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IS THE short cigaret on its way out? Wil pot-long” cigarets follow the king-sized smokes? Been talking to (cough, cough) tobacce disbutors in town to clear some of the smoke hat hangs over the shorties and the suddenly emendously popular longies, One representative of a whole: house which shoots BO million smokes a month to peal retailers said the kingfized . cigare “are ' taking hold good.” : © It used to be that 10 per nt of his volume were kingized. With the appearance of

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tasks. He explained in detail, which he didn't have to do. I feel like a bum, And a man should who shoots his mouth and thoughts off before he knows the full story. “Beg your pardon, Mr. Wilson. Sure glad I don’t have to beg Sen. Nixon's pardon. ¢ © @ SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Fred Arens, who will operate the Essex House dining room and lounge (bar), hopes to open Wednesday, Oct. 1. Disregard the sign on the window which says Sept. 22 as the opening date, You'll be able to add another classy spot to your list , ,. Dave -Milligan, WFBM-TV promotion man, dug up a station directive dating back to 1926. “This is a goodwill station,” it informed the five-

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it. Now she has the most modern confusion anywhere. You, too, can have up-to-date confusion. Just make six or seven dates for the same time. You'll see how easy it is. “DOLLING, what are you doing here? You have no appointment,” was her greeting, if you can call it that. Then she remembered * I did, and, sitting there in red slacks, mentioning first her new book, “Tallulah, My Autobiography,” she began: ‘When I got this DIVINE letter from him,

the phone’.” ;

So then they were talking—at least Tallulah

was—and she said:

“Dolling Mr. President, I was so thrilled I haven't been able to sleep. I've written you a thousand letters in my mind. Finally'I thought

what the hell, I'd phone you.”

Twice he told her she could use the letter as a book blurb—“That’s why I wrote it"-—-and over-

whelmed Tallulah then said:

“Dolling Mr, President, some people say my acting talent came from my father. I've been told you have ‘a beautiful touch on the piano. Your music may have come through to Margaret. “Maybe you might have been a great concert

pianist.” ;

And then Mr. Truman said: “Don’t you think it would have been better

for the country if I had?”

Americana

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Dick Nixon stripped himself naked for all the world to see, and he brought the Missus and the kids and the dog and his war record into the act. squirmed a bit, perhaps in shared embarrassment, for what the candidate-on-the-spot was doing was

a Morris Plan exposure of his right to run for vice-president with a whammy or ordinary indebtedness over his head. The sophisticates, the dwellers in big cities who live off expense accounts and accrued wealth before present taxes, would be inclined to sneer at Nixon's frank abasement over the huge seeing eye of television. Already the lefthanded press is calling his performance a soap opera, and in

a way the left-handed press is right. But what the bitter wits and the cynics and the easy rich would not admit without careful thought is the fact that the average man and woman in this country live a soap-opera exist-

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THAT IS TO SAY that ordinary people travel from crisis to crisis, with bills unpaid, with depth- it. less emergencies when the kids are sick, with hopeless trouble when the fences fall or when

the house burns down.

Ydu have found nobody in the mass knocking Ben. Nixon for his awkwardly frank dissection of his own financial self in rebuttal of the suggestion that he used a privately furnished slush

fund to richen himself.

The stark run-down of his household budget was all too familiar to all the people like us— the folks who have had to write down on paper

in my memory. Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge always seemed unreal to the ordinary. stiff. Mr. Thomas Dewey never seemed to share much of the problems of the ordinary Joe. Even the immensely’ popular Gen. Eisenhower has not | been as you and I—he has been surrounded by i the aura of a multi-starred general, a sort of superman whose basic needs were tended by the

War Department.

Bob Taft had a President for a father, and money of his own. Gen, MacArthur is nearly a | deity, due to his protracted service or a high in The Sunda | plane in the country’s wars. Wendell Willkie never seemed to take much tangible shape, either. When Harold Ickes called him a barefoot boy from Wall St. he slew him n the political cradle.

