Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1952 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovela

THE “HOME FOR MODERNS" at the 27th annual Home Show is more of a crystal ball than anything else, Will someone give me a tool chest for a wedding present July 12th? : Since my inferest in real state, furniture and wedding bands increased sharply recently, a visit to the Home Show with Rosemary O'Brien became a must, All previous visits (solo) were uneomplicated. One looked, made finger marks on walls, gabbed with Verne Reeder or Frank Cantwell, picked up a few folders and then beat it. No problems. Rosemary stood like a good Httle girl in front of the showpiece Architect Sewell J. Ma. thre. designed and said, “It's lovely.” ‘I agreed, like a good little sheep.

» » IF A GUY had a home with 80 much eye appeal, a girl who thought it was lovely so soon, he'd have plenty of incentive to hurry home after work and sit under a tree, or in a tree and partake “of refreshments prepared by loving hands, wouldn't he? The kitchen threw me for a loop. A lot of willpower had to be mustered not to loosen the ol’ tie, kick off the shoes and peek in the refrigerator, Dreams come easily to me. “I like big, sturdy kitchen tables.” purred Rosemary. his kitchen doesn’t look real.” “A few dirty dishes, empty beer cans and a catsup bottle with the top off would make the Place more homey.” An elbow drilled me in the 8. “If they had only , . .” “Let's move along, people are waiting.” LA THE BATHROOM was “perfect” except for the brown towels on the rack. Well, that certainly wasn’t much of a problem, “I wonder how it would look in all white," mused the girl my mother thinks will be “good” for me, “Terrible. Look, experts decorated this joint. What do you . , .?” ! We peeked into the den. I thought it was a

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% Ya Si, den. Rosemary thought it would make a good sewing room with a sewing machine “over there" and a cutting -table “here.” © “I don't think you have the proper attitude. All we're supposed to do is look and enjoy and move along. , Is it still a’ ‘lovely’ home?” * That's how I felt: “Perfect except for a few minor details. The bedrooms are teo small and there isn't enough closet space in the master bedroom. I like plenty of shelves, too.” * > 2

“TELL THEM. I'll find the architect and you can tell him. If he has a plank or two around maybe he'll let me build a few shelves.” The stitching on the sleeve of the coat held at the shoulder. We were in the living room.

“Oh, how cute. I'd never have a davenport like that without a back or arms.” Don’t worry, you won't, I said to myself. Out loud: “If the architect has a plank or two maybe I could build a back and arms.” We thought the fireplace was exactly what we wanted. But, there ought to be another fireplace in a rumpus room in the basement. Of course, the fact that the “Home for Moderns” doesn’t include a basement didn't matter. Rosemary likes basements, front porches with swings and upstairs bedrooms and a winding staircase.

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“WOULD YOU be interested in what I like?” was a question that was asked with some trepidation, “Why ves." ‘I've always wanted a small workshop . . . you know, a‘bench where a man can mix different things when friends eome over, a small refrigerator where he can keep olives and nails and ice cubes. Maybe a couple of shelves full of old German paint cans with handles on the side.” « It was time to shuffle into the backyard. The landscapers really did a joh this year and they should be happy to learn that the dogwood tree wovldn't be transplanted for anything. The man standing at the exit was surprised to see a young man suddenly seized with a coughing spell. It came on when hé heard: “Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to move Into a home like that in July?” I don’t know.

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PERMANENT FOR A POOCH is one of the items that make America's dogs big business, The scene's inside a canine beauty parlor. TL .

