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THIS SHAVE, HAIRCUT and shampoo business has been ‘reclassified in- my book together with barber-college jokes. a eiegi np barbering.

Whether you realize it or not (I didn’t), quite a lot of work goes on before a man can call himself A barber. It's not just a matter of

Since the first of the week the state has been running what a man could call final examinations at the International Barbers School, 342 E. Washington St. Incidentally, you can still get free work done today by the applicants for licenses. Marcus Lehman, secretary of the board of examiners, was practically snowed under with applicants when I asked how come there were so many trying for the piece of paper that gave

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nation period is always busy. The board usually holds on the average of nine examinations a year.

. Sweating Over Examination Papers

THE THIRD FLOOR room resembled very much a classroom except for the money that Mr. was faking in. Fees, you know. More

* Lehman ‘s than half of the applicants were sweating over

examination papers. They had completed the

f'! oral examination, After the written they still had

the ctical to face. me see one of the examination rs,” I muttered fo Mr. Pi used to be pretty good on examinations.

CLOSE SHAVE?—The final test is on. Examiner William R. Allen (left} scans Richard Plumb's work. Mr. Plumb aspires to leave the apprentice ranks and ‘get his barber's license.

Pie-Eyed Pipe Dreams By Robert c. rot

NEW YORK, Sept. 22—As Mrs. Roosevelt would say, I have been most interested in a story written by a Mr. Murray Robinson about a man named Dream Boy. Mr. Robinson is a ‘very talented peerer into other folks’ minds, and I wish he had interviewed me instead of Dream Boy. T have had a dream—or dreams—on my chest for a long time. Murray's man is a raw amateur. I claim to be the only man who ever dreamed a consistent, serial, soap-opera-type dream. And in technicolor. To dream in technicolor is something denied the.average person. Also I dreamed in three dimensions, I Sua even. taste what I dreamed I was eating, and ‘sofffétimes had. indigestion as a result. Iam still a pretty good civilian dreamer, but I hit my peak in 1943, when I was going to sea on a scow named the Eli Whitney. There wasn’t anything interesting to do on the Whitney, except be scared, and that got so boring I took up dreaming as a hobby. It called for a certain recipe. After considerable research, I discovered that if I ate two sandwiches, composed of raw onion, pickle, melted cheese, sardines and mustard at 11 p. m., I would start to dream at midnight sharp. And I would dream the same dream, in orderly sequence,

The By-Goshest Time

THIS DREAM was inhabited by the two old friends, named Helen MacMillan and Jim Queen. There was also a stranger named Joe Littauer. Why anybody would name anybody Joe Littauer, even in ‘a dream, I have never been able to figure out. But this Joe Littauer was quite a boy. He was an adventurous fellow, and he and Jimmy and Helen and I went everywhere. We had the by-goshest time you ever saw. We were in the French revolution. We landed at Plymouth Rock. We were in Paris with Gertrude Steir. We taught Hemingways how to write without commas. I was in love with Helen most of the time, but Queen and Littauer produced such a bevy of charmers that I vacillated from Peleliu to Perth Amboy. The unusual thing about this dream was that it ran aceording to radio script.

Brain-Children

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—Genius never. rests, and with no further introduction I want you to meet Mrs, Anita Chiarotti and her husband, Sesto, of Royal Oak, Mich,” who have invented the world’s first electric iron that never needs to be lifted, or even pushed. Mrs. C., who figured out- the idea, and her husband, who did the designing, worked on the theory that a shirt is easier to lift than an iron. There isn't much argument about that. The Chiarotti iron is a hot, chromium-plated-egg on the top of a post, which is bolted solidly to the table. The housewife moves the shirt over the iron, instead of vice versa, and if that doesn’t make the Chiarottis multi-millionaires, there is no justice, That's the beauty about snooping around the patent office. You never know what boons to humanity (including butter-fingered football players) you are going to run into. Or some inventions make sense and some don’t and I haven't quite decided about the brain-child of Arthur Parks of Wheaton, Ill. He has received Patent No. 2,448,731 on a football with thumb holes molded into the cover, using the same principle that applies to bowling balls, and what this may do to the great college game I shudder to think: It would be awful (hey, Mr, Parks?) if a forward passer got his thumb stuck in the ball and couldn’t let loose. And maybe we'd better turn our attention to this California Thimble Corp. of Santa Barbara, Cal.

' . . A Thimble to Fit the Finger THIS FIRM has bought from Claude M. Howser, the first improvement in thimbles since women began darning socks. It is shaped to fit the human finger. How often have you, Madam, wished for a comfortable, form-fitting thimble? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if all the other thimble factories, grinding out plain, old round

thimbles, are forced out of Bijpness. going to make who a fortune. Theodore Serrill,

ager of the Pennsylvania News-|

The Quiz Master

Q—Which modern city is believed to be the oldest in America? A-—Mexico City. It was the ancient capital of the Aztecs and before them, of the Toltecs.

