Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1948 — Page 9

Inside Indianapglis

i By Ed Sovola

“TO THE glory of Universe.” | ; ' : Those words are to be found on the north end of the Scottish Rite Cathedral, a structure which makes anyone turn his head and look.’ Look and wonder, too, what's on the inside) ° There are those people who have wondered what the interior looks like since the cathedral was completed and occupied in 1929. My two years of wondéring, however, ended by simply asking to see it. Francis Smith Ross, official guide and tyler, sald simply, “This way, please.” After only a few steps you get the impression ' that such elegance and beauty couldn't possibly

the Grand Architect of the

> and workmanship must have been created only a moment before and would vanish shortly as in a dream. Mr. Ross explained the entire building with thé exception of one room, the library, is finished in Russian white oak. There are no nails in the Scottish Rite Cathedral, a fact that becomes more incredible as the tour goes along. The guide pointed out the panels in the general committee room, the first to be visited, and traced the perfect matching of the grain. The eyes follow a design in the wood around the room until in the last two panels the knot has disappeared. The panels were all cut from one log.

300 Windows—Mostly Stained Glass THERE are 300 windows in the building and

everything, Mr. Ross said ,is built with 33 feet in mind or multiples of 33. The multiples of 33

* Scottish Rite Cathedral . . . grandeur, on the inside as well as the outside.

have been put into use throughout the entire structure. Although most of the windows are entirely of stained glass, several, as in the committee room and the library, are of frosted glass with two or more small pieces of colored glass. This, it was explained, follows a European custom where careless workmen were required to insert a piece of: colored glass as'a reminder wherever a pane had been broken. Today fit serves merely to break the monotony of the window. The library is an octagonal room on the southeast corner of the building and is exactly the same size as; the committee room. High points of American history are vividly depicted nthe five art windows: —The-woodwork,-to;

those who are accustomed to plywood, as I am, will take your breath away. Mr. Ross went on to the lounge, just south of the main lobby, which is finished in a Tudor Gothic fashion with marble floors, more Russian white oak, hand-carved imported table that would take 15 men to move and rugs which make you want to take your shoes off. We proceeded to the tyler's room, or entrance, which is a perfect cube of 33 feet. Mr. Ross said the room was to remind Scottish Rite Masons of three things: The life of Christ; the 33d and last degree of Masonry and a constant reminder that every Mason is “on the square” with everyone, Travertine marble is used in the cathedral about as much as most of us poor people—usei casein paint.in the home, It's used everywhere white oak, imported damask ang plain white marble isn't.

‘Grand’ Is No Over-Used Word

THE GUIDE'S vocabulary {is generously sprinkled with the word “grand.” But the Scottish Rite is one place the word doesn’t sound strange or affected. The Grand Stairway is a fitting prelude to the Grand Salon. The dimensions of the Grand, Salon, also called the Ball Room, are 94 feet square and 45 feet high. The floor practically makes you float. In fact, it's called a floating floor and it's built on top of springs, felt, more springs and finally white oak squares trimmed with black walnut. | ) Every room has a special significance and was specially designed and planned right down to the furnishings, pictures on the walls, pla t of furniture and color. To give you an idea of - - building

comparative cost; was originally completed for $3! million. Mr. Ross stated a similar structure would cost $30 million today. Remember, the cathedral was finished in "29. The auditorium, where the ritualistic work of the Scottish Rite is given, seats 1200. The organ is located in the ceiling and the sound comes through a fine wire mesh. There are 5000 pipes in the organ which cannot be seen, Only the console is visible. The banquet hall reminds one of the days of King Arthur as seen in books. There is an unobstructed floor area of 50 by 160 feet and 3500 people can be served if all cooking facilities are used. ve

Yes sir, you wonder before you see the interior and you wonder after you've seen it. One thing sure, little was overlooked when it was built.

13 Big Shots

By Andrew Tully

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Touch Of ‘Sea. Cruise’ To Driving

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Photo by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Phidtographer. synchronization of downtown and through-highway stop-and-go signals next year. will help relieve the situation.

crawl:= Housewives drive downtown in the late afternoon fo carry their spouses home dry. This adds more cars to the jumble. City and state ‘have promised

Rajn, especially a heavy downpour, has become

one of the city's worst bugaboos. When it rains-dur-ing the evening rush hours (above), traffic slows to a

Motorists hope that

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Just by looking at their pictures, it's pretty hard to guess whom President Truman was talking about when he said there were some big shots in Russia anxious to have peace with the U. 8. The men on the Soviet politburo—13 of them— look pretty much alike. Of course, seven of 'em have mustaches, but that doesn’t prove anything politically, at least not in this country. The politburo, which runs Russia, amounts roughly to a cross between our cabinet and the brain trust that used to help out President Roosevelt when the Democrats weren't looking. Its official name is the policical Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, (B.) the B stands for Bolsheviks. Once there were some Mensheviks;, too, but the Bolsheviks were better shots. ” Nobody seems to know how come the politburo. When it-was formed, back in 1917, it was just a “bunch ‘Lenin got together for an occasional round table on such matters as who do we shoot next and where are the rest.of those czarist jewels,

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TODAY ALL the big jobs are held by politbura members. They're supposed to get elected by the Central Committee of the Communist Party but the committee has been around long enough to know the score and always lets the politburo do its own picking. Then the committee approves them. : Stalin is secretary-general, or boss, of the politburo. Russians look on him as a saint—so it’s said. He has a mustache and his name is the easiest to pronounce. Sometimes he lets the politburocrats argue with him just for a gag. Not much is known about the other members, due to a notable lack of personal press agents in the Soviet paradise.

