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Now, before 50 loyal Democrats jump down my. throat, the above observations—and I'm banking heavily on my right to freedom of speech— are made by this voter without malice or favor. jtism. I vas dere, Charlie. I was amused, bored and felt exactly the same emotions I had last week in approximately the same seat. As a voter (not to be confused with political observer), thie most enjoyable single item at the convention was the fellow with the trombone, Such trombone smears. as he played haven't tickled my ears for many a moon. Paul L. Hillsamer should get alot of credit. The gentleman ¢rom Marion knows what kind ‘of music to hire for a convention, I'll tell-you.+¢

Time Passed Quickly

TIME passed quickly at the Coliseum, thanks to the soloists, the union band and Mr. Hillsamer's brassy outfit, My attention to the hour wasn't focused until a tall, oafish-looking fellow plowed in front of me, asking: “Has this 9 o'clock convention started yet?” ; “No,” I answered, rather sharply, too, and went right on listening to “You Can't Be True, Dear.” Heck, it was only 10:15. The Republicans, you know, started an hour late. y Fifteen minutes later, someone asked, “Will Mr. Ray Madden come to the platform, please?” The gentleman in front of the microphones was

. "QUIET AND UNASSUMING" — Former Governor Henry F, Schricker found a seat ‘way back of the speaker's platform next to a portrait of a famous American and waited for the show to begin.

Gay (?) Latins

BUENOS AIRES, ‘June 16—There still is a double-barreled myth, back home, that all LatinAmericans are a sunny folk who spend their waking hours fiesta in the streets—and that life below the border is a thing of wondrous cheapness. I was thinking, as I left home, that it would be nice to get a buck’'s worth of action out of a dollar again. And, as I saw a bill from the grocery store for $3.12, for two lamb chops and a strip of bacon, that it would be wonderful to devour a slab of cheap meat once more. 2 The average~citizen I have observed down here grim as a New York sub-way-commuter with Wleers. There is little or no public frolicking, and the night life is about as carefree and riotous as Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia. There is a battle against the high cost of living, due to odd nip-ups in currency that opprasses the well-to-do as well as the peasants. Peru is just about the only country in South America which ‘hasn't become inflated all out of shape, from a tourist's point of view; where a dollar is translatable into spending-dough, and where there are things to buy whose prices don’t outrage your sense of proportion. ; Prices have nearly trebled in Buenos Aires in two years. Beef is still cheap—a filet as big as a Pekinese still costs two bits a pound, retail—and the haughtiest restaurants in town will fetch you a baby beefsteak that sags over the plateside, for half a buck. But clothes, shoes, milk, eggs, chicken, rent— sky high. :

$600 a Month fo Live

DURING the meat shortages at home, we considered chicken the poor man's food. Here in B. A. it's about a dollar-and-a-quarter a pound. You hire a servant for around $15 a month, our dough. But the catch is that you wind up feeding and clothing her. Cheap help and cheap meat are

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swinging a tremendous gavel. Biggest gavel I

“ad ever seen. Beyond the gavel, seated next to the gold background, I made out the figure of former Gov, Henry F. Schricker. One thing puszied me. .A pleture of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt was

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form, however, hung the pictures of President

asked the assembly to stand in silence for a moment in honor of the party's great leader. Another difference at this convention was the complete freedom with which the delegates moved around prior to the keynote speech. Only once did Ira Haymaker, state chairman, ask the delegates to take their seats. And you should have seen the delegates scurry, They sat down, too. Last week, at regular intérvals, someone was asking, cautioning, or threatening the delegates to “take your seats.” When the proceedings finally got under way with the singing of the national anthem and an invocation, there followed the usual “great privilege and pleasure” on the part of the state chaira when it came time to Introduce the keynote . or, ~ “

for the. delay. It seems he forgot to correct his ‘clock ‘when: Tre came here from Washington, Mr. Madden warmed up his throat muscles by congratulating Indiana democracy represented in the Coliseum by delegates from all over the state. I noticed how much more attentive the delegates were to what was being said in the keynote speech at this convention. Maybe it was because] Mr. Madden mentioned butter, round steak, coffee and “gold bricks.” I was sort of glad he stayed away from the freedom we have, the freedom we lost, and the freedom we would again receive as Rep. Charles Halleck did in his keynote speech.

