Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1952 — Page 19

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Inside Indianapolis ih

By Ed Sovola

. A FORMER Parisian hair stylist by the name of A. A. Muzet almost had his nose tweaked in

H. P. Wasson's Antoine -Beauty Salon, We didn't

see sideburn to sideburn immediately.

He's here to give advice on hair styling with a French accent on women, What about men? Why doesn't gn expert ever concern himself .in helping a man “complement his personality,” give 3. few pointers on achieving “harmony of contour” and the rest of the stuff like accent, lift, individuality? . Mr. Muzet might have the answer to why a man begins to part his hair at the age of 6 and at the age of 70, if he has afew strands left, he's still parting it. 3 Mr. Muzet might have the answer to why most _barbérs never have any suggestions except that it's time you were getting a haircut. A man is always right in a barber shop. If you want your head shaved, you get it shaved. “Little off the top” can mean a half inch or two inches, depending on 'the mood of the barber.

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= MR. MUZET MIGHT have the answer to why men, when they find a barber that satisfies, are content to have the same haircut for years, and it's a sad day when a new man takes over, Mr. Muzet had the answers to the questions and he even had answers to questions he:made up. Once he got the drift, there was no stopping him. ST “American men are little boys,” was his answer to the first question. “Mama combs a boy's halr and that is the way the boy, then the young man and finally the old man combs his hair.” The hard chair in the salon became harder. Fingers moved involuntarily as if searching for a rock to throw. A quick trip into the dim past kept me from opening my trap. What he said was true. My mother didn’t have time te fool with parting three rapscallions hair. 8he was thankful just

ALL WRONG-—Men could have their hair styled, but they are such "boys" and are so "shy," says a Frenchman,

It Happe By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 17 — Betty Hutton—an enormous hit at the Palace—with a bigger advance even than Judy Garland—has a big booster in that slow-drawlin’ feller from Indiana, Herb Shriner, “She reminds me,” Herb-—-who's on the same bill—told me at Toots Shor's, “of a very active feller we had back home. When he died, his selfwindin’ wrist watch didn't stop goin’ for five

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BETTY CLIMAXES her singing and dancing with a trapeze act. “Up there on that rope she made me nervous at first,” confessed Herb. “I heard her tell a feller, ‘Come cafth me at the Palace’ and 1 was scared he might have to.” To me Betty's best was a touching singing tribute to the late composer Buddy De Silva who gave her the first, big chance. She is one of the two or three most talented girls of our time. “I'm sure glad I went into show business and can work with her, instead of stealin’ chickens,” said Herb. “Crime don’t pay. It pays, but it costs so much to get elected.” ’ hea 3 “LAUGH, AND the world laughs with you. Ory, and you sell two million records,” says Joey Adams in appraising the Cry Guy, Johnnie Ray, now at the Copacabana. Incidentally, Comedian Jackie Gleason phoned from the Blair House for reservations to hear Ray sing. “Give us seats in the back,” pleaded Gleason. “We don’t want to get wet.” . LO GERTRUDE LAWRENCE bared her soul— and other arcas—and did a “strip {ease” at Rodgers’ and Hammerstein's birthday party for “South Pacific” and “The King and 1.” She showed off a fine figure, especially in the gam department. Master of ceremonies Myron McCormack greeted the crowd: “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and actors.” : DORIS DUKE, at the Embers cafe, had to borrow 50 cents to tip the ladies’ room attendant. (Blasted income taxes.) *

