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It Ha By Earl Wilson
CHICAGO, July 29—Dear Don Slugger: Don't ever run for President. : ; I guess maybe at the age of 9 you haven't cooked up any plans yet for moving into the White House, Let's see, it'd be 50, years anyway—whew, 2002. My worries are slightly premature, But maybe up there at camp the boys are talking about it. Heck, I remember when I was about your age, I was for Mr. Hughes for Presi-
dent. “You outa be ashamed,” one
of the bigger boys—aged 11— sneered. “Your name's Wilson and you're against Woodrow?” and he bloodied my nose. I retired from politics right then. ‘But this is on my mind because I was around ° . this snakepit watching conventions—besides, I owe you a letter and this is it. : So bb YOU SEE, SLUG, it's a great honor and all that to be nominated President, but when you're 55 or 60, you should start taking life easy. Your bones ache and creak and you're tired all over. But if you get this presidential bug, you have te work twice as hard as when you were young. You're {ip till 4 a, m,, in stuffy hotel rooms hold-
Sen. Taft
' ing “secret meetings’—so secret that 100 re-
porters: are waiting to ask what went en. You've no privacy. Nothing you do is right. If you're average-looking like Sen. Taft, they write that you're “plain.” If you've got a young wife like Mr. Barkley they twit you about being remantic. They don’t like you if you're rich, like Mr. Harriman, and if you're not rich, like Gen. Eisenhower, they say where the heck did you get your campaign money—irom Wall 8t.? And if ypu ever had any family trouble like Adlai Stevenson, oh boy. If youre from the South like Sen. Russell, some of the Yankees don’t like you, and if you're not for the machine, like Estes Kefauver, the machines hate you. But you survive all that and get your chance at the nomination—and crash. I was so sorry for Bob Taft when he lost to Ike. Sorry for him personally because he'd given
. all his life to politics and in the end it must have
proken his heart, like fickle women. Then, Slug, suppose you win the nomination, The other side calls you a thief, and crook. Your kids think you must be the No. 1 louse. But you're going to win and it'll be all right. But— you lose, because only one can win. A lot of men have been picking up’ their broken hearts and going home from’ Chicago. So do me a favor and never get nominated for President. Not that you'd have a chance even if you were brilliant, which your teacher hasn't mentioned—they’d say, “Aw, his old man was a saloon editor.” I'm sending you some convention badges. The candidates who didn’t get nominated don't want
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Run for Office? Do, You’ll Be Hated
ever to see them again. And I don’t either.— DAD, > S THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN:N. Y.... Bob Levitt and his new bride, Sherry Shadburne, shared a Toots Shor table with Paul O'Dwyer, who helped Ethel Merman shed Mr. Levitt in a Mexican divorce. . . , Patrons departed in droves when Winter Garden air conditioning stopped conditioning two nights in a row. Gypsy Rose Lee cabled Max Reibeisen from London to insure a Rolls Royce she bought for 25 grand. . .. Joe Schenck and Merle Oberon are a new Coastal woosome, State Dept. Secretary Mike McDermott has started work on an autobiography. , . . Clark Gable still phones Natalie Friade from London. . » Linda Bishop sings in “Peep Show.” oO .H TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Harry Rolnick met a kid’s who's very proud of his mother—he just found out she weighs exactly as much as Bobby Feller. >. & oO WISH I'D SAID THAT: “There are two kinds of women—those with a knack for wearing clothes—and those with a figure for it.”—Clark Getts, Army dentists are experimenting with a new plastic filling that hermetically seals cavities. . . , “Funny,” snickers Murray Dale, “How a guy often ‘thinks at first his girl is the salt of the earth and then tries to shake her. ,.. That's Earl, brother.
Dishing the. Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—What is the other name for sultana plant? Do they dome in any color besides pink? And why does sultana (alse geranium) grow tall and leggy instead of blooming as most of them do? Ann Farley, 1909 8. High School Rd. .A—Sultana is also called impatience plant, sometimes just the opposite, patience plant, The “impatience” (since botanically it is impatiens) apparently refers to the impatience of the seed pods. They just can't wait to scatter their seeds and fly open at the slightest pressure. Impa-
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
tience plants produce flowers of various colors from white io pink, red and purplish blossoms. One specially attractive sort has green and white leaves as well as attractive flowers. They make marvelous free-flowering indoor winter plants. If they and your geraniums grow tall and leggy suspect unbalanced plant food. They may need more phosphate and potash such as they'd get from a balanced fertilizer. Another cause, especially in the case of the geraniums, might be lack of sun.
