Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1951 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

. AN OLD, gray-haired couple was seen walks

ing hand in hand on a downtown street. It was

the most beautiful sight I have had the privilege of seeing for a long time. : Scoff, if you must. Argue that hand-holding is for school children and bewildered youngsters who find their universe: spins whenever they- come in contact with a particular bundle of molecules.

What is beautiful and full ‘of meaning to one, may be sheer nonsense or insignificant to. an other. It's hard to imagine what life would be like if. it were?

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IT COULD BE that everyone who saw the couple was thrilled by the sight. Perhaps I wasn't the only one to forget everything for the moment and savor every detail. i Although. the hands were wrinkled, they seemed to have youth. The hands belonged together and ‘the familiarity hadn't numbed them over the years, You could see that by the way the fingers were curled. The clasped hands were in perfect rhythm with the leisurely pace of the couple, No doubt, many years ago, those same hands moved more quickly.

TIME HAS A WAY of draining a human being of muscular power. It can do little with the heart and mind when the beginning is sound and there is no end to the fulfillment they seek. A quick glance to the faces of the couple revealed the peace and serenity of a sunset at the end of a perfect day. There is a difference to a day that begins and ends perfectly. We have all witnessed a troubled sunrise. The weak fingers of. sunshine grow stronger and more radiant and finally flick the clouds away. No man has a right to expect more or condemn the whole for a bad beginning.

WE ALSO have seen the sunrise burst forth with so much promise it is impossible to comprehend a storm at high noon which brings disaster. : e Of course, we have seen days {hat began with no promise and ended with even less. Gloom and

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK. Oct. 10—Jimmy Durante got excited backstage at his TV ; the other night and invented a new word. ’ Everybody was arguin it what jokes to eliminate to stay within the time limit. Finall Jimmy velled in all seriousness, “Come on, now

lets don't squibble!” He probably meant quibble—or did he mean squabble? o 4 JIMMY'S closing speech on all shows—" Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are’ —has many romantic explanations. But the latest story is that it isn't romantic or sentimental at all, but was thought up by a writer who was

looking for a “gimmick.” This writer happened to be smoking a pipe while thinking. Suddenly he thought of calabash pipes. Bee dictionary, Thus, they say, mysterious “Mrs. Calabash” was born... just a gag. To queries about this, Jimmy says, “I'm not sayin’ nuttin!” - & &

HOT DASHES -—Mavor Impellitteri now plans te run again, hoping to get re-elected and be eligible for a $20.000 pension. When he returns to NY. he'll fire all the DeSapioites Greg Bautzer may be marrying Jane Wyman. but he just saw Ginger Rogers again the other day— - Elizabeth Taylor'ssescort to Chez Vito bar was Merv Griffin, young singer with Freddy Martin Sophie Tucker's thin (for her). She reduced 35 pounds—from 226 to 181-—and will now be able to get into her Latin Quarter dressing room when she opens Sunday night.

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DOROTHY SARNOFF, the talented singer who plays No. 1 wife in “The King and 1.” goes barefoot on stage all evening. So she's one of the few gals who likes to go home and sit around with her shoes on instead of off. A WAC saluted Rosalind Russell while she was traipsing around in a new taupe-colored, Hattie Carnegie-designed WAC uniform at Governors Island publicizing a TV show, “Never Wave at a WAC.” Later Roz told us. “If she finds out she saluted Rosalind Russell, she'll blush forever.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 101 should certainly never hint that our President has become unbalanced by the rigorous demands of his office. but he's been acting mighty durn peculiar for the last couple of years. All of us are testier than we used to be. though, and I guess a President he a right to get crankier than anybody else, In past months since his re election, he has lived from quarter to quarter with his foot almost perpetually in mouth. His firing of Gen. MacArthur was as dumb a deed, politically, as any executive has ever committed—not =o much for the removal of MacArthur as” for the sneaky. sulky way MacArthur got the can. He had to back down hard on his petty crack about the

