Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1951 — Page 27

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

“HORSE HIGH, bull strong, goat tight.” Most Intriguing description of the multiflora rose fence. Don't make the mistake of doubting the words the Conservation Department is peddling along with seedlings. You're liable t6 "be sorry. : ’ It was my lot to pooh-pooh Jim Hughes when he talked about his first love of the current geason. Jim is director of the Pittman- Robertson Project and it's seed-picking time. Since 1947, when the Department of Conservation got orf the multiflora jag with 18,000 seedlings, everyone, and Jim especially, has been crowing about the “living fence.” They did right well, too, considering 3,320,000. seedlings will go out on farms in the state by the end of the year.

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AS AN OLD picket fence man, the living fence angle stopped me long enough to have. Jim talk me into going on a seed-picking expedition with him and three distriét leaders. He said it would be “lots of fun.” Also, I'd learn about multiflora rose. The-first shock came when Jim's instructions were to be ready to leave for Wabash County at 6 a. m, He advised wearing hunting clothes, hoots and long-johns, A commitment, once made, is inviolate, especially when you can't get out of it. I was on deck at 6, hunting jacket half on, boots untied, longJohns itching. It was a revolting sight to see and hear Cheerful Jim Hughes at that hour. Mayhem was in my heart as he talked about a big breakfast (he ate at 5:15), hot coffee, how wonderful it was to get an early start to do a day's work. “T don't see how middle of the day

people can get (9 o'clock is the

up in the middle for

Jim) and waste the best part of a working day," droned Jim,

MULTIFLORA—A living fence is no laughing matter fo bulls, horses, goats and newspapermen.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW fa limited to a courts—and I was, 'honor-—but for the life of me I can’t of the recent stiff sentences of the basketball fixers,

YORK, Nov. 30 few brisk too,

Our

brushes

legal experience with traffic limit, get the logic the gambler

obeving the speed

and

Loca! judge name of Saul Streit made a great deal of personal character by heaving

the book at some book-making bum named Sal Salazmo, who copped eight to 16 whispering tions into ketball hemused basketeers drew up to three vears for missing the old hoop on purpose’ Four more % college sprinters collected from a year to six months, I am the first to agree that the ‘holy name of alma mater was greatly smirched by the defections of old alma’s and the boys should be rapped on the wrist and fold to go and sin no more. Maybe the fixer, Salazzo, rates a reprimand in the form of a stretch for impairing the morals of young men Ww ho are too

Vears

honeved

the ears of

One of

the

players

stars,

old, already, to be playing professional college basketball anyhow, BUT HOLY gee, these guys have not been

sticking up filling stations nor committing murder nor ducking the draft nor stealing military rets nor peddling dope nor

All they did was betray a

sec-

setfing fire to schools

few hettors and dirtv-

ble honor of the schools that em-

up the undirty ved them as Anvhody sud etball

trim

ker enough to bet on bask

Otherwise, what sin--before the guys committ

went of personal honor

rates a ob ed, except an Ini tion

anda

the

law ~have with a I am thinking that Miss Judy C large, after two convictions of conspiring with a Russian spy to peddle her country's sacred secrets, had time to get married and pregnant,

associa

gambler

plon

is still at

She has

and looks ethereal. Old Andy May, the legislator, did a smaller bit than Solazzo, and May literally hetraved his country in time of war This boy Fddie Card. with his up to-three-vears in. clink draws about as much as did Serge Rubinstein, the classic draft dodger, o & o- < FRANK ERICKSON and Joes Adoniz, two real big wheels in crime as professional erime is defined, each accrued less than a petty gambler,

Salazzo. And the standard whip for sex offenders and child molesters 1s about 60 days in the workhouse, What goes on here, that people who tamper with silly games get murdered while the sinners against the state get tapped on the knuckles with a ruler?

I know one guy who drunkenly and maliciously

Takes a Wild Fling o At Seed-Piecking

I COULDN'T SLEEP on the way to Wabash .

County with Jim expounding the merits of multiflora. Here are the points in its favor: ONE: Fast growing. tions it will make a dense, impenetrable barrier in four years. Under good conditions, three years. TWO: Widely adapted. It will grow anywhere weeds will grow and has a wide climatic range. THREE: Does not encroach’ on adjacent field land, Multiflora rose doesn't sap the ground and crops grow right up to it. FOUR: Boon to wildlife. It provides fine nesting, escape and travel over for a wide variety of birds and animals. Birds are a friend of the farmer and when he plants multiflora, the farmer fs a friend of the birds. .

. FIVE: Colorful in flower, foliage and fruit. In late May, a multifiora rose fence is a sight to warm any heart. The small white or dusty pink blooms are followed by masses of fruit which turn red in the winter. SIX: Does not spread. The living fence won't sucker or spread into adjacent fields. It is about eight feet high and six feet wide when it matures and then it stays put.

oo» o> oo WE RENDEZVOUSED with District Leaders

Vachel Richardson, Raymond Wilson and Clayton Bushong. A!l were wide awake and ready to pick

multifiora seeds. They had buckets to hang around their necks and heavy leather gloves, They also had a bucket for my neck.

