Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1952 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

ALCOHOLICS Anonymous is one year old at

the Indiana Reformatory in Pendleton. When Supt, Ward Lane telephoned the surprise invitation to attend the first anniversary meeting of AA he said, “I think you will be surprised und interested to see how much progress we've made here.” # Supt. Lane is a man you can count on. He hasn't missed yet, and he’s been a host four times.

To many Alcoholics Anonymous is just a name ...a name of a club or something that helps drunks and AA is a term to use lightly after a big night and much spirits. Then there are those to whom AA is as dear as life itself. In some respects it is life. At least it seems that way after you hear members of AA speak. There are 220 members of AA at the reformatory. To celebrate the first anniversary of the program, 201 outside members attended the program in the reformatory auditorium. There were men from Anderson, Michigan City and Indianapolis on the program.

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FOR THE 0CCASION an inmate molded a life-size statue in plaster of a man on his knees, one hand on his throat and the other hand clenched and thrust upward. Another inmate painted an impressive and well-executed background sign with this mes- . . “There but for the grace of God . ..” and a huge streamer above the stage . . . “How of AA—Honesty, Open-Mindedness and Willingness.” It was somewhat of a shock to hear 16 inmates, average age 30, tell their story. Phrases such as these stuck: “He wasn’t an alcoholic, he didn’t understand my problem” , .. “It would be futile for me to leave here until I accept the program of AA completely” :.. “Greatest single step of rehabilitation ever instituted in this institution.” . . . “There are two roads for me . ; . either I quit drinking or spend the rest of my life in penal institutions.”

A parole violator announced, “I'm glad to

have been committed here, otherwise I would never have come in contact with AA."

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 16—A couple of years ago pur Broadway mob used to sit around and talk about “that poor fat slob, Jackie Gleason, who'll never get anywhere.” Today he's one of the new millionaires of television. He's got a big corporation— cr I'm not talking about his stom- i 1 ach, which also is big, to manufacture frozen foods, shirts and gimmicks so he can invest the money he’s going to be making. And to think what people said back there around 1949... “What's with that boy?” the Broadway guys would say. “He doesn’t happen. He's not going anywhere. He's the funniest table comedian in the world, but .. I guess a “table comedian” xplains itself. : : : . Drs guys that make funnies at tables, like in Toots Shor's. They get to hecklihg each other.

Jackie Gleason

They shout good-natured insults. The funniest and “often the loudest ad libber was Gleason.

“He had plenty of time for it. He wasn't working. o> 2 “A MILLION DOLLARS — that's a lot of booze,” Jackie was saying in his 11-room terrace suite at the Park-Sheraton the other day, about his new CBS-TV contract, “I'm having this place all done over,” he said. “But you just had it done.” sap “Sure, but what kind of furniture have I got? Nothing. Just stuff you sit on. No motif. You can’t live in a place without a motif—so they tell me.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 16—All the gripes are up again over extra combat pay for certain elements, under certain conditions and certain time limitations. The Navy is beefing especially loud,