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Apr. 17—Although some may see a horrid curtailment of the freedom of communication by a recent act to prevent the broadcast, televising or filming of any clambake where the witnesses get hauled in under subpena, it looks to me like a swell idea. This means that in these parts we won't have any more gaudy hearings like the. Kefauver Crime Committee vaudevilles, which accomplished very little outside the entertainment field—except to solidify Sen. Kefauver’s nreliminary pass at the presidency. I believe that 2 we can muddle along, somehow, without televising stuff ‘hat is serious enough to war- 5 rant a jail sentence if you find 5 yourself too flustered to answer "~~ up bravely liké the’ man says. “hd IT WAS my idea when Frank Costello was being sweated by Sen. Kefauver’s road show that no matter what you might feel about a man's guilt or innocence, he deserves better than a chance to prove himself before a battery of glaring lights, prowling cameras, and the disarmin knowledge that his every move is being flashe to an audience of millions. You have to appear before television a couple of times to appreciate truly the strain of being an unpaid acter in a drama that might conceivably wind up in a jail sentence. To put it bluntly, an amateur is not at his best. <>

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MORE in accident than by intent, I have appeared on some television: shows, and by extreme luck nobody was accusing me of anything you can go to jafl for. But the mouth dries up, and you spit blobs of cotton. The hands shake and the perspiration pours. The brain, what there is of it, has a tendency to shrivel, , Any map on a witness stand is going to be a touch nervous, when the boy with the beady eve is giving you that old where-were-you-on-the-night-of treatment, and casting those cuties at you, such as when did you stop beating your wife, or is it true that you passed the red light doing 90 miles an hour? Face the witness with the staring orh of the eamera and those big hot lights, and even a bishop is apt to stutter like a thief. With no trouble at all you can magnify a slightly guilty conscience into a damming confession of uncommitted crime. oa : BEYOND the fact that a man is not at his pest In an unfamiliar medium is a basic principle we have not yet licked in the television business. It is as much economic as anything. Nobody can tell me that a fellow may be forced to work to proyide entertainment for a commercially sponsored product without receiving compensation for “ig chores. , : _ _ We are coming back to coverage of the political conventions soon in this country. It *s not too early to insist that the TV boys cover thelr own press conferences and the other professional events without the involuntary help of a lot of us who do not work for TV, don't care

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to have her three “angels” keep their faces clean and pants in one piece while she put her hat and coat on. ; d . R$ MOST BARBERS don't have suggestions because all they know is the technique of cutting hair. And even if an imaginative barber made a suggestion to a customer, 99 out of 100 times the customer would stand pat. “Men are brilliant in business, science and the arts, but when it comes to grooming,” continued Mr, Muzet at a record-breaking pace, “they ive in a vacuum.” : . Mr. Muzet asked if a man who liked fried chickén would eat it every day. He also answered the question. no. Then he asked why men have so little imagination about their grooming. The interview was getting away from me. C'ést la vie, “Men are shy and the American man is the shyest of them all. He's afraid that people will think he is something he is not. That's why some men refuse to use shaving lotions and powders, They prefer to smell like he-men .instead of gentlemen,” Mr. Muzet rattled on in a voice that was embroidered with scolding. He said there was much men could do to improve their appearance. Men don't because they're too shy to ask an expert for advice. It's sissy. Consaquently, round-faced men with short

" mecks quite often have bushy sideburns and hair

growing over their collars. s al Bb THE PROPER HAIRCUT would clean the neck of hair to give an illusion of length, thin the sideburns and top. Conversely, a thin man with a lean face should, if he can, try to get an illusion of fullness. It car. be done with hair. A guy with a flat head can, with the proper hair style, acquire a natural. contour, Mr, Muzet said in many instances a permanent would be just the thing for a man. Actors, who try to achieve a particular effect, get permanents, have their hair styled. And it is done in good taste. : “In Texas men wear gaudy silk shirts, neckerchiefs, fancy embroidery and big hats, They are not sissies. Men are slaves to convention. A woman will wear a formal and feel as light as a breeze. A man will wear a coat, stiff shirt and collar and suffer. Why? A woman will try new styles in sooes, coiffures, dresses, hats. Why? She has mor? freedom here,” Mr. Muzet thumped his chest over his heart, “and in her soul.” The way 1 understand it, we (trouser wearers) are standing still and women are on the move. A. A. Muzet may have something, but I'll wait for some other guy to blaze. . . . Well, that's another thing that's wrong with men, according to A. A. He gets you coming and going.

