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Inside Indianapolis

THERE'S AN OLD saying about “birds of a feath« - er” and Hoosier Democrats think it fits pretty well in the case of the two veteran politicos who run the party show in Indianapolis. f They're the men who will guide the destinies of the Democratic state (and county organizations through the coming campaigns — State Chairman Pleas Greenlee and County Chairman Walter C. Boetcher, In addition to their party afliation, they have one striking political characteristic in common— they're easy to “play il with: but impossible to control. Pleas Greenlee, whose home is in Shelbyville, might be called the “Horatio Alger” of Democratic politics. He's not exactly a rags-to-riches type, but

in a strictly political sense he has come from away

outside the party's inner circles to its number one spot. : Mr. Greenlee first neared the tep of ‘the political ladder during the heyday of dapper former Governor Paul V. McNutt, As the era of the “New Deal” was getting underway nationally, Mr, Greenlee was distinguishing himself as a “king-maker.” Among the names he helped build to great heights in the public eye were those of former Senator Sherman Minton and of Mr, McNutt himself. As executive secretary in charge of patronage under the McNutt administration, Mr. Greenlees

name became associated with the beer and liquor

setup, which ultimately proved an unfortunate association for all concerned. Near the top already, Mr. Greenlee reached for the last rung of the ladder in 1936 when he sought the Democratic nomination for governor.

Missed on Last Rung BY THAT ONE RUNG, Mr, Greenlee missed the goal. He lost the nomination, and in the political “purge” that followed most of his friends lost their slate jobs. For 10 years the wily Shelbyville veteran worked away at the grassroots level until his party, seeking to crack its way back into political power, called him recently to lead the coming campaign. Mr. Greenlee is really a native of Rush county but he's been a resident of Shelbyville since he was 10. He's 55 now, a veteran of world war I in which he received the Purple Heart after being gassed. While still overseas in 1917 he was elected Shelby county clerk and was on his way in an up and down political career. Like so many Hoosier political leaders, he took his advanced training in American Legion politics. Today, besides being state chairman, he is active in business and farming. He's married and the father of three children, Mrs. Hewitt Crisby of Washington, D. C, Lt. Cmdr. Pleas E. Greenlee Jr., of the U, 8. navy, and 5-year-old William E. Greenlee,

Boetcher Is Veteran in Politics COUNTY COUNTERPART of the state chief, Mr. Boetcher is a‘veteran of even more years in politics. Mr. Boetcher gave an early demonstration of his thoroughness in a political way by starting from

German Vice

BERLIN, May 25.—The breakdown of family life and the whole wave of immorality sweeping Germany today is so widespread that the vice président of Berlin's major court says sadly: “I cannot understand my own people.” In this city alone, where it is easy to tabulate the results of post-war disillusionment because there is only one divorce court for the whole Berlin district, 12,000 cases have been registered since last November. And increasing juvenile delinquency is swamping the court calendars, too. “All the old values have been swept away,” says Herr Doktor Gunther Greffin, vice president of the Landgreichts, a court which corresponds to the U. S. superior courts. In Hitler's reign, he had to give up the bench because he refused to join the Nazi party, but he was the first German legal specialist called in by the Russians to reorganize the Berlin court system. “My people have lost all sense of decency,” he reflects. “I am not referring to what you call “fraternization,’ because that, too, is a consequence of war, but to ordinary moral ethics. They no longer exist.”

Divorce Rate Up 25% DIVORCE CASES alone account for 90 per cent of all the civil actions being tried in the Berlin Landgreichts, Since Germany's collapse, the divorce rate for the whole defeated nation is estimated to have increased 25 per ceet. Judge Greffin finds that most of the divorce proceedings are. instituted by women, with adultery and political affiliations as the chief causes. German soldiers who lived in luxury with native women in occupied countries are bitterly resented by their wives who- were compelled to live in privation atWiome. And in reverse, returning German soldiers

Aviati “THE PUBLIC is becoming blase toward aviation.” Oh, yeah? Just get ready for the greatest summer of air show attendance ever seen in this country. It was commonly assumed that we had hit the peak of public interest in flight before the war. Few realized that the public interest of that date was based first upon a Truly technical curiosity of the lower teenagers, and the thrill-seeking urge of their elders. Up to the beginning of the war; the keenest interest of the ‘elder centered around their strong convictions, one way or another, on the highly controversial subject of army and navy control of the air arms and the fight of the latter to break loose. Millions of eager youngsters had developed an almost fanatical urge toward building scale models—accurate to within a thousandth of an inch—and rubber-band-powered flying models. The upper layer of age strata were building and entering their finished jobs, powered by tiny gasoline engines, in flight competition. The model builders 211 swarmed toward the army and navy aviation services. Meanwhile, their successors, the millions of new enthusiasts, were trying to get aviation reading materials, model blueprints and the wherewithal to build their own planes.

