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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola :

MOVIE STARS have the same outlook on ! breakfast as the rest of us. They like ‘em quiet. As we all know, sometimes it's impossible, Yesterday, in the Marott Hotel, at the awful hour of 8 a: m. actors and actresses, movie producers and distributors, theater managers, Gov. Bchricker and Mayor Clark, stabbed at scrambled eggs because it's “Movietime, U. 8. A.” in Indiana. For a week sons and daughters of Hollywood will tour cities and towns throughout Indiana. The idea is to bring the movie capital and its inhabitants closer to the movie-goer. That's .you and me. Audie Murphy, the Texas lad who won more medals in War II than any other man in combat and wound up in Hollywood, worked on breakfast at the table where I made noise with coffee. Unlike Forest Tucker, Rex Allen and Bill Shirley, who acted as if the hour were 4 p. m., Audie acted natural. Made you feel as if you'd like to know the guy better.

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NO REFLECTION on the others, understand. A. m, hustle and chatter just doesn’t strike some people on the funnybone. Even

Anne Bancroft, who plays with Marilyn Monroe in “Don’t Bother to Knock,” didn’t do as much as the coffee did to open the eyelids wider. And Anne was dressed to open eyelids. Anne and Marilyn should make quite a pair in the picture. Audie told of a breakfast a southern friend of his enjoys. Someday he said he might try it. This friend recommends it for a flying start. It consists of a piece of ham an inch thick and covering a large plate, six over-light eggs and a mound of hominy grits over the top, and a tumbler of mountain redeye, proof unknown. Audie's friend says he drinks the redeye, throws the plate and food out the window and he's rarin’ to go until noon. oo B JUST TO BE polite you ask Audie who the striking blond starlet is . . . and her redheaded friend . . . and the guy with the buttoned-down collar and suede shoes all real Hollywoodish, « « «

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 9—The American Medical Association’s Journal is all upset about the effect of television's blood-and-thunder on the moral and mental health of the nation’s young, pointing out that the TV industry walls in sudden death and mayhem as a means of amusing Junior. This is undoubtedly true, but I don’t much believe that the subject matter has much to do with bending the brat's character one way or the other in the majority of cases. The juvenile brain has ever fastened to violence with great eagerness, : It takes quite a few years to raise a child up from a state of raw savagery. They bang each other with sticks and devise intricate tortures for playmate and parents alike. They are uninhibited to a shocking degree and love to push each other -off high places and destroy things wantonly for the fun of it. There are no more horrible tales than some of Mr. Grimm's fairy stories. The old myths on which our operas are built are full of ogres, murders, dragons, intrigues and seductions. A copy of Mr. Bullfinch’'s Mythology reads rougher than the comic books of today. FRE

BUT THE SIN of radio, TV and comic book, as I figure it, is that all are actively guilty of turning children into escapists before they actually have anything to escape from. They have replaced active play to a great respect. Kids today will sit rapt before a TV screen or with an ear glued to a radio when in other, earlier times they might be rampaging around outdoors, playing Cowbhoys-and-Indians ‘and shooting each other with air rifles and arrows. . I recall some years back I asked the spawn of a friend what little boys played these days. “We play the radio,” Hal piped up briskly. He and his brother had never heard of Buffalo Bill or Daniel Boone, but they could somplete every cliche in the huckstér's lexicon of radio purchaser assault. Their devotion to the careers of the various space conquerors and other unlikely heroes of the breakfast-food world was so passionate that their mother has to ration their listening time very severely. I notice that television is used today as a purposeful discipliner by some parents. If Buster eats his oaties and doesn’t cut up the cat, he is allowed to watch the TV. If Buster is bad and won't go to bed—no TV. Other parents have used the one-eyed monster to avoid parental trouble and responsibility. You know the thing— for the Lord's sake, Orville, quit asking mother all those questions and go look at the television, SD ALL CHILDREN DWELL in fanciful realms, and I suspect the furtive readers of penny dreadfuls in my time had their minds steeped in as much written trash as the kids of today. But

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Film Stars Like Quiet Breal.jast

