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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

A DIAMOND ring In the middle of a downdeals must be hard to spot. Can yoy i ne a pea-sized “sparkler” being tromped over for 15 minutes on the corner of Washington and Meridian Sts? With the aid of seven beautiful dirhe store rings (25c¢. plus tax), a little experiment was undertaken to see what citizens do when treasure stares them in the face, At first glance, the glass copies will fool’ you. Well, they'll fool me, Even at the second and third, glances they're: foolers to most “finderskeepers.” The first erigagement ring was placed in front of H. P. Wasson & Co." on the Washington St. side, For 10 minutes the ring remained unmolested. Staff Photographer Dean Timmerman begah to relax. Our scheme to observe human

. nature was falling apart.

Suddenly a well-dressed man jerked to a halt. 8wiftly he picked up the engagement ring and examined it. Then he rammed it into his pocket and quickly retraced his steps, We shadowed the ring bearer. He dashed into

a building on Meridian St. From the actions of

the man we had anticipated more shadowing, * ¢ 9 WE LEANED against the entrance of Seville Restaurant and discussed another location for a

sparkler, Our man appeared with a friend who .

RN . DIAMOND FIND , . . "Carats" rained on Indianapolis sidewalks and were picked, pocketed, appraised . , , tsk, tsk.

It Happe By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 21-—Those savage satirists, Lindsay and Crouse, are looking for a new set of victims—so the famous had better beware. They knocked off Perle Mesta, President Truman and Margaret Truman in “Call Me Madam.” They knocked off Father and Mother long ago. They can hardly pick on Gen. Eisenhower; because “They Like Ike”—as their Irving Berlin. song tells the whole world. “We know we're going to plunge—we don’t know what into,” Russell Crouse said the other day when this reporter met the two famous collaborators. “To get ready for it, I'm taking the kids down to Atlantic City on a holiday,” Mr, Crouse said. “There’s no traffic problem there. You can’t get run over by a wheel chair.” “That’s hisestory,” Howard Lindsay remarked. “But he’s really going down there to pay tribute tg the place I was brought h 2

“YES. My dns poplin od the old Atlantic City Union and my mother worked as a compositor,” Mr, Lindsay continued. : “A teacher of elocution came to Atlantic City. She ran some ads, but couldn't pay her bills. It was decided that she could pay for the ads by teaching me elocution twice a week, “I was made to recite at every occasion. I used to go up to hotel porch groups and recite. Then I'd ‘pass the hat. I became an actor on a due bill.” “Did you ever sell papers?” Mr. Crouse asked. “Of course. That was back in the 90s.” Mr. Crouse’s father was a publisher in Findlay and Toledo, O. ‘ “When there was some big event,” Mr. Crouse said, “I'd grab about 50 papers and sell them. Make myself some money. Till one day I got on a guy's regular corner, and he beat the hell out of me.” “How do peopie take your digs at them in your shows?” I asked. “Margaret Truman has heen the best sport about ‘Call Me Madam.’ ” Lindsay answered. “I'd vote for that girl for President tomorrow,” Mr. Crouse said, Since “Call Me Madam” is

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 21—One of the things that keeps gnawing at my personal bone of logic is the seeming off-to-hell-in-a-bucket tendency of the modern young'un, after a few generations of fancified raising theories and techniques. By now we should have a populatinn at least, 90 per cent angel, but you keep reading about the narcotics kick and the youthful orgy, and you wonder what went wrong with the plan. . I was talking seriously with a mother of a brace of teeners the other day, and she forwarded some mild hope that her steady-dating youngsters would not get trapped into marriages of necessity before they turned 18. ; She said it flatly, calmly, with no levity, and elted cases in the neighborhood (good neighborhood, too) of several youthful weddings for the express purpose of outdistancing ‘the baby. She seemed to accept it as usual, and almogt inevitable. ’ . You realize that you can’t draw any sweepIng generalities about kids without opening the door to exception. But, on a mild generality, it does seem that all the gaudy theories of advanced young-rearing have not paid off positively, and may have weakened the over-all moral. health of the nation's youth, ob bb WE HAVE BEEN harping on the profressivephild prescriptions for about 30 years now. We jave force-fed parents of children who are now yarents themselves on a diet of moonbeams and vitcheraft dished up by any old maid who wanted jo write a book. It is indeed an underprivileged youngster who 3as not had all the latest theories and ‘wild conjestures practiced on his innocent, baffled carcass. e psychologists, the food faddists, the cranks and the crooks have all had a stout go at junior. He has been interpreted and reinterpreted, and diagnosed and prescribed for, and the net effect is certainly no better than the old-fashioned hickory-switch-and-spring-tonic technique. I believe no single past generation of minor vipers has been so steadfastly stuffed on scientific pap as during the past 20 years. We have been told to treat the young as adult almost before they are old enough to distinguish hot from cold. Clinics, lectures, books, pamphlets, articles, radio, television, movies, newspapers—everyhody's had a Aang at baby’s welfare. We have been told to hand-tailor their minds 8 they graduate from diapers to play suit to long jJants. We have beén told that pampering makes frunks and thieves of them later on, and that free expression Is necessary, and that every child 1s ‘a little adult who mustn't be smacked for fear 3 of’ building a trauma of the soul. y - * Sd % 1 AM NO EXPERT, but it seems to me we may have overestimated the potential and overextended 8 : a

