Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1937 — Page 9

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle |

One of 10 Residents in Nebraska | County Still on Relief, and Total Will Rise Further During Winter.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Nov. 6.—Some figures are necessary to draw the relief picture in North Platte, just as lines are necessary for drawing a picture of a house. So today we will have the piain figures, taken without ginger ale or seltzer, and you can draw your own conclusions. > Relief in North Platte cannot be separated from relief in Lincoln County as a whole, for it is handled as a single unit. So my figures are for Lincoln County. (North Platte has about half the people of the county.) The population of this county is estimated today at 27,000. There are 1100 cases on the relief rolls. Counting dependents, this represents about 2700 people. So one out of every 10 in this county is still on relief, This winter the rolls are expected to jump to 1500 cases, or 4250 individuals—or one out of every six and one-half persons. This seems terrifically high. Yet in 1935 at the height of FERA when relief was being thrown right and left in a mad effort to choke the wolf at the door, there were 1880 cases. or 7200 individuals, on relief in this county—one out of every four!

Federal Government Pays Most

Relief here is costing better than $400,000 a year. Yor September the figure was $26,867. And that $26.867 was furnished as follows: Federal contribution ce....$18,850—70 per cent State contribution vee... .94962—18'> per cent County contribution Cree ...83055—111; per cent Maybe if I set up a table of just how relief was divided here in September, you could picture it better. As vou go down the list, notice the duplication of | agencies; notice the contrast between money spent on | “old age” and “WPA dependents”; notice the vast number of people not able to work at all. Note that | not quite half the money was given in ‘payment for work

Mr. Fyle

No. of Cases

Money Spent present)

Agency Persons

PWA WPA Shelterbelt Resettlement Direct Relief NYA (Youth) Dependent Children Ol. Age Blind Label niet Mothers’ Pensions CCC 0 wr Soldiers & S

(None at 125 20 118

500 360 472 381 16 197 501 26 84 88 48 (Duplications)

ailors

Commodities Given Away 2080

ee ———————

My Diary By Mrs. Eleancr Roosevelt

First Lady Has Surprise Chat With

Son in Railroad Station at Chicago. | OCK ISLAND, Ill, Friday.—Busy as yesterday | was. T managed to sandwich in a Very pleasant | little luncheon party and to Tun out for a few minutes to order some Christmas presents. When we drove back. we stopped by a light at a crossing and 1 happened to look straight into the | face of a woman who was waiting for a streetcar 1f T ever saw tragedy in any woman's face, it was | written on hers. 1 slmest leaned out to ask if I could do something, but remembered just in time | that she would Probably think 1 was out of my mind. All the way back T kept wondering what might have brought that 150k of fear and hopelessness into | her face. She was about 40 years old, with hair gray, thin and with something of the look of a racehorse in her features, the same anxious expression a horse has when he's at the starting post before | the race begins. { Perhaps her race was over and she could not find = new one to start again. Her clothes were clean and well cared for but almost threadbare and her choes were worn. Could she have been looking for | a job, or was it some other great anxiety? How lonely every human soul can be and how | nearly vou can touch tragedy and pass it by. What a curious world this is where people are thrown | so closely together in such great numbers and vet are so completely apart that they cannot even fry | to reach across to find out what is happening in the | life of some passing human being.

Surprised by Band

Mrs. Scheider and T left Washington at 5 o'clock and found ourselves in a very comfortable compartment on a luxurious train. We had breakfast before reaching Chicago this morning. As I looked out 1 was glad this was not ‘one of my trips by air. for, willynilly, T would have stayed in Chicago this morning. | The atmosphere was like green pea soup. We went across to the Rock Island Station to take our train for Des Moines, Towa. On reaching | the station we found a band and much apparent excitement. The railroad officials ‘could give me no explanation at first. They kindly let ws sit in the station master’s ‘office. | Th a few minutes they came in and announced the band was meeting ‘my son, James, who was coming to speak to the Catholic Youth Organizations. Because I had tried to see him in Washington yesterday and was told he was ih ‘Chicago, it never occurred to me | we would meet in Chicago. Tt was ‘an unexpected jov. We had ‘a few ‘minutes chat in the station master's office and then I walked ‘out to see him off.

