Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1952 — Page 11

Taste — r Throat

Inside Indianapolis ;

pumpkin in State Muck Crop Show in Na

the panee, Oct, 28-31, has been planted.

panee, Hee, hee. Before relating the reasons for all this confidence, I'd like to thank the many friends who came through with plots of ground. Without this help, there wouldn't he any pumpkins. I can’t grow prize-winning pumpkins in my apartment. Besides the five generous neighbors mentioned In Sunday's pumpkin bulletin, T have had an additional seven offers. LS

MRS. KEITH SEYMOUR, 39 W. 46th St,

_ ealled to say a portion of the Butler University

faculty garden behind the Sigma Chi house was open. Sam Swope, 1834 E. Raymond St., said IT was welcome to his back yard. Mrs. Alvin Miller, 7511 Westfield Blvd., placed @n acre at my disposal. ¢ Mrs. Hansel Morgan, 2001 E. Calhoun St., said there was room in her-garden for a champion pumpkin grower. “We have 11% acres and have a small garden and we gave another family a garden and still there's plenty of room for you and Rosemary,” wrote Mrs. George Yandell, 4 N. 25th Ave., Beech Grove. (Mrs, Yandell, Rosemary knows nothing gbour growing pumpkins. She's from Nebraska.) Mrs. William R. Cherry, 3266 Guilford Ave. wn ote that the soil in he: yard was “very black and is just waiting for a pumpkin seed or two. There's oodles of space.” “Qa behalf of our son, Billy, 5 years, we will give you garden space. Billy was a polio patient at Riley Hospital in 1949 and he would be tickled to do something for the wnlortunaty ones still there,” wrote Mrs. Russell TerreH, R. R. 1 Mrs Terrell, I've already promised the $1 a pound I'm going to get for my prize winner to the kids at Riley and the pumpkin will be carved for the little patients, Would Billy like to help with the carving? ; 2 : I HAD TO PICK ONE SPOT. The seed was planted on an empty lot next to Electronic Rectifiers, Inc., 2102 Spann Ave, The soil is rich, there’s plenty of water and Owner Charles R. Ogle said I could make myself at home and use whatever I needed such as fertilfzer. shovels and water, which he has. He main-

Pangs From “Paradise”

By Donald J. Gonzales

WASHINGTON, June 17—The workers in Russia's Communist “paradise” are having troubie’ with razor blades that don't cut, corks that don't fit bottles, oil lamps without chimneys, ‘and not enough batteries for hearing aids. These are only a smattering 6f fairly trivial annoyances for Soviet citizens. But they reflect bigger problems the Soviet hierarchy is having with people who won’t use machinery, padding of payrolls, transportation and distribution bottlenecks, and general inefficiencies. And some Russians still believe in God. Every day the Soviet masters in the Kremlin find themselves still unable to push all the buttons and make things turn out as promised by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. But when they set themselves to production of MIG-15 fighter jet plapes and other modern, complicated weapons ther ligansificing production of day-to-day ite viet consumers. Evidence that the Soviets face continual problems comes from the Red press. It steadily prods, workers, technicians and bosses to do better. Results are not always good. For example, the criticism of Communistmade razor blades was ‘voiced by & Red newspaper which said that “Mothers use our razor blades as toys for their children without fear

of their being hurt.” Ge >

THE SOVIET LABOR NEWSPAPER, TRUD, also asked the question—“Why in the Soviet Union are there so few toys on the shelves in our stores? And why. are they of such poor quality and so expensive?” It said the Iskorka Kingergarten in the city of Shadrinsk “has only four dolls per 100 children” and the children play with “match boxes and pine cones.” The Soviet magazine, Krokodil, reported that “the telephone, telegraph, teletype and all other communication services are busy between Gorky and Moscow regarding corks.”

