Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1946 — Page 21

1 ZF . v xr g . TRY BInside Indian | THERES NO mistaking the cars of Wilbur Shaw and Tony Hulman, president and - owner of the | speedway, respectively. . . ; Three-times winner of

ithe 500 race, Mr. Shaw sports license. number star '500, , . . Mr, Hulman’s license is double-star. 500....

iby Dale Brown of the state motor vehicles bureau. i. . . If the culprit who thefted two wristwatches from \Pick’s Beauty shop, 1426 E, Washington st. can pass that establishment without a qualm, he’s undaunted lindeed. . , , Pick has erected a sign reading: “The thief who stole my jewelry is known! He'd better return it immediately.” . . . One of the most efficient land productive army public relations officers to operate around these parts was evicted from his job because the enterprise he was publicizing closed down |—through no fault of his own... . He is Lt. Hugh LA. McNeill Jr., genial press agent of Billings hospital. i... He pulls out soon for thé 5th corps area head- | quarters in Columbus, from whence he will enter the mechanical end of the publicity business (printfing, etc) in Akron after his discharge. ... Before ientering the army, Lt. McNeill' was editor of the | Bluebook of College Athletics. . . , Five-year-sld Judy | Ann Harmon of 29 N, Wallace ave., is puzzled about a squirrel who begs at her bedroom window for nuts {she feeds him from hand... Recently he reported ! minus his tail and with virtually no hair on his back. i. . . From Outdoor Indiana, state conservation mag- |; azine, we learn there are still 19312 covered bridges left in 41 Hoosier counties, , . . The “half” span is ! astride the Indiana-Ohio line in Union county, with "the Buckeye state claiming the other (and probably L: the better half),

| Peggy Joins Sub-Deb-Circle

y A GOOD JOE. That's the impression Film, Star | Peggy Ryan made when she visited the Hi-De-Hole, i Ayres’ Sub-Deb hangout. ,.. She added her name h to the “celebrity wall,” a wall reserved for the signa- | tures of famous people who drop in and for another i kind of celebrity—Hi-De-Hole habituals who've enI tered .the armed forces. ... Originally the famous , autographs were put in a reserved circle, but that's i full now so Miss Ryan, who was appearing at the Circle, incidentally, signed hers out with the servicei men. , .. A group of teen-agers had to hoist her up high enough to find a blank spot but she finally got { it signed. . .. Every once in awhile someone comes out with a trick birth announcement, but here's . a new one on us.... The brain child of a lawyer, | it's folded three ways like a legal paper and on the | outside says: “In the Maternity Court of Coleman | Hospital of Indianapolis, Ind. "In the matter of the

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Aloft but not aloof . .. Peggy Ryan hitch-hikes her way up. :

birth of Stephen Allen Backer.” Then it orders all to} “Take Note of Facts Herein Stated.” The facts “here- | in stated” announce in legal terms with many “wherefores” “hereins” and “heretofores” that the above mentioned Stephen Allen Backer has arrived. It's signed by the proud mama and papa, Shirley and Herbert J. Backer.

Double Trouble

What's a double chocolate sundae? , , . Times Reporter Bob Bloem and a Warren hotel waitress have different definitions. . . . In requesting one of the delicacies, Reporter Bloem envisioned a single helping of chocolate ice cream floating in chocolate sirup. . ... The waitress brought a double portion of vanilla with chocolate sirup, costing 40 cents... . . She thought the “double” applied to size. ,.. Maybe Bob should order half a double chocolate sundae next time. . ..

Si Ir

For 20 minutes Wednesday, occupants of the Home be the end of the U.

Stove Co. 501 Kentucky ave, sniffed smoke. . . . Then they blissfully watched a fire truck race by, |!

heading for what they supposed to be the source of | country . Little did they know their own build- | fitness.”

the smoke. . . ing was ablaze. . , . The fire wagon was dashing to a false alarm at Kentucky and Mer#ill sts, .

until several minutes later, but they developed into one of the biggest fires of the winter season,

lesson = or weighty matters from the journalism class at Shortridge high school.

