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society to abolish something get me riled up. I like to live safely. : There has been one instance in my life where I condoned a movement (the tearing down of a rival high school’s goal posts) but even here I went along only to the extent of yelling “Hooray—you guys pull

them down.” But in the case of SFADIBL, “Society for Abolish ing ‘Dear’yin Business Letters,” I'm throwing caution to the winds and coming out for it 100 per cent. Well, almost: I'm not going to apply for membership in the Chicago group, but I will refrain from using “Dear Mr. So-and-so” to begin letters to every Tom, Dick and Jerk I know and happen to be forced to write a letter. For instance in answering my eviction notice. Especially when I know the case is lost and next week I'l have a choice of a park bench or the Washington st. bridge over White river. j The society is right in contending there is absolutely no sense in calling a perfect stranger “Dear” in a letter. You wouldn't do it in conversation, would you? No, then why do it in your correspondence? Why call Mr. Brown “Dear” when you know he's going to drag you through the courts just because you happened to tear his fender off and then proceeded to punch him in the nose on top of it? Why write “Dear Mr. Jones: The flatiron you sent us collect cannot possibly be replaced. It was guare anteed for one year. Sales records show it was purchased March 22, 1938.” And yet people write thousands of letters in just such a way every day. But don't take my word for it. Read what people-who-should-know say about. this worn-out, misused introduction.

Just a Habit

GUY WAINWRIGHT, president of the Diamond Chain Co., Inc. says: “There's a lot to the argument against addressing someone “Dear Mr. Soandso. I guess it's just a habit.” Then we have another busy executive (who didn't want his name used) saying: “We haven't got time to mess with societies like the SFADIBL. There are vital problems to take care of and besides what's wrong with starting your letter Dear Mr. Brown or Smith?” I must see this man again on my day off, He surely can't mean what he says. Fred Hoffmark, attorney, feels the same way I do. He says, “I'm not for any society but when you don't know a man, I think it’s too much to use ‘dear.’ A business letter should be like a telephone conversation.” Richard Brooks, president of the Hoosier Monument Co., thinks that a person should “start right fn with what there is to be said. Do away with ‘Dear Sir’ . . . ‘My dear Mr. Smith.’ That sort of thing doesn't serve any useful purpose.” Good eye. I have talked to persons close to the business of writing formal correspondence who have not heard of SFADIBL. Johanna O'Connell, secretary to Evan Walker, executive assistant to the president of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. is one of those persons.

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Once Crashed Russian U. N. Headquarters With Plea to ‘Lay Down Arms and Play Ball’

By GEORGE THIEM Times Special Writer NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, March 28.—“Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord . .. whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” —Psalms I. This simple philosophy. is back of the one-man peace campaign that Charles C. Rohrer, 230-pound Indiana dairy farmer, is running with the enthusiastic backing of his wife, Mary. The big, open-faced Hoosier has been in Europe three times since|set up friendly governments around the end of thé war. Last fall he her borders, just as the United crashed the Russian’ United Na-|States concerns herself with gov-

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Business Letters." H bout it? ul gitar atid N. Y., begging his astonished hosts | publics. .

It's nothing to be ashamed of because the society as/to disarm and play ball with U. N. Charles went to New York, sat it is known today is comparatively. new. He visits the state department in|in on the United Nations assembly After I explained to Miss O'Connell what SFADIBL | Washington frequently, has ap-|at Flushing. - Then he took a ride was all about, she still thought it would be best to peared before several congressional out to the Russian headquarters on leave well enough alone. I respect her opinion. committees and in between times | Long Island. : . . : “| carries on a running fire of fervent| Guards with guns looked him Jump Right fo Subject longhand letters to the editors of Gver suspiciuosly. Foreign Minister A GREAT believer of brevity in letters, Mrs. Madge big city dailies. : [Molotov assisiatits: Tecetved him Harrison, ‘secietary to Governor Gates, would like to Mr. Rohrer oes all this 2 Hs soldiy, siisney an - Jterpreter to “i own expense; in two years he has| v . ~ see the day when everyone “jumped right into We, eri several thousand dollars. He “They kept their hands in their

subject of the letter.” And you can well understand | " why anyone in the governor's office would like brevity. 80d his wife told me the story over pockets like they had guns ready : |a fried chicken dinner in the to shoot,” he explained.

