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By Ed Sovola
THE LADIES who run our libraries want you
to come over ta'their big house on St. Clair St. tomorrow, Jie ! :
The occasion is Tomorrow is the meeting of the
“National Library: Day.” 75th anniversary of the first American Library Association. The city's first librarian, Charles Evans, represented Indianapolis in Philadelphia in 1878. It will be “open house’ at Central Library. Everyone is so proud of the past and present that elaborate plans have heen made to show off a bit from 9 a. m, to 5 p. m. Visitors can-go behind the scenes and see how a library operates. There's more to it than the lending and fine-paying sections. Eager .workers will explain binding, cataloguing and -printing. They'll even. explain the vacant office of the head librarian, Marian McFadden. She will be in Philadelphia tomorrow as the second vice president of the. association.
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BEFORE the city had a public library. the Indlanapolis Library Association circulated bogk 8.
Members donated books and paid $5 a year in 1868. !
On Apr. 8 1873, a library. was dedicated in the old high school building at Pennsylvania and Michigan Sts, and Charles Evans was named librarian. The Association was dissolved and turned over 15,560 books to the city. In 1874, the first annual report showed 5220
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OPEN HOUSE—In honor of the 75th anniversary of the American Library Association, Central. Library invites public inspection tomorrow,
It Hap By Earl
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 Putting on my dinner jacket, which I call that because it always has some of my dinner on it, I rushed off to the first dress-up affair of the faltand landed a Page One story.
Stop the presses! Get out the big type! A Hollywood couple is staying married You gat fo admit you can’t read stories like that every day. It was Gene Tiernev--who's too beautiful to be a liar who gave me the sensational yarn. :
Looking me straight in my baby blues. she said ‘tain’t true about her divorcing designer Oleg Cassini like we all thought. “I'm going to Argentina Wednesday to make a picture, ‘The Way of a Gaucho.’ and Oleg joins me Oct. 20,” she said firmly. “We'll. be together all the time.” “- ¢ THIS EXCLUSIVE nondivorce story. unique in gossip reporting. I corralled over at, the SherryNetherland Hotel, whieh is a very expensive joint even though Jack Benny often stops there. I had gone over to appraise the singing of Mile. Helene Francois. Dont get bored now. Sit there and listen to me
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She's the sister of Denise Darcel. Come on now, wake up! You know who Denise is! "The French gal that married a guy named Peter Crosby who tossed champagne in her face And she divorced him and became a hig Hollyvwood success. Does it all begin to clear up” <> > <*>
HER SISTER sang well. 1 think she has one handicap for ‘a cafe singer. She can sing Most cafe singers can't call hogs let alone sing. How are they going to like it for a girl who can sing to come busting into their racket? I bet thev'll picket her : Gene Tierney was there, sitting through two shows. She must have liked it, since that would
count up to about five hours of sitting
I sent her .a note saying
I. must tell vou something.
“How nice to see you,’ she said, when we got together, out in the doorway. She waited a while for what top secrets I had to spill. ‘What I got to tell you is, what about these divorea stories?” I =aid 5 Then she unloaded the information about their Argentine visit. > + 4
NOW MAYBE I am a hayzeed to believe Gene, when all the gossips are saying the opposite.