+ io Flames | prove American youth in in the stove company warehouse weren't discovered morals.”

MANY AN adult could take a two in thinking on

It all started out as a problem

in how to write a lead on a story.’

The subject was: “Do you think compulsory mili-

tary training should be adopted by the United States?”

So- interested did the class be-

come that the lesson developed into material for stories in four issues of The Shortridge Daily Echo. The last of the series came off the

chool press -yesterday with a ound-up “pro” article by William

Stephenson, co-editor of the Thursday issues with James Merrell. Editor Merrell wrote a

“con” story he week before, s » »

OPINION was fairly evenly di-

vided for and against.

Some opinions for are:

Harrison Perk—“If the U. S. ever hould get involved in another war

and we were not prepared, it would

S.A" Joanne Mauk—"A year of miliary training would . . . place this high in health and physical

Robert Lutz—'It might well im- » »

SOME opinions against are: William Kassebaum—“It will im-

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Non-‘Back Washers’By Nat A. Barrows

DERBY, England, March 8.—Britain's caal industry, if you like, resembles the superstitious old north

| country miner, who long refused to use the new- | fangled pithead shower baths.

He simply would not wash his back. To put water on his back, he felt, would weaken his manly

| strength. The old way of sitting in a tin tub before i his own hearth had been good enough for his father i} and was good enough for him.

It, thus, has taken years to educate the older

. British miner about the benefits of an all-over shower : bath immediately upon leaving the coalface.

In a way, that explains the state of the British

| coal industry, taken all in all, on the eve of state ownership and operation.

Coal governs every phase of British economy; on coal depends Britain's ability to pay for vital imports of food and raw materials. It is perfectly true, in the words of Emmanuel Shinwell, minister of fuel and power, that “the new Britain must be built on coal, or it can never be built at all.”

But the cual industry here, like the old-time

| miner's refusal "o_wash his back, suffers from too

many antiquated systems. All too many private owners have been content to take quick .profits and forget about the future beyond thefr own selfish interests.

Owners’ Reactions Impressive HERE IN THE. industrial midlands, surveying the coal fields of Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, I have been impressed with the mine owners’ It is an attitude which, for the enlightened private owner, stems directly from the discouraging fact that foo many owners have hamstrung the industry as a whole by their selfishness and disregard for the human factor. The officials of the “good” companies are accept-

Aviation

WE ARE on the edge of a big boom in the light plane market,. That's in the cards. Irrespective of what happens after that boom subsides, the —light—plane industry will have gained enough technical and practical information as to the cost of operation and maintenance to design private planes, engines and accessories—which will undoubtedly be built by the millions. ’

pede the education programs of

We can look for radar to supply the amateur pilot with horizon and ground vision through rain and fog. The light plane pilot.then will be able to fly in any kind of reasonable traveling weather. : Reductions in the cost of operating these light planes will bring us some little advantage. The ordinary 90-horse power aircraft engine propelling a plane at 100 miles an hour burns about five gallons of gasoline an hour and about a cupful of lubricating oll. This means private air travel at 20 miles to the gallon. The real economy which eventually must be affected will be in engine maintenance.

Expects New-Type Engines ABOUT 80- PER CENT of the maintenance costs of any aircraft equipped with our present-day engine {s ‘found forward of the firewall—that is, in the engine and engine accessories. The solution to this is the development of new types of engines. 1 see the present type moving slowly out of the picture. ‘We've got to have far simpler engines with far fewer parts.” You don’t notice this engine maintenances expense in the auto because your engine is seldom called upon to develop more than 30 per cent of its power, whereas all aircraft engines cruise at more than 50 per cent of their total power. This means greater wear and tear, and we've gotten away with it thus far due to. the uncanny skill of our metallurgists, engine designers and service mechanics.

