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By A MAN Telos a Tour yout proposal 1 he pay the penalty of a silk gown or a kiss.” Tomorrow

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men, so keep the above quote firmly in mind. Personally, I'm ready. I'm tired of the peaceful life I've been living for the past 29 years. Just to see what frame of mind some of .the eligible young ladies around town are in, I scouted around. It pays to be prepared.

The Gals Aren't Really Serious

IT'S SURPRISING and almost disappointing how many girls take leap year lightly. In the presence of more than just a couple young things, I did everything but hang a sign on my chest with something subtle like “Just ask me.” I guess. safe in "8. 8 , But’ let's get down to business, What are the thinking?

Patsy Milne, manager of the wage administration - department of Block's, was most disconcerting. Hardly looking up from a tome on jobs and stuff, Miss Milne said, “I'm thinking of job evaluation—not leap year.” A career girl with vengeance, Naturally, my face fell. The noise startled the Job evaluator. She must have had a momentary turn of heart because she referred me to her friend and roommate (another career girl) on the fourth floor, “Meeko might give you a better answer,” said Miss Milne.

MISS PATSY MILNE—What price hemp seed?

begins a 366-day open season onus, —

Meeko's answer (arbar Meek, assistant buyer in the lingerie department) was indeed a little better. . ’ ! “I don't have in mind for leap year that I don't have any other time" she tol “Does that answer your/ question?” It did and n't. Miss Meek is single. she intend to stay that way? She wouldn't say. : Mildred Garrad in the clearing department of the Merchant's Bank claims she does not have special plans for the coming year except “go out, have fun and if I meet someone I really like I'm going to hook him.”

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with gas. Helen LaMarr, associate editor of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility's house organ, “Gas Flame,” I've been waiting for for four years." Mitchie Lee Hunt, cashier at Loew's, had a mighty fine twinkle in her brown eyes when she sald through the hole of the cashier's cage, “So

many single men come to the theater alone—I'm sure: they're single—that I've been wondering if 1948

couldn't be a great year.” No one can say I didn't try to wait until 1948. But what are you tordo when a husky bruiser taps

you on the shoulder and asks, “Are you gonna buy| .

a ticket or ain’'tcha, Mac?”

I thought sure the telephone company would produce something startling. They have enough girls|

to do it, you know,

Mary Lou Card, operator in Unit 1 (you need a :

guide to find the plack), sald shé had been “thinking” about leap year. “It's a good idea but I don't think I'll take action right-away.” Good girl. Take a couple of hours, I'm in no hurry.

At Least There's One Solution

JOYCE WATSON, service representative on the main floor, (as nice a service representative as you'd

want to talk to) is going to take 1948 in a happy|®

stride. “I'm just going to do the same thing I've been doing the last five, having a good time.” What does a guy have to do to be a good-time Charley? Maybe I don’t mean What I said in the second paragraph Rpm I don't know whether I should tell you this or not. The young lady sounded if she meant business. Ruth Alberta Krug, newly appointed policewoman, calmly looked me in the eye and said: ‘I'm attending all Sadie Hawkins affairs with my 38 special in my purse and by the end of 1948 I'm going to have me a man.” (Jest jesting, I hope.) If all else fails, no rough stuff, I may try this old recipe. “Go to an old deserted house at midnight on the last day of February in leap year. Walk around the house scattering hemp seed. On the fourth round you will see your future husband or wife; but if you see a coffin, you are never to marry.” What is hemp seed selling for today? ———

Hangovers, Circa

MIAMI, Dec. 31—The common hangover, a disease which is endemic at this season, has developed some interesting ramifications over the last couple of years. - Always a man to look an issue squarely in the eye, I would like to discuss this today, rather than a couple days hence, in order that we may all be forewarned. None of this muttering that somebody slugged the eggnog when your back was turned, men. The hangover has been loosely defined as the unpaid balance on easy-credit ecstasy. This includes the simple hangover, which combines headache, nausea and delusions of mice in bed. There is no cure for this one, short of a pistol shot. There is also the lazy, languorous hangover, which is more pleasant than not, and which depends on having topped off 10 hours’ slumber with a stout breakfast. Fmentioned, once before, the claustrophobic hangover, in which the victim suffers equisitely when people get too close. A short ride in an elevator is acute torture, with the nerve ends whetted to such sharpness that the rustle (. a paper is like dragging a stick along a pale fence. .This is one of the oldest forms, giving rise to the bum jokes about the wrens stomping in the bushes and the cats clattering up and down the hall.

