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WHAT GOES ON IN a large office building after Susie slams shut her desk, flips the company correspondence into the mailbox and beats it" for home? Herbert ‘Rennard, manager of the Chamber of Commerce building, said he could give me the answer if I came to his office on the sixth floor about five o'clock some afternbon:
I arrived just in time to meet Mrs. Dawn Foster, ,
supervisor of the 21 maidé who go to work when everyone else goes home, Mr. Rennard smilingly told Mrs. Foster about the question I wanted answered. Mrs. Foster picked up 8 wire hoop with a great many keys attached and told me to follow her. We caught the freight elevator and went to the basement. Twenty-one women were congregated in front of the doors. Each woman had a quart can of liquid soap in her hand. ‘A majority of the mark had a string around their waists from which hung a master key to the offices on the floor where they worked. ' :
~Maids Don’t Waste Any Time
MRS. FOSTER told me I'd be on the ninth floor “run” with-Mrs. Margie Lucas and Mrs, Pearl Goebler. As a matter of fact, I could have my pick of a floor, There were-1l to choose from. But why be fussy? “Ninth floor, please.” . The top floor workers got on. the elevator first. The main floor maids stepped on last. so they could be the first to get off as we went up. No time was wasted. Mrs. Lucas and Mrs, Gaebler stepped off the elevator and immediately unlocked a closet door and hauled out two cardboard wastepaper baskets. The first thing on the program was to empty all office wastepaper baskets, Mrs. Lucas had half of the
. "NINTH FLOOR RUN"—Mrs. Margie Lucas leads the way for .the new "maid" who was curious to know what went on in an office building after 5 o'clock.
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floor and Mrs, Goebler had the other half. Whose | helper was I to be? Quick boy, time was a wastin'. | “Lead the way, Mrs. Lucas” I said. Mrs. Lucas had beer working in the building for 16 years and! I was sure she could show me the ropes. “First we'll empty all ashtrays and wastepape baskets in this box,” Mrs. Lucas said, “and then use the dust mop and dust reg over our oa When we're through with that, we
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we entered the main door of the Travelers Insurance Co. I hadn't had supper and it was getting around | that time. Mrs. Lucas gave me the bad news. The maids| work six and a half hours straight through to half past 11. On to the ashtrays and wastepaper baskets. | You know, some people are awful bad shots when it| comes to throwing paper. We got the paper and | cxssét butts collected in record time. | When we returned to the maids’ closet, Mrs, Fos-| ter was there with two types of dust cloths. One! type was treated with a chemical for wiping glass! top desks and the other was just plain old cloth for | woodwork. I chose to wipe off furniture. Mrs. Leas 3 st she'd use the dust mop and vacuum sweeper, somewhat of a gentleman, I carried our tools ne the first office while she unlocked the door. Man, I dusted until I was blue in the face. tn]: one office I was all set to throw away a bunch of] rocks which cluttered up a desk top but Mrs. Lucas| stopped me. She said nothing on top of a desk was! to be thrown away. Baseboards, chairs, cabinets, tables, hatracks and dictaphones got the treatment. ! We were a great team. I must admit, Mrs. Lucas catight me cutting corners-a couple of times. The “dictaphones and buzzers intrigued me but] Mrs. Lucas cautioned me “not to touch.” “Couldn't I play the big executive forzjust a little bit?” Well, if it isn’t being done, it isn't being done.! Back to the dust rag, chum: One thing I noticed about the desks. You can! tell whether a man or woman occupies a certain desk. | The women will have pictures of men urider the glass| top and men will have pictures of women. “lan’t it funny how that works? By the time we were ready to mop 1 was starving. | Mrs. Lucas said she'd be glad to share her “Twinkie” | with me. Most of the women bring a little something. I told Mrs. Lucas it was kind of her but my stomach was calling for meat and potatoes.