" Betty's Some Shucks, Says Farmer Shriner

SLUGGER CLAIMS he heard this told on TV. On a children’s quiz show, a boy of 7 was asked, “what is a man's best friend? It's a short word-and begins with D." “Dame,” replied the boy. > >»

WHEN Ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson's dummy, Danny O'Day, nods toward the orchestra in the show at the Copa, Mr. Nelson says: “Is the piano player a relative of yours?’ The dummy answers: “No, the piano is.” °

THE MIDNIGHT FARL . . . Could Joe DiMaggio return to a NY Yankees uniform this season (if he could get out of TV commitments)? Some fans argue that with so many players in service, he could be a big star—without spring training .. . Margaret Truman has many offers to do concerts in Europe. Rumor: B8he, Harry and Bess will go together next year. Frank Costello is wondering about his prospective prison life. Bookie Frank Erickson was assigned for a while to clerking in the social diseases ward . . . Dorothy Shay goes into the Waldorf Wednesday .., + Billy Rose and Joyce Mathews sat a few rows behind Mike Todd, another of Joyce's admirers, at the Palace, and a few rows in front of Milton Cosgrove Berle . . . Lenore Lonergan—wife of Producer Chandler Cowles “Of Thee I Sing”-—gave her notice. Doesn’t feel she’s fitted for the part, she told friends.

Dorothy Shay

bb EARL’'S PEARLS ... Irwin Corey presumes that Gen. Ike will wear a button saying, “I like Me.” Nat Simon reports that when Taffy Tuttle tried to cook, she put all her eggs in one biscuit +s » THAT'S EARL, BROTHER.

Thinks TV's Gelling A Little Too Nosey

about TV, and who do not wish to provide a lot ‘of fodder for TV. * o> bb I DON'T see a whole lot of point in asking pertinent questions at conferences, say, in order to give the listening-watching public first crack at my business when my own employers won't get the result of my activity until tomorrow. Nor do I feel that my shining face at some function, such as a political cocktail party, is of inestimable value to the TV audience. Last time in Philadelphia some dame - sat briefly in the lap of a dignified friend, at Perle Mesta's drinking reception, and the whole wide world—that portion which was on a channel— had an immediate picture of it. They are going to have to draw some harsher lines about the intrusion of privacy on this TV thing. for there are some of us who would have a difficult time explaining a lady in our laps, even if it were a joke. : The banning of the TV camera at official hearings where people are forced to testify, possibly against their inclination, is a healthy start.

Mishing the Dirt

By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I recently received English flower magazines listing various types of ‘iris grown by English hybridizers, also various kinds of species of iris. Prices are so low I'd ‘like to order some. Catalogs state it is necessary to obtain import

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

permits and mailing tags from ‘the Federal Horticultural Board in Washington, D. C, Can you give me information -on this or where to write? Would cost be prohibitive? Earl Roberts, 2308 Roosevelt Ave: A-—Write to Charles’ Brownson (our Representative in Congress), Washington, D. C., for full information on this. ' Many gardeners specializing in various kinds of flowers do import seeds and plants and get enough pleasure out of it to make it worth the price, But beginners who Tread this column should remember . that foreign plants are not acclimated as are Hoosier grown kinds. So it's wiser to start out with locally grown things until you have acqlired some skill. Then it's always fun to try your hand at specialists’ items. :

Note to the many readers who have included heart-warming words with their requests for The Times free marigold seeds—I wish I could have personally acknowledged each one of ‘these thoughtful expressions of appreciation. Anyway~thanks. And to those who still want The Times free marigold garden, be sure you enclose that stamped self-addressed envelope with your request for the free packet of

French Hair Stylist « . Says U.S. Men Shy.

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By KERMIT McFARLAND Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Apr. 17 —Soon after President Truman took office in 1943, the

pundits were sounding the end of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. .

