Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1948 — Page 21
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CAMPBELL BOUP people better toss a
soup. And I don’t want any argumerits. Imagine going through a can of soup with ractically a fine tooth comb and finding only one sdmplete set. Of course, you know there are 26 letters in. the alphabet. Makes this searcher of scientific facts and truths unhappy. ’ Mrs. Harriet West, home service director for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., welcomed me
told her of my project. : “pve tried to count the letters three times” confided Mrs. West, “but never had the patience to follow through.” I could have told her a lot of things about patience in connection with science and truth. Mrs. West should have told me what she knew about digging into vegetable soup. Pretty’ tedious stuff znd messy, too, Almost too messy for me which {s saying a lot. “Can gpener.” gistants. ) “Cooking pan.” Mrs, Katherine Spencer, home: gervice advisor, handed me a pan, “Water.” “Over there In the faucet,” answered Mrs. Spencer. I knew things were going too smoothly,
In Such Luxury CONDUCTING the search for letters of the
alphabet in the model kitchen was a pleasure, My soup. was heating on a $289 electric stove. The
It was wonderful to have as-
RESEARCH AT ITS BEST—"Mr. Inside" is shown ‘in one-of the -first steps to finding the number of letters of the alphabet in a can of
Happy Birthday
NEW YORK, May 27—They made a little labor history on my street yesterday. I guess it was the first time that an employer ever joined the picket line in front of his own restaurant, waving a ‘signi which wished a happy anniversary to the poor clods who picket his place, on union order, for a buck an hour, : He also presented the pickets wi an anniwersary cake, bearing one tasteful canfle. It was not accepted, professional pickets not being allowed the luxury of a sense of humor. . A long time ago I wrote a piece about Danie Belmont, a Frenchman and an ex-GI, who was being picketed for his refusal to join the AFL's Waiters, Waitresses and Cooks’ Local, Danfel's own employees, in a supervised election, voted to stay non-union. He has been picketed ever since, since he refuses a State Labor Board injunction to take back some fired employees and to pay‘an indemnity. He successfully defended a $65,000 suit for false arrest, which was entered against him after he had one picket hauled up on charges of disorderly conduct. Since none of Daniel's pickets ever worked for him, and his present employees expressed agreement with his open-shop policy, I wrete a story about the odd situation of a man being coerced forcefully into a unionization which neither he nor his employees desired . . . a situation which would mandatorily cause the dismissal of all his present employees as scabs.
Then His Business Picked Up
“IT IS A TRIBUTE to press power that Mr. Belmont's business picked up. Professional picketline crossers suddenly flooded his little place. Whereas he had been largely empty before, now he had customers stacked in the ante-room. Dan came to love his pickets; whose shouts of “pass it by” brought him a stream of steady customers. He expressed a desire once to serve them
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Let a Man Supervise
-—for-the evening meal: ‘child-for- fe. He'd lose all T4Ith 11 SOUPS, oUF!
all, that Fll call exclamation marks, apostrophes,
all good scientists. . ~~ emf
I was leaning on a $300 refrigerator while $80 worth of lighting equipment made the room as
light as day. Come to think of it, it was day. Mid- ‘ . morning, to be exact, “Spoon.” One of my assistants handed me a 1 ‘ . | spoon and I sampled, being very careful not to eat .
The three of us made guesses as to the number
of alphabets in one can of soup,
any letters, Mrs. Spencer
, thought there would be.three sets, Mrs. West said!
there. 'would be two, at least, and I was sure| there .ofight to be five. ores | When the soup became a lukewarm restaurant, temperature, I called for a strainer. Right at my, fingertips. The two ladies should have been nurses,
At this point the project became messy. I tried)
to dig the letters out with my fingers. It proved not only a bit tricky, bits of pimento, especially, but sort of icky to the touch.
