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By Ed Sovola |

MY PUMPKIN seeds have sprouted and are now basking in Hoosier sunshine. Despite the vigilange, they popped out of the ground tty,

There are plenty of worries connected with the raising of champion pumpkins. I wondered the other day how a 200-pound pumpkin was going to get to Nappanee for the State Muck Crop Show, Oct. 28-31, Clare F, Falkner, president of Material Handling Equipment Co., 835 N, Capitol Ave., wrote to give the worry the ol’ heave-ho,

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. “WE WILL FURNISH the crane to get it out of the garden and the truck to deliver it. If you find it necessary to get in J & few extra hours of growing time, we could even rh up in our company plane,” Mr, Falkner, a pumpkin lover, offered. People are wonderful. I'm worrying no more. Well, maybe just a lttle because of a new situation that has arisen around the garden and Fire Station 15, 2101 English Ave. . * The day I planted the seed on the grounds of Electronic Rectifiers, Inc., 2102 Spann Ave. Capt. Delbert Emhardt and a few of his firemen pledged their help, which was fine. : ¢ ¢ @ THEY SAID THEY'D keep an eye on the pumpkins, water them when I couldn't get out there, and take special pains with the golden champions when a bride and groom leave town

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for three weeks July 12. 'Hurray, and ain't that i yr ,

Two days ago, when I was applying a nitrogen solution on the pumpkin mounds, a silver-haired gentleman, standing erectly in the rear doorway of the firehouse, called. s “C'mon over when you have the chance,” the man said. In the station and with my cardboard sun glasses off, I recognized Capt. Joe Seyfried, the big fire extinguisher on the second shift. “Walter Maas and I and some of the boys have an idea,” said Capt. Seyfried. “We're wondering if you'll go along with it.”

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NEW YORK, June 23—Ingrid Bergman-—now the mother of four—hats off to her—wrote to me recently and chided me good humoredly for not knowing ‘she was going to have twins before she did. A reporter in Rome had printed she’d have twins, - : % ; She'd denied it angrily, not knowing it was true. ‘ Ye Rg

Later an examination showed it to be a fadt— a he wt. to ae JiR -emapemen), 45. mayhe RT Tage 10. FI di Speen ALY

"Miss B's always pretty chsual about such things. When it was printed in 1950 that she’d have a baby, she, told her publicist, Joe Steele, to sue anybody prinfing such yarns, Then she had an examination and wrote to Mr. Steele: > i . “If you see any more of those rumors, don’t sue anybody.” ; Y : * + o

BEAUTIFUL LINDA LOMBARD, the hot

weather honey, is around quoting the latest Hollywood producerism (mustn't say Goldwynism).. This producer said to a friend, “I don’t want to have anything to do with an atomic bomb—that stuff is dynamite.” * + & - I ASKED one of Elliott Nugent's daughters— better not mention which—how her father manages to look so hoyish. “Oh, he doesn’t do much about it,” she said. “Just watches his weight and touches up his hair.” * * &

THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... , Laraine Day's disc jockeying is evidently over, The restaurant which paid . her $1500-a-wk. : plus rcentage expects to close for the rest of the summer , . . Billy Rose is angry over some “ugly rumors” cireulated about a new phase of the separation case and is taking steps to halt them. Hey, gals who wear glasses: Jeanette Edris, the divorcee of whom Winthrop Rockefeller is fond, wears them with him right out in public . . . Faye Emerson, the ing Sut pioneer, was in Toots Shoi’s with something new—long hair ., . What was that big battle about in the Giants dressing room between Coaches Shellenbach and Franks? Friends of the Herman Bhumlins fear it’s all over with them. She’s gone to Capri...

