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shine ‘em Union Station chanted his sales ears went up. “Here's the way heels as well as the from side to side, and when we finish—by TT en. Jou, wi ; om | re I was in the seat y : . " nsme. I had to unscramble Seat askins him hIS¥ just get-you ready to go—that's all. a few lines of what we'll call 1 was thinking that if the shine was half as pustsy., as the chatter—man of the street, would I

Have a Shine Before You Dine ' « “COME RIGHT IN and make yourself at home; shine, soap, and towel; wash your face, have ‘= smile, Be lovely to look at, be lovely to hold+. lovely—lovely than lovely are, and you'll hay your caviar, Wine and dine—but you must have a shine, everytime, before you wine and dine; And this is the place and this is the time for you to have that lovely shine.”

. i. can't lose with those bright shiny shoes. Make your. #tep lighter, your outlook brighter.”

“You're Ready, Sir, to Do the Town

SMILES ARE FREE—So .is the poetry that Bert Walker tickles you with as he shines. your shoes. The only charge is for the shine,

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step Bert still wasn't ‘again, don’t forget to send a friend—for on the friends we do depend.” Walker gives you with a shoe shine.

. tell you something about a man that will put a

and seems lo enjoy his work is pretty wonderful

"told me.

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Gee, gosh, dang! I'd love to hold that . There you are, she’s your baby 't mean maybe. - (It's OK to take a even though Bert doesn't) Walk ‘the line, don’t let her she does, come back and , I'll tell you exactly what to do. So it is—why, you have another shine and start all over again. Get a brand new start for you

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MY FOOTWEAR received the last pat from the cloth as Bert Jet me have “Thank you sir, t down, you're ready to do the town.” With my coin in his pocket and a big smile, . “Thank you sir, call

That, my friend, is a sample of what Bert ] There's a lot more but before we run out of space I better

smile on your face as well as on your shoes. . «He's. 44 and looks 30. The way he smiles

to see. Bert gives a customer a shine and a new | outlook on life. “I'd like to see everybody wear a smile,” Bert

It would be a simple matter if Bert could shine ‘everyone's shoes. There should be a way to send about 50 shoe shine boys such as Bert to the United Nations. Relations would be a lot better. Bert couldn't miss. 1 seldom do this. Dang seldom. But the place is the Union Station men’s washroom. Bert Walker is in charge. If you want a smile on your feet and on your ‘face, walk in. That's all you have to do.

Grown-Up Brats

SECOND SECTION

Use Proper Hand Signals’ To A

Photo ) by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.

RIGHT TURN—Sgt. W.

driving a police car, demonstrates the

proper hand signal for a right turn as

police open an intensive campaign to

induce correct driving signa

C. Herkless,

Is.

+ STOP—The arm should be pointed downward with fingers spread to give the proper signal for a stop. Police recommend that signals be given at least onehalf block before the turn or stop is made. in general, police say, fail to give hand signals.

LEFT TURN—The & arm pointed straight out the window is the correct gesture to warn other motorists of a turn left. This Lo more than 135 drivers: hag accidents

Motorists

suse of hand signals.

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 15—I wish a word today with a vast, unplumbed audience: I mean the kids who have not yet learned to read, and who are beginning that great adventure known as school. Young gentlemen, ladies, knock off the activity in the sandbox and harken to your uncle. A An adult, kiddies, is merely a child grown big and confused. He has acquired, in the process of becoming large, a certain number of tricks, like any dog with sense enough to differentiate between bone and bacon. He can roll over, play dead once on an average of every 20 years, and he: yaps ceaselessly. He is overweeningly conceited, and prone to flaunt his acquired conceits around the neighborhood. He thinks, by and large, that he knows what is best for everybody, but he unhesitatingly mixes alcohol with gasoline, horse-races with budgets, blonds with wives, war with peace. He is a burnt child-please pardon the noun—who never learns to dread the fire,

