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“WHY, WHEN you drop the top off a tube of shaving cream, does it go down the drain?” In the midst of showing off two filling spouts that squirted enough Barbasol to fill 90 ¢%3ounce tubes a minute, Fred Saales, plant superintendent, stopped talking. He scratched his smooth-shaven chin and just stood there.’ “Come, come, my good man,” I urged, “the front office sent me to you because you are supposed to know all the answers.” “This may not be right,” finally volunteered the production chief, “but don’t you suppose it goes down the drain because there isn't any other place to go?” He had something there, but it wasn’t all there, “How do you explain the times the cap bounces under the bathtub or under the radiator or in the hot air vent.” ;

‘Can Talk to . . . Younger Girls?’ “DID YOU want to see how we fill shaving tubes or not?” was a fairly put question to which Mr. Saales received an affirmative answer. “Can I talk to some of the younger girls on the production line?” It was a fairly put question, I thought, from a 29-year-old bachelor, My Barbasol buddy chose a corny way of saying no. “No shaving soap. We'd throw the whole line out of whack if we disturbed even one girl,” he said.

There's always another shave in an "empty" tube if you squeeze hard enough, a plant superintendent told "Creamy Sam," the I'll-get-into-it-man.

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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

«We turned our attention to the endless chain

affair which jerkily motivated a turntable with|’

empty tubes. The tubes were placed upside down in specially designed holes. The ends of the tubes | were open as they came under the filling spout. | At that point in the process it was simply a

matter of seconds and the tube was filled. |

“Just like a punch press,” ‘was my impression of the filling process. Mr. Saales thought

it was more like a,

shaving-soap machine. So, there you are again, |

it's all in how you look at things. ! It better be said that this is how one machine,

works. There are others but the chief said it|

might be well not to mention how many. The war is over, you know, and there's competition! going on again. i The tubes twirl around through three sections| of this same machine to have their ends twisted]

and pounded and sealed. Mr. Saales called it; 8

crimping. Anyway it ‘was slick and fast, No sooner is a tube filled -and sealed than another arm lifts it as a cat lifts its young and]

deposits “Singing Sam’s” favorite product into/ 3

an opening where it begins. another complicated journey. : - i Girls, girls, girls, all along the youte of a tube of shaving cream. The tubes are quickly: placed on a slotted endless chain. How to use directions] and containers drop from above. get smashed, folded, pushed, tapped and Barbasol shoved inside. |

More girls are waiting to pack the packaged tubes/

into shipping boxes. |

“Where does all this cream come from?”

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~The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1948

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Crashing Bricks,

Dust Will End

Historic Era Of The English Hotel |

My guide said, “Third floor. Upstairs.” | 2g

I said, “Well, is that all you're going to tell me?” That was it. That was all he knew. It seems] the chief chemist and the president of the firm! are the only ones who know the formula. 1 “All I know is that they mix a lot of stuff upstairs,” the superintendent added. “It’s probably useless to try to talk to the head chemist or the top man,” was my try for an extra point,

There's Always a Squirt Left “NO SHAVING SOAP.” Do you suppose vaudeville could make a come-|

back? I did find out the Barbasol people are not] contemplating putting a chain on the cap. It] would necessitate getting new machines and from the looks of things everyone is satisfied as they're operating now. Neither are there any plans of having a bell or a whistle sound when the tube is'about empty. Mr. Saales demonstrated how to get a shave out of an “empty” tube. ’ “Oops, sorry.” . “Got a razor? Might as well shave.” It's only a matter of squeezing the stuffings out of a tube. There's alway a little squirt left, he said.

By Robert C. Ruark

No Can Do

Elke BAYOU PHILIBERT, BURAS, La., Nov, 19— It is a healthy thing for the soul of a city-dweller occasionally to return to the deep sticks, if only to rediscover his own practical stupidity. Me, I am a Cajun. Sure, me. But I would starve to death, me, if I had to be a self-sufficient dweller among the bayous and the marshlands of Louisiana. You see, I don’t know how to do most of the things that these hunters and trappers consider necessary to existence. My shooting partner, a quiet Cajun named Purvis Theal, could not possibly find me worth $60 a month in a trapping camp. . I can shoot all right, but shooting and walkIng are skills acquired simultaneously down here. No significance attaches to either. I can wash dishes. I can pluck a duck, and am really superbly deft at deviscerating a duck with one wrench on the innards. “You gut a‘duck bien, you” says M. Theall. “You gut a duck good as anybody I know. But, Robair, not enough. Need mote things to do.” I cannot, for instance, manage a pirogue without drowning myself. A pirogue is a soap-dish of a boat which is chopped from a single section of log. pointed at both ends, and can be poled in an inch of water. It#s balanced like the mechanism of a watch, and will capsize if you shave too closely on one side of your face.