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, June 17—A good old friend of mine is dying. . Potato peeling will soon be no more. ) Women today are too busy to peel spuds. Or too lazy. Or too proud of their manicures, Science now peels them with chemicals. I'm sorry—though I guess the GIs on KP won't be. Ag a boy in overalls out in the Middle West, I was often called from the barnyard by my busy mother to help peel potatoes. B GD SO I ASSOCIATE it with the old home place out on the dusty pike, and my grandparents, who are dead. § . I never: objected to peeling. potatoes. For I loved sliced raw potatoes—with just enough salt —and I'd consume almost as many as I peeled. “Don't be spoiling yoursupper now,” Mother would call , . . for supper was what we called the evening meal then . . . 35 years ago. Oh, those “German fries” and “cottage fries” and “home fries” of years ago. Se DS THE YEARS jetted past. : 1 forgot potatoes entirely until this shortage here, and down in Atlanta and in the Carolinas. And then we heard about ‘factory potatoes,” the new thing. When I found my Gorgeous Mother-in-Law peeling potatoes the other day, I told her the practice had been abolished. “Has it?” She went on peeling. oo. <@ “BEFORE LONG,” I said, “Nobody’ll remember how.” “I will,” she said. They have these big potato-servicing plants. Potatoes are bathed, or sprayed, with a lye solution. And then heated. The skins fade away like old soldiers don't, No hand touches the potato-—except to take the eyes out. Bb THESE “READY PEELED POTAOTES” are delivered by tons to New York restaurants. You can buy frozen potatoes, canned potatoes, already sliced potatoes, throughout our country. One ex-GI, Jules Salzbank, pioneered the “reddy raw” potatoes over at the Potato Service in Brooklyn. And, curiously, he never even did KP. eS “WHAT WE NEED NOW,” he said, “Is a chemieal that'll keep potatoes without spoiling.” Professors are struggling with it — just so women won't have Jo peel: potatoes

IT'S A LITTLE SAD, THOUGH—A little like -

when you nted a certain ball glove and couldn’t afford it. One day you had the money to buy the ball glove . . . but you were too old and fat to play. ’ s the way with potatoes. Mr. Salzbank

sent me some of his ready-peeleds yesterday, I

Never Has a Pumpkin Had d* Better Start

GROW, GROW, GROW.—Ed Church (left) helps the self-proclaimed champion pkin grower bury the seed. All right, plant _.

tains a small vegetable garden near my pumpkin mound. Ed Church, purchasing department, is an old hand with gardens and he has Mr. Ogle’s permission to keep an eye on the vines when I leave town. Ed sald not to worry, he would care for the pumpkins as if they were his own, Across the alley is Fire Station 15, 2101 English Ave. Firemen and I have always seen eye to eye. Man for man, I don’t think there is another department of the city that has a nicer group of men. 2 y SS @ SO IT WASN'T too surprising when the delegation from Station 15, headed by Capt. Delbert Emhardt’ came over and pledged their support and assistance in growing the biggest pumpkin in Indiana. The fact that Capt. Emhardt, Chauffeur Harry Kauffman, Pvt. Ralph Johnson and Pvt. Jim Kafader appeared after I had the ground spaded, mixed with special soil and fertilizer, seeds in and watered, didn't detract from the sincere pledge of assistance. Capt. Emhardt said to just give him word and he would hook up one of the fire hoses and sprinkle the pumpkin mounds. The men said they could get all the fertilizer I would. need. “ 1s there any wonder that I'm so happy about choosing the spot and crowing about the champion pumpkin-to-be? Who has a crane I can use in the fall to move the pumpkin?

Monkey-Wrenches. Monkey-Business

It said that for more than a year, the highest Soviet officials in the industry had not been able to get corks to fit bottles for medicines and chemicals. And, of course, there was trouble with bottles that were “no good.” ; When things are produced, they frequently are mis-sént through the bureaucracy of Moscow's transportation and. distribution system. = The Moscow Radio told Soviet listeners that “two truckloads of oil lamps were delivered without the glass chimneys to the Lebedyan branch of the Tyazan Oblast (province).” But it added that a “large consignment of glass lamp chimneys was sent to the Ryazhsk branch” which had no oil lamps. ; Sb THE MOSCOW LITERARY GAZETTE recently added the hearing aid problem to the list of Soviet problems. In Leningrad alone, it said, 300 hard-of-hearing customers were waiting for batteries and “the Ministry of Public Health of the USSR has done absolutely nothing to relieve the situation.” Part of the background to these and other difficulties was disclosed by the Soviet newspaper, Pravda. It said that in several Kuzbas mines coal “is frequently cut by manual means, while loading machines sit idle.” This ation, which is reported general, reflects problems the Soviets have in training peasants to be efficient industrial workers. Some do poorly in the hopes of getting back home again. Some of the Soviet inefficiency is traced by the Reds to downright bureaucracy and favoritism, The newspaper, Izvestia, has complained that in 62 enterprises of the fish ministry it was found that more than 1500 excess personnel “had been paid out wages of 15 million rubles in 18 months.” . In Moscow alone, it added, the railway, food and trade industries ‘set up over 1000 transportation centers, the majority of which had only one or two machines.”

