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MOST BARTH AVE, residents moved on the street by choice, but not Mrs. Sylverna Haggard, of 1810, one of the section's veteran residents. The family home gwhere Mrs. Haggard has spent her entire life time, once was over where the South drive of E. Pleasant Run pkwy. now runs, When the parkway came through, ‘Mrs. Haggard's’ family had to move

back or be right in thé middle of the street. - They

oved—-back to Barth ave. and they've been there ever since. , . . Mrs. Haggard runs second to the

~ Misses, Edith and Sarah Childérs, 1805, in years of

residence. The Childers sisters have been on Barth ave. 61 years, even longer than Barth: ave, itself has been there. . , , That confused us for a minute, until they explained that what is now Barth was Gatling st. when they were young. Their address then was No. 1 Gatling st. When the street was extended it took in part of the old Barth estate and was renamed Barth ave. , . . That section of the South side was almost primitive when the Childers family settled The sisters told.us the site of the present

_ daughters. . .

A Barth ave. resident since 1892 , , . Carl F. Riensche’s family has become rooted to Barth.

Alien Property

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Our Uncle Samuel, who is friskier than you might think, turned up today as a dealer in nekkid statuary. Uncle has some weird enterprises, as every taxpayer knows, but for sheer, wild-eyed fantasy, none compares to his alien property sales. He's still got $60,000,000 worth of stuff seized from the Germans in the first world war: now he's trying to peddle $280,000,000 more that the Nazis and the Japs left here when the second war started. The merchandise ranges from a $2 camera owned by a Jap to a multi-million dollar chemical factory controlled by the Germans. Only the other day Alien Property Custodian James E. Markham knocked down for $1060 a bronze torso of a nude German female; a while back he sold for $1000 an old master, “Madonna and Child,” by Bartolommeo Vivarini. A European broker had shipped it here for sale; when the war started Mr. Markham grabbed it.

Some Goods Sell Easily

HE WILL PUT up for sale in New York soon the diamonds, sables, silver services, cook stove and portrait-of A. Hitler, which used to belong to Fritz Kuhn, the bund leader. In San Pedro, Cal, Mr. Markham is trying to get rid of $15.10 worth of fishing nets once owned by a Jap. 7 ‘These things sell easily at good prices and we taxpayers pocket the proceeds. Some other merchandise looks like a total loss, unless you should happen to be in the market for a couple of Shinto temples, gaudy in gold leaf and lacquer. They're both in Hawaii; Mr. Markham will sell

Science

SCIENTISTS must be given a larger share in the direction of our preparedness for national defense if the nation is rot to make the mistake of preparing for the last war instead of the next war. I know that those words, “the next war,” have a dread and chill sound. Top-ranking scientists have already said that they will. not guarantee the ability of civilization to survive it. No one in their right mind wants another war. Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that international relations are deteriorating at such a rate that the next war may be upon us in the next. five years. ‘ Soviet Russia has refused, so far, to join an agreement on the international control of atomic energy and our delegation to the United Nations atomic sriergy commission hds stated bluntly that the only Iternative to international control is the development of superior bombs and superior methods of delivering them, : The adoption of this latter plan means an international atomic bomb race and psychologists will tell you that it can end only in one way, namely, world war III. Some nation will get an itching trigger finger and decide that it had better drop the first bomb before it falls on it.

Must Not Neglect National Defense

IT IS our duty, therefore, while we do everything in our power to maintain the peace of the world, to see to it that we .are not neglecting our national defenses. But it is highly important that we ask ourselves

at every turn whether we are really preparing our-

selves for the realities of the next war or getting ready to fight the last one all over again. This is no erratic idea that I am emphasizing. Oritics of military history have long called attention

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—I have just finished reading a novel called “Mr. Adam” by Pat Frank. It is inspired by our new ability to destroy, and deals with the numerous things that may develop from the power that we can now unleash. It is pure imagination, but there is just enough possibility that it might come true to make one read it with interest—and with the hope that it may make us realize what fearful responsibilities now rest upon us and what a very great people we must be if we are

going to face up to these responsibilities.

