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BUTLER . UNIVERSITY'S administrative council has a “little man that wasn’t there” problem. What make it confusing is that the university's “little man that wasn't” really was. The cause of the confusion Is Bob’ Saunders, a student at the university. Mr. Saunders attended classes faithfully last year, got his grades, and by all rights should be advanced to Junior, Through some mix-up, hewever, he was never registered properly, That means as far as records go, he didn’t attend Butler at all. No one § quite .sure- how he managed to attend all year ithout it being found out that he was there.‘ Now the council has to decide whether to credit him with the year or whether he musts start all over again. +++ We'd always heard “a pint's a pound the world &round.” Now the Indiana State Beekeepers’ monthly bulletin says it isn't so. “The saying . . , may be true of some things, but it is deeidedly not true of

An Irishman scored on the English , . . After gome 60 vears of swinging in, the English doors are. now swinging out on the order of Fire Inspector Michael Mulvihill,

Rafts of Dope

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—How, I ask vou, was the war assets administration to know its surplus life rafts were loaded with morphine? “ And that dope peddlers across America were buying the rafts—which had been advertised in practically every big newspaper—for the drug in the medicine kits? Wow! Only let us not be too hard on the poor devils at war assets. They're trying to -auction off $32.000,000,000 worth of stuff left over from the war and every time there's a slipup, congress snarls at ‘em. Take this business about the government, itself, functioning by mistake as a wholesaler of morphine. Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger thought he'd just about stamped out the whole illicit drug business. He wasn't resting on his oars, mind you, but he

0. hopeful that his job would ease up. Came then

of morphine An-

supplies You can bet Mr, And quick.

disquieting reports of fresh reaching the drug runners. slinger’'s agent investigated.

“Morphine Worth Millions

YEP. SOMEBODY forgot that those life rafts, hundreds upon hundreds of them, carried syréttes of morphine, worth no. telling how many millions of dollars to the dope trade. The -army and the navy reported that the drug kits were in secret lockers aboard the rafts, so that troops couldn't get into them. Only a few chosen leaders aboard each transport even knew there were any medical supplies on the rafts.

Science

MAN. IT HAS been said, is the proper study- of

man. But eminent scientists believe that one way of

studying man is to study mice, rats, dogs, sheep, goats, monkeys and apes. That was made plain at the conference of eminent biologists and psychologists just held at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratry at Bar Harbor, Me. The conference was called by Dr. C. C. Little, di-

rector of the laboratory, for the dual purpose of en-

abMng these famous savantis to“exchange views and to get their suggestions for research projects that might be carried on at the laboratory. Bar Harbor has long been famous for its majesscenery—a rock-bound. coast cut by placid bays whose. quiet waters contrast strangely with the restless Atlantic, and tall mountains that overlook the equally majestic “cottages” of the multimillionaires who make the place their summer home: But ‘in the world of science Bar Harbor is better known as the vear-round home of the Jackson laboratory and as one of the places where an attempt is being made to do something about human nature.

Study Dogs for Behavior SCIENTISTS, viewing the events of the present century, have been coming more and more to the conclusion ‘that the study of human behavior is the most important problem in the world today. Mankind has used all the discoveries and inventions of science in order to fight the two most devas~ tating ‘wars in .history, the second one culminating in the use of the atomic bomb. And now, with bigger atomic, bombs, radioactive poison gases and bacterial warfare all in the making, many individuals - talk about the inevitability of

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday. —The dinner given by Freedom House in honor of Bernard M. Baruch, to whom they gave their annual award for outstanding service in the cause of peace, was a Very significant occasion. I often think it must be hard to sit and hear vourself eulogized. I know that when 1 am being introduced as a speaker, I usually think: “Well, they have to justify having invited me, so all this praise is very pleasant but must not be taken too seriously.” It was diffecent, however, the other night. Mr. Baruch had to take the praise seriously because the whole occasion revolved around him, and it, was his past and present aetions which had brought him so much genuine respect and admiration from men who themselves stand very high in the public's esteem. r One of the speakers, Secretary of the Treasury Tohn W. Snyder, mentioned the faet that, we werg in

Wa unique position because we had seen the atomic

hom. Most. of us wonder whether seeing it: born ‘is half as important As seeing it develop along the, proper

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Means Long Step to Peace

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THIS is why Mr. Baruch's work as U. 8. repre-

gentative on the United Nations atomic energy com-

mission means so muth to us all

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ll Inside Indianapolis By Donna Mikes

honey. A.pint jar will hold & pound and a half of honey,” says the bulletin,

-. .. One of our agents reports this sign in a 30th|

st. tavern: “Speak well of your enemies. —you made them.”