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Scientists Study the Quintuplets

The first

step in learning to walk is learning to crawl. Here's Annette perfecting her crawl stroke at the age of 1i months.

Next—oops! And it's hard!— you have to walk on all fours, like a bear, This is Cecile, accomplishing the feat at 12 months,

(Sixth) of a Series)

By Bruce Catton

(Copyright. 1937 NEA Service, Inc.)

ORONTO. Ontario, Nov. 6.—In case vou have ever wondered, Miss Yvonne Dionne is the brightest of the five famous quintuplets, according to tests made by psycholo-

gists.

An elaborate study of the quintuplets’ mental development has been made by scientists from the University of

Toronto.

One of the series of studies aimed at finding out

all the pertinent facts about the quins, its conclusions are summarized in a paper written by Dr. W. E. Blatz, director of St. George's school for child study, in Toronto, and his assistant, Miss Dorothy Millichamp. Dr. Blatz and Miss Millichamp have studied the quintuplets over a period of two years, applying the tests devised by Dr. Arnold Gesell, famous Yale University psychologist, along with other tests.

Their report, to repeat, is that although the sisters are almost identical, physically, they are very far from being identical, mentally. The way in which the scientists set out to determine the quins’ rating in the world of childhood makes an interesting story. When you set out to measure the mental stature and progress of a baby whose chief concern in life is ‘getting ‘its big toe into its mouth, you can't adopt the same tactics vou would use with a school-age child. Even when the child reaches the age of 2 or 3, the job of finding out how much of a mind it has and what it is doing with it, is a bit difficult. Examinations of the ordinary kind

are out.

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R. BLATZ and Miss Millichamp, who started to work on the quins shortly bafore those engaging young ladies had passed their first birthdays, took along as equipment a few reams of paper, a set of unused sheets of charting paper. and a whole suifcase full of toys. The quins decided that this was going to be a fine new game, and entered into the spirit of the thing with zest. First of all, the psychologists wanted to test the quins’ motor development — their control over their muscles. By getting the answers to a lot of questions that sound unimportant to the layman, they would learn whether the girls’ ‘equipment of nerves and muscles were functioning in the proper teamwork. So, ‘from time to sought to find out these: Could a 15-months old quintuplet walk backward, if properly coaxed? Could a quin at the age ‘of 2 pile six blocks up in a reasonably straight tower? (The quins could, did, and hated fo quit.) At 30 ‘months, ‘could a quin stand ‘on ‘one foot? At regular ‘infervals over A period ‘of two years the psycholo-

they like

time, things

| gists performed such tests, tabu-

lating their findings and reducing the answers to a series of graphs. Next, cane the ‘matter ‘of adaptive ‘behavior, which the ‘quins accepted as something special in the way of a lark. For it was here that Miss Millichamp unstrapped her suitcase of toys

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ISS MTLLICHAMP would unstrap it, that is, if the quins

Indiana Historica

five maids from Callander quickly learned that taking these tests was just like playing games with delightful toys, and as sSo00n as she showed up with her suitcase they would cluster around her, impatient to get the thing away from her and open it up. All of this was just a little trying to her ‘professional dignity. A psychologist is supposed to be a cold-blooded and ard-boiled seeker after truth, capable of administering even the most bizarre of tests with a straight face. But when she got a quin at the table and began the tests she could maintain her professional aloofness no more than anyone elce. “Look at that picture,” says Dr. Blatz, indicating a photo of Miss Millichamp putting a small Dionne through her paces. “You're supposed to be objective and unemotional. And what are you do-

Dionne Girls Find Learning to Walk Isn’t So Eas

MEA ERAN

(Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, he) The first time you stand up you need help, naturally. Getting the help, and standing nicely, is Annette, aged 13 months,

HR (Copyright Testing the quintuplets:

test of motor development. of the Merrill-Palmer tests.

ing? You're grinning at the kid— positively beaming on her.” Which was quite true; and Psychologist Millichamp's only defense was a murmur that she'd

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At the top, Miss Dorothy Millichamp is watching ‘Cecile build a tower of blocks—one of the steps in the Gesell Below, Cecile is shown struggling with two

