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SUNDAY, DEC, 12, 1948.
Inside Indianapolis |
By Ed Sovola
WOMEN, bless them and’ keep them, are terrefic. -Yes, terrific, and how. they ¢gn involve a
peace-loving man in a private A ith their.
own kind isa puzzle. They involved a peace-loving man, however, and the quicker we hew to the line and let the chips fall the better. Neutrality is pleaded from this corner in the discussion which is to follow. Remember,” I'm neutral. this argument with both feet although I'm stick ing my neck out. This thing (Why Does the Woman Who Doesn't Work for a Living Eat Downtown Exactly at Noon Thereby Occupying a Working Girl's
" Place?) got its start when a poor misguided crea: (from fatigue mostly), rolled her
ture ‘sighed brown. eyes as if she were a pinball machine and declared her feet hurt.
Before I could shed a tear from my Woe Kit,
Miss Working Girl of 1923 asked if I knew why her feet hurt. Before venturing one of 100 guesses
answer. She Eats Standing Up MISS '23-SKIDOO wailed that she had to eat her lunch standing up.. Furthermore, she saw women who had no business downtown or _anywhere else, sitting, stuffing themselves, smoking leisurely, gabbing and otherwise making. life tougher than it is on the girl who works for a living. The histrionics included a demonstration ‘of how all this i done, too. "And brother, when you get a bitter woman to show you how her sisters contribute to her general discomfort you've got Academy Award stuff, “You _ should do something about it!” she screamed, tearing the lapels: off my coveralls. “Don’t take my word for it, ask other working _ girls what they think. You can help us. You sway public opinion. Millions read you every day,”
_ & wonderful girl shouted with my encouragement. |
« Before I knew it, I was on the hoof making the rounds of tea rooms, restaurants, dime stores,
hash houses, cafeterias, and I.even watched a man
with a hot tamale cart for a few minutes. 1t can safely be said no problem exists where hot tamales are concerned. Supervisors of service and hostesses (same thing) were consulted. Waitresses were consulted between parfaits, bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sand-
---wicheés and salad bowls. It was difficult to get ‘a
word-in- edgewise where a group of yacking matrons were concerned. In one instance I was told to peddie my shoestrings elsewhere. It is true that in the better tea rooms where luncheons still are within the means of a whitecollared girl, one can find numerous examples of dilly-dally on the.part of the lady who isn't worrying about the old timeclock. A woman of the menus pointed to a table of four time-to-burn women and then asked me to ohserve another party of four which was leaving. She said, “Ten to ohe they stop and talk for five
minutes.” Aopped., salked. aguaaled, pl ned bridge parties, invited each other for tea, promised to
meet sometime for lunch and, generally fouled things up. -
I don’t want to get into .
that were in the tip of my tongue I, »Eot the
‘records the other day, an impor-
{started a movement for some kind ‘lof celebration if I had taken over)
rlamented:—
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
— City Parks’ 50th rs
Garfield Founded 75 Years Ago
By JACK THOMPSON If intuition --bhadn’t . prompted City Parks Director A. C. Ballee to rummage through some old }
tant milestone in the history of Indianapolis would have slipped by unnoticed, This nearly-expended year is the 75th anniversary of the founding of Garfield Park and the 50th anniversary of five other parks in the City system, Mr, Sallee t that we al 5 learned while thumbyng through) find out tha almost over dusty documents. “No doubt I would havé made the discovery in time to have,
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Garfield Park's $ sunlen gardens. als years of, font Wh
a “big jamboree in obsérvance ot dent Garfield was assassinated in citizens, Mr. Taggart was suce looked a Sdiataong jubilee’ and the occasion. : 1881. {cessful in getting an ordinance 2 "rm t “w some olden anniversaries,’ ™ Mr. oantn the co-operation ry Uncovering of the musty park through the City Council in 1897 The half-dozen parks which week-long celebration that would feCords recalled the struggle ‘dt appropriating $300,000 for ine almost got..by. the 50-year. mark put the Mardi gras. to. shame," the turn of the century, cham- vestment in park lands. ri {without so much as a ‘‘fare-thee-!Mr. Sallee mused, his eyes light- | pioned by former Mayor Thomas In the follow ing year, thene well” are Riverside, largest inthe ing up at the thought of square Taggart, to provide an adequate Mayor Taggart, with some sups jcity; Highland Square, Indianola dances, hay-rides, . barbershop! park system for Indianapolis. - port from the newspapers and [Squate; "Morris Square in Bright: quartets and sigydar gay events Broxd streets easily acoommo: ra couple ~of community leaders, iwood, Brookside and. Spades. . | Garfield was the first park in dated horse-drawn conveyances pushed the city into the purchase
the department earlier,” the mild-| mannered, White-haired director
Mr, Sallee was appointed to the’ top post in the City Department
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0, barry «. . say the working oir who at | noon are waiting to grab a bite. |
‘A Waitress’ Plea
“IF ONLY the women who have. time would come in about 1:30 in the afternoon, after the rush
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is over,” she said, “everyone would be happier.” (At the risk of incurring female wrath, my) thought is that a thing like that will never hap- | pen. Women aren't built that way.) t Most of the opinions from the people I've) talked to concur with the above. Others simply stated ‘they should .go home and eat.” T don't know, women confuse me. Especially in an argu‘ment about other women. "y | It is true that numerous Mammas and Juniors occupy seats and put on exhibitions of child psychology in reverse. It has been observed that women waiting for a seat will express displeasure at those lingering over coffee and cigarets and turn right around and do the same thing. * Along with the original question I received ap-
“proximately 5000 other gripes pertaining to trol
leys, buses, elevators, escalators, buggy-pushers, revolving door speed artists, shoppers in a hurry, shoppers not in a hurry, and the list is ism Frankly, you could write a book about women (oh, yes, you could) and make a million. There is no doubt in my mind that, if milady, ate at 1:30 or went home to eat, the situation for the harried, working girl would improve along, about noon. But, there's ‘no use kidding myself or Miss . Skidoo, no one is swaying anyone to do any ae ferently ‘than she has been doing. It would be nice, sure, but not oREIbIe, Women | ATAE0InE. to sik. whe, shonld be. standing. omen... are going to stand who should be sitting. Gad, Fm glad the men didn't get dragged: into this.
