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TODAY IT'S BARBER SHOP versus beauty Mop eonversation is hardly the word but I'll use it anyway, This comes as a distinct public service feature for

both sexes, since few men know what the fair sex is |

concerned with while hidden charms are being worked over and few women know what the ol’ man talks about when he climbs into a barber chair, I hang my head in shame to have to report the

favorite topic of conversation in a barber shop is— |

weather. Of course, the price of cars, the Kent y Derby, the local rackets, the election get their sha of attention, : But—my ears perk up and wiggle everytime I think of madame's favorite topic of conversation—men. From then on it's babies, weight; health, politics and finally thé weather, Occasionally one hears hubby's supper being discussed, (cold cuts, potato salad and Jelly and peanut butter sandwiches.) A thing we must remember in this barber-beauty-shop report is that I had to listen in without giving away my mission, It wasn't hard in a barber shop but hiding away in a beauty shop booth with the fear of being discovered any minute was nerve wracking. I hate to think what the consequences would have been for seeking the “truth.”

Agree on Weather First

HERE WE GO into a barber shop, Joe Doakes comes puffing in, hangs up his hat and coat and slides into an empty chair, “Haircut and take it easy on the sideburns.” “Yes sir. Kinda nice out today, isn't it? Looks like we might have a spring yet, doesn’t it?" “Yep, it's not bad out. Little chilly though. When the sun comes out it'll warm up.” “About time it warmed up.” On and on about the weather. One man likes it cool, another hot, another wants weather like we had it in 1036, Between the clippers and scissors I also heard that the weather should warm up so “I can get my yard in shape,” and the weather should stay cold so “I won't have to come home and mow the grass, water it and prune my wife's shrubbery.” Take your choice, The price of cars was being deplored by another customer. Derogatory adjectives of weak and strong vintage were used to describe the situation and the men connected with it. The relative merits of men seeking the parties’ mayoralty nominations were bantied from barber to customer from customer to customer. I have never given a barber shop conversation much thought but it surprised me how quick a gabfest falls apart when the barber is through. “The Indians sure lost a tough one, didn't they?” The customer answered bluntly, “Baseball is one thing I can't get excited about. I'll take the Derby or the 500-mile race.” The pros ang cons of all three received a thorough airing. The subject of the fairer sex came up once. There were a lot of laughs but they'll have to remain in the barber shop. I was surprised when I slipped between the curtains of a beauty shop booth..Jars, combg> wads of braided hair, pins, curlers, shampoo stuff, brushes, hair nets were to be seen in quantity. I also saw a comfortable looking pair of low-heeled shoes.

LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN—A barber shop and “0 beauty shop are good places to get an earful.

‘Whee—Just had a Beer’

THE FIRST THING I heard (I couldn't see any

faces) was a loud, “Wheeeee—just had a bottle of beer. Can you take me, dear? Oh, that’s fine, I am in a hurry.” Beer consumption talk followed with many “Whee’s” and “Hee-hee’s.” It wasn’t long before I got the real trend of beauty shop talk. Someone's big “butter and egg man” crossed the street to say hello. So-and-so was marrying again and “I thought sure she would marry some money this time.” A voice came over the booth tops asking, “Don’t you think he'd look better with a big woman like me?” She was supported in the query. “Where's your boy friend?” someone asked someone. : “Oh my dear—he's out east.” ‘ “Oh that's a shame.” Faded conversation and a series of loud squetls. “Hello, hello—HELLO. You're looking good. But aren’t you putting on a little weight?” Politics on one side and babies on another drowned out everything in the immediate vicinity. “Who's going to win the election?” “The racket boys—who else?” “O0000h—you have. pictures, Just look at those precious dolls. Say—do you know so-and-so is going to have twins?” “No.” “Yes.

Her doctor told her. And remember how

* she talked about children before she was married?”

“Wait ‘till I tell you who I saw yesterday.” You guessed it—a man.

