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THE SUBJECT, on this day of rest from our labors, Is a young woman who is building her own home. 5 I can’t tell you her name, her ‘address, the section of Indianapolis where she currently ‘is laying cement blocks for a ranch house because she doesn't want any publicity. She wants to be left alone and considers what she is doing of no
interest to anyone’ ° In no way should her desire for anonymity be® construed that she is a difficult person. She isn’t, We talked and I watched her work for an
hour and a half without giving any advice. That's hard to do, I'll tell you; when you see a woman doing a man's joh. The atmosphere was most cordial as long as I didn't pry for information with the usual technique employed by reporters. oe ow oe DESPITE personal feelings, what interest. There aren't many persons, especially women, who tackle a 6room ranch house all by their lonesome. Thinking of having a home built throws many of us. The days of the log cabin are gone, A home is built by =cores of specialized hands, in factories, lumber firms, electrical and plumbing and heating houses. The day was conducive to quiet and pleasant conversation. All around us were trees in brilliant colors. beautiful homes with future? neighbors puttering in the vards : I discoyered she was the daughter of a southIndiana -building contractor, She learned
the builder's she 13 doing is of
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ONE WAY—If a woman really wants a home she goes ahead and builds one. Miss X is doing it.
Her Own Home
the hasic principles of building from her father and brothers. This was the first chance she has had to put her knowledge to use.
Fe a + - SHORTLY’ AFTER the. concrete fourflation was poured, her father became ill. She had a choice of waiting until he was well enough to
work or jump in and begin laying hlocks. “Tf you want a_home, you have to be prepared to work for it,” explained the young woman. “I decided to-work. Is that unusual?” I said what she wanted to hear. No, it wasn’t unusual for her. For the rest of us, yes. For the woman who cooks supper for five and has to wash the dishes because the maid is off and spends the rest. of the night telling hubby what a tough life she leads, building a house would he fantastic. Fortunately there are women who still are fighters. They -take meodérn,; time-saving, ‘laborsaving appliances in stride and appreciate their lot, When the occasion demands it, they doh overalls and step out swinging without looking over their shoulders for sympathy, praise, flattery or boosts to their egos. My kind of women,
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x SOMEWHERE IN. the back of my mind a thought on what a satisfying occupation building is came to the forefront. Working on a home that vou were to live in-is like the difference hetween kissing your wife and having someone else kisg her for you. I watched the rugged individualist, who works hights for a printing firm, mix a batch.of mortar, She tackled the mixture with the same directness 1 have seen my mother tackle whipped cream. on a busy Thanksgiving morning. Her plan is to concentrate on each obstacle as it arises. Given time she'll whip every problem. When her father surveys her work when he is able, he'll he proud of her. As simple as that. She didn't hesitate in pushing the wheelbarrow. Her hands. were covered with dried mortar and dust. The tips of her fingers were protected with adhesive tape
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WHAT WOLLD she do with the trowel and’
MOTLAT S100 Ae LOW 0 eR. LONREN > Wir a DRR AA oi
were - vernal. The moriar. was flipped "in place. A block, weighing between 37 to 42 pounds, was lifted and expertly placed With the masonry hammer she tapped it level with-the chalk line. 2 The gal :knew what she was doing, there was no question. One of the blocks had tc be split. A
‘the questions
(Qu would gay
Soeegpiea ct ives URL ; RS : womanTiike that, So -vou talk about stone facing, the furrace room, all the fill that will be required, the water-proofing-on—the basement walts-and the weather:
Blow no hot-air, Buster. l.ook and learn and chat ¥ you want and voure welcome, It's a real privilege to spend
part of an afternoon with a person who doesn't want something for nothing, How rare, this quality,-these days. » ~~
It Happened Last Night pig Poor Cotumnisc:
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 Suddenly as 1 was riding through Central Park, on the way to inter. Lenore l.onergan, I had a thought. the
view actress Thoughts are very rare with me. 1 thought out and examined it carefully. It was-a warm dav and at the lunch hour. All through the park New York- 5 ers were sitting or lying comfortably on the grass “I'd like to do that time,” 1 thought, and added to myselfs ‘but will, because I'll never time." Why wouldn't T have time?
took
some then I 1! never have
Because a columnist must always think of “copy” and there's no copy in lying on the $ grass. : i TR “There are a lot of other Miss Lonergan
things I'd like to do but never will because I'll never have time I thought on. Like going back to the old home town and staying for two whole weeks. . . . Like going to
little unheard-of restaurants, in adventurous mood. (Can't go any where except the famous places—no copy.!
