The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-05
Political Fox That's
City'S New Postmaster
But SeidenStiCker Prefers
to Call Self lust
RhinoceroS.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times STAFF Writer

In the towns political potpourri
they're calling him the FOX" but
he's just a "Rhinoceros" to him
self.
Credited with being a smarty and
creeping slyly into the postmaster
ship of indianapolis, one finds
Adolph Seidensticker, the city'S new
postal head, denying he sought the
office, despite languishing wish of
boyhood to one day become a mail
man, and admitting a kinship to
the ''rhino" in the way he's taking
his new job.
I'm not going to be figure-head
postmaster. I want to know all
there's to know" says the quiet
spoken, f1orid-faced man Of Ger
man ancestry.
L want to go into the mail rooms.
I'm a Democrat in spirit as well as
politics. 1t may take time for me
to get every place but I'll do it,"
declares the one-time secretary OF
the state board of pardons.
mo Secrets" Is Motto
mo secrets. Everythings to be
open and above-board and news
paper men will always receive a well
come" he said.
Some seem to think that being
postmaster will mean as they call 1t
a lot of jobs open That's not true.
Until I familiariZe myself with the
Work-about all I've known about
the postoffice in the past is where
to mail a letter therell be no
transfers or discharges" he asserted
modestly.
Talking to him of his past is like
pulling taffy from stubborn molar.
He may tell of the time he urged,
out of sentiments sake, that the old
Independent Turnverein sell it's
S225, 900 site on the Brevort hotel
ground and move to the present site
of the Hoosier Athletic Club so that
elder members could see how their
investment had grown into a huge
tangible piece of property with a
large treasury.
Left Law Practice
But no boastfulness enters his
conversation. He is what he is. If
he liked sauerkraut and pig
knuckleS for breakfast he'd say so.
He'd say it bashfully, but outright.
In leaving his law practice for a
$1,000 job-it paid $4,000 before the
depresSion-Mr. Seidensticker sliced
his contracts as easily as his secre-
tary clips this to put in his scrap
book.
In his boyhood at old No. 2 school,
Benjamin Harrison, he had the
adoleScent dreams of most youths to
be something that required either
a lot of mechanical skin or foot
work.
Father Was Reporter
But the poStmaster'S ideals ran
to hack-driving and mailman in
steal of engineer and policeman.
He lodged both. A graduate from
Shortridge high school, he went to
the Indiana law school. He hung
his sheepskin and began the prac-
tice of law in the firm of Florea g.
Seidensticker.
And, oddly enough, if it hadn't
been for a newspaper reporter there
would have been no Postmaster Sci
denSticker of Indianapolis.
The reporter was his father. He
came to America in his early life
to report the Indiana constitutional
convention for a German syndicate
of newspapers. He liked the Hoo
sier city. He stayed.
Mediator of Factions
And if the few who call him the
Fox" tire of that pseudonym in
INVITING him, they will admit quickly
that "Peacemaker" will serve in
stead.
The new postmaster is credited
with making it possible for Senator
Van NuyS to obtain a split delega-
ton with Walter Myers, opponent
for the Democratic nomination for
the senatorial post, in Marion
county.
Mr.. Seidensticker is So. He is
married, has three grown children
all married-and lives at 1920 North
Pennsylvania street.
ASK $4,000 DAMAGES