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THE HOOSIER MOTOR CLUB, 1840 N. Meridian st., got a wire from one of its members the other day . requesting hotel reservations. <The ‘ party wanted rooms for “two adults and a baby with bath.” .. . Miss Louann Myers, head of the clun's travel depart- ' ment for the last 12 years, has been so busy lately she hardly has had time to turn around. She has charge of planning trips for any of the club's 7500 . members. And there are plenty of them traveling or © planning to travel right now. A great many of the "travelers are war workers and are going to take a * little vacation now while they have some money. "Quite a few of them are going to the Smokies. And “many of them who have. been laid off at the war plants are taking trips to the west coast, either California or Oregon. . . : A woman called the motor club the other day and wanted to know how tired she would be after each day of her trip,. And another person wanted to know if it would be raining in some little town in Iowa when she got there. . . . Last year the club planned trips for 1000 servicemen free of charge. But that has been discontinued since so many of the soldiers have been discharged. . , . + Miss Myers tells us that the shortage of maps has : made it especially difficult to plan any kind of a trip. She's hoping the situation will improve now that the war's over. One of the biggest chores is making reservations for members along the way of their trip. She says it's practically useless to expect * to find a hotel or hotel room without advance reser= vations.

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Public Relations Experts ¢ THE PUBLIC RELATIONS business seems to be the up and coming thing. Last week we mentioned that Ellsworth Maxwell and his brother were starting : ‘their own agency here. Now Al Bloemker, assistant |, i sports editor of The Star, is thinking about doing the . same thing. .... The neon sign at Hotel Washington * played tricks Sunday. In big red letters the sign ~ glared: “Hotel Washing.” . , , The Electronics Corp. . of America has a really unique publicity stunt to advertise its new radios. Instead of inviting pressmen to a private cocktail party, they have sent

P . gludes two glasses, three one-tenth pints of whisky, a ‘ bag of peanuts. and a package of pretzels. . . . Halloween pranksters were busy Saturday night, but | the tables were turned for a couple of teen-sge girls 3 in the 3700 block of Central ave. The girls were

. War's End?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P.)—The question i | before this nation is when are we going to end the | war? Or Othman i§ a chowder-head. I thought the ; war was over, Flea-brain Fred, they call me. y The fact is this: the war is going full-blast, bang- . bang-bang, as far as the law is concerned. Congress © now has before it five different bills to end it. Some . of 'em would stop it retroactively, back to the date the ignorant Othman thought it ended. Some would cease hostilities later. That's why there is a big argument now before the house judiciary committee. 2 If congress decides the war is over, just because ; the shooting has stopped, it obviously won't extend i the war powers act, which expires on New Year's Eve. : If that happens, about 400 emergency laws can be : torn up for confetti * ' Reconversion Director John W. Snyder and gents .. Trom the OPA, the agriculture department, the state ' department, and coal control office and others have . testified. Every one said the war can’t stop yet because of all the emergencies still facing the nation. Most of the witnesses added that they were anxious _ to end all controls as soon as they possibly could.

. War Needed for Coal : THE ONLY section of the second war powers act | that Snyder seems to want to let lapse is the one . providing free postage for soldiers, ; Let's consider the latest session before the judiciary subcommittee in a room plastered with “no smoking” signs, which mean no g except when Chair- ~ man Hatton W. Sumners Texas, comes in, He , ‘ean’t stand cigaret smoke,

ir . * Aviation : " WHEN we agree that the next war will be 2 mass‘production effort with manless explosive carriers, we

are visualizing the first of the “intercontinental”

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] much national | paralysis can be expected from a : of robombs loaded * explosive is a matter of conjecture. thing certain, though, and that is that the robomb and new explosives will be vital features in forcing a “quick-answer war.” This is a x. Yital factor as we plan for future national safety. : We insist upon talking and thinking in terms of ' "national defense.” Certainly we will have to de- | welop some form of adequate defense against the robomb, atomic loaded or otherwise, and we are : bound to do it. Man always has found away even- . tually to minimize the efficiency of every “master

Defensa Offsets Weapons THE IRONCLAD warship, the rifle, the tank, and Jately the airplane, came close to approaching, each , In ite turn, the status of “master weapon” But, in sach instance, the ingenuity of man, spurred by his determination fo live, has invented an offsetting defense which challenged the “master weapon.”