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i THE BIG FETISH of the Democrats has been a grandstand play to the common ‘man‘—little ‘you, little me. Harry Truman, a com | pandered to the little-man concept and whipped" ‘the starchy Dewey in a campaign in“which coarse Vulgarity outweighed common sense, and large | ‘appeal to small problems outlasted small appeal ‘to large problems, 3 + Tuesday night the pation saw a little man,

IChesterfields, now it's 12 per

» ” - MOST distributors placed ithe volume of longs at 10 per cent. They also were in agree- ! ment that the short cigaret will never be replaced and will continue to have the big end of the

Like one man said, “Habit is a hard thing to break.” He meant the man who fs accustomed to

generally continue buy-

Regardless of the size, however, for is that the public doesn't break the smoking They ought to worry about me. times I don't have a cigaret for a half hour

SHUT MY MOUTH: The easiest thing to do 1s shoot your mouth off before all the facts are in. The Richard Nixon case is a good national

* Closer to home is a brush with Producer Carey Wilson who was a member of a Hollywood troupe touring Indiana a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to see him upon his return from the 8rass roots counties. Left a note for him. to that

The tour was over and no word from long-gone Most unfairly, Mr. Wilson became & prima donna, Hollywood character, etc., ete. the nicest, friendliest letter came in, Mr, Wilson was simply “committed to too many

It Happened Last Night

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 — I whooshed up to Tallulah Banichead’s to snag for posterity a humorous remark made to her by President

Tallulah, now an author and NBC TV star, had improved on her confusion. She'd streamlined

Miss Bankhead

1 as usual thought, ‘How ean I thank him? So I said, ‘Get the President of the United States on

Your stomach

man staff. “We charge nothing and pay nothing.” Good way to get nothin’, eh, Dave? . . . Russell Furr, Brown Abstract Co. ought to be wearing an “I Like Lincoln” button. All he talks about is his new Lincoln Capri. I'll stick to the weather . . , Wanna see the HYPO? You know, the highway post ofice. It will be on display at Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts. today from 1:30 to 5:30 p. m. Tomorrow morning it takes off for Peoria. Men, here’s something to think about. We have a higher death rate than women. And the ratio is going up all the time. In 1930, statistics show, 1210 males checked out for every 1000 females. In 1951 the ratio was 1333 males for 1000 females. What's to become of us, the stronger sex? Realtor Frank Dunlop celebrated his 56th wedding anniversary at LaRue’s Supper Club the other night. Partner Lewis C. Holtegel was among the small party which had a large time. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop. Wondrous thing to be dating and still having fun after 56 years. e SS JUST A THOUGHT: This one comes froin Herb Hill, secretary of the State Republican Committee. He says the reason so many executives are having heart attacks is because they spend more time on business graphs than cardiographs,

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all they hope

Some-

“> & JID YOU HEAR the one about the Brown County artist who told a native he had an interesting face and asked if he could paint it. “De-

pends on what color yuhr gonna paint it,” answered the native.

Tallulah is Master At Confusion Role

There it is. That's it. Tallulahvision cried, “I do not. You'll 80 down in history as one of the great Presidents, Dolling Mr. Président.” I guess it took me quite a while to tell the story. Well, it took me Quite a while to extract it from Tallulah, For, as somebody said, It’s not only nice to interview Tallulah, it's impossible. . * + ' FLASH. One of Billy Rose's good friends reports that Joyce Mathews Marcianoed Billy in an auto the otfier night after a party and brought blood: A coolness then developed between them. La a

HOWARD HUGHES—in selling RKO for $7 million to the Ralph Stolkin-Eddie Burke syndicate—explained why he was selling: He had $150 million assets in Hughes Tool, $60 million in his electronics plants, $50 million in TWA and $7 million in RKO. * “Two per cent of my assets were in RKO, but I was spending 85 per cent of my time on it. That's a little disproportionate.” Hughes also said: “I looked up Burke “and Stolkin. They're young fellows but they're worth Shows $20 million, You know, that's a very good start. :

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THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. Dan Topping and beautiful blond Alice Lawson, once of Atlantic City, got wed in Greenwich, She's his fifth. They honeymooned with his NY Yankees in Boston. « « + Mario Lanza's en route to NY—maybe to make up with Dore Schary, the MGM boss. Ike will cut down on TV appearances—makes him look old. . .. Rocky Marciano promised his pals, the waiters at the Blue Angel, he'd see 'em Wednesday. . . . Three of the biggest society names are in Vice Girl Joan Harris’ Ittile black book. . . . Marilyn Monroe told Ceil Chapman she spurns underclothes because they break a girl’s muscles, > S &

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “You can tell two people know each other very well if they're not speaking”—Elise Rhodes. : . . That's Earl, brother.

