Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1952 — Page 9

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By Ed Sovola

REMEMBER when you were a kid and took off for. a Saturday movie, in the front row, yelling and stomping your feet for the feature attraction to start? i Remember how impatient you were for the minutes to slip by before the house lights dimm and you could settle-back for ; the day? y Last week at several round

about how our mode of living has - changed, how (illiterate we're getting because of the advent of Cyclops in the living room; how little we're doing to preserve some of the: finer: things in life we used to enjoy. I'm not going to discuss the disappearing art of conversation or the lack of appreciation . ‘ for fine literature. I'll just hop right into the joy of the early Saturday movie. Surely that was the beginning of culture for many of us. . “Db -» , DOUBLE FEATURES were never high on my, list. I prefer one good movie, a newsreel, couple of funny cartoons, and a comedy: The Circle Theater is currently showing “The Greatest . Show on Earth,” and a néwsreel. Perfect for trying to slip into the-dim past.. Since the feature was to begin at 9:40 a.m, I paid my respects at the box office at 9:20, By 9:25, loaded down with a bag of popcorn and three candy bars, I was testing all the seats in the first row. Had to make my selection quickly because seven youngsters were also on the prowl. “Hey, Jimmy, this is too close, let's sit in the next row,” called. an ear-muffed tyke. “The front row is the best,” argued Jimmy,-a bern leader and judge of good seats. Ww. FAMILIAR NOISES in the darkened theater took me back a quarter of a century. The scene was as vivid as {if it were no more than 25 years old. Kids still raced in the aisles and changed seats as fast as a woman changes her mind. They yelled and squirmed and chattered. Besides youth, I lacked my ol’ buddy, Hack. I missed the odor of wood smoke on ‘our clothes and all fingers were intact. For. years Hack and

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 3—A beautiful model and Hollywood actress who was once engaged to Jack Dempsey has become a photographer—and I-think I can hear you groaning, “That's what the world needs , . . another photographer.” But I do believe we could always use another photographer as pretty as Felice Ingersoll. Once in the Follies, Fe- | lice — who's still young — } has a studio in the 30's. It's four flights up. Whew, I'm still out of breath. “I've got a View camera, a Rolleiflex and a

—who's of Argentine and Italian descent — said, showing me some of her photographic equipment. In her days as a model she'd have been more interested in showing herself off. She wore a little flower in a miniature vase on her sweater. Some drops of water bounced out on her and she said, “Is it raining in? You can never tell with my skylight.” “I just started in June,” she told me. “In order to get one good picture, I take 100. That's the dumbest economy in the world . . , not to take enough.” She does lots of commercial work—even -photographs men sometimes. 2 “Men are just like cocker spaniels—don’t get offended. I tell them how good they are and they believe it and that makes them better looking.” “Jack Dempsey is one of my favorite subjects. He has gallantry and that’s a great quality. “And he doesn’t care if people think he isn’t very . .. well . , . complicated. We were engaged for 10 months. : “Once I practically had charge of his daughters. And to think, they're 18 and 18 now, and have their own cars.”

Miss Ingersoll

oa “pO YOU HAVE any trouble photographing beautiful women?” 5 “No . . . but have you fioticed that women

who are most threatening to a happy home are

“practically all homely? That's because they

know they're not beautiful and concentrate more on being interesting people. They get a smoldering quality. A beautiful woman often relies too much on that perfect profile to do everything for her. “Do you ever have trouble getting enough work to do?” ri “No,” Felice said. People often want to avoid men phGiographers.... but... it's different with

gitls.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 3—It seems to me that the subject of universal military training, by popular demand, should be settled now and for all time, and enough of this horsing around with it for pure, prime political purpose. ; There is no useful point in sending the bill back to committee for ‘fur-

aspect “of compulsory military training that hasn't been thrashed to a bleeding pulp. Its goods and its bads have

windbag in both houses of Congress. Its potentials have

groups and. the churches and the parents and everybody with the tiniest tin hatchet in . gearch of a selfish edge. . There is no further purpose to assail it as

