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«a Torch Sweaters By Harmon W. Nichols

WASHINGTON—Some day, maybe, we won't

be hearing so much about “torch sweaters,” baby punting, and flimsy underthings as a fire hazard.

A series of tests to eliminate the danger has been made at the National Bureau of Standards.

The tests, sponsored by a subcommittee of the National Fire Protection Association, were conducted to determine the best method of determining the inflammability of wearing apparel.

In all some 30-odd tests were made. Samples of popular clothing materials were used to find out how fast a flame spreads, the volume and temperature of a flame, and thé comparative .ease of igniting different fabrics. According to Roger H. Wingate, chairman of the flammable wearing committee and vice president of the Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., a standard test method will be proposed to the clothing manufacturers. * 5 © IT'LL TAKE more than just tests to cure the evil. Mr. Wingate warns that “in spite of the results of these tests, most accidents probably still will be caused by carelessness where flimsy and easily ignitable clothing is worn and a cigaret quickly can turn them into a torch.” The tests were conducted under the supervigion of Dr. M. W. Sandholzer of the Bureau of Standards. In a test of materials used to torch sweaters, a spot about five inches long and two inches wide was engulfed in flames in only one and 3/10 seconds. Mr. Wingate’s job is to prevent fires and prevent the loss of life. “No one can stop your clothes

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 15—When I'm old and gray (which’ll be next week)—I'll always remember Eleanor Holm’s first payoff to her attorneys who licked Billy Rose. She kissed ’em.

She smooched her barristers in a taxicab yet. “Ellie” caressed Counselors Louis Nizer and Walter Beck arduously as they all got into a cab and left Supreme Court. “Hey, I generally don’t allow necking in my taxi,” called out the hackie. “But it's all right this time ’cause I know ' what this is about.” *

Miss Holm e : KISSES are nice, but I understand the lawyors will collect some green’ stuff, too. Maybe $50,000. But from me, Miss Holm collected a Jot of admiration. I liked the way she handled herself. She's so handy and skillful, I'll bet she could drive an automobile, First, there was her whole manner throughout the mess, Never a snarl nor an unkind word for anybody. Coming into court, she wore a St, Christopher medal. “I didn’t know whether ‘it was right to wear it, but I'm superstitious about it,” she said.

“I got it in 1048 when we started on our hn

around-the-world trip and never had it off.” Sensing, thonugh, that she might seem show-

Only ‘Bosses’ Go By Frank Eleazer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—Don’t look for a mass firing of government employees in January, no matter who wins the election,

Experts in such matters say not more than a few thousand jobs will change hands, whether Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower or Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson wins the Presidency, There is a popular view that a Republican victory in November would presage a general exodus from Washington, Taking cognizance of this, Eisenhewer has promised that, if elected, he wouldnt fire anybody but the “bosses.” The fact is that neither Eisenhower nor Stevenson could fire—and replace—much of anybody else, even if he wanted to. The vast majority of the 2,570,000 civilians employed by Uncle Sam are protected by Civil Service. Their jobs are not guaranteed, but they can’t be fired arbitrarily. The new President may find himself worrying more about finding applicants for jobs than jobs for applicants, He probably won't want to fire people helter-skelter, even if he could do so. In many cases thers would be nobody handy to replace them, ; > 2

THE CIVIL SERVICE Commission says just keeping the vacancies filled is getting to be a big chore. In 1951 alone more than 400,000 workers quit the government payroll. In some cases Uncle Sam had trouble finding replacements. President Truman’s successor will find on his desk the resignations of most top government officials. Naturally he will want to put his own “team” of helpers in policy jobs. Cabinet members, their deputies and assistants, and most bureau chiefs will-go out of office with Mr. Truman. Their successors, appointed by the new President, can select their own assistants, confidential secretaries, and sometimes chauffeurs. ; Beyond that, there can't be much “turning the rascals out,” as the old political saying goes. One official in close touch with government employment problems says the total political turnover won't run more than 1000 to 2000 jobs. > % ' ALL THIS, of course, is exclusive of Congress, where most all jobs are patronage. The President, however, doesn’t have anything to say about them. Each congressman hires and fires his own help. Employees of House and Senate are hired by Congressional leaders. The new administration could accomplish

Clothing Tested For Fire Hazard

from catching fire,” he says, “if you don't think about it yourself.” * @ PEOPLE, he adds, should be careful to keep fire from certain kinds of materials. Specifically, net materials, like wedding gowns and veils. Plasticized materials of certain kinds. Dancing costumes of the type used in recitals. Fluffed up sweater materials.’ Loose net and sheer materials.

