Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1949 — Page 13

liked it. ; - . \ y it was time to quit, an elderly lady back to earth by asking, “Young ‘the clothes hangers?” I told her.|

Orders were being taken for the

was tough to get their permission to practice Tarkington. book even though it isn't to be released until

* autographing. Somewhere in their experience they

mt —————

1° have become accustomed to having an author next month. Just like orders for “You, Too" bring his boo

ong. I came with a pen. They but nobody knows when it will be released. : 5d HOOKS, ANY @nd all would Kathleen Barnes; 250 N:- “AVE, 6 me A practice in a copy of “The Gold Shoe.” Leonard Chauvin, YMCA, handed me a copy of “Peace of! Mind” shortly afterwards. I don’t remember if! he got a clever few words or not. i Kay Marie Harryman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank’ R. Harryman, 2047 E. 46th St. asked to have “Dumbo” autographed. Those are the! books that really make witty little gems appear like magic. I think. A

] k Ex A plenty of i setve my purpose.

OE LGN TT So

group because of the fact|

{make his complete court and be home, or at work, at the time the!

Ave, offered a real--opportunity for gallant fight to beat the disease. I wrote: “I! “bad it’s not written, published and at your favorite by census enumerators. : The score keeps going up and up. Mrs. Julia | your book.” So am I happy.- Fifteen requests’ By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER, Science Service Staff Writer watches as a would-be author messes up a book. people” is my dedication. Some time next April the census taker will knock on your door down to the youngest infant in arms. +The evidence to now in the 5-per cent hearings pouse, because he will come) for another day of training. cyni¢, or something, but I cannot seem to steam They listen more like the marks fresh in from pretty hard to stand. on a porch day of counting, followed by a 1 guess I ought to send some wires to Conman like this Hunt fellow, who says he knows a forms. They can and will do it,/with the agricultural census that of monogrammed match-boxes, seems mighty percentage for swaying the ‘favor. | things out on your dining table « = =» deep-freezes had been twin-diesel yachts, but I graphs myself, and in one week-—one single week, | midable than are the questions) man, woman and child in the naretirement, of course—had been offered and acflap the wallet. This is teo good a touch to skip. his information. and the interview| This sampling is done in a differ1 would like to hear some.hard talk about | formation about your name, sex, lowdown on war shipping. Also war-time airplane was practically nothing, in 1946, that a hausfrau, rated, place of birth and whetheriquota system, which works like and the same denomination of bureaucrats, you the take. They are forever getting presents from | UNCLE SAM IS sending anand talk to people until he has whit EYP YN L oh 15 BUN Withy A ATE EARN ES PL RY tC seen. BE o-map showing ; g-the:boundaries There's Always the Flashy Guy blame him, much, either. He is of the Missouri done in about two weeks. Experi-|interviews are conducted or be-| pushcart on the corner. Coote jays. —Tt-i8-the old deal in the lost shipment aware of the penny-ante politicos we have in-! rators will be re-| = » = Always the flashy entrepreneur leads the suck- ; 150,000 enumera Little highmindedness can be expected from!