‘ fascistic or communistic. Only an outright fool

could find the proposition, which is the drafting: for mandatory military training of all physically fit 18-year-olds, as anything but an expedient to extraordinary times. Whether the expedient is vital or not contains the only kernel of argument. . > b> 2» ; WHEN Rep. Adam Powell of New York gets up to speak against UMT on the grounds tARt it follows the “Communist line.” then his" argument must be consciously false .or, if not false, heavily smeared with phony. Mr. Powell "argues at this desperate date that UMT. follows four dangerous teatures of communism—emphasis on militarism, allegiance to the “militaristic state,” suppression of individual conscience, and subordination of truth to the gospel of force. This is very fine, high-sounding stuff, but complete honsense in light of the very recent happenings in Lisbon, the NATO meetings during which we just agreed to defend most of the world and pay" for~it besides. We are tommitted to a 300-billion-dollar program of arms and men. We are in and have been in a war in Korea. We still draft men and call back veterans of World War II, Our domestic economy is supposed to be on a semi-wartime basis. The bulk of our vast budget goes for war spending. Our life, by solid commitment, must be a military Ife until after Soviet Russia is met in either defeat or victory. Until the showdown, the only hope of delay is in strength, or so the abler soothsayers tell us. . : SD

THAT BEING THE CASE, the peacemakers may be blessed, but they are overmuch in the minority, and we might as well sit down and confess that we are a military state’ in’ every

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to be miade Bf cast iron but not anymore, On occasion, however, it-can rise to the occasion. In the good old days it was fun to guess how many more minutes remained before the show would start. Little squirts didn't wear wrist watches like they do now. Hack used to like to say, “The show will start by the time I count -50.” Sometimes he would choose a number as high as 300. te . “ Bb FINALLY. the house lights dimmed and that wonderful excitement of a-forthcoming good time gripped the howling audience. 1 was more cautious. Experience has taught me that you can't always rely on what the marquee has to say about a Hollywood production. =~ The newsreel was disappointingly short, considering the age we live in. Furthermore, it was cluttered up with a prevue of a movie and a plea for money for a worthwhile organization. I like my newsreels straight, not diluted with pitéhes, pleas, selling stunts. / Cecil B. Dé Mille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth’ came on. With the artistry that he has demonstrated several times, Mr. De Mille took me by the hand and led me under the big top. I was part of Ringling Brothers Circus, body and soul. ‘That's something he failed to do in two of his previous “epics.” e P/N HE COVLD have added one more touch of realism if he had announced, when the elephants were shown, that “water boys" were needed. One of my secret boyhood desires was to carry water for ‘elephants. ; As pleasant Saturday morning I haven't had for many a month; I wish, in order to have made the day complete, that it would have been possible’ to run home, ACross the broken bridge and down the tracks, and stomp into the house yelling, “Ma, I'm hungry—got anything to eat? it takes effort to drag yourself out of a rut. Imagine, getting up at 8 a. m. on Saturday Just

to refresh a memory.

G a | Photographer Reveals Secrels

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Billy Rose's lovely blond companion at the Palace opening was Celeste Holm. Photographers were dejected when they said, “Please, no pictures.” Gen. Eisenhower sent Tex McCrary a letter —Dby courier—saying he was greatly pleased with the response to the now famous Garden Rally. It came just as McCrary was arranging his NBC leave. McCreary wasn't fired; news of His contemplated leave was published here last week... ., Frank Costello faces the deportation headache all over—this time from Newbold Morris’ inquiry. ... Denise Darcel has been to “Stalag 17”.three times. Because of her new guy, actor John Erick-. son, whose romance with Ann Bancroft cooled off after she went to Hollywood. . . . Joe Louis said his Presidential choice is Harold Stassen.

