Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1948 — Page 25
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By Ed Sovolal
A DESIRE to build mixed well with plenty of
pencils and paper and dreams and, most of all, hard work equals one architect—maybe. That's the essence of what was kicked around by a young man with company paper and -pencil and myself. Well, we also kicked around quite a bit. of the boss’ time but since he’s usually the guy who pays and.pays, he'll probably pay again. Whether you thought about it or not, should you go poking around the Architects and Builders Building, yow'll find architects, This is mentioned because sometimes the name of the building has nothing in common with the type of people you'll find there. Ask anyone in the Odd Fellows Building and not a one will admit he's odd. Get it? Willlam Newhouse, 22-year-old Purdue University extension student, was found hunched over a drawing board doing what he calls detail work. “Architect?” Bill quickly acknowledged the greeting and just
“as quickly did some verbal erasing and penciling:
»~He said. he was a junior draftsman.
Just Then the Boss Walked. In
“DON'T GET the mistaken idea just because make the afternoon worthwhile. It isn't often you!
I work in an architect's office that I'm an architect,” said Bill'and stiffened slightly. You guessed it, the boss walked in. 1 "Merritt Harrison of Russ and Harrison, archi-
A smile for the city . .
. Bill Newhouse, junior draftsman now, wants that architect's diploma
so he can build.
NEW YORK; Dec. 10—The switch ending is a device employed by the late O. Henry to lend a fillip to small stories about small people. It is also known as the twist, the surprise and the snapper It happens all the time in New York, which is why New York is a nice town to watch. I have here an ersatz hillbilly. He is a reverseEnglish success, just as a little Italian bootblack I know is a success. The shoeshiner got.to be a millionaire by shining shoes in Wall Street board rooms; and cashing in on the tips. He is still shining shoes, aithough
"he could sell out some of the tycoons whose feet
he furbishes. He keeps his contacts that way. My ersatz hillbilly is a .-nan named Paul Arnold. He is a- product of good schools. The
. closest he has come to the high hills is Denver,
Colo., and Dayton, O. He studied for grand opera, and has sung with the Cincinnati Opera Co." He sings baritone, and he ean commit it in Italian. But that ain’t how he eats, folks. He eats, and real-regular, off Snuffy Smith songs--ballads from the deep bootleg belt. - Paul can spot Burl Ives three “Foggy Dews” and an “Irish Lullaby” and still run him a dead heat. Paul igs even such a switch ‘on folk-singers that his politics tend toward the right.
" Snooped the Market Places
PAUL became a folk-singer on purpose. He quished him, to see who was selling fast. He found that Mr. Ives, Miss Susie Reed and Richard Dyer-Bennett were all racking up the chips. This was well after the Army snatched him from the golden maw of Hollywood. This was well after a chunk of kindly intended publicity beat him out of a job in. a New York musical.
Paul whipped the folk-song racket with a prop plaid shirt, a prop beard, a pair of rump-sprung pants and a battered guitar. The git-box cost $12.
prem lf tete
tects, glanced about the room “and went about minding his own business, Bill proceeded.
As a junior at Purdue, Bill's had enough work: == ah
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to be able to letter, and do basic structural drawing and figuring. And that under the supervision and direction of the cHief draftsman. “You mean you couldn't design a building like
that?” was my next question as I pointed to a
drawing of a fine hunk of masonry on the wall. —~-~He laughed. I laughed: We both laughed until Mr. Harrison walked in. We had to explain that we weren't telling jokes on company time and 1 don’t think he believed us. My presence was explained, In full I also told how our conversation culminated in a laughing jag. Mr. Harrison joined in. The 16-floor building of pencil and paper wasn’t the type of thing Bill would tackle just yet, he sald, which made the junior draftsman a pretty accurate speaker. Mr. Harrison, -a Cornell man, filled in a few -.more details which made it pretty evident that Bill Was wise in continuing his education and next year taking his final work at the University of Illinois. “For that building it would take 300 drawings, 20x36 inches,” said the architect and continued to
can gas around with one for free.
A-perspective drawing-of-a building is nothing! -
more than a small model of what the owner will get, said Mr, Harrison. “Is-that right?” I asked Bill who didn’t think
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it was time for being facetious. After the boss left, the former Marine who, spent two years and eight mopths: in the Pacific, | used Leatherneck language to'ask if I wanted to! » get him fired. | Anyway, Bill put his pencil aside and said his| first objective was to finish school and then get his license. Without the two hunks of paper a man is bumping his head against a brick wall. That isn't good even for an architect. oT I Bill sees something besides pencil marks on his drawing board. As we sat looking across University Park toward the Renaissance architecture of the Athletic Club (a customer walking into the office would have thought we owned the joint), Bill told how he would like to give the town all| the residential homes it needed. He would like to!
