Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1947 — Page 13
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peding razor blades a law of Illinois. bit¥ riding a jackmiles, and if your rn in Ohio, 1t is. lo set fire to him. polite dogs “and ds are forbidden Boston: The law cannot’ own dogs hes high. rmen, beware! I$ y to catch a whale in Oklahoma, , on the other legal to shoot any (cept: Whales from obile or airplane. TALK HERE Jan Sickle, chaire partment. of eco« h college, will speak As In a Free Soe ..m, tomorrow aj
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1 THINK ENOUGH®has been written encouraging the reading of books. It's abeut—time someone said 8 few ‘words about browsing. Just plain poking your nose in and ‘out of books. You hear plenty of people ask: any good books lately?” How many times do you
“Have you read
Rear: “Have ‘you done any good browsing lately?" Not. many, That's the trouble with us, We either go whole hog or not at all. Now, if you've never Browsed, you are really missing a treat, In some respects, if you are in the mood, browsing .is more fun. than reading a book. By hook, I mean, good hook, of course. . When Earl 8. Blessing, manager of the Capitol Book Store, 206 N. Meridian st, told me there were “about 100,000 books” in the store, I knew my browsing appetite would be satisfied, Where to begin? Another good point about browsIng. You can start anyplace. It's like a big grab bag. “A French Reader” by Smith and Greenleaf. A short course in French coming up. The first story was called “Les Trols Boypais. ” It intrigued me so I read on, “Un homme’ tires pauvre habite avec sa femme une miserable petite maison.”
Lots of Sentences\ | PRETTY GOOD. Checking each word in the vocabulary I.learned it meant “A very poor beggar lived with his wife in a wretched little home.” Just think. If a person lrarned a simple sentence
. Alike that every day for a year, he'd have quite a few
sentences, wouldn't he? ‘How many books have you read lately that enabled you to learn a’ Jine of French? See what I mean about browsing? Enough of the French language. Now to some-
QUIET—BROWSER AHEAD — Have you
done any good browsing lately?
thing else. Ah—"A History of the Commonwealth of
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By Ed Sovola. |
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MONDAY, MARCH, 1947
Kentucky,” by Mann Butler, A; M, The book, leather bound with upturned corners was printed in 1884. ‘Ingidentally, it's a first "issue, which sutomptically| makes it a rare issue, * = Upon opening, I thumbed the pages, Thumbing 4 pages of a rare issue I find is exhilarating, It’s not a good practice, however, Especially 4if the book falls apart. Browsing . immediately takes on a different aspect with the management which can prove embarrassing, hi My thumb practically fell. into page 21—and 292. The reason—a -pressed hollyhock. As crisp and dry as if it were 100 years old. Could- have been, too, since the book was printed in 1834. To a browser, pressed hollyhocks area real find, Since the print was small (I' hate small print), I didn't" ‘bother to read: any of the baok, Instead, I asked ‘myself question§ about the ‘hollyhoek.” Who put it there? A dashing Kentucky colonel? The colonel’s- girl friend who borrowed the book so she could sit in the blue grass and discuss intelligently the history of Kentucky? The answers to the questigns could be ‘mighty interesting: Mighty. | What next? .Monteilli's “Manual of Geography, - printed in 1846. Pretty well beaten up but so is geography, Inside of the cover someone scribbled a j poem. This sort. of thing raises more questions: “For-| § get me not, forget..me never, 'til yon sun sets, for ever, After reading the preface, I scoffed, 1 remember my ‘own school days too well. The preface started out with “Geographiy-has become such a favorite study in our schools, that almost as soon as a child has! learned to read he makes a beginning in this in~| teresting branch.”
Can Prove Embariassing
BOOKS, BOOKS, books, books, I felt like sitting in the middle of a counter and splashing myself with. ° them: This sort. of feeling, no matter how strong,’ § should .be. discouraged. It, too, can prove embarragsing. : “The Return of the Middle Class” by John Cor-| bin. “Europe Since Waterloo.” Nine volumes of “Six | Thousand Years of History. " Five volumes of “The Queens of England.” Ah, I thought, if the aisle were | wider I would turn handsprings. A fat, black book caught my eye. Accountants’ Handbook.” I slammed it with the “Annual Report of the~Smithsonian In-; stitute,” 1945 edition. Nothing I dislike more than a fat handbook—especially on accounting, I walked across the room. I'm glad I did because I ran into “Senator Solomon Spiffledink” by Louis Ladlow, Indiana representative in congress. It's still, a good book even though it was published in 1927. A lot better than “A History of the Corhmonwealth of Kentucky." Take for: example this excerpt from. the of Practical ‘ Political Principles,” prepared for fidential Use of Solomon Spiffledink by his ager, William Jardyne. "“Spiffledink as a friend of the farmer, (¢c)—~When electioneering among farmers in the plowing season ° grab the plow and turn over a few rounds of sod, just as if you had been a_clod-hopper. all your life.” Excellent reading—excellent. But not too much. After all this is browsing day, not. reading day. What do you say we all browse?