Mopping Isn't Such a Tough Job |
WE JAlLED into the offices with two ‘mops and al : Heke Eticks teed “the soap. mop and I had |
«Complete Ne of the clean water mop. Mopping|
isn't the tough job. It's the moving of furniture that gets you down. You can't get the rug wet, you can’t| splash the walls and you continually have to be care- | fu] of the dictaphones. I hate to brag but I'm pretty good with a mop. | Even Mrs.’ Lucas said so. the effect if I had told her that during the depres: | boy» sion I was on close terms with a mop. Swishing a’ mop made my stomach growl some- | thing terrific. I think even Mrs. Lucas heard it be- | cause she suggested I get something to eat. But I!
office chair. the hall, to give up the mop instead of the ghost. assured me that I did my share. “Do you have a good idea:of what goes on in an office building in the evening?”
Mrs. Lucas helped me carry it out in!
places of historical prominence,
PIONEER HOME—Lanier state memorial buitt-by James F. D. Lanier in 1840-44 | and located 88 miles southeast of Indianapolis in Madison, is a "must on the agenda It would have spoiled of Hoosier vacationists to the southern part of the State.
There was just strength enough in me to nod my Lanier home, now a state memeorial,
head. The next time I go on the “ninth floor run”| Without doubt the Lanier nome is I'm not going to travel on an empty stomach, you can the most sumptuous mansion in that be sure of that. | vicinity and at the time it was built
Red-Faced
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Let use consider the red-faced embarrassment of the United States Steel Co., which has a low opinion of plain, old, ordinary wood for building purposes. One of its subsidiaries is doing a land-office business in pre-fabricated houses, which it turns out something like automobiles, delivers to the customer's lot, and erects in a twinkle—~with a serial number stamped on the kitchen wall, a written guarantee, and six months free service. The firm is whipping up a number of those houses Bn the outskirts of Washington, and handsome they are, 100. I know because I went out to see 'em. The model house, with the modern furniture lent for ‘the occasion by a local store, I examined carefully. I even clomped down into the cellar and there—to my amazement —was a big wooden beam holding up the floor. “Yep,” confessed the United States Steel Co., man, hanging his head. “Wood. We just can't get the steel” He said maybe I'd also noticed the wooden stairs I'd descended. Purely temporary. As soon as the United States Steel Co., can get some steel it'll replace those steps with metal ones. The corporation is asking its customers please, to be patient.
Things Are Tough All Over
AND WHEN the biggest steel company in the world can’t get steel to put on its own houses, you can be sure things are tough all over in the building trades. How tough, a joint committee of the senate and the house now is in process of finding out. Semators Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, and John J, Sparkman of Alabama, along with Rep. Ralph H. Gamble of N. Y,, cut short thefr vacations to open what we politicians ‘call a probe into the housing shortage.
A A Plug for Bill
HOLLYWOOD, "sept. 11.—I just saw oy Life With Father,” so naturally I want to give you the first interview with the fellow who will win an Academy award in March of '48. Of course William Powell will win that Oscar. I mentally gave it to him before his fourth explosive “Gad!” It is hardly believable that anyone will give a better performance this year. To say Bill is magnificient is an, understatement. He's colossal, & 50 I immediately trotted out to the Powell mangion, where I was introduced to some of his eccentricities. “I guess I do have some eccentricities,” Bill said. That was an understatement. He has many. He showed me one of them—a beaten up old hat with the date of its sale inside—1033.
Fond of Old Clothes
“I'M CRAZY about old clothes. I never want to throw anything away and Diana gets mad at me. But I think it takes five years just to break in a hat or a pair of shoes or a suit,” Bill said. There was Bill's 12-year argument with his dog, the lowest-slung dachshund I had ever seen. “That dog still barks at me when I come home at night,” Bill said. “If a burglar knocked at the
(1840-1844) it was considered a “pa-| latial home on the banks of the
By Frederick C. Othman Ohio river.” Why such a home!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1947
Nearly 15,000 Visit Historical Place On Ohio River at Madison, Ind., Each Year
JUST 88 MILES southeast of Indianapolis lies Madison; Ind. the At. that point I thought it would be wiser Second oldest city in the state. Naturally, in a city more than 120 years Mrs. Lucas old, there are many buildings, both public and residential, which occupy
But the most outstanding example in Madison is the James F. D.