The Last Straw

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, April 25.—Some lawmakers are worrying about strikes. Russians. Taxes. Stuff like that. Others, like Rep. James Glenn Beall of Frostburg, Md., have other problems. Such as how best to drink an ice cream soda. The gentleman from Maryland Introduced some weeks ago house resolution 2072, containing two clauses. One said no fountain in the District of Columbia could serve soda straws unless wrapped in tissue. ! The other made it a crime for any Testaurant ih town to use a paper dish more than once. This bill went automatically to the house district committee, which considered briefly but inconclusively the techniques of ice cream soda slupping. The committee handed the question to its special health subcommittee, under chairmanship of Rep. A. L. Miller of Nebraska, who studied the crisis and called a formal hearing. Yes he did. I was there. I wouldn't have missed it. Rep. Miller presided behind the high mahogany bench. Rep. Beall, who abhors the unwrapped soda straw more even than the second-hand paper plate, listened carefully.

Tests Hush, Hush

‘FIRST WITNESS was a portly and dignified citigen from New York. He identified himself as Max P. Weinberg, executive secretary of the drinking straw association, comprising the 15 biggest soda straw factories in America. He said wrapped soda straws are best. He lowered his voice and told of tests the ass0ciation had made of actual unwrapped soda straws at real ice cream parlors.

“We dare not reveal what we found,” he whispered. “Otherwise our customers would ostracize us.”

Change Is Peculiar

MR. WEINBERG pointed out that nowhere did the bill make it illegal for a customer to inhale a soda au naturel, without a straw, at the risk of getting chocolate suds in his mustache. He said the district health department approved wrapped soda straws a while back and then changed its mind, He said this was peculiar. Dr. George C. Ruhland, tHe ‘health commissioner, said he could explain. One of his health officers was a licensed veterinarian. He urged wrapped straws, when he should have kept his mind on his livestock. Dr. Ruhland introduced Dr. James G. Cummings, his soda straw expert. Dr. Cummings told how he had tested wrapped soda straws and unwrapped ones and found no more germs on one than the other. He was neutral on H. R. 2072. Julian W. Pollard of the Peoples’ drug store chain, the opposition, said his fountains served 36 million customers last year. The millions sucked their soda through unwrapped straws, he said, and they continued to feel fine. If his company is forced by law to give the customers wrapped straws, he said it would cost $34,000 extra a year for the wrappings and no telling how much more for sweeping same from the floor. Rep. Wrapped-straw Beall said nothing. Mr. Weinberg left two packages of straws with the chairman, wrapped and unwrapped, and urged that he test them, personally. Rep. Miller said he would do so. That ended the proceedings. I'll take vanilla without a straw, please, and a sterilized turkish towel.

Not So E Beautiful

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, April 25.—A famous illustrator of beautiful women is disappointed in the beauty of Hollywood's stars. He even went so far as to accuse them of looking like “feminine versions of hoboes” in their off-screen dress. “The most beautiful girls in the film industry are extras,” Merlin dared to tell me. Hollywood glamor has taken criticism before, but ft has been nothing like the brickbats hurled by Illustrator Merlin, Merlin's last name is Enabnit, but

. he never uses it “because people confuse me with a

candy bar or a new kind of sandwich.”

Stars Are Sloppy MERLIN'S COMPLAINTS about Hollywood beauty:

ONE: The stars’ complexions aren't good as a rule. TWO: They are very sloppy about dressing their hair, And when they dye it, “they absolutely ignore their own skin or eyes as far as color tones are conterned.” THREE: They have no color sense in clothes. FOUR: They know nothing about clothes. When they dress up they overdress. They think because their gowns are from Adrian's and their hats from John Fredericks, they are well-dressed. Usually they aren't, because they have no understanding of their own individualities—absolutely no taste.