Peeling Potatoes May Become a Lost Art

clash. Nicky didn’t like the wire Mr, Todd sent to Joan saying, “Happy hoofing.” “Papa” Senz, 83, is leaving the Metropolitan Opera after 52 years as wigmaker and makeup man. He'll fish. He made up Caruso. Patti Page may take over the TV spot long occupied by a prominent night club owner . . . It could be a Paris wedding for Milton Berle and Ruth Cosgrove, who flies Pan-Am to meet him there. They'll do Europe 6 weeks . . . Snag Werris heard a woman arguing with a merchant over a bill. Finally she shouted, “I'll repo~* you to Barry Gray.” * A famous B'way actor has made a pornographic record . . . Despite all the baloney about bi making up, Mrs. Robt. Merrill ~gets the divorce in 21% weeks. (In Juarez, made famous by Ethel Merman) . . . Hedy Lamarr sighs, “I haven't been in love with anybody since I was married last.” Pat Wymore (Mrs. Errol Flynn) helps his parents with the Hotel Titchfield in Jamaica while Mr. Flynn makes movies abroad . . . Jose Ferrer’'s been having a last fling with Sherry Britton before going to Europe

Mr. Flynn .o+Johnnie Ray returns to the Copa in January at $7500-a-wk. His sister-in-law, Toni Morrison, who'll marry his mgr., Cy Kertman, will go along and make it a foursome when Johnnie and bride honeymoon.

eSB TAFFY TUTTLE is patriotic and would pay her taxes with a smile but, she told Lester Lanin, “They want cash instead” . . . That's Earl, brother.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q-—-We have quite a problem getting rid of poison ivy. Can you tell us how this can be done? —Mrs. John Bunch, 722 8. Sherman Drive. A-—As far as spray materials go, ammonium sulfamate (sold -chiefly under the trade name Ammateé) is the one we rely on. It has worked better for fis than 2, 4-D preparations. You can use it effectively any time now that temperatures are up. But you'll have to watch the sprayed patches, They may need a second, even a third dose, It's difficult to get zid of all the underground stalks by which a long-established patch spreads.

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

If the poison ivy is entwined with valuable plants

can while ground is soft. After a bout of this kind, be sure to wash face, hands and arms with Steotig Soap Aud Xnse git With alcgtiol. This gets rid of ally spots of juice from the highly poisonous Vine. And do, by all means, watch for ivy seedlings from now on. They're easier got rid of than even young plant that's already spreading its octopus

Tin-Can Shanties,

The Indianapolis Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1952

OUR UNSTABLE STAKE IN MOROCCO . . . No. 1&-

By ROSETTE HARGROVE

ASABLANCA, Morocco, June 17—A half-hour walk through the teeming shanty-town .of this French

North African city is a vivid lesson on a subject that could one day be of vital importance to every American.

The shanties are made of flattened-out tin cans and odd bits of wood. There is no

This is the first of three dispatches in an on-the-spot report on Morocco by Rosette Hargrove. She paints a vivid picture of a touchy subject that could one day be of vital importance to every American.

sanitation system. Along the winding, so-called streets witch doctors, professional story tellers, traveling musicians, and barbers ply their trades. Half-naked children frolic in a large puddle left by this morning's rain. These people are mostly Berbers and Arabs, and the women squat at the entrance of their shanties, gossiping endlessly and stirring pots of cous-cous for the evening meal. Radio aerials stick crazily from the roofs of several shanties. At one intersection a pitiful attempt has been made to build the minaret of a mosque out of old rusty cans. And some of those cans are of the GI variety, which is where America comes in, - ” ” »

. WITHIN THE last year and “a half the United States government has put up nearly a half billion dollars to build in Morocco five giant military air bases for the strategic defense of Western Europe. The construction program is being carried out by 20,000 Yanks, military and civilian, phis local laborers. But new and growing demands by Arab nationalists for independence from France-—de-mands which feed on situations like that in shanty -town— could bring about a state of things in Morocco which wouldn't exactly be conducive to stability. And stability is certainly the atmosphere Amer- .