first quota called by President Line coln was for six regiments,
” - » AT THAT time the federal gov-
‘ernment did not buy a soldier's
paraphernalia and the state was
{unable to raise sufficient funds to should have been built, when only equip the
President's requested %
the lower tier of Indiana counties quota. Oliver P. Morton, governor At their first session they called in a dozen had any semblance of culture, is a Of Indiana, called up Mr. Lanier for ald and upon a note signed by the 3 governor, Lanier advanced $420,000 §
federal big-wigs, - representing as many agencies having to do with houses, to find out what the government can do. This session was as surprising, | almost, as the wooden beams in the steel sompany’s house. Senator McCarthy said first off the government's Lanier state memorial
question often asked by interested
visitors. » # »
NEARLY 15,000 persons visit the different occasions, annually. the state of Indiana sufficient funds
|to equip Hoosier troops.
Some time later and upon two Lanier loaned
folks should explain the workings of each federal Open throughout the year, admis- to pay the interest on the state |
outfit so the people can get some idea of their jobs. Sion is 25 cents for adults, children debt. Raymond Foley, administrator of the federal houis- | {under 8 years of age 10 cents, plus vided by Mr. The best after the war, route to Madison from here is U, 8. In years following the money was
ing agency offered to get up a chart showing the! federal tax in both cases. work of each alphabetical agency.
Altogether, the money proLanier, during and 7% exceeded $1 million.
And another thing; the senator®added: Whey can’t 31 south to Columbus and state all returned.
the government get together with itself on what a road 7 from: there on: house is worth? The memorial, It turned out that. the appraiser of the federal! Francis Doughty Lanier,
says it is worth $7500. Then the G. I., buyer.goes to of conservation in 1925. the veterans administration loan division. out another appraiser, who says the same house is Placed his personal fortune at the worth $10,000. |disposal of the. struggling young {state of Indiana.
It's Confusing, Senator Says When the Civil war began,
THIS, SAID Senator McCarthy, is confysing. How come? Well sir, said Foley, his bureau valued a house at it's long-term worth, while the veteran appraisers figured on what it would cost to rebuild if it burned | down. Very simple, he said. Long-term values YB: | nmin present-day costs, This didn't sound simple to the senator. the boys ought to agree on what a house is worth and not draw long-suffering G. 1.’s into their arguments.
Indiana was almost entirely w out means.
The bureau chiefs in charge of building labor, codes and shortages, stories. They agreed ( (you listening, U. 8. Steel Corp.?) that| what this country needs most are old-fashioned nails | to drive into (sob) wooden planks. | — Dear Mrs, Manners:
By Erskine ‘Johnson
door, he would lead him " the safe and the family silverware. But when I walk in he barks. So I it and singing eowhoy BONS, just bark back. We've been doing that for 12 years.” take after 1 don’t know beThere. was his incurable habit of being late. cause none of the rest of the “I was born three weeks prematurely—my mother : f ’ had a fall—so I guess I'm just making up for it,” family feels that, way. Bill said. “I know it takes exactly 18 minutes to! My husband is also from this city drive to the studio in the morning. 80 I always and I seem to have him interested manage to leave 13 minutes before I'm due on the in Western life. We don't have
”" set. | much money so we can't buy a farm
Saves on Electricity ler a ranch to live that kind of life.
AND HIS PASSION for turing out. lights, | pat would you say would be a “I probably save the magnificent sum of $4 a 500d thing to do in hopes that this year by going around turning off lights,” he said. vestern life will come true? My “Bill,"*says Diana, hig wife, “will never use a Nusband and I both work away small word if he can think of '& Big’ one.” Every|ftom home and we have no children now and then, after one of his very erudite opinions, ®* Yet. He is 33 years old and I am I have to turn to him and ask for a translation.”|32 Years old. We have been married Bill and Diana say the picture for the first time (three years and seem very happy together. About half way through Diana nudged !oSether. He was overseas 14 him and whispered: months out of the three years that “Bill, T thought this was supposed to be “Life We Were married. With Father,’ the life of Clarence Day?” “A PUZZLED COUPLE.”
