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hampers you. see around and don't. pick tomatoes that are green, yellow or rotten.” That was all there was to it.- William H. Kollman, contract grower for Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., headed toward the temporary camp area of his “90-acre patch on the Landersdale road in Morgan county. Horace Wise, personnel manager of growers" Tabor for. Stokely’s, said it would be easy to get on as a

| tol ato picker and it was. Mr, Wise, however, was ‘under a shady tree. at the camp. .1 was in the midst

of acres and acres of tomatoes. What lush picking this would be. The best thing to do on the job is to get acquaint ed with your fellow. workers, Mr. Kollman said jne had 20 pickers scattered all over the field and he was right. Mrs. Maud Perry, R. R. 1, Camby, Ind;, was about 25 tomato rows away from me. .I walked over to see her technique. : She seemed to be doing all right with her tomato hampers. “Just pick them any way you can,” Mrs. Perry

' sald. *If you stay here long enough you'll get on

to it.” .

. Picks 100 Hdmpers Daily

MRS. PERRY, who is 52, said she picks on an

average of 100 hampers a day.

“About how many hampers do you think a youtigbuck like me can pick?” I asked. “That all depends on -you. You better not try for any records though,” advised Mrs. Perry. Before I went into my territory I-told Mrs, Perry she could count all the hampers I picked as her own. She should have maybe a couple hundred by the end of the day. ‘Mrs. Perry smiled from under her straw hat. The first few tomatoes were easy. Thev were so beautiful it seemed a shame tq send them off to become tomato {uice and catsup. : At the haif-hamper mark, I straightened up. My ” 0

a — 2 «ALOT OF CATSUP THERE Wikio H. Kollman (left) is pleased with Charles Moore's pickings. Incidentally, ‘there's a lot of work in those hampers, too.

go into the hamper,

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“Nothing but: the heat ahd youre not used to stooping. You'll get over it after while,” Mrs. Perry as 3U S ay Fol r said. Decisions, decisions and more decisions. That's). what tomato picking requires. This one is too green, eo” that one is too yellow and another is too rotten.

The funniest feeling is to grab a luscious-looking ; . tomato only to have it fall apart in your fingers. ~{* fevers It* doesn’t take long for the hands to lose-that| ° ; =

soap-and-water look. Under the fingernails you : ; have lots ‘of good earth. The shine on your shoes | A ; NET slowly disappears. But you don't care, “You feel rich § : 3 out. there in the open. . Katydids and grasshoppers sifig a thousand -dGets for you, Off in the distance Charlie Moore bumped along in we, Darsearany. “wagon picking up the full hampers. Moore,” who lives in Stratton, Ind. called ey 46. the horses. You continue to pick tomatoes tothe sound of an unrehearsed symphony. Mrs. Bates seemed to be picking three hampers to my one. I tnied-to speed up. Speeding up played hayot with my decisions on which tomatoes should

Honest beads of perspiration began to drop on the tomato plants. Honest aches began to pop up, first on the batks of my legs,.then the small of my back and finally my neck. Mrs. Perry saw me rubbing my neck and said

morning. “How do you feel in the morning?” “Fine and when I don’t I just keep on working. Nothing better for aching muscles than work,” Mrs. Perry said.” A good prescription for. what ails ‘you. I don't know how ‘many tomatoes I turned into juice in the field. By. looking at my shoes anyone could guess where I had been working. A change in muscle strain comes when a hamper i¢ full and vou have to carry. the 35-pounds of tomatoes about 30 yards tp the edge of the patch. Please, the next time you open a bottle of catsup and set it on the tablé, have a moment of silence before you splash it on your meat,