“Give me something to hang on

to (and a rattle nicely”—Annette

alone at 16 months,

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like to sce how 4 anything differen tuplet is involved A ‘quin would, given a green hoa

Society Publishes

Story of Early Hoosier Brothers

HE story of two brothers, John ests to a manager and began a new |another treaty negotiation enterprise | this trip he returned exhausted, and

contribution to ‘eariy Indiana history jon Washington St. in Tndianapolis. not long afterward died at Indian=

and William Conner,

‘dated back to the War ‘of 1812, to-

day had been published by the In- | Richard Tyner,

| | | | |

didn't ‘get hold ‘of it first. For the turned ‘over h

| tHe story deals with fame of | brothers as interpreters of Indian

(to the story.

diana Historical Society Publica - tions. THe hook ‘is ‘entitled “Sons of the

Wilderness.”

treaties. They began their services by interpreting a series of treaties made

whose | general

merchandising

He formed a partnership with |apolis,

an old Whitewater

as ‘Conner, Tyner & Co.

the June, 1823.

by Governor William H. Harrison |, «jk ‘wool and linen, personal ar- |

in ‘early ‘territorial ‘days,

Thompson wrote.

The activities ‘of the brothers

Tr. |

reached into ‘many . ‘elds, according |

John ‘Conner founded Connersville in 181%, and established a sawmill and gristmill in addition td his trading post. four sessions of the Legislature as senator from Franklin ‘County, and later from Fayette and Union Counties, Tn 1818, after the death of his Tridian ‘wife, He ‘married Lavina Winship, and two years later, his son, William Winship ‘Conner, was born in ‘Connersville, John ‘Conner

He served in |

| |

was ‘one of the ‘commissioners to |

locate the state ‘capital, and after its removal to Indianapolis, he

shawls; cutlery, queensware, hardware, tinware, saddlery, schoolbooks, groceries, shoe, ‘ete. The customary price for whisky was 25 cents a gallon, if bought by the barrel. Th 1824 William ‘Conner succeeded

William ‘Conner friend, and Tsaac N, Phipps, known | quding post for many years ALred | utror the departure of the Delaware Harrison, another young ‘man from | pnaians to the West in 1820, reor- | | the Whitewater region, was engaged | sanized his life to fit the changing Written by ‘Charles N. Thompson, ‘as clerk. The ‘store was ‘opened in [give Many settlers from Frank- [ 1in and Fayette Counties, were mov- | As was ‘customary, ‘every kind ‘of |. ) Join] a ‘Hix | erchandise was carried for Which | Rio Bie Egor HE H & on tong ‘pioneering ‘experience made there was any ‘demand. is = | pion svaliuable to them fh estabcluded ‘dry goods of all sorts, cot- | Liking A How Community.

He ‘married Elizabeth Chapman, | fetes Wh as combs, umbrellas, par- | otie of the newceoniers, in 1820. and

three vears later

some and

|and Mrs. EH Lill

| visited by Baynard R. Hall, writer | |'aof “The New Purchase,”

in ‘quieting the Tndians after a party |

of nine Tndians had been murdered by ‘white ‘men ‘in Madison ‘County. Aided by this succees and a letter

from ‘Gen. Harrison commending his |

record at the Battle of Tippecanoe, he was ‘elected to the Legislature from Marion, Johnson and Handcock Counties in 1824. Tn 1826 He ‘made his last ‘effort as ‘an ‘interpreter, journeying to Washington with John Tipton and

is ‘Connersville inter- | ‘Chief Le ‘Gris, to ‘open the way for

Tis said that ‘tHe Philadelphian believes in the Fa- | |

therhood of God, the neighborhood ‘of Philadelphia. After ‘all, why shouldn't He, for what section of the country is richer in beauty, in ‘culture, in history?

the Brotherhood of Man, and |

Cornelitis Weygandt, author of THE BLUE HAYLLS |

(Holt) is a native of the Philadelphian subtrb of Ger-

mantown. He goes farther afield in his book, howawer, | |

than his immediate ‘environs. From the Mason and | Dixon Tire on toward the Adirondacks, and from the | Great Lakes to the sea, sweep the blue hills ‘of the Keystone State, sometimes rising 'mountain-high, | sometimes sinking into the ‘great river valleys, but always blue. Mr. Weygandt writes ‘of the harmony of the Dutch, British Quaker, and Scotch-Irish homes and their ‘environment, of the richness ‘of the ‘culture which flowered in these homes. He writes ‘of barn swallows, ‘of

Side Glances=By Clark

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J 1

| school sex ‘education.