. clean it up and replace every dingy hovel with!
a sparkling new home.
Town Could Be Made to Smile |
“THIS TOWN could be maQy to smile,” the young man said slowly and you had the feeling| there was more behind the remark than he was| going to tell because silence followed. In the late afternoon shadows and smog and| the bleakness ef thegark, Bill's crack about mak-| ing the town smile was quite a mouthful, You never know. Bill, the young guy with a pencil and drawing board, may be the one to make | the city smile. His day dreams sure sound good.| Thanks, boss. | . | -
BEER
“By Robert C. Ruark Tm TTT soos
Dew,” “Old Dan Tucker”'and “Water Boy”—all in |-
the same key. , Using his beard as a fulcrum, he.pried his way into CBS, in Chicago, for $125.a week. They had offered him a staff salary of $75, but Paul indignantly told Walter Preston, the program director, that he could make more money chopping wood. Paul couldn’t slay a sapling with a buzz-saw, let alone a double-bitted ax. When they told him to cut a 15-minute record for approval, he was forced to deliver a highly imaginary travelog on the beauties of the sunset in the Tennessee hills, because the four skimpy songs he had memorized couldn't stretch to 15 minutes.
Saws Off His Whiskers
HE SAWED off his whiskers and traveled from CBS to sing at one of the plush Chicago spots largely because he had added some smutty songs to his list, and the new employer. liked ‘em blue.! On Feb. 2, 1948, he went on a program with Paul] Whiteman asa practicing hill-william, and that! steered him into television. | I'll hand you the fast finish. After being flout- | ed by Holywood, after conceding a crack at a Broadway musical because of being publicized as}
. gainfully employed in a hash-house, where he did
Bohemian-type roundelays for his dinner, Paul is an established star of television. For eight months he has decorated a popular
Monday program, because the big lug is easy to look &t in addition to singing real pretty. It's a
matter of time, only, before thé movies that spurned him come shopping round again, He has toured the hill-country in search of new | material. He is also an accomplished guitarist, with a repertoire of over 500 earthy songs, In his pauses at the Kentucky whistle-stops, he
regrown his face-foliage. He fitted into the camp “meetin’s just as cosy as the coifection plate. People like Paul keép your faith firm in this
‘omists don't know what they're talking about.
in America argue about-what-good; if anything, is a dollar.
fow to“-have —in- hi
.....80me said. a. dollar is a fine hing. for a. fel. Dr, :
s pocket. Some claimed | Still others said .it was worth too: much, while the: professor from the
dollar in’ name only.
He said it ought to be called the zoflar. : i
- They All Tried to Look Wise
"A COUPLE MORE professors from a single college (Harvard, to be specific) couldn't even
_ agree on whether the profits-of American indusfry, as counted tn ‘dollars; zoilars;--er-‘wampum,
are too big, or too Iitfl&. ~Afibther professor from: someplace else said he thought profits were about
_ right as they are.® 4
The Senators and the Representatives on the joint committee looking into thie economic state of the nation listeried politely. The Senate caucus room was full of economists, mostly smoking pipes and all looking wise. Nobody seemed to feel like a dope, but Te. And I was desperate; I had to write this dispatch about the deep thinkers. At one side of the room was Dr. Louis Bean, the only economist I know personally. As economists ‘go, he is a famous fellow. Works for the Department of Agriculture and a while back wrote a book, which a lot of people thought proved the election. would ‘turn out the way it #
For three long and deplorably confusing days, to write a piece indicating that, a 1th ; been—listening to economists don't know from nothing.” They can’t lems and to enlist their co-oper-
some — E: of the most distinguished economics professors agree on anything, including how to keep a .set ation.”
“Me could play four chords on it. A tidy man, he town. It's one of the few big market places where! knew only four songs to go with the four chords. you can turn an empty silk purse into a sow’s ear He had memorized “Old Smoky,” “Foggy, Foggy full of gold. - ! - . ’ = { Yankee Dollah By Frederick c. Othman ~~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—~Congress will be in- did. terested to learn . . . I hope... that I now have citizen, who is easy to talk to, I took nry prob-’ the word of a distinguished economist that econ- lem to him.
