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In Indianapolis By Ed Sovola ; _ “THE COUNTRY must learn to save and then bily; not buy then save.” ; A prominent Indianapolis Banker, concerned shout the economy of the country and “ingufficient practice of self-denial,” gave those words of advice to Indiana University students on Oct. 23, 1924. - “It was difficult to keep in mind the clipping was 27 years old even though it was yellowed with age. The words had a ring of today in them. This hip-pocket banker was so im- = 4 pressed he ran to another 4 prominent banker in the city to talk more on the subject of thrift. He knew the man, since deceased, who spoke in Bloom-
ington. y 333 I ‘quoted again from the past: “The present time is one in which the pur-
Gratification of We think
suit of enjoyment is a passion. our: desires do not wait on prudence. first and pay afterward.”
My banker friend, who asked to be anonymous
‘and advised the same for the deceased man be-
ing quoted, remarked that pursuit of enjoyment. still’ exists to the detriment of the country. He talked of the saving habit that existed a couple of generations ago. He recalled his early banking days when he could tell what day of the week .it was by simply looking at familiar depositors. > dS
“IN THE OLD DAYS a family would set aside so much each week regardless of temptation. Today desires, as you have read, ‘do not wait on prudence’,”. the banker said. ~ “Thriftiness at this time would break the inflationary trend.”
There are encouraging signs, however, that Indicate people are putting more in the sock and installment buying is leveling off. He showed me a chart. In 1944 over $2 billion worth of goods were put on the cuff. . The line zoomed upward until now there is over $12 billion on the hooks waiting to be collected. But the plateau has been reached. Good sign.
“I don't know whether the country has satis-
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
. NEW YORK, Dec. 1—You go along through life, through hundreds of days, and then thousands of days, and not very much happens. Then suddenly along comes. one day that seems like all the rest of the days, except that you don’t like it quite so much, and your life is changed entirely . .. and you're i : off to Hollywood. Rosemary Clooney couldn’t remember the date that this happened when I first asked her about it. : “The Day,” she finally remembered, was Friday, June 8, 1951. : Rosemary Clooney up to that time was a girl singer
sical circles, brought a smile of approval, but, when mentioned A in other circles, brought an im- Miss Clooney mediate response of: “Who did you say?” Or, sometimes, “Who dat?”
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“THAT DAY,” ash-blond Rosemary told me, “I dropped in at Mitch Miller's office at Columbia Records at 799 7th Av. late in the afternoon. “He handed me this song and said I was to record it. “I looked at it and at the title, ‘Come On-a My House.” “TI don’t read music but I knew that I wasn’t going to care for THAT. ‘Come On-a My House, what's that?’ I asked myself. Double talk? So I said, “Well, Mitch, I don’t think I can do it. “Mitch says, ‘I can hear you doing it with a
" harpsichord. It'll be great. Come On-a My House,
My House-a Com On.’ : “I thought to myself, ‘A harpsichord! Whit is he thinking of? He's lost his mind! “He says, ‘We’ll do it.’ “I said, ‘Mitch, I don’t think I will! “Mitch said, ‘we will.” He said, ‘now I'm a friend of yours but I'm also head of the artists here and yowre going to record it. And you're going to be glad that I insisted’.” He mentioned that they’d be recording at 9 a. m. the next day. :
It was about 7 o'clock when Rosemary re-
turned to her apartment that night with the music to be used the next day, and with a demonstration record of the song that William Saroyan and his cousin, Ross Bagdasarian, had composed year ago while riding in a car,
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“I WASN'T mad,” Rosemary told me, “I was still kind of on the fence about the song. “I played the demonstration record for Jimmy and Frances Henaghan, friends of mine. Jim
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Dec. 1—TI cannot expert you on the Korean War, first because I wasn't in it, and second because it isn’'t'a war in any true sense of war-—except, of course, to the people who got killed in it. And even so it was more of a political traffic accident. I was only mixed up in one war which was considerably less governed by ground rules. I pever heard of a war before where the commander gets fired for trying to win it, or a war which runs back and forth and back again, like a dog chasing its tail : 1 never heard of war which {s fought part-time, or where atrocity killings of prisoners are debated in terms of timing of announcement. “Or a war
which goes on in a 1-won'’t-shoot-you-if-you-don't-
t-me-first basis. shoo * *
P igs TO CONSIDER the silliness of humankind you have only to race backward over the conduct of this “police action” in Korea, and you will
r happened. It has been played swear it neve ppe en
from start to finish like a game
adhouse. i have been kids, and tired old retreads, and wéary pros. But what it has proved I will defy
any expert to tell me.
