Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1948 — Page 21

There were so many collegians in the place an old hand at cutting classes thought it was day before Christmas holiday when a cut meant losing half a credit. This education idea must be catching on. - . f

"WHAT'S HE MEAN?"—Butler freshmen occupied every availablé inch in the recreation hall to hear the ever-popular (at this time of the year) lecture, "Meaning of College."

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NEW YORK, Sept. 17—It has been a considerable spell since we have brought you, gratis, Ruatk's: résponsible- report on: the: nation—a poll that .is, guaranteed to be free from artificial flavor, won't run, fade, shrink or bag at the seat, and is certified by a board of unfrocked chiropractors to be completely without statistics or other harmful irritants.

“2 Amassing the materials for these polis is no pipe, 1 ‘can ; HEP ; J'We' have to 8 pire: State Building, tab on the migrant warblérs which lose their radar and bash their little’ bird-brains out on Al Smith's monument.

‘At appalling cost, we keep. private investigators .in Philadelphia, to report on whether ‘the people actually hibernate on Sundays. . We have peepers in the boudoirs of the lofty; trend-sniffers in Washington; spies and operatives If Stalin sneezes, who do you suppose knows it first? Winchell? No, sir. . Ea t: other service, do you suppose, would fetch. you the fact that in this year of mighty harvest, the poison-ivy crop has outdone itself? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology knows it." And I know. > For the first’ time in years; poison-ivy has reached complete economic balance, which is to say there's enough to inflict a rash on every small boy, picknicker and necking couple in the: nation, We are expert on. trends. ' , ., Down in "Atlanta, a lady who has borne 22 children prior to her 38th bifthday has decided that too much is a plenty. This refiécts a dangerous rebellion, among modern womenkind, at their subservient lot. You think you could get that from reading Lippman?

Ruerk Undercuts His Rivals

PEGLER and Riese] may have a small corner on the labor news, but our service undercuts them at every turn. For instance: Skunk oil is being used by some strikers to keep their non conforming fellows from by-passing the pickets, Spray it on the line-crashers as. they enter the plant. Smells awful. - Cuts down ‘efficiency. Ruark’s responsible report can tell you, authoritatively, that the country’s predisposition to

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and not graduating, and what a significant venture “college was, and the place where he asked everyone to think a “moment why we came to college,” and the plea to study hard, take advantage of the opportunity and make a success of four important years of one's life, I got to thinking of some of the things I might add if I were ‘talking to a young man. (I'm sorry, ladies, but my advice must go to Joe College exclusively. His pitfalls are more familiar to me.) I don’t want to be presumptuous in any way. As we know, most boys and girls manage to take college in their Be ere may be Be to everyone wonders Was suc send Johnnyfor Susie to college, but, they live ” ! eT - ; i : through the hectic days sumehow. =... ivy ALL ALONE FEELING—A new life has opened for Jane Queisser at Indiana University. It will walle ‘and sacked cellings where a sheepskin was| be ‘a four-year era for the 17-year-old Shortridge High School graduate. It means new friends in fought for and won, I say this to the class of new places. It means that feeling of being lost though surrounded by thousands of people. Alone 1052: The slickest chick on the campus Sn Lo , anne world, she leaves the audiforium after completing registration, "Where to now?" she College life is « worth flunking one course over; don’t get Into * : 2 o is. the habit of loaning “buddies” your T-shirts and| wonders, = : : og Bat old friends sweat socks; stagger your requests for money we : ats § “F | : fonds ‘ from home and the I'll-make-it-last-someway ap- A ; proach is always good; keep your textbooks al- : ways. in the same corner of the room; before you fall in “love” find out if she likes beer; Vow, swear, resolve and try to open a textbook a day because good habits in college are hard to acquire; last but not jeast, try to keep in mind that| ® no matter what you do during the years you 3 spend in college, you're going to work after they kick you out, with or without a sheepskin. Use ‘your head, that's all.you have to do. Four years of college won't hurt you.

