Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1947 — Page 11

: le, did you" that no honey is being produced? Southerners keep aut "#1 If that doesn’t make your sweet tooth quiver may--be this will. The forecast for honey produced in Indianapolis in 1047 is black. In some cases it is ad blacker than old axle grease and tastes about as bed. 1 know because I tasted local “smoghoney” in the office of chief inspector of aplaries James E. Starkey. It should -be mentioned immediately that when the bees are on the job Mr. Starkey is at his busiest. When they toss in the towel, he closes his office but . keeps the door unlocked for correspondence, getting out his monthly bulletin for the Jndiana State Bee- . keepers association, and attending numerous conferences concerning bees and honey,

Too Much Dirt in Air

ALTHOUGH THE prediction for Indianapolis is black, the outlook for the rest of tHe state is better than fair, Mr, Starkey bases his forecast on the fact that the sugar shortage still exists, bees went into their winter quarters in excellent shape, the government is asking farmers to increase their apiaries, and the fact that last fall a great many farmers throughout the state were talking about expanding. But for the 750 beekeepers in the Indianapolis

"NO BEESWAX—James E. Starkey exomines Irvington's “champion” smoghoney — blackest, durndest stuff you ever tasted.

much ditt in the air. For 15 years he has watching the efforts of local bees and for 15

even though they have worked their fool heads

ey and axle grease. . “The worst part about it is that it doesn’t taste any better than the worst grade of New Orleans molasses,” Mr, Starkey ughed. ~~ | He had a sample from west. side bees and another from Irvington. Clearly the Irvington bees had the blackest and the foulest honey. - " “Several beekeepers try to blame it on catalpa trees, Others have different ideas but I still main. tain it's the smog,” Mr. Starkey maintained fifmly.

Smoghoney Bees

HE CITED an experiment with a hive of smoghoney bees. They were taken to Rush county. It took a ‘little while for the bees to clean their trans missions but when they did, they produced the “clearest honey you ever saw.” : : Between the jar of west side honey and the Irvington “black gold” stood a jar of Jackson county liquid sweet, The latter fairly screamed “For Shame!” on Indianapolis bees. It was light amber in color, smooth’ ‘as silk and tasted like honey should taste. The redeeming feature about the whole thing is that from- an agricultural point of view, honeymak-~ ing isn’t the bee's most important endeavor—it's pol= lination. ‘The honeybee is the world’s best pollinator no matter what kind of honey he brings home—black or light amber, Department of agriculture literature is continually urging farmers to increase orchard and farm yields ‘by having the busy bee around. Statistics show that crop yield can be increased 16 per cent with nature's little helpers. So even in local smoghoney there's a silver lining. The easiest way to start a beehive is to buy a two_pound package of bees complete with a queen, a few drones and the workers. This honey-producing kit can be bought from the South and Mr. Starkey has addresses. The two-pound package contains approximately 10,000 bees which is a nice start toward an

® average 100,000 beehive,

member what. you're going to get with bees in this le. Smoghoney—black and about as tasty as mucilage. , ; : “Course,” you know,” Mr. Starkey countered, “the best honey is what you're used to as a kid.” Indiana produced 9,000,000 pounds of honey last year, I wonder if the estimators included smoghoney in that poundage. Surely not—ugh,

Among the Inventors sy frederick c. othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. T7.—American genius, I think you will agree, is starting the new year right with shoes that whistle. ' : Built info the soles ’are bellows. These are connected with concealed piccolos, so that each footstep produces a melodious b-e-é-e-p. -Do not sneer at the musical oxfords, patent number 2413545, of Leander L. Cordi, the Redding, Cal, inventor. When every burglar, foot-pad and sneak-thief is forced by law to wear a pair of whistling shoes, we'll need no locks on our -houses. And while we're on the subject of home (I certainly do love inventors), let us pause in awe before the roof of Emil R. Capita of North Bergen, N. J. It needs no girders ‘to hold it up. No sir. It's got to be held down, like a dirigible, with steel cables. Emil's roof (patent number 2,411,316) is a balloon, almost, kind of. Has helium in it. Not nearly as scarce as heavy timbers and a good deal more portable. From far-off London, Eng., comes the electrified window drape of Harry Crawshaw, who weaves copper wire inside rayon threads. This is a good idea. It must be, becausesBritigh Celanese Lid, had paid him a small fortune for it. These drapes—and I never was more serious’ in my life—will be sold as invisible radio aerials.

