Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1952 — Page 13
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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola :
“HOW IS the book goin'?" That question has been asked of me for four solid months,’ Sometimes it is asked when a con-
versation lags, Often it is the opening remark of
a friend or an acquaintance. The interest is flattering, Today T'm going to tell ‘all the world how “Monday Follows Tuesday” is goin’ so the question will be changed to- “All right, how' 8 the book REALLY goin’?" For the benefit of the reader who moved to Indianapolis * this morning from, Koogmute, Alaska, and hasn't settled in his igloo fet,” “Monday Follows Tuesday” is a book, bearing -my name and even more important, a price tag— $3.50. . Tu. IT 1S BASICALLY a humor hook designed for easy reading in homes, hospitals, trains, planes, busses, by the voung and old. A more seriousminded reader who desires a bit of meat with his French fried book cover, isn't.disappointed. Satisfied customers have penned their joy. In fact, just yesterday, I received a letter from a gentleman- in Kokotik, Alaska (four days by dog sled south of Koogmute), telling me how satisfied he was. His message, unfortunately, was on a slab-of ice and before it could be photographed—ooogaatooka, the ice was gone. I must write and tell him to be sure and pack his future letters in dry ice so they'll keep. “How's the book goin'?” oe oo oe
WELL, last week a magazine in Paris made a deal with the publisher's agent in New York for limited digest rights. Vive la France. Translation rights were requested by a publishing house in Amsterdam, Holland. We must not overlook the fact that the pages of “Monday Follows Tuesday,” when -rolled tightly, can be used to plug up holes in dikes. The Army is dickering for’ translation rights for a .German version of this slug of Americana to be widely distributed (hope, hope) in the Western Zone of Germany. It should replace the reading of Pilsner labels any day. From coast-to-coast, without much effort, a book fancier can avail himself of a first edition. Quite understandably, with the disruption caused by the Red Cab strike, some remote sections haven't had delivery. But Wells Fargo officials assure me a mule train will push off shortly for Laramie, Wyo., and will be in front of ‘the Silver Dollar Saloon before the spring thaws. SW FOR A FIRST BOOK, one might say it is doin’ all right. Johann Gutenberg, the German printer who made comic books possible, would have been mighty pleased, mighty pleased, with the sale. And ‘printing costs of 1468 were high, too. This is 1952, the age of television and pocket editions. Frankly, the book could and should do better. And here is the reason I can make that’ statement without fear of contradiction. I met an old and dear friend, Thomas Riley Bulger. He works in a bank, has a television set and thinks Jackie Gleason .is funny. “How's the book goin'?” he asked.
it Happened Last Nig
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Mar. 4—In my old home town, Thursday night was “Prayer Meeting Night,” and all “the old folks” went. Well, .I'm “old folks’ myself now—so I went to a casserole supper given by the Men's Bible Class of the Riverside Memorial Church recently —and heard Henry Ford II speak. “A casserole supper”’—WOW, Would there be the Ladies’ Aid Society with steaming casseroles of scalloped potatoes, and the best baked beans you ever ate, and hot rolls? Could this happen in “Dr. Fosdick's church”? Alas, there were no Tadies Aiders—no casseroles that I saw. But there was a hot beef pie served by Seminary students working as waiters. When the program started, I hopped into a chair along the big Assembly Hall, First I removed the basket of rolls that a waiter had left on it. I glanced hungrily at the rolls, as I was famished, and the Beautiful Wife and I had a dinner date afterward. “A devotional is part of our Tuesday night meeting,” Mr. Gerhard Dokken, the class president, said. (John D. Rockefeller is the honorary president.) . Two anthems—one was “Unto Thee All Praise Be Given”’—were sung by the Men's Chorus. Then there was a prayer. Next it was brought out that Charles Evans Hughes was the first leader of this class—back in 1894-—then we were introduced to young Mr. Ford. He had a flower in his lapel. He looked wellfed in his double-breasted suit. He appeared from where I sat to have a crew cut, which wouldn't be out of line, as he's only 34. ode We oe I DON'T THINK the -Dally Worker would have liked his “speech. As for Communism and such Ideas, he said: “It sounds to me like the fox that got its tail cut off and tried to persuade the other animals they ought to have their tails cropped, tno.” America—‘“An unfinished piece of business.” needing moral leadership and more interest in voting—nevertheless— ‘is hetter “than anything the boys in the Kremlin can cook up. Theirs looks" like a two-cvlinder one-lunger by comparison,” he said. He used a good modest speaking trick at the end. He said, “At least that’s the way it looks to me.” ¢
Clampdown By David Nichol
