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Inside Indianapolis

“MERRY OHRISTMAS and a Happy New Year.” “Wonder what the kids are doing with the toys by how,” a downtown hotel bellboy asks himself as he carries in the luggage of an early guest.

A factory ‘Worker rolls over in bed, looks at the clock and thinks about taking his wife and children to

: church, '

“Another lonely Christmas,” a little old lady tells herself, Tears dwell in her eyes as she remembers other, happier days. She remembers when her home was « happy place on Christmas. The cnildren are all

‘ gone now,

ALL THE SIGNS ARE UP — but have all caught the spirit?

By Ed Sovola

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~The Indianapolis

From the pulpit a minister looks over who remember the solemnity of the day oh ol Earth and Good Will Toward Men.” ~ A merchant wonders how the Christ will look when the books are finally pmas edible “That's the best Santa Claus could bring this year " a mother tells her three orphaned children. Maybe next year it will be different. g A soldier at the Veterans Administration hospital looks over his Christmas cards. The doctor had been promising a “Christmas at home.” Guess he'd have to sweat this one out. “I hope Mom doesn't take it too hard,” he thinks. Two youthful bandits at the City jail ponder their fate and the “mistake” that fumbled the Job.

Grateful Ex-G. I.

AN EX-G. I, his wife and young son drive along Meridian st. As he pulls up to a stoplight and looks at his family he feels a warm glow. He waited a long time for a Christmas like this one. “Five more hours and I'll be home,” a bookkeeper from Cleveland thinks as his train pulls out of Union station and heads for Chicago. “Why did they have to call you,” an irate wife of a rallroader asks her husbund. “This will spoil our whole Christmas.” “Do you think I want to work today? One of the men got sick and the boss wants me to work. What do you want me to do?”

Exchange Day Tomorrow

A TAXICAB driver slumps lower in his seat and gives his cap a tug. What a day to be driving a cab. The radio station engineer shudders as he hcars “White Christmas” for the umteenth time. An exchange department employee of a downtown store shudders as he thinks of the stories he's going to hear tomorrow. But the “customer's always right.” Cheerio.

SECOND SECTION

‘Hot Dog

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec, 25 (U. P.).—A cartoon was

.pubiished many years ago showing a newspaper

editor on Christmas day telling a reporter to get him a good, colorful story on the holiday feasting. “And on your way back,” the editor added, “pick me up two hot dogs with plenty of mustard.” That's not quite true. Strange and wonderful things happen in the news room on Christmas and I would not miss them. For 20 years now I never have, The telegraph machines have a special musical clatter, perhaps because nobody is sore anywhere in the world; there's no news but good news, and I only hope the rest of this dispatch does not sound too sentimental. Lonesomest youth in America. and also the proudest, was a red-headed 21-year-old. name of Othman, arriving in Memphis, Tenn., on Christmas eve, 1926, to take over his first bureau managership for the United Press in the office of the Press-Scimitar. After I'd spent eight hours feeling sorry for mygelf—it was my first Christmas away from home— my new office boy said: “Sir, we are having a little doings tonight and we'd be proud to have you come.” Nobody's ever called me “Sir” before and I said, “Son, I'll try to make it,"if I have the time.” That young Southern diplomat never cracked a smile. The party, in a small frame house on the far edge of town, was plain wonderful. There was mistletoe, a fiddler scraping mountain music, and potent refreshments which gurgled fro mgallon jugs. I'll never forget that office boy.

Big Bill's Party ONE CHRISTMAS TI almost didn't spend in the office. I boarded a train Christmas eve in Chicago intending to eat turkey with my ‘mother 300 miles

