Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1947 — Page 11

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has committed in the course for a semester, Scratch the noggin hard, fella, because here comes

Robert F. Newton, principles of accounting prof, and

Sue of those papers ie Bas under hlsprm i eapeclally for you. As Mr. Newton passed out the examination papers several members of the class had profound statements to make such as “Oh, no-no,” “Holy Smokes.” and: “Well—lead me to the ‘salt mines” The section was told that the six questions were fair and they would show how much progress had been made during the course of study. Instructions were given and corrections were made on the exam sheet. Students who finished the exam before the hour

and a hall was up would please remain in their

seats.gnd check their papers so other members would not be ‘disturbed. All ‘set? Now give with the Answers, The head scratching and pencil chewing started slowly. The questions were being studied. Accounting sheets were shuffied and reshuffled. The exami nation paper was turned over by a couplé of more nervous collegians. What do you know-the back of the exam paper was blank. Everything seemed blank. That ole final exam blues began taking hold.

One Ready, to Start

ONE MAN in the front row saw the light. He was ready to start but a man might as well be comfortable. So off came a pair of saddle shoes. The toes wiggled their delight and Joe College settled down to business. Except for the occasional creak of a chair the room was quiet. The sound of pencil work grew. A man in the back row cleared his throat nervously. This precipitated a round of throat clearing. Suddenly - a hand reached for the ceiling. Mr. Newton, who kept his eyes peeled fof such distress signals, grabbed his exam. paper and went to the rescue. A few words of explanation and all was clear, The student submerged ‘again into principles of accounting 151j. A girl furiously adjusted her curls as she wrestled mentally with question two. If she wasn't doing bet ter with question two than she was with her hair-do, she was sunk. The exam was in high. gear. The room suddenly became very warm for 8 student in the second row. He whipped his arms up and jerked his sweater off, I thought the room was comfortable, But I wasn't taking the exam. A small crisis developed for the man with the crew haircut. He was stopped cold for several minutes. In

Hungry Senators

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—You can lead a senator to a speech, but you can't make him listen to it. Not when he's hungry, you can’t. - So: At 12 o'clock noon Senator Claude Pepper of Florida spread ‘upon his desk a pile of books, documents and Congressional Records, with pink ‘place marks in every one. He put the overflow on the desk to his right. : : He ‘slipped on his black-rimmed eyeglasses and in courtly fashion began a speech upon an important matter, the reorganization of the senate, At 1 p. m. his complexion was crimson. He was red- faced. Going strong. Just getting a good start. Here and there senators began to stand up, take quick looks around and disappear quietly out the back door. Af 1:30 pi m. Senator Pepper had an audience consisting of séven Democrats, nine Republicans, three page boys, one stenographer, and two repariersidin the press gallery playing tick-tack-toe. “Mr. President.” cried Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, “I suggest the absence of a quorum.” .. Senator Pepper surveyed the rows of red leather seats and agreed that he didn't have much of a house. He said he presumed the absent ones were downstairs at lunch.

Food More Important

“SO I THANK the gentleman,” he said, bowing to Senator Hatch, “but if we were to have a quorum call now, the gentlemen would be forced to leave their lunches. They would rush to the floor, wave or signal to a clerk that they were present and then they would go back to the dining room. “I am sure in addition that nothing I .can say now is 'so important to them as their food.”

ms FINAL EXAM time at Ne university, You -

- NOW LET'S SEE—Jim Enochs ponders val-

iantly his principles of accounting final.

the meantime his hair was getting the works, first with his fingers, then with a pencil. Ahhhh-—the lights went on and his face relaxed. He took his eraser, checked his calculations once more just to be sure and began to do away with whatever had fouled him up. He blew with vigor and satisfaction at his paper.

Time On the Wing.

