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“SMITH, SMITH, SMITH, Smith ‘Smith, Smith" an examiner at the R. L. Polk & Co, publishers of the 1947 city directory, was muttering to himself.

{The third floor offices in’ the Board of Trade build- ' ing, where seven examiners pored aver ‘the names which will be included in the 1047 directory, presented. But there were

a scene of outward calm and order. individual problems of deciphering a hastily scribbled nrene, checking a peculiar monicker and tracking down a lout dispatch card,

The deadline for Meld work ends Saturday. With “24 enumeratots each bringing an uyerage of 200 names

dail, the e4aminers were up to thelr ears with names and addresjes. . Occasionally a staff member had to take time out for a chuckle. With a dispatch card a note was sent in saying “I'm sending in my name, but if you print it in the directory, I'll sue you.” Often a housewife will explain her absence when

an enumerator called by writing “The reason you did .

not find me at home was because I went to the grocery store and didn't get home as soon as I should have. I met some other ladies.”

Sometimes a request states, “If Mrs. Sc-and- So

. gave.you her name’ then it's ell right to print mine~ otherwise do not use my name.”

Absenteeism Big Problem ARTHUR PHILLIP P. SCHWAGERLE, field superintendent, sald absenteeism on the part of tenants is one of the big problems, - Aggravating this problem

is the lack of co-operation in sending in the dispatch’

cards that re left for tenants to fill out. “Even though our field work ends Saturday we will accept names for the 1947 directory up to press time which 1s Feb. 1," Mr. Schwagerle said, rubbing his eyes dnd sighing deeply. He. didn't elucidate, but that look could mean only one thing: . Please, Indianapolls citizens, get your names and addresses in before Feb. 1.

He estimates there will be 350,000 cards for this

year’s directory, A large number of persons will not have moved their residénce so they won't need a new card. And there won't be any cards for persons under 18 years of age. “We have to watch cards thai, come in from a large family. One woman had her husband, herself and seven children listed, ranging from 16 years to eight months of age. That sort of checking slows us down because none of the children are eligible to be listed in the directory,” Mr. Schwagerle explained. One of the operations calls for a worker to check the names with the alphabetical arrangement of streets for the street guide pif | section in the directory),

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DON'T ASK ME MY. NAME—George Bad“gor examiner, after checking 1947 city directory names eight hours a day offen has trouble, :

Cards Handled 65 Times

“YOU KNOW, before the lists go to the printer each of the 350,000 cards will have been handled 65 times,” George Badger, examiner, commented as he shuffled through his stacks of cards, “That isn’t the worst of it—we still have more than 50,000 cards for the street ‘guide to examine before Feb. 1.” Something new wil be added in the 1947 directory which should be out by the latter part of April or first part of May. With the co- operation of the chamber of commerce new artwork. will grace the pages. If you have ever noticed the vintage of the automobiles in several of the pictures, you, too, wil appreciate the change, The city directory staff does not fold its arms when the work here is done and relax the rest of the year, Next stop is Ia Porte and aftér that South Bend. Before starting on: the Indianapolis directory last September the nomadic workers compiled a directory for Niagara Falls, N. Y. “That's the place where we have to be careful to get permanent residences listed,” Mr. Schwagerle said, “You know there are still plenty of visitors there at all times.” “Here's another note,” a worker on the far side of the room called. “This lady writes: ‘The reason 1 didn’t send in my form sooner ‘Was because when it was left my dog chewed it up.” Time and directory work move relentlessly on,

Lucky Mink

‘By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—I never have understood why a fellow must pay a 20 per cent tax on the light bulb he needs to work late at night in order to pay his income tax. That is. cruel and inhuman taxation. Hardly less brutal is the 20 per cent cabaret tax, And I'm not talking about the principle of the thing, but the money. I don't like the idea of Treasury Secretary John Snyder sticking his paw in my pocket every time I hit the hot spots and taking one out of every ' 85 I spend on wines, women (all right my love, woman), and song.

The Ladies Are Waiting

THESE TAXES drop drastically on July 1, now that hostilities have ended a year and a half after they actually did end, and the point of my happy little tale is this: Big mink and little mink, white mink, blue mink, silver mink and plain old, ugly brown

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ing carefree today, their lives reprieved by a fiscal decision. The same goes for beavers. The deal is a little involved, but when you skin a mink and turn him into a coat you have got to slip this same Mr. Snyder one-fifth of your take. Every $1000 coat brings John $200. Come July 1, he'll get only half that. So the ladies are waiting for John's share of their fur coat money to be halved. The fur dealers are slashing prices and still the ladies are waiting. Business has reached what the trade calls a standstill. The price of pelts has slumped. One of the nation’s

