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3 - # oy . og 1 CITY HALL has been needled at regular inr about the condition of our footpaths and , . The sterilized needle has picked at . of cleanliness. CR * Perchance the needle should be in our own It is a known and visible

hide. fact trash accumulates on streets and sidewalks. We can take the Circle as an example. Most days, by midmorning, the Circle is tidy. Then what happens? y The citizens of Indianapolis, probably those who scream the loudest when their attention is drawn to debris underfoot, clutter up our fair city. J Between W. Market St. and Meridian 8t., my favorite quar- ; ter of the Circle, I sat and observed the habits of pedestrians with something to throw away. The job took most of an afternoon. * > ¢ HASTILY, let me add no attention was paid te gams, which can be disturbing when gentle breezes blow and gossamer-like prints. flow and subtle curves show. : I watched for people who throw trash on my favorite quarter of the Circle, period. - A cover from a book of matches isn't much. It is hardly worth the effort to haul it to the corner and deposit it in the trash can. After all, at home an empty book of matches goes on the floor, doesn’t it? And what about cigaret stubs? One 1i’l ol’ butt isn’t going to hurt a great big sidewalk. No, one won't, but drop 50 between Market and Meridian Sts. and they're a sight. . A neat-appearing, white-haired gentleman emerged from H. P. Wasson & Co., hesitated on the sidewalk while he fired up a cigaret. He used the last ‘match from one of those king-sized books. Plop—on the sidewalk it went. Le I WISH department stores, all retail stores which issue sales slips, would have their sales personnel ask a customer if he wants the sales

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NEW YORK, June 6—I've gone to the very top in the newspaper business—I've covered an eatathon worthy of Hollywood or Miami or a county fair, “ia * Yes, I've seen Lois De Fee win the Broadway eating championship, She could have eaten— in my opinion—against the J greats - of yesterday, Diamond Jim Brady and John Ringling. «= “Lois wins the title-by two * desserts” announced ‘the. ' judges. - Thus Kenneth M¢Sarin, the became an also- | Do 2310,

- filet mignon. followed. by a double. chopped steak. He was “eaten-out.” :

Maybe Damon Runyon’s tales of old time-

eating contests gave somebody the idea. Any~ way, we gathered at Manny Wolf's, where Lois, the nationally known 6-foot-2, 190-pound strip.teaser, announced: . “Maybe I shouldn't have had those nine martinis.” But this. was a strategy. more than seven martinis. ; Before the two contestants were set two salad bowls, each containing eight portions, just to give the dining duelists an appetite. “Don’t fill up on bread,” friends warned Mr, McSarin. “Doesn’t bother me,” Mr. McSarin said, eating half a loaf. ‘Remember when Truman made us cut down on bread? I could only eat 34 slices.” I wish you folks who remember the days when “hired hands” ate 40 buckwheat cakes for breakfast could have seen this. Movie Actor Rock Hudson of Hollywood-—who wads with me— will swear to the amazing menus ‘for each—24 clams, 4 portions of herring, double soups, triple filet of sole, half fried chicken, three double filet mignons, double chopped steak, plus spinach, carrots, peas, fried onions, etc.

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: AT THIS POINT.the champ began losing his “appetite. : “You're not eating your spinach,” the judges mentioned. “I never ate it in my life,” he sneered. “As for those carrots, who" needs 'em? I already got 20-20 vision.” ‘ > “You're throwin’ the contest—-you're not eat"ing your hardest,” jeered certain spectators, one of whom said, “They can fix basketball games— now they're probably fixin’ dinners.”

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 6—The old man, I guess you would call him the grandest old man, quit trying and died the other day at 92. This was Jolin Dewey, one of the few great thinkers of the long time we call past and present, and you might say he sowed more whirlwinds than anybody else. Dr. Dewey made one mistake. He presumed in innocent arrogance that the majority of his fellow citizens were partial1¥ as intelligent as he, and there he made, his mistake. They weren't. And aren't. And doubtldes won't be. . : John Dewey was the father of what is loosely termed “pro-+.\i ghessive education.” This is to say that he slew the little red schoolhouse, assassinated Santa Claus, and placed an added burden of maladjustment on a civilization that had beén reasonably happy with the three R’s, the little rec hen, and McGuffey’s reader, He introduced unfettered thought into the public domain, and ye gods, how it got mishandled. The old man was a fine old man, and a brilliant thinker he was, too, and a fine philosopher, and a good practical psychologist, and a great educator, and, withal, he made more trouble for us than Karl Marx. Because; principally, John Dewey made a vogue of early self-determinism, and the lip readers seized on his doctrines with glad, incoherent cries. His idea ‘was: basically, if an idea _is ever basic, that the young in mind should be freed to develop the richness of -the moment, rather than-to equip the fledgling with. the standard spate parts of education for a problematical future; He was of middle age when he first propounded the idea that modern education should be fitted to individual needs and capacities instead of being assembly-lined along the simple precepts of his fathers. In very short, he pierced the first large loophole for mass irresponsibility and laziness of educational discipline by the adult of the immature, It is not to. lessen the majesty of.the man, Dewey, to say that his breadth of thought has contributed as highly to divorce rates, to suicide rates, to psychopathic incidence—and always innocently