Sensation Known Only to a Few

THE INTROSPECHKIVE head is known only to the more sensitive folk. Those who sometimes get the impression that they are not themselves, at all, but that they are floating high in the air, viewing their physical selves with a quietly jaundiced eye. Cousin to this fll is the hyper-congentration hangover. This one causes the subject to become fascinated with some small detail of his features. I have known men who stood for hours in front of a mirror, looking glass, mesmerized by a mole on the cheek, a pimple on the nose. In the hands of & sufferer from this variety, a magnifying shaving mirror is a devilish tool. The face, seen through the heavy lens, is a broad plateau, pitted by millions of tiny craters, from each of which sprouts a single tree, or whisker. Frequent indulgence in hangovers of this type can only lead to madness. The insecurity of recent years has dredged up, I believe, a brand new species of morning-after malaise.

Welcome News

'47 By Robert C. Ruark

This would be the inability-to-drop-anything head. A man gets up, brushes his teeth, and finds that he continues to carry the brush around. The comb adheres to his fingers like glue. In a short time, he has both hands full of newspapers, keyrings, coffee cups, handkerchiefs, packages of .cigarets, lighters and such truck. He may rid himself of one magnetized chattel, only to speedily acquire another. They say that this is man’s unconscious effort to cling to his possessions in the face of future uncertainty. That's what they say.

Too Many With Guilt-Complex THE GUILT-COMPLEX hangover is rising in incidence, too. You know this one. It's the one

which makes you get up feeling as if you had done

something awful to somebody, like snapping a dowager's garter or setting the boss’ wife-afire. You cannot rest until you have sought out your companions of the past evening, to cross-examine them on yomr conduct. Even if the reply is favorable, you are haunted for several days by the feeling that you must have gotten out of line somehow, and your friends are just too polite to tell you about it.’ Maybe it's because the times are more raucous, but the tinkling prism and softly chiming bell hangover is on the decrease. This |§ also true of the dis-tant-flute hangover, the chirping cicada hangover, and the softly-splashing water hangover. However, the musical and poetic head, in which the subject sings the same refrain or repeats the same lines vier and over again, is on the upswing. Friend of mine

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times before the St. Bernard arrived to save him. It is not my intention to go into the screaming fantods or the leaping and howling varieties, suffered by the more unfortunate victims, but I will say that I know one man who keeps seeing goats on the ceiling. He says he wouldn't mind the goats so much, if they didn't have constantly changing faces, and if the faces didn’t belong to all his friends. This, to the best of my knowledge, is the state of the hangover on Dec. 21, 1947, and the experts say that in their considered opinion things are bound to get worse before they get better.

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—Good news for guzzlers: The cost of importing scotch drops 30 cents a bottle tomorrow. If the retail price doesn’t come down too, you could always poke the scotch down the gullet of

the man who sold it to you. Bottle included. As for champagne in a night club, it ought to be about a dollar a bottle cheaper. If not, spray it on the hard-boiled shirt of your host. My dope on imported drinkables comes from Harry L. Lourie, a worried citizen. He's head man of the liquor importers, all of whom were delighted with news of a slash in federal tariffs effective tomorrow.

The Problem: Cutting the Price THE PROBLEM now is to get the greedy ones in the liquor business to pass on the reductions—about the first on any sort of merchandise since the war— to what Lourie calls the ultimate consumer, All his members have cut their prices as of last midnight, They have urged the. wholesalers to pass this along to the retailers. Some of ’em are balking already. What Mr. Lourie calls them isn’t printable. Of course the scotch that a liquor dealer has on his shelves now was imported at the old tariff rate : #Pefore the reduction. But when the duty was raised § a few years back, retailers generally took full advanof it and increased prices on the stuff they had on hand. They even added their usual profit to the duty. Now it's turn-about. They can remove it. The bubbly water situation is something else again. The profits slapped on champagne by all hands, Mr.

Lourie said, are so fantastically high that nobody much drinks the stuff anymore. Not even at weddings. The best French champagne costs about $2.50 a bottle at the dock. Duties, freight, and handling charges make it worth about $5 wholesale. But when it comes to you in a long-stemmed glass, well chilled, in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Giltluxe the tab is $20. Makes Mr. Lourie shudder. Mr. Lourie, whose official title is executive vice president of National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers, sent a letter to all his members. His language was considerably politer than mine, but he pointed out the federal government reduced its take, not because it loved the local liquor dealers, but to give the Marshall Plan a small push. The idea is to give the foreign vintners and distillers a doreak. They sell more stuff here and collect dollars for it. Then we don't have to lend ’em so much.