_ since most of its people in the Korean conflict

won't qualify for the extra $45-a-month combat pay under the new law. The law specifies that the extra dough goes to men who are subject to hostile fire not less than six days a month. If a guy gets killed in the. process, his heirs get some extra money for the month he was killed in. The Navy doesn't figure to cash, since no unit was under fire for as much as six days at a time. Naval warfare is swift; jt was pointed out that the great battle of Midway only lasted three days. I have always been against special pay for any individual units in a war. It only winds up in inequity and confusion. A man’s willingness to offer his life for his nation is not to be computed in a few extra bucks. And if he dies in the process a lousy $45° bonus is of yery small solace td his family. 0 9 THEY STARTED out with extra pay for aviators and submariners and Ernie Pyle’s loud protestations in favor of the foot soldier finally got some recognition in Congress that the doughfoot was also deserving of extrgs. I never thought it was necessary to put a price-tag on potential loss of life. We were not in it for the money—at least I wasn’t and nobody I knew in the regular services was. It is a poor way to earn a buck. In the last war, for considerable time I was in charge of a naval gun-crew on merchant ships. As an ensign in military charge of the vessel I made $252 a month. With sea pay, my Navy ginners were averaging about $75 a month. My Chinese messboy, a member of the merchant marine, was averaging around $500 a month, when he figured in his area bonuses, his penalty-eargo bonuses, and his attack bonuses. The fees for the other merchant mariners ranged higher, to over a thousand a month for the merchant officers. This seemed slightly unfair to my kids, since we were fighting the ship, topside, while a considerable portion of the merchant crew took sanctuary below. . > & THE CHINESE mess gang used to cluster around the lifeboats and weep, as I remember, and I have seen a chief engineer sit at the top of the fiddley ladder and kick his valiant professionals, in the face to keep them below when the depth-charges started to rattle on the ship’s skin. In the regular services I have known many a desk aviator who got the regulation extra flight pay by putting in his four hours*a month, or whatever the minimum was. And I recall one desk admiral who received sea pay for og on a moored vedsel in the Potomac. ;

ba neh voter registration, : rds will visit the 9th Ward on ‘ the East Side tomorrow. | Michigan St, If you aren't already registered to vote in the Nov. 4. elec- son. SL. fion, don’t put it off another day. Visit one of these locations be- . tween 2 and 9 p. m.:

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AA at Reformatory Goes Far in a Year

Tremendous program, Mr. Lane. On behalf of the community, thank you. > *@

PART OF “PARADE"—The 1952 Indianapolis Home Show House has the “lived in” look . . walls have our fingerprints , , . Architect Ed Pierre was one of the first to show up in the house J. Frank .Cantwell and Bill Kuhn rebuilt . +. we say house ,.. Bert Beadle, manager of East Side Chevrolet, walked in and said, “So this iy the Cantwell-Kuhn contemporary contraption” . + « Mrs, Marshal] Richards, wife of the painter (house), who is “sold” on the home overlooking the Woodland Golf Club addition, was overheard to say, “I sure hate to see all these people tracking in dirt” . .. Marshall Abrams, manager of the Construction League, standing near the fish pond and gesticulating, almost lost his balance and vas “saved” by a couple of pretty listeners ... not a bad gag. Paul Kuhn, brother of the cohost, describing the living room . .. “Open the door and the entire outside comes in” . . . Let's see, where did we hear that before? . .. Ah, yes, the Home Show , . Former Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney and Russell Williams, Gaseteria, Inc, looked around the house . . . doubt if they'll buy

. . H. Dale Brown, Charles Brownson and Louis .

Rainier shook hands around the house ... (Have you registered to vote?) ... The house is so close to the golf course, the owner in time should meet all the crooked shooters of the course ... We'd give a nickel to know what Rep. Charlie Brownson, wearing an Ike button, and Frank McKinney, wearing a hole in his lapel, were nodding their heads about . .. the color scheme in the kitchen?

Wiad SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Help. Emergency. Flash. At the Service Men's Center, 111 N. Capitol Ave., the cookie jars are empty ...Mom, Dear

. « Mrs. Jones . . . Mrs. Indianapolis . . . the boys are hungry when they drop into the Center .. . Would you be 50 kind as to help remedy the situation? . . . Any kind of cookies in any quanity as long as they're homemade . . . call the Cookie Jar Keeper, Mrs, Andy Hutchinson, at TA Ibot 1622 if you want the sad details... otherwise, bake, shake and get the cookies down to the Service Men's Center, 111 N. Capitol Ave.