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was informed that this was “progressive education.” Unbridled freeing of the coarser impulses was not what he had in mind. ; after Dr. Dewey's

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x customer says no, it should be kept in the store. . ' thought occurred when two women peeked into a package and tossed out the sales slip which was obstructing their view. A woman was observed taking a small article out of a paper sack, dropping it in her purse and then allowing the paper sack to flutter under her feet. She wouldn't do that in her home or yard. Why does she do that on our sidewalks? I watched a man opening a package of cigarets as he crossed Market St. He had a little trouble with the easy-pull red cellophane band. Mildly annoyed, the man jerked at the cellophane “and the entire outer covering came off the pack‘age. It was immediately wadded up and tossed on the sidewalk. -

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the package, folded the paper and flipped it at the gutter, Wasn't a hard enough flip and the package stopped on the edge of the curb. J . >

THE PRIZE of the day was a woman who came out of the Test Building. She appeared folding a generous section of manila paper. Just about the time the paper was folded to a size that would fit in her purse, the woman flung the paper to the sidewalk. Gum wrappers, transit transfers, candy sacks, cards fall to the sidewalk like snow. Another and’ even more revolting practice is expectorating on the sidewalk. The safety valve screams when I get on the subject. Sometimes you can’t help feeling awfully disapointed with your neighbor. - eS THE CRUX of the Help-Keep-Our-City-Clean struggle is a good street cleaning department. No question about that. But, it's a losing battle when we don't give the department assistance. Every day we have visitors to the city, company, so to speak. For that reason alone we should think, take a few seconds of time to deposit debris in the receptacles provided for that purpose. ; . Indianapolis doesn’t have to be dirty. There is no record. of paper and trash falling from the sky.

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*, 4 Other 'inhuendoes “were flung at the old champ, some of which he admitted. He also admitted he’d- met the better man—make that woman. . Lois—who once married a midget in Miami —actually won when she ale a strawberry tart for two, a strawberry shortcake for two, and two double Napoleons, while Mr. McSarin turned down a fourth portion of apple pie. The most amazed witness was a German girl photographer, here but a few weeks." In hér broken speech she said, ‘It’ could only happen in America.” y oo oo o>

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QUKING 4 settlement with EAnoY: Hain: “I'm not going to oppose the court I have to go into” . . . Joan Biondell's new. admirer; Serge Rubinstein. SR ET : Socialites’ forecast: Winthrop Rockefeller will divorce Bobo by Labor Day ., . The Toni twins will become triplets (honest) ... The Robt. Prestons reunited. Future Fulton will play old English type ballads by W. H. Holzer. The Brooklyn Dodgers were barred--by their bosses—from going on Laraine Day’s radio show. Her producer, Murray Kaufman, left in a salary row (not with her). . . . Henny Youngman slid over an ad lib on the M. Berle show: “I just came here to visit my material.” . . : Candy Jones’ arm’s in a sling. She hurt it “persuading” a son to do something. W. W: feels almost good enough to return to the air now. He was at the Colony with his sponsor. (It looks like fall, though). ... In a secret . AGVA hearing, Martin & Lewis lost their battle against playing the Copacabana. Their offer of big money instead was overruled. . Mardi Bayne took over Christine: Mathews’ part in “Having Wonderful Time.” (She was understudy ing.) eB EARL'S PEARLS | . . “Marlon Brando isn't really so handsome,” Taffy Tuttle told Snag Werris. “He just looks handsome.” & oe < 3 TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: A Washington bus driver had to change his sightseer spiel because when he passed the Central Intelligence Agency building, he was saying, “And there is where we train our spies.” ° db WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Nothing surprises me in show business®except gratitude” — Coleman Jacoby. Sob . NOWDAYS THE WEALTHY play poker—says Myron Cohen—with potato chips. ; . . That's Earl, brother.