Uses Clay as Salt

THE BEST DECISION I made in the field was to eat the biggest, reddest tomato I saw. ‘Did you ever try clay as a substitute for salt? Mighty good. “How many hampers do we have now, Mrs. Perry?” 1 was curious as well as tired of picking the confounded things. The pastoral symphony had turned into a lot of noise, there was much too much of the good earth on me and it seemed as if you § just couldn't make any headway with tomatoes. Too|# many. & Mrs. Pégry said we had 55 hampers. “You picked five hampers so far.” ° You could have knocked me over with a rotten £ 4d ; : iN tomato. Five? Is that all? Mrs. Perry showed me i i

the Ske she Jind yar on ny haslpers. She was; YUM YUM — Thomas Farmer, 1424 W. Ohio st., pauses during SOUVENIR — Delores Mosburg, 7, Marfinsville surrounded by I ran over to where Mr. Kollman was inspecting] the busy noon hour yesterday at his father's fair concession to sample hundreds of fair novelties along the midway, tries hard to make a Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Morris® hampers. The Morris’ a little of the fried chicken. decision. had picked 115 hampers so far. The couple, from Peach Orchard, Mo. said they got a late start, that's why they only had 115 hampers. Skipping over tomatoes like Liza on cakes of pos

, A. sblashed ‘to where Mr. gnd Mrs. Beward, Lindsey

from Birchtree, Mo.; were- picking. = nrat's the score?” Ty " “We should hdve 160 hampers by noon, * Mr. Lindsey said calmly as I threw my hamper away and joined Mr. Wise under the shade tree.

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A Paradise

By Frederick C. Othman

————— - mn WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. P).—I'm back from

*a month on the Rock Candy mountain, where straw-

berry icecream grows on trees and a dollar's still a buck, and I hate to wake up. So let me squeeze you a tall glass of fresh pineapple juice (with a little lime in it so it won't be too sweet) and tell you about Guatemala, land of the free lunch, the goggle-eyed turista, bananas in eight flavors, and galloping inflation. Yes, sir, said Senora Adela de Morales at Santiago on the short of Lake Atitlan, the cost of living’s something awful. Filet mignon’s 22 cents a pound! And two dozen red bananas, weighing a pound and a half each, now cost a nickel. The fruit that looks and

“tastes like pink ice cream is 2 cents an apron-full.

Aroused Over High Prices’ : .

THE SENORA was sitting .on her front porch

“overleoking the three volcanos across the lake, while

she told me about her troubles. The price of avocadoes is sky high. She can't get two big ones for less than one centavo; they used to be three. for a penny. Why, she has to pay $7 a month to the gardener who trims the lawns with ‘a machete and plucks the orchids growing in baskets hanging from the trees. Even so, she said, what's a housewife to do when she must pay 4 cents a dozen fox, lemons and 3 cepts each for ripe pineapples,

HARE — I ran into some of this Guatemalan inflation, my= self. Up at Chichicastenango I had to pay 10 cents for a pound of fresh cocoanut candy. And down in Guatemala City the bocita situation is something awful. ~*Bocita” is & Spanish -word, meaning little things for the mouth. i These now come in medium size platters, instead of big ‘ones, and they're only one layer deep. They usually consist of beef sandwiches, pickles, cheese, and toasted tortillas. Trouble is, ‘a fellow. who's really hungry must spend 30 cents for.two bottles of beer before he gets enough to eat.

Even Haircuts Cost 35 Cents __EVEN HAIRCUTS are high priced in Guatemala. A trim de luxe with a brisk rub and a squirt of verbena tonic costs 35 cents, though I was told I could have had the job done cheaper in a les§ flossy establishment. Easy come, easy go, I-always say. As for haberdashiery, whooie. A pair of white pants, with red birds embroidered on ‘em, costs at| 7 ; least $1.50. This is terrible and the gentlemen of! ! Soicla hve Tevelted. vey Jon Wem ani cloth A RECORD — Port of the ectimated 115,000 persons which iammed tho fair ALWAYS GOOD ~ Bonnie Jean Coliins, 5: of around their middes, Jike Kilts, and if that doesn't] grounds yesterday for War Veterans day. A paid attendance of 70,000 was recorded. “132 N. 13th st,, Beech Grove, has her fling at the merry--fix the pants profiteers, nothing will. Today s crowd may top 160,000. go-round. It's still one of the top drawing rides. Inflation isn't the only thing that has hit Guate- ; hai ’ mala. Our road builders have been down there, . : : tly : p squabbling so bitterly among themselves that they've : built. two Pan American highways instead of one.