Terrible By William MecGaiffin

LONDON, June 23—“Regarding the appearance of the children of the GI brides shown in the papers last week, do you think that Ameriean fashions for children are attractive or not?” This is how Prof. Cyril Joad ' answers 2 reader's question in his column.in the London Sunday Dispatch: “Terrible, aren't they? Little boys of seven years old dressed in check suits, long. trousers, and blue tribly (snapbrim) hats; children in cowboy suits and bobby socks; children in violent tartans. One gets the impression that the children are dressed to startle, to hit the eye with their brightness, and, at:all costs, to be different. “This means that the taste of those who dress them is itself the taste of children, for it is ¢hildren—and, may one add, savages and birds—who are always attracted by anything which is bright, startling, staring, and different. Now contrast the sartorial habits of a mature civilization, the French, say, who for the most part insist on black for women and black or gray for children --that is for all ordinary public occasions. Consequently, when a splash has to be made it is all the greater by contrast. “One gets the impression with these Ameriean children that in dress, as in everything else, they are being encouraged to grow up before their time. The Americans don’t seem to have realived the truth that the more mature =a creature, the longer it takes to come to maturity ~for example, tortoises, elephants, and boys of the English public school class. ¢ + “I APPLAUD our English public school sys-tem-—much as I resented it at the time—precisely because it puts off the coming of maturity and behaving like a man to the latest possible moment, I grew up. to the age of 20 without ever having had a drink or even kissed a girl, and the same was true of most of my contemporaries. “Now compare thé little American girl who goes to high school at 14, uses lipstick, puts on adult clothing, makes dates with boy friends, and In general behaves as if she were four or five years older; or the American boy, who drives to his secondary school in-a shining new car. Children ‘must have fun’ seems to be the slogan of American parents, which, being interpreted, seems to mean they must never be repressed, never be denied anything they happen to want, and be universally spoiled. { - . “Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly. They . don’t realize what ah immense period of time. les before them ifn which they will be making , dates and driving cars.

Miss Dahl

“I take it that it.is precisely this too-early |

maturity in this matter of marmers, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them \reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform "middle age. What could be lovelier than an American girl at 19 or 20, alert. vivacious, healthy, dressed? What more dreadful than wo. 2 ’ s

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Pyt. Maas, who is the cook at the station, placed a huge sliver of pineapple cream pie in front of me. “Just took it out of the oven a

few minutes ago,” he said. “How about a cold glass of milk?” Lt. James Renihan, Pvts. Paul Wilson and Lloyd Purdue praised the cook's culinary art. Then they offered their assistance in taking care of the pumpkins. The pie was excellent. In fact, I don’t remember ever eating a flakier crust. My guard was down, Pvt. Maas, who has a small vegetable garden along the fence in the rear of the station, spoke of sheep tea, He said it was the best solution he knew, of to make plants grow. He brews it himself from Mifeep manure.

“WOULD YOU LIKE to have some for your pumpkins?” asked the fireman-cook-vegetable grower, / A kind offer made, a kind offer accepted. This tea you pour around the roots of a plant once every week. Naturally I was happy. Nitrogen solution once a week, a quart of skim milk weekly and now sheep tea.

“Do you have any pumpkin seeds left that Roscoe Fraser gave you?” purred Capt. Seyfried. (Roscoe {& the extension horticulturist at Purdue University and my adviser in pumpkin foatters.) In two shakes Pvt. Maas had pumpkin seeds. I was still wiping pineapple cream off my upper lip when a small plot in the vegetable garden was ready for planting. ? $b

PVT. MAAS was telling me he was going to have a pumpkin so large five men could stand on it. “Wouldn't it be funny if Station 15 won the contest in Nappanee? Wouldn't it be sorme= thing if you wound up with a pumpkin this size?” he roared, making a circle the size of an indoor ball. “We'll take good care of your pumpkins,” promised Capt. Seyfried, cracking his knuckles. Oh, oh. Do “you suppose . but . . . no, not firemen. it will be fa'r and sq'ar. Could be spiked. '

. not, not firemen . . . If they win the contest Hmmmm, sheep tea.

Newsman Scooped Ingrid on Twins

Betty Hutton told Arlene Dahl: “I saw Lex on the coast and he said to tell you he still loves you.” Arlene told us she hopes they'll reconcile. . * Joan Blondel] wired Nicky Darvas that if they should ever wed, it'll be at the Latin Quarter and not at Jones Beach . . . Frank Folsom of RCA

is being urged to develop a “kitchen television

set” to be brought out for next Mother's Day . .. Si Seadler says maybe Eisenhower's recent-inde-

pendence means he'd rather be Ike than President. |

- os i KR NER waa TET EERSTE ves Amini tue F3 LE AHA “WHILE PROWLING around galuth Re Uy oadidates af the hay got 2 sample their language difffties. Miss Finland was approached by Bob Taplinger, the publicist, who asked whether she spoke English. She said she did. vs “I- do the public relations” said Mr. Taplinger. : Miss«Finland bowed and replied, “I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Relations.” : ; ¢ +o

JAMES MELTON, Georgia's gift to television,

hag just cited one way to get a job as a singer.’