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of ye William R. Ind., vice president, were in charge of grading sheets and

ts. “What's the penalty for flunking?” I asked. A natural question for me to ask when I get Po examinations.

Things Are Rough If You Flunk -

A MAN would be smart if he stayed away from the flunk racket. Get a load of this. If a man who has graduated from a barber college where it 1s required by law that he spend 1000 hours learning the fundamentals of the art flunks he must go back to school for an additional 500 hours. He's still a student, not an appfentice. Now, if an apprentice flunks his examination] for a barber's license, _he must go back to the shop where he had completed 18 months as an apprentice and inform his boss that he’s ready to put in six months more, He's still an apprentice, not a barber. Quite an incentive to pass, was my comment of the whole thing. Mr. Kirkman was watching five chairs and Mr. Allen four. Nine applicants are about all the two men can handle satisfactorily, they said. I watched all nine. One man was perspiring freely and gave one the impression that he was under pressure, hand shook slightly as he held the razor. Next to him was a man who was perspiring freely and gave one the impression that he was under pressure, too. His hand quivered slightly as he held his scissors. You get the idea, don’t you? Both of the examiners held check sheets which they marked each time a man did something wrong. I didn’t see foo many things go wrong even though the men were a bit tense. The sheet had divisions such as personal, sanitation, haircutting, scalp manipulations, shave, shampooing and massage. Under each division there were from five to 10 other items to be checked. “When will these men know if they passed?”

Mr. Allen said next week. Imagine what those|:

guys have to go through while they're waiting. I'm sort of glad I never considered going to a barber college. Rough.

As 1 dozed off, an invisible announcer would creep into my head, and he would render a synopsis. He would say that we left Bob, Jim, Helen and Joe in such and such a place last night, that so and so had happened, and now, we find our characters in Madrid. Will Bob be able to qualify as a bullfighter? Will Helen find the diamond ring she lost in the restaurant? Then, as general quarters sounded and we had to ring down the dream, the same announcer would hurriedly sum up the evening's activity. Got so I could scarcely wait to go to sleep, just to find out where I was headed and what I was going to do.

Left the Kids in a Mess

MY DREAMS invaded the public domain. The whole ship’s company got interested, to such point that I was compelled to squat before the purser’s typewriter and dash off a SUmSEIque on the night's activities. You understand that it can get very dull at sea, and even somebody's second-hand dream is not without general interest. We sometimes ran short of food on the Whitney, and when that happened, I dreamed of a seven-course dinner. According to the mood, I dreamed of steaks, butterfly shrimp, and always, I dreamed of trout marguery as prepared by M. Justin Galatoire in New Orleans. 1 generally dreamed about fish on Friday. I got so I could even dream three Scotch oldfashioneds in front of the dinner, and could conjure up a ghostly brandy with the intangible coffee. As a young man, I had been shyly, uncommunicatively in love with a pretty girl. 1 even dreamed her back from the past, and what's more I told her all the things I hadn't told her then. Kissed her, too. Hard. I got off the Whitney, and mislaid Helen, Jim and Joe. Last I knew, they were stranded in Shanghai, with Helen engaged to Chiang Kai-shek, and Littdauer in the black market. But if Mr. Robinson wishes to join me at a sandwich session, I will show him some real dreaming. I got to get those kids out of that mess.

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By Frederick C. Othman

Curtis Hughes of Forest, Tex. has an idea, too, in a really puncture proof tire, He guarantees it. Instead of air, the Hughes tire is full of coil springs. For gentlemen tired of ordinary spots around their necks, Jacob B. Grinoch of New York has invented a necktie with pleats -down the front. His fellow townsman, Friedrich W. Seckel, has produced something that is difficult to describe in the way of a top for a convertible coupe, No. spring, no gears, no nothing, but a pump. It is a kind of blimp, sort of. Blow it up and it keeps the rain off the passengers; open the valve and it collapses behind the rear seat. Hubert E, Lowry of Lawndale, Cal, a guppie fancier, seems also to have filled a human need.| He has produced a fish bowl in the form of a lamp shade, although he calls it a lampshade in the form of a fishbowl. The fish, in any event, swim in circles around the electric light,

A Self-Dumping Wheelbarrow JOHN L. GOKEY of Columbus, O., is in with the self-dumping wheelbarrow. Just pull the lever whenever you want to dump the cement and, splash, it’s dumped. And that brings us to the cookie cutters. .I never knew before that the United States government had time to issue patents on the shapes of ‘cookies, but it has and Walter O. Forrer, the Milwaukee, Wis., cookie cutter, has received rights to a dozen cookies of his own devising. These represent characters in the Mother Goose tales and include a gingerbread moon with a caramel cow jumping over it. This is big business. Or at least the Kiddie Kookie Co. of Fairwater, Wis., and Tip-Top Cookies, Inc., of Ripon, Wis., have paid him a pretty penny for permission to. cut cookies in patented shapes. See what I mean? You néver know what's

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How fast do radar waves travel? Radar waves are electrical and travel with

SECOND SECTION

Reckless,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 108

PHOTO FINISH—So far this year, there have been 5859 traffic accidents in town, a whopping increase over last year. Forty-three have died, and 2417 have been hurt. Two died and 18 were hurt in this crash on Madison Ave. last year when

a car swerved into a bus. This year's fatal crashes are worse.

drunk is the drunken driver.