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» was examining the ring. Circle at top speed. They proceeded to Market St. At frequent intervals their heads came together, The ring was under heavy discussion. We watched them walk into a jewelry store. In two minutes they appeared, sheepish grins on their faces, The man who found the ring was bouncing it in his hand. End of good fortune, We questioned the jeweler. Yes, the two men came in to have a ring appraised. He told them that he was happy they cleaned the Cracker Jack off the ring. Ha, ha. In front of Fletcher Trust Company, five minutes elapsed before a middle-aged woman scooped up another engagement ring. She’ glanced at it, looked to her left and right, then held the ring in a closed hand.

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WHEN SHE REACHED Loew's Theater, she examined the ring more closely afl then popped it into her purse. Two down, five to go. Across the street, we dropped a pearl engagement ring. In ‘eight minutes, only one man touched the ring, with his foot. He didn't see it. The man who did, though, picked the ring up and had it in his pocket with such speed Tim's camera didn’t stop the action. At the crossway, the man paused to talk to the policeman. On the northeast corner, heading east, he pulled out the ring, looked at it and put it back in his pocket, In front of the Canary Cottage, an engagement ring was still warm from my hand when it was picked up by a woman, She didn’t bat an eye. She simply picked the ring up and went on, * + ¢ A WEDDING BAND, with five sparkled in front of J. C. Penney Co, for 20 minutes. Finally a little girl jerked her mother to a stop. Mama took the ring, casually examined it and handed .it back. 3 We tried an engagement ring on the curb of Meridian 8t.; across from Christ Church. A mother-ddughter combination spotted the ring. The daughter picked it up with difficulty and showed it to mother. Mother looked at the ring and that was the end. The street is no plade to study diamonds. We dropped the last “carat” in front of the Cottage again. Five minutes elapsed before an elderly gentleman snatched it for keeps. Thirty

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feet up the sidewalk he took another fast look: In

front of G, C. Murphy Co. a third appraisal was taken. He went into the store. Moral: Don't expect to recover a diamond ring when you lose it. Diamonds seem to have a great deal of sentimental value . , , to people who don’t have them.

Savage : Satirisis Sharpening Swords

moving to Washington May 5, for the capital to see the satire‘on the diplomatic life, I inquired whether they'd be softening the jabs. “Oh, no. We'd sharpen them if anything,” Mr, Crouse, the former columnist, said. “Crack a few more heads.”

People don’t mind, they say. With “State of the Union,” their Pulitzer Prize play, they kept worrying about what they'd do if Herbert Hoover ever came to the show. And one night he came.

They had « line about there being “a scandal about some candidate in every campaign.” “They pulled that one on everybody hut Hoover,” was the next line. “If they'd have said it

about Hoover, nobody would have belidved it.” They watched the ex-President. “He had a better time than anybody in the audience,” Mr, Crouse said.

The two will be inserting topical jokes in “Call Me Madam” for its Washington run, It’s hard to say what sort of jokes now, but undoubtedly about the campaign and the investigations, During the Kefauver investigation, they gave Ethel Merman a line to" say:

“Who do you think you are—Senator Tobey?”

When Lindsay and Crouse set out to do a job on somebody,» they're hard to dissuade. It hurt the . . . well, just a little . . , to pick on Perle Mesta after she was so nice to Mr. Lindsay in Luxembourg when he visited her there.