We have the secret of the atom bomb, how long we alone will have it, nobody knows,

Have World Responsibility

BUT WHILE we have it, the responsibility of what happens’ ifi the world is in our hands. : Soon we may share it with others, -and then we will have the uncomfortable feeling that, unless the other people of the world have good will and face up to their responsibilities toward humanity in general, we may have. very little time left upon this planet. One of the characteristics of human beings in the

past has been never to face disagreeable realities until

they were actually forced to do so. Fundamentally, that is the reason why we did not,

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Lincoln school was the last camping ground of the Delaware Indians. They recall hearing stories of arrowheads and even a skull that was dug up when excavation for the school began,’

“Cling to Barth Addresses *

MOST FAMILIES grow up and move away but the children of Carl H. Rjensche, 1836 Barth, seem to have become rooted to Barth. ‘Two of his children, Mrs. Carl Schwomeyer, of 1638 Barth ‘and Carl F. Riensche, of 1649 Barth, have never lived on any other street. Both moved directly from their family homes to other Barth ave. homes after their marriage and they've stayed there ever since. One sister, Mrs. Helen Rademacher, once strayed as far as Orange st, but she moved back to 1714 Barth in short order. Even the family’s nomad, Mr§. Marion Giggy, who went so far as to move clear out of the South side, is. back, making her residence at the family home. +.» We think we'll make the town’s fishermen envious by telling of the catch Mr. and -Mrs. Giggy got out on Rock river last weekend. They snagged 21 good sized fish. And, of course, there was one that got away. Mr. Giggy swears he had one “t-h-a-t long”

ready to put on the stringer when it flipped back|

into the water. . , . We're coming to the conclusion that fishermen are always more proud of the ones they didn't get.

Family Gets First Twins

MR. AND MRS. WALTER J. SMITH SR., of 1846, still haven't quite recovered. Just five weeks ago they became the grandparents of twins, the new son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Carter, 917 Pleasant Run pkwy. They're the first twins in the family since Mrs. Smith's grandmother: , .. The new brother and sister had been promised to five-year-old Donna Rosalind Carter as a birthday present but they arrived five days early. Instead, she got a pair of skates for her birthday on Aug. 21. Life would have been a lot more pleasant if the original plan had worked out because the first thing Donna did with her skates was 'to fall and break her arm in two places. . . . Speaking of children, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tague, of 1868, can sit back and call Eddie Cantor a piker. The Tague’s have seven (that’s right, seven) . The house of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mahler has a companion residence; & quonset hut in the rear yard. Their ‘G. I son, Leon, decorated the hut with the same red brick that covers his parent's home, making it look much more interesting than ordinary quonsets. Then, to complete the picture, he built a tiny dog house as a miniature of the quonset, also -of the same material. All the construction was necessitated by the housing shortage and overcrowding of the family home. We guess that's one case where three of a kind beat a “full house.”

By F. C. Othman

the pair for $22,000, a bargain for anybody who needs temples.

Steel Mill for Sale

HE STILL IS looking for nibbles on an ultramodern steel billet ‘mill, for which Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, Ltd., of Toyko paid $725,000 cash. It hadn't been shipped from Pittsburgh on Pearl Harbor day. It is an elegant steel mill, except for one thing. It produces undersized, Jap-style billets, only. Nobody but the junkman wants it. - In stock currently in New York are 20 cases of glass beads, some genuine pearl necklaces and $3000 worth of Jap flower seed which has gone stale and is no good to anybody. Mr. Markham has a $17,000 incense burner of solid jade, which hell let go for $5000. ; : He collected $15,000,000 for the German stock in the American Potash and Chemical Co.; he also got $350,000 for the Naz interest in the American Wine Co. of St. Louis. He sold for a respectable price in Philadelphia not long ago the two-door sedan, box camera, eight-tube radio and tool chest of Jacob Edenhofer, a German carpenter. Nearly $1,000,000 was rung up for thousands of German amethysts, opals, sapphires, carmelians, garnets and aquamarines in New York. If you want to show your patriotism, finally, demand that the band play frequently the German tune, Lili Marlene. Every time it is tootled, says Mr. Markham (who also is a song plugger) Uncle collects a royalty. To reduce the public debt we must listen some more to the love song to Lili: This is a sacrifice, but it also is our duty.

By David Dietz

to the fatal tendency upon the part of nations to prepare not for a war that may be ahead of them but for the war that has just been finished.