Now Jackie Pilies The Broadway Bums

Somebody said something about a drink. I guess it was me. “Carlos,” shouted Jackie. The Filipino trotted in, took our orders, and disappeared. : “Carlos talks to things,” Jackie apprised us. “One day he was packing the trunk. He said to the trunk, ‘I don’t know how to close you’ He was talking to somebody on the phone, hung up, walked away a couple of steps, then turned back to the phone and said, ‘Oh, goodby.’ “And he talks to the car, too. He tells the car, ‘I'm going to turn you right.” oo JACKIE'S 11-ROOM setup is no slum, as it rents for about $25,000 a year. “When ‘some people heard about me spending that kind of money, they said, ‘Whoops—there he goes.” They didn’t know that was offices for my staff and myself, too.” As the best-dressed man on TV, Gleason must watch his wardrobe, of course. Recently he had tailor Cye Martin bring him a flock of new things. “I use up clothes pretty fast taking all those somersaults on the show,” he said. “I must have

100 suits in there, that I've worn three times and

Have holes in them.” = A hundred suits is pretty good for a guy who, three years ago, couldn't look forward to any suits at all, except maybe some he ran into in a courtroom. Sb

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: It must be the in- pe

fluence of radio--a guy went into an Army recruiting office and asked for the 10-day free trial. Wa a WISH I'D SAID THAT: John Julian claims there’s a restaurant so expensive you have to find a pear! in your oyster to break even, , « . That's Earl, brother,

Pon’t Put Premium

On Patriotism

I am in favor of paying all warriors, big and little, high and low, enough money to keep them in beer and cigarets and to attend their families’ needs while they are off to the wars. But I can’t see a premium oh patriotism. ; A soldier can get killed by accident as easily in Texas as he can get killed on purpose in Korea. And he is just as dead in Texas. Also there is not enough money in the world to repay a man for the stark fear and active discomfort he suffers under gunfire in tough climates. The arbitrary awarding of a two-bit bonus for doing his duty seems to me an insult to the man. SD WITH THE exception of the pros, who are paid to take chances as a chosen career, nobody wants to be mixed up in a war. If you get snagged or volunteer in time of need, the emphasis on money is not paramount. Fliers like to fly. Submariners love subs. Very few men would choose any dangerous job, aloft, afloat or afoot, for the slim baksheesh involved. . No matter how it turns out it’s never fair in the overall picture. I reckon it kills more morale than it creates, and the arbitrary .infliction of a time limit on danger is an added insult. A guy in a frontline foxhole can earn more money in six minutes than a rear echelon lad under mild bombardment will earn in six years,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I have had no luck raising flowers and would appreciate suggestions for flowering shrubs. James Nielson, 80 N. Ewing. A--Some flowering shrubs that grow well under adverse conditions include bush honeysuckle, rose of sharon, mock orange, forsythia, many shrub roses, weigela, Russian olive, Vanhoutte spirea. The flowers of the Russian olive are insignificant but very fragrant. Bush honeysuckle is one shrub that will do well under almost any difficulty. And you can get it in white, pink,

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times (

or deep rose flowering varieties. Its red berries

are decorative long after the flowers are gone, It will pay you though to prepare ground well and fertilize even these tough subjects,

Q—When is the best time to plant daylilies? Mrs. Sidney Mahalowitz, 6038 Central AYE - A—Plant in eithet fall or sprihg. Daylily specialists usually prefer early fall planting.

Actually most daylilies can be moved any time with success. Just; shows

Registration Sites Are Listed :

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School 58, at 2353 Columbia, School 69, at 3421 N, Keystone

te, 3722 E.| Fire Station 2, at 1575 Roose-

: in the 23d Ward will Love Metal Shop, 4101 E. 10th find it convenient to ‘register dur-! pari, ing the same hours today at the following places: School 46, at 1301 €£. “16th Fire Station, Emerson Ave. and, School 37, at 2425 E. 25th St.