Inscribed Book on Polio MRS. MILDRED CLAYTON, 3822 N. Tacoma} when she handed me “My Place to Stand” by| E. ; Bentz Plagemann, a polio victim who describes his | Ra know what Be miana Complicated sorting machines such as this government em“I'm ready to sign copies of “You, Too.” Too, ployee is operating will code and catalog the information gathered - book counter. Be patient, one of these days we'll] 4 ; have a party all our own, you, “You, Too” and me. | Uncle Sam Completing Plans for - Chesser, 454 Franklin St., Shelbyville, writes: “I'm | of hews, Nieces happy to add to those encouraging you in writing | Count of Nep ew ’ RO aE : . ,., added to 1045 makes 1060. 1 have the dedication] YOUR UNCLE SAM is now completing plans for making h'é Practice . . . Russell Arnett of Greenfield of the book finished. “This book is written for regular decennial count of all his many nephews and nieces. ’ x land will ask you a series of questions. You and your husband or i a ~ : wife (if you have one) will be counted and so will all the children Ice OoX Boos : By Robert C. Ruark Bett: k him to come in and| : r i er as - . sit down when he arrives at your/he will encounter, he goes back NEW YORK, Aug. 16—Maybe I am a sad old - makes some of our business boys seem as naive. armed with lots of large sheets| The enumerator who will work over most of the 5 per cent stuff from Wash- as Little Eva, and I am slightly ashamed of them. of paper in a portfollo. And it is/in the country will have a second ingt 3 h pape t ngton. Weehawken than sinister traffickers in govern: or in a field in the wind and fini third day of training. That is be, gress saying “lynch the bums,” but the gift of ment contracts. They stumble into town, meet a out all the places on those big cause. his work ‘is complica deep-freeze for persuasive purposes, or a batch | a SHR man who can fix it, whips out a signed photograph but it is much nicer for the is being taken at the same time skinny skulduggery. _ to prove his point, and allegedly collects fees and census taker if he can spread as the population census. Oh, sure, the moral'{ll is the same as If the It is a shame to let this racket rest in the or living room sofa. Ton id IN DPDITION to the intatmys y ) - or-' tion that is gather or ev would be more interested in how many promises nands of a few. I got a couple of signed photo-| The papers are much more g y of big corporation board-ol-director jo post- mind you—I once had two letters from J. Edgar| themselves. You will probably be| Hom, Wadi fonal op i be [ e i sample of the ation. cepted by some of our high military folk: when Hoover. Step up men, state your needs, and up- surprised at how quickly he getsiput toa p pop they were still on active service. , od by th : is over. The averagé is about 15 ent way from that us y the 7 ou Always Get In on the Take | minutes to take down all the in<|election pollsters, and a way that the readjustment of war-time contracts at J ’ ; SE 1 end of the war, and I would just dearly love the si indi CERNING Mh § THulauS possible pu oF no Face, whether you are married, he more AeutaLe. ad : 't fa lsingle, widowed, divorced or sepa-| Election polling is done by the contracts, and how they grew. . she is guilty as charged, I can’t fault her, There When you are dealing with four-bit politicians, wouldn't do for a good ice box. {you are working or unemployed. a. The itervigwer i lnstuce + | sie. star n . got to expect a little squeeze along. the line, just Anyhow, the presidential family is always on as the copper collects his ice from the bockie . delegation and that admirer, and I suppose, SHY ioe cura Saker : ui au Bummer if you start in on turkeys and barrels of apples, the field. Ea « = vs “ 2 : ory 3 3 Ok AH -fr : § lS 1 ‘size of the i Bjcep frecass wai 1 bet I can buy more with 100 Concerning Gen. Harry Vaughan, that star tn | Dis assignment. The size of the biased £ y 2 the crown of the military, I don’t suppose you can political stripe; like his boss, and out yonder nothTHIS whole hullaballoo in the capital keeps ing much was safe, including the apple in the reminding me of the O. Henry stories of clipping : ~~—1-don’t see_how-we-can-get righteously riled: ation 1s estimated to be about what like himself in social or of Brazilian diamonds, the hot fur racket, even over a bevy of .deep-freezers when we are fully 150,000,000, between .140,000 and| economic class: the old green goods dodge. ’ stalled in high places, quired for the job. | THE CENSUS instructs the er to the key man, who will, supposedly, put him {9 Your enumerator will Bavelenumerators to ask uestiong next to the faintly snide trapsaction. ; 0 a man who would turn loose a pi

is belleved by Census officials to

avin the required age, sex, and | v er. Ampor ant shat acteristics clude the: following: Do:-you ‘haveliine et ton AORN PheKes: SlectrTe THE?

| district is arranged so that he can that certain people are not at}

{ence has shown that he will be|cause the interviewer selects peo-| | able to count about 1000 persons ple he thinks he would like to) in that time. Since the total pop- talk to and so gets a group-some- |

%

The enumerator above is interviewing an agricultural worker. A special census covering farmers

in the United

is planned along with the regular enumeration covering every man, woman and child States. - Census workers take a special training course. to fit them for their jobs. THE CARDS are sorted and resorted and totals are made for each age, item of The information is then printed

i

a. i RN A compilation of census information on a state and national basis is to be made on this automatic machine. Tabulations are

then sent to the printer.

printer. automatically by machine.

each of our a suburban fringe that is not within the city limits. Those live ing in this suburban fringe were listed in the 1940 census as non« farm rural population,

sex, race and other information collected.

n big tables, ready to go to the All. this work is done

Principal new thing about the

1950 census will be a change in the definition of rural and urban population. In 1940 persons were listed as city dwellers only if they lived in places of 2500 inhabitan

ts or more that were regncorpQrated, But around cities there is

In 1940, boundaries will be ese

“tablished for the suburban fringe around the cities of 50,000 or more inhabitants and all the peo~ ple living in this area will be . classified as urban population. In

those towns of 2500

. population’ or more, but which,

for one reason or another, have never been incorporated will be counted in with the incorporated cities as urban population. The definition of a “famiiy”’

| believed a fair cross-section of could be used to punch the cardsiyin also be slightly different for

