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THERE'S AT LEAST one Indiana woman who doesn’t think the reception being given war brides is in keeping with the tradition of Hoosier welcomes.

. She's Mrs. Richard Bonne, of R.'R. 4, Box 67, Nobles-

ville, who came to this country as a bride after world war I. Mrs. Bonne writes that she and her husband would like very much to welcome and honor overseas war brides and their G. I. husbands at their country home April 28. The adopted Hoosier who met her husband when she was & Belgian girl and he was a doughboy would like to get letters from the local girls, informing her if they can attend... . What's Florida got that Indiana hasn't? Four-year-old Tommy Widner, son of Times staffer and Mrs. Frank Widner, got a sunburn Thursday as he played in the yard at 827 N. Emerson ave, (Get that, Florida

. Chamber of Commerce, sunburn in March in Indi-

ana.) , . . An army major writes us from Oil City, Pa. to request aid in locating his daughter’s cat. The

cat either fell or jumped out of the car last Monday, .

Two houses divided . , . Sigma Chi’s Thomas Luck puts the finishing: touches to his side of the road, while William Ransdell reclines after painting the Delta Tau Delta sign.

Inside Tndianapolis

- got them the man pulled out a piece of bologna, a

Truce Teams

PEIPING, China, April 1.—With the Chinese Com=~ munists rapidly consolidating their hold on northern and central Manchuria, the vanguard of four fruce teams, including 20 Americans, are now in Mukden. They flew here in seven American army and marine transports. The teams, which included Nationalist and Communist as well as American representatives, took along four mobile fleld-team radios. Jeeps® with trailers loaded with medicines, were also loaded into the C-46 transports. In mid-March the Chinese Communists failed to close in on Mukden quickly enough to challenge the Nationalists’ hold on it, but governmental news from Changchun, Manchurian capital, seems to indicate that the Red bid for the capital may be stronger. Soviet. troops are pulling out from Changchun to Harbin and northward. But at- the same time, a handful of officials, whom the Russians have permitted to establish themselves in Changchun, are also leaving by air southward, returning to the safety of Nationalist lines in Mukden and Chinchow,

Falling Into Communist Hands

CHANGCHUN thus is being emptied of both Soviet and Chinese authority. Politically, it is believed that Chinese officials are attempting, by withdrawal south~ ward, to undermine the Russian claim that territory is being handed over to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Pa . ‘ Actually Manchuria is falling into Chinese Com-

- munist- hands, except for key points in large cities.

The race for Changchun is now on, with government troops reportedly blocked midway between Tiehling and Communist-held Supengkai. Truce teams led by Brig. Gen. Henry A. Byroade of Ft. Wayne, Ind., will probably rush northward immediately from Mukden in order to make it possible

Aviation

HERE IS the story of the night fighter and hls eves. © We see during daylight with the center of the eye. In the dark we see with the rods in the side eye. In this simple summary we find the reason the night fighter must learn to scan and not stare, as is our daylight practice when trying to study every detail of an object. This is something that every auto driver should think over very carefully. habit of scanning while driving at night. Blink and shifs your gaze when trying to make out an object at night—never stare, * Phe night fighter's business is a weird game. He must. know his cockpit and be able to find his way around it blindfolded. This means he must learn by ‘continued practice where to put his hand—without a superfluous move. The day fighter may get a chance to look. The night fighter must know how far to extend his hand and in what exact direction.

Flash of Light Dangerous THE USE of sun glasses during the daytime increases the adaptation of the rods in his eyes for darkness, A flashlight in the cockpit of a night fighter’s plane without a red filter is bad news. One split-second flash, of white light is sufficient to dim the rods in his eyes for an appreciable length of time—and anything can happen in a few seconds. The reading of the skies at night is an art and a science. It's mighty easy to ge off chasing a star mistaken for a lead-plane light. The first recognition of another single-engined plane in the dark skies appears to be a circular object—a four-engined plane

My Day

NEW YORK (Sunday).—At my last lecture, in Omaha, Neb, a question was asked me which I have been thinking about a great deal ever since. It ran about like this: “Do you think that the war has increased religious and racial intolerances; or do you believe that we have a greater realization,

because of the war, of our need to work as one nation and to have no ‘inferior’ people in our midst?” It was a difficult question—-to--answer because 1 think the tensions of war enhance racial or religious prejudices wherever they exist, for the time being. I am not at all sure but that the tensions which exist in the readjustment period, when people are getting back to peace conditions, are not almost as conducive to heightening our prejudices as the period of the war itself,