Can't Call Down a Goose . I DID NOT KNOW how to trap a muskrat. I cannot talk to the ducks, or call a goose down out of the high sky. Yet I have seen Ted O'Neil, a biologist who lives in the woods, stretch his neck and give a yowp that fetched a goose practically into the blind, from a thousand feet. ‘All I could see is a speck up there in the blue, but Ted identified it as a young goose who was lost from his mama. “I will make a noise like his mama,” says Ted, emitting a dulcet yodel. The lonesome goose dropped his flaps and came down in a power dive. You could have killed him with the broom.

In the past few years I have girdled the globe a few times, and I have more friends in Africa than in New York. But I cannot walk the “prairie,” here, even in hip boots. The prairie is the vast oozy marshland, where the rats and the ducks dwell. I sink to my neck and struggle helplessly, while M. Bibi Humble, aged 18, strides along as if on a sidewalk. When I get hopelessly mired, I bleat pathetically, like the lost goose looking for its mama, ! and Bibi or Theal come and derrick me out.

Can't Spot Bed of Oysters

I CAN EAT an oyster, and I can even open one, now, without clutting off my hand, but I cannot look at a stretch of water and say) positively that there is a bed of oysters in it. | I can’t squint at a section of marsh and announce authoritatively that it is eaten out by the rats, hence worthless. I cannot make orange wine, or whittle a decent push-pole for the pirogue. I can’t even cook. When my friend Theal goes back home to Abbeville, he will have to be placed aboard the bus, and his ticket to his coat. But out here, in a boundless land he never saw before, he moves | as confidently as a New Yorker walking from] 42d to 43d St. I don’t know a poule d'eau from a roseau, a! dos gris Yrem a bateau, and it is all highly embarrassing. A poule d'eau is a coot. A dos gris is a blue-billed duck. A roseau is a reed, and a batedu is a flat-bottomed boat. I am worth less than $60 a month on talent, and all I can do real good is disembowel a duck. ; But I have invited my Cajun friends to visit me in my marshes, the liimtless prairies of New York. BeforaI pass final judgment on my stupidity, I am anxious to sée how they make out in the subway. I may not he able to call a goose, but I am death - on high-flying head-waiters, and once I even intimidated a cab driver. These are skills, 100... Me, on my own bayous, maybe I am a pretty good Cajun, after all. Sure, me,

Spuds vs. Sugar

WASHINGTON, Nov, 19—The sugar men must

have been feeling ‘more sour than. sweet. They said if the government doesn't quit patting ‘em on the head with one hand and poking ’em in the nose with the other, they're going to put this nation in the soup. Fotato soup. “Ouch,” yelped Sen. Owen Brewster of’ Maine, where there are so many potatoes at the moment there's hardly any room for people. The fellows who grind out sugar by the millions of tons and boil molasses by the billions of gallons descended en masse upon the U. 8S. Senate to plead with the lawgivers. Make the government stop its double dealing with the sweetening business, they cried. Or else—more potatoes. Since 1906, it develops, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Agriculture have been spending untold millions of dollars and watts of energy, turning the Rocky Mountain states into the world's greatest producer of sugar beets. .

Propose New Freight Rates

NOW, 40 YEARS later, when irrigated sugar beet fields stretch as far as the eye can see and scores of sugar factories make pleasant aromas (as of taffy) across the countryside, comes the Federal Trade Commission with some sort of folderol about freight rates. If the sugar boys can’t charge the same price in Omaha as they do in Chicago, said they, they're sunk. They'll be unable to compete with the cane sugar fellows and will starve slowly in their own cauldrons. Sen. Homer E. Capehart of Indiana, who is investigating the whele incredibly complicated guestion of freight rates, had a faraway look in his eye, as if he were wondering whether this would turn the West back to the Apache Indians. Just what, he asked, could the sugar men grow, if they couldn't grow beets. .