Short Circuit

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But there are people like Anastas I. Mikoyan, who introduced Eskimo pies and canned orange

juice to the poor russians. You can’t hide that)

sort of thing. Then there is Lazar M. Kaganovich, who built

the Moscow subway. and Lavrenti P. Beria. He/ } looks like a professor, but watch out. He's the| |

guy who purged the purgers after that misunderstanding in the 30's. Vyacheslav M. Molotov is pretty well known in America as the vice president in charge of saying “no” at United Nations meetings. He's also the Soviet front man—knows how to act at a tea party.

‘Banker May Be the Guy

MAYBE Nikolai Bulganil is one of the guys Mr. Truman was talking about. He used to be a banker and probably he’s still got a lot of oldfashioned capitalistic ideas. Or there’s Nikolai M. Shvernik. He- answers all. the letters the politburo gets from peasants and workers. Perhaps they put a bug in his ear. And what about Nikolai A. Vozenesky? He's

of those a much better living over here. Then there.are Nikita S. Khruschev, whose job is to keep the Ukrainians happy; Alexsai Kosygin, the ‘youngster of the lot, who's premier of the Russian Republic, largest of the six in the Soviet Union; Georgi M. Malenkov, Stalin’s former private secretary, and Kdementi E. Voroshilov, an old mainstay who kind of messed things up during the war but was kept on because he and | Stalin were revolutionary buddies.

Go ahead and take your pick, but don't expect|

any hints from Moscow. Those boys all have good jobs and there's something fatal about getting fired over there.

“By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—How many thousands of ladies got vacuum cleaners and electric washing machines for Christmas, only to discover there was no juice to run ‘em, Sen. Willlam.. Langer of North Dakota, doesn’t know. But ‘he’s doing something about it, mesdames, and you'll be blowing fuses yet in your all-electric kitchens. The Senator got to worrying about the$ problem when in his travels about the country he noticed long stretches of electric light poles with no wires connecting them. ... Since they all seemed to belong to the rural electrification administration, he called in the head “men to ask how come? George W, Haggard, the administrator, said yes, sir, he had 22,000 miles of poles in-the-air—shough to stretch-across-America more than seven times«—without a sign of a wire on their cross-arms, Some of these poles went in more than two years ago when thousands upon thousands of farm families looked out the front window and bought electric toasters, percolators and massagers for sore backs for use on the great day when the switch was thrown. They're still reading by coal oil lamps the literature that came with the electrical widgets. ’ = Mr. Haggard said he had plenty of poles, insulators and transformers. But -he couldn't get. enough wire, So thg gentleman from North Dakota hauled in the manufacturers of electric wire, which is made of copper, copper welded to steel, and aluminum. And talk -about your shortages. '

Everybody's Out of Everything

THE Anaconda Copper man said his firm couldn’t get enough copper. The Aluminum Corp. man said his firm was fresh out of aluminum. ' William W. Ege, the general sales manager of the Copperweld Steel Co., of Glassport, Pa. the only firm in America that makes combination copper-steel electric cables, said he had plenty of

tricity and

steel and enough copper, but still was plagued by shortages. ‘ Of, t, for instance? him. “Ege said he couldn’t get enough elecgas to melt the copper -onto-the- ~ The Senator ordered him to Pittsburgh to tell his troubles to the power and the“gas companies. Then Mr. Langer demanded that Maxwell E. Noyes of the Aluminum Corp., tell why he couldn’t

get electricity to the farmers’ wives on aluminum.

wires. Mr, Noyes said the only thing that prevented this'was a shortage of aluminum. =

“Yes;” said the Senator: “and three countries|

got aluminum from us under the Marshall Plan and then sold it back at a substantial profit.”

Mr. Noyes said that was Canadian aluminum. |3

The Senator said yes, and those Canadian plants were financed by Jesse Jones when he was bos of the RFC.

Aluminum Man Can’t Win

“AND isn't it a fact,” asked Committee Coun-|

sel George Riley, “that aluminum is the most plentiful metal on the face of this planet?” Aluminum-man Mr. Noyes couldn't win, He said it was a fact. But he couldn't get enough electricity to refine it. And, furthermore, aluminum wire cost less per mile than copper wire and he has so many thousands of orders that he can’t possibly begin to fill any new ones until "1953. In the meantime, he said, all customers look alike to him and... . “They don’t look alike to us” roared Mr. Langer, banging the table and ruining his cigar in the process. “We don’t propose to let these farmers and their wives sit there with those poles and no wire. We propose to find out why your company isn’t giving them their proper percentage of wire. They're going to get electricity.” That does it, ladies. Lay in a supply of fuses and keep those washing machines dusted off. They'll be of some use yet, Senator Langer promises it.