In its place, shortly, Mr, Truman substituted what he calls the Fair Deal. It is one of the things Mr, Truman has done to break his identification with the New Deal, to put his administration “on its own.” But where the New Deal left off and the Fair Deal began is something for the experts in political calculus. The New Deal was a variable political philosophy, tempered by political expediency, class consciousness and the economic crisis which was the great de-

pression. » » ~

MR. TRUMAN has disavowed none of the advertised aims of the New Deal. He simply has embellished them, in some cases on a monumental scale. Actually, when Mr, Truman ‘moved into the White House, the New Deal had been largely forgotten, in the business of fighting and winning two bloody wars, in Europe. and in the Pacific.

Mr. Roosevelt himself had written off “New Deal” as a symbol of his administration in December, 1943, when he remarked at a press conference that he thought the slogan was out of date.

So far. as its legislative ob- -

jectives were concerned, the New Deal had about run its course as early as 1938 when Congress passed the Wage-Hour Law—the last basic New Deal measure FDR was able to jam through an increasingly reluctant House and Senate,

MR. TRUMAN has heen able to make no significant addition to that record — either “New Deal” or “Fair Deal.” But, by his plans, proposals and executive action, he has provoked wide use of the label, “welfare state,” for his administration.

One of the cardinal components of the New Deal was the Roosevelt alliance with labor unions. Mr. sume

Truman, despite

HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON . .

Racketeers Got $975,000 From RFC

= The Indianapolis

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1952

WHAT KIND OF A DEAL ?—

HARRY HOPKINS

HENRY WALLACE

HAROLD ICKES

THE MAIN DIFFERENCE between Harry Truman's Fair Deal and FOR's New Deal is the lack of some of the better known New Deal names. Other than that the New Deal program remains the same, except it is on a world-wide basis.

rough spots, has maintained

that alliance. He vetoed the Taft-Hartley Law, a favorite hate of union leaders, and has taken to the stump to demand its repeal. = ¥ » » ” YET HE previously had called on Congress to pass even more stringent labor legislation, to the point of a law giving him power to draft strikers into the armed forces. And he has used the Taft-Hart-ley Law nine times to put down industrial strife. Within a few weeks after the end of. World War II, Mr. Truman, in a nation-wide radio address, advocated higher wages, although at the same time he opposed higher prices “under any circumstances.” This set the stage for the higher wage campaign and the sub-

_ sequent epidemic of strikes.

Four days after his speech, Mr. Truman expressed alarm over the strikes already in progress and asked Congress to provide for fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods in labor disputes. This brought down on him the outraged protests of union leaders. » ” » BY LATE May of 1046, the country had been swept by a series of major strikes, topped by a month’s shutdown in the steel industry. So when the paralyzing railroad strike be-

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth of a series. They are from the book, HOW TO GET RICH IN WASHINGTON, recently published by W. W. Norton & Co. Mr. Bolles, the author, is the well-known writer and former

Washington newspaperman.

By BLAIR BOLLES ey WASHINGTON has something for almost everybody who can persuade officials to do: “the right thing.” Money has been thrust on the proprietors of roadside snake farms, cultivators of cactus plants for sale in dime

stores, dental clinics, paper board manufacturers, mattress makers, television manufacturers, canneries, truckers, a trailer manufacturer, a rainbow trout fishery. The Unitéd States government in 1950 became the owner of a snake farm in Colfax, Cal., on which the RFC office in San Francisco had lent $20,000 in an effort to keep it in business. The borrower ran behind in his payments and the government foreclosed. . » : » ~ A CONVERSATION in June, 1950, between Sen. Fulbright (Democrat of Arkansas) and Chauncey Y. Dodds, manager of the office of loans, RFC, shows how the RFC made its decision. Here it is:

FULBRIGHT—"Do you have a lot of snake farm loans?”

