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THE EARLY SETTLERS who named a quet, tree-shaded street on the South side Pleasant st, selected a fitting name. And one of the most pleasant spots on Pleasant st. is its 1600 block , . . with shady front ‘yards, well kept. backyard gardens, friendly residents and a general atmosphere that's—we're pack to that word again-=pleasant, ., . , One of the most pleasant houses in the block is a gleaming white stucco with quaint stained glass windows, red wood curlicues across the front, and a pair of amazingly intricate mosaic posts (designed by the owner, we later learned) at either side of a side drive. It wasn’t surprising to find that the house is the residence of one of the neighborhood's staunch oldtimers, Louis C. Brandt, , , . Mr. Brandt, a genial man with a big white moustache and even whiter hair, is as much the “grand old man” of the neighborhood as he was the “grand old man of City hall"

. during 13 years on the works board, Before he . retired as works board president, Mr, Brafidt attained - - recognition as the man who cared nothing about nine y politics, but who donned old clothing and prowled

about city buildings, streets, and even through miles of sewers to get a first hand view of needed repairs. . .* “Now everyone tells me I've got plenty of time to do this and that,” Mr. Brandt explains with just a touch of a native German accent, “and now I do as much as I did when I wasn't retired.” , , . He was a contractor before going on the works board. He does a lot of work as president of the board of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, and at the Protestant Orphans’ home, where he's been a member of the board 42 years, , . . The neighbors all describe him as “a wonderful man . , . always doing something for someone else,” One added that it was characteristic of him to drive a light Ford truck around and leave a Packard in the garage. , . . One of Mr, Brandt's “spare time tasks” is the care of a backyard garden and a miniature fish pond which is illuminated with submerged colored lights. The principal task of his wife, Mrs. Ella Brandt, 1s to get him away from all his “spare time tasks” long enough for meals,

Lives in Same House 56 Years AS FAR AS Mr, hy knows, only two neighbors have lived in that block longer than he. One is Mrs. Mary Johanning, 1623 Pleasant -st., who just smiles when her family boasts that she'll observe her 94th birthday Oct. 26. Mrs. Johanning, who came to Indianapolis after her family moved from Germany to Tipton, has lived on Pleasant st. 56 years in the same frame house. When she moved there she and her husband, the late William Johanning, had to travel through a forest to get to a church located at what would be Prospect and Spruce sts. now. Mrs. Johanning's house, like many others on the street, would be a paradise for antique collectors. Down the street is the home of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Pergande and Nee-kee, a Peke dog, whose pedigree, we understand, “would reach from here to the Monument.” Mr. Pergande, of 1603 Pleasant, is also in thé 55 or 60-year bracket as a resident. He's a retired New York Central railroad mechanie turned gardener and widely known for growing his own tobacco. He has a good crop this year which covers most of his backyard garden. Mrs. Pergande has sideboards, mantles, tables and stands filled with everything from genuine milk glass pieces to Tobey jugs.

Neighborhood Is NYC Suburb BUT NOT ALL of 1600 Pleasant st. is occupied by old residents—not by a long shot. As a matter of fact

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YATES CENTER, Kas. July 18—It is a long hot day, and now we've stopped for the night. My wife wanted to stretch out and rest, the kids wanted to go to a movie, and I wanted to stroll around and see the town. Up on the town square I saw a little girl eating an ice cream cone. The ice cream was reddishcolored and it looked so good I went into a drug store and got one just like it. With that in hand, I walked on leisurely, looking at the show windows and the people. I'd be ashamed to walk down the main street of my home town eating an ice cream cone, but out here where nobody knows me 1 am uninhibited. On a bench in the courthouse square was a stocky old man in overalls, his hat down over his ears. His face was covered with a gray stubble, and he chewed steadily on a big cud of tobacco. 1 sauntered over and sat down beside him. I asked him about something that had aroused my curiosity. We had noticed that fields and pastures in all of the surrounding country were divided by hedgerows—long, straight ribbons of green running across the rolling plains. Why those instead of fences? “Most ‘of those hedges were planted 65 and 70 years ,ago,” he said. “They're thorny bushes, what we call the Osage hedge or hedge-apple. Back in those days this was open-range country. If a farmer “wanted to grow something, ‘he had to fence off his field to keep the stock out. They didn’t have any barbed wire. So they started planting hedgerows. When you get 'em thick enough, they'll stop stock or anything else.”