“It is,” said Bill. : i. IN ou want Western glamour “It's nothing of the sort,” said Diana. “It's.the! as 3 Hobby or As & Tob?’ Would
life of Willlam Powell.” | drudgery of daily rural chores
$ea-Golng Nudists H. M. Bradford Joins Railway Luncheon
Worry Police IP ST. TROPEZ, France, Sept. 11.— (U. P).~Police of this Riviera re-|
Howard M.
Purdue Center Staff Bradford has been lappointed to..teach in the Yall!
retain their appeal? Before making Western connections why not spend vacations on ranches or
Set for Oct. 1 army? Jina ot pat a |
C. E. Whitehill, president of the jyre remains. Since you have | Indianapolis chamber of commerce,| few ties couldn't you work and
sort today asked authorities to pro. semester Sh.Wme Indissapelis ox-| nnounced today fhe appointment| save for a farm or ranch?
vide them with a motor launch so!
nudists,
tension center of Pfirdue upiversity, that t can ¢ with sea-going|902 N. Meridiag st. at they San 29% "Song Mr. Bradford will teach technical ‘the railroad centennial luncheon to The gendarmes ‘complained that institute _subjeots, including funda- be held ‘Oct. 1st in the Severin vacationers “are “lolling - offshore in mentals of industrial production, hotel. and industrial ‘safety, production -con-
You are fortunate that have a congenial husband. boy songs daily in costume could be boring. A hobby nicely bridges the differences in your ages.
of Edwin 8. Pearce as chairman of |
Vice-president Paul E. Feucht of|
sunbathing in the nude within easy trol, plant layout, production cost Pennsylvania railroad, who also is gp i | Marry My Ex?
view of the shore,
the problem.
/gnalysis and wage incentives. stiive of 3 Ind ples Ha bicycles for trans-| ‘Registration for the Purdue-In- den e Indianapolis - Ee Yeles Wi cas’ tsapll echuten) Hntiute WAS he aq, il be i$ prIcipyl poner 2 back home? Sept. 8, 10 and 20. st the luncheon.
a native of Indianapolis and presi-|
Have 14 acres 48 miles south of the pg 1 howe »
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Costigan, the as “an ‘nation was wholly unprepared and builder and a dreamer.” with-'his work is in evidence in Indian- | Lanier home, it remains one of his Lanier, too old to join apolis, and Christ Episcopal church most distinctive creations. of the the army, gave ald and encourage- on Monument circle, is thought to| The front of the mansion with its ment to the Union cause. Indiana's have been his work.
Bores Friends Singing Cowboy Songs, But ‘Can’t Help It’
HAVE always been a city girl and I love horses. older I get the more I want to live the Western life, ] Mother and ‘dad when they aren leven bought a pair of cowhoy boots, a plaid shirt and a pair === 0f blue jeans. I know people think I am crazy talking about
| good job ‘and can't make up “my mind if I want to try it a second time
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It was out of this situation that
honoring James Mr. Lanier became endeared to the was ac- people of Indiana, and largely behousing agency takes a look at a small house and Quired by the Indiana department cause of his patriotic service, his It is a fit- home has been preserved as a lastIt ‘sends ting tribute to a man who twice ing memorial.
been referred to as ” ” ». THE ARCHITECT was Francis who has been referred to artist —an architect — a|
his distinctive creations.
Because he was able to exert the river, and is quite
typical Much of entire expression of his style in the Southern mansions
tbe
romantic,
{two-story portico faces the Ohio
wo wa Ask Mrs Manners—
Se et = Girl Yearns For Western Life
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‘Lanier Home Fitting Memorial enue Man Who Gave Ad To State
TERT AR I oni
SPACIOUS "HALLWAY —Nearly 15,000 persons visit the Lanier memorial annually, winding their way up the stairways and through the hallway above.