“If fire should come your way,” Mr. Wingate advises, “grab a blanket, or.a rug and roll up into it fast.” ! The insurance expert has been working against the hazard of fires for 15 years—both as a civilian and as a Navy officer, He spent four years in the Navy and is one example of the military putting the right man in the right place. ¢ %

WITHOUT any fuss or feathers, the Navy made him a fire-fighting officer. He workéd on £11 types of combat ships, organizing fire fighting, inspecting ships for fire threats, and putting the crews through realistic drills. ’

Operating out of Norfolk, Va., he spent about

5 days a month at sea, moving from ship to

ship—from = small vessels to the Missouri. Mr. Wingate boasts he’s never had a fire in his own house. His family is trained in prevention. “Maybe overtrained,” he says, “I can't even drop a dead match without the kids jump-

ing me about it.”

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Eleanor’s Ist Payoll To Attorneys—Kisses

offy wearing it, she wore the medal around on the back of her neck and pulled it up under the back of her hair. Now we come to her clothes. Women—and especially pretty women—have been notorious at wearing the least possible in a courtroom, Eleanor’s black dress had the plungingestback I've seen. The front was plunging, too. But the V was decorously covered up by a pearl crown. Nobody could criticize that dress—except another woman who didn’t have one like it. a dP

THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Joyce Mathews returned to town fast—after the Rose trial ended « « « Veronica Lake's under doctor’s care here after her Boston operation . . . Gae Foster, the celebrated dance director, and Paul Ash, the great maestro, are. both leaving the Roxy in David Katz's reorganization . . . Wuvvy-Duvvy: Steve Allen & Jane Meadows, Phil Silvers and Audrey Meadows. Also wuvvy-duvvy: Gloria De Haven and Marty Kimmell, a Hollywood drive-in fellah « + + Mickey Jelke isn't welcome at Kast Side plush saloons, “ b> EARL’'S PEARLS: “I don’t know why they run sales,” sighs Peter Arnell. “Most of us haven't got the money they tell us we can save.” > . WISH I'D SAID THAT: Lou Seiler says the proper place to see an Esther Williams movie is in a dive-in theater. ti passer A — “IF THEY eter film the story of our Sunday drivers,” says Charlie Martin, “it won't be a very moving picture” . , « That's Earl, Brother. 3

Hell or High Water, The Jobholders Stick

mass layoffs oniy by abolishing agencies or’ fynctions. Most observers here don’t look for anything big along that line, either under Eisenhower or Stevenson, About 175,000 of the total payroll are not covered by Civil Service. Of these, however, 150,000 work for agencies like the Atomic Energy Commission or FBI, which have their own merit systems. And they can't be booted out arbitrarily, either. From what is left, subtract such people as federal judges (appointed for life), district attorneys (four-year terms), postmasters (who hold their jobs during good behavior), and members of boards and commissions named for specific terms (Atomic Energy Commissioners, for instance), and there isn’t much left for patronage. Patronage isn’t what it used to be anyhow. President Truman has complained often that he can’t find enough qualified people to fill his jabs. With prosperity and full employment the next President may have the same trouble.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—My tulips were once red, now are white. What does ground lack or have too much of? Mary Linder, 1136 N. Holmes. A-—This trouble isn’t soil deficiency. It's a virus disease called mosaic. It literally takes the color out of tulips, often leaving them striped or splotched. Only remedy is to discard affected bulbs so they don’t, pass it on to healthy tulips.

Q—When is the best time to transplant an African violet? Mrs. E, 8, Madison Ave, A—Transplant any time. But do not disturb a plant that is blooming well (as so many beginners do). When a plant indicates by slow

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

growth and no bloom that it needs a bigger root house, move it into flower pot that is just one size large. Readers who are having trouble with their African violets may send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope and receive the TIMES free leaflet on African violet culture and troubles,

Pat Nixon Back on Campaign Trail

By RUTH GMEINER United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Patricia Ryan Nixon is back campaigning with her husband today —with the blessings of the

daughters.

The Nixons mostly skip election talk around the house ‘“because we don’t want the children to get any fancy ideas.” But the girls hear plenty about it from the. neighbor children, who “are adamant in their deneighbors and ‘her two smalllp,,ngy for a steady supply of {campaign buttons.’ Sen. Richard M. Nixon, Repub-/Julie have discarded their own

The “baby sitter” problem turned out to be no problem at all. Mrs.«Nixon turned the two children over to a long-term “sit ter”—Mrs. Francis Nixon, the senator's mother, who arrived

yesterday from Whittier, Cal. Patricia Nixon has learned to travel light on politicking tours, She bought only two new dresses.