away. Next morning I still was in Chicago. Snowed in, "Back to the office I trudged, where a message waited from the mayor's office. Big Bill Thompson was holding a party in a brewery and I was invited. It was a little whiz-ding, that party, and it made i news. Hizzoner announced during the festivities that I if King George ever came to Chicago, he would be » . kicked by the mayor, personally, in the snoot. { ir nt Lsiasts Some Christmases in Chicago a Salvation army | lass visited the office with oranges; some years she brought candy. A gentleman who functioned then To Take Census as press agent for the W. C. T. U. once brought me— yes he did, ladies—a pint of the best bourbon whisky. In Denver on a number of Christmases my job was filing the news to the far western papers. The editors who damned my judgment the rest of the vear telegraphed their greetings. Feeling happy late in the afternoon, I always walked through the snow (it regularly snowed on Christmas in Denver) to the |. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Birds will Press club. Here was turkey to eat and Christmas| be counted in thousands of forests music to hear, as played by Sid Whipple on the piano. and fields during Christmas week, Sid's in Tokyo today; I wonder if he has a piano handy.

Audubon Magazine Will Publish Data

By Science Service

in the forty-seventh annual bird census. All over the country, bird enthusiasts will put on their hiking

SEVEN CHRISTMASES I spent in Hollywood. One clothes, sling their binoculars about SEVE! STMAS § in y . . was commemorated by two cuties in the shortest |‘Deir necks, slip notebooks into Santa Claus suits the censors would allow, arriving |their pockets and go out where the in the office with an invitation to a movie preview. |birds are. Another Christmas I plucked lemons from my private| They will note down the numbers tree so my bride could stir up a pitcher of lemonade; of each bird they see. Later, all it was too hot for anyihing else. - * | their data will be collated and pubWashington Christmases make the cartoon Come | i hed in the Audubon magazine. true. There'll be turkey at home later, but as of now This unofficial, volunteer bird John and Ben, the experts who keep the machinery | conus was first suggested in 1899 in trim, are boiling the water in their cubby-hole for | py the late Dr. Frank M. Chapman, the hot dogs. T1 take mine with mustard. noted ornithologist of the American {museum of natural history.

Yuletide Lemonade

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Science

2300 Census Takers The number of midwinter census-

: : By David Dietz {takers has grown steadily, until it {reached 2300 last year. They fared

afield in all states of the union.

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IT IS impossible to gaze at Venus in the early eastern sky these mornings without thinking of the Star of Bethlehem. Now at its maximum possible brightness, Venus shines in the eastern sky before sunrise with a light 15 times as bright as the

dog-star Sirius. Very close to it is the planet Jupiter, almost as bright as Sirius. Even as the light of dawn begins to light the sky, these two continue to be visible. Venus can still be seen brightly after Jupiter has faded to a pinpoint of light and the sky has to be quite bright before Venus disappears from view. The sight serves particularly to call to mind the various attempts to explain the Star of Bethlehem as a planet or combination of planets. While many persons may choose to believe the star to have been a supernatural event not susceptible of any natural explanation, astronomers through the centuries have sought to find one for it. The great Johann Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and a devoutly religious man, speculated upon the nature of the famous star in the 17th Century and Sir Isaac Newton wrote about it in the latter half of the same cenury,

Comet Theory Plausible

VARIOUS attempts have been made to identify the star with Sirius, the dog-star, brightest of all the stars in the heavens, or with one of the planets such as Jupiter or Venus which can at times become brighter than Sirius. However, all these attempts fail to satisfy the criticism that the Magi would have been familiar with the known stars and planets and hence would not have regarded them as unusual. One theory that has been advanced is that the star was a very bright meteor. However, a meteor lasts only a few seconds as a rule, a few moments at most. For this reason, the suggestion of a meteor does not seem to be satisfactory. Another theory is that it might have been a

- z During the war bird-counters in comet. This seems more reasonable. Comets In|, niform operated in France, Ger-

ancient times excited great interest. There are, how- many, India and Burma. ever, no records of comets that can be matched to| whe objective of the census is not the legend. Attempts to identify the star with | 44 count all the birds in the counHalley's comet are not satisfactory. [try, but to get representative samThe next theory is that the star was & NOVA OF|plings from as many typical habitat “new star,” a dim star that suddenly flared into great | areas as possible. brilliance. Such events are well known. One of| arost of the census-takers cover the most famous novae recorded in astronomical lit-| {ho same areas every year, so that erature is that of Tycho's Nova, first seen by the great comparisons of new counts with preTycho Brahe, a contemporary of Kepler. But again | yous ones will give some idea of there are no records of novae that match the timely w the birds are faring. The 1945

