Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1952 — Page 19
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Inside Indianapolis
By Gene Feingold
Ed Sovola is on vacation. His column will be resumed on his return.
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It Happened Last Night
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GREGORY RATOFF, the foot-swallowing Rawshun, was sitting around with Miss Constance Smith, the beautiful, blue-eyed, Irish-born actress, giving her hints on “speaking American.”
It came up because I'd asked Miss Smith what part she plays in “Taxi,” which’ll be filmed in New York streets. Thad “Dot’s the shawrtest title in the wawrld—only fawr wards.” Mr. Ratoff bragged.
“I'm just an Irish girl with a little dirt on her,” Miss Smith told me. “With a little dirt on her?” I asked. “Naw, naw. Not dot, dolling,” exploded Gregory. “Her man, he dawn her dirt.” To me, Gregory explained, “You see switheart, she's got meexed upp her English.” “I'm a little sleepy today,” the Dublin colleen ising. AR ‘Sure,” sai atoff. “You kept o 1 Mr. Engel.” PY orp 3) migwt * oo o
THAT WOULD probably be Sam Engel of
the movies. Anyway, Gregory .was anxious to.
start shooting the picture. “The bast theeng about theese peecture is she wears one dress that cost $9,” Ratoff exclaimed. “Only it costs $72 because she has to have eight copies of the same dress. Theese little girl is only five years out of Ireland. Dolling, when I test you for the part, before the minute was oyer, ‘what did I tell you?” Mi8s Smith batted the loveliest blue eyes I've seen in a long time and indicated that Ratoff had said she was the one. “And the minute was not yet.” Ratoff howled. “Connie,” he addressed her, “are you watching in this town your diet?” Miss Smith jumped up to display a slender waist, “How thin can I get? I've lost three more pounds.” ‘Ve had a line in the screept where the taxi driver says, “Lewk how skeeney you are, I took one lewk at her in California and cut the line out. Now I poot eet back en.” 1 > > & I ASKED Miss Smith whether she’d known Mr. Ratoff when he owned a racing stable—and when he purportedly lectured the horses on how to win races, When they didn’t heed his lesson,
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 2—The Veterans Admin-
{stration promptly leaped off the hook on charges
that it turned a mad killer named Bayard Peakes loose when he was a proven psychopath and unfit to manage his affairs, because there is no provision under the law for the detention of discharged veterans with dan- J gerous bats in their belfries. § 7 Yet Peakes was diagnosably in- Je sane at the time of his discharge, and received a partial sion. It this loophole in- the law of legal confinement has always applied, then the VA has shirked a responsibility to its CHS veterans that is even more shocking in many respects than a refusal to care for a man who has been physically ’ maimed in the service of his country. A man draws post-war hospitalization for service-in-curred nhysical injury. And it makes no difference if the seeds of the injury were sown before the man was taken into
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BUT THERE were thousands’ of discharges for mental reasons, and there was wartime hospitalization for men with service-developed insanities. The transport on which I once gerved in the last war had a large mental ward, which was generally crammed on return trips with boys who had slipped.a mental cog. On my ship at least, a good percentage of those returned could be classified as both violent and dangerous. Some of these men, like Peakes, had histories of mental disorder before they really stepped off the orinciple of insanity, but they were nonetheless charges of the government, because they had been accepted by the government as competent to fight a war. Whether they were potential mental
' cases or not, if their state had achieved a serious-
ness sufficient to warrant a discharge, they were entitled to post-war care and careful supervision. The difference between a soldier with physical disability, who qualifibs for care, and the soldier with a mental disability, in which the WA says he does not qualify for post-war care, is that the physically wounded man is not nearly so apt to go coursing arpund killing strangers over real or fancied injustice.’