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SEEKING RECOGNITION—Fame did not come immediately fe to
LONG DISTANCE—The Bell Telephone System. today celebrates - the inventor. He had to prove to the world that the.instrument was
the 100th birthday .of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor:
practical and workable. Above sketch, printed in Electrical Experi-.
Chili Con Carne
WASHINGTON, like most Missour There are more chili capita, probably,
Truman “got to town speciaily
March 3. ians,
— President Truman, con Kansas City,
is a chili carne man,
parlors in than anywhere else. Last time Mr. some chil (a Missouri chiii chef came
to brew it) he ate three bowls,
In Mexico where he figured he'd get his fill of the real stuff. Mr. Truman will-have to setile for French cooking, unless he likes sauerbraten. Before the war
there wefe some exceilant German® restaurants in
Mexicy City, which suddenly became Swiss:- "But any tourist whe asks for Mexican food in Mexico merely succeeds in start’ing the waiter... Pobre jefe executivo 7 1 know hew if is. TI haven't had a good bowl of chili. since I left Missouri, myself. . There the chili parlor; serving same in large bowls wit oyster crackers on the side. is an institution. Each chili -cook has his ‘own recive; my favorite uses crumpied bayleaves in quantities large enough to shine through
the red pep, er.
Spiced With Pepper A MISSGURI chili maker boils his beans in one vat; his meat with spices and. peppers in another. He keeps red pepper in a salt. shaker on the counter for aficianados with cast iron stomachs. For younger, niore delicate customers he serves chili mac, This is a plate of bdiled “spaghetti, with chili con carne dumped on top. The paste absorbs seme of the flames and keeps an amateur. non-Missouri chili eater -ffom turning in a fire alarm. In a Missouri chili parlor yeu can get. for breakfast fried eggs under a blanket of chill. That gives a man’s digestive apparatus. something to work on - #
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Movie Revolution?
HOLLYWOOD, March 3,—Multilingual movies are going to be the thing in 1950.
the heavens like ducks when But wait until 1950. It's
“Stars fell out. of the movies found a voice. going to be murder.” - The man was five-fooler Max Sherover, president, of the Linguaphone: Institute. of- America. But we are afraid he will have. a discouraging time of it in Hollywood, Max 1s-in movietown in the interests ‘of his lingua-
‘ phone system of languages—the teaching of foreign
languages with phonograph records. And itis Max's contention ‘that by 1950 any star yvho can't speak fluently half a dozen foreign tongues will be through. - “Pini, kaput and konietz,” Max said. “What's konietz,” we gulped. “Konietz,” he said, “is: the Russian word for end. 2 ‘ " “And finished,” he said, “is what all the stars will be in 1950 if they can't speak al’ least 10 languayes for multilingual films. for the, world market, With production seests ising “producers Have to look to ge for. their profits.”
the
Sounds the Alarm WE EELT it our duty to see if we would have any luck in “sounding the alarm in Hollywood , about, multilingual - films. : We tried to.reach Lana Turner. personally for a week, finally got her, and asked if she was worried about “s'il vous plaits” and “lo siento muchos." Lana said: “Not when I wear a sweater!” Paulette Goddard said she had been studying
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of the telephone. Above, in a'photo taken in 1892, Mr. Bell inaugurates the first long-distance service between Chicago and New York. He invented the telephone in 1876.
“menter in 1916, shows Mr, Bell trying out apparatus before public lecture, Early apparstys was clumsy.