My Day

NEW YORK (Thursday).—I had 4 sad letter the other day—one which points out one of the big problems that the people of the United States are facing today. I am quoting from it for that reason: “In 1944, T married a young Chinese woman who "had come to the United States in 1938 with her A. B. from Yenching university seeking ‘higher education. She received- herM. A. from Mills college in 1940, and it was in the fall of that year that I nfet her when she came to the University of California to work for a Ph. D. in educational psychology, She is a most beautiful young woman, beloved by all who " know her. After a great deal of soul-searching, we were finally married—while I was .a. junior medical - student. : . . When we were married, we were entirely conscious of the shape of general social reaction in the United States, most particularly in the west, against mixed marriages. Indeed, California has a statute against miscegeénation which made it necessary for us to be married in Washington, Neverthe« less, until recently, we have not encountered any direct evidence of this traditional hostility,

Apartment Manager Critical “OUR RECENT encounter has been in the field of housing accommodations. Recently I have taken a position in the Donner laboratory. of medical physics ‘at this university. . . . In order to function effectively in this new job, it was necessary for us to move to Berkeley. I arranged for an exchange of apartments from San Francisco to, Bekeley, and we moved In.’ : . hl “I did not tell the manager that my: wife was

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ing the advent of socialization with hardly a whisper, |°0l€ge education.” es 2 even though their Tory background normally makes| Anne Malone — “This country

them shudder at the very thought of government ownership. They say that, aside from their natural | reluctance to lose control of their own private enterprise, they think that nationalization actually will |

correct many evils perpetuated by the “bad” cu 990 AXIS SUBS

panies. No one denies that early developments by many private companies ignored the national interests, The policy was to get coal the quickest with the highest profits,

Standards May Be Elevated MOST INTELLIGENT coal operators in this region think that state control actually is going to ele-| vate standards. for the entire industry: That is, they add, providing the state coal board makes certain that the industry keeps up with technical develop-|

ments and retains the present structure of expert | ne

supervision at the mines themselves.

most boys and might . thousands of young people from a

could . . . become a military state.

Germans Lost 781 U-Boats

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ard and James Merrell,

| 1t would arouse animosity and sus-| which the Revolutionary war was | picion of our intentions in other| fought, and was a step toward regimentation,

Ted Steeg—"One year of military training can disrupt a boy's entire life” “ ® wo» IN THE round-up stories, Editors Merrell and Stephenson took the issue to task. Young Merrell said that the training would deprive the U, 8. of the very ‘fundamental rights, fori

ing would not be necessary as

of young men anxious to be soldiers” and that the cost for train-

ing two million a year would be

that Germany, with the approxi-

SHORTRIDGE JOURNALISTS GRAPPPLE WEIGHTY ISSUE—

Is Compulsory Training Wise?

Compulsory military training has become a hot topic with the journalism class at Shortridge high |

He said that compulsory train-

there are hundreds of thousands

our billion dollars. = ” ~

EDITOR Stephenson retaliated

mate area of Texas,

a $1000 a year to train a man, Five men would’ cost $5000 and he asks:

a body lying on a sandy beach in the South Pacific.”

think.

has become

He also disclosed that it costs but

“Is that not less expensive than

Apparently American youth does

SUNK IN WAR

To U. S.-British Action.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 8-—Just ~be-

fore D-day there were more than 2,000,000 American soldiers in Great

WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P).

| —American and British forces sent dering under the impact of higharly 1000 axis ‘submarines to the]

All on the management side with whom I have announced yesterday.

talked here are annoyed that the Attlee government |

has not asked them for more advice on the basic|admiralty and U. S. navy U-boat) problems of changing from private to public owner- assessment commitiees gave the

Figures compiled by the British

Britain, and this little island, shud-

spirited young men from overseas,

jitterbug palaces, found itself asking “Any gum, chum” and adopted such pure Americanisms as “0. K.” Now there are fewer than 5000

ship. These nten, seriously concerned with coal as final score as 781 German subs, 85|G. Is left and the tide is running an economic factor, resent the government's over-|Italian and 130 Japanese—or 986|full the other way.

sight in not appealing to them -more directly for|

destroyed in all.

