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“Give LAG wad (he People Will Pind Their Own Way

DID YOU VOTE? DP you go to the polls today and exercise your right to "help choose your officials? " : If you don't vote, don’t gripe about the kind of govern-

ment you get. ’

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GUSTAVE A. EFROYMSON FUNERAL services were held today for Gustave A.

family that has contributed much to this eommunity. Contributing liberally of his time to numerous civic projects, Mr. Efroymson was organizer and president of the "Indianapolis Public Welfare association which was founded under auspices of the Russel Sage Foundation to protect small borrowers; president of the William E, English Foundation, director of the Indianapolis Foundation, president for 25 years of the Jewish Federation of Indianapolis, diyeetor of Citizens Gas and Coke Utility for 15-years and a leader in many other public-spirited enterprises. At the time of his death, he was president of Real Rilk Hosiery Mills, Inc., head of Occidental Realty Co. and director of the Indiana National bank and Union Trust Co. He had headed several businesses here, including H. P. Wasson & Co., and had numerous other interests. In his passing, the’ city has lost a leader whose outstanding success in business never prevented his giving his time and financial support generously to projects for the

public good.

THE PUBLIC HAS POWER, TOO ‘A FTER John L. Lewis forced the government to give his #% soft-coal miners higher pay and other gains last summer, the OPA raised the price of coal 4014 cents a ton to offset the increased wage costs. We don’t know how much more Mr. Lewis will force

or whether he is at all concerned over how much more the . public can afford to pay for co.l. : But we hope he wasn't too busy to notice a small news ftem last week. It said that the price of home-heating fuel was being reduced slightly along the east coast, stocks oil having reached 65,499,000 barrels—an unusually

of ] high level for this time of year. Mr, Lewis, as director of the miners’ union, has tre‘mendous monopoly power over coal, And shrewd observers think that part of his present plan is to increase that power by presenting his annual new-contract demands hereafter in the fall—when approaching cold weather makes a coal-strike: threat more terrifying—instead of in the spring. : ; - : RB The public, however, is not likely to welcome the ‘prospect of shivering in heatless homes, and of seeing industries shut down. The public will seek means of protecting itself against Monopolist Lewis, and one way is to ‘become less and less dependent on coal. A great many families have changed ‘to fuel oil, and

to go down while the price of coal climbs. "Mr. Lewis and his union are bitterly opposed to letting the Big-Inch and Little-Inch pipelines, built in wartime, be used to carry natural gas—a competitor of coal. But the public, which paid for the pipelines, can exercise its right to say how they shall be used. 5 Mr. Lewis has fought the TVA and all proposals for vernment development of other projects to manufacture dro-electric power—another competitor of coal. The public can exercise its right to say that the government shall produce more power from the nation’s rivers, _ - We don't want to see the coal industry lose markets and the coal miners lose jobs. But both can happen, and will, we think, if Mr. Lewis keeps on pulling coal strikes and forcing coal prices upward.

HOW LONG ARE HENRY'S TRACKS? 'ENRY WALLACE wound up his campaign tour for © Democratic candidates by speaking yesterday in New York. He had already spoken in California, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Scheduled to speak in Indiana, his talks here were cancelled. Henry's barnstorming was something less than the sensation that was advertised. At Detroit, Henry's reception by Democratic leaders was not one of open arms. Local party bigwigs, descended upon his hotel suite and spent three hours persuading Henry to take his foot out of his mouth, They rewrote his speech, eliminating his praise of Russia for fear of antagonizing the Polish and Catholic votegin the state, and all of his attacks on Republican Senator Vandenberg’s foreign policy, because most Michigdn citizens have made up their minds their senator is right. Nevertheless, Henry did manage to give forth the word - that he wanted Vandenberg defeated. A few weeks ago, in those hectic days right after Henry

laceites, including all of the panting left-wingers and even some national party leaders, insisted that Henry was need#d on the hustings to help the Democratic ticket. It was argued t Henry had a great magpetic appeal to “the man,” and since there are so many of us common fo in the voting population Henry's influence might prove decisive, $e Accordingly a tour was arranged to places where the lievers in Henry thought his appearance would do most bod for Democratic candidates, Our impression is that’ has somewhat short of a triumphal tour for “the test commoner since William Jennings Bryan.” - But possible, even probable, that we put the wrong yardHenry when we looked for ‘large turn-outs of apg voters and they didn't materialize. Bryan was ly fellow, and that kind we understand. Henry is th of a mystic, and that kind, frankly,

day the people are going to the polls. And

Washington, Minnesota, WisconNew York—to see how ‘much oY :

LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ | of ' Business Manager

" Ffroymson, businessman-philanthropist and head of a

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"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it," — Voltaire,

By Veteran's Wi

"G. |, College Students Suffer Because Checks Often Delayed”

fe, Indianapolis

I wonder how many people would work at a job where they only got government to give the miners in the new negotiations, | paid whenever the company got around to it? Not many I assure you. . or how much more the price of coal will rise as a result; | Yet that is what our G. I college students are putting up with,

“These boys are not allowed to work full time jobs to make & living, but yet we cin never depend on our monthly $00 checks, Our bills keep coming fn every month and our creditors aren't going to wait around four or five months to get their money. We haven't received a check since the first of August. On part-time wages it takes every cent of that to get something to eat with prices the way they are. Just how are we supposed to pay our rent, lights, water, gas, ete. 1 have planned out budgets every ‘

And we had a sense of right and

‘a great many more surely will if the price of oil continues |}!

way a budget could be planned, and I still cannot make ends meet because of the unsystematic way these checks are put out. - - If these boys are given a chance] to gp to college then just why doesn’t the veterans administration come across with our checks, They should be big enough to have some system’ that they could get these checks out on time, (I'll pet the VA employees don't work® several months before they get their pay.) Why not put a system behind the VA s0 we can get these checks every month on time instead of every four or five months. It's not only us in this trouble, it's every G. I. student. If there any student's wife that has worked out a system that they can make ends meet on part-time wages, I'm open to suggestions. # #" » “WE NEWSBOYS WERE REAL KIDS, NOT SISSIES” By Ex-Newsboy, Indianapolis In The Times of Oct. 27 In the Hoosier Forum, I find the headlines, “Patrons Should Have Payment Ready for Carriers on Time.” Writtn by ‘Mrs. L. Wicker, Pine st. When a newspaper gives a half column of good:newsprint to such an asinine article as this, the country is surely going to hell, When I was a kid and sold the old Sun on the streets after school, | I hollered my head off for a couple of hours In zero weather, or rainy | weather, and made 11 cents, of! which amount I spent one cent for Jelly beans. I also stayed up all

wrong.

Now your editor prints an article that we should be nice to the boys and have their change ready when they call. They are damn ime portant. But they always come on Fridays when you are getting ready to sit down te eat your supper. No;- I don't think much of your sissy newsboy of this day. And in my day, we didn't have a state law to arrest people who didn’t pay— we were men enough to -get our dough, or take the loss—not crybabies. Is there any wonder our country is going to hell, when we have newspapers giving such space to such asinipe articles. Human interest stuff—bolony-~communis-tic. Give us—give—for-nothing. We have nobody to blame but the newspapers for our present conditions. They glorify weakness, and condemn courage, like the Russian youth ahd the Naal youth had. And we are going to teach them our ideals; communitiged. Don't in the future, waste good newsprint on such asinine articles. If the country is to be saved we've got to teach our youth to werk for what they get—and not have their hands out for a gift. » = . “CAN'T AFFORD DOLLAR OR TWO FOR MY BACON”

By A. H. H., 5. Arsenal I have taken The Times ever since it started and know it has always tried to protect the public: There are some people with larger incomes than others and since lving costs have gone up out of our

reach, and since I am unable to

night in the Sentinel office or the! work, we have to get along on what old Journal on election eve, and | my wife makes where she works, waited for the morning paper, and | It's up to me to get the groceries sold the extras and went to school in and do = little cooking, when I without sleep, {am able, These stores cut nice baIn those days we kids were real| gon up into 2% to 8'%-pound pieces kids, not sissies. And we didn't st 65 to 67 cents & pound, and won't destroy our neighbors’ property, or sell it in % and l-pound pieces;

Wallace was kicked out of the cabinet, the more vocal Wal-

good look at the election returns— |

throw the newspaper through their | screen doors, like they do nowadays.

and I don’t have a dollar or two to spare for bacon alone.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

; , ain’ daing me any good-—my

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wife opens and reads it first!"