o *» ** * AVA hopes to be with Frankie when he hits town Mar. 10 for his Paramount appearance. . . . Spencer Martin and Pat Smart, “Who've been separated, were pally at “Pal Joey.” . .. Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson and the Louis Jordan band will revive stage bills at the Warner Apr. 7. Walter Winchell, feeling good again and full of fire, hopes to resume Mar. 9 (instead of Mar. 2 as first planned) . . . Milton Berle’s newest lawsuit is threatened on behalf of the late Milt Britton’s band. Berle is accused of filching a busted fiddle routine. But Berle's agents say they paid Mousie Powell who also did the routine. Such a tangle! ; Kefauverites here want FDR Jr. for Veep on their ticket , . ., Sam Gyson is disc jockeying again (at the Coral Reef Hotel, Miami) , ; , Geo. Schlee was at the Colony with his arm in splints, No, he wasn’t hurt schleeing. He had an operation . . The Lauritz Melchoir-Jean Carroll show at the Palace is real zingy. : 0D A N.Y. GENT bet on the horses every day, accepting the advice of bookmakers Harry and Lew. And almost every race, his horses “also ran.” He was so accustomed to hearing that his nags ‘also ran” that he was astonished one day to hear that a 50-to-1 shot he had bet on had won. “I'm going right to their office with a suitcase and ‘get my winnings,” he announced (as Jue Candula tells the story), On the door of their office, he found a sign: “Harry and Lew Also Ran.”

EARL'S PEARLS . . . “How'd. you lose so much weight?” somebody asked Mary Beth Hughes, who answered: ‘Oh, I'm on Milton Berle's show now.” . @ Sb TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: New York Dialog: “Who was that lady I saw you with at that sidewalk cafe?” , ., “That was no sidewalk cafe. That was our furniture.” > : WILL JORDAN told Jackie Gleason, the Irish comedian, “You must have kissed the baloney

stone” ,.. That's Earl, brother.

c UMT—=Pass It Now or Kill It

material game and they pay off on stuff rather than nonsense. No matter whether it is right to take John for a soldier, one way or the other we have been taking him for just that. If UMT is wrong, the draft is wrong. A strong military: America is wrong. Korea and the United Nations are wrong. The NATO agreements are wrong, everything and

—everybody-in-otur-eurrent-way-of Jife-is-wrong—

dead wrong. But if they aren't wrong, if this is the only way we can live, then we damn’ soon better get it systematized a ‘little better ‘than the halfheaded way we've been running it, or we can just go off and graze on stardust and forget about practicality.

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THE UNIVERSAL military training program is practical, if taxes are practical, and the defense of America is practical, and a big Army, Navy and Air Force is practical. None of it is ideal, maybe, but they say it's practical. Tt is certainly as practical ‘as a hit-or-miss draft, which changes monthly in demands and regulations. Good or evil, necessary or not. it's time for the showdown vote in Congress. The only reason we haven't had it years earlier is that conscripting Junior is political poison, and the valiant souls who represent us.in Washington do not always court displeasufe-en masse. . As Rep. Kilday of Texas said the other day: : ‘Let's pass it or kill it. If there was ever a

proposition that was thoroughly studied, this one has been.” y

Dishing che Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Do you think it is too early to start seeds of hibiscus indoors? I have an enclosed but unheated porch where I could keep the plants; also a frame outdoors. 8. Pennsylvania St. A—If you have the time and enjoy fussing with plants. indoors just to make spring seem

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column * in The Sunday Times

son for ail the advice about not starting seeds too early indoors i8 that the beginner inevitably starts just about everything. (I used to, 100). Then in a very short time he's practically swamped with plants. At the moment I know a gardener who has some zinnia plants that seem likely to bloom before it's warm enaugh to set them outdoors in late April or early May. That's supposing he can keep them alive “that long without a greenhouse. But.with your cool porch

ymind.

By ED KENNEDY BANZAI That was the order that echoed through the Hok-

kaido hills recently for the

little army that isn’t there. Both the order and the army are unofficial. “Banzai” of bitter memories for thousands of ‘American veterans of the South Pacific, who heard it shouted as the

* battle charge cry in the last

war, is tabu for the new Japanese soldiers. But young officers often for-

.get and use the command.

Add to this the fact that actually there are no such persons as Japanese “soldiers”

EDITOR'S NOTE; Mr, Kennedy, Times staff writer, recently returned from Korea and Japan. He spent more time with the Japanese “Army” than any other American newspaperman.

right now, . but 75,000 young

Jap men are being trained U.S. Army style all over Japan— and you. have completed the paradox of the Yobitali.

” ” » THIS NUCLEUS of an Army, expected soon to be increased to 300,000 men, is known officially as the National Police Reserve. “Yobitai” means reserve troops. Little is known in the United States about this project, officially named Juniper, al-' though it is one of the mast critical open secrets in the Far Fast. . Russia and other nations wre keeping a close watch on the growing young ‘police unit” of four divisions. A surprising factor to many observers is that the Yobital came into being and developed into the highly efficient unit it is today with no fanfare and in spite of a strained national economy. This is a tribute to the ingenuity of a few American officers who have tailored "mass of raw recruits and - former Imperial Army veterans into a streamlined democratic corps.