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Oct. 3 It is known that Harry Truman is a stubborn man, and it is known that at times he has shown himself something less than brilliant. and it is known that he dislikes eriticism, . especially when it is administered by the press. But he is not entirely a fool, and I hop he shows a minor flash of intelligence by rescinding his latest fluff. That would be the executive order allowing the right of censorship to the head of each governmental department. It sounds more innocuous than it is. It just says that each department head will have the right to “classify” all pertinent information, under the guise of security, That means burying facts, hiding stenches, refusing information that might be of public importance. It is the most powerful weapon 1 know, this censorship, and in the hands of petty men, working for a big boss, it wrecks a country quicker than any other totelitarian device. @ cd ob IN FINAL BOIL-DOWN, the President has just ordered, in effect, that one man-—himself-— may be declared judge of what the country needs to know, I don’t think the boy's that good at his business, for a start, and even if he were a parlay between Einstein and the Angel Gabriel I wouldn't want an arbitrary limitation on what you can and can't write. The next step is the jailhouse for people who disagree with policy, In print... tie ’ ; With the President's order in effect, the current lovely stench .that floats from Washington concerning his pal Boyle and the Lithofold Corp. and the RFC would certainly be “classified” information, on _the grounds that it is much too rich for the voter's blood. Fe? oe AE . 0 ees 1 I EXPECT Gen. Vaughan and the food freezers would be regarded as rather too secret for public dissemination. I know that the State Department would be inclined to” discourage any
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borrowers and a circulation of 101,281 volumes. Comic books were not being published then. Reading tastes were different, The: first book catalogued was the “Dictionary of English Literature.” The firs{ book stolen from the library was “Adventures of. Apache Country,” catalogued Jan. 1, 1873. It was replaced Feb. 5, 1889. Records don’t show whether the book was returned. The feeling at the library is that a new volume was purchased. 2 LG J THEY THREW a scare into me with this fact. A library discards as many books a% it acquires. You know, in the near future Central Library will have “Monday Follows Tuesday’ on (its shelves. I'm the papa, in case you haven't heard. Well, after a few years if a book doesn’t cir culate and only gathers dust, it is taken off a
shelf and put into the basement, where it rests -
for a few more years. Then the law requires the book to be destroyed and sold for scrap.
This treatment isn’t given to books written by Indiana writers.” A +*Hoosier's. book is kept in full view always and I think it is darn decent of our librarians. I'd hate to see “Monday Follows Tuesday” gathering dust. Ali of us who had anything to do with it would enjoy seeing the book sold bv the thousands. The publisher and the author don't make much lettuce loaning the book.
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“HUDIBRAS,” by Samuel Butler was the first novel” catalogued in the Indianapolis library system. I'm sorry to say I've never read the book.
The first book listed as published in Indianapolis was “Treatise on Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables in Indiana.” Sounds great, doesn’t it?
The present Central Library was dedicated Oct;:-7, 1917. It cost a cool $500,000. The: building is considered to be one of the finest examples of modern Greek architecture in the country.
We can all be proud of the building. However, we can take more pride in the fact that librarians from all over the country come here to observe its operation. In its class, the Central Library is regarded as tops.
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ALL THESE kind words aren't being said just because tomorrow is 75th anniversary of the American Library Association and Indianapolis happens to be a charter member. When you have something good, say so. :
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. Ji WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1951 - -
Take it Away, Junior Birdmen—
973 Enrolled In Butler ROTC
tional Library Day.” Mayor Bayt put the seal . on tomorrow as “Public Library Day in Indianapolis.”
Good day to drop in and return the books that are overdue, too.
Gene Tierney Denies They're Separating
But I think she s truthful. For when I spoke to her of the beautiful diamond earrings she was toving with, she said, “Oh, those aren't diamonds. They're rhinestones.”
In these days of Hollywood actress’ fake
jewelry, that's a pretty honest woman, and I believe her when she says all i= well with Pop. I believe her—as of today. “ 4 @ THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... FLASH from an American who just visited Ingrid and Roberto Rossellini: “They're definitely happy.” . . . Brenda Frazier's swain at Gogi's was very social County Vaba Adleberg. Society's atwitter, for Don Jaime. eldest son of the late King Alfonso of Spain; now using the monicker of “Duke of Segovia,” comes here next month with the Duchess. . > + NEVER GIVE UP-Linda Lombard. whose despair once made Page One, is now one of the busiest, bustiest and beautiful gals on TV, $ <> + RHUBARB: Ted Briskin's hired Yolande Betbeze and 3 other beauties trying to stéal the Oct, 13 “Movietime, U. 8. A.” parade in Chicago for his Revere Camera float. ... Midnitem: Paul Hartman and Marcia Van Dyke. . . . Democrats called a sudden meeting to raise money for the Sharkey : campaign due to Halley's gains.