Differences Submerged YET WHEN the history of the war is really written and people can look back on-it with comparative calm, I think the realization of our great accomplishment will carry with it the understanding that the accomplishment was great because on the whole our differences, both racial and religious, were ignored, were swallowed up by the great objective of winning the war. It will be difficult to gauge .what the people of “the country really feel because at present the ques-

tions that are coming up are very largely dealt with’

. by our political representatives in congress. Many of them are far removed from the reac is v :

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\ 3 oe Ny i Fraternity Signs as the major and his family were driving through here, en route to his new station. The ©-year-old

feline, white with grey spots and wearing a collar, was discovered missing when the major stopped in

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Clayton. He promised his daughter he'd try to find it but, a “lost” ad hasn't produced results.

Fraternity Battle Lines THE BATTLE LINES are drawn gut at Butler university. The Sigma Chis and the Delta Tau Delta's did their annual fencing each other out the other day, with the presidents marking off territory. The two houses, located directly across from each other on 46th st., annually put their fraternity symbols on their side of the street, a warning to the other house to keep on their side of the line. This year Thomas Luck, Indianapolis, Sigma Chi president, and william Ransdell, Lebanon, head of the Delta Taus, wielded the paint brushes. . . . The RCA Family News announces that its representatives have been issued press cards. Seems RCA is a pretty big place and the reporters and editors need some kind of identification to get them past the lines. ... An agent who through Frankfort tells us a filling station there is called the “Atomic” station,

Equine Criticism ANOTHER STATE agent tells us about a scene he witnessed. Two horses were standing on either side of a large bill board in a field, speculatively eyeing an ad lauding the horsepower of Phillips 66.

And to make it even better, “it all took place right outside Mechanicsburg. . . . Godfrey Feld, proprietor of the restaurant at 25 S. Alabama st, was too startled to do anything but comply when a slightly tipsy one came in his restaurant, sat down at the counter, and asked for a plate and a spoon. When he

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can of beans and a can opener, fixed himself a meal, ate it and left. So help him, it happened, Mr. Feld said. . . . From the Press club window, the monument affords the same old spring sights. Couples strolling arm in arm or just loafing around the steps and bannisters, . , . We've seen motorists struggle with a stuck horn, but the other day we saw a streetcar motorman stuck with a stuck bell. The bell on the Illinois car began jangling as it hit Washington st., startling the motorman and the downtowners. It was still jangling and scaring pedestrians when it faded out of sight down by Union station.

By George Weller

for the “Gissimo’s” troops to negotiate rather than fight their way into Changchun. Gen. Byroade is trying to arrange an armistice rendezvous with Lim Piao, Chinese Communist generalissimo, Byroade, one of America’s youngest generals, being only 32 years old, flew to Mukden to spearhead personally the political delicate peacemaking field teams that followed him. He is under orders to “readjust military matters” while “keeping clear of places still under Russian occupation.”

Red Army Still Headache No. 1 BYROADE'S first errand is to pick up Gen. Hsiung Shih-hui. director of the mission's provisional headquarters for Manchuria, in Chinchow at Manchuria’s gateway, This headquarters is being meved to Mukden,

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By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor (1) This is the story of a miracle

Radar, . . , This is the story behind the story of that dramatic, breathless moment on the wind-blown night of Jan, 10, 1946, when one of man's wildest dreams came He received a. message from the That was when a radar beam

was sent to the moon from the U. 8. army air corps station at Belmar, N. J., and returned to earth. Traveling 186,000 miles a second (the speed of light) to the moon,

true: moon! , ..

238,000 miles away, the radar message came

back in 2.4 seconds. “The called

the oscillograph.

lated on sending a beam moon.

telescopes. within a visual distance of

The Story of

sounded like a low hum and made a wavy white line on the black record sheet of

(2) Even before the present age of radar and atomic energy, scientists had specu-

Theoretically a mighty searchlight could cast upon the moon a bright spot which would be seen by the most powerful (Telescopes now bring this dead, mountainous satellite of our earth

The spot of light on the moon would have

return message Visible.

have to be several

(3) Prior to the birth of radar as a secret weapon of world war II, radio sig-

nals could not be of light to the

would have been are charged with

about 30 miles.) waves back to the

to be a few hundred feet wide to be But to make a strong enough beam, the searchlight unfortunately would

earth's surface. Radio waves, which might have been directed toward the moon,

by the ionosphere. layer of very thin air whose molecules

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sent far out from the sels many

outline. planes or

reflected back to earth The fonosphere is a

electricity by radiation

from the sun. These charges drive radio

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to perform peacetime wonders such making contact with the moon. For in pitch darkness or fogs hit enemy The firing was directed by radar Wi image showed the enemy vessel in ¢l tances away. Thus radar helped to the war for the United Nations.