Water-Logged

‘By Erskine Johnson |

. HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.—Any day now 1 expect to look up on a theatdarsmarquee and see something like this: “Way Down Deep,” starring Esther Williams and Leggy, the educatéd Octopus, ‘M-G-M has kept Esther under water for three years: I think it's a waste of talent. Sure, Esther can swim, but they can’t keep her swimming forever. 1. can't honestly say that Esther is a-great dramatic actress. She doesn’t think so either. But she will never learn fo act on the screen if they keep her six feet under water where anything she says comes up bubbles.

As T told you the other day, Esther is complaining that the dialog they give her makes her sound like a mermaid who has just learned to speak English; that she has asked for a chance to do-something besides swim, but no dice.

Give Her a Break

TO QUOTE a Bob Benchley line, I'd like to see M-G-M get her out of that wet suit and into a dry martini. Give her a good story and a top M-G-M star to support her through a picture. Dry her off

and. put her in a light comedy and don't give her a glass of water to drink. If. the studio continues to keep her under water, it- will ruin her career. It has happened to more than one star in Hollywood. | It’s gone far enough already. ‘When Esther mar-| ried Ben Gage, some of her fans were so convinced| that she lived under water, the wedding presents included 14 gold fish, 17 ball pens, for writing under water, and a baby alligator,

She's Naturally Pretty

SHE 1S A naturally pretty girl. Her beauty Hi not the kind that needs to be put on with a scoop shovel and brush. She was born with it. She's graceful, has a voice with no gravel in it, and her personality doesn't make people want to throw knives at her. That's a lot more than can “be said about many of Hollywood's stars. The studio has a good foundation for a boxoffice attraction in Esther if they giye her ‘light comedy | roles. - A good story and an experienced co-star are necessary, but let's get her out of that swimming pool and give her a towel before she grows fins. |

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Japan’s New Idol

TOKYO, Sept. 1.-A sandy-haired, sandy-mus-tached boy from Oklahoma, Who calls himself a “lovable egotist,” has become a national character in Japan, Earnest Hoberecht not only became the first bestselling novelist in Japan after the war for his “Tokyo Romance.” » He is also the “hero” of the first fan clubs ever organized by- the first ecslac bobby -soxers ‘that country ever had. He tutored a Japanese actress for the first film kiss, in-"the history of Japanese- movies. And he turned out the first rhyming classical love song the people had ever heard. Now this eager beaver, who 15a Aorelgn correspondent by day and a novelist by night, has turned out another novel, a volume of biographies of famous Americans and is working on a book -of etiquette for the Japs.

Go Wild Over Kiss.

THEY LOVE ME,” he grinned. “The Japanese have been reading so much dull stuff under Tojo that

Ie they go wild over a good description ofa kiss.

“My books: are teaching the Japs dempcracy. Novels make a bigger hit then textbooks. The allies should subsidize me. ‘I'm & one-man renaissance.” Mr. Hoberechit has made more than a million yen ye W. "

By Lee Hill THE | CHAMPS ~ —— Barbara Meal. V7. Waldron, Photos by John Spicklemire, Tidjes Staff Phatortapher, == shown with her —pure-bred Poland China fat barrow HELL DRIVERS — One of Lucky Lott's performers crashes an old model car into

(about $20,000 from his books, He can't convert it| \hick™was named grand champion barrow in the 4-H a pile &f bricks in front of the grandstand yesterday. Later) one of performers was into dollars; so ‘he's spending it. “Being a millionaire, : critical injured i in. a motorc cle-car head-on collision. even in almost worthless Japanese yen, is fun,” hel P' pig. chib show. She will compete w ith adults later. ritically in y é says. : | r His . best- -seyer “Tokyp Romance” is the story Roark + Travels