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Science

BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 2—With the start of 1047, the control of atomic energy in the United States passed from the war department fo the five-man, civilian atomic energy commission whose chairman is David E. Lilienthal, former heéad of the TVA. Thus a new chapter began in the life of America and the life of the world. Never in the history of the nation has a federal commission been trusted with powers of the magnitude given to the Lilienthal commission, _ The atomic bomb was created by scientists and industrialists working during world war II under the direction and control of the Manhattan engineer district, an administrative unit set up by the war department. Under its system of “compartmentalization,” a Nobel Prize winner, working on one phase of the problem, was unable to consult with an equally famous man working on another. The number of men who know thecomplete story of the atomic bomb in all its details are very few. . During 1946 the Manhattan. district refused to tell a committee of the United States senate the rate at which atomic bombs were being produced and where they were being stored. Now the Lilienthal commission takes over the contre! of atomic ‘energy including the manufacture of atomic bombs. There is, of course, a military liaison committee which; in the event of disagreement, can carry its criticisms or complaints to the President of the United States hy way of the secretary of war or the secretary of thé RMavy.

Encourage New Researches

THE FIRST TASK of the commission is to operate the existing atomic energy plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Pasco, Wash. These are valued at some figure in the neighborhgod of $1,500,000,000, The next task is to encourage and develop new researches in the fleld of atomic research. The Man-

We, the Women

A SPOKESMAN FOR the Veterans administration says the ex-GXI. is making the grade at college, but that the college is not consistently making the grade with the ex-G, I. The gist of the complaint is that a million mature men ‘and women veterans are’ putting the college

classroom to the test—ahd often-flading their professors wantmg.

k in Criticism ;

god TOLD to point up the charge go like this: A veteran student at a ‘Midwestern college “stood ip at the end of a class period and’announced: “That was the most stupid lecture I ever heard.” Another veteran protested- that he could learn 15 much studying by himself as: by attending classes. He didn't haye time to listen. to a “lot of pointless words.” + Other veterans have a habit of demahding of their professors, “How do you know that?”—a fact which the Ja SPR seems I feel Andicates that te

biggest fur wholesalers is bankrupt’ and nobody's skinning a mink. . What's the use? This. worrisome (except to minks) situation has business talking now about asking congress to pass a resolution in a hurry, day after tomorrow if possible, cutting all the war-time nuisance taxes immediately. Rep. Harold Knutson, the Republican tax man who wants to collect less, says that’s an idea. Why should anybody in the market for a coat or a diamond horseshoe for his necktie like Senator. Theodore G. Bilbo's buy it now, when he’s guaranteed ‘the same article’ at a bargain price six months hence? Stagnation is the word that Mr. Knutson uses for the luxury trades during the first half of the new year, unless his colleagues adopt that resolution. If they do, I might even buy a new light bulb, The ladies of the nation undoubtedly would smear amore} cold cream-—the stuff is taxed 20 per cent, too—on themselves and become more beautiful we

80-Cent Martinis Doomed

THE PRICE OF drinking liquor would drop*$3”a gallon and any bartender who tried then to nick me 80 cents for a martini would get the olive stuffed down his gullet. Club men would save a pretty penny on their dues as would those whose pleasure is talking on the telephone. Railroad tickets would cost less, so would rides in airplanes as well as the suitcase for your spare shirts. The prospect is a pleasant one for everybody except a few million mink. These beasts are in the driver's seat today, but sooner or later, and now it looks sooner, they're going to be bargains on racks. el

By. David Dietz

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hattan .district took a number of important steps in| this direction during 1946. Much of the fundamental research during world war II was cdrried on at the University of Chicago by a group of scientists gathered from all over id nation into what was called the metallurgical laboratory. During 1946 this was renamed the Argonne national laboratory and contracts made with more than a dozén universities for co-operative research under

its supervision:

$20 Million Laboratory Constructed

AT THE SAME TIME, nine important universi~ ties in the East, including Harvard, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ctc., were asked to

ties, Inc., to operate another atomic research labora-! tory. This laboratory is being built on the site of Camp Upton in New York state. In addition, the Manhattan district: authorized the General Electric Co. to construct a $20-million laboratory at Schenectady, N. Y., including an experimental uranium pile for the generation of steam to run an electric power plant. Another problem before the Lilienthal commission | is the release of more information on the present | status of knowledge in the field of atomic energy. | Here also the Manhattan district has made a begin- | ning by setting up a ‘“declassification committee” under the chairmanship of Dean Richard C. Tolman| of California Institute of Technology, The army and navy “classify” information into categories of secrecy--confidential, secret, top secret. Hence the name of -Dr. Tolman's committee. It must-beé realized, however, that all the tasks of the Lilienthal commission ‘are complicated by the, international situation and that the speed with which | ‘the commission can move in many directions will be | determined by - what progress is made in the | United Nations.

