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THE WAY G. 1. uniforms pop up as civvies proves “It isn't what you wear but the way you wear it.” In one block, between Washington and Market sts. on Illinois st. yesterday we saw three veterans ‘and three different ways of wearing olive drabs. - One .sergeant looked just like any other soldier with one exception—a small gold “homing .pigeon” sewed to his coat indicating he'd be lopking for civvies soon. Another veteran, who apparently hadn't had much luck in finding civvies, still had khakis ‘on but he was wearing a definitely un-G. I. tie, one of the loudest hand-painted jobs we've ever seen. The third had converted his trousers into “zoot” fashion, pulled his battle-jacket into a wasp-waist and had it topped with a genuine zoot-suiters long-peaked CARN s+

Some wag did some fancy switching in G. C. Murphy's book department yesterday. Under a sign reading “An Unforgettable Love Story .of the West,” the Jokester had covered the advertised book, “Duel in the Sun,” with several copies of “The Wolf,” by Leonard Sansone.

Mrs. Norman Warner and her prize egg . . . She'd like to withdraw the egg and keep the shell.

Germans’ Barter

BERLIN, May 24.—An old man holds a pair of child’s shoes in one hand, a hammer in the other.cA woman offers a gold brooch, an old winter coat. Another has a dress, another a few kitchen knives— combs, sweaters, shoes, cheap cameras, binoculars, radio tubes, saws, locks, jewels. An endless mass -of humans gone back 800 years to basic law of supply and demand-—the barter system. It is the Tauschmarkt, or barter market, where the people come to trade. A woman needs shoes, has a jacket she needs less. Perhaps she will find a person who has shoes her size and wants her jacket. Or she may seil the jacket in one of ‘the stalls and try to buy shoes. Another has a string of beads, an ancient brocch. “I must buy bread, black market,” she sighs. “Will you tell the Americans,” says an old man, “that we all are hungry, That is why we come here like traders of ancient times, but with only what little we have left—trying to eat.”

Beer Stein $150 ,

I ADMIRED a big stein. “It is 1500 marks,” said the owner. “Why, that's $150,” I cried, doing a little official figuring. “So,” he said, “a carton of cigarets I will take for it.” He was right. Marks mean nothing, cigarets do. The Tauschmark is behind a wall, almost a block square with booths of old boards or tin around the rim and down the center. There, people have set themselves up as merchants, to buy what is offered, sell

Science

GRADUALLY IT is becoming clear to an Increasingly large number of leaders of American thought that the only hope for the future of civilization lies in the establishment of permanent and lasting peace. This was the theme song of last week's George Westinghouse Centennial Forum held in Pittsburgh to

celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Westinghouse. It was echoed by university presidents, Nobel Prize winners, atomic bomb experts and important industrialists. : Gwilym A. Price, president of the Westinghouse Electric Corp., expressed it in these words: “Instruments, techniques, theories—all developed for purposes of destruction—have given us a new wealth and a new challenge. The awesome power which we now have for destruction has given us a new, and ‘I hope, a lasting realization of ‘the impact of science on our affairs. “In return for our new-found wealth we are forced to assume new and critical responsibilities. We must view the bewildering number of forces and agencies we now have and, with conviction and faith, shape them to good purposes. ’ “One fact we must not forget—one problem stands like a colossus before us—that the destructive forces which have come from this war make our obligation to prevent another war immediate and inescapable.

Can't Exaggerate Force “NOBODY CAN exaggerate the power of these destructive forces. If ‘we ever allow ourselves—by thought or action or faltering courage—to permit these forces to be unleashed, we will have commit-

My Day

NEW YOBK (Thursday)—I found Senator Vandenberg’s statement on our foreign policy particularly interesting, It strengthens us very much with the rest of the world when they realize our policy will be supported no matter which political party may be in power aad regardless of any change is the administration. I hope very much the next meeting on peace treaties actually may bring about some settlements. Keeping armies in Europe and not letting people return to normal living is unhealthy and detrimental to their recovery. Certain agreements made in the past may have to be revised in the light of new circumstances. For instance, enough industry must be allowed in Germany’ so, she will not have to count on subsidies from other countries to live. The heavily industrial Ruhr area must function—and function quickly and effectively—but in the interests “of the whole of Europe, not in the interests of Germany alone and certainly not in the interests of the old private industrial groups. Interested in World Peace 1 FIND myself hoping for a better basic understanding among the great powers. We should be able to mccept the fact none of- us is interested in any further individual aggrandizement, but only in building joint strength for peace through the United