Signs of a return to what Britons

counsel. But, nevertheless, it is clear that they will| Against the Germans, the British are pleased to call normality are

give their full co-operation.

| accounted for 524 U-boats while U.|everywhere. All dance halls—they the waltz for posterity,

The whole. understaking will proceed gradually,!S. forces destroyed 174. The British call them palais de danse here—

probably for as long as five years. From an objective | viewpoint, it appears to have a good chance of success | —if the government keeps the coal board out of pol-

crats and makes the best use of trained technicians. | Copyright. 1946, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

By Maj. Al Williams

We all know that the sensational jet propulsion engine comes into its own sphere of economic operations at plane speeds of more than 500 miles an hour. | The private pilot does not need or want such speed. At less than 500 miles an hour the true jet | engine is at a disadvantage.

Jet Propeller Suggested |

v is a t A ine | Ameri ounted for | NEVERTHELESS, the jet is a true flying engine American submarines accounted for|, , = oy oro an Italian nun is

and we'll use some adaptation of it for all types of | aircraft in the very near future. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] (NACA) pops up with an ingenious adaptation start- | ling in its potentialities. Instead of blasting jet gases | rearward, thus- obtaining forward reaction for the | plane, the NACA proposes a brand new idea—Iidllow | propeller blades. | The air necessary for combustion is to be taken | in through the hollow hub of the prop. At the right point, to be determined by experiment, | fuel will be squirted into the air and -ignited by any | simple kind of ignition system. Toward the tips of| the prop blades, the fuel-air mixture will be burned | and exhausted into the open air through nozzles. | These nozzles will be in the “trailing edges” of the prop blades. The reaction will be to cause the prop to rotate— providing the traction necessary to move the plane: While the plane may make only 100 miles an hour, | the tips of the prop ‘blades actually will be traveling | at hundreds of miles an hour—up where jet propul-| sion is effective: . . Kerosene, far cheaper than aviation gas, lower lubricating costs and simplified maintenance will be the result of a power plant composed of only one rotating part with the igniter and a simple fuel pump. The NACA is on the right track. Watch this development. It's loaded with what the doctor of the | light plane market has ordered.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Chinese. I did not and do not feel that I had any| moral obligation to give such information. By pres-| ent rental and housing rules of the OPA, we are quite secure in our new home. “The unpleasant experience that precipitates my writing was a conversation with the manager and

J his wife, just held after a-month’'s tenancy, in which

1 was reproached for not informing them of the fact of my wife's nationality.

‘Denies Spirit of Religion’, “TEMPERS were not lost, but the significance of their adverse criticism was insulting. In due respect to their position, they were expressing the owner's attitude, although one cannot doubt that their own feelings were also involved. Had they known, we should not have been accepted as tenants, “ .. I am writing for my many Oriental friends, whom I know through my marriage and through residence at the Berkeley International house, where I meét my wife, for my Negro friends, for my Filipino and Mexican friends, and for the host of all these races whom I can only know as they are symbolized in my friends.” If this sort of prejudice exists in ourJand, it seems to me that we deny the spirit of the.various religions

to which we all belong, for all religions recognize the |:

equality of human beings before God. a We deny the spirit of our constitution and-gov-ernment which our forefathers fought to establish, We make future good will and peace an impossibility,

sank 68 Italian submarines and | have put up signs against jitter-|for Landon at every opportunity,

American forces four.