{the nation is reached. jautomatically. Under this plan If you are that “fifth” person, the census enumerators would will be asked where you/make use of a special metal penlived a year ago; the country of cil to fill out the questionnaires. birth of your parents; what lan-|These metallic marks would later guage, other than English, was be “sensed” by the machine spoken in your home when you which would punch the cards to) were a child; and, if you were correspond. born outside the United States, pirst flaw was detected in trial about your citizenship. : censuses. The special pencils Housing questions to be asked turned out to be a nuisance. In| of every fifth occupied house in- the first place, the ink leaked on|

| |

8 BDO YOu NAVE SE a Pot “On the drases “or th radio? What kind of refrigerator jadies: interviewed. But .. more do you have—electric, gas, or ice|jmportant, when the enumerator box? What kind of stove? What haq asked his questions and was {fuel do you use for cooking? For al ready to take down the anheating?

. Cw. Istrike and refuse to write. | ‘HEN taker has 3 WHEN the census take i tht : allo

completed his task, then the real] |work begins in Washington. The through ‘the machine properly, the {information must all be trans-questionnaires must all line up {lated into a code and cards must Perfectly. and paper o the Jie be punched with holes corre. Used in the questionnaires shrinks p stretches

or his Latin American neighbors in

}

the 1950 census, related persons living in the same home will be considered as a single family, ever though there may be more than married couple living together in the household. ” 3

SOME of the information that is to be obtained from only a

that pertaining to length rt

age and ag i The op ‘masiied charaons’ Vill: be |asked if they have beén married

{more than once and how many |years have they heen married. Women will be asked the total

number of children they have |swers, the pencil would go Onhiever borne.

To the Census, all people who

gojhave children are married. There is no tabulation of unmarried people with children.

In 1950, for the first time, Uncle Sam will have the company of all

{sample 314 per cent of the population {

uth College st,

lin at Third St.

Eastern Avenue i

{ +

| The Quiz Master

g in the White peen: specially trained for hislabout housing, for example, inisponding to the coded informa- and —with_changes making the census. . Agreement House, or from his employer, who would laugh work before he calls on you. If every fifth house or of every fifth/tion, a card for each person. At|Weather 20 thal # cannot bé kept has PE reached on what Susnt at the pig and later award Vaughan a medal for yoy live in a city, he has gone toperson seen, covering his entire the peak of production more than perfectly aligned. mation to record for each person his outrageous conduct in Union Station, Thus, the main reliance williang how to tabulate it, so that

| school for one day, and then has| district in this way. If he is ask-{1 million cards will be. punched ——— for the first time, comparable ~ . By Frederick C. Othman of t

[gone out for a day of practice in ing in every fifth house and they and verified each day. (sti be on the army of key punch] census faking. And then, having|are not at home, he'goes back un-| Af one time" it was hoped that|operators to make the cards thatifigures will be available for an i the Americas. vod . . to keep it stocked with ice cream of two flavors. GIS Utility Names chocolate and vanilla. This has caused me to!

faced a sample of the problems|til he finds someone. Thus, it is'a “documeént sensing machine” |wiil go through the tabulators. Iv re iaiarieptamen in : oe o — ’ Ss ; Cn Hawaii to Cite Bleaching’ Skin | # gain 15 pounds. “Those with gratis freezers, of RSE RS

Personnel Chief .... = "=~ i the other hand, are looking thin and peaked. t of Carl D. Kant-| One lady, whose husband got a free freezer! Appointmen ! I ges in | pg e dlngerous Chemical. impractical,

wrote the manufacturer in Milwaukee a pretty|ner a8 divector of person] and : Union Chief Defied Court by Picketing Physician - Says By Sclence Service

note of thanks. He was forced to reply that he industrial Cok was glad she liked it, but if she wanted to thank Gas & o he the donor, she'd better drop a letter to the Albert Utility, was a HONOLULU, T. H, Aug. 16 (UP)--The Hawaiian government WASHINGTON, "Aug. 16-The planned today to seek a contempt [scientist who ™ first investigated . |over a decade ago the strange

Somehow in the shuffle the finger-man and the key-man got lost, leaving the gull with a baffled look and a dent in his hip pocket.