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ica would prefer for the future operation of its air bases. One of the principal nationalist complaints against the French is the fact that about. 250,000 people in French Morocco’s population of about 8.5 millions are living in shantytowns. . . » THE FRENCH have begun a few low-cost housing projects but admit they are only a drop in the bucket. They realize the seriousness of the slum housing conditions, but say the fault is not all theirs. The bigger shanty-towns, in the coastal cities, are inhabited largely by transient Arabs and Berbers drawn away from inland areas by the promise of higher city wages, the French point out. Many of them return to their home village when they have saved up enough to cushion them against disaster in case of a crop failure. A number of such families, the French say, will obtain pretty good living quarters in a city, but will rent them out and move themselves to shanty-town to save more money faster, While the housing problem is a vivid and concrete situation that you can put your finger on, it still "is only one aspect of the main difficulty between the French and the Moroccans. The big and overriding point is whether the Moroccans shall be given the freedom to rule themsglvesx L ix $ » » . THE FRENCH say they are not ready for it—the natives themselves have not sufficient education and they lack qualified leaders. A 90 per cent of the native population still is illiterate.

“And whose fault is this?” the nationalist leaders ask. They charge that the French not only have done nothing to help or prepare the natives to rule themselves, but have

WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT ?—

By ALLAN KEELER NEW YORK, June 17—A

Turn Down Your ‘Appestat To Reduce

new and revolutionary

word has been added to the

nation’s vocabulary. And starting today the fat, the obese, and even the pleasingly plump are going to have to quit kidding themselves and others about why they have a spare tire, a stenographer’s spread or any other unsightly accumulation of suet. The word is appestat—coined by Dr. Norman Jolliffe, director of the Bureau of Nutrition of the New York City Department of Health. There is a sort of thermostat contppl on the hypothalamus region at the base of the brain that regulates the appetite and weight control. It has gone without a simple understandable name up to now. Dr. Jolliffe made up his new word from appetite and thermostat and explains its workings in a new book, “Reduce and Stay Reduced,” just published by Simon & Schuster.

” ” ” PROBABLY it is the most complete ~nd scientifically accurate work on ‘dieting ever written for the average reader: It is blunt and direct and isn’t

government,

placed every obstruction in the path of native advancement. The - nationalists point out that after four decades under French rule, schooling is available still to only seven per cent of the Moslem children. The French put the figure at 15 per cent, which still is lamentably low. The French admit they have been unable to prevent children under 14 from working. But it must be admitted also that abolition of child labor is difficult in a tountry where fathers will.

. put their children to work for

-wages which the father himself -

collects. The nationalists also protest bitterly against the French system of dividing primary school teaching into 10 hours of instruction in Arabic and 20 hours in French, the latter being used for sciences, mathematics, grammar and geography. The French point out there are no Arabic terms which fit modern. sciences, - Next: Ancient manners vs. 20th Century ambitions.

If a ruler rests across your abdomen in this ‘manner, you're

not too fat. But...

going to be happy reading for the folks who have been saying their glands were to blame or their metabolism was at fault or that they come from. a “heavy” family. With the exception of an astonishingly small fraction of the population, Dr, Jolliffe says, people get fat because they let their appestat get out of whack, which creates bulimia—an appetite for food that is greater

than required for normal weight. All the writers of books

about wonder diets, Hollywood rapid-fire menus to chop off ex-

cess pounds and diets of rabbit

food and mineral oil to make you look like Tarzan or Marilyn Monroe are going to be mighty unhappy about the Jolliffe book.

This is the pinch test to determine if you're too fat. If a inch of the skin just over the lower ribs is greater than one inch tween thumb and index finger (1), there's probably an excess

of fat. If it's less than half an inch (2), there's probably too little,

The illustrations, by William Sharp, are from Dr. Jolliffe's book.