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i NE Trisks ‘being ‘called ‘oldfashioned and a ‘menace to progress when ‘one dares to question

the wisdom ‘of some ‘of ‘our publicNevertheless,

| 1 question ‘it.

| is ‘excellent.

| to grow up in the

The idea behind sich education We would be negligent if we allowed ‘our children same Abysmal jgriorance in which former generations were sunk. Tt is the How of the instiviction

indesd

| that troubles a good many mothers

| these ‘days.

Unless a logical course

of study is ‘developed, ‘isolated

| Tectures presented to adolescents are | worth very little and ‘may do infinite | ‘hat, More important still is the

personality and intelligence of the

| vedcher who informs them.

| biography of the Comers, nci- | dentally has Presented a ‘colorful | picture ‘of their whole pioneer back-

Trowbridge, the Delawa

C. study

ture for Mr. Thompson

ground.

Jasper==

substantial | which was restored recertly by Mr.

Prtered as Second Class Matter Tndfananolis,

at Postoffice

SH 2 Here we go—a few steps all unaided, with Dr. Dafoe standing by inh case of ‘mishaps. This ploneer walker is Emilie, at 17 ‘months,

) and 1 can do standing almost

mortised recesses. a red triangle, a red square and a red circle. She would be invited to take these out: then the board would be turned the other end to and she would be asked to put them back in the proper recesses, Would she have the wit to see that the triangle, which had come from a recess at the right end, now belonged at the left end? Or—t6 varv the game— Miss Millichamp would hand her little playmate four cubes, one after another. Would the young lady hang on to them until she had all four, or would she get, mixed up and drop the ones she had in order td take the mew one as it was offered to her? Or (to take one more example) Miss Millichamp would build a simple bridge out of blocks: then the quin would be given a similar set, of blocks and urged to build one like it.

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showed wide

variations in the girls’ behavior. Some of them could do one thing, some could do another Sometimes ‘one ‘of the quins would ‘put ‘on sudden spurt and master problems that had previously stumped her; a little later she might lag and Eee one of Her sisters go ahead. There seemed to be no uniformity at all as to what the quins could or could not do in this field. Lastly, the psychologists tested the girls in what psychology calls personal-social ‘behavior — which might be boiled down hy saying that such tests seek to discover whether a girl is handy about the house and a help to mother. Thus: At 15 ‘months, a ‘child should be able to use a Spoon while ‘eating. The quins all could. At 18 ‘months, she should be able to turn the pages of a picture book. At 21 months, she ought to be at least trying to turn the knob when she wants to open a door. At 24, she should be able to tell people about her little ‘experiences. At the age of 3, she should be able to open a ‘door and put on her shoes,

HESE tests

nybody could do t where a quinfor example, be rd containing. In

From

» T the start, Yvonne had them all beat in this field, A little later ‘on, Cecile and Annette caught up with her, then passed her. The handicaps that the quintuplets faded in their ‘development from infancy to babyhood are emphasized in the paper For example: They were born approximately two ‘months ahead of time. Before any attempt to compare their progress with that of other children could be made, two ‘months would have to be sithtracted from their ‘chronological age. Th other words, the ‘guins aren't really as ‘old as the calendar says they are For another

un ”

his | but

maintained

the handbrick house

built

example: The mere fact that they are ‘quintuplets has ‘made things ‘hard for them. Bingle children develop faster than twins do, wince childien of identical ages do not stimulate each other mentally as mitch as do ‘children of varying ages. The ¢uins have Hever associated regularly with any children but each other—and wo if (wins have a harder row to hoe than single children have, it fis obviates that the going 1s ‘even | ‘harder for quintuplets,

NEX T=Quits physically normal despite ¥mall ¥ize at birth.