Like browsing in the Public Library an afterLike going back to the alma. mater
IOOR. '« + » (Sorry, Earl,
for the homecoming football game. no copy there.) : . Like taking color pictures . . . or going fishIng sometime with my dad in Michigan. And now I was feeling sorry for myself, being chained to a typewriter, denied the simple pleasures, such as all you non-columnisis enjoy. & o> o> I WENT INTO the world-celebrated “ZI. and gat down with-Mies-honergan, st. back. from. a honeymoon with the. famous producer, Chandler
”
Cowles, x : I wag supposed to extract certain sqintillating comments about her new picture, “The Whigtle at Eton Falls.” I wrote down actress since she was 5 when she was in Lode” with Melvyn Douglas » “The day I tried out for ‘Philadelphia Story Ih she said, “I had just put on my skates for my afternoon skate. I went down on my skates and gaw them on my skates and read to them on
my skates.”
that she'd been a professional Mother
his dpb THEN MISS LONERGAN reeled off the things ghe'd done since. Nine flops, she said. Then “Junior Miss” and “Dear Ruth” and then seven movies. And then marriage and ‘now she 8723. “you asked me what I've done but you didn’t
Americana : By Robert (. Ruark
“ CLEVELAND, Q . Oct. 20—--There are doubtedly brave men and true who frolic among the forensics with the reckless abandon of a hungry goat in a junk yard, and I am told there are even people who seek opportunities to speechify at any and all occasions. This is not true of your eorrespondent, a man gn shy on his feet he is suffused with blushes and quivers gently, like a plucked harp-string, I will keep you up all night with scintillating conversation, if the subject is favorable to the mood. but stick me in front of a mike hefore a chicken-pattie-and-green-peas audience and I die inside. The hahds sweat and the tongue cleaves, and the stomach undulates like a snake in hurry. . : . The preamble is that Uncle Louie Seltzer, my
un-
master in Cleveland, suavely suckered me into committing not one but two chunks of rhetoric before audiences of strangers, and while not un-
in Park
“I'd like United
Can't Lie
I'd like .to don.” automnbile trip across
ask me what to take an States.” Me wanted to do
fhe =aid the ton!” 1 said. “That's one thing 1 always never have time for Another thing.” she said, I want to make a pettipoint rug. It's such a precious and beautiful thing when it's done, It'll take me years.” That settles it! If she can make a pettipoint I can lie on the grass in Central Park.: So you may be seeing me there one day soon. You'll recognize me by the notebook that I'll have out interviewing the squirrels. Copy, you know, do &% ob
THE MIDNIGHT FARL . .. Eleanor Holm—
hut Du
will
when it's all over—may go to California or Furope., She'll have no shortage of male admirers,
od ab ERROL. FLYNN looked younger'n, heaithier'n usual at El Morocco with chums Johny Perona and Macoco. He came in for one day-—without wife Pat Wymnre. @ & » TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: An artist and his pretty model were talking when they heard footsteps. “It sounds like my wife,” exclaimed the artist. “Quick-—she mustn't suspect us, take your clothes off!" Joey Adams. ole oe oo . GOOD RUMOR MAN: Taft supporterg here boast that he'll he nominated on the first ballot and hint darkly that Ike won't “dare” be a candidate, . . Louis Verneuil, author of the Ginger Rogers show, is in a hospital , . . Dick Reynolds and Marianne, his BW. seem to be patching it up .. . Helene Arthur's the piano-tinkler at the Vanderbilt Purple Tree Room ‘ Wd : EARE'S PEARES T 0 0 When you're a hoy, says Chuck Heston, only sissies¥play with dolls. - When you grow up, only sissies don't.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “A who tells vou the truth about Godman.