TOMORROW; Miracles of Sound.

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Likewise radar spotted el shore installations great

OUR TOWN . .. BY ANTON SCHERRER

Do You Remember the Original Eagle?

| SIXTY YEARS AGO when I was a little boy, the clothling store run by Leopold Strauss was known as The Original And to press home the point, there was a real-for-

Eagle.

sure breathing eagle in the show window. Even as far back as then the Strauss people entertained the natives with their

lively advertising. , However, the Strauss store was already 33 years old when I'got around to it (by way of my first pair of boughten pants). The original store was

pold Strauss had his legs crossed again, this time on a bench operated by the Moritz brothers, ~ ®

» DURING his one-year’s stay with

turned out to be Abram L. Block,

started in 1853 by Dernham &

Gramling, who had purchased at public sale the stock of G. B8imon, the proprietor of a clothing

store which had opened (and

whence the Nationalists will attempt the recovery of sovereignty over the 90 per cent of Manchuria still] said to be Soviet or Chinese-Communist held. | Byroade’s first task is to locate and confer with Gen. Lim Piao, whose Communist forces have blown | up nearly all the railroad lines from Mukden, block- | ing movements by rail of the American-equipped | Chinese 1st and 6th armies. ; The Russians have voiced no -objection to these triangular truce teams entering parts of Manchuria they had evacuated. The Soviet Red army is still headache No. 1, because of its habit of handing over territory to Communist rather than Nationalist troops, as the Sino-Soviet treaty demands. The Americans, leaning over backwards to avoid

complications with Russia, have insisted that field | construction period.

teams should not enter Russian-held areas. This ruling, handed down from Chungking, handicaps the Nationalist army wherever the Russians leave the Communists, rather than the Nationalists in possession of ground.

By Maj. Al Williams

as a flat elipse. It's mighty easy to lose a target plane on what is called the horizon line. In daylight fighter tactics the pilot approaching his target “out” of the sun enjoys a great advantage. The sun is “in” the enemy pilot's eyes and at his own back. In night fighting, however, the best approach is|

“up-moon”—that is, get the enemy plane between yourself and the moon.

Lessons Learned Hard Way

THIS presents you with the most definite outline because the enemy plane is thrown against the brightest background. Then, if you are flying above!

clouds or above an overcast, the best practice is to [rival in Indianapolis, in 1865, Leo-

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Exercise Is Good Spring Tonic

reverse this “up-moon” approach and attack “out” of the moon. This means attack from above the target plane, because with the moon behind you the target plane is most definitely outlined against the! background. And above all else, the night fighter must trust| his compass, instruments, altimeter, radar and radio, | To fly safely at night, a man must keep on flying

closed) that same year. A year later the Anton Scherrer same Mr. Simon became associated with Mr. Dernham and from that day on the store was known as The Eagle| (nots the Original Eagle, mind you, | but just The Eagle). | = " » THE LITTLE STORE persisted through booms and busts, which

is to say that it-weathered not only various changes of management, {but also the Civil war and the re-!

By that time Indianapolis had grown from a town of 14,000 to something like 45,000, half of which, at least, were males. All wore pants of some shape or other. In 1866, when Indianapolis had only one mule-drawn streetcar (in Washington st.), Leopold Strauss entered the service of The Eagle. |He was a native of Kronberg ™ !Nassau, a town near Frankfort-on-

the Moritz boys, Leopold Strauss was sent to their Connersville store to transact some business. In the course of that business, Mr. Strauss tailored an overcoat for a Mr, Baron, a gentleman who enjoyed the reputation of being the hardest man, to please in Fayette

county.

Forty-eight years later, Mr. Bar-

on was wearing the same overcoat. Mr, Strauss tried to buy it back

at the time to hand down to posterity as evidence of his sound and honest workmanship, but Mr. Baron wouldn't part with it. It was good for a hundred years, he said.