For Ostrich Complexes

ANOTHER HOUSEHOLD improvement, by Har‘old A. Easterbrook of Providence, R. I., is for fellows in bed with ostrich complexes and, or, cold ears. Harold's invention, number 2412769, is a pillow case, with an extra flap or pocket on one side. When scared, cold, or bothered by light in the eyes, merely place head in hqgle. The flap buttons neatly at either side of neck. Interesting and practical, too, is the outboard motor with no moving parts, as developed in Chi-

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Dress Up, Men

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7.—Men, Ann Dvorak wants to dress you in open-toed sandals, satin collars and Jong, swishing capes. Don't flinch. She predicts you'll weaken before long, so give your suits to the Salvation Army and bend an edr to what you'll wearing instead. \ Pirst of all, fellows, your clothes are unflattering, uncomfortable and unappealing. That's what the lady said. Furthermore, Ann told us, men are 50 years behind the times. “We have new styles in cars, don't we, and fountain péns and telephones? And what are men doing? Still wearing those silly suits.” 80 al] right, men, Starting with your shoelaces and going up, Ann cried that what men buy for foot coverage is “perfectly awful.” “Those ugly oxfords,” she said. “Why don't men wear loafers, or sandals with a strap or two.” Men's socks and undérwear will pass but their suits go to the bottom of the class. Wait; Miss

the Scotch, nor short pants, like the Tyroleans. “Men's legs are so horrible they'd better stay covered,” she said. “But at least make their pants in softer materials and in colors—mustard yellow and baby blue.” Suit jackets, she "continued, should be cardigan style, minus lapels which are silly things good only for holding boutonnieres.

Soft, Flowing Cravats

“LAPELS ARE VESTIGIAL~like - your appendix. Years ago men used to button up their suit coats around their throats, but they don’t now so why keep the lapels?” . Ditto buttons on suit sleeves ahd cuffs on trousers, ghe said. Toss 'em out.

We, the Women

" Dvorak’s not in favor of putting men in skirts, like

cago by Henry J. McCollum. It is a jet-powered engine, really, which burns fuel in-a small chamber and sends hot gases whooshing furiously into the water behind the boat, causing same to leap forward. Inventor McCollum died, unfortunately, before he could savor the profits. Bi

Stewart-Warner Buys Rights

HIS WIDOW, however, has sold the rights to:

Stewart-Warner Corp. whosg jet rowboats presumably will be frightening fish and setting speed rec-

ords soon on lakes across America. Still another

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PIANO PORTRAIT—Grouped at the fam Nano room. of their home are (left to right} new House Halleck, son Chuck, Mrs. Halleck and daughter Pat the only one in the family who plays the piane. Hi get a workout when friends of the twins drop. in for a

session of fun. Photos by Times |

HOOSIERS IN WASHINGTON—The twins of : Mr. and Mrs. Charles Halleck come down the front terrace steps of the Halleck home. Patricia (Pat) attends Holfon-Arms school for girls and Charles (Chuck), St. Albans school for boys. Both 17-year-olds will enroll in Indiana university next year. Both are proud of their father's ascent to post of majority leader in the house of representatives.

