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SATURDAY. NOV. 9, 1940

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Hoosier Vagabond

I SUPPOSE THE following assertions will draw forth screams of righteois wrath from eight million people, plus their heirs and assigns. But I claim every

man is entitled to his own opinions, so here are mine:

The prettiest girls are in Salt Lake City. The : best-dressed women, outside the coastal cities, are in Memphis. The friendliest public servants are bus drivers. The nicest rain is in Seattle. The most beautiful single scene on this continent is Lake Louise, in Canada. There is no really perfect year around climate in America. Indians are dirty. , Negroes will get along all right, no matter what happens. If cities don’t do something about it pretty soon, traffic congestion will destroy civilization. So far as I can observe, there is nothing in America that approaches the perfection of the postal service. ding on an airplane is a dull way to travel. I think women’s hats are all right. There is almost no way for a constant traveler to fill his fountain pen, One of the most vile and vicious sayings of our time is that baldness makes you look dignified. Auto tires are wonderful. The happiest people in America are not those who are wondrously wise, but those who are a little crazy. | : I could think of lots more, but that’s enough to alienate half the population, so let's stop it and pass on to other things.

The Happiest. Period

In five years of cashing travelers’ checks all over the country, I've had trouble only once, and that was in a town where I was known! The happiest three-week period in all these travels was on a lumber freighter—the S. S. Harpoon—going from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, through the Canal. In these 100,000 miles of driving, we've got the car

By Ernie Pyle

stuck only once. That was in Death Valley, we were, there all afternoon, and if it had been summertime I'm sure we would have died. Some people came along late in the afternoon and got us out. The first thing they suggested was unloading our 300 pounds of baggage. I hadn’t even thought of that.

The tiredest I've ever been was after riding from Fairbanks to Valdez over Alaska’s only highway. It is 375 mil€s, rough and high and cold. It took us 23 hours to make the trip, and I rode the entire distance standing up in the back end of an empty truck.

And the Most Confusing

That Girl and I have not spent a Christmas in a home for four years. For three years straight we have got our last Christmas presents in April. I spent one Fourth of July in hip boots, sheepskin coat, mittens and stocking cap. And we've celebrated New Year's the last three times in shirt sleeves. Travel is so confusing. “ And speaking of confusion, my “most confused” moment was this last spring in Mexico City. We flew in there from Guatemala. The ladies’ and men’s retiring rooms there are labeled “Senoras,” “Senores.” That's an awful lot alike, you see, for travelers who aren’t too meticulous about their Spanish. . So I walked through the door, and smack into the ladies’ room. No harm was done, however, and walked right back out again, J : Then I took my bearings, consulted my Spanish dictionary, lit a Victor cigaret for nonchalance, and this time walked confidently and correctly into the men’s department. And I'll be darned if there weren’t two old ladies in there! Americans, too. So I just gave up and went out to the hangar, and if it proves anything it proves that no matter how far you travel youll find an American bumbling around. That's really the only moral I've got out of this whole five and a half years of travel. And thus end these reminiscences. Weren't they wonderful? You needn’t answer.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

. PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Wilbur Gruber, the six-foot, 225-pounder who runs the Rotary Club. That’s his full-time job, being assistant secretary of the club, and he has held it for the last 20 years. Rotary is not only his job, but his hobby, and he has refused several more lucrative po= sitions. He is the man generally credited with making the Indianapolis club one of the outstanding Rotary organizations in-the world. Mr. Gruber is a round-faced man with a rather underslung jaw and a constant twinkle in his eyes. He has ah unforgettable belly laugh. His clothes are conservative and in good taste, but occasionally he startles club members with a brilliant necktie. He always wears old-fashioned hightop . ! shoes. Born in Battle Ground, he was raised in the Knightstown Orphanage and was in I. U. along with Wendell Willkie and Paul McNutt. When there was mischief on the campus and it wasn't Willkie, it was Gruber. He avoids politics so as not to offend club members. The officers lean on him more than they realize. He actually puts them through the jumps, and they do it his way and never realize it until long afterward.