= tJ . IN 1871, six years after his arrival in Indianapolis, Teopold Strauss got to be a partner in The Eagle, which at that time was owned by .the Greisheimer brothers. Eight years later he bought out the Greisheimers. In the course of the next few years, The Eagle grew by leaps and bounds; so much so that, in 1882, Mr. Strauss invited one of the proprietors of The Arcade (a clothing store across the street) to assume part of his burden. The partnership lasted three years... After the dissolution Mr. Strauss woke up with the worst headache of his career,

the first rule of business is to know the requirements of your customers.

that the undersized underwear had been sold to Mr. Strauss by an over-zealous traveling salesman some years

% ” WHEN HE was Leopold was taken out of school and put cross-legged on a tailor's bench to learn the trade. He stitched away until he was his store and called it The Orginal 121 when he was lured to Indianap- |Eagle which is where I came in at jolis by his 10-year-older brother, the beginning of today’s piece. {Sol, who was then in the employ| Toward the close of the 19th cen\of ‘Moritz Bros, & Co, a firm éf tury, Mr, Strauss’ health began to {merchant tailors with two shops in!fail. He combed the whole country Washington st., and one in Con-|for somebody to help him with his nersville. Three days - after his ar- ever increasing business.

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14 years old, little

® # H IT APPEARS that after the dissolution, his ex-partner opened a clothing store right under the nose of The Eagle and called it The Famous Eagle. Whereupon in selfdefense, Mr." Strauss rechristened

a Cincinnati-born boy who was reared in Rochester and Brooklyn (the one where the ailanthus tree thrives). : » ” n LEGEND HAS it that shortly after Mr. Block's arrival at The Original Eagle, he unearthed in the cellar an unbelievable amount of balbriggan underwear of sizes much too small for Hoosiers to wear. Sure, he raised hell. What's more, he tacked on a moral—samething to the effect that

Subsequent investigation revealed

before. His name was A, L. Block. ® » » » MR. BLOCK had a three-year

contract when he came to The Orig-

he started his second year with a pretty speech designed for Mr. Strauss’ ear. On that.occasion Mr. Block wanted to know whether or

by Ayres. Sure, the Ayres people moved into their new building at the Cross Roads of America.

celebrate opening of the Children's department, Hot served.

inal Eagle. Tradition has it that|

Dec. 27-28, 1904—Store closed preparatory to moving. Up until this time the Btrauss people occupied the little store located about 30 feet west of the 8. W. corner of Washington and Meridian sts.

Feb. 13, 1905—Strauss store opens in new location on Circle, Rumor has it that new location is a temporary one pendirfg erection of first unit of L. 8, Ayres store.

Nov. 1, 1005—Rumor confirmed. Strauss moves from Circle back to Washington st. into building vacated

Jan, 27-28, 1907--Strauss people

chocolate was

Jan. 9, 1908—First appearance of “Strauss Says,” an identifying mark of Strauss advertising ever since.

Feb, 16, 1912—Leopold Strauss retires from active participation in the business. i

+ og March 17, 1912—Ralph 8, Nor<|

not Mr, Strauss was satisfied with his work. “Satisfied! Not by a dam’ sight,” said Mr, Strauss. “A lot of things you do I'm dissatisfied with, but wouldn't I be a fool to let a man

my business?” And thus was cemented a business association that retained for Indianapolis a man destined to control not only a great and proud store, but one who participated in every worthwhile civic enterprise— let alone those he thought up himself, » ” ws A FEW DAYS after Mr, Block's arrival, the name of The Original Eagle was changed to that of L. Strauss & Co. Other changes followed with breathless rapidity; to such a degree, indeed, that it leaves me no alternative but to record the progress in short pants, to-wit: Feb. 17, 1902—Arthur L. Strauss, only child of Leopold Strauss (and a kid fresh out of Manual) enters his father’s business. : March 1, 1902—A. L. Block runs off his first big sale. Complete. suits (with only one pair of pants, however) go for $8.50. Oct. 24, 1903—Arthur Strauss gets

The man picked for the Job

raise from $5.00 to $7.50 a week.

get away from me who has built up

wood, a kid who learned to handle money in the Indiana Trust Co, is persuaded to take a job with Strauss,

March 11, 1914—-Leopold Strauss passes away at the age of 72. Richard Lieber delivered the funeral oration, one of the greatest of his career.

Nov. 6, 1922—Sam Freeman, a precocious lad from Shawnee, O. (pop. 872), arrives to take over the editing of Strauss advertising.