, Center, Douglas

: If you're downtown, register in st. the Courthouse basement. The Registration Board office is open ~ School 55, at 1675 Sheldon St.[ from § a. m. to 10 p,m. daily.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1952

HOW AM | DOING? . . . No. 2—

A Rut Not

By ROBERT FOSTER MOORE

Consultant te American Business

ERE AR E' three situations that occur regularly in the working life of

nearly everyone: ONE—You have a sense of standing still. You wonder whether you have reached your peak, leveled off, or why some-~ one else won the promotion. TWO-—You change joBs. This may be voluntary or forced. THREE—You are promoted. 1 have witnessed a parade of young people, and a few farther along in life, who have come to me to discuss problems resulting from these three situ-

ations, » ~ » TAKE the case of Ed, for example. Ed is a young man of about 35, from an eastern city, who came to me very disturbed because he felt he was in a rut. He could not see any future for himself in his company. Aside from that, he felt that he was getting on in years—remember he was 35.

Obviously he was in a rut— but, as I pointed out to him, it was a good situation in which to” find himself, for he had a good position with a good company at a good salary, “But,” he asked, ‘what of the future?” As we talked, it became perfectly clear his concern stemmed from the fact a younger man from another location had been brought into his organization as plant superintendent.

» » ” NOT THAT Ed wanted the job himself, he was careful to

make clear but the appointment had started him thinking, He began asking questions like these: Had he leveled off? Was there no future for him in the company? Should he look elsewhere? They were questions, for which he himself, in the final analysis, had the answer, Together we took a look at his situation. There soon emerged these points: His was the most efficient division in this company. Other divisions sent men to his plant to see how he worked. He had a high production record. He was under the impression his men liked him, although he said he was a tough boss.

” ” n FIRST, we tried to figure out together, by looking at the organization chart of his company, why no man from the

ON CHURCH MISSION—

Hawaiian Dancers To Appear Here

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor HAWAIIAN dancers and wusicians will give a vari- ' ety show beginning at 8:30 p. m. Friday in Christ Epis-

copal parish house.

~The-16-entertainers-represent ==

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hawaiian and Caucasian backgrounds. They will dance authentic hulas — both ancient and modern— in costume during a 90minute program. They will accompany the various numbers with such instruments as the ukelele, the ipu (drum), bamboo sticks and feathered gourds.

Dean Conner

» » w WORDS AND dancing will interpret both the humorous and serious sides of life in the islands.

The dancers will arrive by special bus at 4 p. m. Friday and embark at 3 a. m. Saturday. The Hawaiians have been attending the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Boston. For they are Episcopalians. And they are stopping en route to the Pacific Coast in churches across country. Thus they hope to give an idea of how truly Hawaii is a melting pot of races and nations, And in so doing they believe they will increase interest

in Episcopal churches and missions in the islands. ” ” ”

THE REV. AND Mrs, Edwin Lani Hanchett and Canon Rich-

local plant had been promoted to be superintendent.

As we checked off the men in the supervisory posiitons, Ed himself knew why none of his colleagues qualified for the promotion.

One man was too old—he would be eligible for retirement in a few years. Another ‘was having a hard time managing his present job, The third man was too narrowly specialized. As for Ed--—well, he could have handled the job, but he admitted he wanted to stay in his present activity in charge of process engineering, If he went anywhere, he would like to head for vice president of manufacturing at the home plant location, » » » I CONTINUED to ask him questions and his answers

ard M. Trelease are traveling with the Hawaiian group. Women of the Central Deanery of the Diocese of Indianapolis and Dean Earl L. Conner,

Soin

cleared up his situation. Ed soon realized he was in a good spot and, more importantly, he had 30 years of progress ahead of him.

However, to get out of the feeling of being in a rut, he needed to broadén his interests. A 15-hour day on the job, as well as work on week ends, had kept Ed from the fun of a social life with his family and friends.

He was missing the stimulation of adult-education courses, of hobbies, of outside intgrests, You can easily guess what has happened to Ed. He has set for himself a broader outlook, is doing a little teaching, has even taken up golf and canasta.

His letters tell me that he is no longer in a rut. He has changed his approach to life and to his job. No longer does he feel he is standing still. = » » LET US return to the main question: “How long is a rut?” It is asked, in one way or another, by every one of us, just as it was by the man discussed here.