t that the good, and retired, Gen. Wil3 al call me a journalistic rag picker, like he called the other fellers, but 1 do not see how it is possible to look at the Korean mess
loughby
without heavy criticism of its conduct, It has sure start. a few laughs and a
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IT 1S HERE that I must confess my ignorance of global scheming, put I will bet my ignor‘ance against that of the politicians who decided that this was it, this was the time to send somebody” else to do something vague in a futile
fashion. * 1 think back a bit:
"or blockade the ports like it, ‘sven while
people.
You take this hill and lose it, and take it again ! You cease fire here and observe
No war makes sense; this thing in Korea hasn't even been a sensible guer-
and lose it again. a petimeter there.
rilla action, ‘
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The single tragedy is that the chess-
been a sour operation from its cockApart from affording the Russians chance to test their ip. ment, very little has been accomplished past the deaths of a great many nice young men who had a very slight interest in what South Koreans did
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You can’t bomb the bases because the Chinese won't the Chinese are xilling your ‘You-tan’t do this, you can’t do that. ;
Nobody yet has been able to tell me what we . are trying to prove, I've read most of it, and all
¥ Old Advice, 3 : - Good Today?
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‘fied its wants or not. We have noticed an increase
in savings in 1951 which is a good indication that. folks are thinking of that reserve.” ‘I thought
as he was speaking, how nice it would be te Have
a reserve to think about. The banker believes in the old idea of buying comforts and luxuries for cash and then .only when the head of house feels that he has a comfortable amount of cash on hand for emergencies. “I would reserve installment buying for a pinch. It's difficult to do, I know, but it's good business. - Individuals, just like business firms, need working capital.” I had the impression the road to a sound economy was pretty rough. The banker agreed and cited the old Will Rogers quip about how to solve the traffic problem. Will Rogers said if all the cars that weren't paid for were taken off the roads there wouldn't be any traffic problems, Probably wouldn’t be any cars, either, WW deb THE BANKER had advice for young people. He said, Tor example, young couples shouldn't marry until they can pay for their furniture with cash on the line. Young couples would do well to begin a savings account before they married. “Ask any person who enjoys real possession how it feels not to have a debt hanging over his head.” “All my friends are in hock up to their ears.” The banker didn’t even crack a smile, He was in dead earnest. : His advice to would-be home owners is not to
take on a mortgage until such time when a home x
can be purchased with a substantial down payment. : “They could buy better homes if they would only wait, save, plan the acquisition more carefully. A home is one of the most important. investments a man ran make.” “Do you happen to have a piggy bank handy?” I asked. * “Don’t ldugh at the piggy bank, young man. Some of the most successful men in: this country started with piggy banks. There is an art to intelligent saving. If more parents trained their children to save in a piggy bank, we'd be better off today and certainly more so tomorrow.” I won't laugh at piggy banks, sir. I didn’t see yours on the desk. Sorry.