Nixon’s Ordeal Gives GOP ‘Common Touch’

squirming his way out of a dilemma, and laying bare his most-private hopes, fears and liabilities, This, time the common man was a Republican, for 4 change. This was a man who was daring for high office while encumbered with all the personal liabilities that afflict us (oday. Here was an earnest young man who was having trouble meeting taxes and the grocery bill, and who was forced to admit it. Here was a guy who was hit on the head with a sudden disaster that could kill his career. Here Was a boy who was suddenly laying it all out on the table for everybody to look at. It must have hurt. Nobody likes to drag his wife and kids and dog and war record into a defensive act. ¢ 4 % "BUT ONCE IN A WHILE you got to. I have, and I expect that you have, both of us to a minor degree. And it never comes out glib. It comes out mawkish and dry-lipped and possibly corny, because human disaster is never subtle. I can think of nothing less suave than birth, death, and sudden panic. My innards knotted for Sen. Nixon, and I blushed as I have blushed when the characters in a movie or play suddenly seem hopelessly trapped into gaucherie, But the voting people bought it. They recognized it. They appreciated it. And they applauded

My guess is that Dick Nixon, if he is playing it square, hasn't hurt his party's chances. He has instead lent the Republicans a little honest sweat and fear and desperation. He has suddenly placed the burden of oldstyle Republican aloofness and glibness on Democratic Adlai Stevenson-—who hasn't yet explained his unauthorized slush fund to anybody.

Dishing the Dirt

i for the bankers’ sharp eyes all we owned, 8 owed, and hoped to borrow. By Marguerite Smith i ¢ & y Q—How can I tell mushrooms from toadTHIS CAME closer to humanizing the Repub- 1s? thi i § fican party than anything that has happened stools? Something pops up in our back yard avery

fall which people say are mushrooms. However I refuse to eat them until I find out for sure. Mrs. Glenn Brinker, Rt, 7. % A—There just isn’t any simple rule for telling edible from poisonous mushrooms, says J. O, Cottingham, our local mushroom expert. At Central Library you can get several handbooks that will help you including a government pamphiet “S8ome Common Mushrooms and How to Know

“Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column i y Times

Them.” This you can also buy for 20c from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, 25, D. C. Just getting acquainted with the common meadow mushroom and puffbalis will supply you with plenty, I've always wanted to try an idea of that well-known horticulturist, E. L. D. Seymour. He suggests that cultivated mushroom spores can be “sowed” in suitable lawn areas in spring to provide cultivated mushrooms in late summer without all the fol-de-rol of basement cultivation. He also suggests a wise rule for Suthers wild mushrooms. “When in doubt—

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,

HOOSIER HOSPITALITY—

Mrs. Schricker

By DONNA MIKELS RS. Maude Schricker wasn't a “first lady” preparing a state reception for a visiting dignitary today.

She was simply a hostess, .

looking forward with pleasure to a visit from a good family friend, Gov. Adlai Stevenson.

Rather than rolling out a royal “red carpet” at 4343 N. Meridian St., the Schrickers are putting out a homespun ‘“‘welcome mat” for a “delightful and wonderful man.” : There will be no big formal reception, no pretentious prepa- . rations” for the overnight visit of the Illinois governor .with the Indiana governor. The planning going on at the Hoosier Governor’s mansion today was simply the normal planning of any good hostess.

Plans Dinner

Mrs. Schricker polished the silver candelabra, gave the front bedroom where Gov. Stevenson will sleep a last min ute inspection, then went out herself to do the marketing for the dinner tonight.

Asked about the menu, the pretty gray-haired grandmother protested she’s too ‘much of an “old-fashioned . Hoosfer housewife,” to want her guests told in advance what they're having for dinner.

“But if you sniff, you- can

* probably guess at one dish,” she

laughed. On the stove was the

MRS. HENRY SCHRICKER—No red carpet, just a welcome mat.

appetizer she will serve in place of cocktails, one of her specialties, a hot lamb bouillon. “It's very refreshing and nice

for tired people,” she said. “I rather imagine, the Governor will be tired: from all his traveling.”

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She’s also following the old Hoosier custom of serving both pie and cake for dessert, explaining—“1 always did when I kept house—some people may like one and not the other.” She's baking the lemon pie herself and one of her friends, Mrs. Carl Tyner, who “makes better cakes” will bake her angel food cake specialty.

Like any housewife expecting “company,” Mrs. Schricker has problems. :

One is her constant entertainment headache, the smallness of the mansion’s dining room, She's expecting 14 for dinner—Gov. Stevenson’s party of eight, Gubernatorial candidate and Mrs. John A. Watkins, the Schrickers and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schricker Jr.