“She invited us to stay at the legation. I told her I thought I'd better stay at the hotel. I wasn’t going to be charmed out of some of my jokes,” Mr. Lindsay said. Miss Mesta saw their show. But she never sent them any note about liking it. So they gather that she was able to retain her enthusiasm about it. They don’t suppose President Truman will be seeing their show in Washington. Mr. Lindsay won't be there for the opening, the way it stands now, as he's performing in the show they jointly produced, “One Bright Day.” “I'd prefer not to have a chance fo see the Washington opening,” Mr. Lindsay said. “You mean you don’t want to see it?” I asked. “No. I mean I'd rather he working, in ‘One Bright Day.’” That's Earl brother.

Child - Rearing Tips Getting Complicated

the capacity, and built ourselves a brood of adultchildren who grow up to be child-adults. There was, in my memory; a clear-cut period of childhood, in which the youngsters were allowed® to play unhampered, like puppies, before some pretty stern parental discipline took over. The discipline was rigidly maintained until it became unnecessary or the juvenile overran it. The child of my youth, certainly, was not early jaded from saturation in adult knowledge, nor was he harassed constantly by theory in the inept hands of parents, Babies were not treated as men. As I understand it, we have a percentage today that gets in bad trouble from boredom, and from psychic insecurity, and from supersophistication. Possibly. our biggest domestic story of the past year or so has been that of narcotic addiction among the very young. It is hard to believe that a. healthy child of good raisin’ would wind up taking shots in the arm for kicks, but the evidence says it is a prevalent practice, I will not say that my gang, raised by guess and homely dogma, didn't get ito all sorts of troubles, because it did. But I will claim that the complicated recipes for child-bearing in recent vears haven't built an exceptional breed of eitizens, and may have contributed extensively to the detriment of the mass,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—You have said you liked old-fashioned roses. What varieties do you like best? Or suggest for other gardeners? E, 17th St. A~For purely sentimental reasons, because my grandmother had one, I dote on the oldfashioned Scotch rose, Harison’s Yellow. I think every yard ought to have one. Probably because I like it so well, I bought a bush of Austrian

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

copper, much like it but the most exciting copper color. The blue Tose, Cardinal de Richelieu, 1 don’t have but it's enough of an oddity with it almost blue flowers that everyone exclaims over it. The old, old striped pink and white Gloria Mundi (not to be confused with the floribunda of that hame) was given to ‘me by an Irvington ‘gardener and I love it, too. The very fragrant’ cabbage rose or centifolium is another favorite. Well—as you see, I could go on and on. want a really exciting specialized hobby, take up old-fashioned roses. You get fragrance, romance (In their histories), just everything, And because they've withstood the test of time, Hey re easy to raise, too.. &

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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1052

INDIANA STATE SUPREME COURT—

‘Are We Losing Our Freedom?’

Arch Bobbitt

INDIANA SUPREME COURT—When Justice Floyd Draper first saw this latest picture of the Hoosier high tribunal, he remarked: "What a I is the only one I've ever seen where all the judges look intelligent." :

« By IRVING LEIBOWITZ °

COULD a Hitler some day rule America? Or a Stalin? Historians who observed the rise to power of Mussolini and other sundry dictators of this generation, note with alarm the similarity between happenings in the United States today and what occurred just hefore Italy, Germany and Russia were swallowed by totalitarian rule.

Today, gripped by widespread labor unreft, inflation, limited war and limited peace, Americans are beginning to ask themselves a big question:

“Are we in danger of losing our freedom?”

If it ever came to a vote in the Indiana Supreme Court, the Hoosier high tribunal would decide, unfortunately, that citizens of the United States are already losing their rich, precious herit-

age of freedom. » » »

‘INDIANA'S Justices — who » compose the court of last resort for most Hooslers-—made their views known in answer to a survey by The Indianapolis Times, Three of the five justices said flatly they believed Americans are losing their freedom. An-

HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON .

with ‘the nation.