“Frills That Chill

| | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—A deep freezer is a nice thing to own—if you've paid for it, Other‘wise, it's likely to burn your fingers and make i you the subject of scorching cartoons in the newspapers. I know about this. IT pajd for mine. My bride enjoys it more &ven than if she were the wife of a government bigwig who got it free from a Chicago perfume maker. I mean she doesn't have to worry about getting rid of it in a hurry, while her.-husband fumes to reporters: No comment. Our deep freezer is ‘a white box with blue trimmings and a lid on top. Inside the tempera-' ture stays at zero, except when the machinery breaks down. Whén this happens it costs $28 and two days of anguish to get it fixed. Anybody who. owns one, paid for or not, should have .a friendly butcher. He can keep the food cold while the motor 18 being patched. A home food freezer is good for preserving’

Earn $37.59 for Polio Victims

Kantner

Verley Co., of Chicago. nounced today When we got our freezer, all I had to write!®Y citation against CIO Longshore President Harry Bridges who per-

was a check. This relieved my bride, who isn’t 8er Thomas L. much of a. letter writer anyhow, of penning thank- Kemp: : you notes and maybe sending ‘em to the wrong Mr. J . sonally defied a court order |against picketing yesterday. | Mr. Bridges and AFL Teamster|

felHow- = Stocks Up With Beefsteaks + trial {President Arthur Rutledge took! lup posts as pickets before the,

_|White js authority for the fact that the chemical treatment, give _/en publicity in a national maga» § zine, is impractical and dang ous.. : 4

ONE OF the finest things our freezer does is'de partment of store beefsteaks. The longer it Keep 'em, the Firestone Indus- . tenderer they get. They come out frozen hard, trial Products in like brickbats, ang would be excellent for batting Noblesville. A “we Kantner Matson ship Hawaiian Mercha down the ears of bureaucrats who accept gifts. resident of "No-. : {shortly after a circuit judge had! After thawing on the kitchen sink for about blesville, he is married and has issued an anti-picketing order. { an hour, a frozen steak, when fried, is excellent/one son. . | ‘Territorial Attorney General | Si eating, indeed. That is, if you've got an appetite] He is a graduate of Wendell| yaar Ackerman sald he would! BB Yor anythirig out of a freezer. Some people; I un- Willkie High School in Elwood}, Judge Edward A. Towse to tit ti derstand; don't, eat: . . and Ball State Teachers College! iia Mr. Bridges for contempt. : We also keep meat for the pup in our freezer and took graduate work at In- Mr ” Bridges’ action defied a and bread, which stays fresh for months, When [diana University. new law forbidding interference my bride makes stew, she makes a lot'of it. There- with government stevedoring alte pes she decides to serve hash for dinner « loperations. 0 she chips off a chunk with an ice pick. * - Getting an ice pick in 1949 is a project in itselr. Reports Purse Stolen a eee, th ough A . oe We. finally found one in a rural hardware store.| A visitor from Denmark told! inion "threatened to upset the Ice picks ought to come as standard equipment police her purse, containing Pass- government's stevedoring operawith deep freezers. port, boat tickets and valuable Pa-(tiong by throwing picket lines If Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan and Co. want ice pers, was stolen shortly after herig;oung ‘vessels being worked by picks for use with their freezers, I can tell them arrival in Indianapolis yesterday. government stevedores. where same may be obtained. But I warn 'em: They| Miss Martha Jansen of Den-\" This would have the effect of will have to pay. My store charges 15 cents each mark said she took a taxicab keeping crew members off the for ice picks and it has no free list for hotshots. from the railroad station to the|yessels on grounds that they

home of her sister, Mrs. Petria/would have to cross picket lines, + 77? Test Your Skill ???|

4

them mushy. And mushy raspberries seem to be what certain federal officials are receiving, . full in the face, today.

Thanks the Wrong Feller t

THE perfumer sent one of these gentlemen, noted for his hearty appetite, two freezers. This is too many, because they are inclined to be noisy. Our kitcheir buzzes most’ of the time with our single freezer. Two of 'em would make it sound like a trolley car on an upgrade. i : Every once in a while our freezer has got to be .., defrosted. I do this with a putty knife, which scrapes the snow off the sides. This snow is colder’ than the regular stuff, or so it seems, but not nearly so cold” as the reception being given the six mighty men of the government who got their freezers on the cuff. . Since our® freezer was delivered, I have tried

tired skin specialist of the U. 8. | Public Health Service living here, . | “He recalled today that Negroes in a tannery at Waukegan, Ill, found that their arms and hands {were turning white. The cause {was traced to’'a hydrocarbon in : :'the rubber gloves they wore. | This effect has been the sub{ject of hope exploited many times that the color line might be |broken, but applications on the |skin are slow and patchy and {not satisfactory. No one has dared take the chemical inter. nally as it would have to be ad ministered to jproduce a uniform effect; “because the chamicat is poisonous. Ade, The chemical, the monobenzyl