of the Star of Bethlehem. {count, for example, was smaller : {than those of previous years. This Year Not Definite : {was correlated with cold, rough KEPLER'S own suggestion was that the Star of Weather in the early weeks of winBethlehem was a conjunction or close approach of ter. At that, a total of well over two planets. He observed such a conjunction of three million birds was reported. Jupiter and Saturn on Dec. 17, 1603. In the autumn| In the last year's cesus, the Los of the following year, they were still close together Angeles area stood first in number and the planet Mars passed near Saturn and then Of species observed, with 136 on the near Jupiter. He calculated that the same con-|list. Six other localities reported figuration must have occurred in the year 7 or 6 B. C.|more than one hundred species. In this connection it is interesting to note that | Biggest number of one kind of bird many church scholars now think that the year which| was turned’ in by observers from we now designate as 4 B. C. was the year in which | Nashville, Tenn, who found a robin Jesus was born. | roost occupied by an estimated 310,There are a number of reasoms why it is difficult | 000 redbreasts. to fix the birth of Jesus on our present calendar. —" N—————— At the time of the birth of Jesus the chronology in

y use was that of the Roman Empire, wihch date dated Center Assessor S from the building of Rome. 3

The “Anno Domini” chor chronology was not instituted until about the year now known as 533 A. D. It was originated by Dionysius Exiguus, known ta omp ete also as Denys the Little, who assumed that Jesus |

was born in the 28th year of the reign of Augustus or| Rov Combs. assessor-elect of Cen754 years after the building of Rome. ter township, today announced

In addition it is also significent to note that the | .ompletion of his staff ‘of 21 asearliest records seem to Indicate that the first Chris- |gistants. tians celebrated Jan. 6 as the birthday of Jesus, Among the new appoin.ments announced were Ulysses S. Johnson

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We, the Women

a ERS CREDIT an Jowa mother who sat up for thefaughter’s return from a date with saving the lives ofthe daughter and her escort. The mdher, growing uneasy when the young folks didn't come in the house, investigated a car parked in front and discovered the pair had been overcome by carbon monoxide gas. The young folks were revived. Well, maybe the mother did save their lives by sitting up. But maybe if she had discreetly gone to bed and left the living room for the young folks, they would have said their good-nights in the safety of the girl's home,

NEWSP,

Assurance of Privacy

OVER AND OVER we hear of the tragedies that result when young folks do their romancing in parked

cars. Usually the mishaps occur on lonely roads,

where a parked car is an invitation for assault and robbery to any hoodlum who happens to come along. There is only one way in which parents can keep their daughters out of parked cars. That is by mak-

Monticello Christmas Postal Records Fall

| Fosse. On Dec. 18, an all-time high The December receipts will run|st: Jess Alger, 626 Massachusetts | MONTICELLO, Ind., Dec. 25.—The record of 20,800 stamp cancellations $6000 more than last year. local post office has had a record [were shown on the mailing ma-

Times State Service

lof 4244 N. Capitol ave. chief busi-

1056 N. Bosart ave. real estate deputy and appraiser, and ‘Floyd V.| Arnold of 2449 N. Illinois st. chief clerk for field deputies. Mr. Combs previously had named William H. Plymate of 1417 W. 34th st. as his chief deputy; Ernest S. McCurdy of 1504 N. Pennsylvania

By Ruth Millett

ing the girls understand that they can bring their escorts into the living room with complete assurance

that the family will keep out of the way. st., supervising deputy, and Arthur

Ostrich-Like Attitude {P. Vincel of 1829 Lexington ave.