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A similar situation is to be found over the cotnty gener where new housing developments have sprung up. This lake fo 4 just east of the 3100 block of St. Paul St. rr

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While rain forms pools of traffic downtown, lakes of water, such as the one above, are formed in the outlying areas. Here Mrs. Mike Stivers, 2004 N. Auburn St., points out the “seaside view" to her neighbor, Mrs. Melvin Gough, 2002 N. Auburn. Lack of drainage forms the lakes.

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Marooned on their doorstep, Mrs. Virginia Schwieterman, her son, Johnny, and Bobby, the deg, can only look to clearing skies for relief. More than || years ago WPA constructed an open dite

along St. Paul St. But many of the residences along the road, like the one here, are below ditch level.

Coroner Deputies To Be Installed

The Water rose so high around the home of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Edwards during the recent rain that the family had to be

| evacuated. The county has no sewer plans.

Mostly About People . . .

school chums, Billy won the third of service to Indiana livestock and deciding round from Carol people through his work in Agri-| Hulse, 14, after she had tied him cultural Extension Service, were by taking the second match in the awarded Certificates of Distinc-| Dr, Jerome XE. Holman Jr, all-city championships yesterday. tion today by the Purdue AgGri-inrason County coroner-elect, toe $8. {cultural Alumni Association. | ced Dr. Albert Einstein will under-| ooo a" Coe presented at the oy Announ his staff of depgo an abdominal operation to-| oc i siorid annual Fish Frolic uties which will be sworn into morrow to cof; "ya eavette which.was presided (office Saturday morning. Formal installation will be per-

pest B ORE over by Glenn W. Sample, Indistanding condo pqpolis, alumni president. formed by Judge Joseph Howard (at 10:30 a. m, in the coroner's

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General Finance Re-hearing Set

The State Department of Financial Institutions has set Feb, 9 as the date to begin re-hearing of the charges against the.General Finance Corp. The finance company is charged with “irregular practices” in the sale of used cars in violation of State law.

Two Indianapolis Boy Scouts, Richard Oassady, 3928 Kenwood Ave., and Robert Montgomery, 3906 Graceland Ave. have received the Honorary Award for Conservation. Bcouts Cassaday and Montgomery worked as a team co-operat-ing with the State Conservation Department. They discussed conservation measures with farmers and newspaper editors and planted trees, erected animal feeders and)

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill ???

For how long has this country had government Secret Service? The first government Secret Service was organized in 1864 with 28 Secret Service districts under the Treasury Department for the detection and arrest of counterfeiters, ete. Originally it was not cerated by law or recagitiang by Congress. ° : | When were bricks first used? Man made sun-dried bricks out of clay from river beds and used them for building over 5000 Fears ago.

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Has the Red Sea changed its level since Bible days? The Red Sea, whose waters are given Biblical credit for the miraculous ' overwhelming of Pharaoh’s army, has undergone no natural change in level in 3500 yours. .

* ‘ Are there any animals able to reproduce lost parts? x

animals, are able to newt loses a log or tall it will grow again.

Newts, which live on insects and other small|City, reproduce lost parts. If aifinal hear

did forestry work. The award was founded in 1920 as a recognition for services to wild life. In the five years tracts, had been in progress for|prior to ‘this year, only seven ' badges have .bheen awarded. The|

three months. two Indianapolis scouts were two,

The hearing which involved overcharges and other practices, such as the signing of blank con-

¢lan. said Soap) Songstress Margaret Whiting! Dr. 0. N. Olvey was announced

in New York. The operation con Wn vie NH ait Jeriom h Columba Broad- as Dr, Holman's chief deputy. Hospital, where casting System Other deputy coroners will be Dr. Dr. Einstein has vice president, Ezra D. Alexander, Dr. Joe H. |Jewett and Dr. Paul G. Dintaman. Three hospital physician depu-

been under ex- honeymooned in Hubert Hickam, attorney for of gix others to win the award amination. Hollywood today ! ties were named. They are Dr. Irwin Salkin, Dr. Clarence R, Me-

the finance cempany, contended this vear. following their that the hearings had been in- ’ ® wn # Dr. Einstein AY Las Vegas, Nev, valid because a majority of four| ghirtdensyear-old Billy Monroe Dr. Einstein's condition was not Marriage yestermembers of the board had not of Long Beach, Cal, is the city's malignant. "day. ‘Intire and Dr. J. 8. Bean. {attended throughout the hearings. champion marble shooter today x x =» It Deputy coroner investigator James R. Emshwiller, Hartford but he’s stili blushing over how! Dr. E. CO. Young, dean of the first will be Roy Pope Sr. retired po{lice captain, “The deputy coroner {assistant clerk will be Mrs. Mar|forie Osthoft. ¥

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