PERKY HAIRDO on this terrier hows the heady life a poor dog can get himself into,

wheelbarrow typifies the happy life most of America's

PAMPERED POOCH, iy nap in his master's I 22 million dogs live. -

but it still feels wicked and a diamond bridge for his t T . ~ ’ ge for his teeth, a diamond zipper (United States today. opened the government to core the . J J SSES ’ easy and Jonabrasiye fo Te and a diamond bow for his spectacles, has just The administration, Con- ruption and favoritism on the 10 . nerves. ew < Rn vo fort ordered a diamond toupee, which sets some sort gress, and a great many citi- present democratically vast RS ’ Kind ee bw die) of fresh high for personal adornment. Not even ,... chant about private enter- scale. The more persons there’ fEN’S for lunch, It "is a ‘sort of do- Ds television is rich enough a medium for Mr. Moran, prise and the American success are clamoring for help from mestic Tangier, and the defini- § who is colorful enough without a diamond-studded in preserving it, while private Washington, the more opportus SIZES tion of a Tangier appointment J hairplece to lend him glamor, ; enterprise every day becomes nity there is for mistakes, hon is one which you never really i * 9 Sa more dependent on federal gov- ést or dishonest, in weighing « 3 intend to complete. THE LATE-NIGHT trade now splits its time ernment, It is so dependent now the claims for help. :

it Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 23 -In honor of visiting publishers, Comedian Herb Shriner fells at the Palace about what happened to a woman from Kokomo. “She was away visiting relatives,” Herb says, “and her husband wanted her to come home, but she was having too good a time. Finally he got her to come home. He sent her a newspaper from

It Could Happen Only in Kokomo

Now that Betty Hutton's happily wed to Hollywood director Charles O’Curran, her ex-husband Ted Briskin, the camera manufacturer, is seen often with model and actress Elaine Stewart. Sudden thought: When she was married to Ted, I never heard

By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Apr. 23 — Life, # for America's dogs, is going to the people. Being a canine these days is a fine career for an animal—good food, pleasant hours, the work is easy and you pay no taxes. Take the Dog Bath Club,

sits in the softly-lit waiting room surrounded by a fancy, modern decor, says that some people spend as much as $200 a year in beautifying their beasts. That's after the 10 per cent discount they get as club members, for a $10 bill a year. » ~ =

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census is probably an under. estimate—is $22 million. That's 200 per cent more than 30 years ago; in that same span, human beings in America Increased only 50 per cent, Rt That means 22 million consumers for dog products, Every dog ‘has tp eat, so dog food is the Great/ Dane among dog. in-

of dry food and you've got a lot of chow chow, That's besides the uncounted pounds of meat bought at the butcher for the dogs, and the tid-bits -— like a dog candy called “Yummies” —- which go into hungry canine mouths,

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nesses, like boarding and breeds ‘ing kennels and. veterinaries, and bigger businesses, like the dog food companies, In between are such enterprises as the American Kennel Club, which keeps track of the oppersrust

her home town with something clipped out of it.” anybody call her Betty which is like a lot of toney dog rich dogs lead such a heady life. Sustrien. And Subrd 418 | lenahies. and eating well, dogs lately > S Briskin. beauty parlors across the coun-- The Dog Bath Club draws as ing ittes, Publ on down the have begun smelling nicer, 100, GENE AUTRY’'S made so much money mak- GBP try. Here Fido gets his coat ....h from dingy Third Avenue 0 +0 tne odds and ends like About a half-dogen of the leading westerns, Jack E. Leonard was saying, that THE MIDNIGHT trimmed, his nails clipped, his, rom glittering Park. Little prefabricated dog houses and ing dog food makers have tak % he bought a Cadillac horse . . . Asked to say EARL , . . Ava and tail bobbed and his whole dog- .pidren save up their pennies dog cemeteries, .

something funny after Tallulah’s “The Big Show’ closed its season last night, Fred Allen said: “I can say something unfunny. I'm out of work again.” SLE MILTON BERLE’S writer Bobby Gordon was just leaving the apartment for work when his wife said, “Don’t you ever say goodby?” Replied Bobby: “I've been trying to for years.” (This is what a gag writer's wife must go through. Mrs. Gordon loved it and laughed, and we expect to see it oy the Berle show shortly.) * B® JASCHA HEIFETZ and Mischa Elman were dining, says the Catholic Digest, when a waiter brought them a letter addressed to “The Greatest Violinist in the World.” Each tried politely to press it on the other, .but they finally opened it together, and it began: “Dear Mr, Kreisler.” "PD TREES ARE FEMININE, says Zac Freedman: they do a strip in the fall, go bare-limbed all winter, get a new outfit eath spring, and live off of some sap all summer. Then there was the baby porcupine that backed into a cactus and said, “Is that you, mama?”