FRANKFURT, Germany, Mar. 4 (cBK)—The Evangelical Church, spiritual focus for more than half the people of Germany, is hardening in its attitude toward the Soviet Union. For-most-of the postwar period the church's leaders have steered a careful and cautious course midway between the clashing policies of West and East. Surrounding their deliberations has been the compelling fact that some 85 per cent of the 1X million people of Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany belong to the Evangelical confession. Their ties with their fellow churchmen in Western Germany have been damaged and confined by Soviet action, but net yet broken. : oe ge oe SEVERAL circumstances are contributing to the slow and scarcely perceptible change in church policy. For one thing, a theological dispute aout the duty of a Christian to hear arms has heen rezolved. Church leaders have concluded in a formal survey that there is. no Christian or Biblical prohibition against armed defense. For a second, the plans of the Soviets to foster an “independent,” which means “Commu-nist-controlled,” church in Eastern Germany apparently - have collapsed. The bulk of Eastern German clergyman have refused to have anything to_do with it. A third and sizable factor is ‘the activity of the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, one-time U-boat commander, ex-prisoner of Hitler, and presently the leading church exponent of a pelicy which coincides with the program of the Soviets, <> oe oo REV. NIEMOELLER, who made a highlypublicized trip to Moscow at Soviet invitation in =January, now is lecturing in the United States. He has opposed strongly any German contribution to Western defense, The 60-year-old clergyman is president of the church in the Western German regions of Hesse and Nassau and head of the church's ‘central “foreign office” in Berlin. The titles have, magnified his authority beyond its actual limits, v ~ "High-ranking and’ responsible church spokesmen point out. that the “foreign office’ is designed to supervise German church missions in foreign countries, and that it has nothing to do
with “foreign policy’ as such. a. 8
THE SAME OFFICIALS - fear. fhat Rev. Niemoeller's lectures in the United-States will he misinterpreted. Fev. Niemoeller. they =ay is traveling privately at the invitation. . of f ands
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Inside" "How's the book
REPORT, REPORT — "Mr. today the oft-asked question: goin'?" = I TOLD HIM what I'm telling you. Tom said he's been meaning to get a copy since Nov, 1. Never quite got around te it. Do I have a copy? It was one of those rare days when I had a copy in my billfold, Tom was delighted. Arthur Campbell, executive secretary to Governor Schricker, asked the same question. His excuse for not buying a book was oversight. Needless to say, Mr. Campbell wound up buying two. Governor Schricker didn’t have one. ; ep. Ray Madden, from my neck ‘of the woods, ‘meant to get a copy.” It took a little shoe leather (mine) but he put $3.50 on the line Attorney General Emmett McManamon. was encountered one day and.his question about the book wasn't original. " oe Da oe BEFORE he broke loose, he was the proud possessor of a tome he has been trying to buy for “a long time.” All this leads an author whose cheeks are on the gaunt side, to ask, how many persons are roaming about, restless, feeling a void in their lives, frustrated simply because they don't have the time to get a copy of “The Escape Book of the Year?” Dear friends, Ayres, Blocks, Stewart's, Capitol Book Store have copies, autographed copies. A special personal touch is only as far away as your telephone. You know where I can be reached All volume buying should be taken up with Allen Smith, 340 E. Market St. He's the publisher and also the man who knows, better than I, “How the book is goin.” Shall we get goin’?
answers
Church Dinners Have Changed
When he finished, I ducked out real fast on account of my appetite and this dinner date with the B. W.
And then I told myself that this in one big respect was better than those “Prayer Meetings” in my old home town. Nobody took up a collection,
2, 2, So, ge oe oe
THE MIDNIGHT EARL , , . A wild rumor swept over Italy via the newspapers that Arturo Toscanini was marrying again —but ’tain’t so . . . Betty Hutton’s Palace date is set for April, She'll be there at least four weeks but can stay indefinitely. Chief Justice Vinson _told pals he'd not be a Presidential candidate under any conditions . Songwriter Lou Alter eloped in Florida with opera singer Jean Gibbons Dressman Henry Rosenfeld, back from Miami, supped at the Place Pigalle and revealed that the Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills has been bought by Louis B. Mayer, Walter Chrysler, Marion Davies and himself . « Pat Rainey’s singing at the Baby Grand. Photographer Maillard Kesslere, whoss film collection of everyone in show business was partially destroyed by fire last year, has restored it and will present it to the N.Y. Public Library at a big soiree on Apr, 5.
Pat Rainey
TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: The only thing that can cheat a woman of the last word, fays Lester Lanin, is an -echo.