Interests Are Wide

WILBUR GRUBER'S interests are wide. He has an intense intellectual curiosity with a keen appreIf he gets interested in a subject (such as finance or a political theory) he wants the last word on the subject and digs until he finds it. He reads a lot. He has an amazing memory and never forgets people’s names and faces. Meticulous, he has a mania for words and their exact shade of meaning. He writhes when someone misuses a word. He is fond of poker, flowers, bowling and music. He has been known in a poker game to draw two cards to a flush and make it. He did it three times

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—On the program of unofficial groups working for more aid to Britain is a public campaign against the Vichy Government and its agents now active in the United States, who are regarded by these AigeloraBriiain groups as fronts for : ; lazi Germany. . : Some persons within the aid-for-Britain groups are frankly in favor of breaking relations with Vichy as a means of sending Vichy agents out of the country. However, that is open to some question, because if we should break relations with Vichy on the ground that it was operating here as a Nazi front, then it would seem necessary also to break relations with - Germany—and if with Germany why not then with Italy and : the Axis ally, Japan? The proposition has breath-taking ramifications and strikes some as a little too bold to advocate at this time. At any rate they want to do something about the Vichy agents in the United States. The Vichy agents are regarded by these Aid-to-Britain groups as the real fifth columnists in the United States. It has become impossible for (German Nazis to operate effectively in the United States. Not only is the FBI keeping an eye on them but the public is on guard against their wiles. A German Nazi has lost his case before he opens his mouth.

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But the Frenchman has a kind of protective coloring that enables him to operate without arousing immediate antagonism.| We are still to confused, still too much under the old habit of regarding France as an ally of Britain, to readjust ourselves completely. We do not instinctively think of a French Government agent as representing a government that is completely under the heel of Hitler. The purpose of the campaign now about to be launched is to put the American public on guard and to reshape its attitude so that it will regard the Vichy Government as pro-Hitler and thus discount whatever its agents say as being calculated to help Germany and to defeat Britain.

‘My Day

NEW YORK, Friday.—Yesterday saw the beginning of the White House social life for me. The Minister from Costa Rica and his wife came to call

for the first time. An interpreter came from the State Department, because I am a little hesitant about my Spanish and they are a little hesitant about their English! The Minister from Thailand and his wife came later, and I was interested to find that their excellent English was acquired in one case by going to school in England, and in the other by atfending an American missionary school. They told me their two litfle boys are going to the Friends School in. Washington, and while they had learned a little English before coming to this country, they were finding a little difficulty in their American school. These diplomatic children have to make adjustments to so many different countries and so many different languages that I often marvel at their adaptability. When it is done successfully, however, it gives tnem a great| advantage over a child whose knowledge is limited to one country and one

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Four more young | people came to tea, and in the evening the President and I received some of

in an hour in one game and Frank Manly tossed down the cards and stalked home saying: “You can’t beat a man like that.”

The Subject of Food -

THE GROUNDS ABOUT the Gruber home are loaded with flowers, especially roses, and during the summer Mr. Gruber can be found down on his knees around his flewers, talking to them. When he bowls, he makes a dash like Nurmi, releases the ball and then falls to one knee as if he were praying. His cronies say that food is probably his No. 1 hobby. They marvel at his appetite and his ability to lie down and sleep like a child after a monstrous meal. He can down, they say, a five-pound steak like a tidbit. A close observer of people’s eating habits, he will suggest pie for dessert instead of ice cream when a program is long. “The boys are through with pie three minutes sooner,” he reminds the committee. He is constantly urging the Claypool chef to try out new salad recipes and he can actually tell if the chef puts an extra pinch of paprika in 10 gallons of salad!

What a Memory!

ROTARY EXECUTIVES regard Mr. Gruber as an organizational genius. He spends long hours in the club's offices, often 12 to 14 hours a day. It’s nothing for a committee charged with arranging an October program to get a call from him in June demanding to know what they've done about it. He is a stickler for constitutionality and is Rotary International's ace parliamentarian. A year ago at

the international meeting in Cleveland he attended

every meeting from 9 a. m. until far into the night. He was a member of an important legislative committee and he seemed to be napping as the nearly 200 present wrangled over their plans. And just when they were about to act, he bounced to his feet. “You can't do that,” he told them. “It's unconstitutional... Look at section so-and-so, page so-and-so.” . So it was.

