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CHRISTMAS is for children—and -guys like me. There's something about a toy department at Christ mas time that fascinates me. "It's harder to get to the toy counters this year. Elevators are elusive and crowded. Main floors of departient stores resemble free-for-all tugs of war. « Shopping 1s more than & venture—it’s a survival of the fittest.

dice game affair at L. 8. Ayres & Co., threw me for a loop. Even after reading the “simple” directions I was stumped. A nearby ouija board wasn't much help either, Trains this year, complete with whistle and belching smoke, intrigue most of the children. Many a . mother was halted by a youngster when he spied the display. One of the redeeming features about growing up is that you can muscle in close to watch without too much danger of someone obstructing the view.

Dolls Are Plentiful

THE DOLL DEPARTMENT continues to be a perennial favorite of young and old. They seem to be plentiful, too. The glass cases get a. workout from tiny noses and hands pressed against them. Mrs, Virgil B. Louden, 4110 Ruckle st., was showIng the “kitty cats” to her daughter Judy Lynne and Mrs. James D. Oakley, 5502 Washington blvd. had her hands full doing the same with Jane and Jimmy, It was a big event for the children because they had “just talked to Santa” and now he knew for sure that they wanted the little black sheep in their Christmas stockings. Of course, there were baby pandas and teddy bears and dolls—but the black sheep would do the trick ~—maybe. Watching youngsters scooting around showcases on their knees at the Wm. H. Block Co. gave me an "idea. Someone ought to invent special rompers for , Visiting toy departments on Christmas. It might save many a snowsuit, This idea is free for anyone who wants it. The - so-called educational toys are intriguing to the imagination. In this department there was many a dad buying for Christmas with a certain gleam in his eye which means but one thing. Junior is going to get help when a big construction job gets rolling on the living room floor on Christmas mornirg.

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Celebrates 21st Birthday In New Home

Rooms Arranged For First Exhibition

By ANTON SCHERRER (Author of Our Town)

EING a close student of society, we have observed that woman's greatest gift is her ability to make the most

"THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, SANTA" —{left to right) Jimmy Qakley, sister Jane and Jud Lynne Louden urge the little black sheep to fol. low them home. i

Gets Sold on a Mickey Mouse

ANOTHER THOUGHT that occurred to me while I watched a clerk struggle to put a toy into a paper bag at the Wm. H. Block Co. | There must be an easier way to wrap the many odd-sized, sharp-cor-nered toys. A bag will usually rip—wrapping paper bulges and by the time a customer gets the toy home the cover is falling off. The dime stores are the ones who really utilize space and go all out for Christmas. Merchandise is piled as high as the law of balance permits. Overhead posters advertise the products on bulging] counters. | At- one store, I followed the crowd to a tactory | of memories. demonstration booth. The man was a wizard with a| rake. for example, the late Mrs. “magic” Mickey Mouse. Mickey obeyed all his com-!| john N. Carey. Except for a memmands—rolled over, turned left and right—crawled | ory she treasuréd, we wouldn't be out of a glass and under his sleeve. | in a position toIt really was magic the way he did it. I plunked day to tell you my quarter down along with a lot of other eager why the streets of shoppers and retired to the corner of the store. Indianapolis have Mickey minds the demonstrator better than he does their corners

NEW HOME—The Children's Museum has outgrown its original quarters at 1150 N. Meridian st, and has been moved to this old mansion at 3010 N. Meridian st.

me. But the sign said anyone from 6 to 60 can rounded. Mrs make Mickey behave, Mickey is going to perform— Carey picked up or else.

the idea of curved intersections in

Berlin, at a time {when that capital still basked in

By Frederick C. Othman {meretricious splendor. When she {returned home she made it her im-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—~I hate to embarrass i Attorney General Tom C. Clark with remarks about § his rented pants. But if I don't and they begin to sag tomorrow night at the White House, he'll be in a that shouldn't happen to a cabinet member, I plead with him now. to put in an extra safety pin. know. I learned my lesson the red-faced way long, jong ago. President Truman is tossing his first large-scale post-war shindig. He has invited 2000 guests, includ-. ng Washington correspondents, their ladies, and ssorted big-wigs. The sorry truth is that five years, plus moths and expanding baywindows, have played eir havoc with the fancy haberdashery, The President ruled at the start of the social ason that since there were few monkey suits in good repair, the masculine members of high society icould wear tuxedos. This helped, but not much. The early birds bought €évery last dinner jacket left in Washington. The others trekked to Max’ place to see what they could do about renting an outfit (84, including a hard-boiled shirt) for the evening. Max said not to feel embarrassed about it. He said plenty of prominent people rented suits from him. He had a whole rack of swallow-tails, each with the name of its one-time wearer pinned to the lapel.