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crossroads in technicolor. A great series of maps and diagrams, painted in luminous paints, were exhibited to us by ultra-violet light. (If you are old enough, you may remember the luminous costumes in the “Ziegfeld Follies.") From Kwajalein to Bikini atoll is 220 miles and the next morning we joined the other ships of task

force one in the lagoon.

Trees, Beaches Contrast

FOR DAYS we had seen nothing but the saucer of sea, the bdwl of the sky and our three ships— the Appalachian, the Blue Ridge and the Panamint. It was June 29, Bikini time—June 28 at home— that we anchored in the lagoon about a mile off the jsland of Bikini. The sea was a deep blue lit up by flashes of the tropical sum, but the shallows off the island were an iridescent green. The sands of the beach were intensely white and the palm trees made a backdrop of waving green behind them During the morning we steamed through the array

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday. —Sometimes I wonder whether the members of congress give the people of the country credit for the intelligence in watching public affairs which they hdve shown over and over again in their votes. : ; As I read a cefparison, the other day, of the old OPA bill which the President vetoed and the new one which the senate passed and which is now being considered by senate-house conferees, I could not help wondering whether this question of price con= trol and inflation meant to some members of congress just an opportunity to put the President in a hole! It should occur to them’ that it affects the pockets of * practically ‘every citizen in the country. , : Philip Murray C. I. O.- president, was right when he said that the housewives were the ones who would elect or defeat congressmen on this issue. If prices gO up even a moderate amount, a great many people are not going to have the wherewithal to buy the

things they need. Many of us have already seen a

Pina- shumid days that the U. 8. S. Appalachian made its : way from Honolulu to the Marshall Islands, but as in col- S soon as we climbed into the little boat that was to ts. 1-3, take us to the dock at Kwajalein, it began to pour. Once ashore, our_group of correspondents climbed aboard a waiting convoy of jeeps and trucks. “Some- ‘ body” had given orders that we were to be shown e 1-3 and 2-6 or etinre island. So we were driven around the “ twills, cham- entire island in a pouring rain and then brought rsuckers, and back, a little wet, to the briefing theater to meet Nov- the top-ranking officers of the air force groups assocotton 49 ciated with joint army-navy task force one. to 6. Here we were introduced to the plans of operation

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yy or ad Hine Inside Indianapolis By. Donna Mikels

SECOND SECTION

The Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1946

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(Fifth of a Series) ™™ By LARRY STILLERMAN IT TAKES a lot longer to repair |

The “grand old man” of 1600 Pleasant st. .... Louis C. Brandt tends a miniature fish pond as one of his “spare time tasks.”

it's almost a suburb of the New York Central railroad. | In a single block there are almost a dozen residences of railroad men, all New York Central. We heard -of one Pennsylvania brakeman, but decided he must be a myth because we couldn't track him down. His exist-

ence was hotly denied by N.Y. C. Engineer Edward Rice, 1619 Pleasant st, who said: “A ‘Panhandler’

Ia dent in a human leg than it does} | to smooth a wrinkle in an automo[bile fender, § ! Just walk through any hospital orthopedic ward and tally the broken human limbs that are mending slowly. | It takes only one or two days to! replace the cracked brake shoes on | an automobile. But it takes from | six to eight weeks to return the | agile grip to a broken hand. nn " » | JUST ASK Donald King of 655 | Division st. He'll tell you how much his left hand pained after the accident he had at 30th st. and Arling-| ton ave. July 8. f The 28-year-old electrician at the Indianapolis Water Co. was moving a little too fast to stop on 30th st. at 8 p. m., a week ago and smashed |