By Frederick C. Othman
the rest of the day. Experienced chili eaters like their chili con* carne without the beans. This is essence of red pepper, a hot foot for the topgue, a mustard plaster for the lining of the throat. Anybody who can.eat a bowl without weeping is, ipso facto, a member of the lodge. The piece de resistance of the Missouri chili parlor, however, is chili royal. This dish is so meritorious th at it has spread to the West coast; ‘easterners never have cottoned to it. ! The recipe“ds simple,
Then They Shudder
ON A LARGE platter place which has been dredged in pepper and fried. Over this ladle a cup and a half of hot chili. Sprinkle red pepper on it. Chop a raw white onion on top of] this. Apply more pepper. Dust lightly with powdered ! cheese, Strong men from out state have gquaiied at this dish. Even a' native Missourian seldom can eat it oftener than every other day. The troublic is that when you surround a dish of chili royal, you ‘feel like you'll never be hungry again, Some people. never are. They eat one plate of chili royal and the rest of their lives they nibble at their food, like birds. And when they think of Missouri, they shudder,
a chunk of hamburger,
TALKING BOX Far cry from today's efficients telephone is this wooden box model used in 1877. If: was soon supplanted by other forms of boxes. pe
FIRST APPARATUS — Early models’ of the telophone were erode by today's ‘standards. Above are replicas of magnetic transmitter and receiver exhibited at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876.
We natives do not resent this. We merely pity —— them. As for President Truman eating around at| Farm Co op Seeks 3 Cl ul . 1 , the bass d 1 the - a tr hon oe os, ua) perth rid Richard Opened the Door, Police Fear Burglars ($410, 000 Stock Increase a
white wine sauce and artichokes stuffed with chicken!
breast. Maybe he'll get to cushion his disappoint- Wi | T H g Th K y' hu M il B GREENPIED starch s 3 wing by hitting a Missouri chili parlor on the way i 00, on earin e e S$ in e ai ox’ ! The Hancock County Farm B =
the explained. “Especially after I suatoh the keys out of their mail- Co-operative association is asking forgot my own, key one night. My boxes or there won't be much left stockholders to approve a $410,000° wife's stil] laughing. So we thought inside their mansions some of these, increase in’ the capital stock of the of the mailbox angle. How did I nights. -| corporation. The proposal will be know the coppers would worry?” | “Wherever you . go everybody's Voted on at the annual meeting e But they did. {saying ‘Open the Door, Richard,” the association March 11. “The nation is in the midst oi Mr. Anderson-said. “That's a harm-| The association is seeking to issua an unprecedented crime wave,” said less bit of Tom-foolery which lifts an additional $300,000” in commoR the chief of: police.. “It ‘takes mare everybody's spirits,” = "uy {voting stock, $40,000 in non-voting than police to combat crime. It re<| But “The Key's In the Mailbox” stock and $70,000 in preferred stock, quires vigilance of every member is liable to lift-a lot of loot, he| The association has completed a
By. ALINE MOSBY, United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, March 3.—Now that Richard's pals got that door open by finding the key in the mailbox, the police are afraid every burglar in town will, too : Especially in snooty Beverly Hills, where rich movie stars park the gold-plated keys to their mansions in wrought-iron mailboxes. “It's inviting disaster,” cried Beverly: Hills chief of Police C. C. Anderson, “Every movie home in” EU town is in danger.”
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By Erskine Johnson
French for over a now she will swing into Russian.
I,". said Paulette,
year and -any day
“can. even swear: in French,” “Open the Door, Richard” was making everybody frustrated.
op pie) Boeg Iwo ar bois Sl “The key’s In the mailbox.” Is & = 4, jecause Mr, McVea wasn't of the community.” | complained. Especially if the tune new elevator at Carrolton and plang King,” as Mr Sherover Is- sometimes caljed . by his sequel tune that Bandleader: Jack. getting any peace: And the members of his com-| blankets the country the way “Rich- jie build a new elevator in Greehw oy ees : Me Vea. wrote because he figured his. +1 Just h had to get that door open,’ ‘munity, he shapped, had better ard” “did. field. at
employees. Bogie said: “Utsnay.” -
Not Like Adolescence
JOHN GILBERT'S falsetto when the talkies arrived. was nothing compared to what may happen to Margaret O'Brien or Butch Jenkins when 1950 and multilingual films roll around, according to Mr. | Sherover, We had to agree VR. Margaret and Butch! might survive - adolescence and dental: braces but! never the ability to say: y © “But my daddy's really a good man” in Turkish. We tried to think of June Haver, Ava Gardner, Cornel Wilde,. Laud Bacall and Jan. Parks -as Das. -beens: i ; : “Can they finish a. scene in English. then do the | same scene in French, Russian; Italian, and. Spanish?” Mr. Sherover demanded. “No, emphatically no. - Are the studios going to waste time with stars who can't! switch from one ‘language to eight others as easily | as opera singers?” Mr. Shéfover also whispered that he fount a number of stars on the Columbia lot who Have learned | some Hunggrian words, already from Director Charles Vidor,
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A Trip to the Moon and Back—No. 1: The Rocket Ship Che i
BAML/SEC : LAUNCHING of.