The Quiz Master

Do the Great Lakes ever freeze over? The U. S. Geological Survey is of the opinion that none of the Great Lakes ever freeze over completely. Navigation is stopped for several months each winter because of - ice in and near Harbors, at the ends of the lakes, and in the channcls connecting them.: Bid What is shoddy? Shoddy is the name generally applied to 8 low grade of woolen cloth. It is used wool or the worked-up waste of woolen or worsted goods. Although the term is usually assoeiated with a low grade of woolen cloth, many. ‘pleces of clothing made entirely of shoddy wool are very attractive as well as durable.

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By Frederick C. Othman : | 3 A : tr ® Cari | CU Welk™ said Frank A. Kemp, the dignified.! Co. of Denver, “we mi toes, sir.” The gentleman from Indiana latghed, but he was not amused. ‘“Yes,” he said, “then you could sell them to the government.” Came then J. R. Bachman, 36 years in the sugar business and as neatly clad as a cellophanewrapped candy bar. He identified himself as sec-retary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. of Ogden, Utah, a firm which he said would be ruined, if the trade commission’s freight regulations were allowed to stand. : {

Yes, Sir, Raise Potatoes | BUT YOU don't have to grow sugar in Utah,” suggested Sen. Capehart. “You could raise some-| thing else?” “Yes, sir,” said Mr. Bachman, “Potatoes.” { The anguished Senator irom Maine cried out as if he’d been hit by a potato. “Just a minute,” he said. “Not potatoes. Please, not that. Why, it’s costing us $180 million this vear to buy up the surplus potatoes we're already growing.” W. J. Gorst, the big beet man of Morland, Wyb., was up next. He feared he'd be driven out of the sugar trade, but he still wouldn't starve. He'd) been standing on his own feet for 26 years as a| farmer and he hated the idea, but he said he! always could grow potatoes to sell to the govern-| ment. . The president of the Lower Snake River Beet| Growers Association of Idaho said his members| had potatoes in mind, if the government wrecked] |

t want to grow

- the sugar trade.

Yes, sir, agreed W. B. Gress of Greeley, Colo.,! he and his 7000 associates in the mountain states beet organization would have to go into the potato! busiftess. Sen. Brewster held his head. mony to him was very persuasive. smiled. Sweetly, you might say.

Said the testi-|

The sugar men|

22? Test Your Skill 223

Is it possible for a presidential candidate to win a plurality of the popular vote and still not be elected? X Yes. Presidents are elected not by popular. vote but by state votes in the electoral college, each state having as many votes as its senators and representatives combined. A presidential candidate might have a plurality of the popular vote nationally, but a minority of electoral college votes.

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What are Italian “primitives”? They are works produced by ‘artists in the development period before the full flowering of the country’s national art. Duccio, Cimabue

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English Hotel building . . . occupants aggestaging a mass evacuation

landmark to ready it for destructiorr the first of the year,

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; : Cr Thy .. R. J. Benjamin, owner of Kerman Rug Co., is an? In 1949, he will be at a

Pose na Te Rug(ged] . other casualty ot modern construction new location. »

80-Year-Old Circle Building To Fall Before Wreckers

Adjoining Merchants Face Mass Eviction

To Clear Way for New J. C. Penney Store | The first work day of 1949 will: mark the end. of an era in|

Hotel block. i ben TE For 80 ‘years the cufved. ‘rococo huilding on: Mounment Circle has been the hub of Indianapolis’ social and business life. In its early days it overlooked the governor's “mansion” 8 , fenter of the. Circle. Then taller(Into the old Meridian Apartment and taller buildings began, to building on the northwest corner overshadow the, landmark. of Meridian and Michigan Sts. Dn Wanter pigs, ToncyAressed The tenants will move as soon as crowds passed under the glowing marquee to attend New York road the building can be renovated. shows and musicals at the theater, Mrs. H. F. Thurman of 28 E. Business flourished in the small 16th St.,, who on May 17 would shops and restaurants because of celebrate her silver anniversary their central location. in business on the Circle in the New Penney Store Cinderella Shop, has not found But the first of the year souhds , new home for her dresses. of wrecking todls will rise. above Beauty Mart will take over the other noises on the Circle and Beauty "Art in 601 Roosevelt the ancient bricks and mortar Building, after machinery and will come tumbling to the ground. merchandise have been transThe old structure will give way ferred. to a modern building which will ' +». is the ‘big queshouse the J. C. Penney Company's or flere 10. Be It the Ig dynes new store, : Most of them have prospects in Meanwhile, store operators on line, but these must materialize the northwest segment of the within the next month, they add. Circle face mass eviction to clear] . : the site for construction. In des-| - Some dealers don’t mind the peration, they have reduced prices change. A sell-out will mean a of their stock from 25 to 60 per Omplete new stock in the new cent in the hopes of clearing their location. shelves before the workmen move: Other dealers are reluctant to a object verbally, since objecting Signs in black and white, red does no good now. and white, and other assorted ——