Frankie are likely to do a radio show—together, George Ross Jr, the insurance man, and €hic Farmer, the publicist, belted. each other at wealthy Costa Gratsos’ party. Bing Crosby—here this week on radio and TV deals—will press for a $25,000-a-wk. radio program budget for next year. '"Twould make his the costliest radio show. . , . Denise Darcel’s taken a sudden interest in prize fighting. . . . Billy Daniels bought a house near Paris in the village of Maryville where Borrah Minnevitch has one. Hatchicks are growling about a millionaire socialite’ who tips pennies. , . , Agent “Bullets” Durgom and Jane Lamont were wed in New Jersey. “Bullets” says he is not to be confused with Roy Rogers’ dog of the same name, . . , Yma amas) perform at the Jewish War Vets show ay 14.

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gy self bathed—in cocoanut oil shampoo, yet. A bath costs $350 to $4.50, depending on how hairy a dog you bring with you. The club, water shortage permitting, will reopen its outdoor dog swimming pool this summer. It's been quite a strain on the Park Avenue pooches, going without their dip these last two summers, The club's receptionist, who

until they. can have their pets prettied up and cocoanut-oll-shampooed. Beauty parlors are.only one small part of the booming dog industry, It's roughly estimated that several hundred million dollars a year are spent by kind masters on their tall-wagging friends. The latest figure on America's dog population—and any dog

» ” » - ALTHOUGH there are thouands of dogs who manage to struggle along on table scraps, the vast majority of canines get their meals out of a can or carton. About a billion pounds of canned dog food -—- well fortifled with things like cod llver oll. and mixed vitamins—were sold in 1951. Add to “that another third of a billion pounds

HOW TO: GET RICH IN WASHINGTON . . . No. 9—

By BLAIR BOLLES

borrowings. The result is that

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en to adding a dash of chlor ophyll to their product, desmelling the nation’s pooches in the process, 2 From the time they're sold to their masters (at prices from a few dollars to a couple of thousand for a prize specimen) until they're buried (in a public incinerator ” s wp vault in a dog cemetery), dogs mean dollars to the nation’s businessmen. There are smaller busi-

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* 2 @ ¢ * oo Washington itself has become EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is famous in its alphabet soup George Gabrielson. JOEY ADAMS’ Joke Book retells the Harry THE KEFAUVER campaign needs money. ... A GREAT source of ; p Morgan. the ninth installment of & form, WPA). He ne chairman of the Hershfield story of a man who dined expensively Jimmy Durante won't take a nickel for subbing privilege in Washington . =» scrios from die" sacent book . gi: Republican Na Commit» at the Waldorf, then summoned the manager and gne night for Jane Froman at the Riviera open- 1 BECAUSE of the shift of » ’ ; tee after Carthage got the loan asked: flows from the tax laws. HOW TO GET RICH IN NOW, however, the confusion

“Do you remember last year when I had just such a wonderful dinner with the finest champagne, and when I couldn't pay for it, you threw me out in the street like a dog?” “Why, yes,” bowed the manager, humbly. “Sorry,” said the man, “but I'll have to trouble you again.” «oS JUDY GARLAND'S Los Angeles appearance is such a sell-out that Hollywood stars are wiring and phoning eross-country to Judy's agents (the Wm. Morris office) here, trying to get “influential” people here to get them tickets for the show there.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW ORLEANS, Apr. 23—Possibly it is because the place was rather heavily romantic when I was younger and full of foolishness, and so supplied my own electricity, but I still find this hamlet more replete with euphoria, than, say, Peoria. New Orleans has. cheapened and changed with the years,

It is sort of funny how the years have lifted the face of the city. An Irishman named Owen Brennan. an upstart’ from the Irish sea, now runs the Vieux Carre, the best French restaurant in town. There is a new deal in jazz music—a pair of young brothers named Assunto draw the crowds to Hip Guinle’s place, with as fine a trumpet and trombone combinationg as you ever remembered. What is really amusing is the fact that a Negro lady of middle years, named Lizzie Miles, is packing them in in a place called*the Mardi Gras, and she 'is doing it with French lyrics to simple songs, Lizzie was a champagne toast in Paris during the 1920's when Ameritan Negroes were cofisidered a very chic novelty. Lizzie sang New Orleans jazz then.