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By PHYLLIS ROSENTEUR
EVERYTIME I signed up for a course at a slenderizing salon, the supervisor was sure to say, “Don’t you worry now, “we'll soon have you looking like yourself again.” . What they didn’t understand was that my last wish in the world was to look like myself. My old mold has all the symmetry of a Boston bean-pot and I yearn to be turned into a Grecian urn. But getting back to the beginning, I was once wholly unaware of the haunch, paunch and goozje gang. ; They're the fellows and girls in the assage parlors who literally live off the fat of the land . . . the manufacturers of massage machines and managers of milk farms, et al, et al. In my innocence I'd believed that calorie-counting was the alpha and omega of building the body beautiful. I thought that all problems of my figure could be solved simply by sloughing off excess flesh, I'd counted on mother nature to do the actual distribution. » » » UNFORTUNATELY, it was with a shaky, senile hand that Ma Nature piled it lavishly in some places and skimped till the skeleton showed in others. When her lack of control became conspicuous, I was seduced by the ads of one O'Sullivan, “Pygmalion of Pudge.” Ordered to “strip to slip” in a dressing room that would have been a tight fit for a pinched pygmy, 1 bruised both arms and everything else that veered from the perpendicular. After a grimly corseted counselor recorded my girth in 18 vital areas, I was issued a surly gray exercise suit that smelled
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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1952
AFFAIR OF THE FLESH—
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of steam and‘ resembled nothing so much as a pair of Army
pup tents. The scuffs they gave me had “sanitary” insoles and flopped loosely from elastic bands around the ankles. . In this outfit a Miss America would ‘look like a misfortufie, uo .%
IN THE MACHINE ROOM, taut springs flayed women alive. Rolling pins beat at their helpless bodies, Before I could protest, .an attendant strapped
Fantastic Enterprise . . .
By DOUGLAS LARSEN AUGUSTA, Ga. July 29— America’s most vital defense project, the Savannah’ River hydrogen bomb plant, is one of history’s largest and most fabulous single condtruction jobs. When this fantastically large and complicated plant is completed it should give America a new, commanding lead in the race with Russia to produce nuclear weapons. And despite Congressional harassment, and weak support from government production officials, it is going up on schedule, That's the claim of Trumble Blake, engineer and spokesman for the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co., which is building the plant and will run it
Race For H-Bomb Right On Schedule
Some statistics reveal its almost unbelievable « size. The
site, on the east bank of the Savannah River in South Carolina, occupies 315 square miles, This is five times the size of the District ‘of Columbia and about
barracks.
TEMPORARY HOMES — Big barracks were built along with trailer camps to house construction workers, but onl 4500 rooms are rented. Contractor subsidizes rents }
one-third the size of the whole state of Rhode Island.
» » » MORE THAN 36,000 construction workers draw about $4 million a week. In the fail a peak of 45,000 workers is expected. The permanent employ=~ ment at the plant is estimated at 7000, Each day 11,000 private cars swarm in and out of the project, requiring 150 traffic officers on the site. A crew of 25 men works on nothing but pest and insect control. The project has a complete weather station. The $1.2 billion estimated: cost makes it about one-third larger than the Hanford, Wash., atomic plant, which had been the world's biggest single construction job. That comparison includes increases in costs.
» » » TODAY ALL BUT 15 families have been moved off of the site. At a cost of $20 million, about 1500 persons with their homes and businesses, plus 4500 graves, will have been com-
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CONQUEST BY TERROR . . . No. 12—
Reds Pushing Cold War To The Limit
By LELAND STOWE What can we do to help satellite Europe's people? That is merely one aspect of a much bigger question: What can we do to defend all peoples, including ourselves,
against Red conquest? How
much need we do? We must first face up to the real meaning of Soviet Russia's “cold war” on the Western democracies. For five years their offensive has continued. It threatens to last indefinitely, Unless we fight it much harder and much more skill fully, we can still lose it. “ . » THE STALINISTS were able to take over the offensive in the cold war chiefly because they had long experience. The Kremlin’'s occupants have waged a struggle for men's minds ever since 1918. A They clearly understood that the cold war is a war of nerves plus a war of ideas. They alone possessed the strategy, the tactics, almost unlimited funds and trained technicians in vast numbers. Because Wwe had little experience of a war of ideas, the Stalinists caught the Western governments and peoples utterly unprepared. They also had us outgeneraled and—Ilet's admif it—outclassed. Our defenders of fact and truth were also handicapped by their habit of telling the Finally they were
much are we doing? How
outnumbered—which they still are in most sectors, As a result, the Kremlin's ideological tanks were smashing through and running wild much of the time from 1945 to 1950.