As a young man, he went to the great Roxy's office, but couldn’t get past the secretary. Finally he said, “Listen, if you don’t let me in to see him, I'l sing right here—and loud, too.” He got in and got the job. > * @

GORGEOUS GEORGE—who's quarantined in the Hotel Edison—with the mumps—tells us he hopes to be back wrestling in a month. “I will lose about $10,000 worth of appearances,” he said, “due to canceling.” Gorgeous—who isn’t so gorgeous now—says fo people who phone: “I hope you don’t eatch mumps talking over the telephone” ¢ oo WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Women who diet would rather have a second glance than a second helping.”—Pear] Bailey. + * o TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: At the York Inn a waiter grumbled, “I just served one of those Washington dollar-a-year bigshots, and you know —he tipped me half a year’'s’salary.” @ dre EARL’S PEARLS . . . Ethel Smith tells of the girl who insisted to a psychiatrist that she was Betsy Ross. It took quite a while to cure her—in fact, not until she’d finished a slip cover for the couch, *S * &

TAFFY TUTTLE, a bad punster, says this is the time of year when dark horses start feeling their oats , , + That's Earl, brother.

Professor Slaps af U. S. Care of Children

the ‘American woman of 40 with her horn-rimmed spectacles, her leathery skin, her strident vQice, her rushing about to lectures and committees, her

general air of running the country and running culture? 22)

> * & &» “AND THEN THIS driving of themselves to school by little kids in cars! What is the consequence? The kids grow up incapable of walking. f you spend your life being conveyed everywhere A automobiles you presently lose the use of your S. “Lack of ordinary exercise is, I take it, the reason why Americans stoop so, and are so deeply conscious of the inadequate manliness of their appearance that they are driven artificially to increase it by “having little lumps inserted in their coats on the tops of their shoulders. But their pale, pasty faces are due to the incredibly high temperatures which, by means of central heating, they maintain in their houses, “The long and the short of it is that the people of the world’s ‘greatest civilization’ aren't really healthy . . , of all this, the unsuitable clothing of American children, the unwillingness to allow them to remain children, and their tooearly promotion into juveniles and then teenagers, is a symptom. I am sorry that their English mothers, the GI brides, should have had the native good taste, which we hope they took with them to America, so rapidly corrupted.”

Dishing the Dirt

Bu Marguerite Smith Q—1Is it better, and why, to cut your iris after blooming to six inches? Mrs. C. Biddle, 442 Bosart Ave. : A—I have never found it good practice to handicap any plant by removing its leaves unless there's some special reason. Practically the only reason to justify interfering with the normal growth of your iris is this: If your plants are crowded the resulting increase in air circulation (with discouragement to diseases that thrive in moisture) may be worth it. But, if you can possibly find the time, you'll do much better to divide and reset the iris. During the summer iris leaves usually get pretty ragged from blight or borer troubles. Then you can trim off the yellow parts of the leaves. But I would not remove the green leaves that are helping the plants to get ready for another season. oi Q—Would petunias bloom well along my back walk where they would be in part'shade? Bridgepont, ~ ; A—If they get as much as three hours of sun and you use the commoner sturdier varieties (not

the highly bred doubles, for example) they should.

bloom quite well. A local nurseryman suggests that petunias in shade blossom better on a low nitrogen, little water regimen. :

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The Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1952

HARMONY FOR DEMOCRATS ?—

Schricker To Control C

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ ‘THE PEOPLE elect the Governor of Indiana and two Senators. ! But the politicians nominate them. And it sometimes happens that the politicians nominate for office someone the people don't want. In the Republican State Convention recently concluded, GOP politicians nominated George Craig for Governor and William E, Jenner for Senator. Most political observers agree that Republican voters preferred them. ~ ~ ~ WILL THE Democratic politicians pick the “people's choice” at their convention tomorrow? © They'd love to. For in this case rank and file Democrats want Henry F. Schricker for Senator. His extreme popularity with ordinary voters makes him a cinch to be liked by Democratic politicians, who feel they need him to defeat an excep-

tionally strong Republican ticket. | Down through . the years,

however, the Democratic State Convention has been like a gigantic grab bag with the outcome in doubt until the very last moment. . - Deals and double deals were made in the Claypool Hotel, the Governor's Mansion and at the Statehouse,

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Ps S A. FARLEY, : IKE MANY another salesman, I began my career as

Always, the named the ticket. ~ ~ ~ THIS YEAR the political boss, Frank McHale, has been kicked out of power. One big question arises: “But is he out of influence?” Most observers agree this is the first time since former Gov. Paul V, McNutt ruled the roost in 1932 that Mr. McHale is out of power in Indiana. It marks the first time the forces of Gov. Schricker have complete control of the convention, So tight is the Governor's control and influence, it is doubtful if he could escape the Democratic nomination for Sen-ator-—even if he refused fit. ~ ~ »

