borrowers are very generous. He bought her a dinner—borrowing $5 on his pay—and let her sing, also. She sang beautifully. Much too. She was hired and he was fired, . : “She sings as good as you do. And the men customers will drink back her salary,” the boss man said. Frankie got a defense plant job. After work, he'd come in, stand in back and hear the gal, June Hart, sing an old song, “That's My Desire.”
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HIS JOB took him to L. A. He sang in a cafe one night and attracted-the attention of Hoagy Carmichal. How? By singing a Hoagy Carmichael song. 3 : Hoagy got him a job singing. He soon made a record, The record made Frankie Lane. The song
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Apr. 12—1It has been my miscon ception that a justice of the Supréme Court was stuck up there on the bench to serve as supreme referee, and not to play pitchman for somebody else’s side show. But a faint ringing in the ears tells me that it was none other than Assoéciate Justice Willlam O. Douglas with his mouth wide open the other day}. in a most remarkable piece! of peculiar business. What the good justice was
preaching was what he called a “peasants’ revolt” in under developed lands, obviously re-
ferring to the East and Middle East and possibly Africa. In stead of helping the administrators of the nations we are currently helping with money and 5 2 equipment, we should literally “LA stir up revolutions among the peasantry and encourage them to unhorse the chosen few who rule the destiny of the many.
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THE EVENTUAL aim of the peasants’ revolt business would mean the bust-up of large estates a redistribution of land, and presumably a millenium, with everybody in possession of 40 acres and a mule. This sounds rather like one of Henry Wallace's feather-headed flights for a second, but all of a sudden it doesn't sound that way at all. “Peasants’ revolt” is not a phrase that sits familiarly on the American ear, because we do not deal in peasants in this land, and we do not consider the armed robbery of private property as a stroke of social justice. a What {it sounds like, oddly, would be the stilted statement of the same policy that the Kremlin has been practicing all over the world for many years—but not bragging about it, just doing it. S> o- &@
THE SIMPLEST and most effective arm of the Russian plan for-eventual world enslavement has consisted of exactly what Justide Douglas advocates as a policy for the United States to pursue. Intervene ‘in the inner lives of countries —incite the people to riot, up with the poor, down with the rich—set this faction against that, encourage religious conflicts, stir up trouble everywhere—and then, when things are in complete step in -at- key positiens and grab control. And keep it, with an iron" conscience and a quick’ gunshot for the objector.
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, Out of Prison : At Easter Time
In prison lingo, he had an acute case of shorts time fever. It starts coming on a prisoner the day he learns he passed the parole board or the term is.about to be served in full. Some prisoners have been known to count the ‘minutes before they are free.) Se Qo Dd
THE LONG night was spent in reviewing the events that led up to a year in the reformatory, swearing it would be the first and last time and thinking of the future,
He spoke freely of his crime. There was no bitterness that he was, caught. A question still remained in his mind why he deliberately went out to break the Jaw. He knew nothing of burglary. An impulse to get money took possession of him one night and from that moment the steel doors of a prison began to swing shut on him. “I have good parents, I was never denied the usual things a kid wants. You you just can’t explajn it. Once you're caught the shame you feel is enough to choke you until you calm down and begin thinking straight again. That's when the faith people still have in you is a Godsend.” He was sitting more relaxed. “T'll tell you what I'm thinking right now. I'm thinking of the G cellhouse (quarantine section where new prisogers are kept for 10 days before being assigned) when 1 first got here. That made a man out of me. You don't know: what's out in the yard. You don’t want to be called a convict and the law says you are and you know you are and there's nothing to do but think . . .” He spoke of his studies at the reformatory and how he was going to finish his correspondence courses in blueprint-reading and mechanical
drawing. “I'm going to work in my uncle's saw mill, get married and forget . , . no, remember the one mis-
take I made. Now that this whole mess is over, I'm: glad it happened this way before I really got messed up.” He was either very clever or sincere in his speech. I'll say the latter.
Supt. Lane and I watched him greet his family and fiancee. We waved to the group as they pulled away in a car. I watched closely to see if he would look back at the reformatory. He didn’t. He'll have no difficulty remembering what it looks like. Resurrection . , ,
‘Touch System’ Helps Frankie
was, “That's My Desire,” which he'd learned by listening to the gal who'd got his job after he'd borrowed to buy her dinner. “I began paying up what I owed . . .” Today the IOU’s he has from others total about $18,000. “Did you pay back everything?” we asked villainously. “There's one I never could manage,” he said. “That debt to Perry Como. To this day he won't let me pay him that buck and a quarter.” Yes, there are people who borrow ,and have a rule that may be expressed in the wérds, “Touch —and go.” It’s all according to whether they go
on to success—or go away from you and never come back.