“There were several others I wanted so much,” she confided, “but if I have more I have to serve buffet and I wanted this to be a nice, comfortable dinner.” Liked Old Mansion

It's at times like these Mrs. Schricker can't conceal she wishes they were. back in the

more comfortable if less elaborate former Governor's home which they occupied in Gov. Schricker's first term. Gov. Schricker blocked the purchase of the somewhat pretentious Trimble mansion then. But it was purchased in the following administration and after his re-election the Schrickers ended up living there anyway. Gov. Stevenson, by the way, will stay in the room adjoining probably the mansion’'s most

SCRIPPS-HOWARD FOOTBALL ROUNDUP . . . (Pacific Coast)—

Bears Are Far West's Grid Giants

By ROGER WILLIAMS

Sports Columnist, San Francisco News

A SLEEPING giant who awakened in time to blast Stanford's “Cinderella” team into an unhappy 20-7 defeat in the final game of the regular season last year may prove the scourge of the Pacific Coast Conference this

season. ; The Golden Bears of California, who spoiled an otherwise perfect record for the surprising Stanfords ' and their young Coach -of - the - Year, Chuck Taylor, are virtually unanimous choice for top honors in 1952. Although ineligible for a Rose Bowl appearance last New Year's Day under the new once-in-two-year pact with the Big Ten, California had the satisfaction of beating the team that later succumbed by an even greater margin (40-7) to Illinois at Pasadena. Lynn Waldorf, coach of the offers futile protest against claims of fellow coaches and football writers who tab California to

The Voters Speak—

GOP Can't

By SAMUEL LUBELL Written for Scripps-Howard Newspaners

One of the more striking paradoxes that must impress anyone traveling

through the South is how slow is the tread of political change compared to the hectic rush of social and economic change.

That the last dozen years have brought a virtual economic revolution to Dixie is hardly news any more. Cities are booming with new industries; crops are being diversified and farms are being mechanized, driving scores of thousands from the land. Yet through it all the South remains wedded to one-party politics. 9 This one-party system is generally regarded as a sort of reflex to the Negro problem and that undoubtedly is the most important single reason. But still another factor should be taken into account—the peculiar political role of the American small town. It is particularly worth considering at this time when the strength of Gen. Eisenhower's candidacy promises at least the

ON THE TOWN

sweep the conference and gain

the Rose Bowl bid. The Bears stumbled in mid-season last year, losing to Southern California and UCLA, but finished

strong against Washington, Oregon and Stanford. ” ” ”

WALDORF ingists no team will go through the conference’s vigorous competition undefeated, and points to UCLA and USC as teams stronger than his own, California will be without its great all-America lineman, Les Richter, No. 1 draft choice of the Dallas Rangers and later traded to the Los Angeles Rams. They've also lost Ozzie Harris, the coast’'s best pivot man, But the Bears’ offensive attack will be spearheaded by the

great Johnny Olszewski, fleet fullback who is a cinch to wind up on most all-America teams if the knee he injured last season in the USC game holds up.

The single-wing powerhouse at UCLA, coached by Henry (Red) Sanders, is expected to give California formidable competition for the conference championship along with Jess Hill's Southern California Trojans. Paul Cameron, triplethreat sophomore sensation of last season, will spark the Bruins and hard-running Jimmy Sears and Al Carmichael will move the Trojans along. ” . »

A RUGGED Washington State team, outstanding last year under former Michigan blocking back, Forest Evashevgki, will be in contention with Al Kircher as head coach. Kircher stepped up when Evashevski moved on to Iowa. Coach Howie Qdell’'s Washington team will make a strong bid for the championship, aided and abetted by the return of a

star quarterback and passer, Don Heinrich.

Stanford, last year's winner, has lost Quarterback Gary Kerkorian and All-America End Bill McColl and rates little chance this season, but the Indians may stage a surprise or two. Stanford's defeat at Pasadena increased the string of Big Ten victories over Pacific Coast Conference teams to six—three of these suffered by California—and added further evidence that Big Ten football is superior to that played on the West Coast. Or so they say. ” » »

COAST football fans will miss two outstanding independent teams—the University of San Francisco and Loyola of Los Angeles, Both threw in the sponge for financial reasons and joined St. Mary's and Nevada on the sidelines. Coach Joe Kuharich of USF moved over to the headman’s job with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League and took all-America

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Cooks For Adlai

publicized feature, gold-plated bathroom.

This will be no first meeting

between Mrs. Schricker and the man her husband nominated for the Demoecra tic presidential candidacy. They've met several times and she thinks he's “a wonderful, intelligent man.” This April Gov. and Mrs, Schricker were Gov. Stevenson's

guests at his home in Springfield, IIL

Return Visit

“This is more or less a return visit,” she explained. “He was such a lovely host and we enjoyed our stay with him ime mensely so we've been looking forward to his visit.”