Germans Learned War Lesson

THESE CRITICS point out that the behavior of France was far worse than that. It was said in 1939 that France had not even gotten ready for a repetition of the war of 1914. Instead, it had prepared for the war of 1870. Let us review the facts. By the end of world war I, it was apparent to all military observers that the great need of modern warfare was mobility. World war I had been largely a matter of stalemate, dreary years in which opposing forces faced each other in long trenches. Both sides perfected methods for breaking through each other's trenches. Older readers will recall the phrase, “over the top,” used to describe the assault launched from one trench against the opponent's trench. In their final form these assaults or “breakthroughs” were opened with artillery barrages and made use of all sorts of assault weapons, including trench mortars and that favorite tool of the assault engineer, half-pound bricks of TNT, But the trouble with the break-through was that it was impossible to follow it up. Before the artillery could be moved forward and additional troops could be poured in through the break in the enemy’s lines, the enemy had reformed them and the stalemate was again in effect. Not until the end of world war I, when the tank was introduced, did this condition of stalemate begin to give way. " The German high command seems to have understood perfectly the lesson of world war I. As a result, it developed its “blitzkreig” methods for world war II But France began to prepare for the war of 1870 by building the Maginot line.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

after world war I, do much to prevent world war II. Sometimes I wonder if we intend to be so blind again. There is a small pamphlet by Chancellor Williams called “And if I "Were White,” which is a reply to a series of articles written by prominent writers on “If I Were a Negro.” = I think it would be good for all of us to read and ponder some of the things which Mr. Williams writes.

Urges End of Color Line

HE MAKES the very simple statement that, until we all realize that color, whatever it may be, is of no importance whatsoever and until we value people only for what they are, we will never solve the many racial problems which confront us throughout the world. : : He mentions a small circle of "his friends in which several nationalities are represented and he says each one makes his own contribution. For a long time, I am afraid, the Anglo-Saxon race has taken it for granted that, by some peculiar dictum from on’ high, it wis endowed with particular. virtues. Our efforts must be bent in the future to giving all people an opportunity for development in the hope that, in that way, we can promote a safer and better

world for all of us to live in,

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By JACK GAMBLE NEA Staff Writer CLEVELAND, 8Sept.~18—If you ever wanted to get rich quick, this is the year for it. Apace with the speed of atomic propulsion, supersonic’ planes and rocket bombs, a humber of the citizens are making money at the rapid rate of dollars per minute instead of the prosiac cents per hour. A Texas boy, Alvin M. Johnston, proved himself a fast guy at making a buck by pushing his P-39 around the Cleveland air races at 373.9 miles per hour, to win $19,200 in just 48 minutes. That is something like $400 per

for it either. ~ “ » OUT IN Hollywood, a shipshape naval officer broke that record for quick coinage by just standing still and making his mouth go. Lt. Omdr. Jack Weiss of Chicago answered efght geography questions in eight minutes to “break the bank” on the radio show of the same name, and collected $5225. This figures out at $653 per minute. - » ~ OF COURSE, it isn't as easy as it sounds. Phe flier had to risk his neck and a heavy investment in the airplane. The radio contestant had to sur-

minute, and he didn't have to picket |

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1946

Prospector: $1 a minute--if he's very lucky.

THIS IS THE YEAR TO MAKE MONEY FAST—

Get Rich Quick—lt Says Here

Assault: At $45900 per minute— you'd laugh, too. :

Andrew Mellon: Financier at $48.50 per minute,

“Tex” Johnston: $400 a minute— out of the air,

THE AVERAGE miner was lucky if he made $2 an hour during the] short, happy life of the gold rush, although a few of the more fortunate panned out upward of $60 an hour on peak days. But prospecting was a tough life. |More relaxing was the money making idea of the fellow who performed the seemingly impossible feat of coating a piece of ice cream with hot chocolate back in 1922. These ice cream bars netted the

vive the odds to even get on the program, then had to get the an-

payoff question: “Where are the oil fields of Lake Maracaibo?” (Answer: Venezuela.) At that, it beats gold digging. Back in ’49, al] the boys thought the quick way to easy dough was a trip to California.