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LIZZIE NOW chants sort of Edith Piaf French, except it isn’t French she learned while she was playing at the fast set in Paris. It 1s just plain, tired old Bayou Cajun French—songs Lizzie's mama used to sing to Lizzie in patois when she was a ‘child. Lizzie has dragged her Paris gowns out of the trunk and is now resplendent in finery that seems oddly right for the period, and she sings in a voice that sounds like Sophie Tucker with a Cajun grandma. I have no doubt that it will not be long before Lizzie is appearing in the more expensive boites in New York, and eventually will return to

Parts, in order to sing Louisiana French to the-« “French. This is known as completing the circuit. °

oe o> FOODWISE, New Orleans is undergoing a sea change. The early evening closing of the ancient restaurants—Galatoire’s Antoine's, Broussard’s, Arnaud’s—and the haughty habit of keeping the customers on the sidewalks while he waits for a place is beginning to pall on the visitor. There was a {ime when, if a man did not succeed in seating hindelf before §:30, he did not dine off remoulade and truite margery that night. The Irish Mr. Brennan's late hours in the Vieux Caree have remodeled some of the meéekness that the tourist used to feel,

ing. The Riviera hopes that Janell go on by the end of the week. , . .

Wash'n’s asked Police Gazette editor H. H. Roswell about his “Hitler Is Alive” article. . , . Chantootsie Nancy Nolan is divorcing Paul Shaw, Boston socialite. What happens to retired skaters? John Walsh, ex-partner of Sonia Henie, joined the CBS radio dept. . . . Billy Rose and Joyce Mathews have joined the El Morocco Set, of which Uncle Miltie Berle and Ruth Cosgrove: are also members. Aunt Ruthie now carries Uncle Miltie's cigars in her purse, a sign of sumpin.

New Orleans Still Easy on Nerves

And, as part of a peculiar renaissance, Mr. Brennan has revived the old-fashioned New Orleans Sunday breakfast, a three-hour meal that involves’ a morning pick*me-up and a bottle of suave wine as parcel to the fancy eggs and the garlic bread. Ap part of another section of the renaissance, Mr. Diamond James Moran, discontented with

between Mr. Thomas Caplinger's Cafe Lafiitte, a weary old inn, with a clientele which can best be described as colorful, and a new joint called Wit's End, which features musicians and the voval calisthenics of a Chicago boy named Shecky Green. The old Absinthe House has taken to closing at a ridiculously early hour—somewhere between 4 and 6 a. m. . One thing was not changed. The early morning hours still contain the baby’s cry, the angry man’s voice, the woman's scream, the tinkle of the dispirited piano; the muted trumpet, the crash of glass, the mating quefulousness of the alley cat, the smell of hot dogs, and all the sounds of human strife at an hour when good folk are abed. So long as New Orleans keeps its gray hours up to moody standard, it will be more fun than Philadelphia.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—Is it possible to pollinate potted African violets, then grow new species (or colors) from the seeds? If so, how? Mrs, Felicia K. Hogue, Greenfield. . ’ : A-—1It most certainly is. That is one of the important ways new kinds are developed. African violets even in their native state don't often pollinate themselves: So to get seed from your

"Read Marguerits Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

house-raised plants, you'll need to remove pollen from the anthers (the swollen yellow spots in the center of the flower) onto the stigma (the end of the long tube that grows out from the center of the flower). One way squeeze the pollen.onto your thumb nail. Then wipe it immediately onto the stigma. Seed pods take from six to nine months to ripen. Then you proceed as with any very fine seed. To have real fun out of this, choose tw6 different colors of violets for the parent plants. Then you may get almost any combination of their characteristics in the seedlings.

As the federal levy on incomes has slowly risen, the interest of Americans in finding legal and illegal ways to reduce the amount of tax they owe has grown more and more intense.