Rav Wilson, in whose district I was to learn the art of picking multiflora seed without being torn to shreds (there is a way). said we were going to Farmer Raymond Wise's broad acres. He had 40 rods of living fence and plenty of seed. In five minutes picking time, I knew why Jim said, “Horse high, bull strong, goat tight.” The thorns on a multifiora rose shrub are the sharpest, strongest, most numerous I've encountered. Every time you reach for a handful of seeds that resemble bittersweet, vou're, caught. Heavy leather gloves are pierced repeatedly and tears mingle with tiny globules of blood on your hand as you wipe the brine away. The situa-

tion was aggravated further by the comments and taunts of my fellow pickers. “ oe Bg oe ¥ * ¥ PULL THAT SEED, tot’ that can, lift that sack. move along the row cf prickly thorns, if vou can. No food or drink until noon. Only an

hour for lunch. Back in the open field and all that fresh air, Pretty

and listening to Conservation

seed from memory men hoot and holler

goon vou're pulling

what a fine crop of seed Farmer Wise has, how many billions of seedings will grow and how much fun it is to be picking multiflora rose seed in November, ; If vou're interested in the living fence, write Jim. don't write me. Just as soon as my hands

neal. I'm going to wash them of the entire deal. I'm through.

Cage Fixer Sentenced And Spy Walks Free

shot and killed a complete stranger, and got off with the payment of $1500 to the dead stranger's widow. Whatever happened to crime and punishment. the one to fit the other? Judge Streit’s stringent handling of the sports mav be entirely admirable as sermon in the nation, -but seems slightly out of kilter in view of the easy fixes all around, on much sferner and crimes than the mere rigging of a basketball game. As a deterrent to the decay of moral would fine, but, while he is deterring the personal decay of future basketball plavers what happens tH the kids who zee Aa convicted soy Judy" Coplon., smirking in her incipient motherhood, and still at large? < &

sinners rocks to

vicious

tiber I say

EXCEPT IN the technicality of conspiracy with illegal gamblers, an athlete who throws a game has committed no real crime against the state. He has injured nobody. except himself, and he has only injured himself in a spiritual fashion. There is no law in the books that can prosecute for failing to an amateur contest, even on purpose, unless hooked up with a professional breaker and that is called conspiracy. This conspiracy is no worse than the spiracy that puts kids to work professionally for amateur colleges, at stated pay or perquisite; no worse than the conspiracy we have practiced in proselyting players at our military academies and big schools. These boys have been taught conspiracy from early participation and I think it a crime to make a jailbird out of any who merely expanded conspiracy to where he took money from a gambler instead of a rich alumnus. Win or lose, the outcome of the actual game is not important.

vou win

you are

laws,

con-

guy the

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q —Will you please give me some informa ferns? Mrs. Anna Smith, Montezuma. A—Important foines for success with indoor ferns are 1. loose soil; 2. plenty of water; 3. light 4. cool temperatures, "As to soil--it should be looge enough 20 you can run vour fingers deep into such materials as rofted manure, moss in the soil mixtures, water but do not let them stand in

rion on

it easily. Use

leaf mold or peat Give

ferns plenty of

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

grower 1 Know week. After an hour or water that has drained like plenty of light

it. One very soaks her plants once a go she pours off all the the jardinieres. Ferns not direct sunlight. Thev will do well in a south window if you can shade them from the sun's direct heat. They dislike the hot dry air of the average living room A cool bedroom porch or sun room is better for them.

successful fern

into but

"NOW YOU LISTEN"—Ross D. Livesay is all ears as the 307th Bomb Wing's mascot in Okinawa, Honorary Cpl. Johnny Russel, spins an unlikely war story of his own imagination. Livesay, from Crawfordsville, has flown 70 combat missions in Korea, a record for B.26 pilots flying from Okinawan bases. Including his World War Il record, he's flown 105 bombing missions.

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"The Indianapolis '

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1951

Mile-O-Dimes Veterans—

3 Little Girls Are Part Of

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FOR CLOTHE-A-CHILD — The "

cute”

Wild triplets—Jean, Joan and Jane—started a Mile-

O-Dimes last year that stretched more than a mile before Christmas.

1946—Mr. and Mrs. Foyd

their Mile-O-Dimes debut.

1948—Almost 3 years old, the

R. Wild had to

ing needy children at the Mile-O-Dimes.

Things Are Shaping Up at SHAPE—

Ike's Staff To Get Brand-New Quarters

ROSETTE HARGROVE

Times Special Writer a OCQUENCOURT, France, Nov. 30—The future is full of promise Regimental Sgt. Maj.