Vests Fit Anybody

HE WASN'T seekijgg free advertising, you understand, but could he help it if my spy happened to see the name of the attorney general on one of the longtailed jobs? Certainly not. If this suit is the same that Max rented me for & similar foray into the light fantastic at 1600 Pennsyl-

Party Clothes Hint

-—__ |mediate business to talk the city authorities into adopting the for-

vania ave, a few years 1} y ; - ) back, then I pity Attorney Gen eign system. What's more, she suc-

eral Clark. Even with an extra safety pin, ed Max’ coats and pants/ are built on the loose side, |°®€9®% His vests mostly are big enough for Senator Tom | 1b Wasn't as easy as it Rppeats. Connally. He can adjust them to fit anybody, inciud- [To accomplish Der purpose, . ft ; ing Mr. Clark. If the fesult isn't exactly correct, Max |the almost impossible task of so ’ claims it doesn't matter. In 4 big crowd nobody Ning uP the hardened arteries of notices the details. unimaginative males who had been

£ . | brought up to believe that a street Safety Pin’ Manipulation

o| corner couldn’t possibly be anything |but a mathematical right angle. - THE: OVERSIZED vest—in my experience—Max | , 9 2 manipulated with a safety pin in the middle of the! ON ANOTHER occasion (this back. The pants also. So all right, Mr, Clark, {time in Florence), Mrs. Carey exThere 1 was, looking like a man of distinction for posed herself to Italian gardens. It $4, including almost-pearl studs, and executing with took with the result that when she my bride a brilliant bit of terpischore. At the instant got home, she turned her backyard I made a particularly graceful turn by the piano with | (1150 N. Meridian st.) into a verithe golden eagles for legs, I heard an ominous ripping | tape bower of beauty replete with

sound. Simultaneously there became apparent a pergolas, statuary, Lombardy popfeeling of /looseness around my middle. The breeze lars and all the other paraphernalia blew in.

; : that goes with garden-magic. The East room is equipped with four large mirrors. | Indeed, she was the first one 1 could Bee that the lower edge of my white vest | o round here to handle the word

seemed ja little conspicuous. I held my partner tighter. | “pergola” competently. Eventually, She wondered why my hands were so sweaty 80 | ir colloquial language absorbed the

suddenly. She said was I nervous? { : 4. But only because of That dance eventually ended. I had to let he {foFENER wero. y

. ? . her, xhibit from Miss Hilda Gross, staff member Joost. My vest slid down almest to my knees; then | On still another occasion (this e b ' my pants began to slip. I grabbed same.

One of my | : 1 ; ; a " [time in The Hague), Mrs, Carey was | perfecting an organization that befellow social leaders looked, laughed, and mentioned moved by the sight of thousands of fore anybody was hep to what was

Sliding Billy Watson. I beat it into the hall, where Jo ; i 3 ra. | DEOple on wheels. When she got|going on, they had their project the lights were dimmer, and effected emergency re back, she was the first 10-6quip her started.

pats, bw I dared HO Sore una might. 1 stood im front lawn with a bicycle rack for| ® = . = : One more safety pin, I am convinced, would have the accommodation of her guests. | THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM of saved me. Have fun general : {Her cultural contribution was|Indianapolis niade its debut on Dec. : : ; : |adopted by all the copycats in town.|6, 1925, which when you come to

Science

mb Indeed, in the end Mrs. Carey in- | think about it, was exactly 21 years stalled two such racks herself. It ago tomorrow. TUIHOWS celebrai : fz was in the nature of a vindication tion is auspicious fot only because By David Die | because very early in the Nineties, | of its significant birthday, but also

TWO CONTRACTS for the development of electric power from atomic energy have been let by the Manhattan Project, according to an announcement from the war department. One is to the Monsanto § Chemical Co. of St. Louis, the other to the General ¥ Electric Co. The report of the war department indicates that a considerable amount of research is being carried on in this phase of the atomic picture. All of these activities are now in process of passing into the control--of - the -Atomic Energy -Control commission recently appointed by President Truman with David E. Lilienthal as its chairman. “We have no headline-making accomplishments to report,” Maj. Gen. Groves states, “but the Manhattan Project is carrying out an intensive research and development program. We are employing techniques of management developed during the war period, co-ordinating ‘and concurrently pushing the scientific, engineering and operating plan of the work.” Some months ago, operation of the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn. was put in the hands of the Monsanto Chemical Co. Maj. Gen. Groves reveals that the company is working on a power pile based on preliminary designs and suggestions of Dr. Farrington Daniels, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and chairman of the board of trustees of the Argonne National Laboratory of Chicago.