“I don’t kmow. I've seen them some place” Audie answers, politely, quietly, and showing a bit_of embarrassment. If Audie Murphy is what Hollywood is sending out to warm us folks up ‘to the movie industry, we'll buy. He works for a living,“ detests lukewarm coffee, and likes his eggs quiet. Pleasure was all ours, Audie, ded SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Dwight D. Eisenhower should know about some of the troubles 90 of his little helpers, half of whom won't be eligible to vote, are having. . . . Listened to Dick Lugar, president of Young Republican Club of Indianapolis, and Barbara Smith, vice president. Dick attends Denison University and Barbara goes to Northwestern. They had a tale of woe about getting a caravan together and providing Ike followers with over 1000 pounds of confetti. . . . Lydia (Smith College) and Jane (Indiana University) Johnson lost sleep over young Republicans with lusty voices for the caravan. . . . Bobbie Corbitt (she can't vote), young lady in charge of Youth for Eisenhower headquarters, waifed about the lack of hammers. . . « Bobbie is responsible for hammering 600 sticks on “I Like Ike” signs for tonight's affair at the Fieldhouse . . . they like Ike . . . can't vote but they can work. Ira Goodrich, Republican precinct committeeman, made heads turn on Delaware St. for two blocks as he told a listener that Ike is “going to_hit hard . . . he can hit hard” . . Ira deesn’t need a public address system to be heard. C. W. (Mac) Michaelis, proprietor of the Shell Station, 927 N. Pennsylvania St., learned some motorists really need gas when they pull in. The other day he motioned a customer to drive up in line with the pumps . . . the guy's hood was in line with the first pump . . . man shook his head . . . out of gas. Mac pushed the car the necessary five feet . . . sold two gallons of gas. * SD LOTS OF CARDS: Every Saturday for 18 years, except for sickness or vacations, the Otto Dahlstroms, 30 N. Sheridan Ave. have played cards with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fox, 5842 E. Washington St. The men play against the women. Records are kept of the games to avoid arguments. Since January, Mrs. Dahlstrom and Mrs. Fox whipped their husbands 19 times. . . . they lost seven times. Anyone play or know of.anyone playing longer than 18 years? Oh, and stay on friendly terms?

TV Programs Substitute Escapism for Play

we read on the sly, behind the barn or in the attic. And for a good portion of each day we were out in the yard, devising fresh ways to break bones and contract contusions. During these hours we. were providing our own amusement.

Today's little monster is becoming dependent on industry to amuse him. Friend of mine said he took his young ’'uns to the circus and they showed little enthusiasm until a certain act came on. “Oh, goody,” they screamed, clapping lustily. “We've seen that one on Super Circus on the TV.” : > > $ THE MODERN trend of steeping the kid In Space Cadefs and upper-stratospheric nonsense is less healthy, I believe, than the older fare of death and disaster. The utter lack of reality in the interplanetary entertainment keeps the kid bound by dreams and he lives in fuzzy world of rockets and green people with antennae on their ears. There is at least some reality to violence and the child might even decide ‘that murder is naughty. ’ If there is any sin of the entertainment industry, it is the heavy occupation of a child's time with contrived entertainment and concentrated escapism. A kid needs no escape. That is for adults with ulcers, taxes, and small children.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—What causes tuberous begonias to rot off at the top of the ground? Mine are planted on the north side of the house, Mrs. Millard Butcher, Noblesville. A—Too much water on too tight soil and too close planting all will encourage the various organisms that cause rot. Next year try whichever of these suggestions fit your situation. If drainage is bad, raise the begonia bed a few inches above surrounding soil. Be sure there is no drip from eaves onto plants, If soil is tight, prepare a spe-

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

cial mixture for the bed. Be sure it is both porous and contains plenty of plant food. If you use peat moss to loosen soil, you need to be especially careful to add extra plant food. Then space plants at least 12 inches apart so air can circulate freely around them and between plants and house. Never water begonias in the evening. Readers who want pointers on winter storage of tuberous begonias plus hints on culture may send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope to DISHING THE DIRT for The TIMES free leaflet.

Political Reporters Work and Pay on the Campaign Trains

By United Press

campaign trains are getting up

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regular duties. These fares werel/trains of both vice presidential WASHINGTON; Sept. 9 — The pjlled to the. White House. P

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steam. In another couple of Weeks .. ov in that more news been doing considerable travel by

they will be rolling all over the country. What does this cost, an who foots the bills? It costs plenty but not as much as you probably thought. Con-| trary to popular belief the biggest part of the tab usually is picked up not by the candidates or thei

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4 and radio men ordinarily would plane, be aboard. On a presidential cantrain the railroads always expect to carry 100 or more, jnews and radio men. They made ‘up a majority of the 175 passenr Bers on President Truman's 16-

They will continue to travel by air in some cases, when a lot of distance needs to be covered fast and whistle-stopping en 4route isn't believed necessary. For this purpose planes are chartered, newsmen ahoard are billed at the pro-rata cost. Frequently this

political parties but by esp and day swing through 19 states in comes out at about the regular

radio. . President Truman opened the train-riding season 10 days ago with a 2-day whistle-stop trip to Milwaukee,

June, 1948, and paid most of the fare by scheduled plane. approximately - $38,000 bill fares and berths. Even so, the Republican and Democratic National Committees

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The Pennsylvania Railroad don’t get off cheap. In 1948 the Par , billed the 82 passengers aboard GOP spent more than $250,000 on ade of Homes

