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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

CLYDE HALL, cigarman at Hook's, Meridian and Washington Sts., gave a neophyte handler of old currency a lesson yesterday.

It all began when a nosey lad wandered into the Circle Stamp & Coin Shop to chat with Dr. E. A. Goll, a dentist most of the week and a coin and stamp dealer on his day off.

Mrs. Goll gives the best explanation of how her husband happens to own the shop: “During college and in later years he collected so many Stamps and coins he had to buy a store to handle them.”

A good talker, Dr. Goll soon had the visitor bug-eyed. One of his interesting coins is an 1883 gold-plated nickel with which carpetbaggers made hay in the South during the Reconstruction. : SBN THE GOVERNMENT failed to put the word cents after the Roman V. It took a sharp eye,

still does, to distinguish the phony nickel from a $5 gold piece.

“A guy could have some fun with that, couldn't he?” asked the customer, “I wouldn't advise having fun with the nickel,” said Dr. Goll, “but I have a paper certificate valued at 25 cents that you could peddle and see what happens.” o

Sold American, for 35 cents. The certificate is & second series of the fifth issue printed in 1874 and still good. A picture of Robert J. Walker, secretary-treasurer of the United States in 1845. Is on the note which is about one-fourth the size of a dollar bill.

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OPERATION Consterfation was next: First stop, Clyde Hall's: stand at Hook's. A pack of

cigarets was ordered and the note was pushed across the glass.

Mr, Hall examined the nofe. Was“the fun going to begin? No. Mr. Hall began to make change after deposting a silver quarter in the register. ? He's a coin collector, He had never seen a

quarter certificate before. He would give a dollar for one in better condition.

Mrs. Lula Hill, tobacco lady, examined the hote and wanted one. Fresh out. Besides, I can't afford to lose 10 cents on a quarter. Money

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13—Betty Henderson's mother, who'll be 100 next month, has renewed a five-year newspaper subscription. (We hope she gets ‘em all) . . . The Frederick Vanderbilt - Fields are heading for “Splitsville” . . . Movie exec. Charles Simonelli was at Majors Cabin Restaurant with actress Betty Lynn . . . Actor Stefan Schnabel is recovering from a painful fall. Lionel Hampton’s been asked by Chicago publisher Charles Browning to write a bouncy campaign song for Stevenson ..., The Max (Village Vanguard) Gordons had a Tittle girl .. . Visitors back from Rome say Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's top Commie, will shortly be called to Moscow to take the “Kremlin Kure.” > NS THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.... Four top magazines already are after the ex-Mrs. Stevenson to do an “I Remember Adlai” type of series. She says Nope ... Aly Khan's been sending telegrams to Yvonne De Carlo, signing them

in their private code. . . Robert Alda’s giving out-of-town auditions for prospective backers of his musical, “Herald Square.” He may try the Borscht Belt next , .. Mrs. Keenan Wynn and construction heir Travis Kleefeld are on the edge of the ledge . . . The

mother of a much-publicized playboy has ordered ~

him to forget his latest showgal-pal and come home—or no mo’ dough . . . Bernice Parks, the lovely singer, stars in the show at the Versailles. : oadhb GEO. JESSEL SEEMS a natural for next ambassador to Israel. 4 « , Telecaster Happy

Americana

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 13—The one jump in living costs which has failed to greatly annoy me has been the allowed rise in cab rates, which had remained static for a long time, If one can be allowed an admiration of a class, I am a cab-

driver fan. I also trust them. These daily pieces have been going down to the paper by cab for the last seven years, and I long since quit taking down the license numbers. In all this time I've never had a cab driver accept my money and fail to deliver the stuff. So Bb 1 HAVE heard a lot about 7 rude cab drivers and surly 2; hackers who fail to thank you z for a tip or who are insulting “117% when no tip is offered. I haven't met ‘em—many of them, anyhow. It is easy to deal with the occasignal one who takes your quarter tip as his dite, with no thank you. You just get out on the right side of the cab and leave the door open. This makes it necessary for the driver to get out of the front seat, walk all the way around the cab, walk all the way back and reenter his hack. This ties up traffic. This causes horns to blow and raises rude remarks from other drivers and a dressing down from the cop if one is handy. It also improves the future politeness of the guilty one. What I have never been able to understand is how hackers keep their sanity in a big towa Driving in New York is like visiting the dentist for a 12-hour stretch, six days a week. And hearIng the same cracks about the weather from a double dozen fares a day would tie me in a strait-

jacket in a fortnight. - oh o>

BUT THESE GUYS seem to hang onto their tempers and their sanity pretty well, and most of the ones I meet seem to have been pushing a hack for 20 years or so and largely enjoying {t. A lot of them write and draw pictures and fiddle with other hobbies in their spare time. As a class they are probably less boring than doctors or lawyers or.debutantes, and I seldom,

run across the wise-guy ones or the chain-talk-ing ones you're always hearing about.