EVANSVILLE, Sept.

nation.

there were enough of the 7000 members on hand to fill a high school auditorium. When Local 813 president, Albert J. Eberhard convened the meeting he was confronted by a motion to set aside the regular order of ‘business in favor of special order which included: Appointment of a five-man committee to investigate the union, the firing of James Payne, business agent, and three women on the office staff accused of being Communists; revocation of their membership; discharge of the union's attorney and revocation of the honorary membership of William Sentmer, district United Electrical president. Other provisions were that a vote of no-confidence in the officers be taken and they be asked to resign; that delegates to the forthcoming district convention in 8t. Louis be recalled and instructed to vote against all Com-munist-sponsored ‘proposals and for executive board members pledged to rid the union of Communist influence; and full support bf CIO policies. The resolution was read by Ernest Rutherford, a leader of the anti-Communist committee in the union, It was met with a storm of cheers. The president of the union re-

Two U. S. Witnesses Hit ITU Wage Policy

Two government witnesses today testified in a Federal Court hearing that the AFL Typographical Union insisted on journeymen's wages for inexperienced employees. e witnesses were Conway

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paper Association. They appeared for the Na-

a hearing on the NLRB's petition that the ITU be cited for con-

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tional Labor Relations Board in

tempt of court for allegedly violating a court order enjoining the}.

TOO FAST—Fast driving and: poor streets kill citizens in Our Fair City. This car crashed and the driver was killed when the automobile struck a dip in the pave: ment in the 2300 block of White River Parkway.

DRUNKEN DRIVER—Two were injured in this wreck, one criticall The driver was drunk. The only person who thinks he can drive while His vision distorted, his reactions slowed, his brain in a fog, the drunk is death at the wheel. Judges lay it on him if he survives to reach court.

Evansville Labor Union Starts Communist Purge

By ED KLINGLER, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer 22—The rank and file of Evansville's biggest labor undon has started to purge itself of Communist domi

It began- at what seemed likely to be a routine membership meeting of Local 813, CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. But unlike the usual meetings, with about 150 present,

fused to resign, saying members would have to impeach him. But in the midst of the argument business agent Payne quit his job. Finally the resolution came to a vote. The anti-Communists

a{won three-to-one.

The meeting is expected to break the backbone of Mr, Sentner’'s long-time domination of the district. Local 813 Has been his stronghold since he was ousted from his own St. Louis local last year for pro-Communist activity.

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corners have this i in store for them

Octuplet Birth Proves to Be Hoax;

By Science Service CINCINNATI, Sept. 22 — The octuplet birth, supposed to have

Happened near here in 1872, “turnsthat a uShicage ral out to have been a hoax. Facts)

in the case were dug out by the Cincinnati Post when Prof. H. H. Newman, of Clearwater, Fla, published an appeal for information. It appears that some practical joker simply invented the alleged) rved birth of eight babies at once to a Mrs. Eunice Mowery Bradlee, planted his story in a local newspaper, -and then got a medical journal to reprint it.

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~~ BELIEVE who do are drunk at th the overturned sedan failed st 32,800 arrests for moving traffic Violations the dead continues to grow.

The degree N Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, DePauw president in recognition of Mr, rn to obtain justice.”

FATAL ERROR—The driver: ade a iste Ti in judgment and the passenger riding with him was killed. The automobiles met in a head-on golision which hose pitalized four persons in addition to the fatal |

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MUNCIE, Sept. 22 Evidence Iroad conenslaved” seven Negro n and forced them to

fumed ver. 0. torney’s office in Indianapolis to-

frcuit Judge Joseph Davis overruled a plea in- abatement by ithe contractor, Sebastian Albergo who contended he had not been served properly with a summons

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Eli Lilly Receives DePauw Degree

Financier Honored For Aid to Education

mes State Service GREENCASTLE, Sept. 22--Ell Lilly, widely known manufacturer and. benefactor, today received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from DePauw

convocation service in Gobin Me-

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Lilly's patronage of the arts and aid to education. Stresses World Needs Dr. Wildman delivered the convocation address befors 2000 students, faculty members and guests. He spoke on the need in

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Re iL ot wt en gal ata that for 20 days’ work, each due $88 from the contractor.

the world today for a questing spirit, a respect for learning: united morale and a Ollectivela To supplant the anxiety of civilization today, he said, there is need for “a spirit of fair play, mutual trust and respect, above all, a spirit of good-will. » Author of Book

1907, is the author of ‘Prehistoric Antiquities o: (honorary member of Phi Beta pa. He is a past president of the Indiana Historical Society, and became president of EH Lilly

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