oo <> oe FARL'S PEARLS . |. A flood, according to Henry Youngman, is just a river that got too big for its bridges. oo “oe o> WISH I'D SAID THAT: EdMr. Youngman- die Cantor tells of a parking . lot attendant who's very happy. After 10 years on the job, he's getting a driver's license. % <> > «> B'WAY BULLETINS: Ticket brokers co-op-eratively.agreed.to..a.' token buy’-of tickets for the Jose Greco Ballet which opens Monday first such “buy” in vears. . . . Gloria De Haven's moving here from L. A $$ 0 # TODAY'S. TWADDLE: “An architect I know went to see a psychiatrist about his edifice complex."—Dorothy Sarnoff. + bc» : FISH STORY: Robert Q. Lewis caught one so big it threw him back. . . . That's Earl, brother.
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Truman Should Rescind New Security Orders
broth of a bye, was whisked out of New York and into an ambassddorship when the corruption heat started. The chief reason I hate any censorship, im plied or otherwise, is that 1 was a censor at one time, when war censorship was partially necessary, but not to the degree to which it was applied. You give a small man a blue pencil and a
safe to hide things in and you have bought your-" :
self a iunior-grade dictator. During the war I saw censorship practiced to gratify personal spites. I saw news withheld for no reason save guile and/or stupidity. I saw it violated callously and the violators went free if their connections were right. ei
SECURITY is a word that can be mishandled about as fully as any known noun, If it reflects discredit on the subject, all of a sudden fit is security. If it fails to praise’ and tends to embarrass bingo! Security. In the last war we had enough regulations I the card file to cripple any zealous reporter into, incoherence—and to run him out of the theater if he made a snide, if honest, remark about any of the higher brass. I think we called it, roughly,’ anything that tended to cast a shade on the morale of our troops or jeopardized our relations with our gallant Allies. It was a blank check, blanket indictment, ever ready for use. ®o bb LORD knows it is hard enough to keep a government honest—as the Truman regime has amply shown-—even when your press is free and they can't slap an irreverent in the clink for kicking and snorting occasionally. But give the same government the weapon of over-all censorship and the concentration camp is just around the corner. You find a stranger playing your linotypes, as in the case of La Prensa in Argentina, and a polite sentry informs you that the government has ‘‘expropriated” your paper because you didn't say nice lies about said government. Expropriated means hijacked. : “ “Haul in your horns on this one, Harry. You made no friends among the press, and, remember, election time is just ever the hill. “i,
''REEDOM OF THE PRESS—From Zenger to Oatis (3)
feet is a must.
TOO LARGE AND TOO SMALL—As all good military men know, care of the
Here Recruit James Nyers draws his issue of a complete uniform, but as usual the shoes are a “4 problem. Recruit Nyers won The Times City Athlete of the Year Award trophy last year.
PLAYS FOOTBALL—Jim, a star at Manual now plays for the Bulldogs. One of his coaches is Lt. Col. Henry Johnsen (left), alse senior ROTC “instructor, a ;
HIS fall thousands of young men enrolled with the nation's colleges are faced with the dilemma of military service. Many are solving their problem by enrolling for the Reserve Officer's Training Corps.
At Butler University the four-year-old Air Force ROTC program is experiencing its greatest period of expansion with 373 men students taking basic and advanced training.
Tenth Air Force Headquarters, Selfridge Field, Mich., have seen fit to double the staff of regular officers and enlisted instructors at Butler.
Reflecting the international crisis, the Air Force has added flight operations to the Butler curriculum and has made geopolitics a required study for cadets.
Next year Butler ROTC students will engage in actual flight training in addition to their administrative duties.
GETTING A BRIEFING—Lt. Col. Ben K: Armstrong (standing), briefs all prospective cadets on the advantage of the Air Force program at the beginning of each new term. Cadet Nyers (left foreground), listens. He can take either operations or flight course.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER—So says Sue Clyne Grace, 268 W. Hampton Dr., as she adjusts the tie on Jim's new uniform.
SELLING THE COURSE—Cadet Lt. Keith Bundy, upperclassman, gives Jim the pitch on how things will go. Later he'll be tough.