And I-told- him I feared I would be forced ing- lay. citizens.into the schools It seems to be the handiest for gs a class, to acquaint them with the prob- me since 1 can’t afford a car an
of books. Qbviously; they don’t know what a] dollar is, because they said as much, and I told: ni-was not impressed by their knowledge. ou can include BEEN “te
Unjon Lawyers Made Some Sense
Raps Indi ~=found-the going easy, because he had thoughtfully. ~~ Ea one ibai ‘Among Chief Complaints of Small Farmer Toward Schools E War Veteran Tells of Struggles to Make Living | On 160 Acres of Land in Oklahoma
By MERLE YOUNG, Written for the United Press NEWKIRK, Okla, De¥ 10—Well, we have had a couple of | . Indifference of Indiana citizens snow storms here this winter so far. How's the weather in New
condemned today by the Indiana
Dr. Bean in addition is & solid kind of of the Hoosier education system.
there is evident need of “draw- a 1947 ij-ton Ford plekup-truek. 13 or
00. SHE he sorb anlies 6¢ school STHbIaTs dy wite-and.I-live-in-sn. eights He added that economics was an ‘inexact science. a4 the same time, most commu“And you better underline the word, inexact,” | nities + do little to induct new University of Michigan said a dollar today'is a he said, “and put quotes around the word, teachers-and make them feel wel- three rooms. science.” |come. | °
Gorgeous George is a wrestler . +. not too good, not too bad. He hit the jackpot when he grew blond curls, Before he will enter a dressing room, Hugo, his valet, must spray it with dis-"
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Commission Reports | On Study of System
toward their public schools was York treating you folks?
I am 23 years old and have ~~
emphasized been married 16 months. I drive A
The commission
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Ford truck together about
Coroniission members said their
study disclosed —sgme teachers’ * fo-undue restrictions hy Peiled combine-on,
room house on a 160-acre rented
farm. We only. furnished and use °° their
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Skip Opportunities”
by Floyd
Pras
As an actor, Gorgeous George is tops. in the grunt-and-groan league, he has graduated to the standing-room-only class with an estimated annual income of $100,000. He appeared here complete with marcelled hair, colorful robes, a sneer To hold the head mop in place, he wears gold-plated "Georgie Pins" designed by Hollywood hair stylists, Hugo applies
This commonly is called. the brush-off. Gorgeous George gets the treatment before every performance. Hugo enters the ring first carrying a silver tray, silver spray gun, small mat and larga yellow towel with the initials G.G, Then Georges — enters to the boos and jeers of a crowd that detests him so thoroughly it’ cannot
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_ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1048
From the lean days
ference Machinery Black Market and Tie-in Sales
Leo, I got your letter afew days ago so I will try to give you School Study Commission as IL78 HtHE to work on. 1f its not enough: tet ue: know and I'l try 10. completed its eight months study. give you what you need, as oT combine that sold for about] 14 hundred
1946 is | around $2000 now, if you can find |
the farmers. | ® They say food prices, clothing 1920 ste., are 50 -hignthey cant iver gio
Well, the manufacturers (may- $2560 be) lower their prices some, then $2000 I'D LIKE to see thé next Con- pay us less and they still. make $1000 gress give the farmers a better thé same leaving the farmers be- § 250 A large number of parents; the price protection program and en- hind the eight ball with nothing § 150
...BY NOW. the professors had about finished'commission said, fails to take 4d=. courage -more--foreign- trade. I'd.at. all to. say about it. their dissertations upon profits and up came, a vantage of opportunities to work jixe to see all these labor disputes
couple more economists representing the labor unions. They, at least, agreed. They, at least,| -I-could understand, . They said American busi-
‘messimen--are charging too-much. for.stuff and. ifidifferent . toward their #chools. plack. market. Also, I'd like to they don’t quit it they're going to bring a de-ithe commission, reported.
Safety Club
pression crashing around their own ears. Nelson H. Cruikshank, representing the AFL, | was the politest. He said that prices of nearly | everything have gone so high that they have brought on a serious shortige of buying power. Rep. Walter B. Huber of Akron, O., complimented him for leaving out the double-talk. Businessmen are gouging the people, said the CIO’s man, Stanley H. Ruttenberg. He said they are making as much money as they can while the making is good. He thinks that this policy| is dopey, Big business will give him an argument in the next few days and I only hope that BB also manages to talk-in language that makes sense. ,
The Quiz Master
???. Test Your Skill ???