You Will Be Exposed

YOU WILL be exposed to these queer creatures, adults, with monotonous frequency from now on. They will attempt to tedch you the same tricks they learned, in order. that you, too, may grow up to be big and addled by your knowledge. Oh, they will teach you to read, write, think, cipher, dress in a certain manner, act so toward members of the opposite sex, treat elders with respect, play the paino, split atoms, do the’ tap dance, fire a‘ machine gun, fly airplanes, ‘drink whisky, throw a baseball, drive an auto, fight with your fists, blush, simper, strut, steal, lie, and always, they will impress you with their vast intélligence. They will be at you, night and day, with subtraction and multiplication, psychiatry and cod liver oil. They will feed you an unstinted diet of the fruit of their vast experience, until sometimes your head will feel it’s going to swell:up and bast wide open. They will attempt to interpret you and second-guess you in terms of the environment in which they were living at the time of your inception. Already they are saying that the graduating

class of Yale and Vassar, Spearfish Normal and -

Slippery Elm Tech for the good Your 1963, is off to a lousy start.

Mutilated Minks

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—The man to pity today is Maurice: Coopersmith, the New York furrier beset by gorillas, who murder his customers, trample on his seamstresses and force him to do business in the dead of night, like a bootlegger. Life is so rough at the Chez Coopersmith that even his own brother, Jacob, is afraid to work for him. For Maurice each day brings heartaches and headaches, intermingled. The wonder is that he ever finishes a mink coat for madame, He wonders, himself, sometimes. He dropped down to Washington, a large and portly man with five o'clock shadow gleaming blue at 11 a. m1, to tell a bulge-eyed Congressional Committee about his troubles with the Fur Workers’ Union. His use of the English language ‘was

so free-wheeling that he had to dictate a glossary

for the lawgivers. The gorillas who ripped the coats and jumped on the ladies who sewed them he said, weren't actually apes. They were officials of the union, who looked like human beings.

‘They Murder 'Em’—Economically = .

“AND BY murder,” asked Rep. Max Schwabe, of Missouri, “you mean in an economic way?” “That's right,” replied Maurice. “They murder em.” His business, he explained, is fur lining. The coat factory cuts the furs. Then his errand boy (who used to be brother Jacob) trumndles them down Seventh Ave. to Maurice's shop, where he sews in the satin’ linings. This form of subeontracting is frowned upon by the union, which fines any factory that resorts to it. Mr. €oopersmith charged that the fines were what counted with the union. He said it collected more than $100,000 a year from manufacturers who chose to do business with him and his fellow liners. And where did this money go? ‘Elogquently he shrogged his shoulders. “Who knows?” he asked. “To Russia, maybe. They're all Communists.

The Quiz Master

Q—What are the Elgin Marbles? A—The Elgin Marbles are a collection of ancient sculptures, chiefly from the Acropolis at . Athens. This series was executed by Phidias and other Greek sculptors under his Y iret They were purchased by the English govermment in 1816 and are mow in the British Museum, :

You were conceived in war, fledged in the|}

frustrations of the peace, nourished on uncertainty and cramped by inflated demand for housing. Already, they have begun to peck at you as a ripe target for the voodoo doctors—the spade-bearded second-guessers of man’s unquenchable desire to play the fool on his own time.

You may grow ‘your first chin-fuzz in a fresh war, or you may be old enough to fight another one. In the meantime, you will be subject to radio soap serials, televised episodes involving rasslers and Vito Marcantonio, sex as starkly portrayed by ov Wy Magazine, the modern fairy-tales of the involving modern heroes ‘ who: smoke marijuana and consort with criminals, for fun. Time, Inc., will predigest your politics, aided by Newsweek, Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Look, Pic, Peep, Peer, Sneak, Snoop and Squint. You will learn that the stork does not bring babies; but is a’ nightclub. Santa Claus has been replaced by'the radio giveaway shows. There are unguents which will bring happy marriage, wealth, and may even clean the skin. ‘The little red school house has fallen in disrepute as an institution, and has been replaced by the four-eyed frustrate who labels herself Ph.D. and speaks knowingly of traumas and emotional blocks in connection with a healthy juvenile desire to pull the Bair of a playmate.