Just when I though that another convert to the|® great cause was won, Mrs. Harrison ended the con- kitchen of their old-fashioned farm getting nowhere. Finally I stood

sat ith “I , . op {house two miles east of town. up, threw my coat open and -said, versation with don't care what they do.” I'll have “See, I've got no guns. I can’t hurt Ruth Saurer, secretary to attorney Arthur Gilliom,| CHARLES AND MARY Rohrer anybody. I came to talk peace.

flatly stated: “I'm against societies and movements. are religious people, the kind who| wpyg RUSSIANS LAUGHED. Of course, if there were something adequate to back their faith with works. They my ¢ proke the ice. The tension replace ‘Dear'—I might go along.” have seen their supply of the world’s eased. Then I said: ‘That's what There is—there is. For example: Mr. Smith, the|800ds grow from a single coW—a|y. must do in the general asinformation you asked for is on its way. I'm glad | Wedding present from her folks sembly. Throw your guns out the you took advantage of our facilities. Don't hesitate 24 years ago—to more than 500) gi qow and then everybody can to call on us in the future. (Signature) Bingo—the acres of debt-free Indiana land, a ,.a50n together and get someletter is completed satisfactorily without the old | herd of 75 dairy cows and a com-|ypere cliche. \fortable reserve of war bonds. Perhaps it was coincidence, but Or—Received your letter informing me that the| They considered taking a cruise iy, days later Molotov made his next time I ride my motorcycle in the driveway at|around the world after the war. |pea for world disarmament. Mr. two in the morning with the throttle wide open, yowll| “That would have been spending | gohrer took it as an answer to the knock my block off. Mr. Jones, youll be happy to money on ourselves; it wouldn't| gpyreh of the Brethren peace comknow that I just sold it. :(Signature.) have benefitted anybody else. We mittee plea which he left with See? Jump right into the meat of the letter. Jump | decided to spend it for peace,” said them, on the badwagon of SFADIBL to the tune of “Don’t| MI: Rohrer. “Nobody ever tried peace” he Sweetheart Me Unless You Mean It.” It's the coming| YDhile he was off to Europe With went on, “I'm convinced the Rusmovement. : bhrse ost als oe a lars sians wai peace: There's foo much underhanded trickery and power Sep ou anne ieeping the milk politics. That will never get us “This old world has got in such peacs : Rohrer sizes up the peace bad shape,” she said, as we sat in problem this way: She lise Dine fone A ou, The Russians trust Henry Wallace and Claude Pepper. Russia would

By Frederick C. Othman

‘WASHINGTON, March 28 —Before I write a word about the problems of state, I hasten to announce I am the woodenhead who reported that Rep. Clair Engle of Red Bluff, Cal, was dead-set against reducing income taxes. About the time his constituents were raising their eyebrows over that, he was voting enthusiastically to slash their taxes. What I did was get him mixed up with Rep. Albert J. Engel of Muskegon, Mich., who does not like the bill the house passed yesterday. I apologize to Messrs. Engle and Engel (and knock my head against the wall) and here's today’s problem: Must this government fire 100,000 beautiful stenographers and replace them with crotchety clerks, letter presses and goose-quill pens because of no typewriters? The harassed members of the senate appropriations committee had before them the treasury appropriation bill, from which the house had knocked $882,716,750 in hope of saving the taxpayers some money, The treasury's big-wigs were there, pleading with the senators to restore every last nickle the representatives had deducted. The senators were unhappy. 2 “We have heard this story.so often,” moaned Senator Clyde M. Reed of Kansas. And another thing, interjected Rep. William J. Miller of Connecticut, what about typewriters?

Quill Pens for U. S.

CONGRESSMAN MILLER said he” certainly hated to interrupt the proceedings, but the bill orders the treasury to pay no more than $77 each for standard typewriters. The congressman comes from typewriter manufacturing country. The typewriter factories, he said, can't afford to

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. Sunes it yi) be the end Te al 3 pull out of the Balkans, Poland and do business with the government. The retail price| ~.°.. aL - can go out and do Greece if the United States proved for a standard machine is $148.50 and why the gov- oe I'n ¥illine to keep the work |we wouldn't whip her. ernment tries to hold the price to half that is beyond ’ BB Rep. Miller. If the law's not changed, it's quill] pens ying RUSSIA HAS BEGGED for dis-

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The senators sighed and turned their attention to A. L. M. Wiggins, the undersecretary of the treasury, who sought to prove that numerous horrid things would happen unless the money bags department gets the extra $882,716,750.