U. S. aircraft, ships and mines| The itics, prevents an influx of typical civil servant bureau- | were credited with 110.5 Japanese | which succumbed to the lure of |gow and Edinburgh also. have been submarines and the British 9.5.|American gold, has been reclaimed affected. >

The half credits resulted from successful joint operations. Ships and shore-based aircraft split evenly in the credit for destroying the most German underseas craft, followed by carrier air-

{craft and bombing raids on U-boat

installations. Against Japanese subs, surface ships accounted for the largest number of those sunk. The next

marines, which accounted for 25 enemy U-boats in all.

bugging.

famous Covent

Free of Yank Jitterbugs,

Britishers Go Waltzing

on leave from Germany who stopped Ia dowager countess and said: “Hey, bottom in world war II, the navy converted some of its halls into!lady, what happened to the dance

Garden,

for the classical ballet and on the very spot where Americans kicked up their heels in jive the entire royal family sat the other night at the season's most glittering opening. The ermine audience is still laughing at the two puzzled G. 1s

hall?” Harry Davison, British band leader just returned from a nationwide tour, claims that the revulsion against American dancing is so strong that more than 300,000 people have joined an old-fashioned dance club whose aim is to save

Since most of the G. 1s headed

the changes are most noticeable here, but Nottingham, Bristol, Glas-

'Atomic Contagion' Feared In Illness of Italian Nun

By. LEIGH WHITE Times Foreign Correspondent

ROME, March 8.—What may be

most efficient weapon. was sub-|one of the first recorded cases of

“atomic contagion” is now ‘being

Of these, | i died at the Civil hospital in

23. The largest number of Italian submarines were destroyed by surface ships, with submarines rating as the next most potent weapon. The British destroyed 18 Italian subs with their own undersea craft. Other causes of enemy submarine losses included mines and combined ships and. carrier aircraft action. Approximately 35 enemy U-boats were lost from “unknown causes.” In all probability ‘they were damaged by allied efforts but did not sink until later.

ARMY PAYS FATHER BETTER THAN A JOB

ASHTABULA, O., March 8 (U. P.). —Prancis Reed of Ashtabula has gone back to the army, where his $252 monthly pay and allotment money was enough to take care of his wife and eight children. Reed said that the only civilian job he could find paid him $25 a weék, not enough to meet his ex-

penses. 8

for no United Nations Organization can succeed when peoples of one race approach those of other races in a spirit of contempt.

being treated for the same type of hemorrhages as those from which a missionary prelate died soon after {his return to Rome from Hiroshima last fall. 3s According to the newspaper Risorgimento Liberale, Sister Oderica {Bartoli of the Elizabethan order was the nurse assigned to care for (Msgr. Mastal Ferretti, a relative fot the late Pope Pius IX, when he |was treated in a private clinic here |for atomic hemorrhages, following his return from Hiroshima where | he had headed an Italian mission- | ary order. | Although Msgr. Ferretti was re(leased from the clinic as cured he died a few months later, presum|ably from the effects of radioactive particles, which entered his system at the time the atomic bomb was exploded over Hiroshima. Without mentioning the date of his death, Risorgimento Liberale

convinced, says the paper, whether Sister Oderica is a victim of true radioactivity, suffering from auto-suggestion of

rhages, however, appear to be genuine enough and of the type usually associated with radium poisoning.

others, and names of families and

BAPTISTS LIST HOUSING NEEDS

Also Compile Available Quarters for Families.

Baptists are listing available livIng quarters for servicemen and

their housing needs, at Baptist headquarters, 1720 N. Illinois st.

Baptist churches of the community have been notified of a Baptist housing program to be inaugurated Sunday with the public reading of an appeal from the denomination’s pulpits, The appeal will be made especially for houses and apartments for returned servicemen. It is in a letter signd by the Rev. George G. Kimsey and Warren M. Bruner, moderator and executive committee chairman of the Indianapolis Baptist Associa tion, respectively

Cites Divorce Problems

The letter, which follows the president's recent call to the

reports that Sister Oderica soon afterwards fell ill of hemorrhages herself and, at the Pope's orders, was transported in a special ambulance to Padua hospital where there are better facilities for treating radium poisoning. Doctors at Padua are mot yet

or whether she is

a religious nature. Her hemor-

d The Chicago Daily News, Inc. CHURCHES SPONSOR CUMBERLAND TROOP Sponsorship of Cumberland Scout troop 115 has been assumed by three Cumberland churches,” the Baptist, Methodist and Evangelical and Reformed.