MATRONS WHO had recently chaperoned sorority | \ of vlats and fraternity dances in a college town were disturbed | SUPeTVisor Of pats. over the way the college kids of today openly wander Names Secretary off to remote rooms to do their drinking and necking| Mrs. Ona Duncan of 4570 Went—instead of discreetly going off in cars for the same worth blvd. was named secretary purpose, as they did a few years ago. to Mr. Combs... Mrs, Jessie Travis Such lack of guile in today's college students may [of 2008 Broadway will be special shock the chaperons. But actually, aren't the kids|deputy in charge of the dog tax better off sticking around a sorority or fraternity|division and Miss Hazel Howenhouse than driving around the countryside while|stine, 602 N. Keystone ave. will be drinking, then parking on lonely roads for their|secretary to My, Plymate. romancing? Other deputy assessors named in Parents or chaperons do no good by assuming the [today's and yesterday's announce-ostrich-like attitude that if the Rids go off in cars they ments are: are behaving themselves, simply because they have| Mrs. Agnes Ostrom, 4564 Strattaken themselves out of sight and censorship. ford ave.: Mrs.” Marcella Garing, That attitude may be comforting to the grown-|418 E. 15th st.; Mrs. Opal Groves, up, but it is dangerous for the kids. {524 N. Dearborn st.; Mrs. Lulu My- | — ——— —_— prs, 2241; Bicking st.; Mrs. Eliza[beth Goodrich, 431 N, Senate ave; [Don Ryan. 3357 Kenwood ave. Walter Pritchard Jr. 820 E. 12th

ave.; John Sauters; 2254 Union st.; Assistant postmaster, Ed Choch- [Robert Rose, 853 Birch st.; Winran declares this was the largest |field Anderson, 2136 S. East st. and

holiday business this year, H. Claude chines, not including the hand ¢an- |Ghyistmas rush in the 36 years he ‘Mrs. Mary Clemmons, 2421 N.

Steininger, acting postmaster, re- cellations on parcel post packages. [has been with the department. Capitol ave,

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SCOOPING UP DIMES — Firemen ‘help scoop up the silver Christmas Eve in the record Times Mile-O-Dimes. Left to right are Lt. Hubert Stevens of No. 22, Capt. Mark. Sexson of No. 12: John Carter of No. 15, and Robert R. Cooper of Rescue Squad 7.

FILLING SACKS—Members of the Firemen's Legion Post, who manned the Mile, now fill cloth sacks with dimes. Commander Francis E. Commons and Robert R. Cooper, sergeant-

at-arms,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1946

They are Post

ANOTHER BOXFUL—Santa (Police Capt. Clifford Richter), Fire Chief Harry Fulmer and O. J. Petty, assistant chief, look over a laste minute gift—a cigar box full of dimes from the police department. The Mile totaled $10,383.70—103,837 dimes.

SAFE CONDUCT—Police Sgt. O. Burk (center), flanked by Patrolmen J. S, Burke (left) and Griffin Russell (right), carries bags of coins to the Merchants National bank, Filled with thousands of

dimes, they were heavy Santa's packs.

’ “ COUNTING HOUSE—A crew of tellers at the Merchants National bank sacrificed their Christmas Eve at home to caunt dimes used to clothe children. The coins were counted with the aid of machines after the dimes [ness deputy; Everett H. Welmer of | were washed and dried. Now they shine.

DRYING DIMES—Final drying of the newly washed dimes is done by Indianapolis

Times employees. Left to ri Lee and Irene Flanary,

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ght, Marian Blake, Peggy Martin, John Toenies, Glador

Vandals Stealing

Trash Can Lids

Times State Service COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 25.~The attempt of the city of Columbus to keep its business district a little cleaner ‘through the use of waste paper containers has encountered difficulties. Vandals have been stealing the lids from the containers. . One hundesd containers were res cently purchased at a surplus Prope erty sale at Camp Atterbury for $3 each.” The Chamber of Commerce paid for 50 of the boxes while the city bought the balance out of its park fund. : The receptacles are to be used in the husiness district and in the

{city parks,

EUGENE, Ore. (U, P.).~Police |collected $29 in fines for parking meter violations when ‘Robert ©. Broderick visited the Eugene station to report the theft of his automobile. Officers found 29 one-dollar - fines charged against ‘the license number Broderick gave to-identify ‘ his car, wid