“MAYOR OPPOSED PERSONNEL MEASURE IN 1945" By John Alyah Dilworth, 816; Broadway Mayor Robert H. Tyndall and other city officials opposed the enactment of the herewith later described personnel law according to the press on Jan. 31, 1045. They took the position that while they are not opposed to a personnel division they believed the present division, presumably a political one, should be continued for two years— the end of their reign—until the next legislature, to “get the bugs out,” before enacting the plan into state law. . The bili- sought to restrict the “on duty” political activity of-eity employees, among other things. It provided that “no city employee, while on duty, shall engage in any form of political activity or use his official authority or position in such a manner as to detract or enhance from the power or prestige of any political faction or party.” The house of representatives on Jan. 31, 1046: Representative Nellie

troduced a bill creating a division of personnel in the office of the mayor of Indianapolis, Presumably a resident of Indianapolis. Prior to the introduction of the bill the personnel division operated by authority of the city council The bill was recommended by the citizens’ municipal survey committee and sponsored, along with others, by Herman E. Bowers, chairman of the city couneil fi‘nance committee and who is also assistant Republican chairman. Under Representative Downey's bill the personnel director - would be appointed within 30 days after passage of the act, which contains an emergency clause. He could be removed only after a public hearing. The appointment would be made by the mayor, with the approval of the city council, afid the director would receive $6500—an increase of $500, The director's job would be. to establish job and pay classifications, on the recommendation of the mayor, and with the city council approval. The mayor and council, Jointly, would be empowered to fix rates of pay and each year's budget would contain an item not to exceed 2 per cent of the total city pay roll to be used in providing pay jncreases during the ensuing year, Heads of city departments would be limited in their appointments of employees to these pexsons on elis gible lists established by the director. Department heads, however, would be authorized to make emergency appointments to fll the . . ' With reference. to political activ. ity, it. required city officials, other than those holding elective offices, to obtain leaves of absence 30 days preceding an election at which they are candidates. Any city employee failing to obtain such a permit when he is a candidate for elective office would be dismissed. With reference to contributions it read: “No person shall require directly or indirectly that any eity employee shall, as a condition of gontinued or future employment by the city, make any contribution of money or services to any political candidate, faction or party.” Violation of any provision or provisions of the proposed law would result in mandatory dismissal,

DAILY THOUGHT.

And God said, Let. Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: .and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the

4 earth, and over every creeping | thing that creepeth upon the

earth.—Gienesis 1:26,

YOURS is the earth and everything that's in it, and—which is

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more—you'll be a man, my sonl— Kipling, , ;

B, Downey (R. Indianapolis) in-'

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T10 COMPLETE story of operas tion of the office of censorship during the war is told in “Weapon of Silence” by Theodare F. Koop, assistant to Indiana's Byron Price, director of censor ship. Mr, Koop's book was published yesterday, by the University of Chicago press. x « I ‘have special interest. in the story he tells so Well hecaiapl Was one SE @ Soup of Mier any

executive news editor of the sisting him in key posts were John H. deputy director who was before the war exebutive editor of the. Seripps- : and Jack H. Lockhart, Mr, assistant and for 18 months head of the-press division of office of censorship, . .