The Irwin Kramers returned from their Nas-
sau honeymoon . Those who've previewed Mike Todd's new three-dimensional film claim it's sensational . A B'way club has check
bouncitis , . , Babs Beckwith caught the mumps from her son, Gibby . . . Today's Daily Doubles: Fran Keegan and Private Eddie Fisher—Alan Curtis and model Betty Coleman, who's wearing his aquamarine diamond ring ... Mel Allen's been offered a disc-jockey.spot from a Park Ave. restaurant Katherine Hepburn opened her Town House Friday... .. That's Earl, brother.
German Church Tak ing Dim View of Soviet
in the United States. He has no authority to speak for the German church, nor does he represent the views of a majority of its members. according to these officials.
Actually Rev. Niemoeller's influence within
Germany is sliding downward rapidly, both in Western and Eastern areas. His stand on “neutrality” is increasingly unpopular, and his
comments on life and religious freedom in the Soviet Union have antagonized many Germans Wl Ee CHURCH officials action against Rev. would brand them instantly as “anti-Soviet’ and ‘reactionary.” Yet Rev. Niemoeller's own extremism may force the church to declare inself
hesitate to Niemoeller,
take direct _The Soviets
more openly against the ideas which Rey Niemoeller is preaching. y Soviet authorities meanwhile are reported
to be uninterested in Rev. any Eastern German “independent” church. His chief usefulness, from the Soviet view, is the split which his teachings have created in the west, a split which seems now to he narrowing
Dishing the Dirt
By Marguerite Smith
QI have some lovely monthly climbing roses as well as some monthly. bush roses. They all grow. nice waxen green leaves hut no signs of blossoms even after conscientious spray and care ‘not even the ‘first bud. But thé leaves are so healthy looking. Should I dig them out or give them another chance? I have used manure on them, too. Mrs. J. L. Kenton, 5801 Haverford Ave. A-—The nice green toliag Ze, no buds, and plenty of manure rather point to an improperly balanced diet, You wouldn't feed Juriior” all meat
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Read Marguerite ‘Smith’ ’ Gorden Columnin The Sunday Times
and no vegetables. So you can't teed roses all manure and no phosphate or pofash, Try sprinkling some: bone meal . around the bushes right now, It will begin weathering into a state where roots can eventually. take up the phosphate it supplies.” Then as soon as growth begins in the
Niemoeller as head of
spring, feed each of .your roses one of the com-
plete garden fertilizers. Be sure, to follow package directions and use no more than it tells vou. I ‘assume that your roses dn. get at least ‘half a day’s Eunshine. That's important, too.
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“THE ARMY THAT ISN'T THERE .
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1952 . TT . No. 2—
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Japanese Army-In The u.s. Image
By ED KENNEDY A DIVISION of the National Police’ Reserve in Japan looks exactly like-a U. S. Army division. Only the Nippon troops are probably about five inches shorter than the Americans, Some. similarity between the Japanese police unit and the American Army {is no coins cidence. © . The Yobital was modeled in that image and now comprises four infantry type divisions, Some American we may have gone overboard in making the National 1 Polige Re-
"EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Ken-
nedy, Times staff writer, recently returned from Korea and Japan. This is the second in his
series on the Japanese “Army. y
serve exactly in u. 8S. Army image. .. But the Japanese are satisfied. Imperial Army officers, who were removed from the postwar purge list to enter the NPR,
admit that the U. 8. Army's table of organization is far superior to the one they had
and they are happy to adopt it. In July and August, 1950 when the Yobitai was organized in Japan, its leaders were selected from the ranks of the’ metropolitan police and the National Rural Police. Others ap“pointed ‘were educators, businessmen ‘and politicians. n » n UNDER Allied advisement, the entire operation was carried out by the Japanese themselves. Recently, 400 field grade officers were added to the roster and U. 8. advisory officers have commented on a vast Improvement in the units, “The other officers have done an outstanding job and are doing even better every day,” declared a high-ranking U, 8S. adviser. “But these regulars are like old pros. They know their job as soldiers and do it well.” » » ” OF COURSE, it’s diplomatically understood that Yobitai is strictly a police unit, for the Japanese have no army now. Yobhitai just looks like one. The Japanese themselves selected regular officers from the old Imperial Army they wanted to lead this post-war police unit. The National Police Reserve has been swamped, in fact, with applicants, as purged officers of the Imperial Army often find it difficult to earn a living in present day Japan. Forty per.cent of the entire personnel are Imperial Army veterans. The 75,000-man Yobital is composed of . four “regions” which correspond to army divisions. The table of organization for a region is the same as that of a U. 8. infantry di-
DRINKING: WHAT
Why Do
By WILLIAM A. DeWITT
WHY DO people drink? Nine out of every 10 alcoholics say they hate the the taste of liquor. Most drinkers (who are NOT alcoholics) are honest enough
tor admit it's the effect, rather than the taste, that: appeals to
them. By “effect” they mean a lot of things.. A lift, raising con-
fidence, banishing timidity, EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are the answers to your questions about alcohol and its effect on human beings. They are based on’ the latest findings of medical and scientific experts, plus the author’s own research. Mr. DeWitt has been editor, during the last, 20 years, of leading magazines: Reader's Digest, Esquire, North American Review. This is the second of a series from his book, DRINKING AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, just published by Grosset & Dunlap.