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THERE IS NO telling how many crimes of sudden violence, committed since the war, might
have been averted by careful diagnosis on dis-.
charge and a commitment to an: institution, Even some sort of follow-up on the patients after“discharge might have cut the incidence. :
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Ratoff Unmixes Some English
so the story goes, he jumped up and galloped down the track, showing them how to do it. “Palsy, you know I never do that,” said Ratoff, “But I did own two of the wawrest hawrses in de wawrld. i uy them from Jack Whitney and Wanderbilt. ~
“They feenish the race next week after the other hawrses come in today. Finally F says to Jack Whitney, ‘Jack, take dot hawrse back, for God’s sake.’ : “He says, ‘I take it back if you give me $1500.’ “So I-give him $1500 just to take the hawrse back!” ; “What do you think of Marilyn Monroe?” I asked. . “I'played with Mawnroe in ‘All About Eve,” he said. “What did you think of her?” “Den I thought of her nawthing. Now she’s a great octress. She goes every day to study acting. Even in “Taxi” we got a sensational gag about her.” Gregory lewked at the press agent and asked
"if a Marilyn Monroe picture isn’t opening soon.
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MR. RATOFF then gave me a lecture on eating caviar, which .I didn’t need, as I don’t like it much. = “Palsy,” he said, “Americans eat it all wrong. Weeth oniogs! Dot's like*you have a beautiful peecture, a Rembrandt. You hire somebody for $8 a day to paint it and feex it op better. Dot's what is putting onions on caviar.” Mrs. Ratoff had been sitting there quietly. Now suddenly somebody brought her a box of roses which she opened. She handed one to each of us, and we put them in our lapels. “I call your. attention,” roared Ratoff, “that evervhody gets one but me.” - “But you already have one,” we said. He looked down at his lapel in astonishment, trying to remember when it was earlier in the day that somebody had given him a white flower for his lapel. He had an answer, anyway. “Yes, but that’s my own,” he said.
‘More Action Needed On Mental Cases’
Judge Saul Streit of New York was understandably bitter in his castigation of the VA for its failure to make an effort to treat Peakes, whose files show repeated reports labeling him as dangerously insane. * y ¢ His senseless murder of an innocent girl was merely. the final fruition of a tendency toward aimless violence which seems to have been present.in the man since his adolescence.
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JUDGE STREIT, one of the more practical jurists, also took a sweeping crack at civilian administration of mental cases, by which men of deep-rooted violent tendencies are blithely pronounced cured and turned loose to chop up the first innocent who crosses their warped mental path. Judge Streit claims that. no institution is justified in discharging a patient with a tendency toward violence. without exhaustive psychiatric tests and a final court action. , The judge's stern summaticn is happily put. It has been a quiet claim of mine for quite a few years that the death of one innocent, the unhappiness of one innocent’s heirs, is worth more than the inconvenience and unhappiness of one permanently incarcerated mental case with the potential of killing in him. : In case of doubt, the odds should favor the vietim over the culprit, and the only answer {is to lock 'em away. Treat ’em kindly, but shut ‘em up, where the temptation to rape and slap and pervert is minimized by the presence of bars.
Dishing the Dirt
By Marguerite Smith
Q—Hydrangea trouble. My hydrangea loses the color of its foliage, gets nearly white in some places. Then, too, when Z o'clock comes and the sun shines on it, it just wiits down so badly it looks like it never will come out of it. Mrs. C. B. A—Your hydrangea Is apparently suffering from too much sunshine on too tender leaf growth, Give it plenty of water. That is one thing hydrangeas demand. This mid-day wilting you often see even on such tough plants as cabbage. [t is specially noticeable on many kinds of plants when hot bright sunkhine follows a period of damp rainy weather:that has encouraged rapid
. growth, It simply means the leaves haven't had a chance tn get used to hot sunshine as they grew. |
So it's nothing to worry about. If the loss of color leaves pale vellow areas in the foliage, then use some aluminum sulfate around your plant. This produces a chemical change in the soil that will" restore normal green color. If you're an experimenter, try spraying the leaves with a fertilizer
solution (it must be one suitable for this type of
application) for. quick results.