{in kind. He talked to leaders on both question, other countries would be | sides, came home convinced, he united against her, Mr. Rohrer says, that Russia is scared. wants security.

She | continues: Six Per Cent Interest

COUNTERFEITERS would thumb their noses at

She is trying to' England has been the hog. Both the secret service, he said, and there'd not be enough cops even to guard President Truman properly. In-

. Rome Newspaper Booms tax cheaters y y ; ¥ g oo De a ee a sis Lonely Hearts’ Clinic

have to wait years for their refunds, because of not enough clerks. Yes, asked Senator Reed, but doesn't the treasury pay the too-generous citizens 6 per cent interest on their money while they wait? Mr. Wiggins said it did. That brought up a slick way to earn 6 per cent interest on your money with Times Foreign Correspondent no risk whatever, Just pay the tax collector too ROME, Italv, March 28.—Are you interested in acquiring temporarily much, apply for a refund, and hope that he takes 3 menocled foreign nobleman to help you enjoy your stay in Rome? his old sweet time mailing it to you. Lai vi] Some people are. And the chances are nine out of 10 that when they It would seemi”that this provision is an invitation | get ready to take up with a title theyll turn to the columns of the Daily to the taxpayer to overpay and get that 6 per cent,”| American, Rome's one English-language newspaper. observed Senator Guy Cordon of Oregon. Cases) The American, “esides featuring four of the mast popular American Where the taxpayer has deliberately over-paid in or | comic strips and latest stateside er to get that 6 per cent.” re. is di i ' ! " Or it is one thing after another in the law-making TPT en 18 A ninnibitea| GOVerNOF, Mrs. Gates usiness and tougher still when your name is Engle i ; and a reporter, whose name I hate to mention, calls| A Le To Attend Ball you Engel. th mp " on column” of the Times Washington Bureau je gio ny ds like a page| WASHINGTON, March 28.—Gov- : ernor Ralph Gates and Mrs. Gates from a statistical almanac.

Chuck Full of Advertisements Asking For Companions, Especially Among ‘Nobility’ By JOHN A. THALE

Party Know-How

HOLLYWOOD, March 28, — Maria Montez was Hollywood's most excited bride in 12 years. A ton of fruit was once used for outdoor decorations at a big Hollywood party. = Shirley Temple's wedding bouquet had a stand-in so it would look fresh at the reception two hours later. : : : Sonja Henie once gave a party for 200 guests and (I peante -measlo dal We've been getting this and other lowdown on Hollywood weddings and parties from a man whose business is staging them—John,_Beistel. When they get divorced, Hollywoodites go to Las Negas or Mexico. When they get married, or throw a party, they call up John,

Happy Customers

BEISTELL, HAS SCORES of happy Hollywood customers, however. He has directed the weddings of Shirley Temple, Maria Montez, Irene Manning, Loretta Young, Claire Trevor, and Conrad Nagel's daughter, Ruth. His slogan is “The Perfect Marriage,” and he takes care of everything—the church, flowers, clothes, reception, something old, something new, and something blue. He has staged parties for Sonja Henie, Jack Warner, Jeanette MacDonald, and just about everyone else of importance. He takes care of everything

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—— rime pps 5 ‘ will be honor guests at a governor's Tucked in among the notices of pq) and spring dance of the Indi|jeeps for “sale, cameras available,{ana state Society of ‘Washington land pensions offering refined board, | April 9. little gems of advertising audacity sparkle almost daily. Consider these:

By Erskine Johnson

apa 4 . The governor accepted the invitation, extended by President Claude R. Wickard of the society, {while on vacation. ; : The event, which is the first state society dance to be held after Easter, will' be at. the swank Wardman Park hotel. William B. Shattuck is dance chairman. -

at the parties, too, from the invitations to the lingering drunks. IIR % “ pr r g . “I have a successful business,” ‘he said, “because |, ¥ Ou"% Allen furs with mors I have a sense of humor. If I took all those argu- | 1 2 MO g