The only other class I know of that compares favorably in the mass is bartenders, a vastly under-respected guild of true artists who take more punishment at their trade than even the hackers. The hacker can sit; the barkeep has to stand. The hacker changes fares every few minutes; the bartender is stuck with the bore for “hours, and finally either must throw him out personally or have kim heaved, > :

THE SCINTILLATING conversation that comes from the drunk is a ‘horrid thing after vou'v PAT OV / ;

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Tr . ‘New Handler of Old ETT Money G et s Lesson

changers lose their shirts that way. keep mine. : sd PVT TED CLEMENTS, according to the “wide awake” fire-fighters at headquarters, has a peculiar habit of snapping his fingers when he sleeps. And it isn't with one hand. Ted uses both. Turn him on his stomach and he stops. Better than snoring, his buddies admit. sade a a THANKS for the title: Paul Moran, secretary to L. H. Hall, superintendent of Armour’s here, sent in a Chicago Herald-American clipping on champion checker-uppers, E. V. Durling mentioned that Milwaukee had more statisticians than any other city in the country but still didn’t have the champion. “That title,” he said, “is held by Ed Sovola, Indianapolis Times columnist.” Who has the crown and when do I get crowned? a . JIM SMITH, the Standard Oil dealer at Central Ave. and Fall Creek Pkwy., hit the jackpot on his fishing trip in Minnesota. First strike got him a six-pound northern pike in the Kawishiwi River. Then the big ones began to hit. Smashed 20 much tackle Jim had to buy more to go on fishing.

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DR. HERMAN L. SHIBLER, superintendent of public schools, rang the preliminary bell this week for the coming school year, By letter, he informed elementary first-year principals they are to meet Thursday, Aug. 28. The 150 new teachers meet on the same date. Other teachers and principals report for duty at 9 a, m. Tuesday, Sept. 2. Psssst — kids, bright and early Wednesday, Sept. 3, teacher will have a few words of greeting. oon OUTDOOR grili note: You folks who still use paper and kindling to start your charcoal, give a listen. Ever hear of Charcoal Lite? It's a fluid and it works like a charm. Pour over charcoal lightly and in the best Boy Scout tradition use one match to light. - i

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VISITOR'S comment: “Street signs in Indianapolis,” says Rav 1. Hollenbeck, branch supervisor for Pitman-Moore in Kansas City, “sure can be improved. You can't see half of them.”

100-Year-0ld Woman Renews Subscription

Felton's hunting an answer to this: At what major league park is a monkey buried under home plate—and why? Denise Darcel gets $2000-a-wk. plus 50% when She was” just cast in “Dangerous When Wet,” the Esther Williams film, Loraine Cooper, the stripteaser, found when she got to England that Errol Flynn didn't want to-see her afterall. Is Gov. Stevenson coy becayse he fears HST’s indorsement might hurt? EARL’S PEARLS... Marie Windsor heard about a new school of psychiatry called ° “Psychoceramics.” They. use it to treat crackpots.

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Someone asked Joe Warner if a much-married actress’ latest wedding was per-

manent. “I doubt it,” he said. “It's probably just a summer replacement.”

oo oo Ng WISH FD SAID THAT: “A political convention,” says Jolly Cholly, “Is where some politicians put their heads together and block out the future.” Isn't Jane Wyman burdened by a torcn since ex-husband Ronald Reagan remarried? . . . Singer

Carmen Torres is expected at Park East Hospital soon for a tonsilectomy . . . That's Earl, brother.