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“OF COURSE,” Merlin said, “they don't always bother to dress up. .I had two Hollywood stars come

to my ‘studio. They looked like feminine versions of |

hoboes.” FIVE: The youth angle. Said Merlin: “I've had women want me to idealize

them, That's natural. But here in Hollywood, they want me to make them look 15 to 20 years younger.” And that, he said, he refused to do even. for inflated fees. SIX: The “cheesecake” problem. “Fifty per cent,” he explained, “are insulted if you suggest it. The other 50 per cent are insulted if you don't suggest it.” But Merlin admitted that he was a fair, judicious

sort of guy and was willing to pick five stars he'd

call really beautiful—beautiful enough to be Merlin girls. They are Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, Hedy Lamarr, Virginia Mayo and Dolores Moran, His biggest disappointment, Merlin said, was Lana Turner. “I don't think she’s as beautiful off scréen as on—or maybe I saw her on a bad day.” ! There's no argument, though, Merlin said, about beautiful but dumb vs. beauty and brains. “A real beauty can't be dumb. For real beauty isn't purely physical. A woman's eyes are always the test of beauty, intelligence.”

We, the Women

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I'M DEEPLY puzzled over the announcement of a nation-wide contest to find “the perfect housewife.” Contestants are Invited to write ‘a letter of 250 words or léss telling why “I think I am a perfect housewife.” Are there any contestants for the honor? There's something about being a housewife that makes the adjective “perfect” seem downright funny.

Picture Spoiled

IT'S A job in which there's, just no room for perfection. Dally living brings up too many trials, errors of jufigment, poor timing and conflicting oD rth

By Ruth Millett

to let the children play train by lining up the dining room.chairs in the living room? Are you a perfect housewife when the angel food cake falls or the dishes wait to be washed While you putter in the flower garden?

Who Will Enter?

ARE YOU a perfect housewife when one of those days comes along when everything goes wrong? How can any woman who manages a household and answers to the call of “Mommy” a hundred times

Mi0%.Jiope 10 Tate ALyShiNG Lieter has “satisfactory” you've decided ¥

So Who la going to eriter the contest—much less

And they can't be lovely without

SECOND SECTION

and government right at the early ‘background of Roy E.

publican precinct committeeman in the 16th ward for 33 years,

“I learned the groyndwork in politics from him and have been active in nearly every political campaign since then,” he said. Mr. Hickman started his career at the age of 15 as one of the mule drivers who helped excavate the City hall site at Ohio and Alabama sts. 40 years ago, ” » » IT WAS the first job he got when he came to Indianapolis at the age of 15 from Morgan county after finishing his formal education there. He recalls that after working for the J. V. Baxter Construction Co. a few months driving mules, he was promoted to foreman of a construction crew. Later he became associated with the National Biscuit Co. in various capacities for several years.

- » » THEN, at the beginning of the horseless-carriage era, he entered the automobile business, becoming a dealer for the then popular Mitchell car in 1917. Five years later, Mr. Hickman was a sales representative for the Oldsmobile, and in 1928 he became president of his own firm, Hickman Oldsmobile, Inc. He has been head of the company /ever since, expanding it from a few sales a year to one of the largest automobile sales and service agencies in the city. Mr, Hickman has been associated with Republican politics for more than 25 years. . 2 = =» HE WAS in the public spotlight in 1942 when he joined the forces that supported nomination of Mayor Robert Tyndall. He was appointed city controller, the No. 1 post in Mayor Tyndall's cabinet in January, 1943 and remained in that office until he resigned recently to run for the mayoralty nomination.

High School Girls To Attend Parley

Thirty-one Indianapolis high school girls will attend a Horizon club conference in Detroit tomor-

row. The conference for teen-age Camp Fire girls will be attended by girls from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, W.,K Virginia and Kentucky. Miss Emogene Garrett, student at Crispus Attucks high school, will take part in a panel discussion. Others to attend the conference are:

Lorraine Queer, Alice Irene King, Bonnie Hurd, Alice Joyce Green, Bettye Marie Rinke, Edith Bates and Mary Ellen Halgren, Broad Ripple. Barbara Jackson, from Ben Davis; Olivia Buggs, Katherine H. Pullins, Suzanne Miller, Lillie Cunningham and Patricia’ Jo Thomas, Crispus Attucks; Rose~ mary Knecht, Dotviny Harlan and Paula

Petty, from How Mary Louis Carol Lea Olson, Suzette Brown, Lucia Funk, Nancy Boutwell, Barbara Turner and Ann Hughes, Shortridge: Joan Baltes and Janet Miller, St. Agnes; Marian. F. Pauley, Joyce C. Pauley, Beatriz Mendes, Patricia ompson, ris Herbert and Wynemia Sharon, from Technical Mrs. Charlotte Myers and Mrs. Cecil Norton are advisors. Miss Oranda C Bangsberg, executive and Miss Betsy Pederson, field director, will attend.