Youngsters’ Day Has Come THESE MILLIONS of youngsters were of war necessity practically neglected, and yet they were patiently waiting for their day. That day has come for them, as technical information begins to trickle through and the material and tiny power plants become available once more,

My Day

NEW YORK (Friday)—Yesterday afternoon the railroad strike did actually start. No postponement this time. And all over the country, one thing after another will slow down and stop. People will be made uncomfortable, raw materials will not come in, finished materials will not go out, jobs will close down. If I'am not mistaken, labor and management are going to find that all this is going to lead to some rather drastic results, As I pointed out before, I do not blame labor itself, but the leadership in industry and,” to some extent, in labor has been shortsighted. No one has managed to bring legitimate grievances to an end. Management is chiefly concerned, I imagine, with replacing. rolling stock and with the physical difficulties they have had to face as a result of the war, but the human problems eventually reach the boiling point. However, a whole, nation's wellbeing should not be jeopardized by any group, whether they be miners or railroad or ull men.

Cites Case in Britain SOMEONE was telling me, not long ago, about s plan for labor courts where each difficulty, as it arose, would be brought in and analyzed on a factfinding basis, and judges would render opinions as

they do in any other court of law. That may be a,

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Two men with politics in mindi-Walter C.

Boetcher chairman,

(standing), Marion county and state chairman,

Democratic Pleas Greenlee.

the bottom. At 18 he was a bicycle messenger. be-

tween ward and precinct: headquarters in the old|

fourth ward. By.-the time he was 21 he was a precinct com-

mitteemsan and four years later took over the ward, which included all of what now constitutes the fourth,

fifth and sixth wards. Two flings in the business world, first in the grocery business and. then as sec-retary-tréasurer of the old Meridian Service Co. from 1919 to 1932 did not dampen his interest in| politics. |

Some of the spots he’s held are assistant chief | SATY by the coal and rail strikes.

clerk in the street departrhent under former Mayor | John Holtzman, chief clerk of the Barrett law department, president of the Board of Works under former Mayor Reginald Sullivan's first administration. He was city controller while John W. Kern was mayor, and when Mayor Kern resigned, served! as acting mayor for 16 months in 1937 and 1938. The veteran leader took over the reigns of the county committee in 1934 and stuck for two terms. In 1938 and 1940 he dropped out to run successfully! for county treasurer, and in the sweep which followed | the recent party reorganization he began his third term as county chairman. In private life, Mr. and Mrs. Boetcher live on two and a half acres which keeps them both busy.! But aside from his home job of gardening and yardtending, Mr. Boeicher will be devoting full time to his county chairmanship. (By Robert Bloem.)

By Rosette Hargrove

bitterly resent finding their places in the affections of women usurped by well-fed occupation troops. Herr Greffin sees this latter factor as the big

reason for the collapse of “long distance TE a

which are the ones most frequently before his bench.

Not Difficult to Marry . |

DURING WAR it was not difficult for Hans, fight-| ing far from home, to get permission (with all ar-! rangements made) to marry his Gerda back home via! long-distance telephone. For Gerda it meant the |

rationing privileges.

special rent a ang The return the warrior breaks up the illusion of

long-distance romance, more often than not because

Gerda had someone else who was not far, far away While the greater percentages of couples now seek-

ing divorce are under 35, there are many cases of older women now getting or granting a divorce!

which they would not have contemplated defeat because of the husband's pension. Since the Russians have abolished the rules that said divorce would eliminate a woman's right to the pension wher her husband died, there is no longer any reason to hold out. The sharp rise in juvenile delinquency is attributed in large part to post-war scarcity, and the juveniles! are being spurred on by their elders. In a recent case, a ring of youthful robbers, aged|

before

from 12 to 14, was broken up with the capture of |

the offenders and eight adults who were spurring] them to steal soap and cigarets from U. S. army warehouses. “The great shock to me,” observes Judge Greffin, “is that looters like this are not the poor members o the community, but people like myself.”