Paid Cost of Operation ‘

CENSORSHIP SAVED, through {its positive contribution to economic warfare, more than the entire cost of its operation .. . and in its double-phased operation was a substantial part of the allied intelligence net, U, 8. censorship was linked with that of Canada, Great Britain and other allied nations. Its “defensive” phase was to prevent leakage of information -to the enemy. Its “offensive” phase was the gathering of any information which had a bearing on the war effort . . . activity of enemy agents, location of stockpiles of “critical materials, data on possible bomb targets in axis territory, con. trol. of movement of axis assets, political and morale conditions in enemy countries. There was none of the latter type of data recorded from American international correspondence and telecommuniecations. , . . Mr. Price took the position that unless

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NEW YORK, Nov, 5.—It would be helpful if we all oould get the same calm and practical approach to the Russians and their attitudes as that of Warren Austin, chairman of the American delegation to the United

Nations, who will become U, 8. representative on the security council in January, The Vermont Republican and former senator was perhaps the coolest member of the general assembly audience the other day when Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov blew off in a lengthy prepared speech that ruffled the feelings of a good many diplomats who were present.

Courtesy Shown to Russians METHODICALLY, Mr. AUSTIN took notes as the speech was translated, and, lawyer that he is, had them all carefully arranged by subtitle and subhead, like the outline of a court brief, when it was over. Mr, Austin's training as a lawyer and his long service in the senate stand him in good stead. He has listened to lawyers on the other side get off their stuff by. the hour, day and year he has listened

consumption, He knows how to assess such things, separate the lean from the fat, to recognise the substance in such a speech as that of Mr. Molotov, which at points reached high statesmanship, and to give appropriate value to the “Buncombe” sections, Mr. Austin refused to be drawn into any eraterical brawl—despite the provocation—and, when he replied the next day, it was in a reasoned, temperate manner, with no emotional coloration, as if he were addressing the U. 8. supreme court op a high constitutional question. He added our own demands fer armament inspection and disclosure of all troaps beyond a nation's borders, in answer to Russian proposals. Mr, Austin was careful to have a copy of his prepared speech, delivered in advance to Mr. Malotev and

HENRY CLAY SPEAKING: “This is mixing the Clay of Kentucky with the limestone of Pennsylvania.” These were Henry Clary's first words as he dug himself out of a pile of limestone where he had landed when a stagecoach on the National road upset at Uniontown, Pa., as Mr. Clary was en his way. to Washington, D. C. This was but a passing incident, yet a revealing flash of trave] de Juxe in Ameriea in the second and third decades of the 18th century.

Thrilling Era in History IN THIS ERA the nation lifted itself out of the mud into a stagecoach lined with soft silk plush, To Americans of that generation, this was more thrilling than a post world war II American's first flight in a big passenger+airplane. The stagecoaches of the National rqad were the last, word in the travel world of their day. They were painted handsomely and beautifully ornamented. The standard coach had three seats with luxurious cushions. It was roomy enough for nine passengers, with the coveted fair weather seat outside beside the driver. ; In the peak period of this road, there often were as many as 15. of these coaches lined up in a eontinuous procession, with every -seat in each coach taken. As many as 30 of them going in each direction often would pass a given point in a day. They were the most colorful trafic flow of their kind. in America. The inns and taverns along the road for the accommodation of pasfengers matched the stagecoaches in convenience, comfort and as a charadteristic touch of their day. They were tree-shaded. Thé grounds around them were attractive, in summer coal and fragrant with mint. Beguiling sign: boards swinging high on heavy posts, eased into their grounds many a tired traveler

“| for rest and refreshment. All this was a token of a

new era in Ameriea.

This Is Pretty

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—It is of vital necessity that we pause this slection day to take swift inventory of the land and its also to allow the campaign promises to float away. What sort of folks are we, on the eve of a new political-ers Listen closely and father will tell you. - r No matter what the gloomspreaders say, we are a nice bunch of ‘guys, tly screwy, perhaps, but

addy

to smile in the face of trouble,’

Meat-and-Potato Department

I CITE YOU the burglar who recently bounded through a window, waved his gat in the face of a pretty girl, and demanded @ kiss. The girl, whose name was Loraine, gaid no, The intruder bowed from the hips, shoved his pistol in his pocket, and leaped back through the window. We are short on soapflakes but knighthood still flowers, A fine faculty for recognizing our mistakes is evident in the case of Mr. James Donoghue, who kissed

| the wife of his boon copipanion, in the kitchen, The

boon companion hauled out a rod and shot Mr, Donoghue through the chest. Mr, D. smiled bravely, if a bit-weakly, and remarked: “When you steal a Kiss ‘from a pretty girl who belongs to somebody else you cap expect to be shot. | 1 * There have been, lately, certain signs that we are reverting to the toug dedness of our forebears, A 62-year-old female visitor to the city (AWOL from