Dance Students Offer Spring Revue Tonight

Dance students of LaShelle vocal and dance studios will be presented in a spring revue at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Hollenbeck hall at Y, W. C. A, 329 N. Pennsylvania st, Pupils participating will be:

Judy Dutton, Margaret Brown, Holler, Diane Johnson, Bernice Myrna Witter, Bill and Bob Dau Patty Drake, Mary Ellen Hood, pert. Reinschrieber, Rita Daupert, Judy Sights, Rita Ashby, Barbara Ann Bracket, Susan Fultz, Sandra Klotz, Mary Lou Hoss, Janet Pigman, Petiy Pinegar, Ann Wilkensen, Gleason, Judy Lee, Gary Heath, Rag ael Ramsey, Nanoy Poppaw, Jeliy, Clark, Johnnie Sullivan ra Duncan, ' Thompson, Jang Marie Keye, Heath, Karen Miller, Mary Lou Stark, sandra Powell Verna Oliman, Shirley lev. Qoley, Mary Lou Ooley, I 8 APR Christine Martin, Du Linda Weidlien Nancy Smith, Raren Bights, Nancy Brackett, Betty Pin Susan Sears, Faith Harrington, Mar ory ark Sandra Coyne, Jan Terry Bass Ly. ons, Rosslyn Mahler, Dotty od “Ani a Nichols, Barbara Patterson, Caro Vogt, Vivien Larson, Rosemary Moore, Donna Wilson, Judy Scott, Marcia Johnston, Bar~ bara Stewart, Martha Gregory.

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Knights of Columbus

To Initiate Sunday

Indianapolis Knights of Columbus degree team will exemplify first, second and third degrees of the order at the local clubhouse, 13th and Delaware sts., Sunday. Candidates from Shelbyville, Bloomington, Crawfordsville, Rushville, Columbus, North Vernon, Seymour and Aurora will receive the degrees. Degree work of Indianapolis candidates will be held on May 4. : Joseph A. Wicker, grand knight of the Indianapolis council, and his staff will direct the reception and arrangements.

Plan Fish Fry

The Indiana Democratic club will hold a fish fry at 8 p. m. Mon-

|day at the hall, 319 N, Pennsylvania st. Candidates have

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family fireside comprises the Hickman, candidate for the

Republican mayoralty nomination. He virtually “cut his teeth” on politics as a protege of his father, the late Charles Hickman, who had been a Re-

The nucleus of support in his campaign is coming from the group of anti-machine Republicans who have been fighting the regular county organization for seven years. Mr. Hickman was one of the leaders in the anti-organization group that supported Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and Sheriff Magenheimer in their fight against the G. O. P. machine a year ago. : » tJ ” ' MR. HICKMAN has outlined some things he says the city gove ernment must do in the next four

years if Indianapolis is to keep pace with modern metropolitan expansion trends. “During the four years I was at city hall, I got a working viewpoint of practical methods that must be put into effect to improve city services,” he said. First on his reform list, he says, is the police department. “The police department must be taken completely out of the sphere of political influence as far as possible and established on a sound merit system basis from top to bottom,” he said. “We've got to establish morale and discipline among police bfficers by rotating them into positions where they are best fitted by experience and ability.” »” » » HE WILL talk for hours on end about the need for improved sanitation services. He is working on a plan to take the garbage and trash collections out of politics, he says. “That is essential in this import ant service . . . we must re-estab-lish sanitation on a merit system basis with better wages and equipment.” He said he has drawn a blueprint for a general modernization of the entire city government services. “During the war nothing much could be done on this because of shortages but now we'll have to push ahead with full steam in every

The Heart of America—

PADUCAH, Ky., April 25.—Fred mirers of Irvin S. Cobb. could get on the great humorist.

hot stuff for Fred. He corresponded with Paducah’s most famous son, and he went around with him when he came home on visits. He made notes of nearly everything Mr, Cobb said and did. He wrote a biography of Mr. Cobb, and is the world’s greatest expert on his life and work. He has all of Mr. Cobb's 61 books, and is proud of the fact that they are not merely autographed,

‘I'but are “inscribed.” One of the books, “Incredible Truth,” is dedicated to Fred.