" Marines, and spent the next week apologizing

His attitude in favor of friends, such as the enterprising Mr. Willie Boyle and the bumbling clown, Harry Vaughan, has been the pugnaciously unintelligent action of one fraternity brother covering for another. His blind allegiance to Dean Acheson as State Department head and many of his appointments te high and vital office make it easy to understand why he was somewhat inept in the necktie business. ds ub WHAT REALLY set me back—and I suppose t eould qualify for the title of 8. O. B. for saying

- #4, since the President made the term immortal

im reference to newspaper people—was the various letters he dashed off, He penned one almost unbelievably childish scrawl to Bernie Baruch, and another so violent to Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun that Frank graciously sent it back to him, embarrassed to have it in his possession. : Of course, the masterpiece” was his tirade in personal letter form to the Washington newspaperman who had r Margaret did not have vocal chords to Adelina Patti's. In this masterpiece of

# juvenility, I recall he threatened to kigk the

critic in the groin, a rather un-presidential ap-

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n= or yvoted Couple Makes . An Inspiring Sight

“inertia hang on and on and weariness is the key-

note of existence. ’ . Not my couple. At least not in my mind and I'm sure there are many who will and can defend my line of thinking if need be. o You watch them pass and there is a pleasant envy within you. The envy passds because. for yourself there is hope. In the future there is always hope and tomorrow could begin with

overwhelming excitement, PRE WHAT ABOUT all the couples who don’t hold hands anymore? The question slows you up and you look around the passing parade. Ahead is a man who is walking slightly ahead of his wife and she follows not knowing why.

You try to imagine what would happen if she tried to grasp his hand. Would he look at her as if she had suddenly lost her mind? Or would it ever occur to her to take her husband's hand? Another couple, in the prime of life, displaying all the drivg-and energy of our way of life, goes by. You cdn almost read their minds. They have succumbed to the material. Unwittingly the

‘path they have chosen will lead them away from

the one factor that brought them together— conscious love.

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AT RARE INTERVALS they will stray and gee the true panorama which is getting dimmer and it will make them uncomfortable. Their sense of values will have been so distorted by then, the reality they have forsaken has no meaning as long as they are together. Ironically, in such cases death opens the surviving member's eyes. You walk slowly to a corner and hope you can catch another glimpse of the devoted couple. They have disappeared. A light post is nearby and you lean on it, thinking.

WHY CAN'T all married couples achieve such harmony? All married couples surely recognize it in others. They must. I have heard husbands and wives discuss their callous relationship. Shocking. More so when the situation is treated in a blase manner. p= What a wonderful thing it must be for a man and woman to go through life" together, hand in hand, everywhere? Why does such a couple attract ‘attention, inspire kind thoughts and words? Why do they. look beautiful together despite the wrinkles, gray hair, dimming eyes?

Chalk Up New Word For Jimmy Durante

PIE TRAYNOR, Pittsburgh's Hall of Fame third baseman, here for the World's Series, predicts that eventually more women will attend ball games than men. “If that happens.” he says. “ball players wil robably be chosen not for ability but for looks.’

FRED ALLEN feels that the propagation of American culture in Europe is going too far. In Paris he found the latest manifestation of it— in two small bistros—freshly arrived from American culture haunts—some U. S. pinball machines. o> <> oe

BRODERICK CRAWFORD just got permission from Universal to do all the TV he wighes— a retreat in the movies’ stand. Universal is giving the ok to all men, but not to women who need special lighting to make them look good. Crawford doesn't worry about lights: he scorns all makeup. “What do I care if I come over homely?” he says. “I get paid to look like this.” » Pe ® GOOD RUMOR MAN: Bob Topping's successor to Lana is Hollywood divorcee Barbara Harrison ... Frank Sinatra's new TV show got Eckoware as sponsor of part of it . . . Patti Page's buying real estate in Milwaukee, hometown of her manager. Jack Rael . . . At Martha Stewart's birthday party, Joe E. Lewis, her ex-ex-husband (two husbands ago) showed up. They gave each sther a big smooch .. . Courtenay Wright's a new TV singer of great promise. ele B'WAY BULLETINS: Even the Mayor's office got no Series tickets . . . Harry Cushing III and actress Doris Dowling are a Rome romance . . . Just engaged: Publicist Jay Russell and Rebecca Bermafl, Norwich, nurse . One paper goes tabsize (on in two weeks. & a dS WHEN HERB SHRINER'S wife asked him at dinner. “How do you like this cake?” he said, “It's wonderful. Did you buy it yourself?” , ,. That's Earl, brother.