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NEW YORK, Monday.—We motored up the parkway on Saturday afternoon, I was dropped off to spend the night with Mr.-and Mrs. Henry Morgen- . thaw Jr., while the rest of the family, including Fala, ! home,

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Miss Louann Myers , . She has taken thousands of trips——on paper.

hiding near the fenders of a car parked on Central, right across from the loop where the Central trackless trolley turns around. They had bean shooters and plenty of ammunition, ready to pepper the trolley with beans. But the trolley driver just about scared them out of their wits. He pulled his trolley as close to the automobile as possible and blared away on the horn, practically right in the girls’ ears. The pranksters screamed and were so scared they nardly had time to load their bean shooters before the trolley was out of sight.

‘Last Look at~Brown County

NEXT SUNDAY probably will be the last day for sightseers to drive to Brown county to see its colorful beauty. According to the 10,000 at the park Sunday, the leaves already had begun to lose some of their color and were falling. If it doesn’t rain this week, however, some of the beauty is still expected this week-end. . . . Indian summer here has Mother Nature all confused again. Mrs. Emerson Baker, 383 Prospect st. tells us her daughter, Sara, picked violets Sunday near Rockville. , . . Capt. Maclin R. Milner wrote home the other day that he saw Dick Lewis, former Times movie critic, at Wiesbaden, Germany, and that Dick will be coming home soon to tell about their meeting. Capt. Milner is the son of Mrs. Emma Rivers Milner, Times church editor, and William F. Milner, state traffic engineer,

By Frederick C. Othman

Dr. C. J. Potter, the deputy solid fuel administrator, said the war shouldn't be ended this winter because the government must send the coal where it will do the most good. He said he thought next April would be a good time to stop the war for him, Richard Field, the general counsel for OPA, and Deputy Rationing Administrator Max McCullough said it would be unthinkable to cancel all red, blue and green coupons. They said there would be shortages of things, such as sugar, for a long time to come, Only witness who thought it was about time the war came to an end was attorney Eric Rosden, who has a client incommunicado in Switzerland.

Treated Like a German ROSDEN said his man was an American citizen, name of Virgil E. Neal, charged by the state depart ment with violating the trading with the enemy act. “He is on the proclaimed list,” Rosden said, “and 50 he is being treated like a German, He can’t get his money in the United States; he can't get his mail. He say§ he is innocent. All he wants to know is what he is accused of. “The state department refuses to tell me. That is incredible. As his attorney, I'd like to know what he is supposed to have done.” Rosden said his only” hope was congress. If it kindly would end the war one of these days soon, he might discover what Neal did to incur the displeasure of the government. That includes the evidence to date as to when we

should cease firing. I feel (and it’s nothing unusual) a little confused.

By Maj. Al Williams

In this war, the airplane, not a weapon in itself but a carrier of weapons, came close to reaching the status of a “master weapon” element. The proximityfused anti-aircraft shell, developed by American ingenuity, was the first defense weapon offering defihite challenge to this particular “master weapon.” One need not be a prophet to recognize the development of jet- or rocket-propelled missiles which will be used against aircraft. Such missiles, equipped with electronic noses, will hunt out any solid object in the air, Such robombs will need only to be launched in the general direction of an approaching alr attack to seek out their individual targets, whether those flying targets are airplanes or other robombs or other rockets.