liar is anybody yourself." -—Joe
fh bh GLAMMER YAMMER: Susan Hayward and husband Jess Barker wolfed potato pancakes unglamorously at Joe King's Rathskeller-. . . Who started the expression, ‘‘the whole enchilada?” It's around now . .. Marlene Dietrich's dtr. Maria has blossomed into one of the purtiest gals around 3 . Clark Clifford's becoming a grampa via dtr. Jerri. do dp ab THE ONLY THING some husbands ever do on time, says Jean Alexander, is buy a ring . .. That's Earl, brother, : : 4 ¥ p
Grudge Against Ruark? Just Ask Him (o Speak
ONCE UPON A TME 1 was lecturing at some poor editors in Memphis and this time I thought I had it licked. I was going to go on at great length about the only subject on which I am a mild authority--me. But a traitorous scoundrel who spells his last name almost like mine got ‘up to introduce me, and spoke a solid hour-on the heckered extravaganza of error that I call my life, forgetting no tiny detail of embarrassment, frustration or failure. ¥ When he sat down.1I had been scooped on my own life, and was left there tongue-tied before a mixed audience of what seemed millions” Eggs have heeh laid before, but the largest, squarest most painful egg of utterance in the his- . tory «nf speaking mankind was laid by me that awful eve, and no single listener. .cackled. “ 0b THE THING about audiences {is you never
aware of the honor imposed, I wish I had been know what they want. You don’t know whether
jce-hound in Alaska when he called.
A speech to Louie is bread-and-meat. The day he speaks not thrice is doorned to a cross on the
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calendar as worthless,
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BUT I AM NO MAN to stand firm and tell the citizens what is what in terms so ringingly full of knowledge and power that they swoon as far
back as the service tables,
Anything I have memorized flutters off to the place where old anecdotes go to die. I am as glib as a politician with a personal argument going, * and can sew lace pants on my spoken prose until you wouldn't believe it. But only in the corner of the milkbar, or sitting on the floor, or laying
down the law to mama.
When conducting a short spate of convictionthe relative value of DiMaggio to Musial I will wound your ear with the empurpled speech of the late W. J. Bryan,
crammed argument over
vou can cuss in front of them, or tell a tiny little smutty story, or what, Each face is hostile to the speaker, though he may be addressing the cream of kindness. Each face seems to demand a different delivery, be funny, you bum, says one face. Kill me with laughter, says another. Tell me all the ills of the world, says another, Give us sex, “give us motherhood, give us everything, and in 30 minutes, says the Greek chorus. I give them everything, including my nervous system, and I still ain't good. You would say that a man %o0 enmeshed in complexes would refuse all speaking engagements, hut there is a slice of ham in all of us, and an unwillingness to admit defeat at. a racket better left alone. I am the guy who insists on singing, foo, in a voice that would frighten a raven, and given
and I can tell jokes so funny even I am con-. Sufficient stimulation I.am both Tony and Sally
strained—to laughter at my own delicious wit.
Demarco on dance floor—in my own mind, of
But prop me up in front of that water pitcher course.
‘and start me off with . .. “and now a man who,”
So here I am ii Cleveland, with my heart in
and the anecdotes svither in the bud. The points my” mouth and a vacuum in my head. What I
of the timely little jokes go winging out the win- . dow, and the basic structure of my message Is
a lazy staccato composed mostly of “uh.”
will tell those podr folk I know not, but I can promise one thing. that's for sure.
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J VER TRIED to relax with the latest copy of Chilton's Motor Age or Motor Service. Mrs. Edith Wright reads these technical publications regularly. She : This
understands them, too.
member of the fashion and homemaking sex 18 a transmission mechanic and a darned good one, ton. Even the gentlemen mechanics will Agree years ago, Mrs. Wright didn’t even know how to’ drive a car, but now she knows more about what makes a car go than most men. v |he chatters about transmission housing. pinion bearings and hvdramatic dynamos. With only a glance Mrs. ‘Wright can tell you the make,
Sixteen
By CARL HENN THE GOLDEN BOYS of the
business world are reaching into Indianapolis. They're looking for new
members for one of the most exclusive clubs in the country called Young Presidents’ Organization. aay Two successful young men have been tagged with the YPO Jabel here. More are eligible. But not many more, A candidate for YPO must, before his 39th birthday, have heen elected president of an industrial corporation with: an-
nual sales of £1 million or more,
or of a service concern with an,
annual turnover of $2 million
up
Across the USA, membership ,
has passed 200 and is still rising, just like the jet-propelled
careers of its members.
” " 5 IN INDIANAPOLIS, 27-year-old Paul J. Sicanoff and Eugene B. Hibbs, 38. recently were accepted into the fold. Paul is a four-time winner in the presidential field. He heads Sicanoff Vegetable Oil Corp.. Sicanoff Tallow Corp. and Cargo Carriers of Indiana.