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|éign nobility.” “American girl driving to Venice will take soldier witfi pass—uit no

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“Time Out for Laughs: | BEISTEL HAS been arranging expensive weddings passes.” 3 and parties in Hollywood for 12 years. 2” 7 |“ Not only Americans take ad-| “Maria Montez,” he said, “was the most excited vantage of this fabulous advertising. bride 1xl ever seen. It was an emotional strain for | Other nationals long ago tumbled Maria ‘and 1.” Irene Manning, he said, was. the to the fact that, if they had a propocalmest, and Shirley Temple the most worried about sition in mind, this meeting place

president, and Mrs.. Esther Costa, secretary.

peace to the world.

wars were unnecessary, could have}

been prevented had Britain been willing to divide up.

“That oil in Arabia. The Lord|change my mind a bit. Labor has didn't create it for England and the gone too far in some cases, but a United States to hog. We ought{lot of workers are still underpaid. And put|They can’t buy our farm produce

to let Russia have some. the Dardaneiles under the U., N.”

In Washington, Mr. Rohrer tried

to push his peace campaign into

| underground killing Russian sol- | Russia the veto which doesn’t mean | the economic field. He warned farm| NORTH |diers and the Russians retaliating anything any way. If Russia re- leaders against testifying for puni-|factory, farm and college town but |sisted a peaceful settlement of any tive legislation against labor, sought |it has a tough housing problem.

a hearing before the house labor

committee, “They throwed me out,” he laughed. “Made me mad at the

Plastic for Jets Is AAF Experiment

WASHINGTON, March 28 (U. P.).—The army air forces said today it was experimenting with glass plastic parts for the wings and fuselage of high speed, jet-pro-

pelled planes. An AAF officer explained that the antenna of planes traveling at supersonic speeds may be torn off. Therefore thé plane of the future will have to carry all of its radio and radar antenna within the plane itself.

the plane interferes with the reception of radio and radar waves the A. A. F. is experimenting with the use of glass fiber fuselage or wing parts to cover the area where the radar and radio antenna are enclosed.

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~ Other officers of the. seedohy: Phe o#3yevalt engineers say plastic (Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, vice glass wpuld reduce plane weight,

improve aerodynamics and provid better resistance to gunfire.

her father, lof zany minds was a good place to “Shirley,” he said, “was deathly afraid that her{broach it. What could be fairer,| father was going to trip while walking down the aisle.” | for instance, than their recent offer: A Hollywood glamour doll and a Los Angeles social-| “Distinguished cultured foreign ite gave Mr. Beistel his biggest laughs. She wanted |lady, 36 years, little knowledge Enga red, white, and blue polka-dot wedding with the lish, perfect other principal lanorganist playing “Little Gypsy, Are There Any More | guages, good appearance, willing Like You at Home” while the bridesmaids walked emigrate, collaborate intellectually, f down the aisle. . Mr. Beistel and the organist talked excellent housewife, wishes meet sethe gal out of both ideas. | rious, well-situated American, BritWhy Sonja Henie hired only one bartender to ish gentleman, view marriage.” serve 200 party guests still puzzles Beistel. - “She spent View To Marriage a small fortune on food and decorations. The next we ; ’ time she gave a party there were almost as many | “Distinguished, serious Italian bartenders as guests.” {young lady, English-speaking, would ad | nary distinguished, well-off for- «> |eigner over 35."

We, the Women

{Unlike the usual bleak and busi-[ness-like classified sections of most

. newspapers, the American's columns By Ruth Millett |are filled with tantalizing hints of

A BUSINESS college in Albany, N. Y,, recently polled 500 business executives to find out what men consider an “ideal secretary,” Among other qualifica~ tions the school discovered that businessmen prefer a secretary who is “a brunette, single, and not over 25.” The amusing thing about the school's findings is that the executives also listed as their. pet peeves the fact that their secretaries have too many personal

telephone calls, spend too much time flirting with male help, and have too many friends dropping by the office, .