By Raymond Clapper

Any such campaign must center around personalities. One of those selected for this unhappy role is Count Rene de Chambrun, the most popular and most effective representative of the Vichy Government in the United States, and the best-known through his high social connections and the fact that he is a descendant of Lafayette. He and the Vichy Ambassador at Washington, Henri Haye, are the two principal targets of the campaign now taking shape. Senator Gibson of Vermont, a Republican, already has called for their expulsion as German puppets. Senator Gibson went even further and urged the expulsion of all diplomatic representatives of Germany and Italy as well as the men of Vichy. That would mean a break in diplomatic relations with the Axis and would be just one step short of war. Just a few days ago, and the announcement was lost in the torrent of elections news, a group of leading American authors, poets and r/aywrights, active in aid for Britain, issued a manifesto warning Americans “to beware of the men of Vichy who now spread the virus of totalitarianism in America.’

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Warning the Public

Among the signers was Robert Sherwood, the playwright. He has become one of the boldest and most effective spokesmen for intervention in Europe and is now on intimate terms with President Roosevelt. He is, in fact, practically the leader of the Administration shock troops on the firing line of public opinion. He has written some of the most effective literature on behalf of aid to Britain. This manifesto asked Americans to “view the words and gestures of the men of Vichy with the suspiicon they deserve.” They said French spokesmen here “would aid the Germans by breaking the British food blockade.” They said the pleas of the French agents were pleas for steps to appeasement. Count de Chambrun has devoted much of his talking to urging American food for conquered peoples, Herbert Hoover has a plan for sending American food to France and other occupied areas. The Sherwood manifesto warns the public that the Vichy Frenchmen play upon our traditional loyalties and possess the charm and skill of the French but speak now for their German masters. Count de Chambrun is a son-in-law of Pierre Laval, the operating head of the Vichy regime.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the people who had worked in the women’s division of the Democratic National Committee in Washington. After that we saw some newsreels which gave excerpts from various campaigns speeches, and now I hope to have seen and heard the last of the campaign. There is work to be done for everyone and I hope that we will all settle down to do it. Miss Thompson and I took the plane to New York City this morning. Mr. Walter O’Keete drove in from the airport with us to tell me about a plan which he wants to carry out, and I was especially impressed by one thing he said: “I have always wanted to do something significant for which I received no remuneration. I think this plan will accomplish something really worth while, so I am prepared to give my services.” It is interesting that nearly all of us have that desire when we are conscious of ability to contribute something of value to our neighbors and friends, and the opportunity offers itself. I managed to sandwich in a little Christmas shopping before going to lunch at the Rockefeller Lunch Club to present to Miss Jacqueline Cochran the Harmon trophy, which she has won for the third time. She is such an attractive person and so young that it is hard to realize how many experiences she has had in the air, and it is fascinating to hear her talk about it. It must take coolness, judgment, and great courage to fly as she does in these races, and her accomplishments are something of which every

e Indianapol Education Week Will Start Monday

City Schools To Be Host To 75,000

By EARL HOFF AMERICAN ‘Education Week will begin in Indianapolis Schools Monday with nearly 100 welcome mats out. The schools expect to play hosts to 75,000 visitors as they demonstrate to parents and patrons of pupils how children are taught the value of demo-

cratic institutions. It will be virtually an open house week in the schools, with programs planned every day until Friday. All of Monday’s exercises are

patriotic in commemoration of Armistice. School 2, Delaware and Walnut Sts, will hold an open house Wednesday at 7 p. m. That same evening School 3, 23 N. Rural St., also will hold an open house following afternoon demonstration classes. A Junior High School auditorium program will be presented Friday at School 3. Motion pictures will feature a Wednesday afternoon open house at School 5, 612 W. Washington St. The Austin H. Brown School 6, 702 Union St., will hold its open house at 7 p. m. Friday. Children’s work will be on display at the School 7 open house at 7 p. m. Friday. Parents will visit School 10, 1255 Carrollton Ave.,, Wednesday evening.

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HILDREN of School 12, 733 S. West St., will have tickets for adults wishing to visit their school Thursday evening. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw will be the guest speaker at School 13, 714 Buchanan St., Wednesday afternoon. The open house will be tomorrow evening. An original playlet, “Conserving Human Resources,” will be given by junior high school pupils at School 14, 1229 E. Ohio St. Wednesday evening. The School 15 open house will be Friday evening. Sergt. Albert C. Magenheimer of the Accident Prevention Bureau will speak at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at School 16, 1402 W. Market St. Three , special programs are planned at School 17, 1102 N. West, St. Cleo Blackburn will speak Monday on ‘Strengthening Civic Loyalties; Joseph H. Jones will speak at the open house at 7:30 Wednesday, and the Rev. H. H. Black will speak at 10 a. m. Friday. Principal G. L. Hayes of School 26 will speak at the open house at 7 p. m. Monday at School 19, 1624 Quill St. " A flag, citations and a picture of Otis E. Brown will be presented to Otis E. Brown School 20, 1849 Pleasant Run, South Drive, at an open house Monday.