We're Slipping on Champagne THIS 18 over-simplification of a complex subject, I know. and if there are any kicks abot this story from the liquor interests, they should come to me. Not to Mr. Lourie. He's got troubles enough. Take that champagne. In the first 10 months of last year, when the price of butter still was within reason, we Americans drank nearly 300,000 gallons of bubbly from France. This year, same 10 months (and it's enough to make a Frenchman weep), we have hiccuped down only 85,000 gallons of France's aticH 3 Huet fermented vintages.

Readers Snap Back

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 31—The People Talk Back to Hollywood, to each other and to me: “What's holding up the Will Rogers picture? I can’t understand why Hollywood would consider any other historie-character before him.”— Brisbane, Cal. Not many years ago, it

thing was kept a secret. Now I get a play-by-play account of every baby expected in Hollywood. Shirley Temple must feel about as private as a Rose Bowl event.”—San Francisco.

Romance Hits the Skids

reconciliations, rumors and tripe, I often wonder about Lassie. How does she keep her love-life a

“The picture I saw last night had a good male star but the gal ‘sounded like Mickey Mouse. Why can’t they match ‘em up right?”—Cincinnati, O. “We man to commend Martin Mooney's statement to you when he made his decision not to film the life story of Al Capone. He said that ‘there are many things in, the making of pictures that transcend the making of money.'—Redlands, Cal.

Why, You Old Sourpuss, You “AS ONE OF THE 24 million who does not go to movies or read modern novels, I take pleasure in supporting your call for Hollywood to make adult and children’s movies as two different things.”—Dallas,

Tex. : “I go to movie for relaxation, but the loud shrill music almost drives me out.—Los Angeles.

“I think you are just an old sourpuss. I still go,

to the movies twice a week and I still think pictures are wonderful. Why don’t you shut up?”—San Diego, Cal. *'

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SECOND SECTION

HOLOCAUST-—This on-the-scene fire picture won honorable mention for Harry Kremer Jr., 6471 Franklin Rd. He used a Speed Graphic camera. The fire was the Smith home ow’ Sadlier St., says Mr. Kremer.

» tJ # » = n By ART WRIGHT photographic work. A brand new entrant in The| Any individual may enter any Times Amateur Photo Contest is number of pictures. On the back of the winner of the top award for the each photo must be written the current week. He is William 'T./name of the photographer, address, Long, 2345 Ns. Talbot St. |telephone number, type camera and Again the judges faced a difficult | film used, - shutter speed and type task in deciding the first place lighting. winner. In addition, several honor-|" The decision of the judges is final able mention awards were made. and all pictures become the propThe contest will continue. There erty of ‘The . Indianapolis Times. are no restrictions on entries. All] Mail or bring pictures by each Frithat is required is that the entrant] |day midnight to: Amateur Photo be an amateur whose chief. source Contest, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. of income is not derived from Marylane St.

Britons Resort to Trickery In Dodging Currency Rules rough

Many Pay for Swiss Vacations T

Legitimate Business Transactions

> oD ERNIE HL es Foreign Serv LONDON, Dec. 31—Wealthy Britons . developing some slick | tricks to get around regulations against taking money out of the sonny for vacation expenses. With empty pocketbooks, they are flooding into Switzerland to the winter sports season. Principally, there are three ways they pay their hotel and saloon bills at sfank Swiss ski hotels.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER oT 1947

‘W. T. Long, A NOWSOror Prize Photograph Of The Week

It's stimulating to find someone who's cooking! ARNE

BEST-OF- THE-WEEK—The best entry of the week in The Times Aratiur Shota contest was this picture by William T. Long, 2345 N. Talbot St., a newcomer to The Times weekly contest. Using a 2/4x3/4 Speed Graphic, Mr. Long shot the picture with Super XX film at 1/100 second with f:.22 shutter speed at 6 feet. Lighting was provided by a No. 5 flash bulb. The young man in the tub i is Frederick Ferguson, a nephew of the week's top photographer.

JANICE J. NASH, another newcomer! to The Times Amateur

who lives in Franklin, Ind.,

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Turns In

HONORABLE MENTION — This photo of a "cowgirl" by Roy Wiley, 237 E..15th St., won honorable mention honors of the week. The picture-snapper used a Busch Pressman camera.