Rosemary Clooney Tells About Her Lucky Day
said, ‘from a listener's standpoint, great’,” That put Rosemary in a better frame of mind. -Next morning at 9 she was there, recorded the song in about 45 minutes, deciding that the fifth “cut” was right. She also cut three other songs that forenoon. So it all happened from late one afternoon to 10 a. m, the next day. Rosemary packed her bags to go to the Olympia "Theater in Miami, and thought more about other things. . “But while I was down South, things were happening,’ she said. “They got the records out the following Tuesday. I got a wire from Saroyaf that was off beat like the song. It said: ‘Wild, delightful, tender choice and we love your voice’.” * PH : IN A FEW days all of Tin Pan Alley knew about the song and in a few weeks all the country knew about it. Rosemary Clooney came back from Miami considerably more of a celebrity than when she left. She departed to appear at Thunderbird in Las Vegas. Jack Benny came to hear her. He went back to Hollywood and told everybody how great she was. He got Danny Kaye to hear her. He raved about her also. One night, Hollywood talent scout Milton Lewis of Paramount came in and listened to her. “He didn't say anything,” Rosemary said. “He just kind of nodded.” And that's how it was that all in a short space of time Rosemary Clooney was signed by Paramount Pictures to join Betty Hutton, Dorothy
it. sounds
Lamour and others in selling songs and romance. -
Very soon now she’ll report to the studio. > Pb ROSEMARY, a slender, modest girl, born in Mayville, Ky., but reared in Cineinnati, has been singing all her life. > . “Never before did I do anything that required anything except what God gave me,” she says. “Now I've got to learn to dance and to act. “Anyway, I'm sure glad they wrote that song. You know, they say they made it up as they rode along and finally wrote in down because they remembered it more than 15 miles.” That's how Rosemary brought her career to. its high peak by one day of her life. So don't knock today . .. or tomorrow ... nor even yesterday ..,. one of them may be YOUR day. ' < LI TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Jimmy Nelson claims to know a TV singer with a very wide range~—from high C to low V, <> >» %» TODAY'S DEFINITIONS: A racketeer, says
~ Arthur Murray, is a man who has-the courage of
his nonconvictions.
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When It’s Over. What's Proved?
that comes out is that we are in a fight we dare not try to win; in a valiant effort toward defeat. We have marked time with dives, like a man playing solitaire and cheating himself, od THIS GEN. WILLOUGHBY, Gen. MacArthur's intelligence boy, accuses a half-dozen writers and three magazines of giving “aid dnd comfort to the enemy,” when the greatest giver of aid and.comfort to the enemy has been the political conduct of a war that isn't a war except people get killed in it.
The most comforting aspect of the war, to”
the enemy, has been our participation in it. Gen. Willoughby hollers about the press accounts of the foul-ups in Korea, but Harry Truman canned the old man, MacArthur, for a soldierly effort to triumph over the good housekeeping seal of approval under which this mock war was being fought.
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os» WHEN AND IF the armistice, or whatever you call it, is signed and sealed with the correct blood-—I mean ink-<-the Korean conflict will certainly have to go down in the books as the alltime idiots’ delight. : We have spent lives. We havé spent money We have managed to look pretty silly. What military effort we might have mustered seemed to have been squandered for purposes I know not of, ¥ Like I said earlier, I can’t expert it for you. But I can sure be puzzled by it all, and may find some outside agreement in the old gag: that if this is war, it is one hell of a way to run a railroad.
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Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q. I have some tulip bulbs which I have not got planted. Do you think if I do not get them planted this fall they will keep until spring? Mrs. Clyde McCormack, 1152 Evison St.
A. Plant your tulip bulbs any time you can catch the ground unfrozen. Do not try. to hold them dver winter indoors. If ground freezes suddenly and stays frozen .(as last year) you can always pot up a few bulbs for forcing indoors. But it's time-consuming to force very many. So don’t hesitate, any of you who have a number of spring bulbs yet unplanted, to set them out whenever you can. y I planted hyacinth bulbs one year on Christmas Day, another year put in crocusses in Degeember. A local seedsman told me once of planting his left-over hyacinth bulbs in March. These bulbs all bloomed. If you can get spring bulbs into the ground, as little as four or five weeks before their blooniifig time they'll perform, -
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By JOE ALLISON
VERYBODY has ups and downs, but 13 local girls have as many as 160 a day. . They are elevator operators, described by some local experts in pulchritude as “the prettiest in town.” The ups and downs they have in H. P. Wassons & Co.'s seven elevators don’t bother them a bit. They all seem to enjoy their jobs. Some like their work so much they say they wouldn't have any other kind. But these “vertical streetcar” operators do have trouble with some “ups and downs.” It’s the self-appointed wit who dredges up from Joe Miller's jokebook the clever little gag, “Are you haying your ups and downs?" that gives them the heebie-jeebies. " » v. SOME UNIDENTIFIED hut sympathetic bard once wrote a poem in which ‘he bragged, rightly, of kindness to his fel-
low man. He had never asked an elevator operator: ‘‘What's up today?” -
These are just two variations
of what is. the oldest joke in”
the world to an plevator operator. The girls at Wasson's can give you a lot more versions. But don't ask them. They shudder at the thought. Not that they won't smile at the originality of YOUR twist to«the old tale. Trained to put the store’s best foot forward, they may even manage a chuckle. But chances are that if they do, their hearts won't be in it. If ‘you really want the girls to come up with a belt¥ laugh, ask them, as many pedpie do: “What . floor is the downstairs store onl’ ; This always brings forth a least a snicker -- but not, of ‘course, until the customer has
out from trips.