Must Be Prepared

“MASTER weapons” are permitted to retain the status of “master” only a short time, 80 much for the defense angle—with the notation

that no nation ever won a war by maintaining: the defensive. In our preparedness for the next war we must think in terms of the “offensive use” of these new weapons. Such an objective means marshaling of our best scientific brains and organization of our research to provide us with the wherewithal to strike first in anticipation of attack. Physically and mechanically, we can do these things, and in time. But—and it is a big but—the accomplishment of such a businesslike program depends upon whether or not we can dissipate the nonsense which dumped us into this last war unpre-pared-—materially, physically and mentally, War is the erisis in a diseased state of peace. And since disease cannot be cured or eliminated by police power, we'll have to resort to the preparedness if we intend to maintain our national health and existence,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

turn the guarding of the place at Hyde Park over to the park service of the department of the interior. After that I joined former Secretary Morgenthau and the members of the local and regional war finance cdmmittee at the Franklin D. Roosevelt library. Lt. Col. James P. Devereux, leader of the marines at Wake island, was their guest for the opening of the local bond drive, and I was very happy to see him. , wonders how these men can survive such

their jobs may be. there to draw the their pockets. Of course, here making a special drive to sell

SECOND SECTION

By EDWARD P. MORGAN.

Times Foreign Correspondent

great powers — Russia, Britain, France and .the United States—have been

running Germany for six months, They have made some

progress, but the net result of their efforts so far is a dangerous confusion. ‘Their assignment is to “exercise Germany’s War po- Tine tential as a ma- : lignant growth. At the same time they are to lay the foundations of § a limited and harmless, but sound and selfsupporting peacetime economy. It is ike trying to find a cure for cancer; none has been found yet and there is no absolute guarantee that one will be found. ‘The doctors—despite increasing disagreements among themselves over technique and procedure—are supposed to continue their experiments until the patient is pronounced well enough to walk alone without danger of infecting the world again with the disease of war.

» n FJ THE TROUBLE is that when they don’t concur on the treatment, the

doctors apply their own kind of medicine on their respective parts of Germany. This is hardly helpful to rapid recovery. Today, serious controversy is raging among the occupying powers. It flares up also in Washington. And it is going on right in the ranks of the American military government, The dispute is over how to interpret the Potsdam agreement and the joint chiefs of staff directive 1067, These documents together lay down stern general rules for the destruction of naziism, militarism and most of Germany's heavy industry to prevent this nation from ever embarking on another conquest.

By ERNIE PYLE

ROWN COUNTY, Ind.— John Horton came past my cabin at 4 o'clock in the morning and honked ‘til 1 woke up. I could have killed him. But that was the agreement, so I somehow staggered out into the world and got myself dressed. It was just getting daylight. Every morning for a week I had been awakening naturally just before dawn, ” ” ” BUT THIS morning, of course, knowing I was going on a trip, I was in agony for sleep. I don't know whatever made me agree to it. But the boys had said something about taking a dawn hike through the State Park and I, thinking at the time about the state of my soul or something equally vague, had said, “Oh, sure,” And now here 1 was, Five of us gathered at the big Abe Martin lodge up in the middle of the state park-—John Horton, Johnny Wallace, the park naturalist, a couple from Louisville who come up here every summer for a vacation, and myself. . = ” AND DO you know what this thing turned out to be? A bird hunt! No, I don't mean we were hunting with guns, These people were all bird fanatics, and they just go out hiking at dawn to listen to birds sing, and try to see how many kinds of birds they can f{dentify, I could have killed the whole bunch—people, birds and all, Johnny Horton wrote down in a notebook every kind of bird they saw, and when we returned two hours later he had 32 different kinds on his list. As for me, 1 saw

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PROTAGONISTS fall into two categories: The hard peace boys and the soft peace boys. In general, the former hold collaboration with Russia—at almost any cost—as our cardinal objective without which world security will be impossible. They stand for an extreme interpretation of Potsdam, placing reparations ahead of the establishment of a “minimum” German economy as the only real insurance against the resurgence of Germany as a military power,