Officers of the troop committee,

recently appointed by the churches, are B. O, Toombs, president, Harry Ostermeyer, secretary, and James E. Walters, treasurer. Virgil Hitzerman is scoutmaster and Walter

churches of the nation for a home sharing program, declares that “the divorce problem which is bringing Marion county into such unfavorable notoriety across the land, is in no small degree related to the difficulty young families experience in finding a place to live. “After the shock of war, we have no right: to ask the veterans to walk the streets,” the letter continues. Among the types of temporary accommodation sought by the church officials are listed furnished rooms in homes which may or may not have had paying guests heretofore. The churches are also reminded that persons who plan to be away during a considerable part of | the summer may want to open their homes to veteran families instead

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tion-wide railway strike is for next, Monday but nobody seems particularly worried about it.

that President Truman, probably today, will set up an emergency board under the Railway Labor Act.

cy's, ministrations, the board will make a report and recommendations after about 30 days, and then’ the

be small

bigger headlines, The peaceful set tlement of the railroad controversy may go comparatively unnoticed, Fights always attract more attene tion than peace.

great wave of industrial strikes, involving violence, hard feelings and tremendous losses may spotlight a settlement. ~ The public may ask why railway labor controversies can be handled by methods more satisfactory than

\ those applied in coal mining, steel Here some class members pair off on the issue and face each other over typewriters. Shown and automobile manufacturing and

are (left to right) William Stephenson, Rose Mary Walker, Billie Ragsdale, Byron Goodrich, Jeane Wood- (other industrial fields.

Labor Act. It is now officially la= stronger and harder to defeat after peled “the most advanced form of every war, The reason, he says, is|government regulation of .abor ree compulsory military service. 1 evolved through years of experi= mentation . . . based on equal rights and mutual responsibilities.”

of railroads.

ideas of the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill," now pending in the senate. This bill was largely the product of Donald Richberg, who was a co-author of the Railway Labor Act.

posals admit that railroading is different from other industries, par« ticualrly in the fact that the ine dustry’s income is governed by find. ings of the interstate commerce commission,

Railroad Labor | Methods Are | Seen as Model | By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, March 8A 1a.

The reason for lack of concern is

The unions will accept this agen- .

hances of a great rail strike will

THE STRIKES that actually oce ur in other industries will get the

But coming in thé midst of &

THE MAIN reason is the Railway

ations we have in this country ...

There hasn't been a major rails. road strike since the original: Raile way Labor Act became law in 1026 —largely at the instigation of this industry's employees. : From this law President Truman drew his idea of fact-finding boards, with real authority back of them, to act in industrial disputes outside

¥ - ” FROM IT came also the basio

Priends of these legislative pro=

But they insist that the general principles of peaceful avoidance of strikes and lockouts can be applied in manufacturing and other large industries as well as on the railroads. i » » » THE RAILROAD labor demands, directly affecting about 1,500,000 men, originated last summer, Nearly a score of unions, “oper ating” and “non-operating” in raile road terminology according to whether their members run trains or perform other functions, sued for wage increases approximating 30 cents an hour, plus many changes in working rules. Mediation under the Railway Labor Act failed to produce agreements. The next step was voluntary arbitration, and to this all but two unions agreed. The arbitration proceedings have been going on for two weeks in Chicago.

- . » THERE is no threat of a strike in these proceedings. The strike threat—which is nor mal procedure under the Rallway Labor Act—comes from the two operating unjons that did not agree to arbitration. They are the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive -Engineers. Members of these two organizations could effectively tie up raile road transportation, but it is 100 to-1 they will not do so.

of leaving them unoccupied.