» » » ON THE WALLS of Fred's study are autographed pictures and cartoons of Mr. Cobb, and a life mask

of him—with a big cigar stuck in the mouth. Cobb letters and some of his

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1047

Meet the Candidates for Mayor—

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Newsman Has ‘Inscribed’ Copies of All Of Writer's 61 Books, One Dedicated to Him

By ELDON ROARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Democrat here, was perhaps the most devoted among the hosts of ad-

For years prior to Mr. Cobb's death, Fred printed everything he The publication of a Cobb story or book, a Cobb speech, a Cobb anecdote or bit of Cobb biography—all was

original manuscripts—also are treas-

department if the city government spare hour of is to keep up with its expanding|away from his work, he is at the

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population,”

BORN in Morgan county in 1800, |order, Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine, Mr. Hickman attended public schools Columbia club and the Methodiss

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His only hopht ) wit Every'land club of which he served as di-

Paducah Columnist World's Greatest Authority on Life of Irvin S. Cobb

publishers of the Merriam Web-

G. Neuman, columnist on the Sun-

ured possessions. And even the chair in which he sat in the Neuman home is regarded with reverence. Fred, a medium-sized man with thin black hair, in the 50's, never tires of talking about his hero. » ” 8 FRED never overlooks an oppor-

tunity to bring honor aniNdesesvéd recognition to the name of his favorite author.

Once he came across the word “athrive” in Mr. Cobb's book, “Snake Doctor,” published in 1923. That struck Fred as a mighty good word as Mr. Cobb used it—“Water athrive with typhoid germs.” But Fred had never seen it before. It wasn't in the dictionary. “Well, it ought to be,” he sald And he sat down and wrote the

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By NOBLE REED GROWING UP with a practical education in politics

"OUR CITY MUST KEEP PACE" — Roy E. Hickman, candidate for the \ lican mayoralty nomination, says the city government services must be modernized and streamlined in the next four years to meet metropolitan expansions. - e

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Highland Golf and County club. He is a member of the Masonic

church in addition to the High-

ster’'s. Result: It’s in the dictionary now, with credit to Irvin 8. Cobb. v * = = : FRED is largely responsible for so many things being named for Mr. Cobb in Paducah. Every time there is something new that needs a name, he starts shouting “Cobb!”

It was he who suggested that a large parkway strip in the center of Oak Grove cemetery be dedicatde as a memorial to Mr. Cobb, and that his ashes be buried in it.

Fred is the man to whom the ashes were sent from New York by Mrs. Cobb. She wrote an airmail letter explaining that they were being sent, but in some way the letter was delayed. So you can imagine Fred's surprise when ‘he answered his doorbell early one morning, and an ‘expressman handed him a small package. “Here's Irvin 8. Cobb,” he said. » » os THE ASHES were in a small marble box. It rested in the Neuman home two weeks before the services were held, and all that time Prefi was nervous. He was afraid something would happen to the box, or thay someone might try to steal it. "He tried to suppress the news of the box’s arrival, but it got out. On the day of the funeral the box of ashes rode in Fred's car on the front seat beside him. Mrs. Cobb rode in the back. » ” ” MR. COBB'S dying request wasn’t carried out to the letter. He asked that a dogwood tree be planted and that his ashes be strewn about the roots. But they decided not to remove the ashes from the container, They buried it. A granite boulder rests on the spot where the marble box was buried. Carved into it is in~ scription: “Irvin Shrewsbury —1876-1944—Back Home.” Behind the boulder is the dog-

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Governors to Attend :

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