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DR. DANIELS is serving as a consultant to the Clinton Laboratories Power Pile Division which is headed by Dr. C. Rogers McCullough. The research d development program at Clinton Laboratories is der the supervision of Dr. E. P. Wigner, one of

‘We, the Women

SHE HADN'T had a maid since before the war, Her good luck in finding one recently left her feeling a little embarrassed. “I'm almost ashamed to admit, even to my best friends, that I really have a maid,” she said apologetically. “We've all been tied down for so long, I feel almost guilty at having some free time again.”

That is the way we have come to feel about a lot of things.

We've learned Something

THE MAN with a new car isn’t bragging about it. He's playing it down. After all, for every man with a new car there are hundreds who are still trying des-

to be envious of his good fortune, The woman who at last has that wonderful, shiny new household appliance she went through the war without isn't bragging, either, She is making sure

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eo _______ | Mrs. Carey went way out on a He it marks the beginning of | with the reckless prediction that the |a new era.

the small group of scientists who first’ saw the .picycle is here to stay.” | Which is to say that beginning possibility of an atomic bomb and who brought the | tomorrow, the Children's Museum

= = 2 subject to the attention of President Roosevelt after | IT WAS by way of Asbury Park, opens for business in a new home, failing to arouse the interest of the navy, |N-. J., however, that Mrs. Carey got| y. first of its own in its entire

. i her biggest idea and, certainly, the g w hom th Pile Refers to Structure {memory she treasured most. on | sterce_, x ek ie DR. DANIELS began the study of power piles in |that occasion (in the summer of 3450 N. Meridian st. You can't miss 1944. Shortly thereafter he and his associates showed | 1924), Mrs. Carey met a Jady of lit if you know where the Rauh the feasibility of such a device by their theoretical distinct and recognizable type Who | branch library is. It's right next calculations. The research work was later carried |S¢ized the opportunity to acquaint qo, ; out at the University of Chicago in what was then Der With all the wonders of the] Tyne first home.of the Children’s known as the Metallurgical laboratory. The name Atlantic seaboard, including tWo \yseum was the carriage room of of this ‘institution has now been changed to the museums especially designed for|ihe gtable belonging to the house Argonne National laboratory and a reorganization | children. {built by John W. Schmidt, an effected under which the laboratory is operated jointly 2s ler ise Ln Dhipeuins pment Intienapolis beer brewer. by a considerable number of universities. ry ' |The house is now known as the, = At the present time the research work is being {2 Boston. Ti Jumed oul 11130 Mes. [Propylacum, The one-time stable, ded over the shelter Botse. be Jiviged between the Clinton laboratories under Dr. | it the Subject ECause. at hat the present address of Ruth Pratt | ined in a letter written by Kurt gner and the Argonne National laboratory under’ ’ |Bobbs and Elmer Taflinger. Each Vv t: “This museum project is its director, Dr. W. H. Zinn. | time, Brooklyn and Boston were the hag his own number, of course. | ih : TS The General Electric Co., which now operates the |On1Y towns in America to have MU=\ The museum started off with o{50S3 x e al the park board atomic energy plant at Pasco, Wash., the Hanford Seums of that kind. | collection including a mounted por- |i. ona Sr; roe Engineer Works, has been awarded a contract to| Fight then and there, Mrs. Carey cypine fish loaned by the school | “Bb pie Lx un males ‘were bebuild an experimental power pile and laboratory at Made up her mind that Indianapolis oar and an arrowhead donated by |... ue ne 3 d ticipate Schenectady to cost $20,000,000. |must have a Children's Museum. mrs Carey's little granddaughter. [0 go jo horn in a pon oh I imagine that most readers are now familiar Immediately upon her return, she Thys proving again, if further proof | +. i a cornection it with the use of the term “pile.” It refers to a struc- Shared her? enthusiasm with Miss is necessary, that other things be- Jove i be x a Se Murture in which rods of uranium are imbedded in a Fave Henley (director of Orchard sides charity begin at home. ay fot sig so ne male con great pile of graphite. The purpose of the graphite |school), Miss Florence Fitch (di-| # % a | a B ISA ARES i . hoo) is to slow down the neutrons released by the fission rector of art of the public school| AFTER’ THREE months in the |" a w ie. lndianapos 3 100 of uranium atoms. \system and Miss Eliza Browning stable, the museum moved to the|System at the time, who took a In the atomic bomb, an uncontrolled chain re- | (City librarian), |shelter house out in Garfield park | lively interest in the ladies’ project action takes place in a mass of pure uranium '235 | or plutonium in a 10-millionth of a second. The uranium pile is a means of obtaining ‘a controlled reaction in which the release of energy. is slower] and therefore usable for industrial purposes.