Is cranberry sauce of American origin? Cranberries have been used in the form of sauce in the Germanic and Scandinavian countries tor centuries. Cranberries grew wild in America before the coming of the white man, and the American Indians knew how to make a cranberry sauce using maple sugar. ¢ +o y What was the nationality of the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt? She is supposed to have been born in Paris about 1844 of Jewish descent, although she was baptized a Christian when a child and wis educated in & convent. + +.
When may a lamb be referred to aa hog? When the lamb is about one year old and has Rot boon shorn. iB
. legend that on one occasion Ke threw his cloak,
* play in Hawaiian history?
Who won ~the first international automobile race at the Indianapolis Speedway? This race was won by Ray Harroun driving a Marmon car “Wasp.” The course was 500 miles; and the time was an average of 7449 miles per hour. ‘> >» Who was “the Knight of the Cloak”? Sir Walter Raleigh is given this title from the,
over some mud in her majesty’s path to enable ‘her to walk dry shod over the puddle; , = What part did Lydia Kamahaha Liliuvokalani
Lydia Liliuokalani was the last Hawaiian queen. She was deposed by a revolution shortly
.iJohn Q. Kirkpatrick, education to sell this corn lister and culti-
with teachers for the benefit of settled some way so that we can their own .children. Many citizens are still too in- 3n4 not have to deal with the
HERE
he neéds.
To Hear Foster /which I had to have, I had to buy aren’t so
Harvey G. Foster, special agent a cultivator and corn lister, too. |
gation, will speak at a dinner him take it so I had te. meeting of the Industrial Safety
Claypool Hotel. |trailers already so I didn’t take Activity reports will be made the picker. I couldn't have sold by G. R. Cummings dnd Howard the trailers. because. . that’s T. Young, program committee co- thing practically all the dealers chairmen; James P, Tretton Jr. have and can't sell many of. and Harry A. Tilson, member-| If they would keep more of the ship and. reception committee co- new machinery here in U. 8. inchairmen; Raymond A. Shipley stead of quite so much going overand A..E. DeMars, constitution seas maybe it would stop a lot of and by laws committee co-chair- this black market and forced men, and Charles E. Sumner and machinery business. I'd sure like
and training committee co-chalr-{vator—Fve-got-because I..can't| men. raise much corn here in OklaJoseph C. Cunningham, presi- homa. No one wants it here, dent of the Industrial Safety Club, will be in charge of the meeting. we have to buy are way out of] wi ————————— (line . with what we get for our|
Sponsor Yule Fete
Catherine Merrill Tent
the Civil War, will hold its an- pretty well nual Christmas dinner and ex- now wheat is $2.12 here. change at noon Monday in the new Grand Army League Hall. [the tractor I paid about $1550|Schenck,
before the United States took ovér.
Mrs. Leona Graham is president./for ia selling for over $2000 now.|tractom
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isee Congress or someone stop this:& man st { business of forcihg a man to buy a 160-acre rented farm if he is ! extra equipment to get one thing lucky enough to find one. This is his living which is hard to do. At conference. vijust an average upland farm like|the For instance, to get my tractor these farms around here that person with none at all to start
penses that
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example that will § 400 get machinery when we need it gngwer the next three or four of | [your questions; 1 based this on gy arting from scratch om .
Club of the Indigmapolis Safety picker I'found I had to buy tWo0 age on this farm which is about Council Tuesday evening in the trailers with it. Well, I had two right for this type land.
There are a lot of small exwould add up to 7 : i in end. The) i ule an TUE Ie not 890d farm the first thing. I'd buy {be living on a 160-atcre farm and| farm 160 acres because of some! the ground being In. stock]
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Another laborious evening over, Huge helps his master don his sporty and perfumed clothes. But George has a confession. Beneath it all, he doesn't like the whole operation. He's getting tired of wrestli to hang up his tights, cut his hait-and raise poultry, marcelled feathers?