$10,953.68 for railroad fare and 60 days of train rides for candia place to sleep. Meals and tips dates Thomas E. Dewey and Earl were extra, running an estimated Warren. (This covered food and $15 a day per man. There were expenses as well as fares). Oddly-enough, the railroad bill television and picture men on the for campaign trains for Sen. Nixtrip. The United Press’ bill for its on and Sen. Sparkman will be a reporter, who shared a bedroom, lot bigger-—mile for mile and pas-| was $133.82. Other newsmen paid senger for passenger—than that Eisenhower and Gov.| Stevenson and Mr. Truman.

| This disparity goes back to spe- » a e NH iv mittee footed the bill for the Sal preatment roads give President and his party—totaling made for hauling his private car; about 15 fares ‘and sleeping 2ac- no minimum passenger list is apcommodations. Mr. Truman tra- plied in the charge for his special | and extra fees normally does—in a specially-built private charged.for each car on a special car which the roads haul without train are waived. In 1948, when the President was a candidate, the railroads decided The rest of the passenger ‘list ty give the same deal to his op-! was made up of people like Army ponent. This practice has Ween: Sighal Corps men, Secret Service carried over to ‘this year's eam-| Then, as now, all special| employees ‘who must travel with feés levied against any special | the President as a part of their train were charged against the!

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POLITICAL CROSSROADS—

Henry Clay 1st Here In 1844

By TED KNAP The arrival of Gen. Eisenhower in a campaign plane here today was basically the same as the’ arrival 108 years ago of Henry Clay in a horse-drawn carriage. Just like Gen. Ike, Mr. Clay was a candidate for the

presidency.

Before Mr. Clay's time, most presidential candidates were content to campaign chiefly from their front porches. Then they learned the best way to win voters is to meet and talk to them

in person. Gen. Eisenhower today became the 18th presidential candidate of a major party to campaign in Indianapolis. 8ix of the preceeding 17 were elected. Indianapolis has been the scene of several “firsts” in U. S.-style politicking. Mr. Clay's appearance in Indianapolis marked the first time a presidential candidate made an extensive speaking tour. Indiana then was considered part of the West. » » s JAMES G. BLAINE, who appeared here in 1884, was the first presidential aspirant to use the rear-platform technique. His campaign was the first to be tagged ‘‘whirlwind.” Benjamin Harrison was the first Hoosier to run for the highest office. He campaigned in 1888 from his front porch on Delaware St, and was elected. ‘ The home -town acceptance speech of Wendell Willkie was a “first” of its kind, credited with drawing the greatest crowd in political history. More than 215,000 persons jammed Callaway Park in Elwood that Sunday afternoon in 1940.

1844

Mr. Clay was nominated by the Whigs, predecessors of the Republicans. He made several stops in the Hoosier state, and offered’ one of his famous spellbinder speeches in the capital. A delegation of Whigs met him in Richmond and escorted him to Indianapolis. A newspaper noted. “the entire population turned out to hear him.”

1884

By now the railroad was deep into Indiana and James G. Blaine, Republican, made one of his pioneer rear-platform speeches here. The crowd was

Herbert Hoover . . . 1932.

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large but apathetic, foreshadowing his defeat in November,

1888

This was a landmark year in Hoosier history. Gen. William Henry Harrison (Old Tippecanoe) had died soon after his inauguration as President in 1841. But the former territorial governor of Indiana left a grandson, Benjamin. Gen. Benjamin Harrison became the first, and so far the only, Hoosier to serve as U, 8. President. Party leaders lived in the Harrison home, the nominee greeted visitors in his yard or on the porch, and demonstrations were too numerous to count, The Hoosier general became the nation’s 23d President,

1900

Adlai KE. Stevenson campaigned here. The grandfather of today's Democratic standard bearer was running for Vice President, also on the Democratic ticket. He came to Indianapolis with William Jennings Bryan, colorful candidate for President. A newspaper noted that Mr. Bryan, who liked to call himself “plain people,” was dressed informally that hot Aug. 8 4nd wore a jaunty fedora with top slightly crushed. Mr. Stevenson, on the other hand, was Princetonian in attire. “Mr. Bryan is not nearly so much of a ‘swell’ as his running partner, Mr, Stevenson,” the reporter wrote.

He also noted that Mrs, Bryan, although “exceedingly nice looking, is inclined to plumpness.”