" » " THE opposition argues that Germany’s defeat has been so complete, that the allied occupation will be so long and so firm that there can be no such thing as a soft peace. This faction believes that to contend that Germany can come back

militarily under those -circumstances is nonsense. This group further maintains

that to .exact reparations by dis~ mantling and redistributing Germany’s heavy industry (except munitions, aircraft plants, etc, which will be destroyed outright), instead of letting Germany pay in goods from cwrent production, is as economically goofy as the old triple-A technique of plowing under little pigs. ” ” ” THE SOFT PEACE crowd, who insist that they are not soft at all, regard the economic directives of Potsdam as dangerous, if not unwarkable, They hold that a healthy German industrial economy is vital to the welfare of western Europe, They are suspicious of Russia. To the criticism that their attitude points toward the establishment of the western bloc nations as a buffer against the East, They reply that Russia has already forced its establishment by organizing an eastern bloc of its own. Unless’ and until this argument can be resolved within the American administration, and then among the four powers, it is hard to see how the occupation of Germany is going to succeed.

» » n' THIS division handicaps operations in the American zone. It makes it hard to measure how

American operation is still largely

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1945 TRYING TO FIND A CURE FOR CANCER OF EUROPE—

Perilous Confusion in Germany

the letter and spirit of Potsdam ordered Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

(when there is a dispute over what the letter and spirit are) and makes it difficult to assess the first six months of the occupation, a job which Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy military governor, said a fortnight ago might take a generation. Because American policy toward Germany has not been solidified,

improvised, 2 Some people say that this is a good thing because it keeps our approach “flexible,” But it also ac~ counts for widely different interpretations of directives, » »

THE OPERATION was flexible enough to allow Gen. George Pat ton Jr. to upset his own little kingdom of Nazis and the worst kind of reactionaries in Bavaria. Meanwhile, special investigation teams were establishing a fine record in de-Nazifying German financial institutions right down to the ground throughout the U, 8. zone. It is being belatedly admitted that one of our early mistakes was congenital American impatience to get things done. Military government detachments jumped in and tried to do what they should have made the Germans do themselves—holding them responsible for failure. These and other errors—such as thoughtless and offhanded treat ment of many displaced allied nationals—are slowly being corrected. The pressure of redeployment, however, has left the military government stripped for talent,

” » ” SOMETIMES these corrections go to extremes. In some respects, American de-Nazification policies are stiffer than even the Russian. Military government law No. 8, effective Sept. 26, prohibits employment in any German industry or busines of members of the Nazi party or affiliate organizations, except as common laborers. One defect here is that there is no provigion for doing anything with these Nazis—mostly small fry—once they are ousted. We said that we were going to be tough with the Germans and stay tough. Directive JCS-1067, once

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to be just, but firm and aloof and to discourage fraternization. oJ » » GIVEN an acquiescing fraulein, a lonesome soldier is not going to stay aloof. That ban collapsed so rapidly that now even marriage is} permissible. Maybe our biggest fault there lay in being human, but it isn’t helping the military government to be firm with the Germans. Some officials complain that Ger many cannot be handled correctly until there is a central government to deal with, One gazed enviously toward Japan, where Gen. Douglas MacArthur can order the government to do something and then see that it is carried out. aieow WHILE banning the immediate establishment of a central government, Potsdam did provide for the formation of certain agencies: However, the French, who have never indorsed Potsdam, have been blocking this move because they argue that it is the first step toward rebuilding Germany as a ‘power. In the face of this stalemate, Americans are going right ahead and organizing these agencies in the U. 8S. zone. But this can hardly be called a solution in the fourpower occupation, » » » IT WAS a popular belief that Potsdam provided a blueprint for a new Germany. This is pictured as a politically decentralized, but economically = unified nation with more cows than coke ovens, It would be a nation which, while paying dearly for the crime of waging aggressive war, could support itself and produce nothing more lethal than popguns. Maybe that was just a brave dream which can't come true. If so, then it would seem to behoove the authorities in the highest places fo admit it at once and set about trying something else, with four-power support. Anybody who thinks that the four powers are working as a team in Germany today, after the first six months, is blowing a bowlful of empty bubbles.