in this block? Well, if there is let us know and we'll] run him out.” Mr, Rice feels he has a right to stake | out an N. Y. C. claim, since he and his falitily have | lived in three houses in the block over a period of 26 years. . . . Across the street Conductor Ernest A. Bus-| sell and Switchman Albert Honaker occupy a double at 1608 and 1610, And, believe it or not, there's a third | train family in the house, Switch Tender Fred Duvall | and his family, who occupy a rear apartment at 1606. . .. There are three engineers within stones throw of each other. Gilbert Schuck, a New York Centra] man since 1917, lives at 1628, Henry Collier at 1636, and Joseph Lepert at 1627. ... Wedged right in with the engineers is Clarence Lyster, N. Y. C. carpenter, who resides at 1631... , Jumping back east, we discovered | three more railroad men, although we thought we'd already talked to the entire railroad staff ... James | C. Sheppard and his family of 1607 Pleasant were recovering from a week at the lakes. Mr, Sheppard) and daughter Rebecca are brown as berries, Mrs. Sheppard didn't get a tan but-she did come back | without crutches, which she'd been using after sprain- | ing her ankle. We couldn't find Herbert J, Mayer, a conductor who lives at 1615 and no wonder. As we| left the neighborhood we spotted him comparing notes | with Mr. Bussell and Mr. Honaker. , . . When we left | we were still trying to hunt down three more railroad | men, a Mr. Noble, Mr. Brandt (net Louis C.) and a| Mr. Wheatley, but gave up when we couldn't find any-| one at home. . . . “Come back in a couple months and you won't have to do so much walking,” shouted Engineer Rice (still wondering if we'd found the “Panhandler’). “I understand they're gonna install a Big Four line down the street for us guys.”

his parents when he was 10. ceded them. One uncle had helped the Weides get a

uncle gave them a cow. They went to work raising stock and growing their own feed, and did well. though Mr. Weide thinks the Democrats have made a mess of things in recent years. His remarks made me suspect that he was a Republican. He was, and this is Republican territory, but sometimes Democrats get elected. Political Secret “PLL TELL you how I feel,” he said, “If a Democrat is deformed and can't do manual labor, and if he's a good man and honest, I'll vote for him before I1 vote for a Republican who is a known crook.”

Not all the citizens are broad-minded like that,

Mr. Weide said. Mr. Weide said Yates Center was not selected as the county seat when the county was formed. It was at several other places before it was finally moved here. -. “They decided on this place because of its good water,” he said. “Not every place out in this country has water that is soft and tastes good.” I remarked on the pretty trees there on the courthouse square. “The merchants planted “Used to set out trees every Arbor day. it any more because we've got all we need.” As I got up to leave, I thanked him for a pleasant chat. “Well,” he said, shifting his cud, “when there's a stranger within your gates, you must treat him right.”

By David Dietz

of target ships and I want to repeat what I wrote several times about that target array. For if you understand the target array, you will not jump to such hasty conclusions about the first bomb drop as unfortunatély some of the correspondents aboard the Appalachian did. Fizzle Reports Blasted AS IT HAVE said, T have been horrified, since my return to this country, to find people asking me if the atomic bomb is a fizzle. The target ships were arranged according to a predétermined plan designed to give the maximum military and scientific information. There was no attempt to simulate war conditions. Seven ships were clustered in the center of the target area to form a “bull's eve.” At the center was the grand old battleship, Nevada, now a fantastic sight with its coat of bright orange paint, Anchored nearby were other battleships including the Japanese battleship, the Nagato. Actually, these ships were moored in place since they were too close to each other to permit them to swing on thelr anchor chains. 3 Now the point about the target array is as follows: The ships had been deliberately placed with the idea that one or more ships in the bull's-eye would get the full force of the atomic bomb, ships at greater

‘em,’ Mg. Weide said. Don't do

distances would get less effect, and ships on the out-| skirts of the array would show virtually no effect|

at all.