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Mine Hero
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By Robert C. Ruark
* "NEW YORK, Dec. 11—FEvery man has his own personal hero—George Washington, Abe Lincoln Sonny. Wisecarver—but I write my fan letters to 4 man named Joe Carter. “Joe Carter leads the life. I -would.love- to lead—except I think I.ceuld lead it better. Joé’s breathless adventures dppear, from time to time, in my favorite publication, Vogue magazine. Tucked in between the plunging necklines and outlandish coiffures, old Joe is the embodiment of Vogue's idea about how a young man about New York should act: His fictitious deeds of derring-do also serve as a most convenient shill for an advertisers the editors might tke to ...Plug..
A Few Suggestions, Perhaps
JOE'S CREATOR always has the boy meet--ing- beautiful -European-girls--as- the -Queen--Mary--docks; squiring this luscious crumpet to tea: dining with this bundle of sugar-and-spice at the plush deadfalls; dancing the feet off ethereal dazzlers at joints where the headwaiter sneers at hundred-dollar bills, When he works or who pays his tabs I have not’ yet been able to discover. As a matter of fact, if his inventor can use a gratis hunch, I would welcome a brace of Pieces entitled “Joe . Carter Balances His Checkbook,” and “J. C. Takes “Rest Cure.” This could even be permanent, However. Last timé I spent an evening with Mr... Carter, the title was ‘Joe Carter. is Enter- - tainéd,” ‘“Entertained” is a mild word for what I read as intent between the lines. The thing should haye wound up with everybody stretched ~full- length .on . divans, nibbling grapes like the -old Romans, with the dancing girls doing nip-ups from the chandeliers. But not old Not my boy. Listen to this ~-#izzling prose: had met Elizabeth Warren the last few days of summer at Bar Harbor. They “"had “played “a 1ittle mild “golf together, rubbed --ofl-on-each-other's ba Joe had won $18 from her: at backgammon.” Gad, sir, what a Ks A With this" purple, scented ckground, it was only suing Elizabeth beckon Johor up for some
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v-and; on: the last peght;
der: how he won he. ¥ war, *
intimate hash-—especially since the hero, gone! momentarily berserk with spending, nae treated her to a return of “The Baker's Wife,” a faintly naughty French cinema only slightly less time- | eroded than “Birth of a Nation.”. I tell you, Joe was in a tizzy as he anointed himself with heathér-hair oil and flicked the ashes off his purple and fine linen. Joe has been up to eat with girls before, and I gather at some time or other he was forced to flee screaming into the elevator.
Vogue says he is accustomed: to girls who pat his cushions, light his cigarettes, smother him with his favorite flowers and ply him with whisky" and music -until--a man just’ naturally feels cramped. “Somewhere,” says the author, “Joe believes As the perfect balance; the bachelor girl. who dines and wines you well , , . without even faintly resembling a hostess on a world cruise.” 3 Joe's panic mounted as he rapped timidly on the doll's portal. He was sweating up the box of chocolates he carried in his hand, and even| his carnation’ had an apprehensive curl to its] petals. Joe didn} know whether he'd wind up| in Rio in the white slave trade, or else get sone; into hanging the curtains.
He Wants Nothing—Else |
HIS SIGH or relief blew a gasket when he saw | Liz had asked another couple to dinner. Tad, the other man, was an ad agency-type fellow. IT believe his wife was an intellectual Communist, The hostess tossed a‘ couple martinis into them, and after ong,of the dullest dinners on record, turned on ‘the phonograph. The ad agency boy played solitaire, His wife was asleep. The hostess was knitting. Between purls, she glances. warmly at Joe, and indicates whisky, cigarettes, and the evening papers. shakes his head, and from here in it's quotes. “Isn't there anything you want?” slie murmurs. | “No,” says Joe, blowing her a kiss. it. ” That's my. boy, Joe Carter.