Part of the Stevenson party, probably his sister and brothers in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ives, and his aids, William Blair and James Dailey, will stay at the mansion. The rest will “occupy the Claypao! Hotel suite used by Gen. Eisenhower on his recent visit.

Gov. Stevenson will top at that suite to meet briefly with Indiana Democratic mayors and members of the Democrat State Committee after the parade, then will go directly to the Governor's home for dinner, He'll leave from there for his speech at the Coliseum, then return to spend the night and breakfast with the rickers.

Then Gov. Stevenson will con= tinue on his tour—refreshed, Mrs. Schricker hopes, after a few quiet hours of real “Hoosier hospitality.”

back and Olymple games star, Ollie Matson, along with him, Coach Jordan Olivar of Loyola headed for Yale as an assist ant and became h coach when jovial Herman Hickman suddenly resigned. Majority of the experts, including this one, view the 1952 Pacific Coast Conference race as follows: 1, California; 2, UCLA; 3, Southern California; 4, Washington; 5, Washington State; 6, Stanford; 7, Oregon; 8, Oregon State; 9, Idaho. » » - AMONG the now narrowed field of coast independent teams, Santa Clara: famed for Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl exploits, lboms as the No. 1 team and the best Coach Gal lagher has had in four years. years. ’ .College of Pacific and San Jose State will contest the Broncos for honors but Santa Clara faces top opposition out side independent circles in such teams as Stanford, California, Kansas and Tulane, °

Enter South’s Local Politics On Ike's Coattails

beginnings of two-party politics for Dixie. Even if Gen. Efsenhower does crack the Solid South in November a real twoparty system may be much further off than generally believed if, as I suspect, the very nature of the small county seat town requires a political monopoly locally. on n

2 WHAT LED to this conclusion was something new I discovered about the 1948 Dixiecrat vote, Before going out to interview voters in any area I

always check the past election returns precinct by precinct. When that was done in several Southern counties it brought

- out the surprising fact that the

Dixiecrats were not the poorer, uneducated farmers, as generally believed. The bulk of the States Right vote was centered in the rural towns, among the Main Street merchants and professional men, Clearly those who have thought of the Dixiecrat movement as the product of low living standards and inadequate education have been off the beam. In talking with these Dixijecrat voters I found most of

them strong for Gen. Eisenhower but opposed to the building of a local Republican Party. They wanted to defeat the Democratic Party nationally — and for that purpese were ready to vote for Gen. Eisenhower-—but were equally fervent about maintaining the Democratic monopoly in their home counties. . » » »

NOR IS THIS so peculiarly a Southern dilemma as may seem. Very few county seat towns in any state have more than one really effective political party. In Iowa, for example, there are counties which the Democrats have carried. in every presidential election since 1932 without affecting the hold of the focal Republican court house ring. I have run into Republican township chairmen in the Midwest who confided that they have voted consistently for Democratic Presidents over the last 20 years. Most small towns are run by what is loosely termed as “Main Street” meaning the leading merchants and other property - holders working in harmony with the court house

tionalism hardly helps a county get more effective representation in" the state legislature, Nor are the interests of local businessmen furthered by sharp hometown political competition.

~ » » FOR THE publisher of the county seat newspaper, for example, the problem of holding onto the contract for official printing is greatly simplified 1f there is only one dominant party to be reckoned with. Similarly, the leading undertaker, who doubles as the coroner, doesn't want his hold on that post subject to all the uncertainties of a real political contest for the office. The very fact that “Main Street” is usually outnumbered in voting strength by the people it serves puts a premium on settling political problems through the primary rather than general election. This prob-

Aably is more true in the South,

where voting participation is low, than in the North. In orfé Southérn county seat a majority of the people I stopped areund the courthouse square told me they never bothered to vote. Later, walking up and down the few blocks which constituted Main Street,

many votes the business community could muster. I could appreciate why so many local merchants would regard any proposal for an abrupt increase in the size of the electorate— as might come through abolition of the poll tax—as a serious threat to their interests. s ~ . MANY of these small town businessmen I talked with in the South were aware that, as one put it, “we're the minority here.” As long as they feel so weak politically, it is difficult to see them leaving the Democratic Party for. good. They may register a protest vote through a third party or for an occasional Republican presidential candidate, but to forsake the Democratic Party locally would be to invite others. to come in and take political dominance over Main Street. As long as so large a proportion of the South's population lives in rural areas and small towns, progress towards real two-party politics in the South is likely to be slow. In the larger cities, on the other hand, the basis for genuine twoparty. political warfare already exists, as the middle class outpouring behind Gen. Eisenhower's candidacy clearly shows.

By Gene Feingold

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