The Bryan-Stevenson ticket lost to William McKinley. Col. Teddy Roosevelt also campaigned here in 1900, but as a candidate for Vice President. He didn’t speak here when he ran for the highest office four

years later. 1908

Mr. Bryan, chief exponent of gilver currency, returned here for another try. On Aug. 25, at the 1908 State Fair, he officially notified John W. Kern of Indianapolis that he had picked him as running mate. A parade of 30 cars went past Mr. Kern's home on N. Pennsylvania St. Mr. Bryan did something unusual for a candidate—he dodged several thousand people waiting at the railroad depot, slipped out at the Capitol Ave, crossing—into the arms of another throng. “Hurrah for Bryan,” shouted one man, throwing his hat in the air. “He's the bully boy that’s going to win.” The enthusiast started forward, according to a newspaper report, but a burly detective grabbed him and saved Mr. Bryan from an embrace. William Howard Taft, his big grin and portly figure popular among Hoosiers, made his own “‘gallop-pace” campaign here and won the election.

1912

This was the year John J. McGraw led the Giants into the World Series and Teddy Roosevelt split the GOP with his Bull Moose Party. Woodrow Wilson, speaking to 20,000 persons at Washington Park, attacked the Taft-Roose-velt split in words that sound much like the Taft-Eisenhower split today.

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Mr. Wilson, now President, returned to campaign for reelection. For -the first time, delegations from all over the country followed him here by automobile. Marking the birth of the motor parade in politics, cars chugged around the Circle, some covered with bunting, others qnly with dust.

Mrs. Wilson wore a gown of very dark blue taffeta, with bands of heavy embroidery on the skirt and bodice. She carried a scarf of black fur over her shoulders. The President spoke at the Coliseum and at Tomlinson Hall. Mr. Wilsons’ GOP rival, Charles Evans Hughes, spoke here the same fall. A thousand women, wearing sashes, marched in the suffrage parade and cheered Mr. Hughes. His Saturday night talk brought “the greatest ovation of his campaign” as Mr. Hughes made charges still familiar today — “Democrats are squandering your money.” He also decried the soup houses in Gary, brought on by unemp'ov-

ment. . 1920

Warren G. Harding, Republican, blasted the Versailles League of Nations. The candidate's off-thé-cuff remarks drew more applause than his prepared speech. At. Tomlinson Hall, a crowd broke through the doors 15 minutes before they were to open. A newspaper reported: “Apparently more stage tickets had been issued than there were seats, As a result, space on the stage was filled within a few minutes. “The demand for stage seats was lessened considerably a short time later when several boards of the false platform cracked and sank a few inches.”

James M. Cox, Democratic candidate, spoke at Tomlinson Hall two weeks later, devoting two hours to defense of the League of Nations. This was the first year election returns came in by (snap, bzzz, cra-a-ack) wireless,

1924

John W. Davis, Democratic rival to President Coolidge, addressed 10,000 at Cadle Tabernacle. He drew biggest applause when he mentioned former President Wilson.

Mr. Davis blasted GOP corruption in government, promised the Democrats would be

honest. 1928

Al Smith, waving his brown derby, made a two-Rour visit and a two-minute outdoor speech. He said he had to save his voice for the-eastern seaboard swing. The New Yorker visited Thomas Taggart in Methodist Hospjtal., Ever since Mr, Bryan's campaign in 1900, Mr, Taggart, former U.S. Senator and national committeeman, + had greeted every Democratic presidential candidate here.

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Wendell Willkie, wife and snowfall all took Indisnapalis by

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1932

Butler Fieldhouse, where Gen. Ike speaks tonight, was first used by a presidential candidate in 1932. Herbert Hoover, campaigning for re-elec-

tion, drew 23,000 into the Fieldhouse and 20,000 more outside,

1936

Franklin D, Roosevelt, who made a triumphant campaign visit here in 1932, returned for a drought conference and more politicking. Uncounted thousands cheered him during a 26-mile parade. He inspected the PWA armory project, visited polio patients at Riley Hospital for Children, and went to the State Fair. Alfred M. Landon arrived on his Sunflower Special for a parade and speeches in Tomlinson Hall and the Fairgrounds Coliseum. A cold and an infected throat bothered him. Feature of the®parade, reportedly witnessed by 200,000, was a herd of elephants.

1940

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surprise nomination. The genial Hoosier stood on the back of a convertible and waved during a 14-mile parade. Two -days later, Mr. Willkie made his acceptance speech in his home town, Elwood. His campaign headquarters were in Rushville, home of his wife, and he visited here often during the

campaign. 1948

Thomas E. Dewey made three

railroad stops here, talked to Republican party leaders and remarked that all polls showed the GOP had a safe margin,. President Truman, stoppin<y here on his cross-country tour;

had his picture taken driving

Harry S. Truman'and friend, 4-year-old Ann Mitchell Sullivan,

past a Dewey poster in front of Republican headquarters. He forgot to introduce Mrs. True man and Margaret to the 75, 000 who heard him at the War Memorial.

William Jennings Bryan . .. 1908.