Miss Windsor

Pity the Poor Cabbie, He of Honking Horns

own, and at the same time is supposed to be vitally interested in every detail of the customer's pretty problems. A permanent bartender in a joint that attracts a steady clientele must hear the same stale jokes a thousand times a year, and he is supposed to laugh. While staying sober at his trade he must forcibly make himself agreeable to a dozen different brands and stages of intoxication, from the my-wife-hates-me kind to the take-on-any-man-in-the house type. If peacemakers are .blessed, bartenders will enjoy special rewards in heavens, because they must avert a dozen battles a day. If the meek are blessed, the bartenders are home in that department, too, because they practice docility on sore feet when they have the same tax problems, woman problems and money problems of the customer, plus the problem of the customers’ problems. ; I AM NOT an infrequenter of places where babbling broth is served, and in 20 years I have met only one rude bartender. He was not in business very long. Both hacking and tending saloon are not supposed to be gentle occupations, but I would hazard the guess people who patronize cabs and saloons meet more gentlemen operating cabs and saloons then the people who operate cabs and saloons meet among their patrons.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—TI have a rubber plant that will soon reach the ceiling. IT have heard you can cut out the top and get a start of another plant. Could you advise me as to how this should be done? O, D. Switzer, 1772 Brookside Ave. A—Yes, you can, This is quite easily done by the process called air-layering. You simply coax the plant to make roots in the air at any point you choose. Here's how. Cut a small notch in the stem

where you want roots to grow. Don't cut so-deep-

the plant can’t hold its head up. Wrap around the notched portion of the stem a handful or so

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

of moist sphagnum moss. You get this at a garden store, Or you may have some on hand if you save the stuff that comes around nursery stock roots you've recéived in the mail. Be sure to tuck a little into the notch so that plant can’t heal itself together. Tie the sphagnum loosely around the plant. Then, if you want to tr - the very newest idea in air-layering, wrap some polyethylene plastic (used for wrapping foods for deep-freeze) around the sphagnum. Tie each end tight shut. This plastic, plantsmen have found, lets necessary air through but keeps water vapor in. If you use other material you'll have to watch sphagnum soit doesn’ -

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and pot up your new plant.

The Indianapolis

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1952

NO MORE ‘FIGHTING ON THE BEACHES'—

Plight Of Great Britain Today May Be Churchill's Last Stan

By CHARLES R. HARGROVE 9

J ONDON, Aug. 13—

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the laading grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never

surrender. . ..

THAT classic of defiance Winston Churchill threw at the triumphant German armies June 4, 1940, just after they had overrun Western Europe, forced the English out of Dunkirk, and were poised for what looked like an

invasion of crippled, faltering

| England itself.

That was 12 years and a world war ago. Since then England surely has suffered and continues to suffer almost as much as if she had been forced to fight the Germans on her beaches and in her streets, “The other day the same Winston Churchill, again prime minister, still tough and doughty at times, but now 77 vears old, made a characteristic battling speech about the perils besetting England from within and without. To which a middle-class woman shopper replied: “So he's after ‘fighting on the beaches’ again. Well, we don’t want any more of that.” And comment in his own party as well as the Labor Party was hardly more flattering. » n » SOME THINK this may well be Mr. Churchill's last beach.’ The point here is one that will come as a shock to many Americans—the old fighter who led Britain to military victory in the greatest peril she ever faced is by no means the peacetime hero he was in war. Britain is burdened by many ills at the moment and if Mr. Churchill has not caused them, which of course he hasn't, he and his Conservative government have done little to alleviate them in the less than

One simple fact is that Mr. Churchill is getting old and he shows it. He doesn’t hear well anymore, he is forded to rest more and work less, he can't concentrate for long periods the way he used to. Londoners don’t see the familiar hunched figure on the streets much anymore. He was never long on economics and during World War II could dodge their tedium in the interest of getting the military job done, never mind the cost. But money and goods—or rather, the lack of them—are England's great problem today

STILL TOUGH AND DOUGHTY at times—but also visibly gating old—this is how Winston

- Churchill looks today in closeup and as Londoners see him, less frequent

and many feel for this reason

. Mr. Churchill is not the man a-year:-they -have-been-in-power; ps cosy

Tor the job.

» o ” . THERE IS even pressure now, both. fram elements of hig own Conservative Party as well as from the Laborites, that he either retire or turn over some of the important reins of government to younger men. But what to do with an old hero is by no means the most serious of England's problems. There are several, and they are involved, but probably the most important is figuring out how to keep from going, literally, bankrupt. In a desperate effort to make ends meet, Britain has increased

RITA HAYWORTH STORY—

The Star Wanted To Be With Aly

By ALINE MOSBY

United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13— Rita Hayworth is carrying a torch for her handsome Prince, but they won't reconcile because she knows their life together would make her unhappy, her friends said today. The dashing son of a Caliph is due to arrive in the cinema city Thursday for his first visit since he whisked the redhaired star off on a round-the-world courtship nearly four years ago.