Ask the Impossible

IN SHORT, the executives are asking the impossible. They want to s

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more’ interested in their own personal lives and in called American girl at Albergo —, being attractive to men than in their jobs. Yet they Naples, write box ——." don't want office routine cluttered up with flirtations' And: and personal telephone calls. | “Nice Italian girl on Rome vacaAll the excrutives would have to do to get rid of tion wishes to meet personable all their pet peeves would be to change their idea of American officer, civilian, for comthe “ideal secretary’ to read. | panionship, social activities, sports.” : | But there's some sorrow and bitBe 40 or Older |terness, too, in the Rome American ; classifieds. One theft victim took a ‘A WOMAN .of nondescript coloring, a little on personal notice to advise: the plain side.. She should either be married or re=| “If the person who stolé my jeep signed spinsterhood. She should. be 40 or older.| from in front of the Hotel — Her manners should be businesslike and efficient, | Friday night will come to room 20, and her job the most important thing in her life.” {via Veneto , 1 will give him

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The A. A. FP. said it may also carry on experiments later in the | construction of an all-glass air1t already has constructed and tested - successfully “at Wright Field, O.,, a glass wing and a glass

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HOOSIER CRUSADERS—Instead of relaxing and enjoying the bounty of their Wabash county farm, Charles and Mary Rohrer

time when they call me a Com- highway for G. I. factory workers. I don’t care how they|On two he moved ! going to |bins bought from the government, put in doors and windows wired them for electricity. drilling a well, lining the houses with wall board Two families bought for $400 and moved

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with these high prices which we need to pay off the public debt.” - . »

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Experiments Carried

the socket of a host cat from which a tooth had just been removed. The procedure has been carried out in 14 cats. Hosts were older than donors, ranging in age from six months to one year. X-ray examinations were made before and after the operations an were continued throughout the development of the tooth germ. The germ, not to be confused with the kind that cause disease, is not more than a few millimeters in diameter and its intact removal is a delicate operation,

Transplants Grew In :cases where the donor tooth

(tion, it developed and grew nor- | mally. This was true whether the (transplant was the same kind of tooth as the.one removed from: the host or another kind, as when an lincisor was substituted for a canine. *Cats were chosen for the work because the growth ¢ycle of teeth in cats is most like that in humans.

Kittens, like human babies, are born without teeth, acquire a first lor “baby” set whichsthey lose and then get a second permanent set. And cats reach maturity in nine | months. ' | Before the results can be applied {to humans, much more will have to {pe learned of bone regeneration, blood vessel regeneration and developing tooth structure.

Started Study in 1940

Dr. Shapiro started his tooth transplants in 1940, sharing his work with his wife, Dr. Bernice L. MacLean, who died last year, . Two of the cats with transplanted teeth were shown at a meeting of the American Association of Anatomists at Cornell Medical college.

Public Schools Clo Today for Vacation

Public schools pupils will begin a week's spring vacation after school today. : : The vacation will continue until April - 7. While the students are away, teachers will be attending special conferences. Yi Vacation for the 14,500 pupils in county schools will not begin until Wednesday. Catholic schools will release children for va-

To Replace Those You Lose

With Cats by Columbia Doctors

By Science Service 5 NEW YORK, March 28.—Possibility of tooth banks being developed at some future date—from which “live” teeth could be obtained as re= placements for those that have to be extracted—is seen in studies made py Dr. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia university here. The first step in this direction has been taken with cats. A develop=ing tooth or “germ” has been removed from a donor cat and grafted into

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Exchange in Use

The Indiana Bell Telephone Oo, announced today it has begun installation of telephones under & new exchange name, Idlewood, in southeast Indianapolis. Some telephones have already i been installed, the company said, A and the initial installation will % serve about 300 customers. Idles wood is the 17th telephone name | in Indianapolis.' Its prefix is “ID.* . The new exchange became neces- ed sary when the Garfield exchange pis recently reached its capacity of 10,000 numbers, according to L..W, Shumaker, division manager. i The equipment serving. Idlemood telephones is installed in the tome = pany’s Garfield office, 2041 Shelby st

Mr. Shumaker said the company added about 22,500 telephones in ’ Indianapolis in 1946. He said 2500 i] more were installed in January i and February, bringing the total es number in use to 166,000. he The company said two new dial offices now in construction, will re plage the present Belmont and Cherry manual offices. ‘Additions to other Indianapolis exchanges are in progress or scheduled for the near future, the Bell company stated.

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