Springfield, O.) reqently was clapped into the freezer

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to windy senators as they harsngued—for home

REFLECTIONS. . . By Robert C. Ruark

riddled with chivalry, resourcefulness, and the ability,

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- divorced her husband on grounds he put. his butler’s

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pe Hoover. : : d Spi information had a bearing on the war effort, it Was of no interedt to his organization, - He dig, not tolerate prying into personal affairs, nor vo of censorship as a weapon to detect violations of laws which did not. affect conduct; of the war. And there, of tourse, was no domestic censorship, ~ The result was a minimum of complaint and complete confidence. . ., Mr, Price’s high personal and professional reputation was the best protection his organigation could have against political interference, -And there was none of that, Typical of

his philosophy was his often-stated scknéwledgment | ‘of ‘the repugnance of any form of censorship to the

American. people. When war's end neared, he had plans for curtailment complete, V-J.day saw terminatiof of censorship and whittling down of forces until the office was closed entirely. Senator Byrd's committee on reduction ef nopessential federal expenditures pointed out earlier this year that: Mr, Price's office was the only federal agency. actually abolished since the war ended. Curbing Press and Radio ~ MR. PRICE WAS EMPOWERED to censor inter: national malls, international cable, radio and telephone and all other means of communication to

or the United States , . , and “in rp his ahwolute

He reported directly to the Président, which ‘was of importance in differences With phe Ya, and navy departments . . . differences Nn which he usually came out on top wi liberal policies. . ¥y 2 hs mgt Censorship of press and radio, however, an, entirely voluntary basis. Mr. Koop pays tribute ® he press hog; Mlle of the country for their coon, 2 or contrib - Yepling military informa wy ion = my is book has great value his 1 it deals with a little known isaly wir vi

since it operated without much ie p publicity during its

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

Austin Handles Himself Well in UN

the Russian delegation in Russian translation. When certain changes were necessary, after the Molotov ° address, he also had that quickly translated and Paded. 10 the Russians before tis 4poks. ' bited a courtesy that never h . ternational relations. re Former Senator Austin realizes that the United Nations assembly is, after all, a body comparable to our congress and the British parliament, but elevated to the international level, and that occasional out~ Sursis ich Sa Sie ®o_common in those two gress u should be e taken avin ; expected, in stride, and This makes world problems more easily understandable to the average citizen, lifts the secrecy and the cloud of awe with which diplomatic matters too often are surrounded. There is a theory about United Nations heddgquarters that such outbursts against the United States in which the Russians indulge themselves are, in reality, a sort of smokescreen for a coming change of poliey toward the United States--preliminary, strange as it may seem, to a closer rapproachement. It is necessary to understand the Russian situation to understand their seeming paradox.

Tough. Talk for Home Value THEY HAVE TO KEEP the home folks in a dis- , Whipped up with an emotional belief in the purity of Russian motives and the villainy of other nations until they are able to do something aboui-improving their econemie condition. To do this they need outside financial assistance, and the United States is the best source. Therefore, it is held, the tactics represented by Mr. Molotov's speech and others are to keep theshome folks satisfied until they ean get help, In this connection it might be noted that Mr. Stalin expressed interest in a loan from the United States in his replies a few days ago to questions of Hugh Baillie, president of United Press.