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. MRS. NORMAN"WARNER, 2004 High School rd. found a very strange egg in one of her hens’ neste the other morning and thereby hangs a tale. The egg was of normal size and looked just like an egg on one end. The other, however, had an extra covering of shell which wound around the end. like a tail. Mrs, Warner has been keeping the egg in her refrigerator but she'd like to preserve it permanently if there is any way of withdrawing the egg without disturbing the shell. Any you amateur chemists know how she can do it? .., . The students in Charles. Walters’ speech class at Butler university took a couple tests some rfionths back. They waited and waited for the return of the papers, but the professor didn't return them or mention them. Naturally, none of the students was anxious to remind him. Wednesday Prof. Walters returned the papers with this explanation: He frequently travels around making speeches (not on memory courses, we hope) and somewhere on his tour he lost the test papers. He recently got them back from a Chicago hotel, where'd he'd made an appearance. We bet the students. .who didn't get passing grades will never patronize that particular Chicago hotel,

Wants Credit for ‘West Side’ GEORGE CAFOUROS, editor of the South Side Spotlight, says people in his end of town are all riled up over newspaper references to the W. Morris st. Belt railroad grade separation as a “South Side” project. According to Editor Cafouros, any true South sider will tell you W. Morris st. at the Belt is definitely on the West side and that it services West side residents. The real South side grade separation, at Shelby st. and’ the Belt, is still in the blueprint stage, he says. ... That green Duesenberg frequently parked in front of the Y. M. C. A. has aroused our curiosity. We wonder if its owned by local people or a Speedway visitor. . . . Another touch of color around our town are the freshly painted fire alarm box and Gamewell stand at Pennsylvania and Washington sts. The fire box is red and the Gamewell blue, and both are the brightest shades we've seen in ages. But it won't be long before the smog tones them down. .. . T. Sgt. and Mrs. Russell Schwartz, 438 S. Rural st., have an “adopted” member of their family, Down at Camp Atterbury where the sergeant is stationed, a mother dog became ill. She was taken to the veterinarian and her puppies were up for “adoption.” Sgt. Schwartz took one home and with it brought a lot of work. “Candy,” had to be fed with a spoon for weeks but now has graduated to the baby food stage so the Schwartzes don’t have to get up every three hours. It was only a canine “adoption” says Mrs, Schwartz, but it was as much trouble as a real infant.

By Jack Bell

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when a buyer comes along. Forming a squared circle inside the booths are those who wait for a trade,

Real and Tragic IT WOULD BE ridiculous and humorous were it not so real and so tragic. A man stands solemnly, a woman's hat perched atop his head, a dress draped over an arm. A hag holds a long white fur coat. Two women talk a moment, suddenly take off their dresses, exchange and walk away. A woman with a beautiful lace tablecloth trades it for a well-worn bra and pair of black stockings. A child's toy bear goes for an elbow for a water pipe. A woman with a kitchen pot haggles with another who has a silk waist (frayed). They get nowhere, until a man with an elaborately carved pipe in a leather case, and a woman with a pair of rugby shoes, join them. A couple of well-fondled cigarets figure into the transaction and finally everybody gets something, one of the women winding up with the pipe. These Tauschmarkts are scattered throughout Germany. Here, and elsewhere too in Europe, the

niceties of trade under a modern monetary system |

are gone. The people have turned the hands of civilization back to midnight—to the 12th century before the rise of the merchant princes. One of Berlin's better jewelers has asked to call on me tonight. He is bringing his merchandise in a bag. I think he wants cigarets. It is as the Germans say, “nix goot.” Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, e.