By Maj. Al Williams

_ Every year until the airplane gets to be as commonplace as the aytomobile, there will be millicns of new teen-agers coming along to keep the torch of aviation burning brightly. Even though adults may become blase toward the flying game, these youngsters will drag them out to airports. In fact, it was the youngsters of prewar days who accounted for most of the adult attendance at air shows.

Believes Public Interested THE PUBLIC is blase? Well, just take a tip. All you have to do today is to take a fighter practicing maneuvers, or take position with that fighter about 1500 to 2000 feet, a- few hundred feet off the end of a runway, and then in a series of altitude-losing maneuvers achieve a good three-point landing on the end of said runway,

As you taxi to the line you will be amazed at the] buildings, workshops and restaurants which have been |

emptied of people to watch the simple little unan- |

nounced demonstration of airmanship. Too, you will! listen to some complaints about your show having diverted a lot of workmen from their labors, Blase? Humph! National interest of America is just gathering its

breath for a really intensive and thtelligent interest |

in the flying game. Technologically, aviation advanced about twenty years during the war, while the public's I. Q. swung forward only about five years on the strength of the war's air news. ‘They've had a real taste. Now watch the upswing of public interest in flying this summer,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

possible solution. Great Britain, after the general strike there, set up the most complicated mechanism which, from that time on, seems to have obviated strikes on any big scale, I have a feeling that that, or something similar to it, is what is going to come out of our present situation.

Workers Also Part of Public THE PUBLIC—and the workers themselves are included in the public—will not long accept any situation in which everybody suffers. I wonder whether, with all his vaunted wisdom and foresight, John IL. Lewis knew, when' he started the coal-strike ball rolling, where it would come to rest. In the past, there have been many people in the business world who have wanted to control gov-

ernment, and have controlled it to a great extent.! I think that same ambition has

In recent years, been in the.minds of some of our labor leaders. The leaders of industry sought control for a privileged few, but always I am sure they would have added that, while a small group might hold power, it was for the benefit of the great mass of people. The well-being would flow down from the top. The leaders of lahor who desire power today undoubtedly believe they too desire it benefit, of the people as a whole, .

Hoosier Profiles

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2400 FIRMS IN CITY NOTIFIED

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Move Effective at 7. A. M.

Tomorrow; Householders Not Affected.

will be shut off.

non-essential users.

dairies, meat, poultry, fish and per-

Blames Strike Situation The emergency measure, Thomas L. Kemp, general manager of the {gas utility said, was made neces-

Iwhich have depleted coal piles to less than a three-week supply. “Taking this step now will make it possible to serve domestic con{sumers during this emergency and thus protect the public health and safety,” he said. He urged housewives their use of gas as much as possible during the emergency. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce pointed out that the sweeping move coupled to other shortages caused by strikes would have serious effect on the community and may eventually throw all the city’s 92,000 industrial employees out of work. Means Further Layoffs Industrial users now are receiving only 24 hours service a week. Some already have been forced to The utility order will mean further layoffs, starting Monday. The word went out to the city's industrial users by telephone and {letter this morning, and all were | expected to abide by the emergency | measure, although meters will not

Six hundred industrial and 1800 commercial firms in Indianapolis today were notified that their gas

The drastic move, effective at 7 a. m. tomorrow, will affect virtually ~ |every manufacturer in the city as well as commercial firms such as taverns, private clubs, repair shops, beauty shops, cleaners and other

The order, issued by Citizens Gas

& Coke utility, will not affcit|tiled the lower part of their garhouseholders. Exempted also are{den. During the first part of the hospitals, restaurants, bakeries, |recent downpours the tiling was

ishable food packing plants, utilities, public transportation systems, refrigeration units and newspapers.