colors, give bargain shoppers a buying hdliday of reherin, Urge Health Data Pipes to Pictures Be Confidential Everything from pipes to pic-, tures are tagged with prices to! The Indiana Health Officers’ catch the customer's eye. Sales- Association was on record today men sell with Dec. 30 in the backs|With a resglution urging that inof their mind. {dividual public health records be Included in the evacuation are Kept confidential. two restaurants, five dress and| Association spokesmen said the hat shops, a jewelry store, an|resolution was adopted in view of oriental rug shop, a “hosiery bar,” the fact “the public press has

PEAS a | president ire Gréat =x Yemugar Indianapolis ras workmen begin the razing of the historic English ght p

photography studio,

mart, a bakery, a beauty shop public for inspection.” and two pen shops.

No Anniversary making such records public would

hotel for 40 years.

and Giotto were Italian “primitive” painters. v

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‘dealer, and Bernard J. Ward, Cal-|

4a moneycating that they be-open to the

The health officers contend that|

Dr. Saul B. Friedland, owner of|“lead the %ay to opeming of all'driver while crossing the street in Indianapolis candy manufacturer. ent the 250-room English Hotel, has!public records, including trade se- the 5400 block of E. 10th St. this Mr. Williamson said “only the of the Borinstein Home for ths tenahts who have lived in the|crets of manufacturers and other morning. He was Thursday he businesses disclosed in the activi- Billings Veterans’ Hospital. i { : ‘ound a solution to their housingities of industrial and other divi-'tendants there reported his condi-jand “the little fellow and the will be co-chairmen of the meet~ Aproblems—he will move the hotel{sions of health departments.” 3 A

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of the Hoosier Closing out , .. Miss Margaret Zeiher, employee of the Beauty Mart, another estab.

“lishment forced to move, pins a sale sign on the store window.

Crippled Children Executives Elect

Kenneth R. Miller

Heads National Group

Kenneth R, Miller of Indianap« olis, executive director of the Ine diana Society for Crippled Chil« (dren, has been elected president lof the American Association of Crippled Children Executives. The election was held yesterday iin Chicago as representatives {from 46 states, Hawail and Alaska attended the convention of the i [National Society for Crippled {Children and Adults. { O. M, Swihart, president of the § Indiana society and superintendent of Kokomo city schools, was elected trustee to represent In{diana. ' Dr. Roscoe Sensénich, South |Bend, president of the American {Medical Association, was elected jirunte anlar for the national

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society.

K. of C. to Hold 4th Fall Festival Tonight

Knights of Columbus will hold {its 4th annual fall festival to {night and tomorrow in the council |auditorium. The 4th annual concert and dance will be held at

Columbians

Mrs. H. F. Thurman . .

. her Cinderella Shop cuts dress prices preparatory to leaving the building in which it has done business {8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the audie

nearly 25 years. 'torium.

) Found Guilty = Capehart Eager to Debate In Atterbury [ase Basing Point Price System

Challenges Rep. Patman fo Verbal

Authorities Begin Duel Over Hotly-Contested Issue Pre-Sentence Probe WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UP)—If some one will suggest a Federal probation authorities Suitable place, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) and ‘Rep. Wright t#day began pre-serftence investi- Patman (D. Tex.) can go ahead with their duel. ? gation of two men found "guilty They've agreed to fight it out (with words) on a subject that's

[of conspiracy to steal government 1 qe to the pocketbook whether you buy cement, steel or candy

property from Camp Atterbury.

Abraham Levi, Elwood junk bars. All they need now is a forum.