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HE School 21 open house will be at 8:30 p. m. Friday. School 22 will hold its open house at the same time. “School Bell Fever,” a playlet, will be presented by third and fourth grade pupils Tuesday afternoon at School 24, 908 W. North St. Pupils’ work will be on display at School 25, 332 E. Merrill St. at 7 p. m. Friday. A portrait of

INDEPENDENCE ASKED FOR CAA

McCarran to Lead Fight to Remove Control From Commerce Department.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.), spurred by two air-liner crashes in 65 days, said today he would begin a fight in January to remove control of civil aeronautics from the Commerce Department and place it again under an independent Civil Aeronautics Authority. The CAA Jast its independent status this year in one of President Roosevelt's executive reorganization orders. “There is no branch of the Government faa is in greater chaos or confusion,” he said today, “or in which there is greater lack of co-8peration or harmony, than in the present | Civil Aearonautics Board under the Commerce Department.” The Senator pointed out that a’ 17-month period had elapsed without an air-line disaster, and that then two occurred in succession— the Lovettsville, Va., crash in which 25 persons, including Senator Ernest Lundeen,| were killed; and the recent Utah crash which cost 10 lives. This record, Mr. McCarran predicted, would have great weight in Congress ‘when the fight to restore the CAA is begun next session. “We destroyed all safety assurance that was provided by law when we abolished the Air Safety Board,” he asserted. | 2 This board, he pointed out, had power to investigate air crashes and enforce safety provisions. “Now,” he said, “the Civil Aeronautics Board passes on its own mistakes, and everybody has a bucket of whitewash for the other fellow because he d 't know

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Thousands of Indianapolis school children are writing invitations to their mothers and fathers to attend open house in the public schools next week. ... here is 8-year-old Cynthia, student at School 84 and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O. Pittenger, 923 E. 57th St.

Dr. John Hope, after whom the school was named, will be presented to School 26, 1301 E. 16th St., at 8 p. m. Wednesday during an open house. DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools, will speak. at School 27, 1702 Park Ave. at 7:46 p. m. Thursday. The open house at School 28, 931 Fletcher Ave., wil lbe at 7 _p. m. Friday. An all-girls’ orchestra, directed by Miss Marthabelle Oren, will feature the open house at School 29, 2101 College Ave. Thursday evening. Pupils will introduce parents to their teachers at the School 30 open house, 7 p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. Robert C. Kuebler will speak at the School 31. open house and the Manual Training High School Girls’ Glee Club will sing, Friday evening. . : Parents have received invitations to attend the open house Tuesday evening at School 32, 2110 N. Illinois St. Whittier School 33, 1119 N. Sterling St., will celebrate its golden anniversary with exhibits Monday. Dr. Homer S. Armstrong of Richmond Hill, New York City,

The State House—

By EARL RICHERT

The Biblical prophet who talked about “weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth” might well have been describing the Indiana State House after the general election of 1940. And that isn’t just a figurative description either. There have been many tears shed by the State House stenographers since last Tuesday's election upset the Democratic “pork barrel” and made it apparent that the Republicans will now probably crowd them out of their jobs, especially if the Republican Legislature can do away with the Reorganization .Act. Most ‘of the minor officials and girl workers have already resigned themselves to the fate of having to get out into the cold world and find themselves jobs. Some of them admit over their coffee cups that they have had “three or four offers” already. ‘Post Mortems’ Popular

“Post mortems” on ‘the great catastrophe are still - the general topic of discussion. Nine times out of 10 the blame is placed on President Roosevelt and the Marion Democratic organization. If President Roosevelt had talked once in Indianapolis, the picture would have been different, they believe. Or “if the Marion County Democratic organization had not fallen down on its job and carried through like the Lake County organization,” things would have been swell. . They're Not All Gloomy Some arén’t so gloomy, however. Take for example the young man in the Highway Commission who remarked: “Well, I've been here since I got out of college in 1933 and I guess it’s the best thing that could have happened to me. I've got to get out and get a real job sometime, and the sooner the better, probably.”