A Great Thinker; But He Sowed Whirlwinds

A finely furbished story about two little girls who had scornfully disobeyed mama, flatly disobeyed papa, and finally had flagrantly flouted the direct orders of a state Supreme court justice sending the court into a state of semishock. This might be called fulfilled progressivism, and also was not what the old professor had in mind. ow oo o IT IS my purely private idea that the dean regarded mankind as essentially noble and simultaneously susceptible to nobility of handling at a very early age. I do not thing that in his academic purity he considered a high incidence of lazy parents, spoiled brats, and incompetent candidates for self-determination. There are some horses that cannot be led to water; there are some dolts who must be scourged into submission to the common laws of behavior. Be all as it may, we have shown small progress in the half-century of popularity for John Dewey's credo of education. His advanced (then) theories of literally making the child his own master do not seem to have tamed the dreary statistics of delinquency, of adult aberration, of social maladjustment, of ‘rape, murder, dope addiction, irresponsibility and general unhappiness. Maybe it was no better in the day of the little fed schoolhouse and the little red hen. But I doubt it was worse. The fine-edged tool of John Dewey's thought fell, I fear, into clumsy hands, and was turned and blunted against his origina! purpose.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—How shall T take care of a Christmas cactus to make it bloom this winter? When do you withhold water to make them bloom? —~—Mrs. C., East Side. A—Try keeping it outdoors this summer in light shade. Give it manure water every couple weeks during summer. And be sure the soil has enough flower-stimulating phosphate in it. (Bone meal, superphosphate, or chemical fertilizer for the flower garden.) During summer give the plant water whenever it is dry. Then about the first of September take it indoors to an east,

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

west or partly shaded south window. At tnat time give it just enough water to keep the leaves from shrivelling—no more. From there on, keep your fingers crossed. .For last year, for example, I saw a Christmas cactus that had'been full of bloom. Then the proud owner moved it from the southeast dining réum window to an east living room window-—a matter of a few feet. And. it immediately began dropping its*buds.’ Drafts, a change in temperature, or something about the Tot failed to Please the temperamental ’ A jp - . i » ped

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Night Raid Yields Amazing Data

By RALPH DE TOLEDANO RANK BROOKS BIELASKI, director of investigations for the American Office of Strategic Services, entered the offices of Amerasia ‘magazine on lower Fifth Ave., New York, late on Sunday night, Mar. 11, 1945.

It was one of the few nights when none of the magazine's editors or employees was around. With Mr. Bielaski were a team of investigators, most of them former FBI men. What Mr, Bielaski fo is told in his own words fore a Congressional committee about two months later. “I went myself because I did not believe in sending somebody else to do something that I would not do . . . I personally devoted my time to looking through the office, the front office ,.., “About the time I had come to the conclusion there was nothing in the front office of interest to me--while I was in the front office, I had sent some agents back through the rear part of the office . . . one of them came and said, ‘We

think you better come back

here. We found some stuff you ought to see. “I started back. Before I went back to the: r:rwg where they were, I observed on the right side of the main corridor there was a room; to be conservative, I would say it is half as big as this. It was devoted; ‘exclusively to photo copy work, + “They had a photo copy machine, and developer pans all around on the shelves. The place was equipped to make photo copies, and make them in large quantities. “I did not kno tion that was magazine like Ame

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STEEL CITY— By RICHARD KLEINER MORRISVILLE, Pa. June 6-—Between 4:30 and

5 every afternoon, a strange parade of mud-

coated cars and trucks turns ”

the main intersection of this small city into a monstrous bottleneck. They come from a mile down the road in a bend in the Delaware River, a place the townspeople call ‘the site.” It is here United States Steel is building its new Fairless

Works, which will be one of the '

world’s great steel mills. Here 10,000 men are fashioning an industrial colossus on 3842 acres that used to be 63 truck farms. steel, not spinach,

It used to be rich farmland and it was a good place to live, Not far to the north, Washington crossed the Delaware, which winds serenely by on its journey to the sea, There were big trees and peaceful homes, many dating from the 18th Century. » ® TODAY, THE peace and serenity are gone. A “quick tour” around the site—which takes an hour—is like riding the roller coaster, skidding through the mud and dodging groups of workmen and trucks at the same time. As far as you can see, the $400 million mill is going up. There are blast furnaces, ugly and black against the soft Bucks County countryside. There are the nine open hearth furnaces, with the odd yellow precipitators — which will cleanse the smoke—clinging to. them like leeches. There is the sheet and tin finishing area, a grouping of about. a dozen buildings, some big enough to drive through.