I'Pity You ... And Envy You

ALL THESE things you will learn, and more such as the fact that war is noble if you win it and punishable as an atrocity if you lose it. This applies also to politicians who are defeated, and sinners who get caught. I pity you, young ladies, gentlemen, and I envy you. Yours is a staggering new world, with the guided missile as prevalent as the slingshot of my sglad youth; with speed past that of sound as humdrum as the teacher's insistence on the mastery of fractions. You are the spawn of the sundered atom; the consumer of the capsuled vitamin; the dweller in a plastic ‘world. I have no idea at all as to what you'll do with it or make of it. But no matter how it comes out; if you don’t take it too seriously it could be fun.

By Frederick C. Othman

And how, wondered Congressman Schwabe, did the union know which coat makers to fine? Easy, said Maurice. “They just grab the order book from my boy when he delivers the coats,” he added. Not physically, of course, suggested Rep. Wingate Lucas of Texas. Physically?” cried Mr. Coopersmith. don’t give it to ’em, they break his neck.” This has happened to him so often that his turnover in delivery boys is scandalous. “They don’t ask questions,” he said. “The first thing you know you're stretched out on the street. But they get the book and collect the fines. Once they

walked into my place and cut up $400 worth of linings.

‘Now | Got fo Bootleg’

“A LADY who'd worked for me 14 years dived under a pile of coats to get away from ‘em. They Jumped up and down on her.” Mr. Coopersmith bounced in hig chair. He told how his brother. had to quit him on threats of getting his head hyoken. Rep. Schwabe wondered how often the coat makers had to pay fines. “Who knows?” gaid Maurice, repeating himself for the first time. “As often as they get caught. Now I got to bootleg the coats out at hight and get Jem back the same way. If I'm caught, I'm out of business.” ‘Yes, but couldn't he argue with the union? Maurice snorted. “The more you talk, the more you pay,” he said. “So you pay and keep your mouth shut. They come in like cossacks and tell everybody to get out, union and non-union, and when they get through with ‘em, they're scared to work for me. They don’t solicit members. They just grab ’em by the neck and they're in.” “It is hard to «conceive, murmured the gentleman from Missouri. “True,” said the furrier from N Y.

“If he

“1 swear.”

??2? Test Your Skill ???sreen paint.

WATCH T—These twé motorists made left turns into: E. Woshinghon St. om’

New Jersey St. without givi

ng any hand

signals. They were not the only ones, A

survey by The Times disclosed that few Indianapolis motorists ever get their arms out the car window to warn other drivers.

Warns of Giant Erosion Threat

Doctor Says Man Must Work With Nature By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 15— Man's boasted “conquest of nature” must yield place to a cooperation with nature, if man is to survive, Dr. Stanley A. Cain warned today at a meeting here of the American Association for

./the Advancement of Science.

We are used to thinking of land plants, whether crops, pastures or forests, as renewable resources, in contrast to such exhaustible resources as ores and oil. Such, however, is not necessarily the case, Dr. Cain declared. When man’ sweeps a forest off a mountainside and then lets fire ravage the thin soil, that forest will not be remewed in anything like human terms of time. Similarly, when man over-exploits cat~ tle range. or cornland, t remains will be unprofitable masses of weeds, or bare, gully-scarred clay, renewing nothing that man can use, : ’ Efforts Ineffectual : “We may be certain that a balance of nature will be attained; but we cannot be certain that] this balance will be one pleasing

{te man.” he commented.

Efforts of conservation-minded groups have been largely ineffectual to date,.the speaker pointed out, because such groups have put their main efforts into trying to influence politicians to consider certain legislation, instead of devoting themselves to the broad education in conservation of the voters who * consider the politicians.

Aussies Import Swedish Houses

SYDNEY, * Australia, a, Sept) 15 A $21 ‘million deal with Sweden may help solve one Australian state’s housing shortage.

ready to import 10,000 two-bed-room houses from, Sweden for that price. The houses, not prefabricated, consist of ready-cut lumber.

Two Children Abduct

And Paint Baby Green CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (UP)—Po-

children have admitted abducting a S5-months-old baby from its carriage, painting it green} and leaving it in a cardboard box in a patch of weeds. The baby, Cary Herzberg, was found crying in the box with his sweater and legs daubed with Painters nearby said a can of green paint they had left on the ground had been

When were members of the Society of Friends molested.