The fact that it worked out this way means that | the knowledge of previous atomic bombs was correct. | It does not mean that the atomic bomb was less|

powerful or lethal than had been stated formerly

By Eleanor Roosevelt

change in our food bills.

We have read enough in our papers about inflation | in other countries and what it does to the standard of living for the little man, so that most of us, I| believe, backed the President wholeheartedly in his

IF HE is now given an even more unsatisfactory | 4 bill and vetoes it, we are not going to turn upon thé President, but upon those who so openly show their]

disdain for the intelligence of the voting public.

At last the British loan is through congress and But what months

have gone by in which we were not making friends

has been signed by the President.

but losing them! I almost think that

his interests

are

the laggard way in which our public business has been conducted is as distasteful as too much haste would be to the American who wants careful investigation, but prompt action; where concerned

ingo an automobile driven by Febro Stout of 637 E. 20th st, Mr, King wasn't as lucky as Mr.| Stout and his family, The Water Co. employee woke up in City hospital, Tape was holding six broken ribs in place and he had cuts on his arms and head besides his broken hand. The Stout family was given first aid and released. " » MR. KING was a little restless. | He was a little tired of his A-1 ward bed. He was a little tired of re-reading the same magazines and | seeing the same trees swaying out- | side his hospital window. “C'mon, let's“go home,” he said to his wife who was waiting for him, He lit a cigaret, |

dime, unless evetyone's careful,” he| mused.

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Miss Mary Miles . .

“Ges ref] {sn't th er loomed before them on state ruess carefulness isnt worth 8|,,q4 7 near Oaklandon.

“The trailer just jumped up be- | fore us,” she recalled yesterday as

HOSPITAL PATIENTS LEARN SAFETY THE HARD WAY—

All Traffic Victims Aren't Lucky

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. & traffic accident h March 14,

| WITH BOTH her collarbones | broken, she is propped up by pillows on an adjustable hospital bed: “This helps my back and lets me

as kept her bedfast since

Mr. King was eager to return { | she smoothed the linen o -| i p home and “tinker around with my| pita) bed en on her hos-|look into the corridor and out the]

radio hobby.” i

“That's all T remem

ber until I| Her broken pelvic bone is slowly

‘My daughter, Reta Jo, knows a joked up at this ceiling,” she said | knitting together.

HE SAT cross-legged on the hospital bed.

it's been only a week.” |

hospital bed since March 14. She was. involved in an automo-

start by giving them $20—they jfanded practically | broke, the parents and. seven children—and the other

| bile accident on that foggy March!and blue.

| night. Her fiance, Shirley Tailor, ! was killed in the same accident.

{lot about safety now,” he said. “But ; Jo ) * “| glancing at the smooth City hosI'm going to teach her a lot more. pital ceiling.

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There was a lot of color in her powdered face, but it didn't hide the scars on her right cheek and

MISS MILES was recently taken helow her chin,

| pital ; To him, the bed was off the hospital critical list. getting “mighty hard even though | “The doctors didn't have much

hope for me when I

and arms didn’

good.”

Her right shoulder is still black

She couldr show her left shoulder.

“I must remain absolutely still merely sighed, “This is my first! all of me” he grinned. “Wish'd I\b it goes bac bed > vs w n ’ . - J ’ . h 1 ---ae al ”» a They were en route home from until the collarbones knit together,” | - ko : Great country, America, al-| Anderson when a huge parked trail-' she said. “I can't move at all.”

“I was much prettier before the accident,” she explained, » » »

first came

By Eldon Roark, “3. woe Uie Suter froin him) here.x she reported. “My blood | TOUCHING HER jaw, she sald, pitalized because: they failed to { r War s Mary Miles of count was only around 50 a my “ s weren’ S 0 | Cross y Two nncles had pre-11011 Windsor si. Wii's been ofr her. face C nd my “My jaw bones weren't pu hed into cross the street at the intersection.

t look too my face so far. But it doesn't hurt | now.” The jaw, too, was broken, 1't. move to! Unaware how. long she would

|have to remain in bed, Miss Miles

time here , , . time.”

and I hope my last

: on.

window,” she smiled. {an

rilllam Garrett, 2352 N, Capitol ave,, echoed her hopes. Cheerful, big-shouldered Billy was resting on his side in ward F-3 waiting for a third operation on his right leg. | «I hope to be out of here by Oc- | tober, and I don't want to come back,” he asserted.