Just Blame It On the Voter © {

OF COURSE, my ears were pounded with the fact that the Republicans were a flop. According! to Mr. Madden, the GOP was pretty sad when it! came to doing anything about the high cost of living, veterans’ housing, minimum Wage, govern-| _ment saving, civil rights, agriculture, ete, etc. You know, it’s a funny thing, but when. a man | listens to what one party will do for him and) then what another party will do, he begins to] wonder just what anyone can do. Just who made sucha. mess.of things? I do believe we have. a mess, even though no one will take the Tesponsi- | bility for it. Probably the safest guy to blame is the voter. | This. poor fellow put the politicians where they are.| He also can take them out. That's the way I understand the whole business. Ours is a “government of the people, by the people, and for the le,” isn’t it? Wonder why 4 4 : Jeopie. And lov Ihe prope.” ant it ander whl SUNSHINE SPECIAL %«There is a right way and a wrong way mudslinging when we're all people trying to get| 0 Gain that berry brown tan that most worshipers of the outdoors ong? Just plain beats me when I try to figure| hope to get each summer. Professional model Miss Pat Gruber, of

out the solution. Somebody isn’t doing their job, ‘ ify . That's for BUF & $ Jeanne Fashion Service, here illustrates what to do and what not to

This November let's get the good guys in omice.| do. First of all, take those initial exposures in easy stages, turn often What do you say? Who are they? Ah — thats’ ,, the soit" and wear sun glasses at least part of the time to protect

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the chief condescensions to economy. | Moderately salaried Americans who live here] permanently tell me they can just make it on a! budget of $600 a month. And mind you, they are not beset by our voracious taxes. »e . If you happen to straggle out into .he night, for a little high life, you receive a set of severe cramps in the purse. Our sucker-traps are economic models, by comparative tabs. It takes a rich man to lay the groundwork for membership in Alcoholics Anonymous down here, what with scotch retailing at $10 the bottle and sextupling|® that figure in the largely barren bistros.

Au Aura of Prosperity

YET there is an aura of prosperity in Lima, in Santiago. here in B. A. that makes you wonder SESS how it works. The streets are jammed with new American cars, all busy blatting their horns and ° killing pedestrians. The shops are crowded with gs people buying geegaws at prices that would bring i blushes to Park Ave. salon owners. My guess is that everybody manufacturers his own money. Back to those pedestrians for a second. I have observed Latin pedestrians in many countries, but the Buenos Aires species tops them all. | The Buenos Aires street-stroller has completely sgl refused to recognize the automobile as a social force. He lurches off the curbstones with the goofy aimlessness of a head-severed chicken, 100K-| "0 ion ing neither forward, backward, nor to the right fs su nor left. Why the streets are not.ankle-deep. in SE v-

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It is significant that no autos are allowed on the richest shopping street in B. A.. The storeowners’ association rebelled at the needless destruction of customers before they had a crack at their wallets. May be that winter is no time to visit our good neighbors, and ‘could be spirits rise and prices fall in the summer. All I can say, from what I've seen, is that things are generally gayer in Kansas, and cheaper on Madison Ave.

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“I'm Amazed’

WASHINGTON, June 16—8ometimes the gentiemen of Congress amaze even me. Like when they're trying to decide the weight of a gallon of cream. : : And with no further ado, except to assure you .every last word of this dispatch is gospel truth, let's sit in with the House Rules Committee on Whether a peace-time draft is a good idea: Rep. Dewey Short of Missouri said we wouldn't need to draft soldiers if the Army didn't have 80 many screwy tests for volunteers. ‘It requires a classic scholar in Greek, or a Philadelphia lawyer to pass these examinations,” he said. Not so, cried Rep. Walter G. Andrews of New York. The Army's Intelligence tests are really very simple, Like which weighs the most, a gallon of cream or a gallon of milk? Rep. Robert F. Rich of Pennsylvania nodded sagely and added: “Yes, the lighter it is, the less it weighs,” Anybody ought to know that. And by the way, he asked, could the gentleman from New York pass the Army's quiz. * “Oh, sure,” admitted the sunburned Rep. An-