“DUMP THE WHOLE business on these paper towels,” suggested Mrs, Spencer. An excellent suggestion. " ; I though picking out the letters would be a snap. My optimism was short-lived, Mr, Campbell likes vegetable in his soups. Man, I poked at potatoes, carrots, lima beans, navy beans, peas, onions, barley, corn and pimento until by assist. ants took pity on me and came running with spoons. A woman's place is really in the kitchen. It takes a man to supervise the work. a
“What do you want done with the numerals?
asked Mrs. West, . Only one thing to do in research and that is to! tabulate all the vital substances. | “Let's keep track of the numerals.” Someone had to take charge. I Except for the letter E, we had no trouble at all in completing the alphabet. Lucky for Camp-| bell’s they had one E in the soup. Apparently | there's no rhyme or reason the way the letters of} the alphabet are put in the can. If there's any ex-| planation, why there should be nine O's and only| one E or a G, I'd like to know. And why wasn't the numeral 2 included so I could have a complete set? Someone isn’t interested in his or her job,! the way I look at it. } vo. | Just think what an incomplete alphabet] would do to some precocious youngster who “de-| cided to investigate the soup Mama was heating! It could very well ruin a
educational system and the atom bomb. And now for the statistics. Beginning with A and not counting the 26 letters in the one comPlete alphabet, my can of soup had: A, 3; B, 6; C.5:D,1;E 0, F, 7,G 0;H,2; 1,6: J, 3: K, 6; L, 4;M,0;N;3;0,9,P,6;Q 6; R, 0: 81, T,9,U1; V,5,W,2;X,5,Y,3and Z 4, Cenfusing, isn’t it? Numerals: 1, 1;2,0; 3,1; 4,1; 5, 1: 63,71;8, 5,9 4 and 0, 2. There were bits of dough, 248 in
periods, commas, and quotation marks. . That's the story. A kid might not go very far! with the alphabet but he sure could have fum with punctuation farks. I'd like to see more letters,
personally. .. Punctuation confuses -me- as-it- does
semicolons, (no colons)
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By Robert C. Ruark | coffee on cold wet days, but it was politely refused —especially after one picket was withdrawn from his post because he accepted phone calls in the| restaurant. | But.over all, a fine, fatherly relationship ex-|
isted. Dan regarded them as a sort of al fresco]
floor show, and they regarded him with a rea-!
sonable degree of pleasantness, since no one of § them had ever worked inside, and hence were un- * prepared to damn him as a flinty boss.
The Indianapolis
SECOND SECTION
THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1948
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A wave of Gallic sentimentality overcame Dan-|
fel as the first anniversary of his association with 3
the pickets rolled around. He wanted to do
something to express his appreciation to the union ju
for spotlighting his place. , So he had a sign made. It said: “Happy birthday, dear pickets.” Then he baked a cake, preparing it lovingly. He put a single candle atop the cake, and went outside to celebrate the anniversary.
Dan Picketed His Own Place
IT BEING a free country, there was no way
to,enjoin Dan from picketing his own place, since
he was wearing a sign and was not creating a nuisance. He and the picket walked up and down together, but the picket refused to accept the] cake. He had no place to put it, anyhow. Daniel stuck the cake in the window and kept walking up| and down. ’ ! Daniel says it was not very long before the | union sent over the loud picket, who had not been | around for some six menths. The loud one, Dan-| fel claims, said flatly that “now Daniel was really | going to get the works.” | 80 now things are all unpleasant again. It| seems to be against union etiquette to be friendly with your pickets, even if they are hired hacks with no interest in their job except the money they get for condemning a man's right to run his own shop his own way. :
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, May 27-—The goats of Italy I don't suppose we can do anything about. As for Mt, Vesuvius, I think we're going to leave “thiY The way nature made it, ho matter whit” the international do-gooders claim. The price of butter. in. London-—it's.36. cents. a. pound—fits Into this same somewhat amazing tale. You know: the - Senate Appropriations Committee hates to spend our billions sight unseen, 80 now it's calling in our diplomats from all over to ask ‘em how our money's going to‘ be Spent in this European Recovery Deal. “And what,” demanded Chairman Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, “about this scheme to ‘develop electric energy from an Italian volano?”