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GARDENING: Rainy Sea

By MARGUERITE SMITH DON'T BE discouraged if your vegetable garden has been delayed by the recent wet weather. You have plenty of company! And if your garden is planted just as it should be you're lucky, foresighted, or maybe just the owner of a sandy, swift draining plot, Herewith are the comments of a few experienced gardeners. “The slowest garden wé've had.” Mrs. Ben 8S. Armstrong, 5920 N. Ewing st, said of their season's planting. “Our peas are covered with blossoms but they're only half as tall as they usually are. Last year by this time when strawberries were coming on we had corn already up, but this year we have the bulk of our planting to do.”

~ » ® TWO YEARS ago Mr. Armstrong

noticeably helpful in draining off water. “But with the continuous rains we just couldn't get onto the ground to work it,” Mrs. Armstrong said.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen, 58

Kenmore rd., are among the few who got an early start. Part of their garden is low but it is tiled.

much as a day during a heavy rain but tiling is a big benefit,” Mrs. Allen said. part of April and protected by Hot-

Three hundred late tomatoes are to conserve set out but “they haven't been

“Water may stand there for as

Their early tomatoes, set the first

kaps are now nicely established.

growing so well though they'll be [all right.” They don't expect their mangoes to do much until it warms up. 7

» » . BUT THE cool weather just suited their potatoes, put in April 12th. And some corn they risked in April not only survived but is now several inches tall This year they are planting a

Dear Miss Tillie: My boy started school in January. Here it is May and he can’t read yet. His teacher tells me he's

(actually be turned off.

: Harder to reach were the small prestige of being the wife of a soldier of the Wehr-! commercial users, many of whom |what can I do about it? macht—plus 75 per cent of his civilian salary and will not realize that they are con-|{hink he's stupid. He seems IN-|than others. Have pati First |long before we

| cerned. | That was why the utility urged everyone to cut gas consumption to

. a minimum,

List to Get Gas

In invoking its order, the utility said gas would continue to be furnished to the following: 1. Fire and police stations, | pitals, and prisons. 2. Public eating establishments | (whose principal business is the serving of food) including industrial plant and store cafeterias, but not {including private dining rooms, | night clubs, taverns, etc. 3: Bakeries (to the extent neces{sary for the manufacture of bread | products only). 4. Dairies (to the minimum extent necessary to prevent loss of perish{able products). 5. Meat, poultry, fish and perishable food packing, raising and warehousing establishments (to the minimum extent necessary to pre- | vent loss of perishable products or material in process). 6. Power, gas, communications, water, sewage and sanitation systems, : 7. Public transportation systems including repair yards and shops engaged in the maintenance or repair of public transportation equipment. 8. Facilities used for the preservation of perishable food, biologicals | and pharmaceuticals. 9. Newspaper Production fac facilities. |

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NAMES ELKHART KHART MAN TO PERSONNEL BOARD

| Governor Gates today announced the appointment of Edward Beards-| ley of Elkhart, as a member of the |

| personnel board to fill the VACANCY | Ann was very careful to choose created by the expiration of the! the more literary of her friends,

term of Mrs. Oscar Ahlgren, Whiting. Mr. Beardsley is vice president | and general manager of the AlkaSeltzer Co. of Elkhart. He is 46 and served as a state senator in the Indiana - legislature / from Elkhart in the 1941 and 1943 sessions. He is active in civic affairs in| Elkhart and is a director in th Elkhart Chamber of Commerce. He is also a director of the First National Bank in Elkhart, & member of the Masonic lodge, and the Shrine. Mr. Beardsley served in the navy in the first world war and has one son, Ensign Laymon F, Beardsley, who is still in the South Pacific and two other children, Barbara and David, at home.

CENTURY TENANTS TO GET ‘CONSIDERATION’

Century building tenants who have been ordered to vacate by June 30 will be given individual consideration, Merrill D, Cummins, U. 8S. veterans administration director here, promised today. ““Where a tenant needs a few extra days to complete moving, we'll be lenient,” the VA official added. Tenants yesterday received 30day notices, with June 30 as the final moving date.

EXPECT ITALY FOOD CRISIS ROME, May 25 (U. P.).—8. M, Keeny, UNRRA chief in “Italy, said today Italy will face a bread crisis immediately after the election June 2 despite June UNRRA shipments | of an estimated 150,000 tons: of gain, 0

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getting along fine. I can't see it, when he's not learning to read. I don't

telligent to me. ANXIOUS PARENT.