The rockeie ship leaves at midnight!
‘ » . { fo oy ALL ABOARD for. moon! ot : t! o $8 “they are 1 ery nice (ls, - aust Pl oe mi i at this maith Beck to earth in time for alate breakfast!!,Round trip tickets only! This is the first of six sketch-stories adapted from 1 an article Shaust splod the vi lingual revolution in: Hollywood. ‘ Scaffers will kindly remember that Whey are ‘the people who you in the American Journal of Physics,’ “A Trip to ‘the Moon and focket deperids on the magnitude . 5 wie : have laughed at Columbus. a Back,” by Henry ‘A. Erikson, emeritus professor of physics at the escaping mass as well as on
the’ University, of Minnesota. These stories take such a journey out of the realm of fantasy and into scientific - literature, { describing in semi-technical language the problems of mechanics and navigation and the surprising reactions of the rocket ship's .
The moon is within refch.. The. trip ‘will not be made tomorrow, | "but many rocket experts believe it won't be long now. : | | A lot of problems remain—and — : | 'this 16 ‘a: semi-technical discussion THE rocket, ship is a monoplane |
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By Ruth Millett |
of how they ey. be solved, . {of the jet-propulsion type. The, passengers, : : I ———— eo s to. U {housing is of ‘sheet aluminum.alloy, | =, : . . : THE following plan seems 1€-[strong enough fo sustain air ap “pe—— »HERE 1S how one veteran and his wife living in “And since we make an occasion of these. eve- puthor the most feasible because of atmospheric pressure within when axis, the center of mass of the ship second, or about 1 thousand miles cramped quarters with their two small children’ and -Dings, they are really’ as much fun as going out: ihimum ‘bower requirement, [there is a vacuum outside. being also.in the axis. an hour, not havi h { veni together.” us m pe Gd : ‘| Walls have horizontal compari-| For maneuvering purposes there | This assumes an exhaust speed of ving enough money for evenings out: have |stmplicit of navigation and adaptsolved the problem “of “getting away from it all’ S | E t Ho. : y ments. Air in these compartments [are four small jets in the stern, set 2 miles per second, a speed not yet| The p gelling pecia venings a ome ability to the techniques of inodern |axposed to thie sun may ‘be inter- ja right angles to the axis and to [attained but, within -theoreticalineight without going anywhere. THERE is one way a couple with littl money aviation. * [changed with air within the ship by |each other. By means of these four |limils of some ‘of the fuels avails minoi Says the wife: ~“One evening a week 1 fix the for baby-sitters and retaurant. difiners have. solved | A- rocket ship will be used. It means; of a manually drives fan. [ets the axis of the ship ‘may be able.
«hildren an early supper and have them yeady for bed when Jim. gets home.’
fook Favorite Meal
\ “THEN. ‘with the house peaceful and quiet and completely’ ours, ; we cook our favorite, yea. Tomplete. pn wine ‘and candlelight. : SIt's the one nical of the weck ‘when we can talk to the
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An exhaust speed of 3 miles per second, however, would make the trip much less difficult. This speed may be obtaliikble in the Tu
Theére is an extra supply of oxygen, given ang direction, even turned so and air-purifying equipment. ‘that the ship is traveling stern first. The 5.6 tons of fuel and exhaust x Two opposite jets of the four are ‘mass .take up about. 180 cuble feat also. mounted £o that their angles in
the ‘problem of making a place” in “their hurried, must leave the earth, assisted at crowded lives for a little of “the” kind of companion- first by. a cartier plane, and gain ship they had when they-were first married. 'enough velocity to cover thé disIt’ is' a problem that other young couples with, [tance to the -moon in a reasonable
mall childrén, living. in ‘trailers aiid too small apart- period of time and arrive with a lof space: |the plane of the four- jets may he sbieptitte can obtain atomic 4 mefitsimight try. residual. velocity: which will" permit von + changed, thus making it pospibl ‘to pthrough the use of If ‘they can’t manage to go ott together as often a swig. around “the: moon at a THE main power Tot ls~in the gli the ship. {Smal quantities of fis
xis of the ship at thé ste This bil CHET : t jet can increase the speed of . the THE ship ih aves total. sped] 2) nip: only - in the direstion of the Pelegn of: at least -4 miles per!
a8 thoy would like, they can. at least plan some special. height of about 10 miles. . ' "+ evenings “af Home. ‘After *afl, .it" i5,_the Sopris! Then fhe ship must return to the ‘ship hey ‘matfers, no the. going. vil i for a safe Jangige. x Lg !