” » » OFFICIALS of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’'s headquarters in Tokyo shudder when the unit is referred to as -the Japanese Army. “It is not an Army and will not be an Army until the Diet days it is an Army,” Gen. Ridgway has been quoted: ‘ ‘Encouraged by the United States during the occupation,

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1952

THE ARMY THAT ISN'T THERE . . . No. 1— §

Japanese Forget, and Yell ‘Banzai

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hard fighting, was a tough army. At the war's end, the

victors seemed determined an-

other tough Japanese army would not be allowed. They stressed to the Japanese the

the Japanese wrote into their gy belief that Japan is a peace

new constitution a law which prohibits them an army. A constitutional amendment would be required to make Yobitai an army in name, as well as fact. This is expected after the peace treaty is ratified. and. Japan regains ‘complete sovereignty. : " SCAP information officers reveal a certain amount of confusion about this apparent switch in plans which presumably will give the Japanese a full-grown army, Any Pacific war veteran can attest that the Japanese Army, destroyed by three years of

By WILLIAM

loving, anti-militaristic nation, The Japanese bowed and agreed. » » ~

ACTUALLY, the realistic ' Japanese, from taxi driver to tycoon, knew a military force was necessary to their country. They have quietly prepared to accept it. Every school boy still wears a uniform and every doorman and porter wears a hat tailored like . a ‘Prussian field marshal's, to give a hint of their practical acceptance of these facts, 3

The Yobitai is—or soon will

A. DeWITT

WHAT DOES drinking do to you? Alcohol is defined by some doctors as a ‘‘protoplas-

mic poison.” That means it is a toxic agent which affects -

the living substance of the body's cells.

It is & powerful narcotic that deceives you by first giving a sense of stimulation, warmth and well-being. But it can go on to paralyze both body and It is even fatal in ¢oncentrations of 0.7 per cent or more within the bloodstream, -1f that sounds frighteningly like a temperance tract, let it be said at once that the most reputable doctors confidently prescribe. whiskey for angina pectoris and other serious illnesses, Moreover, achieving an alcohol concentration of 0.7 per cent in the blood is close to impossible. Alcohol is not only a poison. It's also_a useful anesthetic —- one of the best-known means of dilating blood vessels, As a member of the carbohydrate family it is a quick and abundant: source of calories. But, unHke starch and sugar. it can not he converted into glycogen,

and stored for use when the body needs it. x » ~ » STANDING at a bar, Joe

Jones isn't concerned with alcohol as a poison, dilator or carbohydrate. But he might be interested in just what happens to that slug of bourbon that's currently gurgling down his gullet. The path it takes and what it does along the way are significant clues in the search for truth about drinking.

If it was a two-ounce jigger of bonded bourbon (unlikely thought in present day saloons) half was almost pure alcohol, Besides stirring up the taste buds on ‘Joe's tongue, that" ounce of aleohol sheds traces through, the mucuous membrane of his mouth and throat directly into his blood stream. On reaching his stomach it declines to have anything to do with the gastric juices, buf quickly sluices ahout 21 per’ cent of its volume through’ the stomach wall info Joe's blood, then rushes off to his small intestine, .- Here, wi unseemly hastd,

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are the answers to your questions about alcohol—in all its forms, — and its effect on human beings. They are based on the latest findings of schentific and medical authorities, plus the author's own research. ae : During the earliest or undergraduate phase of his alcoholic study Mr. DeWitt's travels took him: to the campuses of Harvard, Princeton.and the University of Virginia. In the Iast 20 years he has been editor of leading magazines: Reader's Digest, Esquire and North American Review. oa Thisgis the first of a series for his hook, DRINKING AND WHAT TO DO. ABOUT IT, just published by Grosset & Dunlap. his blood. Food, during this passage, is broken (Gp chemically. But alcohol stays just as is=was in the original shot of bourbon. From stomach and intestine,

veins carry it swiftly to the ¢

liver, then to the heart, lungs, back to the heart again and out through the arteries and