60-Year Violation FAITH 'N' BEGORRA, the Irish and English are squabblin’ again. A canny Irishman, Inspector Michael Mulvihill of the Indiagapolis “fire prevention squad, has discovered a violation that's been overlooked for some 60-odd years. The inspector found the English hotel's swinging doors were swinging the wrong way; in, instead of out, as prescribed by the state fire | prevention code. Inspector Mulvihill ‘gently sug-| gested .the doors be changed; then put in an order | on it. The result was that, as of Saturday, the English doors were swinging out. Even the inspector can’t explain why the violation hasn't been corrected during more than 60 years since the hotel was built. As a matter of fact, he’s been an inspector 16 of those years. “In the past year we've had some tragedies and we're crackin’ down,” said the Irishman in a thick brogue. “It may save a lot of grief.” . ... I's not unusual to see people in the vicinity of the Claypool sand-blasting throwing baleful glances in the, direction from whence came the grit in their hat, their hair and their eyes. Probably two of the most] put out, though, were two Lincoln hotel employees, sweeping up the sand from the Claypool cleaning. . . . Incidentally, if you've been walking down the west side of Illinois and decided to walk on the east side to avoid the sand, forget about it. We tried it yesterday. face, our eyes and hair than we'd been collecting walking right under the blasting.

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IT HAPPENED AT one of the town's “exclusive” furniture stores A woman came in and

asked to see a chaise lounge. A salesman who was told to show her the lounges took her up to the chaise lounge department but returned without her. “Did you make a sale?” queried a fellow worker. “Sale, my eye,” was allegedly the salesman’s answer. “When I showed. her a chaise lounge she sat down, took off her shoes, said: ‘My feet are Killing me, and laid back to rest.” Well, they ought to be glad she didn't ask® to see a Beauty Rest. The meteoric display night before last caused a lot of trouble in the neighborhood of 827 N. Emerson ave. the home of Times Staffer Frank Widner. Mr. Widner tired of the display early and went to bea leaving his family and neighbors out star-gazing. About an hour later when his family tried to get in the house they found all the doors locked. They pounded, yelled, called up on the telephone but Mr. Widner slept on. Finally a neighbor picked the lock, sawed through a chain which Mr. Widner had | absent-mindedly put up and let the weary family in. Mr. Widner, incidentally, still slept on. At Southeastern ave. and Pleasant Run blvd. an abbreviated street sign reads: *S. Eastern ave.” There's a real “Eastern ave.” too. . . . More confusion.

By Frederick C. Othman

THE BIG BRASS said furthermore that it had ordered the drugs cleaned out of the rafts before they were turned over to WAA. The surplus property boys didn't know there were drugs aboard; said they didn't even know there ever had been any. All they knew, they said blushingly when they received Mr. Anslinger's first blast, was that somebody left the morphine in the lockers, six syrettes of the, pure stuff in each raft. Mr. Anslinger said he wasn't kidding. He said trace the dope already sold to the boat lovers; get it off the rafts that still were, for sale. | The involuntary dope peddlers at war assets] moaned. They investigated the sales of every:life raft. In most cases they got back their morphihe. Mr. Anslinger and his agents helped. : Getting the morphine off the remaining rafts was something else again. - The experts said there were so many piled on so many docks that it would take 100 men 90 days to do the job. So be it. An embargo went on, while the workers dusted out the life rafts. They're still at work. The rafts will go on sale later, without morphine. The dope will be returned to the medical stores and all's well, | 1 guess, that ends well. Mr. Anslinger, at least, has| reached the stage where he can chuckle about it | The government's out of the dope trade with no particular damage done. That's not all; only I've run out of space.. Join me tomorrow for a look at the government's surplus whisky. Maybe you've got an idea about what to do with a few hundred thousand jugs of pre-war, bonded bourbon. The government hasn't.