Trucks and men swarm over the area, and there is still one. house.

It was a comfortable house with a big porch and wide steps. They let it stand to serve as a temporary office, but its days are numbered. Seon it will be torn down, like the others, o 2 o

~ ON THE road just outside the main part of the-site, a few other old buildings remain. One,. a school house in the 1700's, is a lovely white-washed brick ‘structure, still proud behind a

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corridor. On the end over to the left was the room of the associate, editor, who was Kate Mitchell. “On the right was a smaller office of Philip Jaffe, who was the editor. . . . I went into the office of Jaffe. He had a desk about like this. “It was covered with originals and freshly made photo copies of documents, every one of which was secret in its character. Some of them were directed, personally, to the Secretary of State. Some of them were from military attaches in China and other places, confi-

dential. All of them were marked “Not to be shown OWL” That was evidence of

the confidential nature. » ” ~ “SOME WERE from Naval Intelligence. There were a good many on his desk. It would seem from the freshness of the copies that those phgto copies had just been made. They accounted for the fact that the

office - was working so late ate

night. . . . The State Department documents were addressed to the Secretary for his personal attention. , , , The originals were in there, and the photostatic copies. Everybody was astounded at this stuff. “While we were looking it over, a man happened to look behind a door. Behind the door he ‘found a suitcase and two briefcases. The suitcase was a bellows-type suitcase that was probably that thick (indicating) « + « About 18 inches.

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SPIES, DUPES AND DIPLOMATS . .. No. 5—

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along an expert who opened all sorts of locks. He opened the suitcase, the briefcases. When he opened the suitcase, it seemed to be a specially constructed affair with about 10 to 15 pockets in it. . . It was literally loaded with secret documents of all sorts from all departments. of the government. These were all

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TALL GROW THE FURNACES—On Bucks County spinach fields a new steel colossus is planted. Rising here (left to right) are skip-hoist, stockhouse with stack and stoves, and furnace.

new sign that reads, “National Tube Co., Operations Division.” National Tube, a U. 8S. Steel subsidiary, will have a big plant on the site.

When quitting time comes, at 4:30, the construction workers in their brown and red tin hats get in their muddy cars, slip and slide out to the main road —and proceed to give Morrisville its one steel-inspired headache. Except for the traffic situation, the area is happy about its gigantic neighbor. But when the news of Steel's acquisition of the tract first got around, residents were horrified. “They imagined,” says a Steel spokesman, “there would be big clouds of black smoke all the time. They pictured us going over to Europe and bringing boatloads of rowdy, harddrinking foreigners over here to work the plant. They thought these men would bring fat, sloppy wives and have a kid every ten months. They weren't, happy.”

. .SIX MONTHS before ground was broken, Steel sent a public relations man to Morrisville. John Appleyard is a big, hearty,

genial man. He began by going to meetings, eventually spoke to any. group that would listen, often making three talks a day. He told Steel's story. Making steel, he'd say, is pretty much of a mechanical job; it doesn’t require big‘ bruisers. The employees, he'd say, will be quiet, well-behaved, with many college graduates among them. And, anyhow, 5000 of the total payroll of 6000 will be taken from the area. He dispelled their worries, one by one, group by group. Gradually, they forgot their preconceived fears and began to notice changes in their lives. The men Steel brought down turned out to be nice folks. Vacant homes were snapped up, improved. Everything improved. The opposition, which was never organized, vanished. “Today,” says Jack Apple. yard, “Morrisville and Bucks County in general never had it so good.” ” ~ »

THE HOUSING industry went into a bull market in the Morrisville area when Steel moved in to build its big new Fairless Works on the spinach fields. Local merchants made record profits. The town bank's deposits soared ‘several hun-

dred per cent” and it had to. double both its space’ and its “staff of tellers.

Two tremendous housing developments were started. One, called Fairless Hills, will ultimately have 4000 homes; the other, Levittown, will have 16,000. Most of the milk companies assigned drivers to stay in the areas continually, to lie in wait for movthg vans. These developments are far from finished, and so is the mill. Steel says it is 60 per cent complete, and that some products will be turned out in

.the third-quarter of this year.

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“There was one exception; in 4 suitcase I found an original, a typewritten original, and four copies of the particular document that I was after, that was the Office of Strategic . Service document on Siam.

“In addition to that, I think there were five more secret documents of the Office of Strategic Service which we had not missed, one of which was ‘top secret,’ and extremely valuable and confidential.