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is real and life is earnest for the ex-G, J. solng to college, Now all those stories ‘may signify that the veteran is a mature student who is going to raise the standard of classroom instruction or know the reason why not. But on the other hand, 1t could be that the professors are having to put up with some smart-alecks’ who, because they have been around and learned a féw things, have decided they know more than their instructors.

Learn or Earh : .. |

IF THEY REALLY do know more they ought to be out earning a living, instead of continuing their “education” under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Perhaps the professor would do well to say at the beginning of a course: “Maybe some of you students. know more about this subject than I do. If so, you need not come to class. It will just be a waste of time, because nobody ever learned anything without the humble:

{Primer Beitr

School 66 Ransacked

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Must Be Under 16, Not Beyond 8th Grade

By ART WRIGHT Here's the New Year's resolution that should be ‘No..1 on the list

of Indianapolis and Marion county)

grammar school pupils: Study up on your spelling, . Because The Indianapolis Tinles again this year will stage its popular spelling bee , . . and send the

| Indianapolis champion to Washing-

ton, D. C. to compete in the National Spelling Bee. ‘The dates of the: 1947 .competition wil] ‘be announced “later. The

local contest will be open to. all"

city, county, parochial and private school pupils who have not passed beyond the eighth grade and who

will not be 16 years of age before

June 1, All Expenses Paid

The Indianapolis winner again will go to Washington, D. C., with

all “expenses paid by The Times—|

for a five-day sightseeing tour and competition in the National Spelling Bee. The national spelldown will be held May 29 in the auditor-

club. ‘While in Washington, the Indi

anapolis ‘champion will stay at the] exclusive Willard hotel and willy | see all of the historical points of the

nation’s capital.

Entry forms will appear in The}

Times prior to the spelling bee. Spelling Bee Primer In the meantime, The Times will

‘carry each day a Times Spelling}

Bee Primer which will include Worl hm might be in this year’s]

list. Pupils who learn this{ list in have an advantage when|

the spelling bee starts. -

Look for the Spelling Bee Primer] words every day, +

Spelling Bee

Study this Primer daily in The Times so you will be ready when the 1847 Times Spelling Bee starts. YOU may become this year's national champion. Some of these words may be in The Times official | word list—at least knowing them ' will help your chances,

GEAR PLAGUE ACCEPTED STATUS GALLERY GERANIUM GARRET ABILITIES ALLOWANCE PASSIVE

The Times Spelling Bee ‘for 1947 will {be open to ail city, county, parochial and

| pr ivate school pupils who have not passed |

beyond the eighth not be 16 years old

rade and who will| fore June 1,

‘Fire Damages

North Side Home

Fire of undetermined origin late yesterday destroyed most of the interior of the residence of Ivan Ww. Smith, 3641 Washington blvd,

“Mr. Smith, who is president of the Indianapolis Brass & Aluminum Foundry, is on his way to Florida

ium of the famous National Pres

i" MIGHT BE YOU—You could be this year's Yrdiarapoli Speling hamplart] in’ The Times Spelling Bee and be greeted by dignitaries at Washington D. C. just like Bill

in the National Spelling Bee

SPELLING CHAMPION—This moment of triumph could be

at the. nation’ 's capital,

experienced: by ‘an Indianapgalis grammar school pupil in 1947,

Here's John McKinney of lowa,

the 1944 national spelling cham

pion, and his mother a moment after he won the title in Washing-

ton, D. C., last spring.

Here's a Scientifi ic Word

On Broken Resolutions Fat Men Can't Keep Them, Thin

Ones Shouldn't Make Any. |

By ROBERT RICHARDS, United Press Staff Correspondent

and could not be reached. Firemen fought the blaze, which

started on the first floor, for more |

brought under control.

school 66, at 604 E. 38th st., today

{reported to police that the school

had been entered and every room ransacked. Missing ‘was a lamp and a play-back recorder and phonegraph set.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—It's bitter news ta be spreading around today, but fat men won't keep their New Year's resolutions. And thin men would be smarter if they didn’t make any. Miss Virginia R. Frese, a blond psychologist with an understand-

ing heart,

said that wives may as well regard backsliding as

natural if their husbands are pyknics, or on the tubby side.