By David Dietz

world war III. But scientists- do not believe the human race can survive another war and that is why they think it high time that something was done about human behavior. For the past year a study has been going on at the Jackson laboratory which is aimed at finding the basis of certain types of human behavior. The researches are being carried on with dogs. This may surprise many people but just as the medical man finds it simpler to study cancer in mice than in humans, Dr. Little believes that certain behavior problems can be studied more. easily with dogs.

Heredity Studies

ONE OF THE basic problems in which Dr. Little is interested is the effect of heredity and the evaluation of hereditary ‘vs. environmental factors The study was made possible by a grant of $282,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Little is the ideal man to head such a study He graduated from Harvard in 1910 and spent the next 12 years conducting researches in genetics, the branch of biology concerned with heredity. In 1922, he relinquished these studies to become president of the University of Maine. In 1925 he became president of the University of Michigan. But in 1929 he gave up being a college president to resume the study of genetics and became director of the Jackson Memorial laboratory. That laboratory has become world-famous for its studies on the hereditary factors in mice and for its researches into cancer in mice. Dr. Little and his associates have made many important contributions to the understanding of cancer in mice and for several years he also served as managing director of the American Cancer society.

recently.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

If only a working agreement can be reached under which the commercial development of atomic energy can be both guarded and encouraged, I think we will have gone a long way toward establishing peace. Just because this country has the atom bomb does not mean that other nations are not developing other weapons. f

Enyisions Disarmament Pact

BUT IF we could reach an agreement for the con- | trol and release of this energy, the new development for peace might be so exciting that one could really start a joint disarmament program which would cover all types of armament. : | This would give us greater security than we could have in any other way. ’ 1 was happy at, the recognition accorded an old friend, and ‘I pray that Mr. .Baruch Jong may be able to continue the type -of unselfish work he now is doing. : Yesterday afternoon, one of my neighbors, Xanti Schawinsky, eame to talk-to me about the memorial to my husband which is to be erected in Monterey, Mexico. . n He had visited the site with the two architects and the sculptor, whose idea is to be executed. He tells me that the memorial will house a community center, and will be a little way off the Pan-American highway, so that people entering the city can easily

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1946

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(Fifth of a Series.)

By JOHN STROHM (World Copyright by NEA Service, Inc, and John Storhm. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited.)

SOCH]I, U. 8. 8. R.~Nikolai, a 20-year-old coal miner, was vacationing in a white marble palace at a swanky Caucasus resort on the Black Sea, The 30-day “rest cure” was a rewgrd, and he told me how Ai. he earned it. i J %% Nikolai Lukichev 1s a member of t the Young Communist league and _hopes td be a & party member “0% some day —he isn't i eligible until hes 25. Nikolai had wondered how he could improve Mr. Strohm pj job. He and his brigade of three men cut tunnels at the rate of seven to 10 feet a day. idea-—a dangerous idea perhaps, but fast. " Dynamite! Why tunnels? They tried it, and now they cut up to 14 meters a day instead of two or three. /

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Part of Nikolai's reward was this

vacation at the rest home for workers of heavy industry. ' It was hard to say which of us was more dazzled by the pretentious surroundings after the drab appearance of most Soviet villages and cities. For here on the Black Sea in a kind of Miami Beach-Riviera atmosphere are marble palaces which are a combination White House-Taj Mahal thrown together as hospitalhotel, The rest home is a Soviet invention to give the worker a 30-day vacation. » " » HE YAN also be X-raved, sunrayed, sulphur - bathed, vitamized and propagandized and anything else that will send him back a better man to his job. At this one spot overlooking the

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REST HOME: On the steps of the Ordzhonskidze Rest Home on the Black Sea stands 20-year-old Nikolai Lukichev, who earned a vacation here for developing methods to speed up coal preduction by us-

ing explosives instead of machines.

Black sea, with the green foothills

of the Caucasus mountains as a backdrop, are 32 rest such diverse groups as the locomotive workers, the Pravda newspaper staff, Red army

KIEV, U, 8. 8. R.—Forty ragged meén and women shuffied along a road, some with hoes over their shoulders. They looked no better nor worse than any group of farm workers going to the fields. But behind them walked two Russian soldiers, tommy guns slung over shoulders. “Who are these people?” asked Strohm. “Political prisoners,” he was told. “They have commitied a crime against the state.”