drews with the peeled-onion haircut. “So could you." The gentlemen palavered a little on other

subjects, but it was easy to see that Rep. Forest A. Harness of Indiana was not satisfied. He was squirming in his swivel chair. Finally he blurted: “But what is the answer? Which weighs the most? Cream? Or milk?” '

Harness Never Did Find Out

REP, ANDREWS smiled upon him benignly And observed that any gentleman from Indiana ought to know that one. Rep. Harness said-he still. wanted to know. “Cream weighs more than milk,” began Rep. _ Andrews. Oops! He flushed and he added: “I

mean less.” “Which do you mean?” insisted Rep. Harness. What is “the doldrums”? - The doldrums is an area around the earth slightly north ef the equator characterized by frequent gtorms, cyclones and prolonged calms. Te ee , ”

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doing doiible damage. The surfaces reflect too much-light into the eyes as do the pages of a magazine. Besides, an engrossing card game often makes players forget how swiftly time passes. The result is an overdose of sun and a‘ bad burn.

“Well, water weighs less than mercury, which ‘cards and read. is the heaviest liquid of all, and so milk, which . weighs less than water, must weigh more . . Y began Rep. Andrews, op Rep. Jags W. Wadsworth of New York said § this discussion of liquid weights and measures ° was exceedingly interesting, but did it have any- * thing to- do with the draft bill? 8s Rep. Leo “Allen—of Tllinols, chairman of the ‘Rules Committee, banged his gavel, . And that left, Rep. Harness muttering to himself. He never did learn whether cream was weightier than milk.

What Does Army Want—Geniuses?

80 I don’t suppose the Army would have him. This was Rep. Short’s argument all along. He “iv said the Army expected all its soldiers to be # ¢ = near-geniuses. Give ‘em easier tests, a better place = = to live than chicken coops, and shorter periods of = oo enlistments, he said—and there'd be plenty of volunteers. The red-faced Rep. Short — with the wispy “4 strand of hair pasted across, the front of his bald spot—made ah eloquent and obviously sincere witness. He said no minister ever had a big enough congregation; no general a big enough army. . He doubted if war was imminent, sald he believed Joe Stalin already had bitten off too much] to chew, and added: “So lorig as our foreign policy marches up the hill today and down the hill tomorrow, I don’t know where we are.” y He sald he didn't sleep well of nights and that it wasn’t his conscience that bothered him. “I wish we could adopt a little faith, hope and love,” he sald. “We have lost faith in mankind.” He may have something there. All I know Js that I'll lose faith in thé Rules Committee . . © unless it can come up with a straight answer on the weight of a gallon of milk.

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PROTECT THAT SKIN — Miss Gruber makes an attractive 1 picture as she rubs a tan lotion on her legs. An-accepted lotion helps v8 promote an even tan and keeps the skin from drying out and burning. 48 It also is a good idea to keep a jacket handy to slip over the shoulders il and an extra towel tb drape over the legs if you intend an extended - AH stay in the sun. Brunets: get the breaks in the summer as they tan the best. : : ~

DO THAT SLEEPING IN BED «Too much of this and Miss Gruber will peel like an orange. Don't let that "oh, this feels so good" _ feeling lull you into the mood to take a nap. Remember what happens fo-a steak-in the-broiler when-it isn't furned.” A’bad sunbuffi’ nat ory can be very painful but also can be dangerous from a health standpoint,

TAKE A TIP FROM GUARDS — Hal Tobin, quard at the Hillcrest Country Club pool, executes a swan dive off the high'board. Already tan, he has taken it in easy stages. When he comes from the water he dries himself, He always has a hat: sunglasses, a jacket: . and an extra towel available for protection. Beware,. Miss Gruber.’

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