Last trip, her “yes” transported the Brooklyn-born dancer to a headlined marriage May 27, 1949, and a baby seven months later,

This time she'll say “no” friends say, because she knows ‘physical love isn’t enough to hold a marriage together. “When Rita returned to Hollywood alone a year ago last June she was sad and quiet,” one of her closest friends says. “She was hurt-—not so much for anything he had done, but

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she’s carrying a torch for him. But she knows any relationship is impossible. When she started work on her comeback

RIDE THE WILD HORSES—No. 3

Gambling Instinct Part

By J. WALLACE HAMILTON

Let us not rend it but cast lots for it... John 19:24,

YOU CAN never destroy the gambling instinct in man without destroying the soul of man, for the instinct is a part of the original greatness of our being. “God has endowed our human nature with a bit of the same infinite dignity He possesses in Himself, He has set man down in a world of uncerthinty, with the future hid. It is a world in which he must walk day by day in great uncertainty, never knowing what the next day may bring forth. He must take risks to live. Or, as the Bible puts it, where he must live by faith. Like it or not, a man must live by faith. He plants his crops by faith, He takes his mate in marriage by faith. He makes his investments in faith. If he will not risk he will nof live.

» » ” . HAVE YOU READ in eleventh chapter —of —

‘s—triumph’ but its tragedy. =

This is the third chapter of a series from the book, “Ride the

Wild Horses!” recently published by Fleming H. Revell Co. The “wild horses” of the

title are the untamed Impulses of our nature,

Epistle to the Hebrews of how God smiles on the quality of adventurous faith in men?

The Hebrew heroes listed there—were gamblers. — They risked greatly. They lived by

faith, By faith Abraham went

out, not knowing whither he went; he took a chance with God.

By faith Moses chose to idéntify himself with the uncertain struggle for the Israelites’ liberty rather than settle down in comfort in Egypt. These and the rest of them lived by faith. None of them was really great, with the single exception of Moses. They were ordinary folks taking a risk with God. ou n n IN THE LIGHT of our day, this gets us into something rather digturbing. The security our age is seeking, may in the long run turn out to be not its

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The old fighter who led England to victory in her greatest peril Is not the hero now he was in war. Here's the first of two dispatches in the dramatic story of what may well be ‘Winston Churchill's last stand. It's an on-the-spot report of a nation that ate the meat of 053,000 horses last year—and now finds itself eating crow.

her exports to other countries by 74 per cent over the prewar level, At the same time her imports are only about 26 per cent higher. i Her plight becomes further apparent when it is realized that, with 3350 people per square mile as compared with 50 in the United States, Britain grows no cotton, rubber, or jute, produces no oil, imports nearly all its copper, four-fifths of its wool and softwoods, and half its food and iron ore. And the experts say that with the one exception of coal, Britain has little. hope of producing more food or raw materials.

movie, she perked up. In a few months she should be over her broken heart, and able to turn to someone else for love.” Last week Rita indicated she never intends to go back to being Princess Margarita. She renewed the lease on her hilltop home for another year. “She's now a serious, purposeful woman with a sense of responsibility and direction,” the friend says. “She's a woman past 30. trying to rediscover her values in life.” Rita had a handsome Prince, a fortune and life among the elite and titled. But like many a woman, she grew up to dis-

cover that what she thought was happiness and security wasn’t.

What happened in the royal love nest to break up one of the century's most publicized marriages? For one thing, the one-time Spanish dancer found it difficult to be a princess. n a un FRIENDS WHO their chateau on the French Riviera reported ‘she looked “scared” at entertaining big-

VISITED

A civilization that devotes its major energies to taking the risks out of life and reducing it to comfort and convenience cannot be Christian and cannot long be civilization, Caution is an admirable quality up to a certain point. A decent measure of it must be granted to every man to keep him from being trampled under. But beware of caution when it becomes a watchword, and of security when it becomes the goal of life, Man was made for high adventure. “Without adventure,” says Dr. Whitehead, ‘“civilization is in full decay.” Here is a curious thing: How does it happen that an age whose dominant search is for security is also an age in which gambling is at an all-time high? According to the pollsters, 70 million of our people gamble. ” » » “AMERICA,” says a national magazine, “is on ts worst gambling spree in history; the cost of it is in billions, more than the nation spends on education,

medical care and all. its churches put together.” WHy? is—spiritua

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WORLD WAR II cost England about one-quarter of its

total wealth. To pay her way in the. early days of World War II, before lend<dease, she was forced to liquidate her salable overseas assets including $4 billion in American securities. But the then mighty Churchill, at his best in war, was there to lead them and his spirit raised the spirits of the people. Translated into simple terms, Britain's situation amounts to this: Before the war the rest of the world owed every man, woman and child in Britain 100 pounds. Today it’s almost vice versa — every person in