Arctic scientists and explorers, and workers of the ministry of agriculture (with whom I stayed.) A mile away in a private rest home, surrounded by § high board fence—Stalin’'s. The | director for Nikolai’'s rest home explained the set-up. Each bureau, factory, and industry has its own rest homes scattered about the country. . WE “DO THE patients pay?” I asked. “Some have their expenses paid by the trade union. “Some have their expenses paid by the government—if they've done something outstanding, like Nikolai. “Others pay their_own expenses, according to the salaries they make,” the director explained. We stopped at the Stalin Binological . institute, where they're studying the effects of the air, and the sea on the human body. (All of these buildings were built in the 1930's.)

» » » HERE, too, they had an impressive array of clinical equipment much more than the ordinary hospital has in Kiev or Minsk or Moscow, It's,of Russian make, German or American “Amerikanski, Harashaw!” was the now familiar observation of one technician as he lovingly touched’ a pjece of American Xray equipment, /

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| Green Labels Pittsburgh Strike ‘Local Affair’

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, Oct, 11.—'A local {matter” — that "is how Willlam |Green, A. F, of L. president, vegards (the strike tie-up of industrial Pittsburgh, ’ | Mr, Green is presiding here at a convention marking the A. FP, of L.'s 65th year, 0 His view of the Pittsburgh situation apparently ruled out for the {present any crificism by the cone{vention of. the A. F. of L. unions [that have stopped the streetcars and most of the busses, cut off heat, and in other ways contributed to nearparalysis of a big city. These unions refuse to cross picket lines of the striking power union, an independ ent organization, ° » » » SOME DELEGATES In off-the-record statements hoped the cone vention would express its disapproval of a situation they fear will harm all organized labor in the’ public mind. The head of an internation] union sald he thought the A. PF. of L. streetcar operators were wrong in refusing to cross picket lines in a strike which does not directly concern them and has brought losses and inconveniences to more than a million people. Ya | A. L. Spradling, international {president of the union of streettar {and ‘bus operators, declined comment, referring all inquiries to his {representative in Pittsburgh.

, - ” ~n \THE CONVENTION today will wind. up its first week, which has {been devoted mostly to speeches, {Monday it will begin adopting reso lutions ‘ag the basis of A. F. of L. policy for the next year. No great changes are likely. / Mr. Green \has made plain there will be no change in the A. F. of L.'s refusal to co-operate with the C. I. 0. or with Russian labor organizations in intérnational labor

“matters,

. This was in reply to a speech by Tom O'Brien, British ‘Rarliament member. and a fraternal delegate from the British Trades Union congress. Mr. O'Brien urged the |A. F. of L. to take part in affairs jof the World Federation of Trade {Unions—in which the Russians are (prominent and in which the U, 8. |is represented by the C. I. O.

” » ” THE CONVENTION has 650 delegates, representing a claimed mem{bership of 7,100,000—largest in the A F, of L's history. The main difference from recent |A. F, of L, conventions is that dele {rates from the United Mine Workers are here. They sit silently at ione of the front tables. John L. (Lewis, who split the A, P. of L, in 11935, founded the C. I. O., withdrew from it and returned to the A. PF, lof L, last January, is represented |by eight men headed by U. M. W, | Vice President John J, O'Leary {and Secretary - Treasurer Thomas {Eennedy.

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By RUTH MILLETT BELIEVED TO BE “the first { American family to set its house in order against the atomic age and its fearsome bombs,” a New York | Soupie recently hit the front pages | by announcing that they were pack{ing up their belonging, their four | children and their cat to head for the safety of Montana's wide open | spaces, | The father is convinced we must

A jeep, a Studebaker, an airplane, shore, the doctor leading the way. gers, promptly piled it at the back !decentralize our population in prep-

a pair of shoes, an X-ray machine: “Amerikanski, Harashaw!” (American! Good!) Everywhere American equipment goes—it wins friends for us, » » » | “LET'S GO for a swim,” suggested the head doctor of our rest home. “But I. have no bathing suit,” I protested. “We don't laughingly. We drove down to the sea in a jeep and started walking along the

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ing to instead of blushing visiting firemen. !