THE MINUTES ticked away. A head bobbed up. A wristwatch was uncovered—WOW, how the time flies. Gotta hustle, Another head came up. The

owner winced. His nose had been against the grind-| man himself. His ‘office, however, stone too long and his neck was stiff. He sat uplstill 1s the bane of existance to all straight, flexed his shoulders and rubbed the back of postmen, :

his neck. He was on the home stretch now. A future accountant took a deep breath and got his papers in order. He glanced around the room and at his watch. All over with minutes to spare. : More and more students began to breath sighs of relief. The less fortunate squirmed at the sight of the “brains” who were through. But time waits for no man, hot even a Butler university student. “Time is up,” Mr. Newton announced. “Pass your papers to the front.” Finalexaminitis tension left the 43 students. . “How did you do?” “Boy, was that rough.” “Man, I hope I got the third one right.” “Hey Jim, let's get a coke.” “Can't. I got another exam.” “Oh, brother.”

By Frederick C. Othman

Senator Hatch withdrew his suggestion. Senator Pepper said this was one of the troubles with being a senator. No lunch hour. Rush into the chamber at 12 and start feeling hungry about the time you ought to be interested in law-making. There ought to be a law providing senators with lunch hours.

Lunch Hour Motion

- MAYBE, SUGGESTED Senator Owen Brewster of Maine, the senate should work at night. After dinner, that is, Now it was 1:45 p. m. and a few senators were strolling back to their desks, looking well-satisfied. The special lunch consisted of liver and onions, coffee, pie, hot corn bread and butter, 65 cents. The special lunch de luxe was roast squab, candied sweet potatoes, and chef’s salad, $1.10. The well-fed senators settled down’ comfortably. Orator Pepper was beginning to look hungry, himself. Why didn’t he, asked Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, put his suggestion about lunch hours for senators in the form of a motion so the senators

said Mrs, Herbert Pillen.

Constituents Are Still Being Cared For

Times Washington Bureaus WASHINGTON, Jan, 21.— Although Indiana’s 11th congressional district, Marion county, has no vote in the house of ‘representatives to-

day, constituents’ problems are being cared for, Democratic Representative Louis Ludlow, ill since before his re-elec~ tion in November, is recuperating

in a Pennsylvania hospital,

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tion on the floor of the house, busi-

ness is running pretty much as usual at the same old stand in the house office building.

Missing” for the first time ‘in 18

years is the conscientious congress

INCOMING an oatgoli mail

still numbers about 500 pieces a day. No one disputes Mr, Ludlow’s title as the all-time correspondence king.

“It just isn’t the same around here, though, without Mr, Ludlow,”

been his personal secretary for 22

» » # WITH AN AIR of affection, every-

one in his office refers to him as “The Boss.”

“Boss No, 2” ig now Mrs. Pil-

len, upon’ whose shoulders has fallen the mantie of caring for constituents. She also had the job of mov-

ing the office from room 432 to 101. The change came about with the majority shift to the Republican party.

. # # THE AMOUNT of work is so heavy that the normal office staff of Mrs. Pillen, Miss Irene Lowe, Richard 8, Tribbe and Robert Kelly cannot handle it. Much of it is farmed out to part-time workers in their homes, And so the work of Congressman Ludlow continues. Missing is his own friendly greeting.

WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 21 (U. P). — The victorious government

in the Polish parliament as the ree sult of Sunday's election, a government spokesmen said today.

could vote-on it? An excellent idea, Senator Pepper said. He just] hadn't thought of it, himself, Yes, agreed Senator Morse, and why not make it a joint motion? The Pepper-Morse food-for-hungry-senators resolution? Senator Pepper said he would be honored by company so. distinguished in writing within the week a senatorial feeding law. Then he finished his speech.’ ‘Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois started a speech of his own. You don't even get one guess as to what Senator Pepper did. He had the liver and onions.

Elbow-Flutterer

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 21.—The new year's most

‘elaborate rib has Kurt Kruger still blushing.

While the three of them were in Detroit, Phil Silvers and David Street wrote Kurt a mash note

and signed the name of an automobile heiréss. The note added: “If you can have cocktails with me after the show tonight, flutter your elbow on the stage.” Well, Kurt fluttered his elbow like mad on. the stage and then received a phone call: “Meet me in your hotel lobby, darling, and come ALONE." ” Kurt dashed from the theater to the hotel] lobby -—where Phil, David Street and Mrs. Silvers (the feminine voice on the telephone) greeted him with hysterical howls, Greta Garbo must be serious about returning to the screen. She's telling friends to keep their eyes out for a comedy for her. ... “Nora Prentiss” is Ann Sheridan’s best picture in a long time. It's another “King’s Row” for her. , . . Vic McLaglen’s daughter, Sheila, is en route to New York—another gal who believes that Hollywood. discovers an actress quicker on the eastern stage.