Bosson and Sally Babcock.

{him, the museum would have started off without a-porcupine fish.

| » ~ ” THE FIRST gift to come to the | Children’s Museum in its Garfield | park location was a live alligator. [Tt appeared to be lonely right from | the start notwithstanding the fact | that Stewart Springer, the curator | at the tir¥®, promised to provide it | with a mate. But mate or no mate, the alli- | gator refused to become a museum | piece: Ofe day it made its escape, presumably by way of the water system of Marion county. It is generally believed that the beast

SILLY NOTIONS By Palumbo

By Ruth Millett

her friends know just how long her name was on a waiting list—and just how long she went without. If we have a decent place to live we know, we are lucky, and we frequently say so.

He Isn't Bragging

livers the gas and even makes service station, change ‘if necessary.

| New Pump Delivers Gasoline and Makes Change :

{ BUFFALO, N. Y. (U. P.). — At serve all-night drivers or motorists: because of the last they've devised a gasoline pump who are in too much of a hurry| materials, that requires no attendant, yet de-|to wait for the attendant at a busy

The pump has ‘undergone tests posited in the coin box, the ma-/ The gadget, designed by Philip and has been ready for market | chine sets the pump to deliver the M. Schneckenburger, is intended fo since 1042, but: was put in wraps proper amount of gas.

joined the colony of alligators in ALL. OF which indicates that we learned some- 0 4 the White river region sf West Inthing from our long doing-without period. We learned dianapolis. not to take the things that make living pleasant as a G Some other day, if our reason matter of course and as our rightful due. 77) holds out, we will tell you about the And we also learned how it feels to be the fellow =z | alligators in West Indianapolis. who has to do without. That's why when we do get | A, yu something now, we feel almost embarrhssed by our "7 ’ | IN THE spring of 1927 when Arsudden good fortune. 2 ; thur B. Carr was the curator and We can put ourselves in the other fellow's place = ZA j [s. Grace Golden was in charge enough to remember that he may be still doing with- = = 777 7 [Ot public relations, x set-0f circum= out, and that we shouldn't rub our good fortune in. = Zz 4 VY 7) / | stances compelled the Children’s That isn't a bad lesson to have learned—not bad eA og . A) ’ (Museum to seek a new location. at all. To be grateful for what we have. To be . A C2 X hy) | Never mind why. For the purpose aware that everyone else hasn't as much, = El ; in Va of today's piece, it is enough to et iit 4) know that this time the museum ny KK: dl WE moved into Mrs. Carey's 35-room RL residence at 1150 N. Meridian st. - | (the one with the pergolas), war shortage of = | The arrangement was to be a

“temporary one until permanent | quarters could be found.” The deal embracing the quoted clause was | consumated by way of a series of | cablegrams. This time Mrs, Carey was in Bermuda. >

The pump is completely automatic. When the money is de-|

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“SORRY DOC! — BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME."

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ANCIENT HISTORY—Bill Arbaugh (left) and Jack Siebert learn about the Early Man

CARROUSEL—One of the prize exhibits at the museum is this

old fashioned carrousel being admired by Nancy Sweetman, Susan.

The four founders worked so fast|Legend has it that the park board |2lmost from the start. Except for|

Children’s Museum Comes Of Monument To Woman's Memo

AFTER SCHOOL GROUP—Admiring the museum's chine exhibit aje Don Williams, Peggy Sturgeon, Alice Smith, Sandy

McNally and Mary Ellen Burton,

at the museum.