GOV. SCHRICKER has considerable persuasive powers with State Chairman Charles Skillen, National Committeeman Paul Butler and the Democratic State Committee. Politicians wonder {f the shenanigans that have marked previous Democratic conventions will be present for tomorrow's affair, It is easy for most Democrats to recall the 1950 convention when former Congressman Andrew Jacobs was assured support for the Senatorial nomination only to have Alex Campbell of Ft. Wayne walk off with it. The political support promised Mr. Jacobs by prominent Democrats never materialized,

political boss

a doorbell ringer. I still believe that such training has its merits for any man entering the selling field. I rang doorbells and banged on the knockers of

homes in Stomy Point, N..Y,, helping get out the vote for Democratic candidates. In that stronghold of Republicanism years went by without our party making a dent in what looked like unbeatable competition.

It was sometimes hard to find enough candidates to fill out the Democratic ticket. That is why it was not difficult for me at 22, to get the nomination for town clerk. My opponent was a man of substance and reputation who had been town clerk for years. Like the salesman who has held an account so long that he sees no need of working to keep it, the opposition gave me at least the ghost of a chance. - ~ ~ MY CAMPAIGN was based on the simple premise that votes are people. I saw to it that almost every voter, including the most solid Republican, had a chance to look candidate Jim Farley over and form some kind of an opinion about him. Politics, like selling, is a field in which idlers do not last long. Things don’t just happen. You have to make them happen, and this means work.

Until. the returns were in, there was only one thing to do. I had to give myself the benefit of the doubt, and keep on working. Essentially that is what successful selling is.

Contrary to everybody's ex- ®

‘Move or Die'—

Colby’s ‘Venture Of Faith’ Pays Off

Here is the first of a series of five stories im which some of America’s most successful men tell how they reached the top. :

pectations, I got the order, and

the accompanying thrill that comes from a hard-earned victory over a worthy adversary, I was elected on the slim majority of 20-odd votes.

~ ” # AS TOWN CLERK I pondered what I could do to make the people who voted for me glad they did. I also hoped to find a way to make at least a few of those who voted the other slate give me their support the next time. One idea I hit upon was in connection with my duties of issuing licenses. In lieu of salary, the town clerk was entitled to collect a fee over and above the license cost — 10 cents on each fishing license, 25 cents on each dog license, a dollar on each marriage license and so on. © The year’s total would have been a welcome addition to the salary I earned on my regular job, but I was far more concerned about building a political future than I was about cash in hand. I therefore decided to accept none of these fees, preferring to invest the money instead in the goodwill of very buyer of a license. I knew that every time I

In 1940, David M. Lewis was brought out as a candidate for Governor against Earl Peters. That's the year Henry Schricker entered the race and wound up with the nomination. Mr, McHale is credited with engineering the deal that knocked

off both Mr, Lewis and Mr. Peters. Mr, McHale's hand showed

earlier in 1936 when Cliff Townsend won the nomination. Portly McHale again received the credit for this victory. But perhaps the biggest MecHale triumph was in 1932 when he swung the convention away from Walter Myers and gave the senatorial nomination to Frederick VanNuys. Mr. MecHale had help in this deal from Mr, McNutt. They switched the order of nomination to gain power. Then they turned their power on Mr, Myers. g =" = # ~ THAT'S THE background for tomorrow’s Democratic convention, In the all-important Governor’s race, mild-mannered, silverhaired John A, Watkins, Bloomfield publisher, opposes B. Howard Caughran, distinguishedlooking Indianapolis lawyer. Will the 1952 convention go down in history in the same turbulent manner as the others? Or will it be marked by peace and harmony? ; It’s anybody's guess. But history has a way of repeating.

If it does, watch the fur fly.

JAMES A. FARLEY—A doorbell ringer,

said, “Forget the fee,” I had a chance of making one more voter remember me for town clerk at the next election. It was not the small amount of the saving that would impress the voters. It was the unexpected gesture of friendliness, a way of making both of us feel good. As it turnéd out, the results of the next election gave me a better than two-to-one plurality. But I had no way of forecasting this. I could only hope that by adding some extra human values to the performance of my duty I would find myseif being called on to serve for a secong term. » » »

ALMOST every call a salesman makes should reveal some

facet or other of a customer's

NEW .COLBY CAMPUS, dominated by steeped Miller Library, is on 650:acre Mayflower Hill, a mile west of Waterville, Me. Last of its 21 buildings will be completed next Fall.