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wigs and Moslem potentates. She is a simple, modest person who felt ill at ease being a hostess. The 14 guest rooms at their chateau usually were filled, and Aly 1s the type who often brought 60 home to dinner. “Rita, like most American

England owes the world nearly 100 pounds. British currency became erratic a few years ago and had to be put in a strait jacket, more and more of what Britain produced had to be sold for export to pay the bills, and as a result the standard of living at home became poorer and poorer,

The British pound before the war was worth $4.89. Ten years later it was worth $4.03. One year later it was $3.68, and the. following year $2.80. There was talk recently of reducing it still further to about $2.50 or less. ~ » 5

AN INDEX by Mr. Churchill's own Conservative government shows the cost of living rose 6 per cent in the first nine months of its current administration. Wages rose, too, but not enough to stem a tide of workers’ demands for more money. And still higher prices are in sight, The government has announced it will cut its subsidies of certain foods by about onehalf and cut down on the supplies of foods it does not sub-

. 8ldize. That means higher prices

to the consumer. Automobile m a nu facturers soon will deliver to the home market only one car where they delivered two before. And it's to be much the same for bicycles, radios, washing machines, and similar items, - » -

THERE WILL PROBABLY be even less tobacco available to Britishers. They import jte—a large amount from this country —and they're cutting down on imports generally. Controls of all kinds are many and varied. They cover the prices of all essential goods and their distribution, especially raw materials. They-cover-imports-and-ex-ports of both goods and

money and even the move-

ments of the British people. For no one can take more than 25 British pounds a year out of the country for any purpose except strictly business purposes. You can't travel far on that. The controls cover even the distribution of profits by companies — they are allowed to pay only moderate dividends. All this is tough for all but the lower income groups. And even Churchillian rhetoric can't make it less so.

women, expects some privacy in her home, and some time with her husband and children,” the friend says. Rita herself recently remarked, ‘He can't help the way he is. That's how he's always lived. I happen to like to be alone with my family.” Aly Khan has been described as leading a “fantastically active life of entertaining and traveling, flitting from one

chateau to another, incorrigibly gay, charming, unpunctual, quixotic, irresponsible. a crazy fool with cars and planes.” “Rita realized it would be impossible: to bring up her children normally in such surroundings,” a friend says. “His business required him to jump from Africa to Paris to London and back again.” The handsome Prince also had a habit of not coming home for dinner now and then, It was that after-hours life, friends say, that finally drove Rita to announce she would seek a divorce.

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starvation. It is not at all surprising to those who understand the spiritual nature of man and

what Jesus taught about the man who could not have a vacuum where his soul shonld

be. When a house stands empty something gets in -— usually rats. When men will not be greatly good, they will be greatly evil. (Gambling is the perversion of a mighty instinct that must find an outlet somewhere, if not on the high level of achievement, then somewhere, You simply cannot kill an instinct; it will find its fulfillment somewhere. The sin of gambling is not that man, through love of excitement or through the desire to get something for nothing, should rob other men. The sin of gambling is that men should take this God-given instinct of adventure and waste it on petty issues, demoralizing themselves and society by the perversion of a power meant to mold the world into better form and to lift little men into greatness. n ” ” WANTED — Great gamblers, Wanted, people ready to risk

something on the possibility

that this world was made by God and designed to be run by

Him, as Christ revealed the design. Donald Hankey said that “religion is betting your life

that there is God.” Betting your life, standing up in the midst of the crookedness and saying, “I

believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of héaven and

“earth” — risking something on

the possibility that the world was made for righteousness. This, and nothing less, is what God asks of us. How much now we need a leadership that will lel, the truth and talk straight, not about what is expedient or even what is advantageous to American interests, but about what is everlastingly right; call our

‘ people to a crusade for it, and

pledge America to the defense of it, so that all nations will be convinced that we mean it. We need men who will ignore the consequences, tell the truth, and take a long chance. with God. :

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