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow National Road Altered U.S. Tempo

More numerous than the inns were the taverns for wagoneers, with wagon houses for their horses and wagons. These men with their wagons and equipment hauled America over the Appalachian mountains. They lifted a narrow! strip of sea coast settlements into the wide sweep of a great continent. : They changed men from the halting step of an old world tempo to the hope of & new world of almgst infinite possibilities. There is something very fundamental about that, and the breed of the men who did it. The one official job of the National road was to carry the United Btates mails. As of that day, this was especially important. It changed the tempo and set the pace of the natien. Business quickened. ' Newspapers spread. With a better and quicker understanding of their world, men achieved more. They lived better. They broadened measurably as they got a mental swig of the outside world, brought to them daily by the mail coaches of the National read. Indiana got in at the tall end of all this, and at the faltering end of this read. By the time the National road lengthened into Indiana, men coyld hear the steambeoat's whistle on the Ohio river,

State Groggy With Hope .,LAB8 GOVERNOR NOAH NOBLE signed the mammoth internal improvement bill od Jan. 36, 1836, carrying appropriations of $13 million, there was an appropriation of $1,300,000 for a railroad from Madison through Columbus to Indianapolis. {hen The state was swamped with possibilities, It was bewildered by epportunities. It was groggy with hope. But Indiana neither then abandoned, nor-can it ever forget its National road. As the years lengthen, even more will Ameriea and Indiana eling to the memory of this read, which stirred them both on to better things.

Good Place to Live

for toting ® pistol. She told the Johns she was wearing the heat because she had been informed that “New York was a wicked place, full of wildness and crime waves.” She is apt to need it if she visits any butchers, J Things have been pretty rocky in laughing water league. The taste of potato in blended booze has increased to a point where avep Mrs. Margaret Munns, the W, ©. T. U. chairman, has put in a howl. Maggie alows that good hooze is bad, but bad hooze is horrible. I gather that the W. C. T. U's latest line prefers pleasant poisoning to wry-faced guzzling. Our capacity for the unpredictable is bearing up nicely. A lady driver in an ordinary auto collided with a waterborne submarine. A truck crawled in bed with 8 young woman, A fugitive from the law was trapped when he stumbled over a baby carriage. Scientists took the body tempefature of grasshoppers. Models organized to protect themselves against wolyes —wolves in the non-technical sense.

More Straws in’ Wind DURING THE SOAP SHORTAGE, a lady turned up with two bars of old stuff, bearing a label quoti

A. Lincoln as follows: “Save soap to win the war.’ The help situation has been so severe that a lad

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welfare ahead of hers, . a That is the state of the nation, constituents, we gallop to the ballots, It's a sort of nice place,

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TUESDAY Tri Kaj Will Ei Student:

High Sct Guests at

Nearly 800 hig] and band studen diana will be the Kappa ¥appa sc certs by the Indi chestra this seasc 52 owns will atte a sorority proje years. At the openin students attended phi, Fowler and schools. that wi concerts are as Alexandria, La n; Dec komo, Monticello, leans and Vevay Clinton, Peru, Ro ington; Feb. 2—] Madison, Richmc ter; March 16 Montpelier, No Plymouth and Ro Friday Six Friday eve be attended by th Nov. 15—Anders dleton and Unio Frankfort, Franl Shelbyville; Jan. wood, Greenwood 24—Brookville, I and Knightstown ford City, New and Plainfield; | bus, Crawfords and Greencastle. Tri-Kappa als phony tickets fo sonnel at Camp the war years. Miss Helen Hz council secretary chdirman of th phony committee by the eight pi the organization,

Progran To Be: Sunday

The junior se anapolis Matinee sent a program in the D. A. R. ¢ Anne Patterson ‘gram, and Miss preside. Participating w more, Robert E Wiggan, Jo Ann lene Ruth Willou comson, Carol Ar Ellen Galbraith Howard Smith, P Zimmerman, Ma liam Travis Selr Charles Robert and Carol Washi The student se program follow Laura lee Bu schedule, and N\ will preside. Ps clude David I Blakeslee, Jeann Edwards, Shirley Lane, Delores Fi haus, Barbara Lane, Adrienne Minna Edenhart New Soap Now more tl patriotic to waste your soap as tho an heirloom. gadget is a plas attach to the wal It has an ingeni raised pegs on Ww ,dries quickly, wit ping. You can soap-savers to room—they com colors. Have al kitchen, too.

Mothers t The Kappa Al club will meet n Butler universit Lewis W. Gilfoy ing Security.”.

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