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anese, he suspects his excellent Japanese translator H R Boord Drake hotels, Nob Hill, through steeper). it, was a rassling match. hand, he reached up and gave his Sarge it inlo o Cully Wonder ul book. ess, byt Many Passengers ang to unning oaras Chinatown and almost to Pisher- At times I feared the thing was!gong a workout, t was widely pra n the Japanese press, ‘ od |g st . , i wher Oris ia oritic called i the During Hill Climb by Beetles man’s Wharf. And as we rattled about to get the better of him, He has been a gripman 27 years,» worst novel of: modern. time,” Mr, Hoberecht hotly By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer and- clanged along, making a great| on the. descent he released hisjand he has learned a lot about ‘ X pra / , " Y hullabaloo and doing five miles an| grip, and began battling with the technique. Alter you coast down 8 denied this. “I've written ‘worse myself,” he ex- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.—Today I added a nice item to my col-|, "00 tourists grinned at people : plained. . | lection of riding experiences. I took a trip on one of gon Francisco's |. I brakes. He worked the miin one hill and stirt up another steep one,

ion the sidewalk, and they grinned wiih his hands, but his feet “also for instance, you must not yank

‘p's ' [famous little hill-climbing beetles—a cable car t tt A ha : Br atu ; Likes Hero Role bf 8 A small crowd, both local people and tourists, was wailing to board right: back at us were busy with others: And theiback on the grip suddenly and with

ERNIE'S PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs: E. T. Hoberecht it at the Market street turntable, and I almost -got- pushed down and San Pranciscans get as much conductor on the rear end glso'all your might. A greenhorn gripof Watonga, Okla, were shocked by some of the trampled upon in the rush. You don't pay as you enter, and riders kick out of their cable cars, either tugged away at still another brake man ;did that recently, and. the frank love scenes in the book. Even so. the -author swarmed aboard all over it. Since - eer erties | FIAING OF Watching them, as: visitor: . ine \ front truck was jerked right out is worried about the American edition, Just ube under the center of the track. And!do. No wonder they came out, «SAFEST TRANSPORTATION fn from under the car. It went oh up 8 ee, 2 dou PUR the total seating capacity is only A ficiency -minded the hill, and the car went back lished. by, Didier in New York. the man’ who works the grip. is fighting when efficiency-minded tie world,” said our” panting grip- the hill, ai . “The book is so clean and healthy I'm afraid it) 120, many, had to stand in the algig called a gripman, |city officials suggest that the system man. “If they ever fake these cars down. : won't be banned in Boston, and nojggdy will read ik" | or: on. the running boards outside! en ¥ : (be scrapped. 3 off I'm through. Don't wani\to go| It’s a vigorots jobea gripmanis. he moaned. the car, holding to handrails. “I+. THE TURNTABLE crew pushed | Never have I-seen a busier man down these hills 1 anythiiig else.” “When I finish my day, I don’t As & war correspondent, Mr. Hoberecht saw some stood forward just behind gripman us off, Mr. “Hugh pulled” back on ‘than -§9+year-old~gripman Hugh.| As we rounded corners, he. shouts like.

of the toughest naval action in the Pacific with |Earl Hugh. \ lis lever, clanged a bell and we |The steeper the-tlimb, the harder ed, “Curve! Hold on!" And Hug "y Just. ‘want to say

Adny. Halsey. He now likes Japan so well—and his A ‘cable car has a sort of steel were off for the climb up Powell he~had:to pull back oh _lils grip. | hanging outside tightened theirjat hry “hiro” role—that at 29 he has no plans for Son claw; contralled by a big hand lever. street. We went past Phin Square,| And on thofe 15 per cent ‘grades grips. Sipe, 28 they my , make inl home. : THEY «sub FuON JF 0 in Gs. Se Francis ad Sir Francisilon. another. pe they, are even, Every timé Mr, Hugh ed a, raf vod Dustin 2 RS

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