THE MIDNIGHT FARL ... A $2 million divorce settlement offer has been turned down by attorneys for attractive starlet Marianne O'Brien, wife of tobacco heir Dick Reynolds. Her new counsel hinted she would “certainly want much more.” (A previous ex got $9 million). The Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler legal massacre comes up in the fall . . . Cafe socialite Beverly Paterno had a son at Dr.'s Hospital. Pop John Oberon celebrated at Armando’s . . . Sherman Billingsley was seen in Roosevelt Hospital wearing not much more than his scanties. He was getting X-rayed for virus. EARL'S PEARLS Dagmar mentioned the man who had a waterproof, shockproof, unbreakable,- anti-magnetic watch. He lost it. Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were so happy to be reunited when she flew in, that they dashed right off from the airport for the Hampshire House—forgetting all her bags . Mary Kirk Brown, the glammer gal, has been missing for five days . . Bookies are taking plenty of ball game bets. But their motto is, “Don’t call us, we'll call you.”
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Harry Hershfield says that when Gov. Dewey heard HST's won'trun announcement, .he groaned, “NOW you tell me.” “The gangster crown prince” is missing from his haunts in The Village, and pals are worried . Faye & Skitch start an auto tour of southern Europe in about three weeks ‘ . Lovely Polly Bergen will wear a flesh-colored cellophane gown when she sings at Ciro's in Hollywood.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “With strip-teasers, a stitch in time saves fine”’—Myron Cohen: “Mendel the Continental” is the name of a I.eo Fuchs show on Second Ave. ., . . Walter Winchell matineed in Toots Shor’'s . .. With Billy Rose back, ‘the Battle of the Buck” will be resumed soon Billy Eckstine, at the Paramount, gets $80,000 for the three weeks.
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BILLY REED, Little Club owner, was away from the cafe baby-sitting last night. Baby was
about 18 . , . That's Earl, brother. ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ Fine—For Kremlin That 1s the practical way of administering what Douglas preaches, That is the Russian way. The impractical way would be what Doug-
las suggests for us—that after all the strife and clatter was over, some more equable division of wealth might be made and everybody live happily ever after. With, presumably, good old Mother America to stand by with a willing purse and a benevolently stern eye, BUT THE complete clinker in Bill Douglas’ proposition is that what he preaches would be the swiftest and most expedient blow we could strike for the. Communist cause. We provide the riots and the wherewithal to revolute, and also reap the blame for Ping with other. peoples’ lives. The
Communists are then equipped with one more
potent propaganda weapon against us, and thev would be justified. And that ain't all: As soon as Mr. Justice Douglas’ plan of international anarchy is in fruit,
the Communists step in and reap the whirlwind. We have created the unrest and chaos they desire; they slide in under cover of th knock off the nation, ‘Mr. Douglas plan is not unique, His exact recommendations are Being practiced by fhe Russians in Africa at this very moment, and ‘are succeeding rather admirably. y
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—Do you have any leaflets oA how to raice caladium bulbs? Mrs. Ken Keeney, 1941 W. 59th" 8t. "A—No, no leaflets on fancy-leaved kinds need treatment you would give the tuberous rooted bégonias. So I sent you the begonia leaflet. (Other readers who will send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope with their request may also have the tuberous begonia leaflet.) One additional hint on the fancy-leafed caladiums. A professional grower told me recently that for years she has started the roots upside down. .This on the advice many years ago of a bulb specialist. Some of the caladiums, she explains, are so hard shelled they may rot if kept damp.enough to sprout, But the upside down treatment makes them shoot roots, potato fashion. Then she divides the bulbs to make several plants from each one.—The plain leaved caladiums or elephont ears grow so fast you can wait. until weather warms up and set them outdoors in May. All caladiums thrive on rich soil well ‘conditioned with humusy materials,
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By DICK SHULL ‘SEARCH the world over and you'll probably never find a family like one being raised here in Indianapolis. In this family, the weekly wages total more than $20,000. The members speak 13 languages and include every-
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thing from day laborers to doctors and symphonic musicians
Head of this rare family Is a portly, cigar-smoking Lutheran minister who has made Christianity his vocation and humanity his avocation In his role of all things to all men, Rev. Paul E. Huffman of the United Lutheran Church is a tycoon in the business of importing displaced persons from Europe He's pratically monoplized the market by bringing more than 400° Latvians and Estonians to Indianapolis. on au 5 IN THE OTHER roles he he must assume, he at times is- a hard-fisted businessman, a gushy sentimentalist, a dopble-talking salesman and a bull-headed Dutchman But always, he's a man of God To find housing and jobs. for his hundreds of wards, he’s had to bully skeptical employers, enprejudiced high-pressure and
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By EMERSON TORREY
DR. 1. LYND ESCH, president of Indiana Central
College, tried hard not to become an educator. His father was a teacher. So were and are six of his seven brothers and sister Lynd Esch, when he was graduated from high school at 15, thought he'd like to be a lawyer : He did study law for two vears—evenings at. home after the chores: were done on the farm near , Altoona, Pa on which he was horn 46 years ago Then~—“ztiill runnir way from tedching”-—he, went to Akron, O., where he trained to be an executive of (oodvear Tire & Rubher Co n ou ou HE COMPLETED the three vear course with the highest grade average in {ts history Then ‘he became a professor in the Goodyear Industrial Univer sity, , specializing in rubber