(Second of By PAUL United Press

hours. time to permit an effective control

most important functions of the preventive clinic of a cancer center. It is given to persons who have suspicious growths or_ tumors and is an addition in such cases to a thorough physical examination. The biopsy now is generally recognized for its reliability. There are three types of biopsy. » = ~ "ONE IS the test by aspiration, ploneered by Memorial Cancer hospital here, when a small amount of secretion from a suspicious growth is extracted by needle and placed on a microscopic slide. Results of this test can be determined within 15 minutes—whether the growth is positive or negative. By using the aspiration test, there is less chance of causing a cancerous condition from spreading to the blood stream. » » » TYPE TWO is the frozen section test. In such cases, the patient usually is on the operating table for the removal of a tumor. The surgeon may discover suspicious tissue. A section is sent to thé labo-

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

FOOD SENSITIVE patients usually complain of flatulence, bloating and passage of an excessive amount of gas after eating food to which they are sensitive. According to Walter C. Alvarez, M. D., Rochester, Minn., not everyone who says he cannot eat a certain food is hypersensitive to it, as some people will not eat something because they do not like its appearance, odor or taste. Many women say they cannot eat eggs but still they do not find any difficulty eating foods in which eggs were used. This is not a true allergy, as it represents a problem in training and self-discipline. » » » IT IS POSSIBLE to skin-test a patient and learn the foods which may be causing his difficulty, but. it must be remembered that a skin test may be one thing and difficulty with food another. : : y Real proof that a certain food is causing stomach and intestinal difficulty is the complete relief of

eaten, When anyone eats

ficulty afterward, the relationship is obvious, but many food sensitive people are upset by ordinary ar-| ticles in their diet and usually do not suspect the cause. » ”

» DOCTOR ALVAREZ reports a

Onions, milk, cream, ice cream, raw apples, cooked cabbage, chocolate, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers

swers right, including the one torthe |.

symptoms when the food is not |

an unusual | (food like shellfish and has dif-

study of foods which most commonly cause distress. . |

inventor a cool $30,000 a week, or {$625 an hour (on a 48-hour week). ~ » n EDGAR WALLACE, the mystery specialist, once earned $20,000 in 45 hours by writing his novel “The Devil Man” between Friday night {and ‘Monday morning. This is $444 an hour, which isn't quite ice cream,

Lt. Cmdr. Weiss: $653 per minute for the answer,

Getting back to the dollars-per-minute men, there was Andrew Mel- | lon, the financier and one-time sec-| retary of the treasury, who racked | up $7,000,000 in one year-<the highest income figure ever reported. ” . - FIGURED on the average 2400-| hour work year, he was taking in| $2016 every hour. But at $48.50 per | minute, Mr. Mellon was still way behind Commander Weiss’ $653. The all-time fast money artist appears to be Joe Louis. In 1038 he | knocked Max Schmeling flat in 2:04! for a purse of $349,288. This divides | lout at $169,020 per minute, consider- | ably faster than the mint prints it.| » . »

CURRENTLY a horse has it all over the competition for 1946 quick |

but it's getting warm.

a Series.) F. ELLIS

Science Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 —Diagnosis of cancer in some cases can be made within five to 10 minutes, and in others usually not more than 24

* That speedy and effective system oftentimes has caught cancer in

or a cure,

The laboratory test, called in medical terms a biopsy, is one of the

ratory where it is quickly frozen by carbon dioxide, sliced inte thin strips and examined. Within five to 10 minutes, while the patient still {is in the operating room, the sur{geon knows whether he is operating ‘for malignant or benign tumor, ”n » ®

TYPE THREE is surgical biopsy.

the center with a surface lesion. A small section of the tissue is clipped out and sent to the. laboratory. Through chemical treatment the results are known within 24 hours. The biopsy tests are made only on those persons who have suspicious growths or open lesions. All, however, are given the thorough physical examinations, including a series of X-ray photographs. In many instances, other diseases, such as diabetes, heart ail-| ment. and tuberculosis, are turned up in these examinations. 5 » »n THE BIOPSY is important in that it quickly discovers cancer, thereby giving both the patient and

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Skin Test Bares Cause of Stomach llls—

Foods Can Be Al

likely that they are caused by foods. This test is not recommended for underweights or those who have been voluntarily restricting their foods for some time. On the third day the patient should start to eat a simple fare to which new ‘foods are added one at a time, or better still, consult a physician and follow a regular elimination diet plan. 3 » » ~ FOOD allergy is suspected in persons who are allergic to other things (pollen, animal dander and house dust) and have stomach upsets

This is given when a patient enters

cash honors.