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industrial development is illuminated smoke for toy| ™

trains under Christmas trees. The smoke was an invention of last year. Sometimes it could be smelled, but it couldn't be seen. Joseph L. Bonanno of Madison, N. J. solved that one by placing a light under the smokestack to shine on the smoke, patenting it (number 2,412,284), and selling the idea to the Lionel Corp., of New York. For’ gentlemen who look like football players only when they wear their coats, Charles Solomon of New York has patented removable shoulder pads

which fit into their shi¥ts So that they may con-|!

tinue to resemble athletes during the summer season.

That brings us logically to the built-in coat:

hanger of Rudolf Seen in Basle, Switzerland. It is sewn inside the coat, from arm-hole to arm-hole, with a hook emerging from the collar. Never before in history has there been anything like that. Nor has anybody except Ben Christenson of Pasadena, Cal, worried about the hot water in the hot water bottle getting ‘cold. He banished the clammy bottle (patent 2,411,677) with electric heating wires inside. Finally, because I have run out of space, do we come to what Hubert Scott-Paine of Greenwich, Conn, calls devices facilitating walking on mud. Skis, pontoons are inside. ” HT

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By Aline Mosby

Miss D. okayed men’s shirts, except for stiff col- | lars “which are just a hangover from Herbert Hoover |"

days.” : Ann said there was some point to a tie if it held your shirt together and was colorful. If you must

- wear a tie, let it be the soft, flowing kind, like an

artist's, said Ann. Otherwise, she advised, give that rackful of Christmas ties to the dog to chew. Ditto your hats and vests. They're useless, too. This urge to redress men came upon Miss Dvorak when she returned to Hollywood after a stretch in the British ambulance corps.

Canary Yellow Pants “HAVING TO wrestle with the tie on my uniform every day exasperated mé so that I vowed to do away with men’s ties,” she explained. “And well, one thing led to another.” Kate Smith, for one, is on Ann's side and has

been airing the subject on her radio show. Miss Dvorak pointed out that Hollywood is the only place where men dress .for comfort. Also the only place where you see things like canary yellow pants, fuchsia jackets, crimson shirts and huarachas. “It doesn't either look effeminate,” said Ann, in case you're thinking what we bet you're thinking. “Just more comfortable.” What could be nicer, she asked us, than to see men in soft cravats, rounded coat collars, or capes with satin linings? Eventually we will, she thinks, but it will take a while. - Men are stodgy, fussy creatures, afraid to go outside without a tie for fear of what people might think, she said. “Men are like sheep,” Ann charged, “they try to look alike, and they do-like a bunch of waiters. Where would the world be if women dressed that way?” '

By Ruth Millett

+ HOW DID women ever ‘let these ideas take ‘root in the masculine mind, anyhow? : That a wife should be, at once and at the same time, a glamor girl, a good cook, a sensible mother, a .satisfactory. wife, an ever-willing companion, a aultless housekeeper, a well-informed citizen—and be a cbuple of other things besides. That any wife who doesn’t “keep up” with her husband deserves to lose him. :

‘Losing Her Figure’

| THAT MODERN household appliances have taken’ | a all the out of housework, That bringing up children is the mother's responsibility. , That there is no excuse for a woman's - “losing her figure.” : That all women since graridma have had it easy: That a working man deserves to keep his seat

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on a bus or streetcar, no matter how many women there are standing. That buying a woman a washing machine is the same thing-as providing her with a laundress. That only husbands have a right to complain of having had a hard day. ‘

Poor Automobile Drivers?

"THAT IT IS perfectly all right for a man to marry a woman half his age, but that the woman who marries a man even a few years younger than herself is being ridiculous. That women are slackers .if they don't take jobs when their country needs their help and selfish outsiders if they decide to hold on to their jobs when times are not too good. » i That women are, by nature, poor automobile drivers, poor executives, and absolutely incapable of keeping a check-book straight. 2

If the mud is extra-soupy do not hesitate; |&¥

BUSINESS DOUBLE — The Hallecks have just family for a table of bridge. Shown around the table are (left tc ® right) Mrs. Halleck, Pat, Mr. Halleck and Chuck. = orm