George Lobingier of the Education Department of Westinghouse Electric Company uses the term “post-graduation slump” to describe being in a rut. This is the situation in which the young graduate always finds himself in the period anywhere from six months to two years following graduation.

Our young graduate moves from the variety of the college campus to a strange new ‘world. His introduction, of course, is

TO 'UKE' AND DRUM~—Young Hawaiians will dance chaperoned by Canon R. M. Trelease (right) in Christ Church parish house.

priest of St. George's Episcopal Church, are sponsoring entertainment.

The dancing group includes: Miliaulani

Joan Peterson,

the

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to jops that have their share of drudgery and detail.

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ALMOST immediately he asks: “Is it for this I spent four years in college?” The better the man, the more impatient he may become during this two-year period as he observes his slow, almost glacier like progress and that of his fellow workers.

The young man in the “postgraduation slump” would feel more encouraged if he would look ahead at the span of normal working life. By so doing he will realize that the, one sure thing in life is change. Maynard M. Boring, technical personnel director of General Electric Co., talks about this span in terms of 35 years. He believes there is a‘ change upward for individuals and also for the company personnel as a whole in five-year steps.

» “ = THE YOUNGER you are, the longer .these five-year steps seem. - The “postgraduation slump,” the apparent leveling

off, the feeling of being in a rut seems to follow the same pattern, recurring at five-year intervals. If you must let yourself in for a rut, please, please, be sure it is a different rut every five years—or you'll be ditched. How long is a rut? It can be measured according to the steps you take to get out of it. In succeeding chapters, we will discuss how to help you out of your rut, and keep you out of it.

NEXT: Getting Out of the Rut,

Lucas, Takako Matsumote, Jane ‘Masutani, Lillian Tyau, Ricky Bond, Nellie Liu, Margaret Broderick, Ruth Kim, Lillian Ikeda, Donald Miike and Richard Aloiau.

Survey Shows Doctors, Public Favor Medical Programs

By United Press

PHILEDELPHIA, Sept. 16—A series of surveys has shown that lay public and many educa-| tional programs have a definite place on television and should be

both the doctors believe medical

expanded.

The surveys, made to determine whether such medical programs on television were desired by both doctors and the public, were based on two NBC network programs in June from the American Medical

Association at Chicago.

ON THE TOWN

| ‘For the first time, the lay public and thousands of doctors from coast to coast at home got their the scientific ex-

first view of hibits of the AMA meeting,

The programs were sponsored Smith, Kline & French

by the | laboratories, maceutical firm.

The first night's program included showing part of a surgical operation direct from an operating room of Chicago's Wesley It was the {first time that an actual opera-, Of

{Memorial Hospital.

tion in progress was televised for both programs 81 per cent an-| “The operation excited the 'swering an AMA survey question Most favorable comments.” “The operation was gruesome.” One doctor said, “I would like the physician, with 13 per centt, see a series of medical broad-

the lay public. The second program,

included discussions

signed

graph.

carried the next night- over 15 stations, on overweight; a prosthetics demonstra-| tion of a new method of manipuPhiladelphia phar- lation of a mechanical arm; a “human engineering” kitchen defor handicapped women; a ‘cardiac kitchen” for heart patients, and a device that records heart beats both in sound and on

the 128 doctors who saw

said the programs were useful to

dissenting. Eighty-nine per cent .asts on topics such as hypertenof the doctors thought that such gion obesity, insomnia, fatigue,

programs “serve a useful func- nervousness, with stress against tion for the public,” with only 5 using quack ecure-alls, arthritis

per cent dissenting. Comments cluded such statements as: “Very instructive. I'd

from patients In-

cure-alls, etc.”

Another doctor commented that

“it was interesting,

|portant object.”

instructive rather and well presented for the gen-

“see something scientific than a eral lay public which was the implay or slapstick comedy.”

By Gene Feingold