Photo Contest, She

earned honorable mention with this winter scene.

used a 3/4x4!/, Speed Graphic camera with Panatomic X film and yellow filter. Shut-

ter er speed was | /50 second a

rickery [Central Y' to Hold Open House

Exhibitions of tumbling, swimming, table tennis; fencing and weight lifting will be features of the Central YMCA open house tomorrow from 3 until 9 p. m. There will also be exhibition basketball and volleyball games. The basketball game will be played be- | tween the Allison industrial team and the Indiana University, Medical

tf: 16. Natural lighting provided 1 the illumination.

iW Zoologist Makes Killers

Out of Peaceful Microbes

Prof. Sonneborn, $1000 Prize Winner

In '46, Reveals Discovery to Scientists By DR. FRANK THONE, Science Service Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 31--Peactful, uhaggressive citizens of the micro- | scopic world within a drop of water can bé transformed into killers by giving them access to the weapons of slain aggressors of their own

species. Not only that, but they can also hand dow down this acquired killer [ trait to their glescendants. mp prey This sinis {tuation among in- nearly the size of larger filterable

virus particles.

Most popular procedure, it is disclosed, results from business transactions. Firms shipping goods to Switzer-| land have been cutting their in| voice bills in half. Swiss purchasers remit the face amount and put the other half in a speclal| bank account in Switzerland. Then British company executives | have only to get to Switzerland to pick up their fat funds, Hotels Offer Credit Some Swiss hotels are offering established customers up to $300 a week credit for the costs of their vacations, Britons are told that they may settle their accounts any-| time in the next few years when | travel and currency regulations are | lifted. The third method is by making business trips. Business representatives are allowed to spend up 'to| $32 a day on legitimate business) abroad. The sudden spurt of wie ne-| gotiations is making it necessary for many Britons to rush to Switz. | erland. Once there, it is impossible to| prevent them from going to aki hotels to conduct their transactions. | Switzerland thus finds its resort spots filled with British business- | men. | Efforts are being made to relax currency controls and travel re-| striction but government officials they doubt that they will be| doned until the end of next | I § Bureau Quits Business ¢ | These curbs are so tight that the| (British travel and tourist bureau has gone out of business, except In trying to lure Americans here spend dollars. In fact, vacation travel was pretty

were devised to get around the regulations.

; Apart from evasions practiced by

| Britons in Switzerland, the govern-

| double- -edged sword in relation to| | France.

well stopped for a time until ways |‘

Behool team. Guests will be served tea (~cm 5 until 6 p. m. and a continuous show of moving pictures willy be |shown in the lobby. | Craft work will be displayed in the lobby and the night school

{welding class will demonstrate their | work.

ment™is finding its restrictions a

Because England won't | permit its people to vacation across {the channel, France will not allow {its people to come here.

Copyright, 1947, by The Indianapolis Times nd The Chicago Daily News, Ine,

Carnival—By Dick Turner

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“Another thing, Jenking—stop referring to my afternoon guests as ‘fea bags'l'

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\. They picked up the killer factor and made it part of themselves, and, thereafter they add their descend-|

visible animals, which might well be a parable for present times in our more magnified world, is a new

discovery b rof. T. M. SBonneborn, Indiana Uh rsity zoologist. Earlier work on peculiarly in-

herited deadlines in the so-called slipper ‘animalcule, Paramecium, won him the $1000 prize of the | American Association for the Ad- | vancement of Science a year ago. Factor Called Kappa | Among slipper animalcules there are strains whose mere presence is deadly to other strains of the same species. This lethal action is due to their possession of a factor called Kappa, or K (for killer), This killer factor is handed down through the {generations in the general protoplasm of the cell, not by means of |

Jgenes in the chromosomes of its = _

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|ganisms and made a kind of mash of them by squirting them very hollow needle against a plate. Into this debris of dead killer-animals he introduced small numbers of non-killers, each in its own individual kit ‘of this witch-brew.

ants were killers, Carries Armament he In the same discussion, Dr, R. Preer of the University of Penn- | sylvania stated that each killer in- | dividual carries an armament of between 200 and 800 particles of the killer factor. If a suitably disposed parmaecium | possesses even a single particle, this | particle can multiply itself up to [the number necessary to make hal owner a killer. | Dr Het tlt oasured thie] Igize of the deadly particles by’ | means of X-rays. He found that they are larger than genes, more |

| Prof. Bonneborn took large numbers of such K-equipped micro wa

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Dr. Mary L. Austin of Wellesley College added her contribution: A killer individual to keep the neighborhood unsafe for its fellows, needs only to release one particle of its deadly substance every five hours. One particle is enough to kill an unaggressive neighbor,

Attending Convention E. L. Morris, 3331 Guilford Ave. is one of the 150 delegates from 102 field and campus chapters of Phi Delta Kappa, professional education fraternity, convening this week in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Morris is president of the Alpha Eta chapter of the national organization located in Indianapolis.

'WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

NEQPHYTE

(ne”’ o-£1t) Noun A BEGINNER; A NOVICE