There were little girls, young girls, just girls, and old girls.

of the plane. { After the backend becomes really

aration for an atomic war, and he (thinks he might as well get the

A few wore bathing suits, a few tail-heavy, the rest®of the barrels | Movement started.

wore their panties, but most . » ” A BEACH attendant in white frock said, half protestingly: “This space is reserved for women—the men's beach is and she pointed down the beach. “Oh, that's all right,” tor said reassuringly. doctors.” * And he strode right the sun bathers, attention to us, Phil Bender and T followed, trylook like visiting doctors

“We're all

on among who paid little

» » » WE WENT to the men’s beach. It was separated from the women's beach by -a rope stretched down

[to the: water's edge.

“This is the dividing line,” the

doctor said matter-of-factly.

Oh, yes, the water was wonderful. The Russians are strong for formality. Because we were going to be guests at the ministry of agriculture rest home, the director

of |boxes, bags and miscellaneous as-| them wore only their bathing Caps.

sorted luggage is stacked in the {middle of the plane between the two rows of passengers sitting on benches. [+ When

the plane was ready to

there” take off 1 reached for my safety!

belt, There wasn't any, just the

~ ~ » FRIENDLY pilot strolled back and I'pointed to the rings, as if to ask where the safety belt was, and he asked instead: “Yes, what are those rings for?” On one plane flight the light above the pilot's compartment came fon, “No Smoking,” as soon as we {got into the air. No one smoked |during the whole flight. When the plane got ready to land,

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[the light went off. The passen-|

(gers lighted up their cigarets.. The [switch obviously was reversed, but [the passengers followed the rules, |* And they got out of the plane to do their smoking on the ground

as the ground crew gassed her up.

The next few years may find more and more families leaving the big jcities for the farms, ranches “and small towns of the West. But fear of the atomic bomb probably won't be the big factor behind the move.

» ” ” LIFE IS GETTING too tough im cities, Living places are almost ime

the doe- rings where a safety belt had been. posishble to find. There is the don

| stant threat of strikes, which, as we | know from experience, can deprive {the people even of food. Crime is on the increase, And {overcrowded tonditions destroy {most of the pleasure which once accompanied the “advantages” cities have over small towns. When small-and-medium-income families realize how much simpler |life is away from the big cities, it's & cinch that many of them will pack up their belongings and start new lives somewhere else.

~ o ~ THEIR KIDS WILL stand to gain ~even if the world never starts tossing atomic bombs around. For a family whose children were poor in a city can—in all the ways that

came 40 miles to the airport to| Tomorrow: The hero of Stalin- | matter to a child—be rich in a small

meet us in his private car, And he took us to the airport when we flew away. » » » WE SHOPPED at a fruit counter under. the trees, tended by two barefooted women who cracked and ate sunflower seeds as they waited

| for customers.

Tomatoes were $1.45 a pound. A

{good peach cost 60 cents, a knotty |apple was 16 cents, a pint of goose

berries, 80 cents, and a glass of sour ‘milk, 40 cents.

Our plane came in and we

scrambled aboard with our lug-

sage. i A Soviet plant flight is something

grad is a camel—and he's still working,

'2 BUTLER SOCIETIES ELECT NEW OFFICERS

Two Butler university men's sos cieties have elected officers for the coming year. |. Jack Bailey of Indianapolis is [the newly elected presidefit of the Sphinx club, junior men’s henorary |group, and Ralph lula of Carmel is the new head of Blue Key, senior men's hopor society. | ‘Other officers of the Sphinx club are Williagn Smith, vice president;

to give any of four CAA often Compton, corresponding secs

a nightmare, it's all’ so free fro the rules and regulations we have over here. My first flight, for example! . 3 . y » »

retary; James Cline, recording secTretary, and Marion Thompson, | treasurer. . Gs | The additional Blue Key officers are ‘Willlam® Ransdell, vice presi.

jtown or a farming community, if che parents are thrifty and indus- | trious. | Looking at a city meat-line, many a father must be thinking today how much better off his family would be Af they lived where they cbuld have a cow, some chickens, a garden—and the whole outdoors for the kids to play in. Once we thought the man with get-up-and-go headed for the big city. In the next few years we may change our minds and decide that (today it takes more spubk and | initiative to leave thé cities than to struggle to live in them. :

. GEN, RICHARDSON IN NEW YORK, Oct.,'#1 (U. P).—- | Ship movements scheduled in New {York harbor today: Arriving Stella Polaris, West Indies; Falstrian, Copenhagen; General Rich-

I WRESTLED my own Juggage dent; King Dunbar, secretary, and ardson, Bremerhaven (froops), : : Bilbao, ]

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