“blood vessels to every part of

the body. In a matter of minutes it has completed-a total infiltration of Joe's system, including his bones. Alcohol goes to Joe's head, too, as it does with everybody. Since there's more blood concentrated in the brain than elsewhere in the body, you'd expect the results. to be more striking here, and you'd be right.

an» ee : THREE parts of the, brain are particularly

The ones controlling (a) me-

mory, (h) sensation. and Le) inhibitions. Hence (a) the forgotten promise to. meet George for lunch on Thursday. : “Hence (hb) the morning's,

painful cigaret burn, anestheti-

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be—that new Japanese Army. Moreover, it is also new in character and will be controlled by the government instead of ruling the government as did the old Imperial Army. The former ‘thought police’ who virtually directed the soldier’s thoughts is gone, the once highly avored practice of physically abusing any soldier of lower rank is now grounds for immediate discharge, » » o

THE NATIONAL Police Reserve came into being in July, 1950, as our own troops were being deployed in Korea, A call was issued for 75,000 volunteers, and 300,000 responded. Of the original 75,000 recruits, only 6200 have dropped out for all reasons, including illness. This is despite the fact the

DRINKING: WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT... No. 1—

What Happens To The Slug Joe

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men have signed no enlistment contract and are free to quit the ranks any time, simply by turning in their

equipment. Men who go AWOL are not even sought if all the property is accounted for. They are merely dropped from the rolls. :

When 7000 replacements were called for, they were assembled in four days.

The command, “Banzai” which is translated as “may you live for 10,000 years,” is forbidden the troops only because of its former connection with dhe old Imperial Army. For political ‘and propaganda reasons, the word “army” is not used. Bayonets are not permitted the troops.

"But the spirit and training

CARRY NATION-—She wouldn't pay any attention to Joe's modest ounes-of alcohol.

the all-too-public’ pass made ‘at that blonde house guest of the Browns. When Carry Nation. swung her ax on all that nhe old weathered mahogany\ and

Bishop Cannon .got out the first”

Dixiecrat vote In favor of prohibition, their belief was that one drink led inevitably to another and the gnly safe course was to abolish booze in its en-

tirety, Not ‘even they, however, would have claimed that Joe

Jones’ modest ounce of alcohol, by itself, condemned him to every evil: and ill on. the long list attributed to Demon Rum. The “horrible examples”

who used to hire themselves out.

to appear at Chautauqyas quite: obviously won, their

- noses hy more vigorous use of ~

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The ills that road led to were pretty appalling by any Dry’s: description. And such

descriptions took place so often, so loudly and so vividly that a great many normal, healthy persons. today still go around worrying about hearts, livers, lungs and ‘kidneys. Modern - science long since has proved these organs are unaffected by

‘moderate drinking:

* Not only is alcohol not specif-

ically harmful to the human breathing zapparatus, it can be helpful. In as Geimamr medical magazine, Dr. H. H. Guischard tells of injecting a 30 per cent solution, of alcohol - into the veins of 22 patients with -pulmonary bronchiectasis, bronnia and other ap-

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INTO ACTION— A .50 caliber machine gun on ded, |

would meet Red aggression. of the corps make it an actual embryo army, call it what they will, . ” om A LEADING Japanese busi. ness man summed up the Orie ental attitude in this manner: “Opposed to war? No, not to war, only wars we lose. Opposed to an Army? No, not to armies in general, only to the. Imperial Army — because they lost the war,” - Thus, young men of Nippon today are being trained to form’ a democratic army. And in a comparatively short period, they. have made rapid strides toward reaching that goal without ane -nouncing it to the world in general, NEXT: Japanese model after U. 8. Army. .

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palling “sounding .pulmonary diseases. The" results, he days, substantially beneficial. But if you happen to be a sinus’ sufferer, you don't need warning that liquor is barred. In this case the dilation of

blood vessels further congests already swollen membranes and practically dictates the pledge. Research marches on. Almost ° the only purely physical evil of alcohol .on which oid-line Drys are confirmed outright

were

_ by modern science-is, this:

You can get a red nose from drinking from too frequent dis . lation of the surface blood

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But it's neither fatal debilféating. Just - conspicy