By Robert C. Ruark

Example: A Chicago insurance man jumped right ‘down police throats when they tried to help him get his money back from the cab driver who rolled him. “It's my dough and if some punk wants ‘to roll me, that's my business,” said he. “Anyhow, there's lots more where that came from. When I need money I just go down to the bank and get some more.” That is the Wall St. menace that Wallace is always talking about. Big business, riding roughshod over the law. 1:We are t there with the latest on science, Jaw LT Men little item filched from the topsecret files of Science Service. Says that you can make your own weather now. A little yellow powder does the trick. Turns into oxygeh. Might even allow you to breathe in subways. Also, here's a substance which, if smeared on aint, will tell you whether the paint will peel. Peelable paint makes a snap, pop. crackle, like ; | rice crispies undergoing. fission in the cereal bowl Re FOR HAPPINES n o re . STA . OFA Ry Sle Ann ar po ' me : i ; §—Other loriesome freshman » 1 STAMP PPROVAL- , Anderson on Watches the Ads Like a Hawk Sou iy company and they vase a oa connoisseurs: of beauty-sea ted’ on the steps of the ‘Union’ ui WE PROWL the Tebusity relentiesty. Would (FL : wie llofs MeN passing judgment on the freshman erop ars (left fo righ you know, perchance, that the Bureau of Internal New friends soon become old friends.. Shown are (le d: Ri h rd 0 ’ Ci fd . ill and Cleo’ Hennifids. : ! Liye mond: Richard Allen, Crawfordsville, and Cleo Hennings, Revenue is abandoning its simplified tax form + . ht} J A d Ui Doroth Werbicki both of awfc lle, {ennings because it's too involved. After four years of| 10 Mg ane, Audrey Linn, y ' daughter of Mr. and Mes, Carl Qusisser, 444 Blue Ridge R as Nes *# to} of Hammond, and Coralee Mudro, Indiana Harbor." ger for the Advance Paint Co. Bet replaced, making wa -A. as He ) a . I durino where my ops get this stuff; maybe y . 4 they've got a stoolpigeon at United Press. My men love the little tidbits of humanity,

‘such as the fact that two lady pilots had to

withdraw from a recent air derby because they couldn’t get baby sitters. We watch advertising like a hawk, since it is a sure tipoff to trends. . Here's a new high: Dick Powell, an actor, chooses a coffee advertisement as a vehicle of praise for his wife’s virtues. Says little June makes the most delicious coffee he ever drank, because she uses X-brand. : This kind of thing may well replace the anniversary bouquet as the messenger of tender thoughtfulness toward the beloved. { From {ime to time, we even throw in some! spice, too. ' Here's a racy item about a three-handed brawl for the affections of -a 72-year-old widow, with the senior swain, 74, getting hurled down the steps to such effect that he ceased to live. Flash! That's the sample service. If I ever decide to market it, I'm a cinch to die rich--and not from getting thrown down steps, either.

Dickering in Dough By Frederick C. Othman ro eee TT ————

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—Our Department of State, it is obvious, does not believe in new-fangled inventions like the radio telegraph machine. 80 it is that our old-fashioned diplomats dispatched a message in April from Lebanon, Syria. It didn’t get here until August. And that's why the government still hasn't done anything about the 600 sacks of flour destined for Libesia, but which somehow turned into 60,000 sacks when they got tq the Arabs 6000 miles away. How flour under export! license could multiply 10 fold before it got to the wrong customer was the embarrassing and double-pronged question propounded by Sen. Ferguson of Michigan, to the Office of International Trade. What had the government done about it? >A For - ong thing, said OIT Investigator Allen Moorfield, he still was investigating with the co- . operation of thé State Department. Yes, but the flour had left New Orleans last January, insisted Sen. Ferguson. How long did these investigations take? :

Rowed Across the Atlantic

.. THE LANKY MOORFIELD was dead-serious. He said the U. 8. Embassy in Lebanon had investigated as per request at its end, and filed its anaver by radiogram in April. This communication (presumably rowed across the Atlantic by a diplomat in striped pants) was five months en route to the Commerce Department. “The State Department's seldom in a hurry,” observed Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio. “Yes, sir,” said Mr. Moorfield, while an assort-~-ment of government big wigs cringed in their big leather chairs. The story they told, with considerable prodding by the Senators, indicated that flour is peculiar. So are governmental decisions. Here's the tale, condensed: L. N, White and Co., New York exporters, applied "for a license to ship some flour to the hungry natives of Liberia, on the coast of Africa.: That seemed fair enough and the experts decided to §ve ‘em 600 sacks.