By David Dietz

ted the great Institutions we here represent, will be as dust.” This solmen warning from one of the nation’s leading industrialists, was matched by what the other speakers had to say in the forum. Warns Civilization at Stake DR. ARCHIBALD V. HILL, famous British medical scientist, Nobel Prize winner and foreign secretary of the Royal Society of England, warned the forum that the survival of civilization was at stake in the decisions now made. “History can show many examples of regional civilization which grew and flourished, and then somehow became ustable and disappeared,” Dr. Hill said. “There is a strong tendency in the human mind, particularly in England and America, to reflect complacently, ‘Ah, yes, but those things never happen to us.’ “Perhaps the last few years may have taught some of us a lesson. They very nearly did happen to us.” Dr. Hill summed up the problem now facing civi-| lization in this question: ' | “Will the products of human reason, ingenuity |

grand explosion in which civilization will perish?” To be a prophet of doom is foreign to my nature. | But vet I feel that I must emphasize these solemn

warnings of great scientists and leaders of thought $§ again and again. Somehow, the civilization must be |”

brought home to every citizen that the future of civi- | lization hangs in the balance at this very moment.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

a performance of “Call Me Mister.” This is a G. Li show, and even: the girls in it were connected with the armed services in some way. Melvyn Douglas and Herman Levin certainly have presented a show which gives one an entertaining evening. Here and there are some words and scenes of serious import, but they go down easily.

Gets Original of Song HAROLD ROME, who wrote the music and the lyrics, has done a delightful job, as usual. Betty Garrett's performance is outstanding. And

it will be a long time before we hear any songs much better than “Tite Red Ball Express” and “The Face on the Dime.” The cast, through Mr. Rome, presented me with the original of the latter song, which will /take its place in the Hyde Park library along with so many other tributes to my husband. Yesterday morning. I called for ex-Senator Townsend of Delaware and drove him to Hyde Park. 1 showed him around our place. When he casually mentioned that he grew 1500 acres of lima beans, 1 realized our problems were very small. But he seemed to like our woods and was much interested in my husband's Christmas tree plantations. He left us after luncheon. : i | In the evening, I had supper at the Vassar ‘glumnae house, and then gave the Helen Kenyon lecture. After the lecture, we all went over to the

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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946

CAMERA CLOSEUPS ON RAIL STRIKE . . . By Dean Timmerman

Trainmaster Dons Blue Denims

Trainmaster W. J. Hayes of the Monon doffed his blue business

suit to don blue denims and pilot the famous 5 p. m. Hoosier to Chicago yesterday when the regular enginéer failed to appear,

Charles Penman of Schenectady, N. Y., wasn't disturbed by sharp enrves when he slept aboard the N. Y. C.’s Knickerbocker last night, The train was strike-stalled at Union station.

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directly affected by the raliroad and skill, accumulating with ever-growing speed, com-| strike here was 7-weeks-old Peggy Kathleen LeGay, whose parents, bine with human irresponsibility to set up a final| Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm LeGay, were en route from El Paso, Tex, to

Boston when stranded aboard the Knickerbocker,

Passengers in the lounge car of the Knickerbocker, N. Y. C. express, were in good spirits last might despite their enforced stopover here. Shown with Conductor P. H. Kenney, they are (left to right) Neil

Schenectady, N, Y.,, and Mr, and

Mrs. Robert Minor, bound for Portland, Me. .

GETS MEDAL OF HONOR

-Pfe. Dirk *J. lug, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been: awarded the congressional medal of honor for: sin-gle-handedly destroying five Jap-

old gymnasium building and I answered questions for three-quarters of #n hour. ~~ = ;

VOTE TO STAY ON JOB CLEVELAND, May 24 (U, P).~

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.).| Seventy members of the Brother-

hood of Locomotive Engineers voted last’ night to remain on the job. They operate the municipally owned Shaker Heights Transit System, a

anese tanks with a bazooka in the/commuter service to Cleveland and

Philippines on Dec, 15, 1044, the war|did not. participate in the’ strike

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For awhile, Fireman Roy Johnson of the Heesier didn’t know whether he'd shovel coal from here to Chicago or not until Mr. Hayes He and other firemen aren't striking.

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Crewmen unload perishable freight from a B. & O. train. A run to Decatur, Ill, was cancelled by the strike. . On the express wagon are lettuce, baby chicks, movie film,

Pennsylvania's crack Jeffersonian then walked off the job. A Pennay

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Engineer C. E. Slack’'s eyes were tear-dimmed when he eased the

into Union station last evening, road foreman, who had engineered

before, piloted the Jeffersonian eastward after the strike deadline.

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Gets Ohio State Dean's O.K.