easing fatigue, inspiring wit warming the body, whetting the appetite and instilling cour age are the most common effects.” Added up and averaged i111 such aspects of “effect” <timulation. “I need a
out, mean drink”
means “I'm below par and want to get hack up there—or beyond.” As all the text books ghow however, alcohol ig not a stimu lant. On the contrary it's a powerful depressant. n » ” WHEN the scientific, fact was
discovered and published, drinkers with a grain of common .gsénse should have called it a day. Who wants to be depressed? But < if there were bnlue noses who counted on this scientific windfall of logic to win their bhat-
tle for abstipence, they were sadly disapp Tipplers of every degree not only continued to tipple. They
also went right on using the «ame old excuses for it. Take “whetting the appetite” for example, which: still has some currency as an excuse for pre-dinner. martinis, ” ” » DRS. MARGUELIES, Irvin and. Goetzle checked with a number ,of human guinea pigs and reported in the Permanente Foundation = Medical Bulletin that = alcohol “in non instance created or increased a desire for food, On gave ‘a sensation of satiet
officers feel,
the ‘contrary it~
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NATIONAL POLICE RESERVE—Looks like a U. S. division . .
vision, Its strength “is approximately 18,000 men, “These regions contain try units called ordinary. regiments; artillery battalions called special battalions; reconnaissance groups known as patrol companies, and engineer, medical, signal, ordnance and quartermastéf’ detachments. » » ” REGIONAL a replica of a U, 8. Army division headquarters. "A regiment is commanded. by a superintendent 1st class, who ranks with a colonel, Regional commander is a senior superintendent, ranking with a major general,
As ranking officer,” the chief of the general group is also a senior superintendent rank is comparable to that of a three-star lieutenant general in the U. 8S. Army.
General group headquarters is in Tokyo. The units are deployed in 47 camps located on all the islands of Japan. These camps are comparatively small and each contains only one or two battalions. This is because training space is limited and large areas for American type installations are simply not available, n » nn THERE is great rivalry among the small communities to get Police Reserve troops stationed in their areas. The men are well behaved and their financial status is better than
infan-
average for post-war Japanese, This pleases the local merchants.
U. 8S. officers acting as Yobitai advisers express great concern where U, 8. troops are stationed near their camps. Notwithstanding the splendid reports of the conduct of American troops in Japan, the men
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are rowdy in contrast to the Nipponese. ‘However, there Is a minimum of friction between our troops and the Japanese police units, “This Japanese organization is modeling itself after us,” an adviser explained, “and what can they think when they see our soldiers in town fighting with cab drivers, refusing to pay checks at taverns and grabbing girls in the street? A little more restraint would set a better example.”
~ n n SO FAR, however, the Japanese have not copied these
less desirable American tech-
niques.” And their popularity with the townspeople is un-. diminished.
Although the organization of each region calls for the same equipment as that issued a U., 8, division, the equipment. is not available at present for the Yobitai. The tank battalion for. instance, has no tanks and the artillery have mortars instead of howitzers. Just when and how they will recelve the necessary equipment, U. 8. authorities have not disclosed. But it is obvious that if the Yobital is to continue to grow as a potential Far Eastern defense force, the equipment must. be forthcoming. Training has now reached the point of diminishing returns without this equipment. An artilleryman can learn to adjust fire and give orders with a mortar, of course, hut he can not learn gun drill without other artillery pieces,
» » ” THE TABLE of organization currently calls for the same number of trucks, jeeps and other vehicles as in a U. B. division, but most of this transport simply doesn't exist for
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SHHHHHHHH-—Take a nip alone and you're under suspicion.