Not So Fast at That

IN “PURSUED,” Teresa Wright does some of the fastest horseback riding we've ever seen on the screen, We mentioned it to her husband, Niven Busch. He said: “We had the camera turning slowly to speed up the horse. If the horse could really. run that fast, Jack Warner would be racing him at Santa Anita.”

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[id “The Outlaw” opened in 19 Dallas, Tex. theaters—without a peep from the censors. . , . Joan Crayford is thinking about adopting another baby. . . , Barton MacLane would like “The Informer” rights for a Broadway show. He wants to do the Vic McLaglen role.

‘Never Felt Better’

THERE'S NO truth to the story that Betty Grable fainted on the set because of her date with the stork. “Both of us,” she told us, “never felt better.” . . Gene Lockhart, usually cast as a heavy, will take a change of pace for his role in. “It's Only Human.” He'll play a comedy judge who is afraid to wreck his political career by putting a character named Santa Claus in the nuthouse. It's nice to hear that Donald O'Connor, recently turned 21, is getting $23,000 from a trust fund established for him by the California courts back in 1938 Trust funds for movie kiddies were inspired by the fate of Jackie Coogan, who earned $5,000,000— and wound up minus his hair and with a 1923 Rolls! Royce that gets four miles to the gallon. Betty Hutton posed for the first pictures with her 6-week-old daughter, Lindsay Diana. Betty swears that the baby deliberately turned her best side to the camera. Yelled Betty: “Six weeks old and she's upstaging her mother already!” - Hollywood finally found the answer to the old | conundrum; “Which came first, the chicken or hey egg?” “The Egg and I” will be released before “Chicken | Every Sunday.”

Howard Hughes’

We, the Women

COMES MOVINA DAY and Mr. and Mrs. look gloomily at each other over the piles of possessions hauled out of closets, attic, basement and garage and say to each other: “How in the world did we ever accumulate all this junk?” And junk it seems at the moment—when it must be sorted, packed and made ready for moving, then somehow placed in the new house. So comes the common decision: at least half of it.” A finé*decision, too. But WHOSE half?

Not His Fishing Hat

MRS. STARTS to throw out a heat-up, battered old hat belonging to Mr.—and he hollers out.in pain that it's his fishing hat she is about to get rid of. Mr, says how dbout tossing out this old vase that hasn't been used soca cdme into their lives as a duty wedding gift. Mrs, says she is ‘going to have it made into a Fd some day. : Then there are all those odds and ends Hirst saved

“Let's get rid of

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jone-house parliament

Alignment of the seats in the was announced by the government spokes= man on the basis of final returns.

Of the 444 total membership, 372{

were chosen from the country’s §2 constituencies. The other 72 meme bers were on the so-called “state lists.” the various parties on the basis of the proportional total vote. The government spokesman said alignment of the 372 constituent seats would give the government bloc 327, Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Peasant party 24, Labor party 7, Dissident Peasants 7,

others 7. The government's share.

of the 72 state list seats brings its total to 390. The government was rolling up a popular vote lead of about 10 to 1, according to foreign office figures. Returns from 670 districts gave the government bloc 1,043,820 to 100,762 for the Peasant party.

Sightless Want Word "Blind" 5 Used When Talking of Them

Quit Kidding Around and Admit It, They Don't Mind, Author Writes

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (U. P.).—America’s sightless thousands have had enough of this kidding around. : They're blind--let’s admit it. Use the word “blind” when you're talking to them and get it off ,|your chest. You'll both feel easier. This point is stressed by Herbert Yahraes, who has just completed a pamphlet released today called “What Do You Know About Blind-

ness?” Mr. Yahres, himself, knows quite a lot about it. We've all heard of seeing eye dogs. But did you know that only /five out of 100 blind persons can [learn to use such animals? The |others are-too-weak, or too nervous; and never get the hang of it. There are at least 230,000 blind {people in the United States and) 75 per cent of these cases could (have heen prevented. Cataracts [take the heaviest" { toll; bringing {darkness to 25 per "cont of those

(who are blinded. Another 15 per

By Ruth Millet

for sentimental reasons, and now saved again by the same streak of sentiment. “Remember when . . from one or the other. trunk .it goes. And, of course, there's equipment for every hobby that has been taken up enthusiastically, then finally dropped, through the past years.