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By LLOYD B. WALTON JOHN FLICK and his wife Eleanor are back home again—nursing their saddle sores—after a 51% day, 210 mile “jaunt” on horseback to visit relatives in Kalamazoo, Mich. The modern “Pony Express” riders. made the trip on their vacation because they had “always wanted to take a long trip” on their Western paint ponies. “We're fairly new riders,” said Eleanor. "We've been riding only about two years. And this is the first time we ever tried going more than 15 or 20 miles at one time.” “I will say it was the most unusual vacation trip we ever took,” she continued. “And I might add it was also the most relaxing.” Sia John, who is an Indianapoli§ surgeon, has cousins, Mr. an Mrs. Forrest Bresson, living in Kalamazoo. He goes to visit them at least once a year.
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MARKSMAN—Robert Gray Irvington Ave., gets instructions Laughlin in proper handling of -the service revolver. Mr, Gray is one of 64 Hoosier men comtraining school. at
pleting the annual State Police Indiana University. =
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DESTINATION—Eleanor ‘and John Flick are met at the front door
by Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Bresson.
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FIRST NIGHT, OUT—Eleanor (left) with MrTand Mrs.‘ Joe!
Leeman at! Strawtown.
like to ride the horses up to Kalamazoo,” Eleanor laughed. “The idea just grew and grew until we decided to go ahead and do it.”
Their equipment and supplies for the trip were cut to a minimum to keep from weighting the horses down. Toilet articles—including John's electric razor—were included with flashlights and mosquito repellant in the bedrolls fastened behind their saddles. ‘It was pouring down rain when we started,” Eleanor reminisced, ‘But John =aid, “This is the day we planned to start—''Let's go.” “We liked riding in the rain much better than in the hot sun we had the last few days of the. trip,” Eleanor added.
The route they followed took them up the Allisonville Rd. (Ind. 37) to Elwood, then through Wabash, Silver Lake, Gorghen and north to Kal#mazoo. ” a o “WE JUST met the most wonderful people on the whole trip,” Eleanor said. “I think that was the part that im-
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The most distance they covered in one day was 50 miles. “We stopped to get a bite to eat in a little restaurant at Road 100 and the Allisonville R4,” Eleanor said. “And we met some people "ho were friends of some friends of ours. They were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Leeman of Arcadia. “They liked to ride, too, and sald that when they got home they would get on their horses and ride down to meet us, We met them at Strawtown and went on up to their house to stay the first night. “One thing -that had been bothering us,” Eleanor went on, “was wondering what we would do if one of the horses slipped a shoe. The Leemans told us the name of a blacksmith in Swazee. “It was lucky they did, because John's horse slipped a shoe when we were 10 miles from Swazee. John got off and led the horse most of the way into town." That’ second night they slept on the floor in the shop
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JUDO TRAINING—Part of the potential rookié troopers look on as Paul Tanger, La Porte, demonstrates the procedure for taking a blackjack from an adversary. The "victim" is Alexander Sitko,
Ave. »The men. will graduate Aug. 9 after seven weeks of intensive schooling. .- ~~ - : .
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LONG |TRAIL—Saddle’sore*and weary," the "horsemen" ‘approach Kalamazoo.
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. “And we were so tired we didn't have a bit of trouble sleeping,” John said. n un n THE FIRST two of the 51; days of the trip were cool enough to trot the horses. Then the sun came out hot and they had to hold to a walk. The Flicks held to a schedule of 50 minutes riding, then getting off and walking for 10 minutes. Most of their stops were to buy oats from farmers and to water the horses— "and ourselves, too,” Fleanor laughed. Now. the vacation is over, and the Flicks have returned to their 5-acre. “farm” north of Clermont on the Tansel Rd.
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They are busy breaking a 9-day-old bay colt, “Trinket,” to the halter while they discuss the fun they had on the long trip. “Trinket’'s got mule ears just like her mother,” John said as he led her around the pasture. ‘““That’'s the one feature of the mother I didn't like, and she (Trinket) would have to inherit it.” Trinket replied to this with a shrill whinny which was echoed by her mother, Pasha,”
tethered to an apple tree in the pasture. : John and Eleanor both
smiled and rubbed Trinket's eards—mavyhe someday she'll be going with them on vacations,
LIVE SAYING—Trooper Charles Harbison, Putnamville Post, supervises M. J. Wilfing, South" Bend, in the latest approved method of artificial Besides first’ aid training, the men - have taken driving lessons and ied police. operation procedure, : \
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