SPEEDY DIAGNOSIS IS ESSENTIAL— Science Has Three Reliable Cancer Tests

the doctor that great time advan-| tage because in cancer every minute | counts. Also, if the biopsy shows negative, the patient can forget his cancer complex, at least for the time being, although he should return for later examinations, just to make sure, When a patient has definitely been classified as positive, the report is usually sent to his personal physician, who then advises the patient where to take treatment, = H ” THE TYPE of treatment varies; surgery is done wherever possible; X-ray, radium or radon treatments are used when the cancerous growth may be in some part of the body not safely accessible by surgery. The conventional forms, however, may be on their way out if research into the possibilities of using radioactive isotopes proves effective, Cancer experts now hope that byproduct particles of atomic fission may be used both as “tracers” in cancer as well as in treatment. Socalled radioactive carbon 14, a byproduct of the atomic bomb factories, is one of the natural isotopes | in which concer scientists are deep- | ly interested.

” ~ ~ THEY ALSO are thinking of an electron-producing machine, even greater than the atom-smashing cyclotron, to be used against can-

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ergy Basis

even though they may not have other forms of allergy. Food can distress allergic persons in other ways than in the stomach or intestine. Some cause a stuffy runny nose and some produce hives (strawberries, chocolate, etc.). Foods are also reported as a cause of migraine headaches, but the association is difficult to prove,

Joe Louis: $169,020 per minute against Schmeling,

In the Kentucky derby this year, Assault raced to win $96,400 in 2:06.6. That's $45900 per minute, which ain't hay, brother, but it sure means oats in the feed bag. The sad angle about all this is that industrialists like Mr. Mellon] and the other higher income bracket folk make that kind of dough every working minute of the year. » . ~ THE FLIER, the radio contestant, the mystery writer, the prize fighter and the horse had it coming in fast for only a few-lucrative mo-

ments—and in most cases after many weeks of preparation. It's being consistent that scounts in the rapid riches racket—but at $653 per minute, who cares about consistency? It still beats U, A. W.'s $1.30 an hour,

cer. Their goal is to find some means to send the fast-traveling electrons into the core of the cancer cell without damaging the intervening or surrounding normal tissues of the body, It may also be that research will enable isotope treatment of cancer by the “tracer” method—that is, internal application of radioactive elements in a patient which will seek

out and kill cancer cells wherever

Move to Raise @ | Rents, "Abolish Other Controls |

By NED BROOKS Soripps-Howsrd Staff Writer

in the price met. Senator Albert W. Hawkes (R. N, J) sald he would reintroduce

three rent increases of five per cent each and to seek to link ure with any other peal or modification of trols.

Maréh 31, the date on

three months ahead of the ule for lifting price regulations, Under the Taft plan, only rent con= trol would be continued. » . . SENATOR HAWKES’ provide for an immedia cent rent boost, with two

and six months later. The measure is based sumption that congress rent control even though it other OPA controls to dje on June 30 or shortens their life to 31. Back of this is the certain that the housing shortage will remain critical through 1047 even if the emergency program for veterans attains its goal : ” » . THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Real Estate Boards and the Na« tional Home and Property Owners

erties behind the Hawkes proposal, The senator told a recent meeting of the foundation's directors that he found “no justification in frees= ing rents at abnormally low rates at the same time the government has permitted increases in wages, and the cost of materials needed to keep properties in rentable condition.” The foundation is on record for the immediate revocation of all con= trols over housing, including rent regulation. The real ‘estate boards are urging an immediate 15 per cent increase in rent ceilings, ime mediate removal of ceilings on new housing construction and elimina tion of all controls by March 31, The boards have accused OPA Administrator Paul Porter of bad

they may be—yet not so long-lived

or toxic as to kill normal tissue

That, of course, would be sim-

{plified when and if the scientists the great mystery of causes This they expect to do.

| solve lof cancer.

14 COUNTIES SET

Planning ideas of 14 northwest Hoosier counties will be swapped in an all-day conference.Oct. 1 in the Purdue Memorial Union building, West, Lafayette, Governor Gates will address the luncheon session on “A Public Ofcial Looks at Planning.” In attendance will be planning representatives of the following counties: Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Hamilton, Hendricks, Jasper, Marion,-Montgomery, Newton, Tippecanoe, Warren and White, Panel discussions on local planning problems will be led by qualifiled experts from Purdue university and the Indiana Economic council. Representatives from various state agencies also will be aveilable fer consultation. The conference is sponsored jointly by the Lafayette and West Lafayette plan

nomic council.