It just never, never would do td, have one hair out of place. After all, what would the public think? Naturally, Huge combs and combs. The publicity stunt has pai off in the catch-as-catch-Recently he—has-appeared ‘on-a-dozen top-national — radio broadcasts, Here he matched holds with Joe Wolfe, Colums
It All
out victorigus in two out of three
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“Leo Turner of the United Press’ New’ York staff wrote to
a farmer friend in Oklahoma |
and asked him how he was getting along. He Invited him to comment on polities, the world. situation, how the crops were coming along, what he thought Congress ought to do aud any" other subjects that Thtérested him. Here is the reply. The writer Is a veteran of World “War Hand Is working a rented farm near Newkirk, Okla,
is |
Still farm products that we sell For-just 160 acres I'd list smaller and I did buy a two-ton 1947 are lower. I think {he nationwide equipment than would be needed M. Petersime; both of —Gettysa strikes that are often pulled off to farm more. month_.ago- to haul our-seif-prox gre a big- threat. to
acres farm tractor bushels bushels or total left for self income for self tractor: combine plow spring tooth harrow - wheat drill cash rent seed wheat ..™} ofl .. - ! grease - EXpAnes = » . LET'S SAY the livestock made
| 1280
$300 $ 200 25 10
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price of livestock now, a
with would‘ have to buy them
If a man has good bottom land and that's more expense. of the Federal Bureau of Investi- The dealer said the factory made he could do better but that's mighty hard to find,
My own cream and eggs won't
Let's say buy my groceries. Eggs are only When I went to pay for my.cornithere's 12 bushels per acré aver-|30 cents per dozen and butter fat
{65 cents per pound when we take {them to town. Still we pay the |grocery ‘skyhigh prices for the same thing if we buy it back: If. 1 had the money I'd buy a
a lot of furniture, etc, for instance, an electric cook stove, propane (bottle gas) heating sys-
|nice car of some kind new or used, new radio, etc. If machinery was a reasonable
|with machinery than with horses because of being able to do a (faster, bigger and better job. You |have to cover a lot of ground now
(to get anywhere. I think you can’ : RICHMOND, Dec. 10—Ground- see what I think are the general Court Officer to Speak {products. Sure,’ we are getting|preaking ceremonies for a new injustices to a farmer from what la fairly high price for our wheat, women’s residence hall at Earl-[I've written. 9,:but.. machinery, fuel, ‘etc... have ham College. were. held yesterday.!. y Daughters of Union Veterans of gone a lot higher and left things The new $433,133 building will be ship. shot from under me, it was unbalanced. ' Right|designed to harmonize with Earl- the aircraft U.8.8. Liscome | ham Hall, the present 100-year.(I repeived the Purple Heart from dinner of the Indiana U That's lower than last year and|old ‘women's residence. R. E.[that deal. I.sure hope we can Chapter of the American te
You asked me the name of the Bay.
oon-|miss any more wars. i looks bed though te me,
So
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: {purg, 0. Dr. Schwalm, chairman ——
% for landlord discuss the trend in modern mis-
TAO Haning and Raymond-Hine—.-a-
pasture. only farm 120 weres-of ict; 1s” what we would iike. A stock pasture, I'll say he farms| a full 160 acres of wheat ground.| A ont Tor oy arn §200 price. it would-be. chespar 19 RE i 1 do-farm twe farms, though.
Church Laymen Annual Conference To Begin at 9:30 a. m.
| The Annual Laymen's Confers ence of the Southern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren will be held at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow. in. the First Church, 3201" tN: Capitol Aver = ~~~ Speakers will include Dr. V. F. |Schwalm, president of Manches[ter College; T. Wayne Riemaxn, [professor of religion at Manchester, and Moyne Landis and Ray
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lof-the Foreigh Missions Commis- .
{sion of ‘he National Brotherhood’ |slons.” > er : > Prof. Rieman will speak on [“Creative Human Relations” and" "Helping Others to Become What God. Meant Them to Be ~~ Other conference leaders will !include Joseph E. Fisher of Lafayette; Earl Peacher of Muncie;Dallas Barnhizer of Cicero; Done ald BE." Meyer of Kokomo; J. H. | Mathis of North. Manchester, and [shaw of Indianapolis. “Roy X. =" [Mathews is local chairman of the ps
| Both morning and afternoom {sessions are open to the public. {
Public Accountants
To Meet Tomorrow
| ‘The annul tax meeting of the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants will be held {tomorrow in the Athenaeum.: A luncheon will precede the business
|session, a | A new state office of the asIsoclation has been opened at 1602 |Merchants Bank Bldg., with Roy
|W. Steele, assistant secretary|treasurer, in charge. Assoclation officers are Wile liam H. Walker, Indianapolis, {president; Ralph J. Whitinger, { Muncie, vice president; Marshall |G. Knox, Indianapolis, secretary, and. Clarence W. Long, Indian|apolis, treasurer,
Times State Service - BLOOMINGTON, . Dee 10 | Francis Hughes. commissioner of . [the Federal District Court ny | anapolis, will speak at the annual
for Public Admis 6:30 p. m. Monday. '