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will speak at 7 p. m. Wednesday at School 36, 2801 N. Capitol Ave.

” un ”n UESDAY will be junior high school day and an open house will be held Thursday evening at School 37, 2425 E. 25th St. The School 38 open house will be Thursday evening at School 38, 2050 Winter Ave., and pupils will present a program around the theme, “What America Has Done for Me,” Friday. The Rev. E. F. Shake of the Edwin Rae Methodist Church will speak at 2 p. m. Wednesday at McKinley School 39, 801 S. State St. A community supper will be held Friday evening. Community singing, room visitations and dramatizations by pupils are on the program of School 40, 702 N. Senate Ave. Wednesday evening. Products made by parents and their children in co-operative ventures will be displayed- at School 41, 3002 Rader St. An open house will be held Friday evening. “How the Work of My Department Contributes to the Common Defense of Our Nation” will be discussed by teachers Wednesday night at School 42, 1002 W. 25th St.

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As G. O. P. Eyes State Jobs

real and personal property to support the local school system next year. : This rate is the same as was in effect this year. It was approved formally by the State Tax Board at a hearing yesterday. No protests to the budget, which amounts to $4,800,000, were made at the hearing, . le Map of Camp Popular Attracting a lot of attention at the State House is a large map of Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., where the Indiana National Guard will be stationed during its year’s training, beginging next January. Guardsmen aren’t the only ones interested in the map “to see what the place is like.” The wives of several officers have given it minute study.

WOMEN’S AIR CORPS PREDICTED FOR U. 3.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Jacqueline Cochran, the flying beauty operator, predicts that the next five years will bring a woman'’s air corps as part of the Army. She made her statement yesterday after receiving for the third time the Harmon Trophy, awarded annually to the outstanding woman flier of the world. “It should be a behind-the-lines corps,” she said. “Women by nature

are not physically constructed for

tront line duty.” She added that in her estimation women were indispensable as teachers because of their patience, but that she believed that “not a woman should be trained while equipment “is needed by the men.” “Front line pilots are the first necessity of our air defense, and the girls must take a back seat until they are trained. I firmly believe. however, that if an emergency arises here, the girls will be only too willing to help. They have in other countries.” ¥

Work of pupils at School 44, 2033 Sugar Grove Ave. will be dramatized in displays. Open house will be Wednesday. A chair will be presented to Miss Elizabeth Kirby, a teacher at School 44 for 17 years, during an open house Wednesday evening. Displays of children’s work will be part of the open house at School 46 Monday night. Patriotic programs and songs by the school’s glee clubs will be on the School 47 program Wednesday evening. ” ” ”

UESDAY evening will be open house at School 48. Parents will visit classes Friday. Charles M. Sharp, Howe High School principal, open house exercises evening at School 48, Morris St. Work by pupils and their parents will be on display at School 50, 75 N. Belle Vieu Place. Open house will be Friday. Motion pictures will be shown at an open house Friday evening at School 51, 2301 N. Olney St. E. B. Hargrave, Washington

POLICE PROTECT DEATH SUSPECT

Neighbors Irate as Janitor Tells of Young Girl’s Torture Slaying.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (U. P).— Thomas Conroy, the “family friend” who is accused of the torture death of 10-year-old Genevieve Connelly, was guarded closely today against the wrath of the girl's neighbors. Police said that she may have been alive when her body was stuffed into a tenement house furnace after she had been strangled. A grim, whispering crowd loitered around the Bronx Borough Police Station where he was held last night and one man hurled a brick through the station window. Detectives ran out and caught him. Another crowd collected outside the tenement where 38-year-old Conroy was janitor, while police sifted ashes from the furnace, recovering sufficient bones to establish a corpus delicti. Police said Conroy had confessed he killed the shy child of Robert and Mary Connelly, whom he had known back in Athlone, West Meath County, Ireland, and who had taken him into their home for meals when he was ill and jobless. He said he had seized the girl Wednesday evening, had foridled and kissed her against her will, and then disposed of her for fear she would tell her parents. Hie denied that. he had assaulted er. Police said he confessed after Mrs. Connelly pleaded: “Tommy, if you know anything about Jen, I ask you, for God's sake and from a mother’s heart, to speak up.” He said, police reported, that the child kicked and screamed when he embraced her and that he carried her to the basement, threw her on a coal pile, choked her and then stoked the furnace

