Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1950 — Page 17

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ICE CUBES have only one use for some people and carving animals and birds isn't it. This carving business sort of surprised me, too. Hans Vieten, Claypool Hotel pastry chef, was whamming away on-a 300-pound hunk of ice with a chisel when I wandered into his domain to look around. A faint outline of a donkey pulling a cart ‘showed on the side of the block of ice. “Something new 'in pastries?" : “This is for a big party tonight” answered Hans. “I'm making a shrimp wagon. You have eaten shrimp out of an ice dish, yes?”

No Shrimp

= “NO. Never get invited to fancy parties. Wing- . dings 1 go to have containers but they don’t hold shrimp.” “Anyway,” continued Hans, “I chip and cut the block: of ice until I have whatever I'm carving. Sometimes it's a bird, sometimes it's a donkey never know.” There was plenty of chipped ice around if a man with a parched throat desired refreshment. But Hans only had the ice. I only had the parched throat. Little short of ingredients. “Ever have a cake of ice break where you don’t want it to break?” Hansg' laughter, bordering on the hysterical, told me he had slipped with the chisel. Many times. Slips, however, weren't as aggravating as accidents. Hans doesn't care much for slips on the way to the banquet table. : . “Last week I had carved nine 20-inch letters. One of my boys dropped the G out of Seagrams as we were setting the. table.” Hans’ German accent became very pronounced as he groaned. “Ach.” “What did vou do, Hans? Make a G out of paper?’ :

Ice formation . . . It takes a steady hand, a "feel to carve a donkey out of a block of ice such as Hans Vieten completes.

- Hans was wearing Edgewater Beach Hotel chef's

- ice to get anywhere,” said Hans. I've learned the

“time he was telling how he made two race cars for

pecially if everyone was having a lot of fun,

“Carved another G out of ice. The company is paying for ice letters.” . “How long will.it fake you to carve the donkey?" : “Hour and a half. Maybe quicker.” s His biggest job was carving a replica of the Buckingham Fountain, the famous Chicago waterspout- which operates in Grant Park. At the time’

clothes, He used a dozen 300:pound biocks of ice. The donkey was, taking shape. A person had to use a bit of imagination, of course, but there was no chance of mistaking the work for a dog or cat. Hans said’ he learned ice-carving in the old country. A chef in Switzerland showed him the tricks. Pick clear blocks of ‘ice. Have sharp tools, Cutting should be deliberate. Sharp blows on’ soft, grainy ice lead to disaster. “You have to get the feel of your tools and the

Oldtimers always resort to the “feel” of something. They “know” when the soup is done.- They “know” when the seasoning is perfect. Ice chips fell to the floor in a steady torrent.’ During moments of intense concentration. Hans wouldn't say a word. Sometimes he'd stop ir a middle of a sentence and then take up where he had left off a couple of minutes before. He was working on the donkey's ears about the

a Firestone pre-“500" party. Everything seemed to be going along well. I got the part about the ice rdcers-being the size of midget cars when a small chunk of ice fell to the floor and Hans changed the subject abruptly. He asked not to be quoted

Part of the donkey's right ear wis gone. Hans ‘Oth Mt } to wot surveyed the head. The left ear would” be to the A, al the Central YMCA : front. He could shape the right one so it would be ployed as. a cal for look as if he intended it to be that way. penter and cabinetmaker “That's what happens when vou think of some Mi Ukins was born in a log he was thing else,” remarked Hans. “Not much damage tabi near Hobbyville Ind done : see “eb. 19-1871. As a small boy he At room temperature the donkey and the cart he_was given a jackknife and would last for three hours. The ice would melt alli he has been whittling ever weld since

over at the same rate of speed and to the casual eye the change would be hardly noticeable. Es-

Cross Your Fingers YEARS of experience have taught him to have his carvings complete at least five hours before they were scheduled to be placed on the banquet table, With that much sparé- time, a man could

take care of unforseen accidents.

He called for help to one of the bakery workers before he had the last cuts made. When he was—satisfied. the donkey and the cart were quickly moved into a’ freezer where the temperature was 12 degrees below zero : “We'll move it out in time for the party.” said Hans. “Will you keep your fingers crossed. about 7-o'clock—tomght >” That will be easy, Hans.

By Robert C. Ruark

Recipe for Grief

— NEW YORK, Feb, 25—We seem to have just —

drawn the last gasp in_ “how-to” journalism. a final payoff on the blabbermouthery for which our age is noed. Life magazine now gives us the second installment on how to build an atom bomb, for-handy household use, and who are we to won-". der why the Russians got the know-how ahead of schedule? : The latest Life has put out a monumental issue. Apart from the newest Churchill antique, it has offered a prescription for our military aches and pains, plus a Good Housekeeping recipe for the concoction of the A-bomb, Even under inflation, Life costs only 20 cents. This is-a reasonably cheap charge for the lowdown on the riddle of the

age.

No Secrets Betrayed NICE THING about this short cut to everyman’s extinction is that Life breaches no confidences, betrays no state secrets, <n its open approach to atom-smashing. Everything it tells came from unclassified handouts on atomic fission. dispensed for all to see and to admire by our own uninhibited experts. : What Life is saying is that any jerk who is reasonably handy about the house can build one of these things, given some basic machinery. Machinery isn't too tough to come by. The Rusgians have been buying the necessary components from our industrialists for years, In the current scheme, a good wrangler of nuts and bolts is more valuable than Dr. Einstein. Life can tell You, now, about how plutonium is produced in piles, and will hand you the details of the Hanford plant in Richland, Wash., with no small fear of incurring the wrath of the old pros, because the founding fathers have given away all the dope, already. Gen. Groves, the boss boy, “located it for posterity in a publication called the Military Engineer (June, 1948). Life will show you the shape of the A-bomb, and tell you about the K-25 plant at Oak Ridge, where U-235 gets divided from U-238 To effect this cleavage, you take a pinch of this and a dollop of that and boom! Fruit cake!