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BEAUTIFUL BROWN COUNTY AS ERNIE PYLE SAW IT—No. 7

Dawn Hike—Bird Hunt'—In State Park

Brown county has come into its own again. After four years of war and gasoline rationing, the highway to Nashville is again jammed. Ernie Pyle, Times war correspondent who lost his life on le Shima, spent a few weeks in Brown county in 1940. Ernie caught the spirit of Brown county perhaps more than any other writer,

In response to many requests, The Times is reprinting some of Ernie's columns about Brown county. You will find names of people now dead, some who no longer live there. And the historic Nashville House, of course, has burned down. But the columns reprinted are just as Ernie wrote them, without editing.

IN THE first place, I was so sleepy I couldn't have seen a bird if one had lit on my nose. And in the second place, I've already seen a lot of birds in my lifetime. The only thing that kept me awake at all was marveling at the strange talk of these bird fanciers. Once we were all standing in a little group quiet as mice, waiting for a bird to come along, when Naturalist Johnny Wallace said, not to any of us, but just unconsciously and out in space: “Tufted Titmouse—tapwee, wee, tapwee!” » - ” NOW AND then the group would suddenly stop and somebody would question: “Hear it? Seeee—~Toe— heeee, Seee—Toee—heee!” And Johnny heard a blackthroated warbler, that sings: “Trees, trees murmuring trees.” Except he told about having a fellow along one morning who

MEN'S BIBLE CLASS WILL NOMINATE

The Christian Men Builders Bible class of the Third Christian church will hold their nominating dinner tomorrow night in the clagsroom in the church. Arthur Owens, chairman of the committee, will present the 18 candidates In preparation for the election which will take place In | November, ?

Merle Sidener, founder and teacher of the class for more than a uarter century, will continue in office. The Rev, A. G. Brooks, Third

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couldn't make anything out of the warbler’s song except: “Cheese, cheese, limburger cheese.” There was a man I know I could love. / » » ~ THOSE people saw birds in trees where I couldn't even see a tree. And they constantly heard birds where I heard nothing but a ringing in my ears. The only two birds I ever saw were a kingfisher and a scarlet tanager. The kingfisher was sitting on a fence along a lake watching the fish in the water. And since he didn't move for five minutes, I finally did get a focus on him, The scarlet tanager flew past and was such a streak of violent red that even a man in a stupor couldn't help seeing it. ” » . FORTUNATELY, we found a few other things besides birds, We found a tree-toad and a frog, and

No Politics for Gen. Stilwell

CARMEL, Cal, Oct. 30 (U, P,), ~Cen, Joseph W. (Vinegar Joe) Stilwell, on leave at his home here, said yesterday it was a “great surprise” to him that a Republican strategy committee in Santa Barbara had proposed he run for congress next fall from the 11th congressional district,

“1 don't know whether this is intended as a reward or a punish« ment,” he said. “But I don’t expeet to be running for this or any other political office.”

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D,

EVEN THOUGH a drinker may use alcoholic beverages to excess, he is not an alcoholic if he can stop drinking at will, Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization of alcoholics who found tbr : it impossible to stop drinking without the 'as-

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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Alcoholics Need Outside Help

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problem, Cantrary to poplar mis~ conceptions, true Alcoholics Anonymous members are not occasional or moderate drinkers, buf total abstainers. ” » . WHEN an alcoholic seeks admission to Alcoholics Anonymous he must obtain medical and hospital

care until he recovers from the

effects of drinking. When alcoholics go on sprees, they do not stop until they run out of liquor or become ill or get into trouble. New members are instructed in the practices and beliefs of the organization, including regular. attendance at meetings, They find it new and strange to be sur-

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ALCOHOLICS remain dry only by the practice of a resolution to avoid drinking today, as yesterday belongs to the past and tomorrow is not yet here. Alcoholics Anonymous’ tells us that if they made a resolution to stay dry the | rest of their lives it would be too difficult to keep.

ment has made a splendid record throughout the country and fis rapidly winning the respect of informed men and women, Individual failures result when a member does not accept Alcoholics Anonymous teaching. Members are urged to ask a higher power for assistance every morning and”during the day when temptation arises, and when they retire it is suggested that