New South Wales is gettinginigh A with

lice sald today that two small{Serafin, because nobody can bang

BAD EXAMPLE-—~The driver of this driving: fraining car, bearing. the the: words “careful on the back, turned right into East St. without signalling. official said of Indianapolis ‘motorists, seem to want both hands on the Horn."

IGHT EB ast Aersection:in front of Tochaical Schbol maderl ie : difference to this driver. He ‘tight inte E Miche igan St. without any sign of warning,

One police

"They don't give han Signals s because they: | ou

Ready to Sing Bellini

an opera in Venice. the aisles.

says so. He is enthusiastic. is ready to stake his reputation on this American find. He says so with gestures. He says this is the greatest tenor in the last century, the only one who can hit ease. 80, 32-year-old Brooke MeCozmack, born in Columbia, 8. C., and now of Asheville, N, C.,.1s ready to open in Venice. .. Notes Too High Maestro Serafin has found an opera in which Mr. McCormack must hit high A. It is called "I|_ Puritan,” by Bellini and hasn't been sung much since its introduction in 1835, explains Mr.

“This will be an event of the lecentury,” says Serafin.

Mr, Serafin first heard Mr. Mec~ Cormack in “Madame = Butterfly,” He was swept away with the tenor's range and "evenness of

Mr. McCormack says he hopes so “La Boheme” and tlect

young!

American Tenor Can Hit Five Notes Above High C

Brooke McCormack of Asheville, N. C.,

Opera in Italy

By ERNIE HILL, Times Foreign Correspondent ROME, Italy, Sept. 15—An American tenor who goes five notes above high C—which is extremely altjtudinous—is going to whip up It is predicted he will leave them bleeding in

Maestro Tullio Serafin, who has conducted at the Metropolitan Grand Opera House in New York off and on for the last 12 years,

Ha waiting for400 years to hear Mr.

McCormack. He says that he personally will take him in hand make him famous. . MeCormock says it is very

nice, In Italy, all men want to become great tenors. It is only in|

somebody from the Carolinas can

be picked up and given: these opportunities. Copyright, 1948, Ba ianapli is Tunes

Methodists to Greet Bishop-Elect Raines

State Service NEW CASTLE, Sept. 15-—Rep-churches the Muncie “Rih. mond will meet here toow Right 1 welcome Bishop-~ Richard C. Raines of the Indiana area.

has just returned from Amsterdam where he was one of the

scale” and Italian diction. Mr, McCormack says he doubts he is that good but he will have! a go at it, He says it is very nice

Arst called Quakers? to have one express so much rriSrse Fox, the founder of the Society of| Prospect. OES to Meet confidence snd hopes he wil win, s SAYS hia Journal the following: “Justice| The Prospeet Auxiliary OES| Italy Is Waiting of Derby, was the frst to call ue wilt meet ith the Prospect; sad Maestro Serafin, waving ' Quakers, because 1 bade them quake and tremble|State Sts. Temple at noon shock ‘of white hair, at the word of the Lord” [This was in the|day for a luncheon, f, hearsals must year 1650. a business ‘meeting at 2 He says that Italy has

American churchmen attending {the first meeting of ‘the World {Council of Churches,

Television Increases

Taft to Reply Lo {To Truman Charge 2 rE

CINCINNATI 0, Sept. 16 (UP) o. hel —8en. Robert A. Taft (R. Odlmade it in a promised a reply today to Pres ¢ dent Truman's charge that hejcal tra was guilty of an “entirely im proper” attempt to “put the heat" &” on the National Labor Relations on She Probe Death of Man Mr. Truman's charge: was cons tained in a letter made public b

such rare instances as this that role in a labor case invo

resentatives of Methodist C

Bishop Raines will speak. He

the White House yesterday. The letter strongly criticiged Mr. Taff

ving International Typographical Un

jon (AFL). Probes Charges

The President on et the union’s convention on

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a ing stations are now o tab tice 0 ry gre ee as many n'is out.