Tricia and

lican vice presidential nominee, “I Like Ike” buttons for newer and his pretty blonde wife “Nixon Staff,” and “Nixon Press” headed for California on the first emblems. leg of a strenuous, six-week| The Nixons, who until a year electjoneering schedule, ago lived in a two-bedroom apartExplaining the trip to the ment, now have a white-painted youngsters wasn't easy. The brick bufigalow in Spring Valley, children think their mother and an upper middle class Washingdaddy travel too much. [ton subdivision. ; “I told Tricia (6-year-old Pa-| Mrs. Nixon takes turns as a tricia) and Julie (the 4-year-old) driver for a _neighborhood car | .§t was very important for all our pool that ferries the children to ' family to get Gen. Eisenhower school. But she didn't want elected President,” Mrs. Nixon|cam to strain relations

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She also has a new knit suit, donated by four California friends who joined forces to get the dress finished in time for the campaign, Smiles and handshakes are not very hard assignments to the senator's wife. She likes people and meets strangers easily. On the campaign train she will help out with mail and secretaridl jobs. If she talks publicly, it won't

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The Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1952

HOW AM | DOING? . . . No. 1—

Obtain

How To

Of course, there Is no surefire advice that leads to certain success. But this 6-part series points the right direction for those willing to navigate. The author is adviser to some of America’s leading corporations on their management problems. These chapters are from the book, HOW AM I DOING? published this week by B. C. Forbes & Son Publishing Co.

By ROBERT FOSTER MOORE

Consultant te’ American Business

HE NEED for executives in business and industry is acute. Unlimited opportunity

awaits the man who can qualify for an executive job or for all in-between jobs, from office boy to president. Small firms as well as big companies are short of management talent, because they have no one to promote. Among these are family companies, where second and third generations have not developed the enterprise of their forefathers. In many small companies, management seems to have grown old all at once without having trained understudies. Then, there are many new companies which need constant Staffing. Such is the dilemma of business and industry. The “Man Wanted” sign is out. The demand is there for executives, but where are they? Arithmetic answers the question.

n n 2 A MAN who was 21, in 1932 today is 41, according to the

A Job <>

WELL—So you think you have executive ability.

calendar. But his executive age is only 31. His progress has been retarded 10 years — five during the depression, when he was fortunate to find any kind of job, and five more years during World War II, Therefore, measuring his occupational experience, the man who became a voter in 1932, is only 31 years of executive age today. According to our pattern of executive progress, he has barely finished his interneship. By similar reckoning, every person who entered upon his career after 1932 has a deficit of from five to ten years in his development. This deficit is what has reduced our executive ranks.

THE PEOPLE LIKE IT—

And it is also why American business is becoming more and more concerned with the shortage of executives. I would be in gross error if I failed to recognize the contributions of military service to individual development. Often the Armed Forces brought opportunities quickly to our younger men. We should not overlook the maturing effect and the educational values of military service and training.

» » . HOW CAN the individual who possesses real manage-

ment talent take advantage of this wide-open opportunity, and rise to this challenge? If he is in a company which

has an executive development program, he may be singled out by management to be included in it. If he is not in a program, he has, without a doubt, an equal opportunity, but he is under the obligation of making an appraisal of himself.

Many types of programs are now in use in management. All are made to fit the needs of each company. Job rotation, coaching, courses at college or universities, em ployee counseling, company training classes are some approaches. As part of such a program, an “executive inventory” is usually taken. To cite one method: alongside the employee's name on the company’'s chart are placed the title of his present position and his age. On the same time, there is a small square which is filled in with a color. This color is explained in a key list which includes some such appraisal as follows:

BLUE—Potentialities unlimited. GREEN Definitely promotable.

BLACK—Working at his potential level.” YELLOW — Restricted sponsibilities suggested. RED—Potential worth doubtful. If you are on the green or blue team, you will undoubtedly be tapped for an executive training program. If you are on the black, yellow or red teams, you have a problem before you. You may have to develop your own per-

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Promotion

sonal training program to prgve that the appraisal of you was Wrong. 1 ” ” o OPPORTUNITY SOME - TIMES appears in the guise of that “Old Devil Reorganization.” Companies call in a doctor when they are sick. A few call the doctor before the illness is serious.