Few things so incredible have happened in this fantastic century. » ~ » THE STALINIST BLOC now rules 760 millions out of the earth's 2.4 billion people. In North America and the English speaking Commonwealth 221 millions seen temporarily safe from Communist conquest. But there still remain approximately 1.4 billion persons who are exposed to Red seduction. All of these people are vulnerable, due either to their nearness to Russia or to thelr low standard of living.
They constitute the overwhelming balance of power in tomorrow's world, They are Moscow's immediate target—and they must also be ours. Whoever wins most of these 1.4 billion people commands the future, It is what these 1.4 billion people don’t know about life: under Communist rule that
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me into a most. lethal-looking leviathan and flipped a switch. Suddenly metal arms pumped up and down me, over and around me. A steel finger poked my funny bone and I let go my precarious hold. on the handrail. All at once coils were massaging my mastoid muscles and scalp and toes and nose. I screamed “Tilt!” And the attendant casually disengaged me.
Within the vibrating belt— which was supposed to erode inches from the: hinterland — I shuffled off a scuff and thoughtlessly bent down to retrieve it. And that is the secret of my skinny neck. I remembered O’'Sullivan’s pulsing prose: “A woman’s body is her castle , , . her magnificent fortress ... the invincible facade she shows the world.” I decided that my fortress could do with diminished breastworks. o MM . ¥ AS I lowered myself, front foremost, on what looked to be a likely -battering ram, several attendants screamed in chorus and snatched me forcibly off. It seems that the bosom was out of bounds at O'Sullivan’s. Not a finger, not a flexor, neither a machine nor a minion must impinge upon it. I could envision myself with a brand new bottom, slim and gleek, and the same old superstructure—a buggy top on a body by Fisher. The session ended with a masseuse who missed not a joint, muscle, concavity or convexity which could possibly scream, cratk or twist a protest. I don’t know to this day what ‘she used as a lubricant, but any codfish would have snuggled up to me cand said
| “Sister.”
Without warning, she wound up her stint by slathering a handful of sludge over my face —the “relaxing facial and scalp massage” of the brochure. , . . » HER FIST full of suet, she swept my auburn eyebrow pencil through my green eye shadow, over my mink-brown mascara, into my ashes-of-rose rouge—picked up my raspberry lipstick en route—and briskly
s Rough Ordeal
blended everything into my beige powder base. I looked like a finger painting by a mad impressionist. The’ system resisted my effort to take a shower, after the operation ended. The goo acted as an adhesive; my underwear went on like wallpaper. In scraping off the outer layer of facial skin on the inside of the exercise suit and ng through the horror that had been hair, I exceeded the capacity of my cubicle and suffered what is colloquially known as a “fat lip.” My dinner date was waiting me and we had a rare old evening watching my bruises emerge and change color like little chameleons. I haven't seen the man since, n » ~ BUT IM NOT discouraged. After all, I have yet to try that sulon in the East Seventies which sits next to an agency for imported cars, and announces: “We Also Create Cus-tom-Built Chassis.” Then theré’s Glynnys’ Gym for Women, whose Bronx window bears the slogan, “We Fix Fats.” To say nothing of the Brooklyn beautician, beckoning me on with, “I Take Your Breadth Away.” Of course all of these will have to wait until I've investigated the establishment in Greenwich Village, where art is all and all is outre. What reducer could resist the provocative rhythm of: “Destiny may shape our ends, But should his chisel falter, And carve a curve that eye offends, « : We stand prepared to alter.”
NEXT: Vogue is an ogre. (Copyright. 1052, by Phyllis Rosenteur)
EMPLOYEES ROLL—Wheeled workers jam all highways leading! from the plant as shifts change. Each day 11,000 private cars swarm in and out of the project, requiring 150 traffic officers to handle them.
pletely transplanted to nearby farms and towns. The small cities of Ellenton and Dunbarton are included. Exact progress of construction of the plant and the date it will get into full operation are secret. Some of the 250 permanent buildings, scattered all over the site in individual areas, are completed. The rest, consisting of huge, strangelooking concrete and steel structures, factories resembling huge petroleum refineries, and gigantic power plants are in various stages of construction. Trumble Blake, the key du Pont engineer, says: “We are right now on the time schedule we promised the AEC at the start of construction.” » " HOWEVER, HE ADMITS that if production officials in Washington had given the plant a top priority for materials it would now be ahead of that schedule. Instead, the plant has had to compete for materials with far less important defense projects. All the Atomic Energy Com-
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makes them vulnerable. Who is going to tell them, if not us? In Italy and France it is what
25 to 35 ‘per cent of the least privileged citizens “don’t know” about Stalinism that makes these key nations of Western Europe most seriously exposed to conquest, Throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin Amerfica, it is what the illiterate, illfed and discontented masses don’t know that prompts them to. believe false Communist promises. What 300 million Hindus don't’ know makes it possible that India may one day go Communist.