Crispus Attucks PI . nine De Gi studs "ers Police Beginning fo Do Jack-the-Snipper’s Ab

Auditions will be held at 3:16 p. m. tomorrow through Thursday a Gad Warn Women fo Be Sure Reports of Phanfom -

at Crispus Attucks high school in ‘Barber Are Honest, They Know Some Aren't 4

preparation for the all-city solo festival. Planists will be auditioned to- ik CFR ae morrow while vocalists, string and WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (U. P) ~The next young woman who tel woodwind soloists will be heard on| Washington cops that she has been barbered unaware had better Thursday. Two students from each | convincing. Or she is likely to be shorn of something besides hair. group will participate in the solo Chief of Detectives Robért J. Barrett is beginning to. that Capital's Jack-the-Snipper is quite as energetic as the | work would indicate, Not even if he is several persons. In short, “we know some of these |e rr his new .

- WASHINGTON NIMRODS—Back from his work on "The Hill," Mr. Halleck stops in his son Chuck's room to look over a favorite shotgun. Both like hunting trips in North Dakota.

5 Distinct Types Make Up So-Called ‘American Race’

Anthropologist Makes Discovery During War Analyzing G.1.’s to Fit Gas Masks

By Science Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan, 7.~There is no “American race.” But an anthropologist has found at least five outstanding types of Americans representing different sections of the country. Dr. Alice M. Brues, working at Harvard university during the war, analyzed the physical types of G. L's to help the chemical warfare service design gis masks, Here is the way Dr. Brues classi

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ases are just not true,” Mr. Bar- n fied the “American types:” p SILLY NOTIONS By Palumbo roth said. jum Police arent being |Toi1S 40 he caught 8 an yi ONE: A tall, thin-faced narrow- __ [fooled a bit by some of these re- Bo a i 4 ing ey headed type, commonest in those of ports.” Psychiatrists said the. man British extraction and typical of | Since Dec. 19, no less than 14 |crasy. i il the South. | young women have reported the loss —— TWO: Tall, like the first, but joe !of hair while riding on streetcars Boy, 16, Confesses with a wider face and head ha or standing in crowds. Most of ; ; 7 a the typical persons of Scandinavian NN them said they didn’t realize what! Be@r ) Bottle Slaying extraction, found mainly in the west 5 had happened until they got home ; Jan 7 (UO. PJ

north central states.

tive of Indian admixture, distinguished mainly by a broad face,

out of line with any of the Euro- probably authentic,” Mr. Hart | pean extractions, , said. “But,” he ry Writing in the American Journal getting excited about some of the.

of Physical Anthropology, Dr. Brues indicates .that the “average Ameri-

and looked in the mirror.

THREE: Common mainly in the MN { “Mr. Barrett did not estimate what youth arrested here has middle Atlantic and east north percentage of the reports were false, | heating his stepfather to d | central states is a short type, round- \ ut he had plenty to say about whats beer bottle

can” may be of Irish extraction. © | ‘tha The Irish, she reports, could not be || ak a ; war. on the Shipper M classified as they are common in all : named a 19:man detail parts. of the country.’ i to do nothing,

The anthropologist measured the head and face size of 3000 soldiers gathering data for design of gas masks. She found that the famous

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ith a b ad, typ- will happen to the next complaint-|the older man I Be Russi Ro Slavic lant who turns out to be fibbing. She home at Aldrich, extractions. will be prosecuted, he said,” under| The youth, William FOUR: Short, like the third, but C2 the police false report law—a 1aw|lieu of Aldrich, was with a narrower head is the typical NAR ' | {which carries 3 oe Suiti Jetuity Ceiiye Love of the type of French and Mediterranean I of $300 fine Sa oe ys fan. detail, gxirastion, common in New Eng- at irrite oh ie. Banke h uot ee - and. i ed FIVE. Found mainly in Texas Ml Lr leged victims od their stories ® man, 45, and Oklahoma is the type indica newspapers an : lieu’s