“Pyknics Just don't have any busi~

| ness making resolutions,” Miss Frese

pointed out. “They have a rhathynia temperament (in plain words, they're carefree) and they're pretty apt to do whatever a friend suggests.” Miss Frese, who works for the national institute of human relations, said the fat boys aré so good-

SILLY NOTIONS

By Palumbo

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"DEAR, R She. ME A FOR, THE. NICE LITTLE LBS WHO HELPED ME HARRY THE GROCERIES. "

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natured that they're apt to load themselves down with enough promises to break an elephant’s back. “And it's no use for them to talk of dieting, or to try to give up good living,” she said. “They just can’t do it.” Pyknics, poor fellows, are always suckers for a clever tongue. “Most of them are dominated by their wives,” Miss Frese confided, “and they should be extremely careful not to be bullied into. foolish aspirations, such as promising mom they'll make vice president in 1947 or bust.” Constant Gloom

Psychologists call thin men leptosomes, and let it go at that.

“A leptosome's body is marked by lines rather than circles,” Miss Frese explained. “He is usually flat-chested, thin-featured and longheaded.” . “If a leptosome makes any new year’s resolutions,” Miss Frese said, “he'll make himself a nervous wreck, ‘and everyone around him very unhappy, just because he's so

determined to carry them out.”

‘In Between’ Is Best Off

There is alsd”trouble ahead for the athletic type.

“He's cyclothymic,” Miss Fre explained, “and swings somewhere between the pyknic and the leptdsome. Many. movie stars are of this type. »" Miss Frese said that the athletic [was gent's main problem was not to over=develop ‘his personality at the expense of his brain-power. “Of .the three, he should be able to keep his resolutions the hast,” she explained. Except if he promises to q

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h that.

Frazer, of John Strange school, last yeat's title winner. Bill was greeted by Senator Capehart upon alighting from a TWA. plane on his flight from Indianapolis to compete

Report on Army Morals Approved

House Group Finds Many_ in ETO Guilty

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U. P).~ The house military affairs commit tee today approved a report assert-

‘men in the European theater ‘are

|guilty of black market dealings and

immorality. | The committee raised the possibility of checking bank balances and income tax returns. These would

‘|determine the financial condition

of some officers and men who were serving in Germany a year 8go, The _Teport was ‘published previously (asthe personal conclusions

toured the European theater. It now has been approved formally by the committee. Venereal Disease Problem Regarding morals, the report said “it is quite evident that both enlisted men and officers are rather promiscuous in their association with German women.” This, it

veneral disease problem. The report said army boards are being set up to dismiss men from service who. are ‘habitually A. W. O. L. or who continually contract veneral disease. “Already more than 6000 men have been and are being sent home from the European theater for discharge for these reasons,” it said., The report concluded’ that the “vast majority” of U. 8. officers and enlisted men in Europe appeared to be involved “one way or another” in black market activities.

Wallace Warns Lahor on Strikes

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (U. P).—

“|Henry A. Wallace—former secretary

of commerce and row editor of the New Republic—warned labor today that extensive strikes in the New Year will lead inevitably to depression and unemployment. In an editorial entitled “The Challenge of 1047," Mr. Wallace said that genuine peace between labor and management held the greatest promise for' prevention of a depression in “1947. “Wise labor leaders,” he said, know that strikes will lead to a depression. “The sensible course,” he wrote, “is to have government—as a friend of management and labor—get the full facts industry by industry.

‘Woman Joins Group

PT. WAYNE, Ind. Jan. 2 (0: of the Polar Bear club, yesterday.

eight minutes.

swi said.

Veteran Polar said she was the first woman to Jom them in| their annual dip.

had te chop joe back in

ing many American officers and]

of a committee investigator who

said, has given rise to a serious |

Ft. Wayne Polar Bear Takes 13th Annual ley

Chop. Hole in Frozen St. Joseph River; Es

today defied superstition and a temperature of 34 degrees. They took a dip in the icy St. Joseph river at the 13th

Kibitsers-chopped up a swimming hole ‘through a two-inch ice. The record number af Polar Bears went In for swim {

“Only reason we got out was that This ‘was Mr. ice started to freeze over again and on. New Year's d

the snow. got in our eyes” ‘one| take cold

om Mrs. Effie Gebhardt, 40, “Other the, perions NOMAD. In. the tro watull 8

hae ee Dave rt nce disease require services of = cies far ou contribution in taxes by th Tre! ne property + Be wan those at the hearing. Mr. Pritchard 3 show that such areas are one the major causes of decentralizas tion, eich, Shesigs the scanttula existence of ‘the modern | center.” 2 Other fattors he will outiine clude the “aesthetic vajue to gained from beautifying the tract

Lani’ Oppanen Narrow Down

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U. P= one of the two Songresyies who

stood in the of the of Rep. Gerald (R., nd) to head the house ittas

in24-Degree Swim’

P.).~Tweuty men. and one woman soul