If we lose India, we lose, in effect, all of southeastern Asia in a catastrophe that could decide the fate of the world.
All American information agencies expended less than $200 million in 1950. Washington officials estimate that the Soviet Union and her satellites spent $1.4 billion, » - » THE RUSSIANS alone are credited with spending $840 million on broadcasts, news services, films and financing of agitators; $48 million more to train propagandists; $40 million for books and pamphlets. The puppet-state regimes are estimated to have spent another $481 million, The Kremlin's world-wide efforts are eight to ten times greater in cost than those of the world's richest nation persosfhel ace
mission has sald is that the plant will produce materials for both hydrogen and atomic bombs. It is assumed that this means the hydrogen substance known as tritium, basic ingredient in the H-bomb, and plutonium for A-bombs. The project has been harassed by nine separate Congressional investigations, probing such-things as alleged loafing, discrimination and improper housing. Not one of them has resulted in a suggestion to the AEC or du Pont for changes.
” » » ANY PERSON who is familfar with construction jobs can see evidence of good co-ordina-tion. There is a minimum of loafing, plenty of signs of econ-omy-minded management. All superintendents and key project men are in constant touch through an efficient communications system which includes eight short-wave channels. Housing for workers has been a major headache. Based on
previous experience, AEC and
du Pont signed a contract with private firms to build barracks and set up trailer camps, and
tively engaged, hundreds of times greater. The New York Times, in a series of articles on the war of ideas, reported that Wash-
ington’s policy-makers “are be-
latedly aware that the Soviet Union could win the world without itself engaging in war.” The Times articles, by Anthony Leviero, concludes that our campaign of truth “is not adequate of itself to cope with the Soviet challenge.”
The sobering fact is that we are still far from being in a position to win the war of ideas. The encouraging fact is that at least America has begun to fight. The Voice of America and Radio Free Europe are powerful weapons. They provoke screams of rage from the Red conquerors,
A converted Coast Guard cutter, the Courier, is the Voice of America’s first floating radio station. It can constantly shift locations so the Russian jammers can not keep the Courier’'s messages from getting through. y » . » LEAFLETS SCATTERED over Prague by Radio Free Europe from small balloons got
through to many Czech eiti- .
zens, in late summer of last year, The secret police were busy foy days rounding up pam"phiets. In the next six weeks more than 12 million messages
guaranteed to pay the difference in rent if they were not filled.
Approximately 3000 of the
4500 barracks rooms are empty. The trailers are full. However, a federal rent board ordered. trailer rent cut from $82.50 per month to $60, and rent per week for double bar-
racks rooms cut from §16 to $10. . » » FJ AN APPEAL has shown
comparable housing in the area to be more expensive. The average worker gets more than $100 a week. If the appeal is denied and the barracks stay as empty as they are, the total bill for subsidizing the workers’ rent will be $6,112,000. However, the barracks, which are far better than the average Army barracks, are slowly fill ing up. The jamming in nearby Augusta and Aiken could soon
help fill the barracks completely. Former citizens of Ellenton
are now adjusting to their new environments and the citizens of adjoining towns are enjoying new prosperity,
were strewn by balloons across Czechoslovakia and Poland. In many regions Point Four has already proved what life-
giving improvements it create. It is a painfully slow process at the outset. Can it be made big enough to save entire nations from Red reduction? : We cannot win people's minds without putting freedom’s long - neglected weapons to maximum use,
If you read such reports as
"this, and still find nothing to
do for the free way of life—in your daily work, in the battle for freedom of speech and civil rights, in whatever you can contribute, pray do not deceive yourself, For you will have taken your stand by defaulty:
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ranks of the conscious or .the “unconscious” pro-Communists -—another valuable ally of Kremlin conquest and of Soviet enslavement. ? This war of ideologies will continue throughout our lifetime. Already it is far advanced; and we, as yet, are still far from winning it, 5 The chips are down. The roll call is now.
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