TWIN EARTHS

It not only describes the the physiology of reducing, the mathematics and food values in dieting, but it contains hundreds of menus and recipes for meals that can be caten—with correct appestat control—without adding weight. And they are, meals that can be found anywhere, unlike the strange ones no restaurant ever serves but which are always prescribed by faddists.

It won't be easy to turn the appestat down to a lower level but it won’t be too hard either, says Dr. Jolliffe.

“Habits of years cannot be broken overnight,” he writes. “Eventually, however, if the reducer 1s conscientious, exerts his will power and is, above all, a good sport, the appestat will usually return to a lower level, so that a smaller intake of food will give satisfaction.”

” ” » ONE OF the chief causes of a high appestat,' it is pointed

out, is being a member of a_

family where a groaning table is believed a mark of good living and where there is constant conversation about good food.

“Differences in kinds of food are also important,” Dr. Jolliffe writes. “The family which beging with a clear soup or tomato juice or a fruit cup and ends with a fruit or light dessert will ingest many fewer calories than one which habitually starts with a cream soup and ends with heavy pastries. In the latter family it is difficult not to overeat beyond gratification. “Another cause of conditioning the appestat to a high level is ‘scavengering.’ The habitual scavengers are usually wives, thrifty ones, who cannot bear to see good food, or for that matter bad food, go to waste. So instead of using ingenuity in

CASABLANCA'S SHANTY.TOWN is a teemin the growing demands of Arab nationalists to free

preparing leftovers, they consume the food themselves, Similarly the cronic tasters, usually wives or professional cooks, © condition themselves to too high a level.” " ” » DR. JOLLIFFE warns that the cocktail and highball packs a lot of calories and must be reckoned with in counting food intake values. He also says that many children have developed a high appestat simply to prevent their parents from nagging'them at the table and urging them to eat more. Bulimia is often the direct result of a person's withdrawal from society, because of unsolved pschological, social, financial or sexual problems, for which the person can find no satisfactory solution. This psychosomatic overeating can be cured if the person is willing to give it the old college try, even when the underlying factor: can’t be solved, Dr. Jolliffe points out. This new and truly scientific study of overeating makes tough reading for the man or woman who has grown a little sentimental or even proud, about that roll of suet around the midriff. » »

# BUT THE important thing is that if the appestat is controlled by a person who wants to look trim and attractive, or who realizes the burden excess pounds put on the heart, he can eat everything he likes, so long as he doesn't eat too much of it. . Gone are the menus for grapefruit, melba toast, lamb chops, salad with lemon juice and black coffee. Gone, too, are the faddist diets of yogurt,

wheat germ, blackstrap mo->

By Oskar Lebeck

MERE WE ARE! F.B.1. HEADQUARTERS WAS k

area of tin-can ols ts squalor helps feed orocco from its colonial hs

SHANTY-TOWN CONTRAST is provided by this new slumclearance project in Fedala, Morocco, but it's just a drop in bucket.

+ + « If you get this sort of result, it's time to reduce.

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lasses, head lettuce, grain husks and the like. While Dr. Jolliffe stresses that dieting of any sort ought to be done under a physician's care, he says that self-diag- * nosis is easy. One of the best tests is to lie flat and relaxed on a level surface--not a bed, yo which will yield to the body's a weight. 2 Take a long ruler or a yard stick and place it on the chest ; at the flare of the ribs and ex- i tend it along the body to the § junction of the thighs. If the ruler touches both the ribs and the lower part of the wbdomen there isn't much need to worry.

» » o BUT IF the ruler tilts up and can’t touch the lower abdomen, there's too much suet. Unless you have a tumor or some other malformation, you're too fat.

“The layer of fat beneath the } skin should be between onefourth and one-half inch thick,” Dr. Joliffe writes. “The thickness of a double layer of skin and its attached fat can be id measured by skin calipers, but it is usually sufficient to take a deep pinch of skin on the side of he body just over the lower “If the distance between thumb and index finger is greater than one inch there is probably an L excess of subcutaneous fat. If } the distance is less than half an inch, there probably is too little.” Between the ruler and the pinch tests, anyone should be able to decide whether intelli -gent dieting should be the order of -the day. If it is, remember how simple the process teally is. Just brace yourself, throw out your chin and turn down the. appestat,

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