The doctor is known as a management consultant, He undertakes a company survey, an executive audit and submits a report of changes affecting the firm’s structure on one hand, personnel on the other. Opportunity here has two sides. The man who survives an “audit” has a responsibility to prove himself and an oppor tunity to advance. The man who is released has the opportunity to find a more congenial job and to make a freshi start. : This may look like disaster, but, on the contrary, it is far from it. The person who appraises himself stands @ much better chance of surviving the changes that inevitably occur in organizations. Self-study, not once but at regular periods, is important to anyone's future. This, then, is the mission of these chapters, to help the man who aspires to a better position to work out his own destiny through planning, preparation and—persistence. The question to ask yourself is this: “How Am I Doing?” The answer can be found, and along with it will come a successful and satisfying future.

NEXT: How Long Is a Rut?

Talkathon Proves Value In Campaigns

Times Special

NEW YORK, Sept. 15— The radio-TV talkathon— sort of a political third-

degree with microphones— seems well on its way to becoming a campaign fixture. Some believe it may evantu-

relly edge out baby-KissingT

sweet nothings spoken from a train platform, and the formal ghost-written ‘orations promising everybody everything.

The talkathon puts a candi-

date on the air with a TVradio hookup for several hours running, answering all questions about all things from the audience both in the hall and listening at home. ; The questions get pretty acid “sometimes, but if the candidate can hold onto his senses and his temper, he stands to come out well—providing he knows the answers.

o »n ” THE IDEA of the political talkathon is not new. In fact, it's two years old. Gov. Dewey of New York is believed to have been the first to use it, in his race for the governorship in 1950. - Then a Miami, Fla., advertising and public relations firm, Houck & Co., got hold of the idea. They polished up the programming and publicity and after a couple of unspectacular try-outs in Florida campaigns, moved up to Arkansas, There, they hit the jackpot. The talkathon was given most of the credit for winning the Democratic gubernatorial nomination this year for Judge Francis Cherry, rated fourth in a field of five, over the popular Gov, Sid McMath. In Wisconsin, the talkathon got its top publicity in the fight made by Leonard Schmitt against Joe McCarthy in the recent Republican primary to choose a U.S. Senator. Mr. Schmitt didn't win, but the talkathon did all right. » ” " MR. SCHMITT began his campaign with the conventional street-corner tafe from a sound truck. Things weren't going too well that way, so he switched to the talkathon.

KEY FACTOR—Ohio talkathon is spearhead of Mike DiSalle's

race for U. S. Senate. Mr. DiSalle opponent, GOP Sen. John Bricker (

with him.

Things began to look up immediately. > In one 26-hour radio and TV talkathon in Milwaukee, he received more than 5000 questions and was able to answer more than 1000 of them. He repeatedly invited McCarthy to appear with him on the talkathon, but the Wisconsin Senator wanted none of it.

So Mr. Schmitt placed a chair on the platform marked, “Reserved for Joe McCarthy.” Many Wisconsin political observers believe Mr. Schmitt would have made an even better showing than he did if he had started using the talkathon earlier and had had more money to spend on it. ” 5 2 MR. SCHMITT is sold on it. “This is the easiest and nicest way of campaigning I. ever heard of,” he says. “I just sat there and. told the truth.” In Milwaukee, alone, contributions resulting from the talkathon totaled $5334. A manufacturer sent in: $100. A janitor service passed the hat and collected $50. A housewife phoned the studio that she was sending in $5 and would send

TIME TO MEDITATE—

Ilcebox-to-Eskimo Man

By WADE JONES NEW YORK, Sept. 15— This is to inform Harpo Marx, Dorothy Lamour, H.

Allen Smith and others

that their old friend Jim Moran is still alive—if you want to call it that-=and kicking. Jim's got a part-time job talking over the radio in a restaurant in the middle of the night and he doesn’t have to get up until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Which suits: him fine. It leaves him plenty of free time to meditate on the more obscure aspects of semantics, to tilt the brimming bowl, play the guitar, commune with his beautiful girl friends, who are legion, and think big thoughts like how to sell an icebox to an Eskimo or Manhattan back to the Indians. ‘All of which is to say that Gentleman Jim — maybe the zaniest press agent this country was ever afflicted with—

is still doing business at the

‘old stand.

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JIM MORAN—"Going to an office is for horses."

and eyeglasses. It started when a man with a concoction to keep spectacles from fogging up gave Jim some money to “stir up publicity on the subject.