DODDS — “Well, IT don't remember any other one, sir.” FULBRIGHT—"1 am curious to know what went through your mind; why you thought this was a good loan and made it.”

DODDS — “I think that the agency (in 8an Francisco) felt that this was a small business. . «+ 1 don’t know what would be found to exclude it, or what line of reasoning could be found to exclude it.”

FULBRIGHT — “Now, your

approach is that if there is not -

some good ‘reason to exclude it, the loan ought to be made. Is that the way you interpret the law? - The burden of proof is to show that it shouldn't be made, is that the way you think ?"” 2 DODDS “As to small business, I think you are coming pretty close to it.” - Dubious characters seeking a

new start in life are helped by the government. » ~ . AMONG them iz Lou Wertheimer, a gambler celebrated in Detroit, Florida and California where he was a friend of Mickey Cohen. Another is Bernard (Mooney). Einstoss, who was once convicted in Los Angeles of whispering the wrong thing to a jockey at the Del Mar race track. The police often Wertheimer and Einstoss during their residence in California, where gambling ig a crime. In 1947, they moved to Reno, Nev., in order to live within the law, since gambling is as legal there as preaching in a chur h. They found honest employ= ment as concessionaires of the Sky Room in the new Mapes Hotel in Reno. The Sky Room is a gambling casino, which Wertheimer, spending $250,000 of his own, equipped for rouletté, blackjack, chuck-a-luck, craps, fan-tan, bingo and vingt et un. ’ It is a fine resort. The concessionaires entertain their guests with floor shows by per-

formers who are paid ag much as $5000 a week.

MRS. CHARLES W. MAPES owns the hotel,” She leased the casino to Wertheimer and Einstoss. She needed money in the late summer of 1949 and turned to the federal government for help. Notes for 31.2 million at the First National Bank of Nevada

harassed

and the Trand-Americd Corp.

were coming due, and the in-

stitutions refused to renew them, Mrs. Mapes foredaw foreclosure.

The federal government ad-

gan on May 24, nearly a million workmen were off their jobs, Mr, Truman angrily went before Congress and asked for power to draft strikers into the armed forces. Congress didn't give him this power. It offered, instead, the Case Bill, a milder regulation. But it was the first restrictive labor legislation in 14 years, . Mr, Truman vetoed the bill, saving it wouldn't stop strikes, He sald the same) thing the next year when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Law, but the Republican Congress overrode the veto. » J " "THE PRESIDENT also “broke” with labor union leaders when he signed a bill outlawing %6 billion in suits for bask ‘“portalsto-portal” pay, and again when the unions claimed they were not getting a “real voice” in post-Korea defense mobilization. Still, by and large, the New Deal alliance with organized labor has been perpetuated. It is Truman legacy to the Democratic Party.

And the President just recently backed the CIO United Steelworkers in their wage dispute, even though it cost him the services of Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, Mr. Wilson, who had headed the de-

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defense program for more than 15 months, resigned because he sald the wage raise was in-

flationary. ‘ ¥ . »

MR. TRUMAN'S worst “labor” year was his first 1946-—~when strikes cost 116 million man-days of idleness, The man-day loss from strikes dropped to 34 million in each of the next two years, jumped to 50 million after his re-elec-tion and last year was down to 22 million man-days. In addition to the continued alliance with union labor leaders, Mr, Truman has extended the New Deal in other fields. He has relied on government spending to solve ‘social and welfare problems, not only of the United States but of the world, spending far more than the New Deal ever considered in its most exultant moments, Mr. Truman advocates more and bigger old age pensions, a broad program of compulsory health insurance, low-rent housing, public power lopment, farm subsidies and co

~ the Labor

usual reply is that the . ques tioner knows them as well af he does.

A basic tenet of the New Deal was manipulation of the economy, and Mr, Truman has clung to the same practices, Economic controls, in one way or another, have been at the core of much of the program he has advocated.