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High School vice principal, will speak Wednesday afternoon at School 52, 551 King Ave. Open house will be Friday. : The School 54 open house will be Tuesday evening. School 55, 1675 Sheldon St., will hold open house Friday. The Rev. J. T. Weeden will speak at 8 p. m. Thursday at School 56, 2353 Columbia: Ave. The George W. Julian School 57, 5435 E. Washington St., will hold open house Wednesday evening. ” ” ”

H. ANDERSON, Tech High

H School principal, will speak at 2 p. m. Wednesday at School 58, 321 Linwood Ave. : A musical program will be held Wednesday evening at the Calvin Kendall School 62, 4715 E. 10th St. School clubs will participate. - The School 63 dramatic club will present a play at the school’s open house Tuesday evening, followed by a first aid exhibit. The School 64 open house will be at 23 p. m. Wednesday. Eighth grade girls will serve their fathers at a dinner preceding the open house Wednesday evening at School 66, 604 E. Maple Road. : K. V. Ammerman, Broad Ripple High School principal, will speak at 8 p. m. Thursday at School 68, 2107 N. Riley Ave. Dr. Raymond Scheutz will be the speaker at a Wednesday evening open house at School 69, 3421 N. Keystone Ave, Open house will be Friday eve= ning at School 70, 510 E. 46th St, “A School for Adults” will be offered next week at School 72, 1302 E. Troy Ave. Open house will be Wednesday. Pupils will instruct their parents during the week. Classroom projects will be on display at School 73, 4101 E. 30th St. An orchestra concert will be given. 3 8 in EORGE BUCK, Shortridge High School principal, will speak Thursday evening at the Theodore Potter Fresh Air School 74, 1601 E. 10th St. Round table discussions will be held at 3 p. m. each day at School 76, 703 E. 30th St. Open house will be Friday. Open house will be Wednesday at School 77, 401 N. Arlington Ave. School 78, 3734 E. Vermont St., will hold open house Friday. Demonstration lessons and talks by teachers are scheduled next week at School 79,-1100 Vandeman St. Open house will be Thursday afternoon. Howard Meyer will speak on “Americanism” Wednesday afternoon at School 80, 920 E. 62d St. Open house will be Friday. Open house will be Wednesday evening at School 81, 3126 Brook=side Parkway, North Drive. Parents. will tour School 84, 440 E. 57th St., Friday evening during an open house. O. S. Flick, Tech High School history instructor, will speak at 7:15 p. m. Friday at School 85, ‘338 S. Arlington Ave. Dedication exercises for School 86, 200 W. 49th St., will be held at 7:30 p. m. Friday. Pupils at School 87, 2411 Indianapolis Ave. will present a drama, “The Light of Liberty,” during an open house Wednesday evening. Joseph Carroll, Crispus Attucks High School history instructor, will speak. National colors will be pre= sented to School 91, 5111 Baltimore Ave. at 2 p. mi. Monday by ‘the Women’s Auxiliary Corps of the G. A. R. Open house will be Wednesday evening.

Polite Traffic

Drive Failure

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 9 (U. P.). —Columbus police are convinced that politeness doesn’t pay—at least as a method of handing out penalties for traffic violations. Several months ago, traffic offi= cers were instructed merely to punch a mark on licenses of motorists guilty of not too flagrant traffic violations. . A mounting traffic toll has caused the order to be modified and now the “slap on the wrist” method is to be used only for extremely minor violation.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Does the Sun revolve around the Earth? 2—Fishing is called the —— art? 3—Who said “Heaven helps those that help themselves”? 4—Zorcaster lived in which country? 53—Which State is nicknamed Magnolia State? 6—What does U. S. P. on medicine mean? 7—Name the Postmaster General. 8—What currently popular song has these words: “Won't someone hear my plea and take a chance with me”? . Answers

1—No. 2—Fiscatorial. 3—Benjamin Franklin. 4—Persia. 5—Mississippi. 6—United States formula. T7—Frank Comerford Walker. 8—“I'm Nobody's Baby.”

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