Roger de Ligne. A member of

for h staff employed here at SHAPE HeadAllied Euis on the priority list in the

the Fren« Supreme quarters Powers, rope), he modern “SHAPE earing He and his pretty wife

for a ipartment

Village" prpject now

completion Reine

afi their three children -Jac-

queline, 11, Monique, 9, and

Andre, 3- will soon be installed

in a four-room apartment with conveniences,

hardly

all modern

*1 ean believe it fis true,” . said Reine de Ligne, “Imagine —the children will be in a place where they will have playmates of every nationality and I will have a home - the 16th in our 12 vears of married life where keeping house will be a pleasure.’ For the past six months, the de Lignes have been living in a

three-room wooden hut in the military camp of the Loges just outside St. Germain, The

thought that they would have to spend the winter in the hut was a dismal prospect, but now they are just waiting for the signal to go. » » ”

CONSCIOUS OF the housing shortage and high rents, and of the need to foster a feeling of comradeship among all the SHAPE personnel, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower a few months

ago approached the French government, He was able to obtain the assignment of a

piece of property situated about

hold their triplet daughters at

Wild triplets realized the importance of help-

1947 —It

was the

Tradition

ART WRIGHT

EAN, Joan and Jane Wild are The Times Mile-O-Dimes

triplets.

Nearly 6 years old, they opened The Times Mile-O-Dimes today for the sixth time. Their birthday is Dec. 29.

Each - year, regardless of weather, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd R. Wild bundle up the girls and proudly watch them lay the first dimes on The Times Mile-O-Dimes on W. Washington St.

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THE WILDS do their job for the needy children of Indianapolis without any ecompensation. This vear they came in from Greenwood, where they have taken up residence since last year's Mile-O-Dimes, The little girls each have captured the hearts of the fieople who attend the opening ceremonies, At their “debut” in 1946, not vet: a vear old, they were held by their parents as they laid down the first dimes-—with plenty of help. not big enough to realize importance of their role. In 1947 they were old enough

year

the

O-Dimes for the fourth time.

IKE AND THE SERGEANT-MAJOR—Gen. E

into "SHAPE Village."

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isenhower [right] greets the first families to move Among the lucky ones are Regimental Sgt.-Major Roger de Ligne (left) hold-

ing Andre. Next to de Ligne is his wife, Reine, and in front are Jacqueline’ and Monique.

20 miles west of Paris near the

town of St, Germain-en-Laye

No time was lost in planning

“SHAPE Village' and, by the end- of the year, it is expected that the first 100 of the 300

apartments which will make up the village will be occupied. Priority has heen given to enlisted men of all nationalities. The property, known as Hennemont Park. consists of about 40 acres of woodland around a now-tumbledown chateau built by a wealthy Paris. businessman way back in 1910. The chateau may be restored to

“trance

ers’

club with Allied

serve as an offic sleeping quarters for bachelor officers The new construction, which is being erected under. the direction of the French Ministry of Reconstruction, is in the form of an elongated “8,” three stories high.

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THERE are six modern apartments to every main entwo on each floor with from one to four bedrooms. Living rooms overlook the park, with large French windows and Spanish-style iron balconies,

Other panels in ers for the children,

features are sliding

the bedrooms. show

a separate

lavatory, ultra-modern Vitchen and bathroom deep closets in every room, a sun porch,

adequate heating and an open

fireplace in the large living room, The sense of privacy, so

dear to Europeans, has been preserved. The porches are shielded from the gaze of nexidoor neighbors. ' "nn RENTAL HAS BEEN fixed by the French authorities, ¢

the stand alone and their eyes twinkled as their dimes jingled on the sidewalk. The next year

they laid them on the line . .. in 1949 they started a straighter line last year it was a serious task with them. » =n " THE WILD triplets were back at the Mile-O-Dimes today next year they expect be back again . .. and the next . and the next .. . so long as needy children look to the

Times Clothe-A-Child for warm clothing.

The Wild triplets are old enough now to know the full

meaning of The Times Mile-O-Dimes and Clothe-A-Child, They hope that you, too, realize how important it is to lay every dime you possibly can to stretch their first dimes to more than a full mile,

the Wild triplets.

1949—The Wild triplets, approaching their fourth birthday, opened the Mile-

based on existing legal decrees. It ranges from $10 to $23 per month, plus heat, gas, electricity and water. Furnished homes will rent for just double

that of unfurnished places. The furniture, to be supplied by the French government. will be comfortable, simple and new. Dishes, household linen. blankets, silver ware, kitchen utensils and cur-

tains will have to be supplied bv the occupier. The de Lignes, for example. will pay a basic monthly rent of $13, plus the extra charges which they e=stimate will come to another $8, LJ = =

AS A REGIMENTAL sergeant-major, Roger de Ligne's pay is $175 a month, including allowances, which is about one-third of the pay of an American of equal rank. We shall have to economize on our monthly budget,” pointed out Mme. de Ligne, “and that will be difficult, with the everrising cost of food. But I shall manage somehow.”

Early in 1952, “SHAPE Vil

lage” will have a non-commis-sioned officers’ club, an elementary school for children

up to 11 vears of age. a kindergarten and a playground. Stable buildings will be converted into an enlisted men’s club. L

THERE WILL ALSO be a smal! market, where local tradesmen will sell meat, fish and vegetables, This will save the “Village” housewives a twomile trip to 8t. Germain.

Persons eligible for quarters in “SHAPE Village" are being considered on the merits of their cases. Such factors as number of dependents, economic resources, the separation of married men from their families, and finally rank and seniority will govern the allocation of homes,