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Johnny Horton caught them in his hands and showed the feminine section of our caravan something about their eyes, And Johnny Wallace found a locust, about the size of your little finger, whose body had been half eaten away by some insect, yet the locust was still alive, and his wings were going a mile a minute, ¥ ” » AND WE heard the bell that gets the CCC boys up at 6 (the lucky loafers) in their camp somewhere off through the brush. And we saw poison ivy, and walked around it. ,Bomehow, around 7 o'clock, we got home, and 1 went to bed. It would be nice if there weren't any such things as birds; but then I suppose people would want to go looking for tree-leaves or drops of glistening dew at 4 o'clock in the morning,

TOMORROW: Fascinating Names.

WILCOX WILL START REVENUE JOB NOV. 4

F. Bhirley Wilcox, New Albany theater operator, will take office as Indiana collector of internal revenue in an induction ceremony at the Federal building Thursday, Oath of office will be adminis-

tered by B. Howard Caughran, United States attorney, at 9 a. m. Mr. Wilcox was appbinted to the post. by President an to succeed Will H. Smith, who has been collector for the past 12 years.

Labor 'Proves’ Right to Raises With Figures

By CHARLES T, LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—FP Murray, president of the C. I. gave a lunch for newspapermen. Here are some of the figures and arguments he presented in support of the C, I. O/s drive for higher ke

wages: Industry, according to a

government survey which is supposed to be confidential but which nearly every~ body knows about, has $27 billion more liquid cash in the till than it before the war, : Manufacturing industry stands to show a profit or $75 billion after taxes in 1946—highest in history. : Industry stands to benefit 24 per cent through downgrading of workers as between wartime and peacetime jobs, by greater productivity, by savings resulting from less overtime pay and in the repeal of excess profits taxes ” # » 3 A 24 PER CENT pay increase could be granted, the C. 1. O. rear sons, without any inflationary threat. Its leaders say a 10 per cent increase, which has been of fered in some cases, would be in: adequate. : In terms of the individua worker, the C. L. 0, says the gov:

“that the average manufacturing wage in 1946 will be $33.96, Bu

say steel, where Mr. Murray's owl union rules the roost on the la bor side—the case is made thi way: i { Production in 1046 is estimate at 84 million tons of ingots ¢ 63 million. tons of fabricate

fore the war and a 1941 peak ¢ $327 million,

s = a IF THE industry met the $2 it would cost an estimated $3{ million. ae But, according to C. I. O. fig ures, payments in overtime re sulting from shifting from th 48-hour week to a 40-hour wee would save the industry $125 mil lion, Shae There would be additional sav ings due to downgrading worker: elimination of excess profits faxe: and cheaper production possib! in new mills with a capacity of 1. million tons. % Labor wants an increase in rer wages, according to Mr. Murra: = and there may be unrest if th government grants price increase along with wage increases,

We, the Women——— Real Fun of | Parties Is Only For Small Fry

By RUTH MILLETT

IT 18 rather pitiful the way | is so hard for grown-ups to hav a good time at a party when} is so simple and easy for kids. To begin with, the small fr: start out with ® the right approach, They are . delighted to be going. Some parties are better than others— but there is no such thing as a dull party— when you are 4 or 5 oré instead of 40 or 50 or 60. ; Then you go anticipating » good time, instead of worrying for fear you will be bored. And you don’t wonder about how you look, You know what

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you are wearing is extra special g ” ” » AND if a little boy says your dress is pretty you don't ‘go coy or say “What, this old thing?” * No, you answer “I know it," with honesty and dispatch. } There is no pretense either about what's-to-eat being of

figure or worrying about allergies: And if you dov's Wks pw: you just say so, ask double serving of something elses The host or hostess isn’t wholly responsible for keeping the youn guests in line, All the guests duty-bound to see that things done right and are ready willing to put an : guest in his place. That for a better party.

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host or hostess has as much f as any of the guests, For the young host or hostess it | everyone for himself, and n of that foolish worrying ov