Inc.. here, and Midwest Fats & Oils Corp.. Peru. Gene so far has to be content with running one company. He's president—ef—PuraCrates. Ine. 940 E. Washington St
Both were signed up bh) Jon- - seph A Osharn. 34, president of Oshorn Paper Co. in Marion. Joe is Indiana chairman and Haosier sparkplug of YPO. He has his eve on two or three more in Indianapolis who:qual ify for the group.
Founder and national pres ident is Ray Hickok.® 33. president of the well-known belt
company in Rochester, N. Y. A roster of these masters of the Midas touch reads like Dun & Rradstreet’'s fondest dreams come true, Each one is an apostle of early success. Each one i= a walking advertizement for individual enterprise. Each one is Jackpot Johnny in his field. ry
u » PERHAPS 25 per cent inherited a presidency from fath-
Ser or grandfather.
The majority made their point the hard wayv--either by starting from scratch or by working up through established businesses tn the top spot. Average age is 36. President Hickok started kicking the idea of YPO around in 1945, when his father died and left him the belt manufacturing company. He needed somebody his own age to take his troubles to, somebody in the same kind of spot. He met” Arthur Reis, then 29,
’
whose father had died and left.
him president of Robert Reis & Co... underwear manufacturers, “1 was always the kid who helped the hoard of directors with their coats after meetings,” said Arthur. “The next time I saw the board I was sitting at the head of the table. 1 was scared stiff.” : The two kicked their prob-
Repairs With
INDEPENDENT—Mrs, Wright gets along without male help.
model and year car a loose automobile part belongs in. Mrs. Wright became inter-
ested in motors, transmissions and things mec hanical 12 years ago when her husband, a me chanic, was ill and she helped him in their garage at 953 E. Maryland St. It took her three davs to rebuild the first transmission she worked on. Today she can do
the job in 20 minutes to an hour, Overdrive takes her about two hours while hydramatic transmissions require ahout five hours’ work. A ‘lady - mechanic” was a
novelty at first, and many repairmen brought her jobs just to watch her work. But she did the job well and now she gets work requests from all over the state and even from
Paul Sicanoff
found each they
lems around and other helpful. Finally picked 20 names at random from Poor's. Register of Dire and Executives, and invited them to a meeting Oct, 20 last vear, Immediately, the club proposal clicked
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» » ” FIRST CONVENTION, held at Virginta Beach, Va. in Ma) Was an eye-opener. The Young Presidents’ Or ganization turned out to he a resourceful group, teeming with on how to 8) the status of the individual in
ideas preserve
A Subversive Letter to a Soldier in Korea
John Was one of the lucky ones to come down a Korean hill alive. Awaiting him was a let-
ter from home-—where his mind had been those long nights in
the foxholes. Tt was a letter the Army calls ‘psychological warfare.”
Some are written under guise of humor. Similar letters, as in War II, are written by the .enemy to undermine GI morale He wanted to hear from hi wife; Frances. He heard from a “friend.” Thiz ‘is the letter the tired, lonely GI received in Korea: “Dear John “Nothing much doing around here. 1 sure envy you
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over there in Korea, in the thick of things. Bet you never have a dull moment,
1 was out to see your wife last night and read a few of your letters, They were a little mushy, but 1 don't blame you. “frances is ‘such a swell girl, wonderful figure, looks
satisfied customers in Iowa, West Virginia and Kansas. 1 hike the because
ob s different, I suppose,” Mes. Wright admits. Mrs. Wright. and her husband, George. Wright Jr., op-
erated a garage, Wright's Auto Service at their home for 13 vears. They closed the garage last. December and began working at Michigan Auto Parts, Blake St.
” = a COMBINING housework, care of her four children and an eight-hour-day job, doesn't leave much spare time, but Mrs, Wells still spends her evening hours . rebuilding motors and reading up on the latest literature on transmissions.
Her day begins about 6 in the morning. After she sends her children, Artie, 15, Cath-
erine 14, Barbara, 7, and Vir-
America, and demonstrate that personal and national security and high living standards still depend on individual labor
extended in the con-
Resqurcefulness several directions at vention. John Rolling, of I®2wes,. Del who runs a large Ford agency +n Virginia, provided new antamaohiles for convenience of
ten
the. members, Somebody cracked “What? No girls to drive erm”
The next morning, there was
and personality and the boys still whistle at her when she walks down the street. ‘Your brother-in-law dropped in, too. He was wearing that new brown suit you bought just before you left. Frances. gave it to him as
she thought it would of style before you
be out came back
Several other couples
dropped in and we Killed acouple cases of beer. Willing to chip in for the beer but
Frances refused the money 23id you sent cash. She gave me a those five dollar vOours Pretty sharp Ytwell, of the
her few of
tfes .of .