When it came time to move, it

cause of a precious sentence con-|was discovered that two trucks were

| more than enough to haul the col-

{lection from Garfield park. In its third location, the collection was | displayed in a couple of front par{lors which had been vacated by the simple method - of moving Mrs. | Carey's effects onto the second | fidor, As time went on, more and more of Mrs, Carey's things went upstairs. | Indeed, Mrs. Carey lived to see the | day when all of her things were in |the attic. She didn’t mind it in the

Mrs. Roosevelt Adopts French War Orphan

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U, P)~— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt adopted: a French war orphan yesterday through the organization, Friends of Widows and Orphans of the French Resistance, of which she is an initial sponsor, The child is Christine Berthelot, 8, blond and blue-eyed, now is in an orphanage in Nantes with her three brothers and three sisters. Christiane's father was executed by the Germans because he was a member of the French underground, Her mother lost her mind because she feared her children would starve.

Meat Cutters Sign CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (U. P.) ~The A. PF. of L. Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers’ union announced yesterday it-had signed a contract with Swift & Co. A spokesman for the C. I. O. Packinghouse Workers reported progress in his union's negotiations with the Cudahy Packing Co.

Seek Missing Coed BENNINGTON, Vt, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Volunteers searched the tortuous trails of the Green mountains today. They sought - Miss - Paula Welden, 18, missing Bennington college sophomore, She disappeared Sunday after she started a hike in

‘the foothils. :

everything fixed to live in the coune

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know where.

» » . THUS, INSTEAD of being a teme porary arrangement, the Children’s Museum stayed 19 years in Mrs, Carey's house, rent free. As a mate ter of fact, it stayed until the other day when it moved into its own home (3010 N. Meridian st., we ree peat). Today the Children’s Museum has 110,000 cataloged items, all of which represent gifts. You can't expect to see the whole collection at one time, There's a new exhibition every few weeks. One thousand cases of material are constantly circulating among the public schools, Every day three busloads of 60 children each arrive, They are taken in hand by docents who reveal the mysteries of ethnic, social and nature lore, _ During the migration and blogs soming months, the museum organ« izes Saturday nature walks, On Sundays there is the “family hour.” There's always a preponderance of fathers on that day. It's explained by the fantastic fact that Dad is kinda tickled to have his kid teach him something he never knew. He would resent it coming from any body else. That's the considered opinion of Mrs. Grace Golden, the dynamic die rector of the museum who took over in 1941 when Mr. Oarr retired. On that occasion Mr. Carr was crowned director emeritus.

. " ® : FOR THE opening exhibition, Mrs. Golden has arranged a series of rooms labeled “In Grandfather's Day,” “Accessories of Victorian Dandies,” “When Grandmother Was a Girl” “Elegant Eighties,” “Early Shaving Accessories” and a “Victorian Room.” It would be like giving away the plot of a play to tell you about them. { However, we might spill what we know about the historic melodeon in the Victorian room. It was the instrument that split the congrega= tion of Roberts Chapel. One face tion insisted that music was the ‘work of the devil; the other side was just as sure that it served a religious purpose. The fight didn't end until the music lovers seceded and set up Meridian M. E, church. Sure, they took the organ with them, TT a . » WELL, THAT'S the romdhtie stuff of which our Children's Mu scum is made. You can't afford to pass it up—it's that precious. Not only is it the third oldest Children's Museum in the country, but it is {the largest independent of a parent { organization, which is to say that it {isn't hitched up with a library, | school or similar institution, I% | moves under its own power. 5 | So much for a museum that grew {out of a memory brought from Ase bury, N. J. As for Mrs. John N, | Carey, she spent her last days {crowned with honors in her lovely |country place, Haverway Farm, the |name of which—gosh, this will slay you—the name of which was derived: | from the fact that she was always

least because by this time she had!Xnown to have her way.

PRR

Christmas Club Fund Distributed Christmas savings checks amounts’ ing to $7,127,801.86 are being dise tributed this week by Indiana banks to 118,327 depositors. The total is more than a million dollars in excess of that distributed by banks in the state last year and includes the savings in clubs at 119 Hoosier institutions. The largest club in the state, ace cording to the report of the Indie ana Bankers association, was at the Fletcher Trust Co. here which had

9700 members with savings amounts ing to $573,000.

‘World Bank Head Quits: | WASHINGTON, Dec. § (UC. P.).— Eugene Meyer resigned yesterday as president of the World Bank, effective Dec. 18, He explained he considered organization of the ine ternational credit institution coms plete. Mr. Meyer is the T0-years old owner of the Washington Post,

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