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No Real Pro Politician Likes an Honest Press

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HIS LATEST piece of wondermaking ha een his effort to muzzle the press, and then hi iwkward attempt to back out from under whe: eople ‘started shooting at him. The incoherenc of his Friday press conference was almgst mar elous in its bewildered double-talking. {issue {odging ineptness. Harry had another hot po tato on his hands and got lost trying to get ri of it.

Mr. Truman does not confide his hopes anc ,

fears into my shell-pink ears, but I would rather imagine that he set up his original hue and cr) for government censorship to take some of the heat off the hearings that have been showing his hoon political buddies in rather baleful shades. No true pro politician likes an honest press because an honest press does not forever praise cover up or distort. It occasionally comes 1» with an unpleasant truth, Mr. Truman has no reason to like the new paper business, because it has been busily engag: in pointing up the imperfections of a man and regime that compares favorably to the reekin reign of Warren G. Harding. There have been lots of rascals round Mr. Truman, and he has largely refused to ca¥t them out. o- & >

HARRY WAS a meek and rather pathetic little fellow before he rabble-roused his way into office. I have seen him publicly on the verge of tears as he attempted to alibi the errors of his office. But since he drove uphill to become the he-coon of his party, instead of its chief lability, great personality changes have been made, and great arrogance assumed. Kis hatred now of the American press seems amiost psycnopathic In its intensity. It's almost as if he blamed us for the defections of his associates, the incompetence, the scandals, the food freeze-mink-coat-RFC odors that emanate constantly from around the throne, We cannot be held responsible for the quality of Margaret's high C, nor the thieving Instincts of some of Harry's friends, nor the Incompetence of his associates, We may only comment, on the offchance some of the rascality may be driven into- the open and amputated the. hody politic. I

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: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1951

The Story of Newsprint—

EDITOR'S NOTE: Newsprint-making is a vast and picturesque industry little known to the millions.of readers wha look to newspapers daily to bring them information and entertainment from all over the world. The writer of the following story has just returned from the Maine forest where he viewed the manufacture

of newsprint,

By FRANK ASTON Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

PIERRE Baptiste Lefevre, hard, lean French-Canadian, sinks his ax into a spruce tree. His act is the first step in producing the, newspaper

vou are reading.

The: spruce has been growing in Maine for 40, perhaps 60, years—preparing itself all that time to meet you. Pierre fells the tree, strips off its branches and cuts it into four-foot sections. He is considered a harvester, with wood his crop. Pierre cuts no tree less than six inches in diameter, A forester, trained for such work, tells Pierre what trees may be removed. All this is part of a national conservation program to guarantee not only an infinity of cutting but also good health for young timber. ” » ~

PIERRE’'S FOUR-FOOT lengths are stacked in cords. At week's end he receives so much for each cord, drawing his pay from a company clerk who lives beside Pierre in the camp, In a week Pierre may draw as much as $91 in takehome pay; and when he takes it home across the Canadian border he has a little more, by grace of exchange.

Camp life i= good. Pierre eats fruits, vegetables, fresh meat. His food is cooked on flame from bottled gas, his cabin is heated. by oil. Why not by wood in the forest? In the Maine forest wood is too expensive.