By LEONARD RUPPERT WATERVILLE, Me., June 23 — Thirty-one years ago’ this Spring, tiny Colby College was handed a shocking ultimatum by a state-sponsored committee on educational facilities. It said, in effect, that Colby must “move or die.” . But three decades later, Colby is still very much alive and heartier than ever. Because it had the courage to undertake a unique “venture of faith,” it has licked tremendous odds and will next Fall open one of the most

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in the nation. The old campns, which had existed on the same site near the heart of Waterville for 113 years, by 1931 had fallen a vic:

time to industrial expansion, It was hemmed in by railroads, freight yards and a state highway on one side; the Kennebec River on the other. Noise, soot and smoke were growing problems. : ~ ~ ~ COLBY WAS in no condition to begin a moving campaign. Cases of colleges transplanting their entiré campuses to new locations, even in times of prosperity, were rave. And the few that had dene it were either heavily endowed or had some other assured source of funds, . Colby had neither, and the nation was in a depression. But inspired by its president, Dr.

Franklin W. Johnson, and with '

nothing more ta to ; Be, oh Sa at tion, the board voted to move

the college “if and when feasible.” Skeptics soon dubbed the project “Johnson's Folly.” But he called it “a venture of

faith.” When the news was announced, offers of new sites

came from all over. The most attractive was from a retired’ publisher who offered his 600acre estate in the capital city of Augusta.

r ~ . \ WHEN THE publisher's offer was revealed, it stirred up Waterville citizens, who had assumed that any move would be to the outskirts of their own rity. Tt has always been strongly

Hherately the offer to shake W ' trom is

CANDID SCHRICKER—Camera caught Henry Schricker at the 1948 state convention when he made last minute corrections on his acceptance speech. He was nominated Governor then. What

part will ‘he play tomorrow?

a mecaevation bout the Nitle. You can Be tao friendly

customer’s leanings is too small to be jotted down at the first

convenient ' moment after -the

interview. Out of these jottings come ideas for small personalized services, ways of keeping in touch, and of keeping remembered between orders,

In most cases, a letter is all that is needed, perhaps with a little enclosure of something of interest te the particular customer.

Such notes or letters, I am afraid, never get any farther than a thought in a salesman’s mind.

Write those letters, don't just think about them, It ix well to remember that even the busiest businessman likes to get letters which have to de with soma enthusiasm that is close to his heart,

I never miss an opportunity to write a letter. I am continually jotting down the name of someone who should receive one, In my most strenuous political days I am sure many 2 hotel stenographer must have thought I spent my time copying the local phone book. Every evening I would pull paper after paper from my pocket and dictate long lists of names and addresses. They were people I wanted to get a letter off to. Even when on a cross-couniry campaign I often . managed to send out a hundred such messages in a day. » » ~

THE PROBLEMS of a politiciap and a salesman are one and the same in many respects,

lethargy. Whether this was true or not, the hoped-for results were achieved. ) A citizens’ committee of 100 wag formed to match the offer and promote the advantages of Waterville. It agreed to underwrite. $100,000 to purchase a site and tne City Council voted to provide all roads, water lines and sewer connections. ® x =» THE SITE purchased was a

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OLD COLBY CAMPUS, in heart of Waterville, is surrounded by river (extreme right), railroad yards (top) and factories. : :

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or not friendly enough. You - can be too forward, or not forward enough, How ‘does one strike a balance? One thing is certain. Yon will come out of certain calls feeling not too satisfied with the way things have gone. You will wish you had done or said something different. I have always found that the best way to get over an interview that for some reason has gone sour is to hurry to the next one as fast as I can. The challenge and the lure of selling is that something good may come from the next interview. In the case of politics, it is from the next election, of course, Both are jobs that call for the forward look always.

» w » THE REAL hazard in any selling is the discontent, discouragement, sometimes eémbitterment that may come along with defeat. Here the salesman in other fields has the advantage because he has a chance of victory on the same day, on the next call perhaps. ’ For the politician, it is a long time between elections, before he can try again to change defeat to victory. As I see it, to sell either a product or a political idea successfully, a man must’ be able to continue fighting enthusiastically and honestly in the face of any defeat. (Copyright, 1883. | bY B,C: yhorbes & Sons NEXT: “MAKE THEM WANT TO COME BACK,” by Conrad Hilton, head of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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a financial aid from the governs ment, ] fly eat More than 12,000 individuals, alumni and friends, have made it possible. A surprising sidelight has been the heavy sup port from sister ii tions such as Bowdoin, Maine, and’ Bates. Enki etl CU The father of the project, Dr. Johnson, now 82, pletion His