COLUMBUS, May 24 (U, P.).— The dean of women at Ohio State university sald today there was no objection, and certainly no regulation, against a coed kissing her boy friend good night in & dormitory lobby. An unidentified student wrote a letter to the university daily and complained that she and her boy friend, and numerous other couples, were frustrated in their goodnight kissing in the lobbies of dormitories and university houses, “In fact, it we so much as hold hands the housemothers cast suspicious glances in our directions,” she wailed. Dean of Women Christine Y. Conaway emphasized that a discreet buss in the vestibule was perfectly - pi > “We just want the girls to r

as good taste, and not go too far,” she said. y The nameless, kissless coed covered that subject, too. “I'm not advocating that they turn. out the lights and let couples neck for hours. But these are supposed ta be our homes while we're students here,” she pointed out, . She asked if housemothers or higher-ups’ would “prefer that we \sesk out dark corners of the cam-

pus or it in parked cars along’ the river?” or ; MRS. TRUMAN NAMED WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P

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==Othman’s Travels— Europeans Are Smart 'Fellers,’

| Othman Finds

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Stall Co LONDON, May Hm You know

how our American hotels wep moaning about the customers walk« ing off with room keys? The Hotel Metropole in Brussels has no such trouble. It merely rivets each key to an {ron cannonball. Nobody will put one of those im his pocket absent-mindedly. If he does, his suspenders will snap and he'll be walking around Belgium pantsless, , What I'm driving at is that the Buropeans are smart fellers, too, Maybe they're backward in some ways, and then again maybe they're not. I'm still trying to make up my mind, now that I've almost finished the grand tour of Europe and about to catch a Pan American clipper for home. So let us consider some European

trated the United States: ~ A * IN LONDON, there is an amase ing new window for automobiles,

{No cranks, no gears. No machine

ery at all. You just lift it up or push it down, as you would a wine dow in your living room. Simple, hey, Detroit? All Paris elevators have seats. And why not? They come in handy for

wayfarers from Montmartre like Ame :

Every first class passenger aboard the Golden Arrow, de luxe London to Paris train, has a footstool, Mighty comfortable. The Paris bar« tender doesn’t worry about how much you owe. He serves each glass of rum on a saucer; then he counts the saucers. When you get strawberries and cream in a Roman restaurant, the walter brings a spoon and fork. In Belgium you eat your vegetables with a butter knife. This is easier than a fork, obviously, and since it's dull there isn’t muth chance of cutting your lip.

» . . ITALIAN HABERDASHERS ine clude with every shirt an extra collar and two extra cuffs for your wife to sew on when the originals wear out. The arms of most French easy chairs unhinge to ree veal your smoking tobacco and pipe. Order a sandwich in Rome and the man brings you a plate of assorted ones which he has counted beforehand. Then he charges you for the ones you eat. Throughout Europe the hot water pipes come out in the open to form racks for the bathroom towels, There's nothing finer than a hot towel on a cold morning. Italians use pottery dinner plates sunk in concrete walls as decorations for their houses. The effect is handsome. » ” » THE BRITISH Overseas Aircraft Corp., which brought me from Brussels to London on the next to last lap of my journey, produced two amazing innovations. The coffee was hot. The pilok presumed that the passengers were not so many potatoes in sacks and sent us back bulletins about where we were, how high, how fast we were going, and what the tempera« ture was outside. uropean books are cheap because they have paper covers like magazines.

» ” - WHEN YOU buy something from anyone anywhere in Europe, he says thanks and smiles as if he means it. Even if you decide not to buy it, he says thanks for coming in. For one solid month nobody has snarled at me. Sounds like Utopia. Guess I'd better get back to real ity in the U, 8. A. before I forges how it feels to be bawled out by a cop.

We, the Wome Youngsters Seem to Know Black Market

By RUTH MILLETT POLICE of San Diego, Cal, are investigating a black market in bubble gum operated by a group of business-like small fry. It seems they bought up all the available bubble gum at retail prices, held it until it got scarce, and then sold it for as much as 50 cents a packe age. It looks as if their education for the modern adult world is abou complete. Turn em loose on meat, nylons, cars, etc, and they ought to make some real money. ” » » THEY'VE LEARNED two lessons well, One is that you can always find a black market if you have a scarce article for sale. The other is that the sky is the limit with some folks when it comes to the price they will pay to get something that other people don’t have,

» ~ . Explaining to the small fry just what is wrong with profiteering on bubble gum is going to be some job. One of them is likely to pop up with, “But Daddy bought Mama some nylons for $5.”

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