July 28, 1936—Abram L. Block passes away at the age of 71, lamented by all who kiew him, And who didn’t? Following which there was a reorganization with Ralph 8. Norwood, president; Henry Zitz laff, vice president and treasurer; Sam Freeman, vice president; Leo M. Rappaport, vice president; Ar-thur-L. Strauss, secretary; J. Kight, assistant treasurer-a governing group that persists to this day, ‘April 1, 1946—After 40 years in the same location (the old Ayres store) the Strauss people moved again, this time into the eight-story building known as the Occidental corner. If Sam Freeman has his way (and, by the Lord Harry, he will), it will henceforth be known as the Strauss Corner.

regularly at night. A dark sky is a weird region with | By I wonder how many people still| for us than sulphur and molasses.

its own bag of creepy tricks. {

We, the Women——|

Fruit, Vegetables Best Diet Now

WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

The rods in your eyes are delicate supersensitive | take sulphur and molasses as 8a

organs, and to use them properly you must use them ! regularly. * | These are the things the fighter pilot had to learn the hard way during the recent war. What a bless- | ing it would be if these night vision lessons could be transferred from the cockpit to the man behind the wheel of a motor car. Most of us can see, but few of us learn how to use our eyes and how to interpret the evidence presented by our eye to our brain—: especially the evidence of seeing in the dark,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tions of the soldier or of the worker; and if these two sections of the constituency are not accurately represented, congress may not be aware of it until the next election. |

Conservative or Liberal Trend? SOME PEOPLE tell me that the next elections are going to show that the whole country has gone extremely conservative; and, in fact, if we could repeat the Harding and Coolidge administrations, | we would do so. Others tell me that the young people who fought the war, in many and varied capacities, have shed | a great many prejudices and acquired a great under~ standing and courage ut the future. These young people may not be.so y classified in any political party. But they will vote for the meén and women whom they feel represent the liberal points of view which most of them have come to think are a necessity to insure economic and political stability in the future, Two things, I found, are much in the people's minds. One is the poll tax bill, and the other is the fair employment practices act. Curiously enough, the colored minority, whom one would expect to be chiefly concerned, rarely mentions these two bills. | It is nearly always in groups of white people that someone asks a question about them. Getting a truthful answer to that first question

which was asked me will be difficult until after the next election, and then perhaps we will find that the answer varies in different parts of the country. " v ;

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We do need spring tonics, but we

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have many - which are far better

The only proper medical use of {sulphur today is as an external

spring tonic. For a long time this|cajve in the treatment of skin combination enjoyed an unusual] diseases, infections, scabies and lice. reputation as a blood purifier, but doubt is now cast upon its value as the prescription for what ails us at this time of year,

xt is never taken internally, as it {acts as an irritant cathartic to the | bowel. The molasses part of the pre{scription is a different matter. { When sulphur and molasses enjoyed its real vogue, old-fashioned molasses was used in the mixture. This was rich in iron and vitamins, and, as a result, it did have some | value. " | IF WE wish to increase the iron lin ‘the diet today, we eat such | foods as red meat, green vegetables, whole wheat, egg yolk, carrots, and | fruit. | The vitamins which our forefathers used to get out of old-fash-

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| ioned molasses can now be obtained | honor guest at a dinner meeting of | self, but she may cause two men

| from so many sources that. it is not {wise to depend upon one food for [ them; Do you need a spring tonic? If you are not well, this is a good time to go in for a checkup. It is just the usual fatigue incident to the change of season, that is another matter, and the best tonic for you is to get out in the open air and take a litle exercise.

this time of year, and as soon as possible we should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, PT SOME OF you have had pro- | longed respiratory infections this | year. This is_ especially true of children, for they are more suscep-

(UA | tible than are adults.

A few years ago a hospital made a study of the blood of children who “had repeated winter infec- ' tions. Physicians found that many

Our diets do need attention at]

of them were actually anemic, and instead of being. permitted to wait for the blood to regenerate in the natural way, they were given transfusions of whole blood before they were sent home. There was a surprising decrease in re-admissions among them after this was done. To fight spring fever, get outside, exercise, and change your diet from the heavy foods of winter to the lighter foods of spring. If you @an possibly do so, put in a garden and grow your own spring tonics. A good night's sleep in a well ventilated room will prepare you for the new day and its responsibilities.- A good breakfast, and a lighter lunch, will help.