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By Frank Owen

di Second Section

PAGE 9

Ind.

Liberal View

‘By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

(Substituting for Anton Scherrer)

Nation's Economic Balance Called More Important Than Adjustment Of U. S. Spending to Meet Budget,

EW YORK, Nov. 6.-There is much agitation now about the necessity of bal ancing the national budget. It is held that the Roosevelt Administration is menacing our hational future by allowing the national

debt to mount through expenditures designed to increase mass purchasing power and to res plenish our depleted natural resources. There ‘may be sound grounds for advising a bale

ancing of the Treasury budget, but | ‘nothing is to be gained by balancing | ‘the Treasury budget if our national | ‘eoonomy collapres. The first thing | to do iz to wave the country. Ow problems are fundamentally economic and sociological rather than fiscal The anxiety about the Treasury budget is like that about preserving the Constitution and the Supreme Gaurt. Tf ‘we do not save the coun try w'e need not worry about the Constitution, These facts are brought out In forceful fashion by David ‘Cushman Coyle in his article “Balance Wha Budeet?" in Harpers Magazine, He draws a clear, But lttle-recognized distinction between the real budg= ot—tHe hational ‘economy--and the wecondary and far less important Treasury budget “he Treasury balance is somewhat like your bal= ance at the bank. Tf you overdraw there will he trouble. but there are good and bad ways of maintaining your balance. You may keep up your balance by selling off your antique furniture and vour ancestral scorer, growing poorer year by year with a perfectly healthy looking bank account, That is about what the American people have done ever since they had a treasury,

‘Real’ Budget

Dr. Barnes

Unbalanced

“ie nation's Teal budget-its ‘economic budget, ne distinguished from fits Treasury budget—is not balanced. The nation is eating ts physical and hu= man resources and growing poorer year by vear. Tt is not ‘easy to argue in Washington or anywhere else for a balanced ‘economic budget CTE fh terms of Taw ‘materials and manpower has slipped out ‘of our minds. Tt is politically wun= popular. And meanwhile we witness the slow ‘disins tegration of the national wealth=—the fundamental unbalanced budget of the United States.’ Mr. ‘Covie goes an to document his argument with an impressive, if disconcerting, review of our scans dalois record ih wasting our soil, forests, minerals, otl, manpower And available human energy. We are already awakening in belated and inadequate fashion ta the waste of ®oil and forests, but the even more fundamental and disastrous ‘human wastage—the “hitman erosion’=is a ‘matter which as yet concerns only a. few specialists in wocial biology and sociology. The greater part of this calamitous national waste cae At a time when we were balancing the Treasury budget-—indeed the worst orgies of waste occurred at ‘the period when we had a considerable surplus 1n the national Treasury and regarded the country as proceeding on sound financial principles. We THved ih terms of A narrow fiscal perapective and lost wight of the larger economic horizon.

Jane Jordan— Downhearted Fiancee Told to Keep Self Superior to Jealous Slander.

PAR JANE JORDAN-—About ¥even months ago 1 wet A young ‘man at a public gathering whe was introduced to ‘me by my gil friend He seemed terested from the start but 1 wasn't ‘much inters puted at fist, However, that fs all changed now and we aie to be married voon. This is the problem: The first evening 1 met him he avked a group of acquaint= arices if they kiew nie, ‘One of the boys said he kiew wie and had been gut with me. He lowered my reputation ax 1oW as it possibly could be. There is not a word of truth fh What Te satd, but what can 1 do? My fiance, T think, is deubtiul, but said he was willing to forget ft all. 1 ean't possibly marry him, knowing that he doubts wie. He has waid ‘many times that life wouldn't be worth while ff Te lost me and 1 vonrllv Believe him ax He acts crazy about me. Now, should 1 return the ring and try to forget him, or should 1 votind up this troublesome young man and make him tell my boy friend that ft was all a le? DOWNHEARTED