I———

Visitor From Denmark WE Children of the 1600 block in E. Kelly St. earned $37.59 from a carnival staged for the benefit of polio patients in James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. They presented the money to E. J. Shea, assistant administrator of the Indiana University Medical Center. Above, pictured with Mr. Shea, are (front row; left to right) Elaine Meyer, Marcillis Rohrman,” Marlene Jurgen and Janet Meyer; (second row) Janice Kelley, Myrna Meyer and Carolina Kelley. Bobby Green, another of the group, was absent when the picture was made.

into a union challenge ¢ of the law. Mr. Bridges strolled jauntily

Anderson, 4018 N. Keystone Ave,| The Hawaiian government en-

and paid fhe driver from heritered the stevedoring business in purse. After entering the house an effort to reopen the docks

DeSoto Director

(with her luggage she discovered which have been strikebound| across the entrance to pier nine ether of hydroquinone, “is a Who designed the Seal of the United States? 1y tne elephant the only animal whose air purse missing. Police are in-|gince May 1. and started | picketing as a deputy Addresses Dealers bieach that is used as » Pigvens can be used for ivory? : : Joshes Police sheriff read to him the ‘order| ..., ponson, director of ad é

Cy | u———————— ds (trade name Age-Rite-Alba). It Continental Congress appointed a committee to ‘No. The tusks of such animals as the hippo- Local Man Arrested - Government . stévedores ~have| MAKING picketing illegal.

| Late in the afternoon of July 7, 1776,. the vertising in DeSoto Motor Corp/

. ! ] At one point he turned to Hono- : orth Uni ring RK; seal for the Uhited States potamus, walrus, and narwhal are-also' used for rh. started to unload 11,000 tons of : ! : "Detroit, was to address more than but any dark pigment. It has_ North Union St. hing Wp & Sevice Jor & ivory. : On Gaming Charge fertilizer from the Panamanian|!ulu Police’Lt. Joe Kam and jok : a _|beén. used medically to blead ry i of America, but it required work by several com- pk > o % ; | Albert Minter, 59, of 84214 N. freighter Nortuna ingly remarked: 90 central Indiana DeSoto dealers fiver spots on White people... ¥ mittees before a design was finally adopted. The .. = =. . = Brigham Young have? California St. was charged with The -government intended to Xt Wo wis tis Strike, Sven theiat a district meeting at 9:30 a. m.| "py, "gop warty recalls that wi it Spencer Ave, ; actual seal was designed by William Barton, a Bik ¥ " Hon hr ”» keeping a room for pool selling put the stevedores on the Ha-| *OP® get a wage increase.” ltoday in the Hotel Antlers. a |it was proposed to feed the I» vate citizen whe had studied heraldry. rgham Jtoung, Mormon paneer, 4g and keeping a gaming device to- wallan . Merchant, too. But Mr.| n Materials for reconditidhing'icdl to Negroes experimentally he i ) YY ° children. At the present time there are only two 4. when arrested at the Monte Ackerman explained that crew CHAPMAN-REUNION skT vy

Washington St

20 “A” Avenue |

| F The words “red “tape,” denoting official in i

used cars, including a ‘“cold/could not securé any suitable voi

What 1s the origin of the expression “red surviving daughters. - |Grille, §01 N. West St. Officers members aboard the Merchant Descendants of Reason 8. metal” that will rub over and fill lunteers. ne © i , > Ho a {armed * with a search warrant| had told him they probably would| Chapman will hold a reunion Sun- xn rusted areag of an automobile,| It takes t Where doés Mocha coffee come. from? {said they found 118 books of quit tha ship if government steve- day noon in the 4-H Club build-|will be demonstrated. Ray R.| produce the g action or delay, originated in England in the 18th’ ‘Mocha woffee comes from Arabia and takes its baseball pool tickets in the estab- dores boarded it. ey ing at the east side of the park Fisher, Cincinnati regional man-|sk

century ‘when offfétal

documents were tied In a r : : center for coftee..

name from the city of

ager, will officiate. A luncheon |i .iwill follow the demonstration,

.ia, ”

in Washington, Ind. Oral Chapman is chairman. TT wi

Mocha, a great SH Tent where Minter was em-| If Mr. Bridges is arrested

y (plo, . case undoubtedly will mushroom

a

T

LS

{phenomenon of Negroes turning

| He is Dr. Louis Schwartz, a res

|bleaches not Negro skin alone, g

In 1950, all the, =~ |

|