Frances was the life partv. 1 thought would ' he shaken up that accident had week with the Chevvy. You can’t tell she. had been in a head-on collision and smashed vour car to bits, The. other driver is still in the hospital and is going to sue.
ghe, after she
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Mrs. Wright.
ginia arts her day at
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school, she the garage. In the evenings there is work to do. clothes to and iron, and dinner to
Helen, 6, to
prepare.
house work.”
“The children help with the Mrs. Wells said. The vounger members of the
Wright family like to work in
Two Young Presidents J
Eugene B. Hibbs
a
pretty girl/at the wheel of
each ca:
Ten YPO members this sum-
mer volunteered to spend four
weeks, abroad for the Economic Cooperation Administration They worked with European counterparts on overcoming dif ficulties in preduetHon—marsat ing and distribution. They turned feeling thev had hit some gnod licks for ind vidual . enterprise and. initiative, ? n n fr THE NEW Indianapolis mem bers are itching tn strike 3 ten
blows in the same cause,
v
‘Too bad Frances forgot to
pay funny thing is, she's
the insurance, but the
a bit
not
worried.
“We all admire her courage and her willingness to mort
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gage tha house to pay the bi Good thing vou gave her the
re vou
power-of-attorney bef To get back to the part) vou should have seen Frances imitation of Rose lee. What a card! was still going strong when we said goodnight to hep and Claude. “Guess vou-know Cla rooming at house. nearer his work and he saves nn lunch and gas. 1 “Nothing new with me exmv wife 'got a raise, making $85 pér week, so we are OK .with:the $45 1 get at the office. I can see agross the lawn inte your front porch.
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Frances and Claude are hav-.
ing a night-cap. He's wearing
CRAFTSWOMAN—No mechanical task is too difficult
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It's,
- Hor the garage, too. The girls want to be transmission me=
chanics like mother. Son Artie wants to be an aircraft mechanic. ig Mr. Wells likes the idea pf so many mechanics in the family. At least there's a chandes he won't have ‘to change tires when the family car has a* flat.
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their own stories illustrate how well it works, ry Tall, genial Gene Hibbs Was with Inland Container Corps for seven years before launching his own outfit Jan. 1, 1946." He gambled that his idea for using fiberboard strengthened with wood strips to make cfales and packages would be less pxpensive, less bulky and eager to: assemble than other kines. Today, manufacturers in the furniture, television and hojne appliance fields use his custombuilt products extensively. Gene is married, has two chil-dren-and lives at 7411 N. Peangylvanta St. A Paul Sicanoff. was associaled with ‘his father's hide busjnpss at the close of World War II. In" 1947, he decided to expand one -of his father's sidelines dealing in tallow . {He set up his own company. to buy tallow from meat packers and sell it to soap manufacturers and for export. Thiggs went well. Then he moved into an allied field. that of collecting soybean oil and crude co¢ofut oil and selling it to soap makers and refiners ¢
” " ” ? IN THE PROCESS, he jecquired a fleet of shiny tamk trucks and organized a com-. pany to handle them. l.atest step was to Peru. where he set up his own soybean pro-
cessing : Unmarried, Paul finds his ga-tion-wide business provides lots nf excuses dashing to the West Coast one week, New York
operation &
the" next, somplace else the next. And he's building a npw house at 65 W. 54th St. in casa he stops long enough to rest here. :
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amoking 1acket vou likad .
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Atterbury Air Base and rd! 14 ar 1l1ations Ail ovel he 8 wo ‘ tvv have been told to alert g t fv authoritiess if get such letters he order was sent by William sE. Be U. 8. Adjutant General. Atterbur AB. has had ho
problem from such letters Capt. 1 oclie Ciaicinger, public Tiformation officer. said. “It's the [I + the man who
intry
may: be homesick, cold, hungry and ill ta"whoam such letters are : : a ent In them there may besa
spark of
believing that all's ip! home.” the captain
well back
gatd, . . He added: “To the mania letter that kills his spirit of will to fight is just as effective Js sending a bullet through s hody. It's the duty of every citi“zen tp report such letters.”