The young lady clerk in charge of issuing licenses must have had a big date the night before. Her mind wasn’t on her work. She somehow added! a couple of extra zeros and there was White & Co, with a license to send to Africa 60,000 sacks. " By the time Mr. Moorfield and fellow cops had discoverad this error, White and Co., had bought 55,000 sacks of flour, assembled 'em in New Orleans and chartered a ship to send same across the seas. But why didn’t you stop it?” demanded Sen. | Ferguson. i

Seeks to Avoid Embarrassment

“WE FOUND OURSELVES in the .impossible position of putting a business man in an em-| barrassing financial position through the mistake of one of our clerks,” replied chief counsel Nathan Ostrow. The boat of flour crossed the Atlantic, all right, but instead of heading down the coast of Africa, it plowed through the Mediterranean and docked at Lebanon, where a Syrian cartel bought

the cargo, sold some locally and shipped the rest CAMPUS LANDMARK—The Union building will beconie a land- "BULL SESSION-—In the snack bar: Tor residents. 5 mark in Jane's daily roltine at Indiana University.. While in: the Union dormitories, Jane:bumped inta two old friends, both

to the Arabs, who were getting ready at the time to battle the Jews in the Holy Land.

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Or 0 said the message which took 20 weeks to| With’ Miss Hosier, Jane met Barbara Marlowe of East Chicago, with “Shartridge. Exchanging impressions are (left, to r

get from Lebanon to the Commerce Department in| whom she strolls along a tree-shaded walk of the campus. : Snyder; 15817 Kingsley ashington. ———— v a ——— isso . “ - - pg ps ~ - os aap ant AE th

Ap ——— $ di Rd sid “So you tried to save this man, White, a loss ; ; : ech . S. Liaui $ fh and you allowed hime to perpetrate a trend. sug. Break Ground for War Memorial Czechs, U. §. Liquidate $77 ‘Million Brook gested Sen. Ferguson. Finis Slate” Siivice buzé - bomb obtained by Gen. Lend-Lease Bills NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UP)— += “Oh, no, sir,” insisted Mr. Ostrow. “Not him, GREENCASTLE, Sept. 17 - ( | but the consignee." Breaking of ground for the Worla Of Foreign Wars. Czechoslovakia and the United|Manhattan was opened yesterday Next investigation, I suppose, will consider how The monument will be. dedi- States; announced jointly yester- With the “holing through” of the the State Department ever managed to ignore the| WAT IT monument to be erected)... .° 4 riistice Day, Nov. 11.|day the signing of an agreement|$77 million Brooklyn-Battéry invention of Mr. Marconi. on the Putnam County ©ourtiarmy and Navy officials from|liquidating lend-lease claims; Tunnel. The diplomats may be interested to learn that house lawn is underway here; Washington and state dignitaries| The United States wrote off] Tunnel engineers said the eventiM radio is a wondrous thing. Carries messages| The memorial to Putnam Coun-|will assist in the ceremony. more than $2,500,000 of its claim|was tame compared with the old across the seas with the speed of light and could{ty men who died In service willl ' A drive for $3000 to pay for theion Czechoslovakia. ‘The Czech be useful, according to the Senators, in getting/be a V-shaped shaft of Indiana|memorial has passed the: $1000/agreed to pay the equivalent of fiour’to the right mouths, limestone topped with a: Germsan!mark. "1 '§172,961:45 within 10 days.’ the |

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