Floyd Draper

other thought a bankruptey in America could bring loss of individual liberty and as well as financial ruin to the nation. He said:

“The power to tax is the power to destroy and it is equally true that the power to create debt is also the power to destroy.” Chief Justice Frank E., Gilkjson, Republican of Washington, Ind. thinks courts are able to meet the challenge in protecting human rights “if members of the court feel themselves bound by their odth,” But he said frankly the courts would be helpless if judges “act upon obedience to political leaders.” » » n BECAUSE there has been some criticism recently of the

law that allows United States Supreme Court : Justices serve for life, the state justices were asked their opinion. It was pointed out that there had been judges not properly qualified. for the bench but who could not be rempved short of impeachment. The majority of the Indiana justices favored limiting the number of years aU 8 Bu

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Frank Gilkison

preme Court could serve, Justice James A. Emmert, Republican of Shelbyville, an advocate of a 12-year term for all federal judges, said: » ® -

“APPOINTMENT for life is too long for several reasons. The history of the federal

bench shows that too often judges refuse to retire when the disabilities of advancing years impair their ability to do the work. Also, when a judge is appointed, whose work turns out to be below the standard the people have to expect, or whose legal philosophy is at variance with the Constitution, he should not be entitled to remain on the court for life.”

Moreover, Justice Emmert thought it unwise .to invest

justice

-such power in any one person.

He said the famous quotation of Lord Acton express the danger: “Power tends to corrupt ahd absolute power corrupts abso

lutely.” we.

THE numerous jaunts around the world by U. 8. 8upreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, and his political

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speeches and writings that followed, have caused a widespread controversy in American legal circles. Many lawyers and jurists felt Justice Douglas should confine his activity to the bench, The Indiana Supreme Court agreed. Hoosier justices did not question any judges right to make speeches on legal questions, but thought it unwise for a judge to make political talks. The opinion of the court was summed up by one justice, who sald:

» » ” CERTAINLY a judge should be very careful about expressing opinions about the legislative or judicial policy with which he could have no official concern, If, however, it is a matter which involves the proper administration of justice, he should be free to express his opinions on such matter of policy,” The nation’s legal otiene have with the complexity SE governnient. And each Hoosier justice has his own conception of the top judicial problem of the day. For example, Justice Paul G. Jasper, Ft. Wayne, the only Democrat on the bench, believes

A Fortune Made F rom Surplus

By BLAIR BOLLES HERE IS ONE of the weirdest examples of the federal government's hap-

hazard adventures in dis-, posing nf surplus property after World War II, A strange story of traffic in blood, of favoritism, and_ of tolerance of easy-going sales methods was brought to light by testimony before the Senate Banking and Currency Sommittee.

The facts came out while the committee conducted hearings of the confirmation of Thomas B. McCabe as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. In May, 1946, Chinese newspapers ran lurid advertisements of a new “male rejuvenator.” It sold so well that soon after it appeared on the market, the proprietors raised the price by $10 a package. The rejuvenator actyally was blood. plasma, collected by the American’ Red Cross from

American ‘donors for use of the.

armed forces during World War II. Its owner was K. H. Powell Khoong, who Bernhard J. Johnson said was the Shanghai representative of T. L. Soong whose brother was premier in the Nationalist, government. He was and still is one of the richest Orientals alive.

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THE plasma cost Khoong 14 cents a unit, He sold it at first for $25 and then $35 a unit, The American Red Cross recovered most of the plasma after newspaper reports disclosed that it had fallen into Khoong's possession. But, this happy ending did not come be fore Khoong cleared close to $100,000. For this profit Khoong- had to thank Brigadier General Bernhard J. Johnson, the American in charge of surplus disposal in Shanghai. Gen, Johnson's title was Field Commissioner -in China for the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner.’ In the spring of 1946, he had a surplus naval hospital unit from Okinawa for sale. To satisfy the regulations, he offered the hospital first to the United Nations Relief and Rehablilitation Administration, which was helping to restore China economfically.

Gen. Johnson did not reveal

to UNRRA what the hospital

unit contained. He gave the or-.

ganization just twenty-four hours to decide whether it

wanted this pig in. a poke. UNRRA réfused to buy blind. .- » » »

THEN Powell Khoong bid for the stuff. Unlike UNRRA, He knew what was in the lot. Somebody (no evidence sug-

A SMART CHINESE operator ought up blood i for a song and sold it for a fortune with the help of U. General Bernhard J. Johnson.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the seventh of a series from the recent book, HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON, pub-

lished sby ‘'W. W. Norton & Co. The Author, Mr. Bolles, is the well Known writer, author and

newspaperman,

had given him an and he bought it rates, It included not only the plasma but algo narcotics, which later turned up on the Chinese market, 8ome of the narcotics even found their way back to the illegal dope markets of the United States, Gen, Johnson himself had reason to be grateful to Khoong. An agent of BSoong's had vaguely suggested to him in March, before the sale of the blood, that the Chinese government might employ him as an adviser on purchase. Gen. Johnson spoke freely of this propo-

inventory, at bargain

MATERNITY WARD--The Cleveland, Ohio, 200 is calling is monkey house the “Stork Club” these days. Pictured shove