DEAR ANXIOUS PARENT—

was when you went to school. suppose you began on the first day | |to learn the alphabet, if you didn't | already know it. Or, you had a |primer thrust at you, and some- | {how learned to read it. But that | procedure didn’t always work. Teachers, today, try to get beginning ‘children to WANT ta learn to read before they try to teach them how. (There's so much skill involved in doing this that I will have to tell you about it at some other time.) When the time is ripe, and teachers know the signs as doctors recognize the stages of improvement in their patients, reading instruction begins—and it “takes.” This period of getting ready to learn to read is known as reading readiness. From what you say about your boy, my guess is the teacher is putting him through the paces as a trainer does his race horse, and the, boy has not reached the point where he is ready to be taught to read.

It's called Aunt Mary's sweet corn. variety they tried out last season. White grained, it is sweet and milky

MISS TILLIE'S NOTEBOOK . . . By Hilda Wesson

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Charles Allen, 58 Kenmore rd. + «+ the potatoes and corn are coming along nicely.

Early Planters Are‘in Luck

even though left on the stalk for some time after maturity. Mr. and Mrs. Albert’ Lang, 3902 E. 62d st., with a garden plot mostly heavy clay, got some early garden planted. Their pick was ploughed last fall. “If you don't sot clay ploughed in the fall you don't get onto it until too late for early crops like peas,” Mr, Lang said. But during a hot, dry summer when other gardens are burning up, he thinks his water rententive clay isn't so bad.

~ » . ADDITION of humus in compost and all the leaves he can get helps to soak up and store excess moisture during wet periods for the dry spells we can expect in our average summer. Mr. Lang takes advantage of wet weather, too, when the ground is thoroughly soaked to clean up his asparagus bed and to weed rows of young beets and carrots. (It's also a good time to get rid of grass in the garden by pulling roots and all) He isn't much concerned that he

didn't get eggplant and peppers set out before the rains. “They won't do anything until it gets warm, even tomatoes need eat” he pointed out.

» ~ » BUT HE has some spinach that really thinks it is rhubarb, it has such large leaves, He used ammonium sulfate on either side of its seed trench, a little below the soll

|surface. With soil nitrogen only slowly

available during cool weather, the extra nitrogen in the sulfate gave his spinach a good boost. Use some now, if you like, on lettuce and cabbage, or any leafy

vegetable. Ome-quarter pound to 25 féet of row (with rows two feet

Reading Taught When It ‘Takes’

(Parents, teachers, and children, toe, send your school worries te Miss Tillie in care of The Times.)

THIS GETTING READY period takes longer with some children

thing you know, you'll find he's reading ‘everything. Do you realize

when children get into trouble at|Po school, their parents often are quick |the stolen goods, Reading isn't taught the way It)... iticice teachers and principals T!tor the punishment’ meted out?” >

| We who get the backfire do-—and fj"

regret such an attitude exists, Perhaps it comes about because parents must share with us that which

is most important in their lives— SHE WAS NOT AFRAID we

their children. At any rate hot on the heels of disclipinary action at school comes complaint from home.

No matter how well the punishment fits the offense the child has committed, no matter how guilty the defendant may be, most parents shield the culprit, and sometimes (if his tears drip freely enough) go so far as to uphold his misdemeanors and occasionally his madeup tales. There was Ben, for instance, who walked off with two Jap swords that had been brought to school for display in a war souvenir exhibit. We had suspected him of numerous small thefts for some time. He hid the swords at home. He let suspicion fall on one of the younger boys who openly had expressed a desire for them.

apart) is the usual application rate.

It was weeks before the real thief was found out and sufficient evidence gathered to accuse him. Eventually Ben admitted the theft and returned the loot. When his mother was sent for (and she, by the way, had known did where the

drop 10 cents on the dollar, except shoes.