Mr. Truman has plugged cons sistently for “civil rights” legis« lation. He adopted it from the New Deal and made it one of his foremost objectives, stubs bornly flaunting it in the face of rebellious opposition from the southern branch of the Democratic Party. . . » 3 AS AN indication of the True man administration's extension of New Deal programs, the appropriations for five phases of it have been more than doubled since the President's first full fiscal year in office. oe For Social Security, welfare and health, Mr. Truman proposes to spend In the fiscal year 1953 a total of $2,662,000,000, as compared to $1,048,000,000 the 1946 fiscal year. He has jumped agricultural Benefits, including crop subsidies, farm loans, rural electrification Ei soil conservation, from - $749 million to $1,478,000,000. Spending for education bas gone up from $80 million ho $624 million, housing from $199 million to $878 million, and Department's appro= priation from $174 million to $46 millon. Most of the New Deal alpha. betical are still on hand, in one form or another,

operatives, aids to small busi

ness, higher unemployment benefits and federal aid to schools and health services.

” ” » HE HAS carried on FDR's outery against “economic royalists,” although he user the term “special interest.” When he is asked to identify some of these ‘special interests” his

SNAKES AND RACKETEERS—These two items were called small business by RFC officials and giving them loans was termed

in the public interest.

vanced $975,000, persuaded the First National Bank of Nevada to put up $325,000 instead of severing “its relationship with Mrs. Mapes. Thus the government saved the hotel for Mrs. Mapes and the Sky Room for Wertheimer and Einstoss, who still run the finest casino. in northern Nevada, » w » THE faucet of the goyérnment t! @P>which that money is the Reconstruction rinance Corporation. This lending institution was created to provide credit during the money famine of the great depression. It opened its doors

fn 1932, when the country. was - burdened with unemployment

and insecurity and fearfyl of

the specter of poverty and general hunger, The RFC set out to stimulate recumbent industry and commerce by lending money to banks, insurance companies, agriculture agencies, and rallroads, It performed its work well, ; The founders of the corporation meant it to be only a temporary institution. It was to pass into history upon’ the lift ing of the depression. Yet, it functioned for 15 years, until 1947, before Congress seriously considered the question. whether the time was up for the RFC. : ; . » ~ A YEAR later Congress passed a new law curtailing its activities, That is, Congress

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tinuation of which he 1, even

activity by the RFC, It lent a far greater amount during the prosperity that has followed World War II than it did during the hard times that blighted America after the stock exs. change crash of over 20 years ago. The RFC directors justified the loan to the Mapes Hotel— the loan that benefited gamblers Wertheimer and Einstoss In the 8ky Room-—on the ground that it undoubtedly was “in the public interest.”

Sen. Paul Douglas, the econo

mist from the University of _-

Chicago, asked Harley Hise, then the chairman of the RFC, how he connected the public interest and the Mapes Hotel.

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“I MIGHT point out,” said Hise, “that you overlooked one very important public interest in Nevada when you overlooked divorces and marriages and concentrated on gambling.” “Then,” asked Sen. J. Wils liam Fulbright, formerly the president of the University of Arkansas, “you were trying to help promote divorces?” “I would not stop there,” replied Mr, Hise. “I would say if those people go there to get divorces, they should have the facilities of a fine hotel,”

Stimulated by this broad defies nition of “the public interest,” business boomed at the white stone building on McPherson Square, where the RFC has its Washington headquarters.

FROM 4932 to 1850 the RFC disbursed an average of 2935 loans, or $235286,111 a "year, From 1948 to 1950, the averages were 4789 loans and $490,880, 655 a year, Congress, in the RFC bill of 1948, prolonged the. wandering of the United States in the halfe world that is neither capitalism nor statism, and strengthened the system of privileged enter. prise. . thy (Covyright, 1952. by Blair Bollemd NEXT: How Uncle Sam Played Lady Bountiful to War

thought it was curtailing. ity activities, Never did a legislas tive body so mistake the means ing of its own legislation, The curtailment law was the signal for an expansion of

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