Everything Goes Along

BUT GED RID of it? No, indeed. One or the other is sure to say: “But maybe I'll take up photography again,” or, “Maybe néxt year I'll have time: for golf.”" So it's all carted along to the new dwelling, too. And so the possessions that were viewed .as junk only a little while before once again take on meaning and potential usefulhess—and move with the family. Which is why no house jis. ever quite large enough | for a family and why women are Jorever saying: “If we Just Tad Wore closet space, a

2” each article calls forth And back into the box or

cent lose their sight through industrial accidents. Mr, Yahraes talked to the blind and they gave him 10 rules that | they wished people with sight would { follow:

ONE: Never talk to a blind man as though he were deaf. Treat him as a normal individual. ’

TWO: Never express sympathy for a blind man in his hearing.

THREE: Don't revise your cons versation so as to use “hear” instead of “see.” Use the word “blind” without hesitation,

FOUR: When a blind person is entering a car or train, going upstairs, or about to sit down, he needs only to have his hand placed on some leading object. He can do the rest. FIVE: Offer your arm when walking with a blind person. Don't push him.

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years and followed her job to Wash- * ington when he first was elected.

Polish Bloc- Holds | Total of 200 Seats

bloc “Will occupy 390 of the 444 seats|

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THE EMPTY CHAIR—Miss Irene Lowe, an employee] in the tachington office of district), works beside the Conglesrian’ s desk. Mr. Ludlow, who i is ill, is recuperating; i

MOVING DAY—With the change to a Republican majority, Mr. ‘Ludlow's office was switched. Readying the new quarters are Mrs. Herbert Pillen, his pérsonal secretary for 22 years, and Richard S. Iribbe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Tribbe, 1740 Hall pl., lndian-

of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kelly, E Graceland ave., Indianapolis, carries some

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lock Printing

At’ Butler University A special craft workshop in block || printing will be held from 4 to 6:15 p. m. Feb. 3 to 7 at Butler “univer sity. Miss Elsa Ulbricht of the art. department, State Teachers college, Milwaukee, Wis, will have charge of the workshop. Harry E, Wood, director of the fine and practical arts, Indianapolis public schools,” is general chairman. One hour academic credit will be given for the course. '

~ Send or Bring Check « or Money Order For Your Seats to The Times i

Mail orders for Times Ice-O-Rams. show tickets wre ow accepted. & The all-star amateur ice production” for ‘Indianapolis skaters be staged at the Fairgrounds Coliseum the night of Feb. 20 money for the Infantile Paralysis fund.

ony te ri wt SIX: Speak, if only.a word, on SILLY NOTIONS By Palumbo gy other seats will be entering a room where there is a > ; Persons. y SL blind ‘person. If you are a stranger, in advance ¢ say who you are. Tell him by a word the :

when leaving. SEVEN: Address a blind person directly not through someone else. EIGHT: Don't exclaim “wonderful” or “marvelous” because a blind man does the usual things. ! NINE: Don't talk ‘of an “extra sense” or “pravidential compensation.” TEN: Always Be natural with the blind-never patronizing. Remember these rules, and your blind friends will feel a lot better.

McNarney Proposes Aid to German Trade

BERLIN, Jan. 21 (U. P.).-Gen. Joseph T. McNarney -said today he had requested the American government to repeal the trading with the enemy act. He also asked that firms’ in many foreign countries be removed from the state department's’ black list. '

Gen. McNarney proposed these a» or

moves to help put Germany's for- | eign trade somewhere near a self-! sustaining level. He also proposed establishing “a foreign exchange value for the German mark. He sald he had recommended these changes to the war depart-| |

ment, which must pass them to the state department or President True man, . ‘ : .