Their disagreement Sterns 10m umet City. Ill, were found guilty a Supreme Court decision against. ‘Billy the Kid’

in federal court late yesterday the so-called basing point price!

after 45 minutes deliberation by system. Under this system, manu-| ef 1-1 Ye the jury. y facturers absorb freight rates so G $ 0 ars.

Sentencing of the defendants that delivered prices to buyers are At State Corral J

will be delayed pending probation uniform whether they are 10 or officers’ investigations. Both were 100 miles away from the Piirlary, Se —————— liable to maximum sentences of] . “BILLY THE KID” has left the two years imprisonment and fines range, of $10,000. ? . Criminal Court Judge William Prosecution Charges Studying the SCODORIS srvecty of D. Bain yesterday sentenced him Assistant U. S. Attorney Elba gress can authorize absorption of to a stretch in the state's corral Branning charged that Levi pur- freight rates: “without ‘weakening at Michigan City for at least one chased stolen goods from the =." owe year. But it could be as long as camp, and that Ward aided in 4h h 10 years. transporting the materials to El- rap. Paimen, coRutlor OF le In Washington, Pa., “Billy” is

wood. known as William D. Bradley. Principal prosecution witness 1aWw, contends Sen. Capehart has x = = y

was Lt. John J. Ward, 39, brother been “hypnotized” by the, “de-| x Noy, 4 armed with a toy of Bernard, who pleaded guilty ceitful and misleading Ppropa- ...i, «pne Kid” sauntered into to the same charge. Ward, who 8anda” of big business. the Princess Tavern, 2029 W. was camp engineer at Atterbury,! Sen. Capehart said Rep. Pat- washington St. and relieved told how he sold surplus sheets man “doesn't know what he's paitender Robert Hart of $73. and other equipment to Levi talking about” and that he is gut Mr Hart flashed a silent sigwithout government authoriza- ready to debate the issue withinap to one of the patrons who tion. him at any time. Said Rep. Pat-|jart the place and called the local Ward testified he used his po- man: “Any place, any time.” |constabulary. sition to issue passes to Levi and Denies Allegations “Billy,” who was booked on an his employees. The Senator said there was no armed robbed charge, entered a “In Good Faith” truth to statements that his sub- guilty plea to a grand larceny

Sen. Capehart, who heads a Senate Commerce subcommittee

Levi testified that he pur-.ommittee wafits to “weaken the charge through his attorney Max chased materials from Ward “in gnti-trust laws.” Farb. good faith” believing the tran- .«p¢ seems s\range to me,” he Because it was his first offense, sactions were legal. Bernard j4.q “that after 16 years of the court accepted “Billy's” plea

Ward said he did not know the ,iing after the common man to the lesser count, purchased ‘articles were stolen 5.4 jittle businessman and being TTT TTT until after Levi had taken most opposed to monopolies, by the Social Service Plans of them to Elwood. Democrats’ own admission we a Levi, president of the Elwood now have more monopolies than Annual Dinner Monday. Iron & Metal Co, was found ever.” { Jewish Social Services and the guilty earlier this week of in- A stream of beet sugar and Joseph and Annie Borinsteln come tax evasion charges bYicorn refining spokesmen told the Home for the Aged will hold their |another jury. He faces maxi- gyhoommittee yesterday the annual dinner at 6 p. m. Monday

a doughnut shop, a theater, a questioned the validity of Jeeping mum penalties of 15 years im-l.o,rt's ruling would seriously af- in Hotel Washington. hotel. a transit bus station, two the individual information in vital prisonment and fines on that fect many industries and comnovelty shops, a liquor store, a records confidential and is advo- conviction. {

Harold Silver, director of the ‘munities. {Jewish Social Service Bureau, DeEy a: They were joined by a Balti- troit, Mich, will ‘speak. He has Hit-Run Victim more syrup maker, Gordon B. directed a series of surveys Charles B. Mayhew, 40. of RR!Steuart of Mangels, Herold Co. ithe social service agencies of sev= 111, was struck by a hit-and-run Inc., and Homer J. Williamson, eral Midwestern cities. Sa Signey . Mahalowitz, president

taken to big fellows will come out ahead” | Aged, ‘and Dr. A. 8. Jaeger, presis Social

At- if freight absorption is outlawed dent of Jewish

tion as “satisfactory.” consumer are going to get hurt.” (ing. # ’ - : » ; ; ¥ iL