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fshavs, right) even lured his eft) to appear on talkathon

more when her husband came home from work. While appearing on a talkathon, Mr. Schmitt ate practical9y nothing, but drank a lot of black coffee. This caused one listener to send him a complete dinner which he just nibbled at, He got a ‘shave while on television and a “housewife called in to tell him the barber also should comb his hair,

” s 2 RIGHT NOW IN OHI]O, Mike DiSalle, former head of government price controls, is using the talkathon in his Democratic race to unseat Republican Sen. John Bricker. Mr. DiSalle claims it's the cheapest, most effective way he knows of to get to the people. Some Ohio political observers, who several weeks ago thought Sen, Bricker was a shoo-in to retain his Senate seat in the November elections, now say the campaign has turned into a real contest. And much credit goes to the talkathon,

LJ » " FOR some time Mr. DiSalle had been after Sen. Bricker to debate with him over the air, Like Sen. McCarthy, Sen. Bricker had refused. Only an hour before Mr, DiSalle began his talkathon in Columbus, Sen.

Jim's first act was to remain in bed several more days and

ponder the matter. One afternoon he pried himself out of the sack ‘and announced his plan. : He was going to get hold of 100 homing pigeons in New York, take them down to Washington and release them to fly back here. First he would equip each pigeon with a tiny pair of spectacles. Fifty of the spectacles would be treated with - the antifogging-up preparation, and 50 would be untreated. The idea, of course, was that the pigeons with the treated spectacles could see to get back to New York much better than the others. » » »

THE RESULTS of the pigeon

"race were somewhat inconclu-

sive. As Jim recalls, one pigeon (without the antifogging preparation, naturally) wound up in Puerto Rico, and 30 haven't been heard from to this day. But . with a typical Moran twist, Jim had rigged this story so the name of the product couldn't be omitted from the

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FOR ALL 0 SEE—Biggest use of talkathon so far was Leonard Schmitt's fight against Sen. McCarthy in

isconsin. Viewers

even saw Mr. Schmitt get shaved (above). Mr. Schmitt lost, but

talkathon's still in politics.

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HE STARTED IT—First talkathon (before it was called that)

was used by New York's Tom Dewey in his 1950 race for governorship. Here he wipes brow after an |8-hour TV session in suc-

cessful campaign.

Bricker had repeated he wouldn't go on the program.

But after five hours of watching Mr. DiSalle win himself a lot of friends and influence a lot of people, Sen. Bricker showed up. Such, its proponents claim, is the power of the talkathon.

product on the spectacle lenses. And that's the way the pigeon pictures turned up in newspapers around the country. Now in his mid-40s, Jim is a well-padded hunk of .man, six feet, two inches tall, and weighing better than 220. He has thin, straight sandy hair and a thin, straight sandy mustache. Looks a little like Paul White man, n » n BUT THIS super-salesman of nonsense has a manner as gentle and beguiling as a child's and a pair of the bluest, kindest eyes you ever saw. The combination has endeared him eternally to the ladies and enabled him to turn some extraordinarily fast bucks.

Take the time he flew to Alaska to sell an Eskimo an

. icebox. Before leaving he per-

suaded a radio network to advance him $300 for three broadcasts from Alaska, got a natural ice association to provide

him with an icebox to sell the -

Eskimo and $2500 to make some public tributes to natural ice, and induced an. airline to fly him to Alaska and back free, He s0ld the icebox to an Eskimo for $100, two fox pelts, and

A representative of Houck & Co. says his organization is now having talks with the Stevenson and Eisenhower forces about placing the presi-

dential nominees before the people in some form of a talkathon, :

Has New Job

a chunk of carved ivory. All with appropriate publicity. ” ” o HE ALSO had two Indians hack out 300 pounds of ice from the Mendenhall Glacier, And he got hold of two Alaska fleas which he put in a little box and pocketed. Back in Hollywood, he sold 10 pounds of the ice to Dorothy Lamour’'s press agent for $500 so Dotty could use it for facials. The rest he peddled to ice dealers for displays.

He sold the fleas to a movie

company ‘which he happened to

know was making a picture with fleas in it. These days Jim {is pretty much occupied being a thinker. Every week night from 11 to 1 he holds forth over the radio from a New York restaurant that’s a favorite hangout of the newspaper, advertising, publishing crowd, z ; ; It allows Mr, Moran to stdy up .all night and sleep all day. Keep regular hours? Not for

James. “That business of get-.

ting up every morning and going to an office,” he says gently, is for horses). i; oD ; wh Lb

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