High taxes are transferring the control of money from business to government. By present standards, internal revenue tax collections before 1944 were a trifle, At their height in Roosevelt's prewar Presidency they reached $6,700,000,000, in 1041. Two years later they were $21,040,000,000. The 1943 law boosted them to $40,425,000,000. There ahove Everest they have remained with slight variation,

# » » . THE TAX laws are responsible for the worst of the confusion in Washington over the. role of the government in the

that it can scarcely be called private enterprise at all, In the days of J. P. Morgan & Co's greatness, investment bankers und private investors had the money to finance business expansion. Now the tax law channels such a largesportion of the nation’s money into Washington that there is not much left for the Moggans and others in private life who used to finance the spread of capitalism. » ” »

IN THE last year before the great depression, the federal tax collections were 2.8 per cent of the value of all the goods the country produced. In 1949, the taxes amounted to 15.6 per cent of the gross national prodfet, The government also had been diverting money from private to government use by floating enormous loans. In 1929, the value of the federal securities outstanding $15,922,000,000, was one-fifth of the country’s gross national product, In 1949, tHe securities outstanding, $250,785,000,000, were about equal to the gross national product, Before the depression the United States invested 18 per cent of its national income in business enterprise. In 1949, expenditures by business for new plant and equipment came to about 10.per cent of the national income. In the same year 18 per cent of ‘the national income flowed to Washington in taxes and a larger amount in

money from private capitalists to the government, business, including farmers, has been turning more and more to Washington for financial help, in the form of subsidies, loans, useful articles sold for less than cost, and special privileges with” the tax collector. The government distributed to individual Americans about $46 billion in money and goods from the end of World War II through 1951. The so-called private enterprises which receive this help could not carry on without it. They are, In

WASHINGTON, published by W. W. Norton & Co,

other words, government enterprises with private managers. More precisely, they are enterprises whose private owners have the government to thank for what they possess. The great voices raised in argument for private enterprise in opposition to the New Deal used to condemn the proletarian aspect of Roosevelt's program, especially the distribution of money to the unemployed through: the Works

about the role of government is wo general that, since business has replaced the proletariat as the main financial beneficiary of government, the strongest advocates of pure private enterprise insist that

the government must provide the money to help them re-

‘main private.

One of the borrowers from fhe Reconstruction Finance Corporation was the Carthage Hydrocol Company, which had a process for cracking gasoline from natural gas, The

The New Washington Skyline

($180 million), and he dedicat~ ed the Republican Party to the defense of private enterprise. . =» »

THE growth of “military so= clalism” — which 1s the expans sion or maintenance of business enterprises that have no economic excuse for or expanding but that aré necessary for the defense program --adds to the confusion about government enterprise and priv: ate enterprise. : In “military socialism” the government pays the .owners of factories and ship lines, by subsidies or tax favors, to produce goods or perform services that are useful only to the gove ernment,

'he cold war with the Soe viet’ Union has inured the pube lic to this novel turn in the: American system, Ta ” » s

THE J. P. Morgan role and “military socialism” have

The government has an enormous power the very exists ance of which is fatal to pris vate enterprise. It can choose ; the companies that are to sure vive. Those who need its help and to whom it lends money or pays subsidies or whose taxes it reduces are the come panies that will live on, Those whose requests it turns down limp along weakly or fade away.

nu » ~ THE designation of these “chosen instruments” often fakes place as haphazardly as blindfolded children at a birthe day party pin the tail on & paper donkey. The administrae tors that pick the lucky wine ners do it pretty much by ear because they lack clear-cut guidance from either Congress or the President, y J. P. Morgan had a good sense of financial values; others wise his bank would have failed,

_The New Dealers had «+ good

sense of social values; it filled : them with their pioneering zeal, The modern administrators in Washington who are the heirs of both Morgan and the New Dealers, have only a fOgRY no= tion of either social or finan values. They throw the money around without plan, pe 2 That recklessness and the popular tolerance of e In human error make the Capital

the new land of opportunity. (Copyright, 1953, by Blair Jolles.) Jf

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