comparable in quality, intensity and duration” to that experienced after a meal, You've heard “I'm dead tired—let's have a drink” and gone along with it, no doubt
more than once. That idea has some brief justification. Alcohol gives a momentary joit of energy to the body cells and also deadens the painful sensations of fatigue. But a let-down follows,- with Jactic acid produced by the alcohol added to that which originally exhausted the muscles. Confidence, wit and recognize
social timidity, courage are easy to but hard to classify
in a scientific manner, u ” n EXPERTS | admit that all
these qualities are affected by -
drinking. But where does self-
—confidence cease to- he a bene-
fit and- slop over to hoastfulness? At what point is gncial timidity replaced by. boorishnesz? How many drinks separate courage from foolhardiness”? .Thege are knotty questions, They are closely identified with
&
individual personalities and individual As Allen's
tolerances to alcohol, hear
golemn
for wit, Warner
statement: “Fluency tn a foreign language f= multiplied by a glazs of wine or two.” Jut the measure of improvement is understanding and appreciation by others. , That also is influenced, one way or another, by “a glass of wine or two” “which good companions
normally take with the party of the first part > 4 a WHAT the experts do say
with assurance is that alcohol's efféct on wit, courage is Indirect and negative. It doesn’t actually make anyone confident, suave, witty or hrave, But it can and does temporarily remove the inhihitions that stop him from being =0 when he is gober. : The ‘inhibition area’ of the brain, remember. is the prime patey of alcohol. Under {ts lulling Influence the hrakes of & perience fail to operate, .
confidence and -
But does not have all the equipment of U. S. division.
the Yobital. Even if it did, it waquld be impractical in Japan, as the road net does not warrant such mechanization. Japanese officers comment that they believe the new Japanese Army will ultimately be a mixture of the old Imperial Army with new ideas and techniques gained from Americans. The officers also state they expect to use ski and bicycle troops extensively, Japan roads are designed more for bikes than bulldozers, they point out, and they do not feel it practical to build a road net to support a mechanized army, when that same road net would support an invading army equally well, . ~ ” ” -IN ADDITION to the regional organization, there are two service schools now {in operation.
S80 we return to the question: Why do people drink, really? We refer here only to the 90 per cent of drinkers who drink, not out of compulsion but because they want to. Selden Baker, sociology professor at Yale and chairman of the Connecticut Commission on Alcoholism, gives this clue: “Perhaps all drinkers . . . find some relief from tension, pain, “insecurity, shyness.” n o n ANOTHER. hint is offered from Pres. Riley, Marden and Lifschitz at Rutgers University: ‘Of all. the people who state that they sometimes drink, more than two out of five assign the main motivation to group pressure.” Putting these two statements together (which their authors certainly never intended), we get the idea that our particu-
lar society does everything it .
can to force the individual to drink, without stating any logical reason, You've often heard a friend remark, under circumstances that left no doubt to his truthfulness, that he didn’t care one way ofthe other about a drink
but would accept it out of courtesy or as a mark of pleasure in your.company.
This is true “sociable™ drink ing, about as significant as munching a {peanut out of a companion’s sack. oy
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victim of
One is an officers’ candidate school where enlisted men comspete for commissions as of« ficers. The other is a small command and general staff school for advanced training. U. 8. Army field manuals “have been translated into Japanese and regulars from the Imperial Army express enthusiasm for it. “I can't wait to get to Bens ning,” one of them remarked, referring to Ft. Benning, Ga., the U. 8. Army Infantry’s school, The Yobitali 1s now only a scale model of an Army, but its rapid development along democratic lines argues that it can be an important factor in link . ing Allies in the Fast.
NEXT: Every man an infane tryman,
Effect’
“Social drinking” is cone sidered normal. There {s a disposition to regard a drink or two without a ‘social excuse,” such as a nip when you're alone, as suspicious. But you can take half a dozen drinks in formal company with nothIng to worry about. In other words, the amount drunk at one time is less ime portant than the circumstances of drinking. Of all the reasons offered for mankind's attachment to alcohol, the soundest appear to be the psychological ones. Alcohol is a safer means to banish timidity or to get a lift than other drugs. And if social pres= sure. dictates its use, this may be a sign af inherited group wisdom. How to describe specifically the, American normal pattern of drinking is a question so far unanswered... How to account for it logically, the same. If this worries you, consider the betel .nut., No ome knows what, if any, effect it has on the body or mind, Yet it's chewed . daily and conscientiously, with great sate isfaction, by one-tenth of the human race, -
1952, hy William A, DeWitt)
NEXT: The “Problem Drinkers.”
(Copyright,
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sorrowful mother Mrs. Louise Adams. The. child, who is expected
to die shortly, plays
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