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-gition at the American Club in

Shanghai. He had noted on a scrap of paper the pay he would ask for his advice—$35,000 a

year, a car, a chauffeur, a house, Gen. Johnson's good will ex-

tended to all Chinese, ‘He habitually permitted the local merchants to outbid UNRRA for goods. He charged UNRRA 70 per cent of the. world market price for any article, to be paid in - cash, The Chineae he charged 22 per cent of the original cost to the United Bates, to be taken on credit, ” » ~

HE BROKE contracts in his

eagerness" to do the Chinese favors. quantity of sheet metal to the Texas Company for $95,000 and had accepted a down payment of $47,500 in cash. Before delivering the to. the Texas Company, however, Johnson sold it *o the Chinese government for $20,000

on credit. The Chinese govern-

metal

ment then offered it to the rep-

gests that it was Gen. Johnsony, of the reason—a bumper crop of 20 baby monks,

His office once sold a

resentatives in China of Standard Ofl for a huge mark-up. The Texas Company later offered the surplus office in Shanghai $710,000 cash for two tankers, but Gen. Johnson sold them to the Chinese for $420,000 credit. An American naval of-ficer-then suggested to Texaco that it might be able to buy the tanker. from the Chinese if it still wanted them. Many

such chances for the Chinese to

profit were created. : ~ ~ ” GEN, JOHNSON'S boss was Thomas B. McCabe, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, with headquarters in the State Department in Washington. He took such pride in the functioning of his organization that when he received complaints about Gen, Johnson from the latter's colleagues in the Shanghai office, he ordered the dismissal not of Gen,

Johnson but of the complainers. This attitude encouraged

Gen. Johnson to pursue his policy of helping the Chinese to buy cheap and sell dear. Gen, Johnson outlasted Mr. McCabe in the Office of Liquidation

- Commissioner by a month. Mr.

McCabe resigned in September, 1946, and Gen. Johnson quit

his job in Shanghai in Oectober, 19486, ~ ~ ” ® THE China Office of the

Army Inspector General investigated Gen, Johnson and rec-

ommended court-martial for him and his assistant, Lt. Col. John E. Bell. Without viskhle Income beyond his officer's pay, Col.

Bell lived in a large house, He ‘owned several automobiles, a speedboat, and a private airplane. He kept a White Russian mistress. Gen, Johnson resigned from the Army and, as a civilian, kept his job as a field com-

missioner for Shanghai until October, 1946. The headquarters: of Gen.

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the top problem today is “the

protection and preservation of individual and states’ rights. 31 a 8» JUSTICE ARCH BOBBITT, Indianapolis Republican, said E felt the number one legal

lem was “restoration of for the Constitution and

generally.” a

pl ustice Floyd 8. Draper, Republican, however, his idea of the outstanding problem confronting the as “increasing government trols” Chief Justice Gilkison called for “judicial Iteguity. ocr le 18. there was ough unders Ot or ota. of government and a is uy standing of SOmEUBInL added “judge apply an I vend an American way even in the face Amare temptéd governmental ower clon.” 3 Be

na on way , THE Hoosiers justices felt, all judges, whether on the U., 8. Sus

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THOMAS McCABE — Ves employees complained a bout

Gen. Johnson, Mr. McCabe fired the complainers—not tha General.

Mark Clark, commanding the Sixth Army in San Francisco, declined to’ court-martial him; One reason given was that the evidence was insufficient, al though the Inspector General listed 19 specific accusations against him, Anothér reason was that, having left the Army, he was not subject to courts martial.

” ” X ” POWELL KHOONG never shed real gratitude for the

plasma. deal, The Chinese did not hire Gen, Johnson, But Gen, Johnson re-entered military gérvice after the Sixth Army filed away the report from the Inspector General, His generous superiors in the Army gave him the rank of ;colonel and asgigned him to Tokyo, whers he was put in charge of trans portation affairs connected with the occupation of Japan.

(Copyright, 1952 by Blair Bolles.)

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