» " ~ MR. GARRETT sniffed the air, It smelled of ether and freshly mopped floors, «1 sure am getting tired of this hospital air” he sald, looking around the ward. Time to Mr. Garrett is like a picture of a woman on & kitchen | cleanser can looking at the picture {of & woman on-a kitchen cleanser lean looking at the picture and so

| It seems endless to Mr, Garrett. | He's been in” City hospital since [last Oct. 24 , . «he thinks, { “That's when I got hit by an automobile at 22d and Meridian sts.” he surmised. “Guess I was here from that night on. Dont really recall; I was unconscious for | almost three weeks.” | ” » » THE 38-YEAR-OLD laborer | stated that he was lighting his pipe | when, he stepped onto Meridian st. | Admitting that he wasn't crossing | “exactly at the intersection,” he recalled that two automobile head{lights pinpointed him. As he turned to run, the auto{mobile caught his right leg and hurled him to the pavement. He awoke three weeks later, his | right side in a cast, | He suffered a compound leg fraoture. A bone -jutted through the skin, “They operated on me while I { was unconscious,” he said. “Grafted | some skin to my leg. Musta“been | pretty messy. Hurt plenty.” ~ ~ ” . HE WELCOMED February from operating table, Some more skin was being grafted, the doctors told him. And now he's waiting for the third operation. Meanwhile, he exercises his right knee as much as | possible. He can only bend his leg three inches. | Mr, Garrett shudders everytime {he reads about people being hos-

“I'll be lucky when I get out of | here,” he stated. “I'll be lucky I've | stint got this, too.” He patted his {right leg gently.

| “Guess Tm pretty lucky I've got

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thought of that before I stepped | onto the street.”

A gala seven-act water show will highlight a program dedicating recent major improvements at Big Eagle camp near Traders Point Sunday. Sponsored by the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Center association, the ceremonies {will mark the opening of a new | swimming pool, children’s residence | villages and other installations com- { pleted since the opening of the camp this year.

Speakers at the ceremonies, which {will begin at 2 p. m, include Dr. Harry A. Jacobs, chairman of the {camp association; Rabbi David A. | Shapiro; Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt; Mrs. Harold I. Platt, registration and program chairman; Theodore R. Dann, president of J. C. C. A, | which operates the camp; Lewis { Lurie, chairman of the camp plan- | ning and policy committee, and | Ernest Cohn, past president of the Jewish Federation. camp,

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Speakers Listed

| Big Eagle occupying 50 | acres’ of wooded terrain and rolling | | fields, provides three villages with | | two. double capins, each providing facilities for 72 children during each camping period.

Sanitary Facilities Each village has a wash house

equipped with sanitary facilities,

| showers, hot water and sewage dis- |

posal systems.

{ Other installations at fhe camp) include a dining lodge and kitchen, staged by Norman ‘Wilson and Earls { ; Montgomery and a water carnival

administration building and counselor's cabin. The camp program

| includes nature lore, handcraft, | wooderaft, sports, photography, a | camp newspaper, music apprecia-

| tion classes, dramatics and outings. | Sunday Program Features | |

Features of Sunday's | will include the Houdini sack trick {by Orval Gaines, lifeguard at Kirsh[baum community center; a dive through flaming gasoline floating on the pool, a human fish act

| attitude when he would not sign an unsatisfactory | bill, -

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program Efroymson,

| Lutz, Newman, Mrs. Harold I. Pl

The

Hostesses for a rece William C.

| the dedication program include:

Mrs Albert Baumohl, Cassen, Mrs. Sultan Cohen Chalfie, Mrs. Theodore Dan Mrs, Shoolem Bdgar Fassburg, Mrs. Phil Louis Fitk, Mrs. Jacob Fo Frankovitz Mrs. Hyman Sydney James, Mrs, Jack Joseph Klein, Mrs. Harol

Louis Lubow, Mrs. Lewis Lurle, Mrs, Jacob

Mrs. Jack Maurer

"A group of youngsters relax at Big Eagle camp's new swimming pool

dedicated Sundap

dining lodge at Big Eagle Camp... round, Mrs. Sidney Shane and Mrs

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Kobin lodge following are:

Beth-El1 Zedeck Sisterhood, B'nal Brith | women, Central Avenue auxiliary, Coun Manuel | cil of Jewish Women Ezras Achim auxili Herman #ry, Hadassah Hebrew Free Loan society n, Mrs. Charles Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent society, n Ettinger, Mrs. |disnapolis chapler National Home fo Fichman, Mrs [Jewish Children, Jewish Education auxili gle, Mrs, Lipot|&ty, Jewish War Veterans auxiliary Grande, rs. | Knesses Kammins, Mrs. | d Lewls, Mrs

Mrs , Mrs

Israel auxiliary, Sharah

United 1idbrew Co gregation auxiliary

, Mrs. Irving | . att, Mi 4. H lon committee, were: | 8. Carroll Kahn, chairman; Sol Gold- | smith, Burton Kohn who designed the | villages, Julian Freeman, Jackel / { Joseph, Bol Bodner Sam Wil oy | Sliberman, Frank Goldsmith, DavidgLure | vey, Robert Greenberg, Mark " [Julius Falender and Sultan Cohen Directed by Irvin Larner, the ‘camp is governed by committees.

Jommittee chairmen include

| i Memorial Set for

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 18 (U. P.) —Memorial services for goats that died in the Bikini atom. bomb test will be held Sunday by the San Fernando Valley Goat association, Taps will be blown and flags Jowered to half mast &t The ceremony. ; : Sacrifice of domestic animals which have achieved such good for humanity as the goat does not

Frank Ecker, president of the

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Telilla auxiliary, ;The Temple Sisterhiood and the

Members of the camp construc-

w | home, ¥

‘Bikini Goat Victims

further the interests of science,”

JEWISH FEDERATION, COMMUNITY CENTER SPONSORS PROGRAM—

Big Eagle Camp Pool to Be Dedicated

a popular place at mealtime,

| | Rufus’ Housing

. Solved—He's Dead

| NEW YORK, July 18 (U. P.).— | Rufus, the ocelot, solved his own problem of a home, He died, his mistress, Mrs, Dare T. Newberry, an artist, reported today, She had purchased the animal for $500 from a serviceman whose mother wouldn't let him bring It She used it for a model until it became too big for her apartment and then advertised for a home for it, Himndreds of telegrams and letters were received from all over the couniry from people desirous

Mrs. Theodore Dann, bousehold; George | Frank, personnel; Mrs, Charles Kfroymson, y <a i | schol rehip; William Myers, food purchas- of owning an ocelot, she said, and {ing: Rorriy Jacobs publicity; Dr. Morti-| many people came to see Rufus mer ann, rogram, rs Harold I.1 a Platt, An at Sol Goldsmith, grounds | But before she could decide and equipment; , Mrs Alfred aschke, ; she s iv transportation, and Dr, Gabriel Schuch- whom h should give him to, { man, health Rufus became ill and died.

AIRLINER CRASH IN ECUADOR KILLS 27 &UITO, Ecuador, July 18 (U. P). ~Twenty-seven persons were reported killed late yesterday when a twin-motored airliner of the Andes Aviation Co, crashed in a landing attempt near Cuenca, Most of the victims were residents of Cuenca who had boarded the plane at Quito and Guayaquil. Representatives of Latin American “Xirways, Inc, in New York, identified ‘the pilot as Wayne Miller of Cheyenne, Wyo, and the copilot as Darwin’ Day of Yonkers, NY

Will Skipsey has unbounded faith in formal schooling was interrupted by the war, .

as the luftwaffe could make it.

examination at the same level they

llies, was as confined as the joie.

that tendency was one of the evils of urban London's development.

the seashore for the first time. They

shocked. amazement of a

stereotyped subjects.