In the north woods, Pierre with an ax and power saw cuts trees from June to Christmas From January to March he hauls: cords to the ice on streams. When April brings the thaw. the wood tumbles into the flood and starts its long float, or “drive.” to paper mills. The. last of it should arrive there by October. = = ~

SINCE A NEWSPRINT mil! operates 12 months a year and since no wood may float to it during the winter. a reserve supply is accumulated at the millside during the open season Hence those lofty wooed piles which almost always appear pictures of paper mills. 5 That conical stack represents many a Pierre's many weeks of wages. What does the mill, sprawling beside it, represent? Owners aren't being quoted, but they indicate that a brand new mill capable of producing 1000 or more tons of newsprint a day might, at current -price levels. cost up to $100 million. The job in a newsprint mill is to change a four-foot length of tree in to a sheet of paper .0035 of an inch thick. . Timber, to become newsprint, is robbed of its bark. squashed into two kinds of pulp, then dried and pressed. Barking ‘is performed in two stages. First the wood enters a series of hotizontal, metal drums which are lined with teeth and are revolving alternately right and left. This pummeling knocks all the bark off most pieces. But now and then a section will stubbornly retain splotches of its hide. It

gets shoved into a second machine. And that strips {it for sure by holding it relentlessly against whirling cutters. = n a AFTER being barked, wood becomes ‘groundwood pulp or sulphite pulp. Sulphite pulp, an American contribution to the industry, contains long fibers which give the paper its tensile strength by hugging the ingredients together. Groundwood pulp, with shorter fibers, is the body of paper _ Barked wood becomes groundwood pulp by being pressed hydraulically against a grindstone 62 inches in diam-

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eter, 54 inches wide, =pinning 240 revolutions a minute. This reduces the wood to a thin, i “yellowish paste which passes throu fine screens to the paper making machine. Barked wood becomes sulphite pulp after being mechanically chopped into bits which then are boiled under pressure with sulphurous acid and calcium bisulphite, This mixture is fine-screened to the paper making machine. . Sulphur used in this process is so much in demand for defense needs that it is under government allocation to the

AT THE HEAD of the paper machine the groundwood and sulphite pulps are.mixed. Being too vellow for newsprint, they are whitened with an analine

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TIMBER—The first step in producing the newspaper you are reading—cutting down the spruce

in the Maine forest,

ON THE WAY—Cords of spruce on way to frozen streams,

dye—like the family wash getting a dash of bluing. Screened, watered and dyed. the mixture entering the paper machine resembles sickly soup. This woody gruel becomes paper in a matter of seconds over a course of 245 feet, The mechine passing this miracle has been evolving for about 200 years from a design originating with a Frenchman named Fourdrinier. Today one of them would cost more than one million dollars. The thin soup at the head of the paper machine flows onto an endless belt of metal mesh which travels continually in one direction and. by shaking to and fro, spreads the soup evenly and persuades some of the water to drain off. At the end of its mesh ride the soup makes

a quick little jump across the tops of open vacuum boxes. In the half second the goo is above these vacuums a great gush of its water ir sucked down and away, » Fo» WHAT IS LEFT IS exceedingly damp but firm enough to hop aboard a hurrying blanket on which it is squeezed between This treatment is, on a gigantic scale, exactly the treatment the wringer

gives the family duds on Mondays. Being wrung, the mixture begins to look something like paper. or web. But it's still pretty drippy. It hustles along between more rollers which act as hot dryers and turn out a “web that undeniably *is paper. But it won't do for newsprint

rollers,

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Scenes at the Mill

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It is forming a strip.

because its surface is rough. It needs ironing. However, it is far too dry to iron. More

“rollers handle it, this tims to

dampen it with steam, almost exactly as a laundress spristkles the dried wash before up her ironing board. Ironing rolls then give the web a fast press. The sickly soup has become newsprint in 45 seconds. The paper machine completes its chore by winding the web on cores to form rolls of newsprint ready for newspaper

presses. Newsprint for the United States comes from Finland, Sweden, Canada, Maine, Alabama and Texas. In the South, the trees are slash pine instead . of spruce. Although mills make newsprint as fast as they can, there isn’t enough. American newss papers constantly demand more. Newsprint prices in the last score of years have advanced from $40 to $50 a ton to well above $100, with spot market dealers taking an easy $300.