SITTING ROOM-—Architect for the mansion was Francis Costigan who has "an artist, an architect, a builder and dreamer." able to exert the entire expression of his style in the Lanier home, it remains one of
Because ha was
of [todian 1s on hand at all times te conduct Vacationists who desire a touch story home, Ap relate tales of the dignified past days when { would do well to visit the Lanier important role in the history of state memorial at Madison. A cus-| Indiana.
tours through the four.
owner played such an
mously by the Marion county liquor board, action cannot be appealed. ”
Parents Fight
ro? Thel I'm 12 years old and been unable to solve?
love my
together. They fight so won't bring the gang home, Can't we all go out just sometimes But I can't help it. Who 1/and havé fun like other families? LARRY. I you are the bright boy you sound, Larry, you can go out or stay home and have fun. Can't Address Mrs. you talk heart-to-heart to your | y : parents and tell them you miss | Ww. Maryland st.
much I| where.to turn?
Ask Mrs. Manners
Please let me know what to do. “BETH.”
Do You Need Advice?
Is there a personal or family problem you have
Are you desperate for wise counsel; and wonder
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their joint companionship? {imi
Appreciate what each does and ning outings with other families. show it. Be extra good and may- | They will hate to refuse you. be some of the Golden Rule will . & 8 rub off on their dispositions and make them ashamed. Try plan- Jtong Live Perv TYike” toh bri arlittle with the
claim
You would re-enter this match quite aware of each other's faults. | That wisdom could help if you have enough love, faith, respect, | compatibility and determination to right a failure. With both of you willing to forgive old irritations and aveid them you have a chance at happiness, If you [eel revengeful your 14 acres won't be | a haven, You may want back that job you like. Your former arguments have
WORD-A-DAY
By BACH comedians, Olsen
ThERDie | From where do they hail? DEBRIS | a on fg
' ll Go ahead and brag. John Olsen (de bre I comes from Peru, but Johnson e- re’ | formerly lived in Chicago, (i8-b:d woo : y 8 8
“boys” and want to
| faded but will regain significance | twofold if you are over-waichful | and intolerant in remarriage. You | will have little hid from romance | | that helped offset your adjust. i ments as bride and bridogréom. my}
Where may 1 secure money orders in the downtown shopping center i without visiting the post office? VERA.
William H. Block Co. main- %| taing station three for the city “|i post office on the store’s mezza- | nine floor, | H. P. Wasson & Co. stores oper-
| THERE'S COTS OF INEALOUSY IN THE
Tavern Protested A group of we citizens protested [ operation of a tavern in the 2000! ¢% ; 4 | |block. Prospect st. but the Marion|l H&S county liquor board granted the VIM | usense, Can we appeal further? HH “MR. P.”
ate courtesy stations on their firsé floors, writing money orders,
Fresh Fathers .
I'm a teen-ager and “baby sit* to help my folks buy my clothes,
85/1 get along fine with the mothers natives from part of Indiana the ps
fresh fathers coming home
and Johnson. early cause me trouble.
Do I have to be polite to those troublesome men? Should I tell their wives how they act, or should I give up jobs in homes like that? .. “BABY SITTER.” Your mother could help you
| with your decision. Telling the
wife might start her talking about you maliciously In defense of hee pride. Have vou been too friendly
» with the husbands?
Longer skirts may help-~giasses sometimes are forbidding. You
| might engage the husband in dall
conversation. Talk about his chil.
{ dren whom he fis ignoring, of
L. 8. Ayres & Co. and |
bore him with tales of your boy friends. >
the Indiana 'Aleoholic Beverage | Commission. When the Marion |i county liquor board approves the | application three 10 one, twe 16 | two or unanimously (board of vw,
Your na Alot avery vf}
William H. Franklin, comptroller,
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Accountants Set Dinner Meeting a Mr. Pranklin, a recognized. at ad of the - Caterpiller Tractor Co, thority on overhead accounting,
{Peoria, 711, will address the Indian- will speak on "Overtisad Distribu|apolis chapter of the National Asso- | tion.”