Dr. C. F. Gillespie

Resumes Practice

Charles F. Gillespie, M. D., has returned to his Indianapolis prac-

QUESTION: contagious? ANSWER: No, it is not contagious, and it does not result from

1s pityriasis rosea

after eating certain foods; the condition is also suspected in members | of the family of allergic patients!

a blood disorder. It may occur at any age and in both Sexes; however, a second attack is tincommon.

SILLY NOTIONS

released from [service Aug. 7. He (will office at 3209 N.

By Palumbo

and eggs lead the list. (Practically every one of the common foods was | included by some patients.) ! Some foods are blamed because there is a tendency for them to be belched up and retasted after eating and many patients feel that such foods caused them distress when other factors may be responsible, 8

on 4 WHEN. FOOD distress occurs! every time after eatfhg certain

Meridian st, Oct, 1,

Gillespie, have one child,

Mutual Milwaukee, Wis, will speak at a meeting of the Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters Hotel Lincoln tomorrow.

Marcy Lane, -Apt. | they smelled smoke while they were

tice in obstetrics and gynecology after 27 months in the army medical corps. With 21 months’ overseas experi ence the

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Dr. Gillespie was

re-open. his

Dr, and Mrs,

who

on Gillespie ? [reside at 5345 E. Washington st, LIFE UNDERWRITERS: WILL HEAR DOLWICK

Raymond J. Dolwick, assistant | director of agencies, Northwestern

Life Insurance Co. in

A nationally known authority on

methods of selling life insurance, Mr. Dolwick will speak on “Sales Ideas,” He has been with Northwestern since 1944,

MARCY VILLAGE FIRE BURNS HANGING WASH

A fire in _he basement of an

apartment hpuse in Marcy Village early { wash hanging on a line there.

today destroyed part of a

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Burnside, 4530 19, told police

asleep in their apartment. Mr. Burnside traced the smoke

foods, it is a good practice to go on || - a fast for five days, drinking only!

water and not éating any food. + It symptoms continue, it is not! Na

"to the basement where he found the

clothing on fire. ; He told police he believed some-

PLANNING PARLEY

commissions and the Indiana Eco-

faith in the rent program, recalling that he said rents “would have to rise” if congress yielded to higher prices on other items of living costs. After the law was passed, they said, Mr. Porter reversed himself, saying that “no general increase (of rents) will be necessary in the future.” - » » PROSPECTS FOR a continuation of rent controls beyond mid-1947 have increased as a result of gov ernment difficulties in interesting builders to produce homes for rent. Real estate developers blame this partly on the tightness of OPA ceil ings. One study made for the real estate boards by Roy Wentslick, St. Louis economist, showed a 154-to-1 ratio between current building costs and monthly rental income. A “reasonably profitable” venture requires a monthly rental of 1 per cent of the property's value, he said. The government has attempted to stimulate construction of rental housing by earmarking 25 per cent of scarce materials for that use, It also has relaxed the rule that rent ceilings on new houses must not exceed ceilings on comparable old quarters by more than 20 per cent.

one deliberately started the fire:

—We, the Wome Men Search for Admiration, Not

Competition

BY RUTH MILLETT

A CHICAGO wife suing her husband for divorce charged that he taught her how to bowl and then walked out when she beat him, Poor woman, she evidently didn’ understand one important thing about men. That is—when they

. want to match their brains or skill

against a worthy opponent, they choose another man.

» ~ » WHEN THEY offer to teach a woman a game, they are looking for an appreciative audience. The woman is supposed to learn the game, of course—but not too well. And she is never supposed to progress to the point where she can beat her teacher, except pers haps now and then through some laughable fluke or unusual bit of luck. Even when she comes dangerously close to being as good a shot or as skillful a fisherman as is her masculine companion, - she ~. must remain in the pupils class, always willing to be shown, always ready to ask advice.

% » » THE MINUTE that she gets to the place where she is the one who is offering suggestions, she has lost all of her companionableness, so far as a man is concerned. Most. women know instinctively how to be good pupils without being too good—how to give a man just enough competition to keep. & : game ‘interesting and yet let him win by ‘a. satisfying score. The ones who don’t may not always lose as heavily as did the woman who lost her ‘husband by beating him at bowling-<but they do stand a good chance of losing a companion, even though they keep a husband. Com HE

® x » A SMART woman is never ae tually a man's opponent. pretends to be. In a combinktion

admiring