That's because the government de-

swords were and how they got there) she protested her son had intention of keeping or selling that he hadn't meant to lie about taking them—

wn Home — Belgians Didn't Raise Wages; . They Cut Prices

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff

Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 25.~Whoole. Never thought I'd make it. The wind was blowing the wrong way across the Atlantic and the railroad strike was no help. But here I am at home again today with news from Belgium about how to lick inflation. Think those Belgians raised any. body's wages? Not them, They just cut prices 10 per cent on everything from postage stamps to beefsteaks as of next Saturday, Anybody who refuses to play ball gets socked where it hurts the worst. In the pocketbook, When’ I hit Brussels a few. days back, the government's back-handed whack at inflation there was not news. The cobblestone chiselers, the railroad engineers and all the other working folks sent delegations to parliament demanding a wage hike. . a = THE PREMIER sald, nothing doing. He sald how about cutting the cost of living? The unions said, okay, and that's the way it's been worked out. So I caught the Pan American clipper for home, writing not a line about Belgium's revolutionary solution of the labor problem on the theory everybody in America from President Truman on down would be talking about it. r vr ¥ I LANDED in New York and fought my way back to Wasaington and nobody even seems to have heard about the Beigian scheme to give the citizens a run for their money. Maybe Chester Bowles knows about it; perhaps it's a bum idea. Offhand, though, it seems to have its point. Let me tell you about it: On Saturday, June 1, the price of Belgian railroad tickeis go down 10 per cent. So do street car rides, gas, telegrams and potatoes. Jewelry will cost less; so will shirts and Brussels lace and movie tickets. The price of everything in Belgium will

. » » THEY'RE being cut 20 per cent. cided the shoe makers were ‘fat~ teers. Nobody goes to jail for violating the new law because (as it was explained to me) a smart lawyer can keep almost anybody out of a Belgian clink. The penalty works like this: The storekeeper who refuses to slash prices (and this includes the wholesaler and the manufacturer) gets a padlock on his door. He has to keep on paying his rent and the wages of his clerks,

he had yet to tell her his first lie, d had never really stolen anything in his life? And she didn’t | punished!

want

» ” would beat him. She knew our stand on corporal punishment. She knew, too, we would neither threaten nor persecute him. What she did want was for us to drop the whole affair and forget it. She wanted “none of us” in the guidance of her son. We were capable, she admitted, when it came to teaching Ben his school work, but we made big todo's over trifles. We interfered in affairs which were none of our concern; we knew nothing of the sensitiveness of children!

TODAY JIM SAID: My teacher treats us just like we were her friends. When I told her that, she said, “Well, you are, aren't you?” I'll say we are, but some teachers don't seem to know it.

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The Heart fo Find...

CHAPTER 18 IT WAS fun living in a hotel— Ann looking up old school friends and inviting them to lunch with her—and more fun to be grand and | impressive as Mrs, Colin Drake.

so her casual references to Colin and his books would not be lost. It was fun dropping into bookstores where she had spent countless hours as an intelligent but | undistinguished buyer, and have Colin introduce her to the attendnts who fell on him with loud

| with & new kind of respect. » ” ” THEIR LAST night in town—although Ann had no ides it would be their last night, when they started out—they met Connie and Davey at a dine and dance spot north of the city. Ann, with more new clothes than she knew what to. do with, had changed her mind three times about what dress she would wear, and ended up by wearing the dusty-pink| dress she had had for Jock's wedding—because Colin was =a bit sentimental about it, as it was the dress she was wearing when he first met her. So they were rather late in arriving, and found Nina and Jock at the table with Connie and Davey. Connie and Davey were just getting up to dance. ° They paused to greet them, and Davey informed them that dinner had heen ordered, and Nina and Jock had joined them, wasn't that nice? ~ » ~ ANN SMILED at Nina, who had bobbed her hair and was wearing it rather long, and curled at the ends. She decided she was just another pretty girl, instead. of being fhe distinguished beauty she had

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up at Colin, and said, “Darce with me? Ann won't mind—" “Might I point out that you have] a perfectly good husband?” Davey demanded. “Oh, I won't dance with Jock— he's doing his animal imitations again tonight,” Nina said carelessly’ her hand on Coliri's arm.

* » » ANN SAT down rather hastily, and smiled at Colin. The orchestra started to play, and Ann said, “Do you have a cigaret, Jock? “Forgive me,” Wock sald, proffering his case—a slender gold one, Ann ‘noted, and remembered the crumpled packs he used fo carry.

w » ” ANN DIDN'T say anything. She stirred a little in her chair, restJessly. What did one talk about to the man one had been in love with for years? Your wife should have left her hair long, she looks a little chichi, isn't the orchestra divine, and don’t you think I look elegant in the old sackcloth I was wearing on the day you broke my heart? - .t

“Want to dance?” Jock asked.