This caused Walter M. Walmsley, the economic Adviser of the ‘United States Embassy in Rome, to smile. Yes, said he, that had been a hope of Italian scientists for many years. But of course it was just a dream and the Italians could Bet electricity only by developing their water power, .
Dream, nothing, Sen. Bridges snapped. Here % was in black and white: $6 Million out of the recovery funds to get a start on turning a Volcano into a power house. The gray-templed almsley said he'd never heard of it. He wiped the smile from his face.
A Lid for Vesuvius
THE IDEA SEEMS to be to build a lid on Mt. Vesuvius and then drill a pipe into the side of it so the steam will gush out and turn an gine. The total cost has been estimated up ito the hundreds of millions. “And if we are going to go around capping Volcanoes on the other side of the world,” the nator said, “that certainly is a new field for ® ‘use of our taxpayers’ money. It is somefang that Congress -will want to investigate yoo ' Mr, Walmsley said he'd do his best to discover for the Senate's benefit who thought we. ought 0 tinker with volcanoes as a part of the Euro-
pean Recovery Program. Then he changed the subject and soon he was talking about how the taliang were working hard and doing everything, they could to.raise more food. “What about southern Italy?” asked Sen. Carl Hayden..of Arizona... Can't. they. .do. something to improve ‘the crops there?” | Mr. Walmsley said he doubted it; on account of the goats. | “The what?” demanded the gentleman from Arizona. . : “The goats,” replied Mr. Walmsley. “Everybody in southern Italy owns goats. Goats usually are an Italian peasant’s only personal property. And from time immemorial ft has been the custom to allow these goats to roam and graze wherever they please.
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cultural production.”
London Hid Behind Fog
THE SENATORS indicated they weren't Inter. ested in developing a goat-restricting program for
Italy. After a little more palaver on Italian olive Laughery Creek :at state roa#t’ (they're increasing), Mr. Walmsley crossing near Aurora.
oil exports left the hot seat.
Replacing him was a reddish-haired young fel-| ison.
low with an attache case, name of Frederick E.
lett, who identified himself as the commercial ment, six miles south of ScottsBartlett He had a burg, U. 8. 31.
attache of our embassy in London. lot of statistics, but he said he doubted if he|
had anything new, since the Senators, them- Clarksville (campfire).
selves, visited England six months ago. ! “I'm not so sure,” commented Sen. Henry C.| Dworshak of Idaho. | had a special, made-to-order fog so the com-| mittee couldn’t find out much.” ' | He charged that the British used about half of our $3.6 billion loan to_ subsidize retail food | prices, so housewives on the island pay only 36) gents a pound for butter, 36 cents for a dozen eggs, and 14 cents for a quart of milk. He said this wasn’t fair to American housewives, Mr. Bartlett said it wasn't so. The Senator said it was. And at length. Things almost) erupted, like an uncapped volcano,
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Until these goats can be Versity professor emeritus and restricted, there is little hope of increasing agri- Indiana Historical Society presi|dent, is general chairman. Paul |Seehausen is assistant director,
“When we were there they and Constitutional elm, Corydon.
| Wallace E. VanderVeld, Bremen, |" n , Revolution | Other recipients were Cadet Lt. Sons. of American , Ber of the late Col. William A./Col. Robert D. Monical, Moores- award, and Cadet 8. Sgt. Charles, Bevan a former ville, U. 8. Field Artillery Asso-/C.. Higgins, Danville,
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SON OF CHIEFS—Somberly Chief Clarence Godfroy stands beside the gravestone of an Indian ancestor, his uncle's wife, Aveline. In full costume, the chief always attends this particular four through his nation's territory. A farmer near Wabash, he. inherited his _chiaftainship. His presence and tales of Indian tradition enliven the trek.