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news now because the iittle college which has served Indianapolis nearly 50 years is for the first time--and, Dr. Esch hopes, the last--asking Indianapolis ‘for help in its task. It- needs: $975,000 to build a new Academic Hall,
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all justified, he feels, by the end he seeks. From his cluttered office in the rear of the church at 701 N. Pennsylvania 8t., Rev. Huffman started his work in the fall of 1948. He had just moved to that church with his wife and two children when a DP family arrived. » o 5 REV, HUFFMAN took a liking to the DP’'s and thought they'd be a good influence on Indianapolis. Not meek in any of his projects, the 50-year-old reverend started flooding the New York offices of the National Lutheran Council and the Church World Service with requests for more DP families. As the DP families poured into Indianapolis from the barbed-wired camps of Germany, Rev, Huffman took them one-by-one and placed them in
the best jobs avallable for their capabilities, and found each a home, Nearly 100 of these people
were hoarded in his own home until they could be adjusted. n ” n ALL OF THESE DP’'s were Lutherans from Estonia and Latvia. They had been driven from their homes by the Reds and had fled to Germany ahead
of the Russian armies during World War II. Now, while. he's still busy trying - to better the positions
THE ant sparkplug dynamo-—of the The business executive-minis ter-educator hecomes a highpowered salesman when he point out ONE Indiana
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BEYOND THE ACADEMI( Hall, Dr. Esch envisions a new’ gymnasium and physical” edu cation building for Indiana Central but we'll go to the church for that (The co-educa-tional college {8 dendminational—Fvangeélical United Brethbut its student body represents .30 religious denomina tions and 16 states.) Indiana Central has 42 acres west of the campus on which it plans to build and to issue
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of the DP’s he has, he's also making arrangements for a new group of people he expects sometime this spring. » » - ALTHOUGH bringing the DP’'s to Indianapolis is all his own doing, Rev. Huffman's congregation has had to share in the burden of rehabilitating the Europeans. He now has 400 American members to his church, and 250 DP members and their families, His goal is to solidify this conglomerated congregation, but at present the usual English services are broken with ILativian services every two weeks and Estonian services monthly. Using Rev. Huffman's church as headquarters, Lativian Rev, Volrads Isaks (pronounced Esocks) serves as minister-at-large for all Latvian Lutherans in the state. He gives the biweekly Latvian language services o u ” FROM THE START, Rev. Huffman realized his mass im portation of DP’s couldn't be accomplished without adversity, Some of them were able to séttle down and become a part
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(though you're never far from him when you-talk about Indiana Central) He doesn’t have “much time for hobbles,” though he loves good music and enjoys his small library of long-playing records. When Mrs. Esch was alive, they traveled a great.deal. His son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren are living with him temporarily at 4051 Otterbein Ave, just off the Indiana Central campus, The son, Lynd J, Esch, devel-
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tions continually raised is:
What are they doing for In< dianapolis, for United Lutheran Church, and for Rev. Huffman
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Many of his people are carown skilled construction instance forming their own company to
penters building thelr dwellings, working as technicians for
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Others are adding to the Indianapolis .cultural heritage
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And all are true patriots who
have ‘learned. to fight and. detest communism with reality, not philosophically as most
Americans are doing.
DR. I: LYND ESCH-—And drawing of Indiana Central's proposed Academic Hall.
opment engineer for U, 8. Rubber Co. here, is, writing a dissertation for his doctor's degree in anthropology at Indiana Uni-
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with the Smithsonian * Insitution expedition that excavated in the Missouri Basin last year. » ” = DR. ESCH believes firmly that America's future depends on the education of its young people and that a college should provide these things for them: “ONE—A general life per-
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a THESE ARE some of the re. sults at United Lutheran: Membership at the church, which like many in the downtown area was falling victim to ruralization, has increased with the coming of the Latvians and Estonians.
The church coffers have been swelled with their contributions, and in turn this money has gone to expand the works of the church, American members, through observing the immigrants, have developed a better appreciation of their own religion. Finally, here's what is ‘it"” for Rev, Huffman: Just like any successful businessman, he's proud of his accomplishments, and eager to see his concern thrive—this business of helping humans. Financially, he's dug down into his pocket for the DP's so ‘often that-at times the money tsn’'t forthcoming. But he explains his personal funds are similar to the
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“TWO — Vocational compe= tence; building of attitudes toe ward work. : “THREE—A sense of inde vidual moral and ethical ree sponsibility, which of course is the foundation of our way of life. “FOUR--A general .sense of cappreciation of spiritual values, Religion basically is apprecia= tion; all happiness in life is ap« preciation.”