British Pupils Lead Teachers

A Furious Pace

By DAVID M. NICHOL Times Foreign Correspondent EAST HAM, England, July 18.

Britain's youngsters _ whose

The views of this tall, spare man are worth recording, for he's “heads master,” or princapal; of an elee mentary school in this suburh northeast of London, in sight of the gaunt cranes of the Albert docks along the Thames, Disruption here was as complete

. nu » “PROBABLY ils true that these youngsters couldn't pass a formal

could have before the war,” the headmaster admits, “but they're livelier, They've been forced to pull up their. anchors.” Before the war, families were born, grew up and died in a single neighborhood. The world, for thousands of fame

tical row houses, that line HEas§ Ham's streets, Mr. Skipsey believes

~ » » CHILDREN'S play was restricted ta the block that included their home and to the paved school yard, War changed all that, War was a brutal experience in places like East Ham, But some of the children, moved out in an efs fort ‘to save them from bombs, saw

learned to tell the difference bee tween a milk bottle and a cow, They visited a new world. Now they are back in school, leading their teachers a furious pace. Not all Mr, Skipsey's 330 charges, aged 7 to 10, have yet seen this “new world,” but they will if he has his way.

. x =u . MR. SKIPSEY delights in the teacher who was persuaded to ask her -10e year-old pupils for essays on some= thing they knew first-hand-—-like washday—instead of traditional,

The teacher returned with a come position in childlike phonetic spell« ing and rich Cockney language, of which the following is only a paraphrase: 3 “Monday is washday in our house, My mum gets up and looks out the window. If the sun is shining, she says, good. If it's raining, she says

“The teacher was only half ree assured,” grinned Headmaster Skipsey,” when I told her that if Dickens had written that, he'd have pus

down his pen with great satis faction.” y Copyright, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times

and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

We, the Wom Women Buyers Can Put Brakes On Price Rises

By RUTH MILLETT OVERHEARD at a meat marke} counter: “It's beautiful all right but it's not for me at that price.” It was & housewife who was talke ing, and the beautiful sight was & nice thick center of a slice of ham, at a nice fat price. The housewife bought something less appetising—but more in line with her pockethook. » » rr WOMEN, who do most of the nae tion's spending, could go a long way toward holding prices down if they would adopt that remark as theig answer to tempting goods bearing ridiculous price tags. Women can do something more than worry about inflation. They can shop around, look for substie tutes for inflated items, say franke ly, “the price is too high,” when turning down an offered article, Instead of bragging, “I paid soe and-so for such-and-such; isn't thas awful?” they can start bragging, “I didn't pay so-and-so for suche and-such; isn't that fine?” » » » AMERICAN women became good managers during the war, because rationing and scarcities forced them to save and plan and contrive and sometimes do without. : That training can come'in handy now. American women have more power to hold down prices than they realize. They spend the money American men earn, And how they spend it will have a. lot to do with what happens to prices,

LOST FOR TWO DAYS, CHILD FOUND SAFE

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. July 18 (U, P.).—Margie Brandt, 2's years old, was back at home today with multiple mosquito bites to remind her not to drift away from home again, Margie, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, “John Brandt, disappeared from hese farm home in Mount Morris towne ship east of here Tuesday afternoon, After more than a day's search by over 100 farmers, she was found, hungry and bitten by mosquitoes,

! but otherwise unharmed.

TRIESTE SHIPYARDS ‘REOPEN TOMORROW

TRIESTE, July 17 (U. P.)~The Montefalcone and San Marco ships yards, closed by labor trouble, will reopen tomorrow under control of the allied military government. ° Col. A. C. Bowman, AMG ; who ordered seizure of the said disturbances tind resulted lockout, contrary to 3