She weighed the two possibilities, both undesirable, Still, it would probably be easier to retain what little sanity she had left if she wasn't in his arms. “No, thank you.” De you ever think about me when I'm not there, how do you like being married to a wealthy girl, aren’t you ever nice and silly and to hell with the oonssquences any more?” ~ » » “Y SUPPOSE,” Jock began, a little difidently, “that I'd better ask your forgiveness for the other day, Ann. I did act like an awful ass, I guess ~but Nina and I had been having a row for a couple days on end, and I guess more than was good for me—"

“That was all right,” Ann sald

I'd been drinking

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tering about going on strike for | more money, now figure they won't

_ By Hazel Heidergott

awkwardly. That was all right, | that was just ducky, I thought you | meant it was all, haven't you any | [tact at all you utter idiot, oh my | | heavens, Jock, damn your beautiful | face, what is wrong with us? " nn AND THEN the others were returning to the table, and the aw-| ful nightmarish quality left, and she | was laughing and talking as if she | ‘were perfectly normal, Maybe she was perfectly normal, maybe that was what life was like, going along all nice and smooth and perfect and suddenly exploding a bombshell in your face. Between the cocktail and the soup she danced with Colin, and he didn’t talc at all and she was deeply grateful, When she danced with Jock later, she felt like a too tightly strung violin. “Relax, darlin’,” he mur~ mured into her ear, and then, with seeming diabolic intent the lights were dimmed, and Jock bent a little and pressed his cheek against hers, and she shut her eyes and listened to her heartbeats, Then Jock said, “Let's go outside, Ann,” and Ann, so sensibly she could scarcely believe it was she who was talking, answered, “Let's £0 back to the table.”

» » M ALL IN ALL, the evening was not an unqualified . success. Driving back to the hotel, through the night that was crisp and cold and very dark, Ann huddled low in the seat, the big collar of her coat around her ears. She sat close to Colin,

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‘|but he kept both hands on the

wheel until Ann said wistfully, “Won't you even hold my hand, Colin?” He looked af her swiftly, then

to cry. The next morning they packed

uates” of the six-month course -

took her hand in his. Ann wanted)

while he appeals to the government | with promises to be a good boy. » ~ ~ v THE WORKERS, who were mut-

need it. The railroads are running. The mines are producing coal in ever-increasing tonnage. The whole country’s hard at work. The hardware stores are stocked with lawnmowers, nails arid other things you haven't seen lately. You can get immediate delivery in Brussels on a vacuum cleaner, but who's in a hurry to buy? The sweeper that costs $100 today goes for $90 at 8 a. m. next Saturday. That's that and a fellow can hope, can't he?” ‘

—We, the Women

‘Bobbysoxers ‘Reform’ When They Want To

By RUTH MILLETT THE BOBBYSOXERS have an answer—if they care to use it—to James Montgomery Flagg's recent | verbal portrait of them. It wasn't a pretty picture. Said | the artist: “The bobbysoxers are ruining the American tradition of beautiful women, Girls used to be luscious. Now they're plain in- | digestable, A fine thing, when the most publicized American woman is the one who wears a man's dirty shirt, a sagging skirt, and socks bagging around what pass ‘for ankles.” ‘ The artist needn't mourn too deeply for the dear, dead days when girls tried to be pretty in- . stead of startling. In six months a bobbysoxer can learn to look and act like a gracious lady, wi SO CO-EDS at New York university have proved it. Under the direc tion of Epsie Kinard, NEA fashion editor, a new course at N. Y. U. called “Personal Management” turns the “sloppy-Joe” co-ed into a smooth, feminine number whom even Mr, Flagg would find charming. The course recently held its first “graduation” exercises, and a New York reporter describing the “grad-

wrote: “Not even the vestigial remains of co-ed dress and manner were in evidence. There were no flat shoes or anklets in sight, no windblown locks, no perching on chairs or sitting on the floor, no | high-pitched laughter. “Instead, these were smoothly turned-out young ladies with gra. clous smiles .e ve : ” » . AND THAT Sranatarmation from ‘tomboy to lady took only six months, So Mr. Flagg and the other oldsters who ‘worry about the bobbysoxers can relax. They can turn tom ncieg