found his or her confused way to the basement.
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THEN THERE'S the wandering type of - shopper who is never quite sure which of Wasson's two buildings she is in.
There's the main store and the Monument Annex. Travel between them is across a narrow alley running west from Meridjan St. Travel by foot, that is. But a frustrated bargain hunter walked calmly into a main store elevator not long ago, planted herself firmly near the operator and asked: “What elevator do I take to the Monument store?” The operator's reply was not recorded. The elevators can make a trip from main floor (to the mysterious realm of the seventh and eighth floors and back again in just 3 minutes. Figure that on an eight-hour day and there are 160 trips, That's with a' stop on every floor.
Add to the 160 trips the 20 people the cars can carry each way and you can zee that the number of faces the operator can see in a day is quite some 3200 to be exact. In any group of 3200 persons there is bound to be at least one who woke up mad at his mother-in-law, or who missed his bus, or whose feet hurt, . The elevator operator presents the same smiling face to each and if her passenger is grouchy she must never admit she thinks so. But one mercifully unidentified operator came up with a sharpér retort than the girls usually permit—themselves. When one {rate woman
waited balefully on the main
floor to snap at the operator: “You closed the door in my face!” she was asked sweetly: “Did it hurt much?” The matter of closing elevator doors has been given some
: thought by people interested in:
elevators. ; a : At Wasson's the trick is per-
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formed with a deft flip of the wrist which bars the door to more passengers who seem bound to crash into the car, smashing those in the rear.
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BUT PROTECTING the passenger in the rear is much less a problem, however, than getting him to the back in the first place.
Everybody wants to ride at the front, operators complain.
Riders sometimes complain, too.
One frequently voiced comment is, “They ought to have back doors on these things.”
That everybody wants to ride at the front is only partially true, however. Operators say the little man who pipes up “Two, please,” in a crowded elevator invariably seems to be standing in the absolute rear of the car. = x,
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department store 'better equipped to tell the customer whats on sale and Where to buy than the elevator girls. | The average girl at Wasson's
has several years experience on the job and knows the nooks and crannies of the store about as well as those of her own home. - » y »
OCCASIONALLY she will be baffled by such a question as oné girl was recently when asked for the “kitchen floor.” Questioning brought out that the customer was looking for the housewares department where she could buy a frying pan. But the routine détails. of what and where are easy. She knows where to find silverware, sheets and sweatshirts and thouasnds of other items. She's also more about what's going on at the store than anyone else.
to be favorite places for rumormongering and for exchange of confidence. ” “While “what the governor of South Carolina said to the Fov-
ernor of North Carolina” may
remain a permanent secret, the operators: usually know what
likely to know’
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they seem to do it.”
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an assistant vice president said to a buyer in the millinery department. — All this leads to a pet peeve most of the operators claim,
IT SEEMS nearly everybody thinks going up and down all day in an elevator must be a dull job. They say so, frequent ly. 1 Actually, most of the operators declare the job is just the opposite. Where else, they ask, can you meet so many interesting people? A big “pet peeve,” however, is the customer who barges onto the elevator and into the operator, : “You'd think,” said one girl, “that with all that room they
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One operator offered an explanation. : a “That type,” she said, “is the samé as the one who gets on _ the car in’ the basement and