FEPC Fantasy

.up a holocaust.

— What the magazine is proving: think is-that—<

nobody needs spies any more, so long as our own folks keep shooting off their faces. It is, a waste] of time and money for the Russians to infiltrate our high piaces, when our own lofty people will do|

the job for them if they will only lean back in|

their uneasy chairs and collect handouts. The Smyth report, on which Life seems to base its! recipe, has evidently covered all the main steps in how to blow up the world. : I am notably an unhanly own house, when it comes to fixing fuses and repairing the stove, but Life makes this atom operation awful tempting to play with. Barring a few| technical details, like radioactive water, and what | to do with an unhousebroken isotope, 1 figure I| could rush off to the kitchen and explode us alll before next publishing date. The book’s come al long way from the naked Japanese female pearl-| divers who graced the initial issue. f The only thing about this simplification of the main mystic process of our time is that it is now left open to the amateurs. We assume all spies have committed hara-kiri, out of sheer pique. and that the fissionable chafing-dish is fair game for evervbody with a flair for bizarre barbecue. This! could possibly cause trouble. °

There's Danger Ahead

SOMEBODY has remarked that a little knowl-/ edge is a dangerous thing. like driving an auto in| the environs of 1.os Angeles, and I think that Life has overplayed the relative simplicity of cooking From time to time 1 have observed the chaos wrought by nonprofessional salad tossers and punch-mixers. Bringing the bomb into] the public domain seems to me a mistake, which| will wind ‘up .with the fragments of the world] stuck to the ceiling, as happens in the incident of] the Martini-driven chef with something special in the way of meat sauce. All wishful tooks keep a flask of gin in the ice box, I impatiently await Life's third installment on the supreme souffle. I hope they will intlude some helpful hints on what you do if you catch the indigestion from it. ’

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON. Feb... 25.~=..0ur.bedraggled. . Congressmen dt this writing are catching up with

before the House. The gentlemen fought about. it until well after 3 o'clock.the next morning.

“their sleep, getting their poor,

“imposed-on Téet patched up. and wondering what all the shooting was about. : I wish I could tell em. All I know is that Wednesday has been a harrowing day for the gentlemen ever since this session of Congress began. You know about the Fair Employment “PrACHEeE Act “which =threplatformsof-Hoth the Republican and Democratic parties -promised to enact into law. Some Southern Democrats-and a few Republicans said it would bé passed only over their dead bodies. It almost was, } 80 on calendar Wednesday, the only day of the week, under the rules, that the FEPC bill had a chance of being considered. the die-hards regularly would gang up to prevent it even being mentioned. They used what they called delaying tactics. Their . best one was the point of no quorum. *

Wearing on the Feet

THE BELLS would clang, the brethren would fope through the concrete tunnel-between the office building and the Capitol, stick their heads in the door, answer “present” .and walk back to their offices. Hardly wouldthey get settled comfortably again before the buzzers buzzed and back they'd be on their subterranean marathon. This was hard on feet. It caused charley-horses, callouses and inflamed blood veins. - One of the sufferers was in such pain that he

- offered a bill providing for the building of a

moving sidewalk, something like an escalator on the flat, in the tunnel. Still the anti-FEPC boys kept up their roll calls. One horrid Wednesday, in order to keep the FEPC off the menu, they spent arguing about whether the Girl Scouts had the right to-become incorporated. But those Wednesdays kept rolling around and the antis finally ran out of soap. So it was that on this fast Wednesday the FEPC actually came

The Quiz Master

UTHER they passed a suostitute Bill, WHich said

~adn't. been. standing. up.-some-of-them -would-have..

it was an FEPC law, but which actually provided, only for a committee to ‘study the subject. The weary gentlemen went homé for about an hour and a half’s sleep, because they all had committee meetings that same morning. By noon-they were a sorrv-looking lot. It they!" dozed through the chaplain’s prayer, ‘THe session hadn't been going two minuies before there was another of those pesky quorum .calls.” The poor old silver-tongued reading clerk, George Maurer, read through the 435 names once again. There was a rasp in his voice. The absent ones struggled up from their office couches and hustled to the chamber. The denizens of the press box. fearful of never getting a chance to eat, munched salted peanuts» surreptitiotsly; it is against the rules to eat while the statesmen are at work One of the gentlemen moved to send. the bill back to a pigeon-hole and that's no figure of speech; the clerks still use desks with pigeon holes In ‘em. The boys voted this down in a hurry’ , With equal speed they voted a second time to pass’the FEPC bill, which wasn’t really, and by 1 p. m. all was normal again -in- the House of Representatives.

promised. But at :least-the subject was out of what hair they had left. The Senate can wrestle with it about a month and a half hence, Too bad ail the energy that went into this one couldn't have served some useful purpose; the manpower involved- could have finished the nation's spring plowing.

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22? Test Your Skill 2???

Who originated the theory that the earth and

" other planets revolve about the sun? ‘

Copernicus, the Polish astronomer who lived from 1473-1543, was the originator of the then revolutionary hypothesis that the earth and other planets revolve about the sun. These deductions were made with wooden instruments, 100 years

before the telescope was ifivented. 4 Re: [ i

Should wet or green lumber be painted? -: No. Paint does not adhere well to wet or green| {

wood and i likely to peel off. - : Le @ ;

How many amendments to the Constitution | have been repealed?” ? | The 18th Amendment (prohibition) is the only one.’ . Lo

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