DR. VOORHIS ON | TERMINAL LEAVE

Dr. Charles C. Voorhis, 3933 Ar-| thington blvd., has been placed on terminal leave after five years service in the army. Dr. Voorhis, a graduate of the Indiana university medical school, served in -Apstralia, New Guinea and the Admiralty Islands, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. He will enter practice here in the

Huff is assistant scoutmiaster,

near future.

| By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. When your wife gives you a letter |

to mail, do you carry it all day and

then remember it for the first time] when you see her in the evening? | This is not necessarily a sign that you are growing old, as psychologists tell. us our subconscious mind has) a. way of helping us forget unpleasant things. Your wife did not realize what a busy man you are or she wouldn't have bothered you with such a trifle, was the subconscious suggestion you reecived. You might deny this but the psychologists have a point. All of us know people who have brilliant memories and others who are so forgetful that they cannot seem to. remember anything. In spite of this, we believe that when we start to fotget more easily, that we are getting old. » ” » THERE are many causes for forgetfulness, in addition to ageing changes in the body, such as fatigue, poor health, worry, inatten|tion, carelessness and lack of in= terest. ¥ ' If your memory is becoming progressively .worse, it is advisable to

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Mind Changes More Slowly Than Body

Young, Too, Can Be Forgetful

D. |check with your physician to gee if who are really old who still have

anything is wrong generally. Or, a personality change may be responsible. Unfortunately, when our memories fail, we are not in the best

position to realize that we need |

help, so the assistance of a member of our family or a friend is invaluable. In the absence of disease, poor memory might be just a bad habit. There are many ways of helping people who are forgetful, but most of those which are so extravagantly advertised are expensive ways of emphasizing a few simple principles. We remember the things which please us, and forget the’ things

|which displease us.

” » ” . DEVELOPING a good memory is largely & matter of developing healthy attitudes. If we like people and like to be with them, we do not have too much trouble rememsbering their names, but if we are indifferent. to people, we have name difficulty. . Failing memory may be associated with ‘ageing changes, hut it does not necessarily occur even in ad-

| vanced years. I know many people

| good memories for past events and who’ still . take an. active interest in current events. The mind ages more slowly than the body, according to the experts in adult education. As we grow older, we lose the desire to learn rather than the ability to learn. » » » ANOTHER supposed characteristic of ageing is to become more

set in our ways. Some young people display this to a surprising degree, while many old people are pliable and agreeable. Demanding, egotistical, selfcentered oldsters might have been that way all their lives. Forgetfulness might be caused by day dreaming, commonly thought to be an exclusive practice of children, but which also affects adults, Forgetfulness may be a minor com-

‘around to see what he has to offer

We, the Women

Get Shirt by ‘Swap,’ Advice To Ambassador

By RUTH MILLETT HASN'T our new ambassador to Belgium slightly overestimated the generosity of the American public in thinking that he might be swamped with gifts of stiff shirts— if he let the public know of his dilemma: an ambassador unable to buy the stiff shirts that are such a necessary part of his uniform”? Doesn't the ambassador know that it's a trading market? He would if he read the news papers. “Travelers trading butter for hotel reservations.” “Fifty pounds of butter offered for a left front fender for a 1940 Buick.”

» » . * “NYLONS for a clue to an avails able apartment.” “Nylons for tickets to a basketball game.” And

80 on. If the ambassador really has to have those shirts, and he sounds quite desperate, he ought to look

in the way of a trade. He wouldn't be vacating a house or apartment soon, would he? Or, perhaps, he could talk a feminine member of his family out of a pair 3 of nylons. Many a hard-hearted = f wife would trade her husband's one and only stiff shirt for a pair

plaint or a serious disorder. Those of us who have always had poor memories would be easier. to live with if we would improve our memories. On the other hand, many persons with brilliant memaoties have little else to recommend

them. /like in diplomacy, ambassador.

ing of a sympathetic public, The public is so intent on solving its own problems—getting houses, shirts, shorts, tires, etc.—it hasn't time to worry about else's --not even an - g But if you've got a scarce article to tfade for a scarce article— you /can often do business. Just