Sometimes I won-
He Won't Talk
* WASHINGTON, Dec. 11-Here was: still an-. “other ‘boy diplomat with an’ airedale haircut,. thick. - : eyeginsten, a de luxe education, and a strong aversion to talking about the government secrets embalmed on film inside Whittaker Chambers’ Dumpkin. THis one was named: Honey: Julian: Wadleighs=: the fellows at the State Department called him
CU TeHAN—ANA somehow he managed th Took RE the" other slfn® young men, called. up by the House
Un- -American Activities Committee to testify about swiping federal documents for Mr, CHambers’ Communist pals. The pudgy Mr. Chambers, who reformed and took a job as senior editor on Time magazine, (he resigned Friday) accused ‘em all of slipping him the mysterious papers, some of which he sent special delivery to Moscow and some of which he hid in his scooped-out pumpkin in Maryland. Several of the youngsters from the State Department (they all are in their early 40's by now, but they still managed to look like college youths) testified that Mr. Chambers was a l——r. One, name of Alger Hiss, sued him for libel. But . Wadleigh fiddled with a match folder, occasionally rubbed a bandage behind his right ear and in accents slightly British (he was educated at. Oxford University) he fell back on his constitutional, rights. .
Committeemen Bluster and Beg HAD HE STOLEN the government's top secrets for Mr. Chambers? Did he know. Mr. Chambers? Was he a friend of Mr. Hiss? To these and every similar question Mr. Wadleigh blinked into the photo flashlights and said “he refused to answer because he did not want to , take a chance of incriminating himself. The committeemen begged him. They blustered at him. They told him he ceuld be guilty either of perjury—or of treason. And not even that,
thanks to the statute of Hnitatfons, 1 His alleged 198%.
AT HE
By Frederick C. Othman
crimes: occurred: no-jater: Mr. Wadleigh said his attorney had advised him| not té answer, The. lawyer, one Herman Greenberg, had decided only a few hours before the
hearings began to represent. him no. Tonger.— To sail arguments: Mr. Wadleigh turned. his: injured.
ear. He wasn't talking.
his career in“the New Deal. His tale soundéd identical to that\of the other young men caught 11 thé pdmpki“pusee. He was 44 years'gld at the moment and job-| ‘less.- But when he was 28, soon after he'd finished his studies, he went to work for the Farm Credit Administration.
Wadleigh Goi Around
CAME-THE NEY DEAL and he was an economist for Henry Wallace's Agriculture Department. In rapid succession he moved to the State Department, to the Federal Economic Administration, and then back to the State Department, where he spent the war years. When the shooting was over he moved on to the late and unlamented UNRRA. Wherever he went he was an economist, helping make up the government's mind on what various peoples should eat, and when and where and how much. When he talked about this, he uged standard gobbledegook. He evaluatéd the needs of countries such as Turkey and Belgium and France. He made continuing studies. ‘I can excuse the fancy language, the trick accent, and the standard haircut for young diplomats. But I do wish this one had seen fit to say flatly that he was not, either, a traitor to his country.| He looked like a nice young fellow, as did the others accused by Mr. Chambers, and you couldn't help feeling sad, listening to him refuse to incriminate and degrade himself.
The Quiz Master
??? Test Your Skill ???
Uron whose death du Chopin write his famous funeral march? - Chopin's famous funeral march doen not ¢ ex“press grief over the death of an individual, but . expresses the Polish composer's feelings over the t~ss of the Indspsnidente of his native land, .
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Were three-cent pieces minted during World War II? ; Congress authorized the ‘Secretary of the Treasury to mint three-cent pleces during the war, but no coins of that denomination were" struck off,
[October by Mayor Al Feeney. He
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Because of. the belatedness in what later became a network of in the. 1800's. . There was plenty of property for four of the six learning of ‘these “high years’ in |scenic public recreation spots here of space for wide grass plots and 30-year-old parks, the history of the park system, that ahoually attract nation-wide japreading shade trees, The remaining two parks ace
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0 ars until the Democrats lost! Sierg can.be.no. celebration this, jattantion., iirlone fren oll BB ~. lquired in 1898, Morris Square and [out in 1943. ar, a { ONLY a few, including Mr Spades, were given to the city,
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| \ THE ORIGINAL 98-acre tract Taggart, could envision the city's These six parks, along with Gare Sallee has for the park was purchased 75 need of expansive recreational field, formed the backbone of schools and|years ago for $109,500. Known areas as it became crowded in the present system, which cone here will start thelat first as Southern Park, its|the years to come, ‘sists of 15 major parks and arly next spring for name was Changed after Presi! Over bitter _Opposition of many rabout 50 50 publie ‘playgrounds.
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our parks dated back-a long way, civic groups but it certainly was surprising to pall ‘rolling e
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