“I took this stuff out and spread’ it around. If covered almost every department in the government with the exception of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... - There were documents from the British Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, G-2, State Department, Office of Censorship, Office of Strategic Service, and probably others. . .. There were so mahy we could not list them. These documents had from 3 to 4 to 150 pages. There were 300 documents. “Every one of them bore the stamp that the possession of these documents is a violation of the Espionage Act. It was astamped #11 over them. » - ”

“ABOUT THAT time, one of my men who had gone into the library ne ia-and said ‘he found something in the library. “He had: an envelope which was not sealed. It was a large manila envelope. In that envelope were, I should say, 15 or 20 documents. I could not tell whether they came mimeographed or whether they were photo copied on this machine. They were a little burred. They were not photostats. They must have been photo copies. “In between these documents, every other one, we found six top. secret dacuments of the

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these myself. I do not all six of them. I am Idd not make more notes about them but I remember distinctly two, probably the first two that Iread. , “One of them was entitled, and I do not know the exact words, but ome was entitled, “The bombing program for Japan.” It was top secret. I read it. It showed how Japan was to be bombed progres sively in the industrial centers, and it named the cities. “The second one that I read gave the location of all the ships of the Japanese fleet, subsequent to the battle of Leyte; I guess it was October 1944. It gave the ships’ by name, and where they were located. “We went back out into the other room. We looked over this stuff: I came to the conclusion, if I came down here to the Office of Strategic Service and told them what I had seen, they just would not believe me. 1, therefore, determined to take 12 to 14 of the documents and bring them down and show them to them as proofy., ? “I picked out all of the Office of Strategic Service documents, including the five copies of the one that I was after, and either seven or eight additional documents. I picked documents that had marks. of some sort on them to indicate through whose hands they had gone. ca “I put those in my pocket. I felt sure that there were ‘so many there that they could not possibly miss those documents for a week, anyhow. I put those in my pocket. We left that place. We put everything back the way we found it. We left there about 2:30 in the

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SURVIVOR OF FARM DAYS—This 75-year-old homestead

on the Fairless site, used as an office for

e steel mill under

construction. Henry Below, farmhouse owner, used money from sale to start a successful pottery business,

start making steel. There is about a year of what we call the ‘start-up period’ You run one unit a while, to see how it goes, then shut it down. Then you run another unit. Then two together. It takes a good year to get the whole thing smooth and co-ordinated.”

Fairless Works, incidentally, will be the largest steel mill ever built at one time, but is still far from the actual largest U, 8. Steel's Gary, Ind, works, for. example, turn out 5.4 million tons annually. Fair-

less' goal is 1.8 million. But Fairless, being brand new, will be the most modern. “It's modern, all right,” says Mr. Berdis, “but I wouldn't say it was revolutionary.” It was designed for speed. Each step in the process is planned £0 the raw material moves quickly and inexpensively through the many plants. At one point, finished sheets spew out at 85 miles an hour. As Mr. Berdis says, these savings in time mean “we’ll save a manhour here and there.” He says they “sincerely hope” these savings will enable them to turn out steel a little cheaper. But, he adds, “Our burning

aim is to satisfy the trade.” ¢ x * NN

trade will be satisfied; too. The history of steel mills is, ‘when one is built, other plants flock to its side, some to buy from it, some to*sell to it. If this occurs. in Bucks County—and' there's no reason

MORRISVILLE hopes the

why it shouldn’t—the area is in for a -tremendous boom, Already, the townspeople ex- _ citedly repeat rumors that 150 firms have “options” to buy nearby land. All Steel men will say is that “many firms have expressed interest.” The area is in a fever of activity. New roads and railroad tie-lines criss-cross Bucks

County. The two new towns—e Fairless Hills and Levittown are already very civic-minded, Levittown reminds everyone that when completed it will nose out Bethlehem as the state's 10th city, and Fairless Hills has a newspaper and a volunteer fire department.

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THEY HAD one problem at Fairless Hills, Like the Works, it had been farmland. But at one spot there was a little patch, set apart, that contained a handful of graves. Once, it must have been a church cemetery, but the church was gone and nobody could remember where or what it had been. The graves were carefully moved and will be given per. petual care. The headstones are weather-worn; one is com= pletely illegible. The others can be read, if you kneel on the. ground and trace the letters with . your finger. One pair reads, simply: “A. W., 1733" ait “Thomas Watson, 1739.” In the distance, beyond the graves and the rows of neat new homes, there will soon be +8moke from the mighty new steel mill,

Poker Player Shot During Holdup

WACO, Tex, June 6 (UP)— Three masked bandits held up an eight-man poker game at a farm

prints were lifted from the autes mobile and are being against police files. .