'ADULT EDUCATION DINNER MEETING SET

Governor Ralph F. Gates will be

the Indiana State Association for Adult Education at 6:30 p. m. Friday in the Severin hotel. The association meets Friday and Saturday. Speakers at the two-day meeting include Ford P. Hall, of the adult education division of Indiana university; Howard Y, McClusky, director of the adult education program at the University of Michigan, and Cyril O. Houle, dean of the university college of the University of Chicago. ’ Harold F. Brigham, of the Indiana state library, is president of the association.

PLAN PILLOW SLIP PARTY

The Arfarata council will sponsor a pillow slip card party ®t 1:30

fair, St ’

p. m. tomorrow in the Food Craft shop in the Century bldg. ‘Mrs. Louise Hale is in charge of the af-

Men Will Never | Admit Women | | Can Drive Well

By RUTH MILLETT XI SAYS somewhere that the women of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, tired of the insulting attitude men have toward women drivers, have decided to keep tab on the accident records of men and women all over the country, hoping the statistics will prove women are at least as good drivers as men are, It's a waste of time, ladies. If you succeed in proving (and what woman doubts but that you will?) that men get into more trouble on the road than women do, the men will refuse to accept the evidence,

driving behind her to collide.” Or they'll say: “Well, maybe women don't have as many aceldents as men do. But they cah certainly scare a man to death when they get behind the wheel of a car.” ' ” ” » YOU CAN'T win, women. Men made up their minds when the automobile nosed out the horsedrawn carriage that women hadn't the brains to drive a car, During the war, WACs chauffered generals, women drove trucks and taxies, countless wives kept cars intact while their husbands were gone, yet none of those act

are really safe drivers. So no statistics you can produce will. do a bit of good. The phrase, “a woman driver,” will always be uttered in a tone of mixed amuse

|ESSAY CONTEST WON

accomplish- | Me ments convinced men that women|

Housing

Here's Gl Home, Two Bedrooms, Only $1925.96

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 1.— Vie Meyers, only man ever to enter politics wearing a sheet and leads ing a goat, came to town with “the honeymoon G. I. home.” Trade-mark registered, copyright, and—for all he knows—patented, Lieut. Gov. Meyers of Washing= ton, I regret to report, wore nothe ing more spectacular than pls gray pants, but that is incidental The important thing is the hone eymoon house designed by his brother, Joe, to give a veteran and his bride a home complete with ironing board for $192598 1. 0. b. Everett, Wash, or as Vis | puts it: o “A soldier boy can marry his girl and live like a king for $16 a month.” » #n » THE MEYERS $0YS unpacked a model of the honeymoon home in the office of Senator Hugh. B, Mitchell of _you-know-where and ‘erectéd 4% in one minute flat on

house, Tasted good, too. I had three. W “When the boy gets a little older and makes a little more money,” Lieut. Gov. Vic said, “he can move his honeymoon home to the back of his lot and use it for a two-car garage.” I hope this does not sound like I'm trying to spoof the brothers Meyers, nor their partner, Washe ington State Senator Howard Bargreen. The idea of turnings honeymoon cottage into a garage knocks the props from under a romantical fellow like me, but I still think they've got something. So does Senator Mitchell. Let's take a look at the honeymoon G. I. home (ignoring its possibilities as a stall for the gasoline buggy when the honeymoon over): » » u . IT CONTAINS two bedrooms’ each 11 feet six inches by. nine feet six inches, a 15 by 11 foot living-dining room, a bathroom with shower but no tub, closets, a breakfast nook for when the honeymooners want to sit close together, a kitchem with cabinets, and all electric wiring. The walls are made of wooden planks, attached rigidly each to the other by splines patented by Joe; the panels are joined by mouldings invented by him. “Two men can put it up in four hours,” Joe said. “And when it's made of reds wood and varnished,” added Vie, “it's beautiful, inside and out.” » ” »

“AND THE young soldier, who's getting rooked on every side, can buy one for less than $2,000," added Joe, a long-time building contractor in San Jose, Cal. He said he'd seen houses he built a few years ago for $4000 being sold to veterans for $7000, Bankruptcy for the youthful pure chasers, he said, was inevitable. The honeymoon G. I. home, he said, is the ideal solution. ¢ Vie, the one-time , jazz band leader (his specialty was the banjo), is such a dignified gove ernment official now that I'll mention only briefly how his sheet and his goat got him into politics. He ran for mayor of Seattle as a gag; he lost the election despite his raiment and his pet, but gained a lasting interest in publie life, He's been lieutenant govers nor since 1932 and not once since then has he appeared in publi in a bed sheet, Pants only. Day in and day out.

BY KOKOMO YOUTH

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