Anwwer==Blander is difficult to fight with direct methods, The more you deny it the worke you make ft Tf ven round up the young man who slandersd vou He will feel embarrassed and guilty. The chances ate that He would deny his guilt. Even if you caught | him red-handed Ne would Tre ‘out of ft Bvervhbody has to put up with a eortaim amount of pousip and slandar fiom envious and jealots pesos ple. He who is superior to it simply ignores it THe best thing about a Tar ix that eventualle evervhady finds him out and tie Tivith itself is not bolfeved When We speaks ft. Your boy friend has heen | temporarily upset by another boy's Tes; but Mn spits | of them he has pursued you for even months and proposed to you. That doesn't 100k as if he took the episode very reriously. | Tt would be quite another problem if your boy friend Wounded you day in and day out, refusing 1o accept your word and torturing himself With the 11es which have been told. Tf that were the case yom would do well to return his ring and forget hit. Al ft ix ft Tooks te we as if you were letting a moles hill grow inte a mountain. ® * ®

DEAR JANE JORDAN=My aunt expects me 1» take my Cousin out and entertain wer. This cousin n't ¥o bad looking, but dhe wmokes and I simply wave nothing Dut disgust for a girl whe smoker and drinks, Consequently it ix Ward for we to show her any TeEpect when Tn With her. How ean I explain to Ty aunt? 1 dont want to offend her,

ARRWer—You can evade the fsue with polite ex= Aidex OF You “an speak vour mind, Bither way yon will give offenxe. 1 know of ho Way to live without piviig offenks to al Teast a few people. Tt is Tmpos= pible to please everybody even if you do not have rhiong Prejudices. The fact that your cousin smokes has HOthIng te @ With Het oharacter, but that is another pioblem entitely. 1 we Ho reason why von

| One thing we are sure of, there are too ‘many incompetent people setting themselves up these ‘days as | educators fn sex. Instead of presenting sex as the perfectly natural matter it ought to be, they have made it an obsession, a fearsome bogey, a4 looming monstrosity that fills the universe. You remember the story of the mother Who was obliged to Teave her three wmall children alone in the House for a ¥hort time and cudgeled Her brains thinking up Warnings for them. As she was leaving she turned back and sald: “Now Chilck be San, And nh ' wake, Pp Ans up youl was Matuial consequence her method

sit Wek SdCRtIOR ost

Have 10 0 With er if you object to her behavior, JANE JORDAN,

Pit vaur problems Th a Teter th Jane Jordnh, who wit Wher Vole Giestions Th this column.

fords and ferries, ‘of birds at Buck Hill, and ‘of hunters’ moons. He writes ‘of pesple, too: 'Of Eleanor (CoalScuttle) Bonnet who found ‘dust upon Her ‘daughter-in-law's table: ‘Of Enos Keyl ‘and his ‘cow that upon the shot ‘of a gun began ‘mending the rail ferice with her horns. Reminiscent, ‘descriptive ‘essays they are, to be taken along with an ‘apple and a log fire in a chill November ‘evening. * % %

OO" the four biographies Which Wildegarde Wawthortie has produced for young people, PAANTOM KING (Appleton-Century) is written ‘most sympathetically. The little King ‘of Romie, son ‘of Napoleon and Marie Louise, is the hero. Miss Hawthorne tells ‘of the rare understanding | between Napoleon and his ‘child and ‘of ‘the boy's | great ‘devotion to his father. After Napoleon's ‘defeat, | Marie Tiouise took her son to Austria, where ‘every effort ‘was made to make the world forget that he was Napoleon's son and to ‘make him ‘an Austrian. The ‘tragic story of the cruel treatment ‘of the boy, |

din Si Grimicty Vi illness ‘and ‘death, is ‘told NEUE 0h VAD a ouRR BOOBS, |

‘Walter O'Keefe—

A Seany thevie booming Biuce Barton Tor The Piesidency in 1040 An advertising Wan ih the White House Would pe a Povelty. Applving the fear psychology = pops WIA §h Advertising eifcies We ¢onld threaten you with pink toothbiush and dishwater hands if you failed to pay Vvour taxes. | Bice would piobably brighten up the comes | fax blanks by pretuiing a lovely Tass ih a bathing suit known as Miss Trcome Tax 6f 1941. Xr an Paton does get elected President A 19490 1t1 be Kind of tough on him to start. Ith take him at Jeast a year to place all the Bits Ih Dew Jobs,

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