INDIANA IS RICH in history. = Lovers: nf Hoosier: lore. can drink deeply this summer and fall by attending the Hoosier Historical Institute, These are two-day - week-end tours which blanket the most interesting points of state history. The final trek will be held Oct. 23-24. «Sponsored by Tada VUntvers sity, Purdue University, Indiana
cal Bureau, Indiana Department of* Commerce and Public Relations and the State Department of Education, they are under. the
“Raintree County.” ” » » - William O. Lynch, Indiana Uni-
The next trip will be: Saturday, June 5— 10-a. m.—Lochry's Massacre on
1:30 p. m.—Lanier home Mad-
4 p. m.—Pigeon Roost mony-
7:30 p. m. — Clark's Point,
Sunday, June 6— 1:30 p. m. — Old state capitol
3:30 p. m.—Battle of Corydon (Morgan's raid).
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"ON THESE HALLOWED GROUNDS"—Ross F. Lockridge, Hoosier Historical Institute director, swings wide his arms as he tells of the glorious Indian traditions which are part.of the state. The first trek to historic spots was held Saturday. Others will be conducted during the summer and fall. Some 250 students, teachers and amateur historians attended the opening tour which began near Marion and ended at Peru. This scene is of the old Indian cemetery near Marion which was the very
tales are retold as a full moon rises over the fa
Speaks on ‘Revenue’ | Troy G, Thurston of George 8. | Olive & Co., public. accountants,
will. speak. on the “Revenue Act a meeting of the d Le { Indianapolis Control of the Con-| Wise, 1500 W. 224 St., in celebratrollers Institute of America in tion of their 25th wedding an-| Erwin Maar, Mrs. Walter Rudthe Lincoln Hotel at 6 p. m. Sos luivareary !
Mr. and Mrs. Wise have. been Mrs. Norman Wise. .
(Picture Story by Victor Peterson)
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FALLING WATERS — The Miamis so named this rocky river by the sound it made—the Mississinewa. On this site, northwest of Marion, Chief Godfroy's great grandfather led the Miami Godfroy tribe against American troops dispatched by William Henry Harrison in the first year of the War of 1812. The Indians were defeated on Dec. 18, but-the Americans retreated sand the heart of the Miami nation was not threatened again. e's
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SLAKED THIRST OF AGES — Tired historians quench their parched throats with cool water from the spring around which Miami Indians lived. It is near the Mississinewa River between Marion and Peru. It was here the famous historical figure, Frances Slocum, revealed to an Amarican trader that she was -a white woman. . Then 62, she had been separated from her family for 57 years. She had been taken captive as a child by Delaware Indians in the East. Brought up as an Indian child of the chief, she married a Miami brave and came west to the Territory of Indiana. Reunited with her family two years after discovery, she never gave up her Indtan
ar 2 Rn a STUDENTS IN THE. SUN—No class-
room walls confine students - earning credit ‘toward- degrees when they take
the course of Historical Institutes, Shown are (left) Mrs. Fred Hayes, Clinton, Ind., who is working on an ‘AB degree, ‘and
Mis. Fauneil- Coleman —a-teacher in -the--
Perrysville, Ind., High School, This is the Slocum grave site.
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE —The first night of the two-day junket ends as firelight flickers on the very ground of the-Osage village near Peru. Here the Indians once met to hold peace and war gpuncil. Now those rmhouse in the background and the trees stahd silent. guard in
from 2 p. m. t6 8 p. m. June @/their marriage.
by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T.
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‘Couple to.Observe 25th Anniversary MacArthur Hofiers VFW
An open house will be held residents of Indianapolis since
TOKYO, May 27 (UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today
The hostess will he assisted by bought the first poppy offered
Mrs. Dallas Murray, Miss Cecil ror sale by the Tokyo post of the Whiteley, Mrs, Edwin Hall, Mrs. y,
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